Leviticus 4

Leviticus 4:1

To mark the sins of priests and of congregations as greater than those of rulers or of private persons; (1) The offering must be more valuable, a bullock; (2) The blood must be sprinkled on the altar of incense; (3) The whole flesh of the bullock must be burnt; whereas a lamb or kid is only required from rulers or private persons: the blood is but sprinkled on the altar of the burnt-offering; and the fat only is burnt, and the flesh reserved for the officiating priests

REFLECTIONS UPON CHAP. IV.—In these offerings Jesus is yet represented as the strong and patient fatling; as the Lamb of God, and yet in the likeness of sinful flesh; laden with my imputed transgressions, and suffering the punishment thereof in his whole man, but chiefly in his soul, that I through him may obtain forgiveness. While I here discover how sin is aggravated, according to the station or number of the offenders, let me especially reflect how criminal and odious that must be which cannot be remitted without shedding of blood— the blood of God! How tremendous the justice of God, that can by no means clear the guilty! Let me, with the priests, never attempt to gain pleasure or profit by my sins; but, whenever I find myself guilty of evil, let there be an immediate application to Jesus, as made sin for me that I might be made the righteousness of God in him