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been used to such Services, and also the Na-tions round about them,to restrain them fromIdolatry, and Sacrificing to strange Gods,Origen. Homil. 17, in Numer. Deus fee ut peraliurn Prophet am dicit non mandiscat carvestaurorum , nec janguinem hircorum pot at. Etetiam, ut alibi scriptm eft, Quia non mundavitibi de Sacrificus %tel viblimis in die qua deduxite de terra Ægypti. Sed Moyses here ad diu-ritiem cordts eorum , pro confuetudine pefjtmaqua imbuti fiterant in Ægypto, mandavit eu, utqui abstinere fe non po sent ab immolando , Deofultem & non Dæmoniis intmolareni. OtherQuotations to this purpose may be seen inDr Outram De Sacrificm. Indeed it seems al>ford to think or believe, that God should takeany pleasure in the slaughter ot innocentBeasts, or in the Fume and Nidor ot burntFlesh or Fat: Nor doth the reason these Fathersalledge of the Institution of Sacrifices or in-joyning them to the feivy latislie, whatevertruth there may be in it For it is clear, thatthe main end and design of God in institutingof them, was for Types and Adumbrations ofthat great Sacrifice of Christ to be offered up-on the Cross for the expiation of fin : andconsequently it is probable, that those alsothat were offered by the Ancient Patriarchsbefore the Law, had their Orignal from someDivine Command or Revelation, and the like

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