The Gòfpel of the Legal Purifications. 3-09" Jefus Chrift therefore being a reputed Sinner and Malefa&or, and under that Reproach and Shame did therefore fuller without the Gate. We muft therefore be content to foffer with him in the fame Dif-- grace and Dilhonour. If ye cannot be content to bear the Reproaches and Difgraces of the World, ye cannot bear his Reproach. The A- poftles were accounted the very filth of the World, fuck as by Twee. ping is gathered together ( as in the Margent ) the fweepings and refufe of all Things. Wo unto you when all ullen (hall fpeak well ofyou, Luke 6. 26. We fee the Myftery then of this Ceremony, that the Heifer muft be (lain without the Camp. z. The Blood mull be fprinkled feven times direCly towards the Taber- nacle. For the Prieft is fpoken of as ftanding without the Camp where the Heifer was Hain, who was to fprinkle the Blood towards the Camp, and fo,towards the Tabernacle: The Tabernacle was a Type of Heaven ; therefore the fprinkling the Blood towards Heaven, taught us, That our accefs into Heaven is only by the perfc&Merit of the Blood of Chrift, Heb. to. 19, zo. The fprinkling feven times notes ä.he perfect Efficacy of the Blood of Chrift ; for feven is a Number of P.erfeaion; therefore often ufed in thofe rnyftical Difpenfations of Old. It Thews the Perfe&ion of his Blood, and that there mutt be frequent and renewed Application of it from time to time : It muft be .fprinkled again and again,: and fe- ven times over upon our Confciences. 3, The Body of the Heifer mug be burnt with Cedar, Hyffap andScar- let, caft into the Fire, and the Priefts that do it are unclean until the Even, Verf. 5. 6, 7, 8. Of the Burning you have heard upon other Sacrifices. The cafting in of Cedar, Hyffop and Scarlet, is peculiar to this Sacrifice ; and fomething of lnftruaion we may pick out of it by looking into other Scriptures. Cedar is noted for an Excellent kind of Timber, the chief of Trees and the Scripture doth fometimes apply it unto Chrift in a Metapho- rical Way. Cant. 5.15. It is Enid of Chrift, his Countenance is as Leba- non, excellent as the Cedars. It is a ftately and durable Tree, not fubjea to'Putrefaaion. Therefore Tome interpret this Law as a Sha- dow of the perpetual Efficacy of the Death of Chrift, who by one offer- ing perfecíedfor ever them that are fanélified, Heb. t o. 14. As for Hyffop, it is faid Verf. is. there inuit be a bunch of it to fprinkle. with. Hence Davidprays, Purge sue with Hygop, Pfal. 51. 7. Some apply it thus: That the Bunch of Hyfl'op wherewith theyfprink- led the Blood, is the Wordof Promife, by which Chrift is applied to the. Soul. Or thus,.. The bunch ofHyíl'op figilifies the Inj#rrement of the Apa-
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