The harmony of the divine attributes in the contrivance and accomplishment of man's redemption…

1. Typical, From the breach of a Ceremonial Constitution, which had no relation to Morality. Such were natural Pollutions, accidental Diseases, the touching of a dead Body, &c. which were esteemed vicious according to the Law, and the Defiled were excluded from Sacred and Civil Society. Now these Impurities, considered in themselves, deserved no punishment. For involuntary and inevitable Infirmities, and corporeal things, which do not infect the inward man, are the marks of our abject and weak state, but are not in themselves sinful. Therefore Ceremonial Guilt was expiated by a Ceremonial Offering. For 'tis according to the nature of things, that Obligations should be dissolved by the same means, by which they are contracted. As therefore those Pollutions were penal merely by the positive Will of God; So, (the exercise of his Supreme Right being tempered with Wisdom and Equity,) he ordained that the guilt should be abolished by a Sacrifice, and that they should be fully restored to their former Privileges. Thus the Apostle tells us, that the Blood of those Sacrifices Sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, that is,¹ communicated a legal Purity to the Offerers, and consequently a right to approach the holy Place. Now the reason of these Institutions was, that the legal Impurity might represent the true defilements of Sin, and the Expiatory Sacrifices prefigure that ⟨p. 254⟩great and admirable Oblation, which should purge away all Sin.

1. Typical, From the breach of a Ceremonial Constitution, which had no relation to Morality. Such were natural Pollutions, accidental Diseases, the touching of a dead Body, &c. which were esteemed vicious according to the Law, and the Defiled were excluded from Sacred and Civil Society. Now these Impurities, considered in themselves, deserved no punishment. For involuntary and inevitable Infirmities, and corporeal things, which do not infect the inward man, are the marks of our abject and weak state, but are not in themselves sinfull. Therefore Ceremonial Guilt was expiated by a Ceremonial Offering. For 'tis according to the nature of things, that Obligations should be dissolved by the same means, by which they are contracted. As therefore those Pollutions were penal merely by the positive Will of God; So, (the exercise of his Supreme Right being tempered with Wisdome and Equity,) he ordained that the guilt should be abolisht by a Sacrifice, and that they should be fully restored to their former Priviledges. Thus the Apostle tells us, that the Blood of those Sacrifices Sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh, that is,