The Gofpel ofthe Heave-Offering. 27 5 it ( as your Margin tells you ) thus, and Aaron (hall wave the Levites before the Lord for a Wave- Offering of the Children of Ifraet. This then was the End and the Meaning of thefe Geftures To pre- Pent and dedicate the Thing to the Lord : Who, if he will have it done by filch or fuch a Gefture, who, or what is vain Man, that he thould controle or find fault with the unfearchable Wifdom and fovereign Au- charity of the Lord God Almighty. There Words [ Wave, Heave ] are ufed generally concerning all things given or dedicated toGod ; as Exod. 35. 22. And every one that offered, offered an Offering of Gold unto the Lord. Heniph renuphath, agï- tavit agitationem : He waved a Wave- Offeringof Gold unto the Lord Even Land it felf, Ezek. 48.8, 9, 10, 20. Perfons alfo are faid to be waved as a Wave - Offering, when dedicated to the Lord, Numb. 8. r 1, For Wave, the Greek tranflateth feparate ; which Word Paul ufeth, of (peaking his Defignation to the Miniftry, Rom. i. i. Some have obferved fomething more in thefe Geftures, efpecially that of Waving to and fro round about. The Original Word is fome- times ufed for lifting in a Sieve, Ifa. 3o. z8. That lignifies Tryals and Af liaions, Luke 22. 31. And fo the Prophets apply this Word unto Troubles, Ifa.to. 32. and 13. 2. and 30.28. The Senfe then will a- mount to thus much, That theSaints and Minifters who are fpiritual t'riefts, are confecrated to the Lord through Sufferings. As it is faid of Chrilt the Captain of our Salvation, Heb. 2. 10. fo the Saints, z. Core 6. 4, ro. As theWave-Offering was toff and waved to and fro, and thereby dedicated to the Lord. There is fome Controverfy upon thefe, parted by a Learned Man, and one of much Light in other Mede Difc. 49. p things, however he milt it in this, there being ali- 384, quid bumanum in the belt of Men ; and humanum eft errare, no Man but is fubje&t to Error and Mittakes. The eseftion is, whether they wereCeremonial and Ceafed, or Moral and Pepetual. But the Cafe is clear and eafy concerning them both ; both the Heave- Offerings and the Wave-Offerings, they were Ceremonial, and they are 4bolifhed. Objet#. They were not Types of Chrift. Aníw. If they were Types or legal Adumbrations ofChriftian Du- ties, or of any of the Benefits of Chrift ; this fufficeth, and is enough to make them ceremonial, and confequently Abolifhed. For the Types ( as hath been often Paid and proved, and muff be now again repea- ted) do not relate only to the Perfon of Chrift, but to all Gofpel- Truths and Myíteries, N a 2 Obir& -
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