of Separation: And all that abideth not the Fire, ye fhall make go through the Water.

Hence the Typical Law of burning Sacrifices, thence the Practice of it through the World. Hence the Law of adding Salt to the Sacrifice, Lev. ii. 13. And every Oblation of thy Meat Offering fhalt thou feafon (falt) with Salt; neither fhalt thou fuffer Salt to be lacking to the Purifier of thy Aleim. Ezek. xliii. 24. And the Priefts fhall caft Salt upon them. It is called Numb. xviii. 19. A Purifier 5, and 2 Par. xiii. 15.—The Kingdom to David and his Sons, a Purifier . So Mark ix. 49. Every one fhall be falted with Fire, and every Sacrifice fhall be Salted with Salt.

It was to be done by Man's Surety, a Perfon of the Effence united with the Son of God, born holy, who performed all Righteousness, who had in him what a brute Creature could not have, what was typified by the Salt which was added to the Sacrifice, which engaged him (the Man) to do and fuffer every thing he did and suffered ; and who was able, voluntarily, while alive, with his Body and Blood (though fome of it was shed at his being nailed to the Cross) and by his Soul, to endure the Fire the Wrath of the Father, equal to that which all Mankind should have fuffered for Sin; and to give the Remainder of his precious Blood, his temporary Life, after it had fuffered the Wrath which was of equal Value to the Lives of all Mankind, to redeem their forfeited Lives, and by that Water, which preB 2

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ceded the Blood, to purify us fo far as to make us capable (as Water its Type did) to approach and partake of the reft; and by that Blood, (which by the Affiftance of Salt, had undergone the Wrath as well as the Body, and was purified from our Sins, which he had taken upon him, fo was perfectly pure,) to fprinkle, to purify every one it touches, who has Salt in him; which qualifies us (as fprinkling by the Type, Blood did) to partake of the Sacrifices by eating and drinking, of which in my laft.

As Chrift first underwent the Fire, the Wrath of the Father for all Men, and had in him what Salt added to the Type fignified, we must state what Salt does to Bodies in the Fire.

As nothing ftands the Force of ftrong Fire but Gold and Silver, the Emblems of Royalty, fo the Royal Metals, they are given us as Examples of this Royal Purifier, (but as Gold is not eafily purified in Fire, and cannot in Fire purify other Things, fixed Salt ftands the Fire and purifies Gold and Silver from all bafe Metals) by fhewing us how Salt with ftrong Fire acts upon them in Fufion. Fire purifies Gold by burning every thing out of it that will fly or reduce to Afhes. (Q. if Silver fly alone, or if Fire will feparate it from Gold) The pure Fire by Glaffes vitrifies Gold or burns it to Afhes, so that in that State it lofes the Properties, but not an Atom of the Substance, and is by Fire to be returned to its Properties. The Motion of the Metal and Salt by Blaft, by Fire below and Air above, makes

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the Salt operate by Friction; fo Nitre and other Salts by the Action of Fire feparate the lighter Parts from thofe of the Metal, make them fly or fwim, and form them into Scoria or Drofs, and leave the Metal pure, as hinted in the Names and Attributes of the Trinity of the Gentiles, p. 120, 125, 130. under the Name na fo Jer. ii. 2. for though thou wash thee with Nitre, and take thee much Soap: thine Iniquity is marked before me, fays Adoni Jehovah. Mal. iii. 2. But who may abide the Day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a Refiner's Fire, and like Fullers Soap. And he fhall fit a Refiner, and Purifier of Silver : And he hall purify the Sons of Levi, and purge them as Gold and Silver. So Chrift, when he is refined from the Sins of the World, communicatively like Fire and Salt, Soap, &c. becomes the Refiner of others.

Upon cutting off the firft Purifier, before the Law was written, in their Return from Ægypt Exod. xxiv. 5. they offered Burnt Offerings and Peace Offerings of Oxen, and sprinkled half the Blood upon the Altar; and upon the People's Agreement to the Conditions v. 8. Mofes took the Blood and Sprinkled it on the People, and faid, behold the Blood of the Purifier, which Jehovah bath cut off with you upon all these Words. Heb. ix. 19. For when Mofes had spoken every Precept to all the People, according to the Law, he took the Blood of Calves and of Goats, with Water and Scarlet-wool (Purple) and Hylop

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and fprinkled both the Book and all the People, faying, &c. Mofes ufed the two Types of Water and Blood, as Chrift Joh. xix. 34. fent forth Water and Blood, fo 1 Joh. v. 6. came by Water and Blood: fo the People were baptized and effectually purified by the Types, on the Promise of fuch who could promife to do what was required.

By this fprinkling with Water and Blood, by Cedar-wood and Scarlet or Purple-wool, (perhaps the Emblems of a King) and Hyffop, which is faid to purge, to purify, (perhaps, the Emblems of the Purifier) the Prieft made them all, though uncircumcised, and some unable to speak, fuch as Infants, Deaf, Dumb, &c. clean and capable of taking what the Aleim had covenanted or promised to do for or give to them here and hereafter; though there were fome Qualifications neceffary in those who could, and when they could, qualify themselves: Lev. vii. 14.fhall be the Priests that sprinkleth the Blood of the Peace Offerings. So Heb. xi. 28. Through Faith he kept the Paffover, and the Sprinkling of Blood, left he that deftroyed the First-born fhould touch them. xii. 24. But ye are comeBlood of fprinkling. 1 Pet. i. 2. Through Sanctification of the Spirit unto Obedience, and sprinkling of the Blood of Jefus Chrift. Heb. x. 22. Having our Hearts fprinkled from an evil ConScience and our Bodies washed with pure Water.

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As one Part of Baptifm is Purification, and as there are four Sorts of Baptism mentioned

1 Joh. v. 6, 7, 8. one by Water, one by Blood, one by the Influence of the Holy Spirit, and one by Fire; fo we are baptized in the Name of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost, first by Water. And as Salt was added in the Types to Water, was in Blood, was added to Fire, and joined and contributed in feparating extraneous impure Matter from the Subject to be purified, the next Enquiry is what was the Part of the Holy Ghoft in Baptism of which no Type appears, except it be included in the Water; and what this Virtue was in the Man Chrift, the real Sacrifice, which made the Fire take Effect; and what in a leffer Degree it is in Man, who is by fome Act to take the Benefit of that Purification. It was in Chrift; it was in fome Degree in the Apostles, and every Christian is required to have it in himself: and this Virtue can lofe its Effect in Man and become useless.

As Christ was baptized by Water to perform all Righteousness; but was baptized, so purified from our Sins really, by fuffering the Wrath, by Fire in Sacrifice and as his Profpect was of an infinitely higher Nature than ours, and as he had all Virtues in him to Perfection, the Salt in him is not described, except Pfa. xvi. 9. cited Acts ii. 26. my Flefh fhall reft in Hope, Exod. XXX. 35. Salt was to be added to the Perfumes, the Virtues of Chrift, which the Aleim were to smell in the Tabernacle Ty but in general 'tis faid Heb. xii. 2. For the Joy that was fet before him (in the Pfalms) he endured the Cross and defpifed

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