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A. It was a kind of liquid Ointment, compounded of Myrrh, Cinnamon, and other rich. Spices, with Oil-Olive, by the Art of the Apothecary, and there was none to be made like it on Pain of Death, Exod xxx. 23-33.

84 Q What was the Ufe of this holy Oil?

A. All the Veffels of the Tabernacle were to be anointed with it, as well as Aaron the High Pricft, and his Sons, Exod. xxx. 26.

85 Q. What was the Incenfe or holy Perfume?

A. It was a Composition of fweet Spices with Frankincenfe; nor was any to be made like it on Pain of Death, Exod. xxx. 34-38.

86 Q What was the Ufe of this Incenfe or Per. fume?

A. Some of it was to be beat to Powder, and laid before the Ark in the moft holy Place before the Lord, Exod. xxx. 36. And it was this Incenfe of fweet Spices which was burnt daily on the Altar of Incense. See Exod. xxx. 7, 8, 9 and XXXV. 15. and xxxvii. 29.

87 Q What is the laft Sort of holy Things relating to the Jewish Worship?

A. The Inftruments and Veffels which were used in their Sacrifices, and in any other Part of their Religion; and they were made chiefly, of Gold, Silver, Brafs and Wood..

88 Q. What Inftruments were made of Gold?

A. The golden Cenfer belonging to the most holy Place; the Veffels belonging to the Table of Shewbread; namely, the Bowls, and Dishes, and Spoons, and Covers; the Veffels belonging to the Candlesticks and Lamps, namely, the Snuffers and Snuff-difhes, &c. Heb. ix. 4. Exod. xxxvii. 16, 23.

89 Q. What Inftruments were made of Silver? A. Befides the Hooks and Fillets of the Pillars

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of the Court and the Sockets of fome of the Pillars, and of all the Boards of the Tabernacle, which were of Silver, Exod. xxvi. 19, &c. and xxvii. 10, &c. there were Chargers and Bowls of Silver, offered by the Princes for the Ufe of the Sanctuary, Numb. vii. 13. and Trumpets of Silver, Numb. x. 2.

90 Q. What were the Inftruments of Brass? A. Those which belonged to the Altars of Burntofferings, namely, the Pots, Shovels, Bafons, and Flesh-hooks and Fire-pans, befidesthe Brazen Grate of Net-work, Exod. xxxviii. 3, 4. Alfo the common Cenfers for Incense were fuppofed to be Veffels of Brafs fit to hold Fire, Numb. xvi. 17, 37.

91 Q. What were the Inftruments of Wood?

A. The Staves fixed to the Golden Rings to bear both the Ark, the Incense Altar, and the Golden Table, were all made of Shittim Wood, and overlaid with Gold, Exod. xxxvii. 4, 15, 28. but the Staves to bear the Altar of Burnt-offering were overlaid with Brafs, Exod. xxxviii. 6.

SECT. V. Of the Holy Times and Hóly Actions.

92 Q. HAVING furveyed the Holy Things

of the Jews, let us inquire what were the chief of the Holy Times or Days appointed to them?

A. The Weekly Sabbaths, the New-Moons, the Feast of the Pafs-over, the Feast of Pentecoft, the Feast of Trumpets, the Great Day of Atonement, and the Feast of Tabernacles. See moft or all thefe Holy Times prefcribed in Lev. xxiii. and the feveral Sacrifices belonging to them, in Numb. xxviii, xxix.

93 Q. What was the Weekly Sabbath?

A. The feventh Day of every Week was a Day of holy Reft from all the common Labours of Life,

and a Day of affembling for Worship, which is called an holy Convocation, Exod. xx. 8, 10. Lev. xxiii. 2, 3.

94 Q. What fpecial public Service was done on this Day?

A. The daily Sacrifice was doubled, Numb.xxviii. 9. and it is very probable, that fome Portions of the Law were to be read, and perhaps expounded, chiefly by the Priests and Levites, as was practifed afterwards in the Synagogues, Acts xv. 21. and perhaps alfo this might be done, at leaft in the following Times, on all Days of holy Convocation.

95Q. Why was this Day fanctified or made holy? 1. Partly from God's refting from the Work of Creation on the feventh Day, and partly in Remembrance of the Ifraelites Deliverance and Rest from their flavish Labours in Egypt, Exod. xx. 11. Deut. v. 15.

96 Q. What was the Feast of the New-Moons? A. In the Beginning of their Months, which they reckoned by New-Moons, they were to blow the Silver Trumpets, and offer a special Sacrifice, Num. X. 10: xxviii. 11 1 Sam. xx. 5. Pfalm lxxxi. 3.

97 Q. What was the Feast of the Pafs-over? A. It was kept for feven Days in their first Month, Abib, by facrificing a Lamb, and eating it in every Family, in Remembrance of God's paffing over the Families of Ifrael, when he flew the First-born in every House of the Egyptians, Exod. xii. 18, &c.

Hére note, That the first Month of the Jews, for all the common Affairs of Life, which are called Civil Affairs, was Tifri, which in part answers to our September, and is the first Month after the Autumnal Equinox ; and it was always fo to continue for Civil Affairs, as appears from Exod. xxiii. 16. chap. xxiv. 22 and Lev. xxv. 8-10. But as to Ecclefiaftical or Religious

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Religious Matters, the first Month after the Vernal Equinox, called Abib, which anfwers partly to our March, was defigned to be the Beginning of the Year to the Jews, in Memory of their great Deliverance from Egypt.

98 Q. In what Manner was the Feaft of the País-over kept?

A. On the fourteenth Day of the Month they were to roaft a Lamb for Supper, and to eat Unleavened Bread that Evening, and seven Days after, Exod. xii. 3, 8, 19. Numb. xxviii. 16, 17.

99 Q Was there any particular Worshipper formed on these seven Days?

A. Yes, there were special Sacrifices every Day, a Sheaf of the firft ripe Corn, that is, Barley, was now offered to God; and on the first and last Day there was an holy Convocation or Affembly for Worship, Exod. xii. 16. Numb. xxviii. 16, &. Lev, xxiii. 10.

100 Q. What was the Feaft of Pentecoft?

A. Fifty Days, or feven Weeks after the first ripe Corn (or Barley) had been offered to God, there was a particular Sacrifice, and an holy Affembly, and two Loaves of the first Fruits of Wheat were to be offered, Lev. xxiii. 15—21.

Note, This was called the Feaft of Weeks, Deut. xvi. 16. compared with Exod. xxiii, 16. It was a Sheaf of Barley that was offered at the Pass-over, and two Loaves of Wheat at Pentecoft, both of them as Firft-fruits. See Pool's Annotat. on Exod. xxiii. 16. 101 Q. What was the Reafon of the Feast of Pentecoft?

A. It was kept as a Thanksgiving for the Beginning of Wheat-harveft, Exod xxiii. 16. and perhaps also in Memory of the giving of the Law at Mount Sinai, which was feven Weeks, or fifty

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Days after the Pafs-over, and their coming out of Egypt, Exod. xx. 1, 11.

Note, They went out of Egypt the fourteenth Day of the first Month, Exod. xii. 17, 18. From thence to the Beginning of the third Month is forty fix or forty feven Days, when they came to the Mountof Sinai, Exod. xx. 1, 2. Then they purified themfelves three Days, ver. 11, 16 and God gave the Law the fiftieth Day: and this Feaft was called Pentecoft, which in the Greek fignifies the Fiftieth. 102 Q. What was the Feast of Trumpets?

A. The first Day of the feventh Month, blowing of Trumpets was appointed with peculiar Sacrifices, and an holy Affembly, Lev. xxiii. 24. Numb. xxix. 1, &c..

103 Q. What are fuppofed to be the two chief Defigns of this Feaft of Trumpets?

A. (1.) This feventh Month having several Holy-Days in it, it was a Sort of Sabbatical Month, or Month of Sabbaths, and was to be begun with an extraordinary Sound of Trumpets. (2.) This. was counted the first Month, and first Day of the Year for Civil Matters, as the other was for Things Religious, and was to be proclamed by Sound of Trumpet. See Pool's Annotat. on Lev. xxiii. 24. and xxv. 9.

Note, As the feventh Day was the Sabbath, or Day of Reft from Labour, fo the feventh Month was a Sort of Sabbatical Month; the feventh Year a Sabbatical Year, to let the Land reft from Tillage; and at or after the feventh Sabbatical Year, that is, once in fifty Years, there was a Year of Jubilee, or Release and Reft from Servitude or Bondage, Lev. xxv. 2, &c. E, &t.

104 Q. What was the great Day of Atonement? A. The tenth Day of the feventh Month was appointed as a general Day of public Eafting and Humiliation, Repentance and Atonement, for all D 5

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