The Gofpel of the Offerings andSacrifices. As to what remainsof the 6th. and 7th. Chapters of this Book, they . containing fame additional Laws to the Offerings before treated of they were fpoken to under the Offerings to which they belong. I (hall therefore now "proceed unto two or three Queftions that re- main to be conlidered, before we leave this Point. Ouefi, r. Whether the legal Sacrifices may not be otberwife difiributed, and what other Diftributions there be of them? Anfw: The Scripture gives other Diftributions alto, as well as this in the Text ; but I chofe to handle them in this, as the plaineft for Weak Memories. They are fornetimes thus divided into Zebach and Mincba; that is, flaugbtered Offerings and Meat-Offerings, Dan. 9. 27. He ¡hall caufe the Sacrifice and. Oblation to ceafe. The Word is, the Slaughter -Offering rand the. MeatOffering to' ceafe ; Zebach and Mincba ; and in many o- ther Scriptures. The Meat- Offerings, were of inanimate Things offered up to God by Fire upon the Altar. But the Slaughtered Offerings were of Living Creatures, and thefe were offered up both by Fire and Blood, the Beaft being firft flain, and then burnt with Fire. Some have diftinguifhed there two, in refpe& of their Ends and Ufes, thus ; That the flain Sacrifices .refpe&ed chiefly the Sufferings, and pave Obedience of Chrift, as making Satisfaction for our Sins, by his Death and Blood ; and that the Meat Offering related chiefly tohis alive Obedience, whereby he fulfilled the Law for us, by his holy and bleffed Life, good Works being as it were Meat and Drink to an ho- ly Heart. In the Meat-Offering therefore ( fay they) was fhadowed by the burning and afcending of inanimate Things, the Obedience and Me- rits of Chrift to come. But it is not to be reftrained to his a&ive Obe- dience only ; for the burning and destroying the Meat-Offering by Fire, did plainly reprefent the Sufferings of Chrift for the Satisfaction of Divine Juftice, as was formerly (hewed more fully in the Expofi- tion of the Meat - Offering. Moreover the flaughtered Offerings may be fubdivided from their Ends and Ufes, thus : That they were either fimply for Atonement and pardon of Sin, or for other Occafions alto. Thofe for Atonement of Sin, were either for all Sins in general, or with fpecial Refpe& to force Particulars. For all Sins in general, was the Burnt- Offering, which therefore was offered every Day. There was holocaa tuns juge, for thofe peec-
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