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There were likewife Sacrifices of Expiation or Atonement, which the Priest made occafionally, eitherfor himself or others. One of these Days, we have mention'd before; which was the great Faft, or Day of Atonement, for the Sins of the Nation, committed in the Course of the whole Year; and kept annually upon the tenth Day of the seventh Month. Then it was, that the High-Priest, dress'd in all the Robes peculiar to his Order,after having offer'd the previous Sacrifices, for himself, and for all the Congregation, took two goats; and prefented them before the LORD, at the door of the tabernacle; and caft lots upon them, one lot for the LORD, and the other lot for the fcapegoat, the goat upon which the LORD's lot fell, was offer'd for a fin-offering; but the goat,on which the lot fell to be the fcape-goat, was prefented alive before the LORD, to make an atonement with him, and to let him go for a Scape-goat into the wilderness.

Lev. xvi.

And among other Ceremonies, the High-Priest was to take a cenfer full of burning coals of fire, from off the Altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incenfe beaten fmall, and bring it within the

Lev. vi. 34.

&c.

vail; (of the Holy of Holies) and put the incenfe upon the fire before the LORD, that the cloud of the incenfe might cover the mercy-feat. And when he had made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar; he was to bring the live goat, and confefs over him all the iniquities of the children of Ifrael, and all their tranfgref fions in all their fins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and to fend him away by the hand of a fit man, into the wilderness: And the goat was to bear upon him all their iniquities, unto a land not inhabited. And in the End of these Prescriptions, is added; And this fhall be an everlasting ftatute unto you, to make an atonement for the children of Ifrael, for all their fins once a year.

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The Trespass-Offering was to be for Levi.. wilful deliberate Sins, either in offending God by neglecting his Worship, or injuring their Neighbour by any kind of Fraud or Violence. The offering a Ram

without

I, &c.

without Blemish. The Blood to be pour'd Lev. vii. out round about the Altar; the Fat to be burnt, and the remainder to be eaten by the Priefts.

SECT VIII.

Lev. vi.

20.

The CONSECRATION-OFFERING. And lastly, the Confecration-Offering, was to be made upon the anointing of any to be a Prieft. This is the offering of Aaron and of his fons, which they fall offer unto the LORD in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an Ephah of fine flour for a meat-offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night. And, after the Directions for the preparing it, it is order'd to be wholly burnt; for every meat-offerring for the priest shall be Lev. vi. wholly burnt, it shall not be eaten : as, for others, it might.

20.

For the Sin-Offering, and the BurntOffering upon this Occafion, fpecial Di- Lev. viii. rections are likewife given. And, after 0- 14. 18. thers, in relation to the anointing Oyl and 22. c. the holy Vestments, mention is made of the Ram of Confecration; the Fat and

right Shoulder of which, were to
to be
burnt; the Breast to be eaten by the Per-
fon confecrating, and the Remainder by
those that were confecrated. After which,
it is faid; This is the law of the burnt-
offering, and the meat-offering, and of the
fin-offering, and of the trefpafs-offering, and
of the confecrations, and of the facrifice of
the peace-offerings; which the LORD com-
manded Moses in mount Sinai; in the day
that he commanded the children of Ifrael
to offer their oblations unto the LORD, in
the wilderness of Sinai.

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SECT. IX.

Other OFFERINGS.

There were, befides thefe, Offerings of feveral Kinds to be made upon particular Occafions, by way of Purification; too long to be here enumerated; and which Lev. xii. may better be read in the Book of the xiii. xiv. Law it self. I shall only observe; that the Offering for the Purification of a Woman after Childbirth, was to be a Lamb for a Burnt-Offering, and a Turtle-Dove or a young Pigeon for a Sin-Offering: and,

XV.

Lev. xii.

if he were not able to bring a Lamb, then two Turtles, or two young Pigeons, one for each Offering.

Agreeably to which St. Luke relates of the Luke ii. bleffed Virgin; That, when the days of her 22. purification, according to the law of Mofes, were accomplished, they brought him (the Child Jefus) to Jerufalem, to present him to the LORD: as it is written in the law of the LORD, Every male that openeth the Exod. womb, fhall be called holy to the LORD: and xiii. 2,12. offer a facrifice, according to that which is faid in the law of the LORD, a pair of turtle-doves, or two young pigeons.

xix.

And because not only they, but their Tents or Houses and Utenfils were liable to become unclean by feveral Accidents, there is a Prescription for making a kind Numb. of Water call'd the Water of Separation; without being fprinkled with which they could not be made clean again. This confifted chiefly of an Infufion of the Afbes of a red Heifer. To which St. Paul alludes in his Epiftle to the Hebrews.

Heb. ix.

13.

SECT.

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