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    the feast of unleavened bread ; were both kept on the ^ fihftt . month of the year ; one began on the fourteenth and t | fi& other oair the fifteenth , day of the month . Levit . xxiii . 5 , 6 * Exod . xii . t , &c . Numb , xxviii . 1 & * 22 ^ And owe goat for a sin offering , to rnake an atonement for you .

    2 . The feast of per 4 teeost was kept fifty days after the palaver . Exod . xpuii , lft . Levit . xxiii . \ Q ^—2 X- Numh . xxviii . 26—32 . At ver . 30 , it is said , dfod one kid of the goats , to make , an atonement for yow * 3 , The day of expiation and the feast of tabernacles were both as one ,

    a £ they were only four days apart , lie , vie xvL 23 . 26 —< 34 . Numb * xxix . 12 , Sec . Ezek . xLv . 19 , 2 Q . On this manual day of expiation , Aaron first inade atonement with the blood of a buttock far himself and his family ; a&& then with , the blood of a goat fox alt the congregation of the children 0 / Israel . * I ^ evit . xvi . 3 . A bullock for a sin ofYeriug ^ &c . ver . 6 . 9 . 11—13 . Then shall hs kill the goat of the sin oflesuig , that is for the , people * These axanemeats were made by sprinkling tWe . blood before the Lord in the most hot& place , ver . 14 . Id . In relation ,

    to . which , things , and his confessing their sins over the head , of the scapegoat , it is sakL ver . 21 ,. ami cqnfess © vex him ail -the iniquities of the children o £ Israel , and all their transgress Lous ia all their sins ^ ver . 3 O , to cleanse y&n , that ye naay be clean from all war s ' , before the I ^ ord . Ver . 33 * foe , shall n ^ ake aa atonement for the

    priest and all the people of the congregation , ver . 34 , for all their sins one © a year . , 4 . b } also appears from . Numb . xjxviiiw 1 1 ^ - ^^ 5 , that a sin ofiering . was oifered at the begin nin- ^ of every morfeth for tbe congregation . Ety these various appointjfti ^ i > tst pj ? ovision was made for the expiation of the generality of these sins whiqh the cikiUlren . of Israel were exposed to ,

    whi # h are mot declared , by the law , tot be capital . . V it appears th «» t wh ^ neve i ; awy j ^ cts ou oo < $ m ££ tt * ci a really wijful oii ^ CQ ^ whjota was not notoriously pjfeawnTjpiuoufr ^ nor expressly dec lared ( w tjbeiaw to b ^ capital , that Hl ^^ did j& * put th * fjww to d « ath , hat ^ c % re 4 a ain oflfofii ^ tp clean se him from ti * e < goalt of it , which also ap' p ^ ar ^ , to t ^ ve been . rigfrt ,. a ^ thei ^ offer-^ ivgs ^ ion Buch occasions were accepted

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    of the Lord . See N ^ inb . xvi . 45 $$ where we are informed that Aaron made atonement by incense , ta remove the ^ ingerof God for the murmuring of the people , and the plague was stayed . I 3 avid also offered burnt offerings and pea . ee offerings to God for his sin in numbering the neonl **

    2 Sam . xxiv . 25 . And on another occasion , when he thought that God might possibl y he displeased with him , he said ,, let nim accept an offering ! 1 Sam . xxvi . 19 . And when , many of the Israelites had broken the law by marrying strange wives , they offered a ram for their trespass . Exod x . 19 . 1 Esdras ix . 13—2 Q . la 2 Maccab .

    in . 32 * 33 ^ there is an account of a sacrifice offered for the health of a sick person , and atonerAent is said to have been made . They probably thought his affliction was the fruit of his sins . See also 2 Maccab * xii . 29—45 . JEzek . xlv . 1 £ , 20 .

    VI . It also appears that in some cases in which the offences were evidentl y wilful , not to say presumptuous , but either were not expressly declared by the law to be capital , or were attended with some circumstances which

    pleaded ia favour of the criminals , that they did not immediately put ; thereto death ,, but kept them in ward until they had- consulted th& oracle of God : sq it wa 3 in the ^ ase of the y < Hith who blas - phemed Qod A ExocJ . xxxii . 30 , and al ^ o of the man . , who gathered sticks on the Sa&hatb day , Nuniibu xr > 32—36 \

    So far were they from considering every breach of the law as capital— $ 0 enlarged weje their views ot making atonement for sin * VII . It is however acknowledged that the law of Moses says ^ ^ but ; the soul that doethaugh * presumptuously * &c < the same repsoaohe'th the LprcJ ; aud that sou ) slWl be cut off from am # ng hi $ people * " Nu , mb . xv . 30-DeiU .. xvii . lg . Human , language is TrnDetf 6 ^ - Every presumptuous sin . must he wilful ; Uit probabjy it will appear thaU every wilful o ^ ei ^ CQ is , nQt ^ . in the eye of tihe law , presumptuous . 1 . ThU is ^ iix p ^ rti evidwt ftwx the - many instances that J ^ vo bee n agduced of atonciiyvexH ^ being made for wilfa ) transgression ^ of the l » * 2 . To mk « a wilful offeree p ^ sujux ptuo ^ s , th ^ re muftt , it sejecaa ^ WwM ** e ag ^ rafyati ng oLdditioml wjc vm * stajice or cir ^ umStajxGes atpWwW-. ' ' such as a deliberate , determtaat ;^ iP-

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    Yl 8 Mr . Jcvans on th ^ e Levilical Sacrifices .

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1816, page 718, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2459/page/26/