of all Nations had them; and the Wrath and Sword would have deftroyed the Prieft, the Eldeft or First-born of each Family, if this had not been flain or facrificed in his stead, and the Blood stricken upon the Side-pofts, and upper Doorpofts of each Houfe, &c. Thence we find the Door-pofts facred among the Heathens, and it has been faid, though not explain'd, that they referr'd to the Crofs. The Word p to look, to refpect, &c. a

prefix'd, and a Vau to make it a Participle Paffive po is put for the Lintel of the Door-poft, where the Blood was fprinkled, the thing to be looked upon, refpected in the fame manner as the Faces of the Cherubim in the Sanct. Sanct. were to regard the upon which the Priest was to fprinkle the Blood there. Indeed in the Law, Levit. v. 9. part of the Blood of the Sin-Offering was to be fprinkled on the Side of the Altar, and the reft poured out at the Bottom of the Altar: and Levit. xvi. 14. part fprinkled on the 75 MercySeat before the Faces; then upon the Horns of the Altar, &c. fo the real Blood on the Sides of the Crofs, and at the Foot, to be exhibited before the real Faces. The Flesh of the Pafcal Lamb, which had been deprived of the Blood, Life, by the

Sword,

Sword, was to be roafted with Fire, to fuffer the Sword and the Wrath of Fire, before it was fit for Meat, and the remainder was to be burnt. Exod. xxiii. 18. Thou shalt not offer the Blood of thy Sacrifice with leaven'd Bread, neither shall the Fat of my Sacrifice remain until the Morning. xxxiv. 25. Thou shalt not offer the Blood of my Sacrifice with Leaven; neither fhall the Sacrifice of the Feast of Paffover, be left until the Morning. By thefe Negatives three Affirmatives appear; that the Paffover was a Sacrifice, because the Fat was burnt, fo offer'd; and that the Blood was offer'd by dashing it upon the Door-pofts, and that the Blood of other Sacrifices, was offer'd by fpilling part at the Foot of the Altar, and fprinkling the reft as order'd, &c.

Hence it appears that the wording of the Renewal of the Paffover in Egypt, is not defective, in not inferting things eftablifh'd, practiced, and fo known as burning the Fat, not eating of the Blood, &c. which were renewed in the Body of the Law; nor that there is any Omiffion even in fome other Inftitutions, which had not been misundersftood, but were regularly perform'd, and continued downward, though they were not renewed even in the Body

S 2

Body of the Law. Though on hath been conftrued Bread, and Flesh, unless ms include Blood, or its Substitute Wine: though the Blood was facrificed, the Participation of the Drink-offering is not mentioned in the Tranfcript, Exod. xii. any more than burning the Fat; though Abel burn'd it, or &c. And though burning the Fat and offering the Blood be occafionally mentioned, as above, Exod. xxiii. 18. xxxiv. 25. what had not been neglected or corrupted, needed no Renewal: and though Wine hath no Reference in its Name to Chrift's Blood, fave that it is called the Blood of the Grape of the Vine, by the Allufions, Gen. xlix. 11 --binding his Foal unto the Vine, and his Afs's Colt unto the choice Vine. He washed bis Garments in Wine, and his Clothes in the Blood of Grapes. Deut xxxii. 14. And thou didst drink the pure Blood of the Grape. Of the Wrath of God taking Vengeance on the Vine, Ifa. lxiii. 2. Wherefore art thou red in thine Apparel, and thy Garments like him that treadeth the Wine-Fat? I have trodden the Wine-Prefs alone, and of the People there was none with me.---Rev. xix. 13. And he was clothed with a Vesture dipt in Blood. xiv. 20. And the

Wine-Prefs was trodden without the City, and Blood came out of the Wine-Press. xix. 15. And he treadeth the Wine-Prefs of the Fierceness of the Wrath of Almighty God. John xv. 1, 5. I am the true Vine. And though the Wine, and the Quantity of it, Exod. xxix. 40. by ", and Numb. xxviii. 7. by, be appointed for a Drink-offering; 'tis not that I find divided between Jehovah and the Prieft or the People; whether they drank part of the Wine appointed for Libations, or that was all spilt, and they drank other devoted Wine, is fcarce worth difputing. There were fe

veral forts of Sacrifices, and of things brought before the Tabernacle, of which they eat and drank to this end; the Dif tribution of the Sacrifices and other devoted things, to the Aleim, to the Priests, to the Levites and People, are worthy confideration. The Reftriction of those who were unclean, of the High Prieft from the Wine, when he entered into the holy Place, &c. are to be confider'd. The times when, and the Places where these things were to be eaten &c. are but Circumstances, though all emblematical.

It seems, by 1 Sam. i. &c. that they divided the parts of the Sacrifices which S 3

were

were to be eaten, and the devoted Bread and Wine, into Portions: but it seems as if the Lamb was proportioned, fo the Wine of the Paffover was all in one Cup, proportion'd to the Family or Number join'd; though the Rabbies fay it was in four Cups. The Zeal of all other Nations to offer Blood, and from fome Mistake in Tradition, to eat Blood, and to offer Wine and drink of it; and their having a Cup in their Feaft the fame as in the Paffover, are Proofs that the Paffover and the Cup were in ufe when they went off; and was practifed by all the World, as the fprinkling of the Blood and other Circumftances were;which proves there was no occafion for Mofes to fhew that the Cup of Wine was a part of the Paffover, or that he needed be ftrictly particular in the Renewal, however effential; as of giving Thanks, of finging a Hymn to exprefs its Defign, or &c. Enforcing the Obfervation of this, in confideration of their Deliverance out of Egypt, does not fo much as infinuate that this was not a Branch of the grand. Inftitution of the Cherubim &c. at firft; because, though Moses, in the Affair of observing the feventh Day, the Sabbath, has not only given us a full account, Genef. 1ft and 2d,

of