15. Gratulatory and Propitiatory. 16. Ordinary and Extraordinary. Common and Special.

Common and Eminent.

Common and Emphatical.
Particular and Univerfal.
Common and Singular.

Simple and Complex. 17. Nominal and Real.

Inftrumental and Real.
Metonymical and Real.

Verbal and Real.

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P. 73.

ERRAT A.

read intrinfick.

line 4. read at.

P. 75. in Notes, line 7. read vux évr¦ & PEÚœUVTO.

P. 75. in Notes, line 8. read winelar.
P. 79. in Notes, line 2. read Recurre.
P. 84. in Notes, line 4. read voce.
P.101. in Notes, line 5. read fit.

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Reverend

Reverend Brethren,

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HO' I have dwelt fome time upon the Chriftian Sacrifice, perhaps even to a degree of Tedioufnefs; yet confidering the great Impor tance of the Subject, I am not willing to dif mifs it, while I fee room left for throwing in any farther Light upon it. This may be done, as I conceive, by a more minute Confideration of the feveral Diftinctions, or Names of Diftintion, which Sacrifice, of one kind or other, has paffed under, in Church-Writers; thofe especially of the earlier Times, not neglecting others of later Date.

My Defign therefore, at prefent, is to bring together into one fummary View the most noted Distinctions, or Names of Distinction; and to explain them one by one, taking in the Autho

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Authorities proper to illustrate their Meaning, or to fignify their Ufe.

I.

The first and most comprehenfive Divifion, or Distinction of Sacrifice, is into four several Kinds, denominated from fo many feveral Kinds of Religion; Patriarchal, Pagan, Mofaic, and Chriftian.

1. The Patriarchal Sacrifices commenced, very probably, foon after the Fall, and confifted of flain Beaftsa, prefiguring Christ to be flain, pursuant to fome divine Appointment. Certain it is, that Cain and Abel offered Sacrifices, and that very early c; one, of the Fruits of the Earth; and the other of Cattled. Such were the Patriarchal Sacrifices strictly so called, of the material and extrinfick Kind. No doubt but the good Patriarchs offered spiritual Sacrifices befides: But those were Gospel-Sacrifices (as the Gospel, in some Sense, obtained even from the Time of the Fall e) and therefore I reckon not them as purely patriarchal.

2. The

a This hath been probably collected from Gen. iii. 21. See Patrick and other Commentators.

See my firit Charge of 1731. p. 41. Conf. Eufebius, Demonftr. Evang. L. I. c. x. p. 35.

A. M. 130. Bedford's Script. Chronol. p. 126..

d Gen. iv. 3, 4.

• See my Review, p. 428.