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<BR><FONT SIZE=+2>CHAP. XLVI.</FONT>
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In this chapter we have,
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I. Some further rules given both to the priests and to the people,
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relating to their worship,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:1-15">ver. 1-15</A>.
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II. A law concerning the prince's disposal of his inheritance,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:16-18">ver. 16-18</A>.
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III. A description of the places provided for the boiling of the
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sacrifices and the baking of the meat-offerings,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:19-24">ver. 19-24</A>.</P>
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<TR><TD><FONT SIZE=+1><I>Rules Relating to Worship.</I></FONT></TD>
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<TD ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE=-1>B. C.</FONT> 574.</TD></TR>
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<FONT SIZE=+1>1 Thus saith the Lord G<FONT SIZE=-1><B>OD</B></FONT>; The gate of the inner court that
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looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but
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on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon
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it shall be opened.
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2 And the prince shall enter by the way of the porch of <I>that</I>
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gate without, and shall stand by the post of the gate, and the
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priests shall prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings,
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and he shall worship at the threshold of the gate: then he shall
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go forth; but the gate shall not be shut until the evening.
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3 Likewise the people of the land shall worship at the door of
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this gate before the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> in the sabbaths and in the new moons.
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4 And the burnt offering that the prince shall offer unto the
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L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> in the sabbath day <I>shall be</I> six lambs without blemish, and
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a ram without blemish.
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5 And the meat offering <I>shall be</I> an ephah for a ram, and the
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meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an
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hin of oil to an ephah.
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6 And in the day of the new moon <I>it shall be</I> a young bullock
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without blemish, and six lambs, and a ram: they shall be without
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blemish.
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7 And he shall prepare a meat offering, an ephah for a bullock,
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and an ephah for a ram, and for the lambs according as his hand
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shall attain unto, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
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8 And when the prince shall enter, he shall go in by the way of
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the porch of <I>that</I> gate, and he shall go forth by the way
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thereof.
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9 But when the people of the land shall come before the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> in
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the solemn feasts, he that entereth in by the way of the north
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gate to worship shall go out by the way of the south gate; and he
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that entereth by the way of the south gate shall go forth by the
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way of the north gate: he shall not return by the way of the gate
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whereby he came in, but shall go forth over against it.
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10 And the prince in the midst of them, when they go in, shall
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go in; and when they go forth, shall go forth.
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11 And in the feasts and in the solemnities the meat offering
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shall be an ephah to a bullock, and an ephah to a ram, and to the
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lambs as he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.
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12 Now when the prince shall prepare a voluntary burnt offering
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or peace offerings voluntarily unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT>, <I>one</I> shall then
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open him the gate that looketh toward the east, and he shall
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prepare his burnt offering and his peace offerings, as he did on
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the sabbath day: then he shall go forth; and after his going
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forth <I>one</I> shall shut the gate.
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13 Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT> <I>of</I>
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a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it
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every morning.
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14 And thou shalt prepare a meat offering for it every morning,
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the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil,
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to temper with the fine flour; a meat offering continually by a
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perpetual ordinance unto the L<FONT SIZE=-1><B>ORD</B></FONT>.
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15 Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and
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the oil, every morning <I>for</I> a continual burnt offering.
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Whether the rules for public worship here laid down were designed to be
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observed, even in those things wherein they differed from the law of
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Moses, and were so observed under the second temple, is not certain; we
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find not in the history of that latter part of the Jewish church that
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they governed themselves in their worship by these ordinances, as one
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would think they should have done, but only by law of Moses, looking
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I. That the place of worship was fixed, and rules were given concerning
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that, both to prince and people.</P>
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1. The east gate, which was kept shut at other times, was to be opened
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on the sabbath days, on the moons
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:1"><I>v.</I> 1</A>),
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and whenever the prince offered a voluntary offering,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:12"><I>v.</I> 12</A>.
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Of the keeping of this gate ordinarily shut we read before
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+44:2"><I>ch.</I> xliv. 2</A>);
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whereas the other gates of the court were opened every day, this was
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opened only on high days and on special occasions, when it was opened
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for the prince, who was to <I>go in by the way of the porch of that
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gate,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:2,8"><I>v.</I> 2, 8</A>.
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Some think he went in with the priests and Levites into the <I>inner
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court</I> (for into that court this gate was the entrance), and they
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observe that magistrates and ministers should join forces, and go the
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same way, hand in hand, in promoting the service of God. But it should
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rather seem that he did not go <I>through</I> the gate (as the glory of
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the Lord had done), though it was open, but he went <I>by the way of
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the porch of the gate,</I> stood <I>at the post of the gate,</I> and
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<I>worshipped at the threshold of the gate</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:2"><I>v.</I> 2</A>),
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where he had a full view of the priests' performances at the altar, and
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signified his concurrence in them, for himself and for the people of
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the land, that stood behind him <I>at the door of that gate,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:3"><I>v.</I> 3</A>.
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Thus must every prince show himself to be of David's mind, who would
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very willingly be a <I>door-keeper in the house of his God,</I> and, as
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the word there is, <I>lie at the threshold,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ps+84:10">Ps. lxxxiv. 10</A>.
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Note, The greatest of men are less than the least of the ordinances of
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God. Even princes themselves, when they draw near to God, must worship
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<I>with reverence and godly fear,</I> owning that even they are
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unworthy to approach to him. But Christ is <I>our prince,</I> whom God
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causes to <I>draw near</I> and <I>approach to him,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Jer+30:21">Jer. xxx. 21</A>.</P>
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2. As to the north gate and south gate, by which they entered into the
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<I>court of the people</I> (not into the inner court), there was this
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rule given, that whoever came in at the <I>north gate</I> should go out
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at the <I>south gate,</I> and whoever came in at the <I>south gate</I>
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should go out at the <I>north gate,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:9"><I>v.</I> 9</A>.
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Some think this was to prevent thrusting and jostling one another; for
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God is <I>the God of order, and not of confusion.</I> We may suppose
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that they came in at the gate that was next their own houses, but, when
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they went away, God would have them go out at that gate which would
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lead them <I>the furthest way about,</I> that they might have time for
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meditation; being thereby obliged to go a great way round the
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sanctuary, they might have an opportunity <I>to consider the
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palaces</I> of it, and, if they improved their time well in fetching
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this circuit, they would call it the nearest way home. Some observe
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that this may remind us, in the service of God, to be still pressing
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forward
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Php+3:13">Phil. iii. 13</A>)
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and not to <I>look back,</I> and, in our attendance upon ordinances,
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not to go back as we came, but more holy, and heavenly, and
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spiritual.</P>
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3. It is appointed that <I>the people shall worship at the door of the
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east gate,</I> where the prince does, he at the head and they attending
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him, both <I>on the sabbath and on the new moons</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:3"><I>v.</I> 3</A>),
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and that, when they come in and go out, the prince shall be <I>in the
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midst of them,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:10"><I>v.</I> 10</A>.
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Note, Great men should, by their constant and reverent attendance on
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God in public worship, give a good example to their inferiors, both
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engaging them and encouraging them to do likewise. It is a very
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graceful becoming thing for persons of quality to go to church with
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their servants, and tenants, and poor neighbours about them, and to
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behave themselves there with an air of seriousness and devotion; and
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those who thus honour God with their honour he will delight to
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honour.</P>
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II. That the ordinances of worship were fixed. Though the prince is
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supposed himself to be a very hearty zealous friend to the sanctuary,
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yet it is not left to him, no, not in concert with the priests, to
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appoint what sacrifices shall be offered, but God himself appoints
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them; for it is his prerogative to institute the rites and ceremonies
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of religious worship.
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1. Every morning, as duly as the morning came, they must offer <I>a
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lamb</I> for a <I>burnt-offering,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:13"><I>v.</I> 13</A>.
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It is strange that no mention is made of the evening sacrifice; but
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Christ having come, and having offered himself now <I>in the end of the
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world</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Heb+9:26">Heb. ix. 26</A>),
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we are to look upon him as the evening sacrifice, about the time of the
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offering up of which he died.
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2. On the sabbath days, whereas by the law of Moses four lambs were to
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be offered
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+28:9">Num. xxviii. 9</A>),
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it is here appointed that (at the prince's charge) there shall be
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<I>six lambs</I> offered, <I>and a ram</I> besides
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:4"><I>v.</I> 4</A>),
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to intimate how much we should abound in sabbath work, now in
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gospel-time, and what plenty of the spiritual sacrifices of prayer and
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praise we should offer up to God on that day; and, if <I>with such
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sacrifice God is well-pleased,</I> surely we have a great deal of
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reason to be so.
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3. On the new moons, in the beginning of their months, there was over
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and above the usual sabbath-sacrifices the additional offering of a
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young bullock,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:6"><I>v.</I> 6</A>.
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Those who do much for God and their souls, statedly and constantly,
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must yet, upon some occasions, do still more.
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4. All the sacrifices were to be <I>without blemish;</I> so Christ, the
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great sacrifice, was
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Pe+1:19">1 Pet. i. 19</A>),
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and so Christians, who are to present themselves to God as living
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sacrifices, should aim and endeavour to be--<I>blameless, and harmless,
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and without rebuke.</I>
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5. All the sacrifices were to have their meat-offerings annexed to
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them, for so the law of Moses had appointed, to show what a good table
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God keeps in his house and that we ought to honour him with the fruit
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of our ground as well as with the fruit of our cattle, because in both
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he has blessed us,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=De+28:4">Deut. xxviii. 4</A>.
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In the beginning, Cain offered the one and Abel the other. Some observe
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that the meat-offerings here are much larger in proportion than they
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were by the law of Moses. Then the proportion was <I>three tenth-deals
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to a bullock,</I> and <I>two to a ram</I> (so many tenth parts of an
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ephah) and half a hin of oil at the most
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Nu+15:6-9">Num. xv. 6-9</A>);
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but here, for every bullock and every ram, a whole ephah and a whole
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hin of oil
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:7"><I>v.</I> 7</A>),
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which intimates that under the gospel, the great atoning sacrifice
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having been offered, these unbloody sacrifices shall be more abounded
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in; or, in general, it intimates that as now, under the gospel, God
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abounds in the gifts of his grace to us, more than under the law, so we
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should abound in the returns of praise and duty to him. But it is
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observable that in the meat-offering <I>for the lambs</I> the prince is
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allowed to offer <I>as he shall be able to give</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:5,6,11"><I>v.</I> 5, 7, 11</A>),
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<I>as his hand shall attain unto.</I> Note, Princess themselves must
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spend as they can afford; and even in that which is laid out in works
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of piety God expects and requires but that we should do according to
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our ability, every man <I>as God has prepared him,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=1Co+16:2">1 Cor. xvi. 2</A>.
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God has not <I>made us to serve with an offering</I>
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Isa+43:23">Isa. xliii. 23</A>),
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but considers our frame and state. Yet this will not countenance those
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who pretend a disability that is not real, or those who by their
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extravagances in other things disable themselves to do the good they
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should. And we find those praised who, in an extraordinary case of
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charity, went not <I>only to their power,</I> but <I>beyond their
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<FONT SIZE=+1>16 Thus saith the Lord G<FONT SIZE=-1><B>OD</B></FONT>; If the prince give a gift unto any
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of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons'; it
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<I>shall be</I> their possession by inheritance.
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17 But if he give a gift of his inheritance to one of his
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servants, then it shall be his to the year of liberty; after it
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shall return to the prince: but his inheritance shall be his
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sons' for them.
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18 Moreover the prince shall not take of the people's
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inheritance by oppression, to thrust them out of their
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possession; <I>but</I> he shall give his sons inheritance out of his
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own possession: that my people be not scattered every man from
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his possession.
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We have here a law for the limiting of the power of the prince in the
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disposing of the crown-lands.
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1. If he have a <I>son</I> that is a favourite, or has merited well, he
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may, if he please, as a token of his favour and in recompence for his
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services, settle some parts of his lands upon him and his heirs for
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ever
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:16"><I>v.</I> 16</A>),
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provided it do not go out of the family. There may be a cause for
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parents, when their children have grown up, to be more kind to one than
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to another, as Jacob gave to Joseph one portion <I>above his
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brethren,</I>
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Ge+48:22">Gen. xlviii. 22</A>.
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2. Yet, if he have a servant that is a favourite, he may not in like
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manner settle lands upon him,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:17"><I>v.</I> 17</A>.
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The servant might have the rents, issues, and profits, for such a term,
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but the inheritance, the <I>jus proprietarium--the right of
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proprietorship,</I> shall remain in the prince and his heirs. It was
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fit that a difference should be put between a child and a servant, like
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that
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Joh+8:35">John viii. 35</A>.
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<I>The servant abides not in the house for ever,</I> as the son does.
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3. What estates he gives his children must be of his own
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:18"><I>v.</I> 18</A>):
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He <I>shall not take of the people's inheritance,</I> under pretence of
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having many children to provide for; he shall not find ways to make
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them forfeit their estates, or to force them to sell them and so
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<I>thrust his subjects out of their possession;</I> but let him and his
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sons be content with their own. It is far from being a prince's honour
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to increase the wealth of his family and crown by encroaching upon the
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rights and properties of his subjects; nor will he himself be a gainer
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by it at last, for he will be but a poor prince when the people are
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<I>scattered every man from his possession,</I> when they quit their
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native country, being forced out of it by oppression, choosing rather
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to live among strangers that are free people, and where what they have
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they can call their own, be it ever so little. It is the interest of
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princes to rule in the hearts of their subjects, and then all they have
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is, in the best manner, at their service. It is better for themselves
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to gain their affections by protecting their rights than to gain their
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estates by invading them.</P>
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<TD ALIGN=RIGHT><FONT SIZE=-1>B. C.</FONT> 574.</TD></TR>
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<FONT SIZE=+1>19 After he brought me through the entry, which <I>was</I> at the
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side of the gate, into the holy chambers of the priests, which
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looked toward the north: and, behold, there <I>was</I> a place on the
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two sides westward.
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20 Then said he unto me, This <I>is</I> the place where the priests
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shall boil the trespass offering and the sin offering, where they
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shall bake the meat offering; that they bear <I>them</I> not out into
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the utter court, to sanctify the people.
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21 Then he brought me forth into the utter court, and caused me
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to pass by the four corners of the court; and, behold, in every
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corner of the court <I>there was</I> a court.
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22 In the four corners of the court <I>there were</I> courts joined
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of forty <I>cubits</I> long and thirty broad: these four corners
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<I>were</I> of one measure.
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23 And <I>there was</I> a row <I>of building</I> round about in them,
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round about them four, and <I>it was</I> made with boiling places
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under the rows round about.
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24 Then said he unto me, These <I>are</I> the places of them that
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boil, where the ministers of the house shall boil the sacrifice
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of the people.
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We have here a further discovery of buildings about the temple, which
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we did not observe before, and those were places to boil the flesh of
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the offerings in,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:20"><I>v.</I> 20</A>.
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He that kept such a plentiful table at his altar needed large kitchens;
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and a wise builder will provide conveniences of that kind. Observe,
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1. Where those boiling-places were situated. There were some at the
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entry into the inner court
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(<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:19"><I>v.</I> 19</A>)
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and others under the rows, in the four corners of the outer court,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:21-23"><I>v.</I> 21-23</A>.
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These were the places where, it is likely, there was most room to spare
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for this purpose; and this purpose was found for the spare room, that
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none might be lost. It is a pity that holy ground should be waste
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ground.
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2. What use they were put to. In those places they were to <I>boil the
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trespass-offering and the sin-offering,</I> those parts of them which
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were allotted to the priests and which were more sacred than the flesh
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of the peace-offerings, of which the offerer also had a share. There
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also they were to <I>bake the meat-offering,</I> their share of it,
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which they had from the altar for their own tables,
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Eze+46:20"><I>v.</I> 20</A>.
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Care was taken that they should not <I>bear them out into the outer
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court, to sanctify the people.</I> Let them not pretend to sanctify the
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people with this holy flesh, and so impose upon them; or let not the
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people imagine that by touching those sacred things they were
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sanctified, and made any the better or more acceptable to God. It
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should seem (from
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<A HREF="http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?version=KJV&passage=Hag+2:12">Hag. ii. 12</A>)
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that there were those who had such a conceit; and therefore the priests
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must not carry any of the holy flesh away with them, lest they should
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encourage that conceit. Ministers must take heed of doing any thing to
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bolster up ignorant people in their superstitious vanities.</P>
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