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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A18923	A manuel of the Bibles doctrine for law and Gospell, letter and spirit, signe and thing signified reduced to the first chapter of Leuiticus: Wherewith (occasionally) be plainely considered, and briefelie concluded, the most mayne questions wherewith the christian churches be combied. By H.C.	Clapham, Henoch.	1606 (1606)	STC 5344; ESTC S114490	51,700	285

Ignorance therefore in the sixt chapter the holy ghost laieth downe a sacrifice for such as haue sinned of knowledg For the opposite vnto ignorance is not willingnes but knowledge Besides that to sin hecousiōs that is with willingnes as is intimated vnto the Hebrews that beste vnderstood the qualities and forms of Sacrifice vnto such there remaineth no more sacrifice f●…r sinnes Willingnes there is a sin cōmitted against knowledg frāckly freely without restraint check of cōsciēce euen as the voluntary sacrifice was to be offred to God with a frank and free mind and pleasing of conscience which indeede is the great sin against the holy ghost represented by such sinnes in Israel as were done not only wittingly but also extensa ma●…u with an hy hand all freedome of strength for which sinne indeede there was no sacrifice ap pointed but the soule that so sinned was to be left vnto the maiestrates sword No●…atus the heretique who denied hope of remission to all such as sinned after baptism and of knowledge hee was therefore for vnder standing so Hebr. 10. 26 as farre wide on the one side as others haue been on the other side that for that verse sake haue denied or at least called into question the authority of that Epistle to the Hebrewes Nor can but many such grieuous errours followe the ignorance of Leuiticall ceremonies howsoeuer som of our Nouelists if they haue not left their euill their diuell will with Ismael flout therat til they haue flowted themselues out of Abrahams familie and the state of grace All the sacrifices thē spoken of in this section ar either offred vp for sin don of Ignorāce or otherwis through infirmitie cōmitted of Knowledge Wherein may be obserued the Lords exceding gratious prouidence towards his Church who for euery soar hath prouided a salue and his Son Iesus he hath made the Physitian Only for such Apostates as are so farre from being sore as they are wholie Become seared in conscience and theresore sinne against knowledg and former feeling spoken of in Hebr. 6. 4. 5. so despise the cōmunion spoken of in heb 10. 25. 38. 39. there remains indeede no sacrifice for that sin which S. Iohn intimates when he saith There is a si●…ne vnto death I say not that thou shouldst traye for it but to such remaines as in Hebr. 10 27 a fearefull looking for of iudgemente and violente fire which shall cousume deuour aduersaries Dallie therefore not with sinne after knowledge least it eat vp all conscience leaue no place for repentance I am not ignorant that manye haue spoken much of this sin against the Holy-ghoste but grounded on their owne surmises not on diuine scriptures Peter Lombard the great master of sentences hath laboured to define it but it stickes as bird-lime on his fingers and needes some wiser then S. Thomas a watering to wash his fingers on it Section 8. THere bee other sortes of sacrifice then these spoken of in the former section as the sacrifice of vowes and Aaronicall installments but al of them beeing bleeding oblations arguing as afore the blood of Christ Iesus cleansing vs from sin in which respect the oblations blud if any drop thereof fell vpon a garment was to be washed out in the holy place so holy the sign of Christs blood was in respecte of the end intended all of them I say being bleeding oblations they are to be referred vnto the former diuision There be also in Gen. 31 54 1 Sam 9 12 1 Kings 1921 speaches of Zebachs which some haue taken for sacrifices as also that the people were feasted with these holy things The worde indeed in Zebach in all the places but not therfore a sacrifice no more thē euery Corbā or Mincha is a ceremonial guift for the two latter places they were Zebachs that is in propriety mactatiōs or slaughters appointed for cōfortable bāquets For as Israell might not sacrifice any where but at the doore of the Tabernacle Leui. 17 3 c so none but the Priestes their males wer to eat of the holy reliques Le. 7. As for that of Iaa●…ob either it must be cōcluded that he sacrificed aparte and afterwardes made a banquet ioyntly of other victualls or els that it was as the former but a common Ze bach or slaughter for mutuall eating togither The sacrifice remayning to bee handled is that in Leuit. 1. which also is a sacrifice for expiation of sinne seeing it draweth blood with it and without blood no remission The matter ex qua whereof it consisteth is Animate creatures and they be of two sorts the first be Beasts the second be byrds The Beasts againe be of two sortes the first of the heard as the Bullock the second of the Flocke as Sheepe and goates As for the Birds they be also of two sorts Turtle-doues Pigeons The whole of this sacrifice was to bee burnt as also the Bullock and Reddish-cowe spoken of elsewhere for the which it is commonlie called of the Greekes Holocauston wholy burnt and in the Text an offring by fire In other kinde of oblations the Priest got somewhat as the remnant of the meat offring after a memoriall thereof had been sent vp to the Lord in fire of other blood sacrifices the shoulder and breast heaued and wagged before the Lord representing the heauing of the heart and the moouing of the Calues of our lips as the Prophet expoūds it and Hannah without noyse of words prac tised but in this oblation All goes to the Lorde And that which is more all is heer burnt within the Tabernacle as a sacrifice peculiar for such as be within the Churche whereas in other burnte-oblations made of the hearde the skyn flesh and excremēt was had out of the hoste and there burnt intimating as the Author to to the Hebrewes spea●…eth in Ch 13 11 12 3 that Iesus to the end he might sanctifie the peopl●… no doubte also the Na●…s without and that ●…ith his owne blood hee uffred without the gat●… eaching vs secondlie to ●…oe forth therfore out of the camp bearing his reproch Wherfore this burnt ●…ffring was sēt vp to the ●…ord as also whē it was ●…o be offred I find it not particularly mentioned nor in anye writer well obserued When as a sacrifice intimated some one or moe their particular wants we find it as afore bounded in his form and vse But in this not so It causeth mee therfore to thinke that this oblation intimated not this or that particular need but rather that it was as Noahs sacrifice was offered vp for the generall good of the whole Israel of God like as was the Lambe offred vp euerye day morning and euening and vppon the Sabaoth double the nomber and this for the whole Church of God militāt here in the earth For the time when I take it to be in a sort Arbitrary and left to Israels voluntarye contribution Neither see