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    manner in which the scapegoat was m £ pbsed of probably was designed to teacft the Israelites that their sins and tm <;| e ^ nn e ^ se s were as certainly taken av £ ay from therh by means of the atonement which was made before

    with the blood of the sacrificed goat , as if tney had all been actually heaped wpon the head of the scapegoat for him to carry away with him into the wilderness ^ from which he was never to return . We have a very similar

    cetemony in Levit . xiv . 4—7 > which relates to the cleansing of a leper . r tJp bn the whole it appears that a £ 6 » ne ment was made for all the sins of thk ^ children of Israel except for presujnptuous transgressions , which the law" declared to be capital , and many of * which offences it actually names . !

    5 fr it' had not been so , a far greater number of Israelites must have been put to death than we have any reason to believe were ; or else there must hiv ^ s been a great body of out-casts frcfrri ainorig them , a thing which we neVer hear or read of ; for no guilty or

    polluted person was permitted to appSar t > efore God at the tabernacle or telfapte service , on pain of death . IX . How far did the efficacy or the silj ^ offering extend ? cleansed the offe from

    2 i . They rer c ^ r tstin lbodily pollutions . It is said in I ^^ t ! . ~ x > iv 8 , ofa female who had been in < 61 iild 4 > e 3 , and the priest shall make atbnemeht tot ; her and she shall be cle ^ n . ' " Ar > d of the leper , and the priest sh ^ K make atonement for him , arid he shall be clean . Levit . xiv . 20 . Sci £ & 1 So t-ievit . xv .

    ^ r'They procured the offerer the forgiveness of suqh real sins as they weT < $ t ) i 9 fere < l up for , or for which atorrelrient was made with their blood ; forbf $ \ lch a person it is said , and the priest snail make atonement for him before the Lord , and it shall be

    for-§ iveri fbr ' hny thing of all that he hath oirttf Jn trespassing therein . Levit . vi . i-Mt V : i—14 : xix . 20 . Tile ttYimary sense of the Hebrew w < jtd * wriich is translated atonement , signifies t 6 cover pVer ^ as Noah ' s ark wdfe ojJVeted , or smeared over with pitch , ti preserve it from sinking in Jhe ^ flopii of waters . Gen . vi . 14 . So siri ££ ( &hed is" covered * over , that is , riH

    forgiven . W Ps . xxxii . lj , Blessed is the m ^ v ^ ^ qiy ^ i ^ F ^ jg iven , whose 13 . If it be said ^ but supposing the

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    guilty offerer was not rqall ^ penitent would he nevertheless be forgiven ? Tp . this it may , be Replied , th ^ t no such , ^ apposition should be made—The Almighty God commanded him to repent j . he presented the appointed

    sacrifice to the priest at the door of the tabernacle , laid his hand in * solemn manner on the head of the victim , and confessed his sin ; arid on the annual day of expiation for sin , fasted , and humbled himself before .

    the Lord for his iniquities , and therefore it was taken for granted that he was really so ; and in many cases h would most certainly be so ; the sia offering therefore became a medium of forgiveness to the offerer . Levit i . 4 . xvi . 2 Q . 2 Sam * xxiv * 22—25 . ^ Job i .

    4 , ^ . xlii . 7—9 * What if a similar supposition was raiafed aga ' msjt the real penitence of a wicked heathen , who presented himself as a penitent believer in _ Jesus Christ , and who is promised , on his being baptized into Christ , that his past sins shall be forgiven ?—^ There is

    no end of such nice queries , which ill accord with the spirit of revelation , and especially-with the liberal spirit of the gospel . The language of Scripture is , " it shall be forgiven him . "—That is enough , and ought to suffice us . X . If it should be asked , but why was such a method of purifying the

    unclean , and pardoning the guilty , adopted ? Perhaps some persons would consider it as a bold qjuestiori , and say , who krioweth the' itai iud ' of the Lord ? His understanding h infinite , and his judgment a jsnjjhtgr deep . However , as the ^ gove&JOTeirt of God is evidently formed to proj » ote >

    our moral improvement , it seeir ^ : probable that i $ was adopted ^ ,. - 1 . Because it is so well adapted tax teach us the purity or hojineas of God * » As these sin offerings are said w cleanse and sanctify the tabernacje and temple , the utensils of them , a nd the priests , &c . ( Exod . xxix . 33 . 3 & 37 . viii . 34 , Heb . ix . 22 , ) and as an unclean person was said to pollute it , and it was death for any person wilfully to commit this offence , ( Numb . xix . 13 , Levit . xii . 4 , 5 ) , therefore these things , would necessarily suggest ? to the Israelites that God is indeed a &

    most pure and holy . Being . Thus ^ ceremonial purity would lead their ^ thoughts to ; ' moral purity , and shew -tUm » . that they must be holy , for Jebo-

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    7350 , Mr . Jevqns on the L&jitical Sacrifices

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Dec. 2, 1816, page 720, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse-os.kdl.kcl.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2459/page/28/