Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

But as under the Law the Transgressor was to lay his hand upon the Beast to be sacrificed, thereby acknowledging that he was the Creature that had deserved to dye, and desiring that the death of the Beast to be sacrificed might be accepted in his stead;¹ so under the Gospel we must apply to Christ with a due sense of our sins, and our deserving of death for them, and be accordingly affected with them.

But as under the Law the Transgressor was to lay his hand upon the Beast to be sacrific'd, thereby acknowledging that he was the Creature that had deserv'd to dye, and desiring that the death of the Beast to be sacrificed might be accepted in his stead;¹ so under the Gospel we must apply to Christ with a due sense of our sins, and our deserving of death for them, and be accordingly affected with them.

1. 1Lev. 3.2.4.4.

Yet more, when all the outward Ceremonies were performed, the sacrificed Beast accepted and slain, though the Law according to the letter was satisfied, and a legal Expiation did ensue, and a legal Atonement was made; yet if the Person that brought the Sacrifice did not mortify his sin, as well as the Priest kill the Sacrifice, his Conscience inwardly remained defiled, and God still provoked and incensed: Nay, if the Sinner had done one without the other, killed his Beast, and spared his sin alive, God looked upon it as a double Iniquity, for so indeed it was; to acknowledge he had offended God, and to pretend that he desired to be reconciled unto him, and yet to go on in provoking of him. Hence God did forbid and reject their Sacrifices, tho of his own appointment;¹ I will take no Bullock out of thy house, nor he-goats out of thy fold: Nay, he declares that in such a case, he that killeth an Ox,