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Pidgeotit ; but their daily facrifices conliftcd chief- 
ly of Sheef; for every day, for above 1 582 years, 
all the while that the ^sfaical Law was obler- 
ved, there were offered two Lambsy one in the 
morning, and the other at evening, with fine 
flour and wine, which did fignifie to us holy 
Prayers and Ejaculations, with which We ought to 
begin and end every day. That Ram which Abra- 
offered in the Mount, inftead of •//*<?£■, was a 
Type of Chrift • for, as the Ram was flain for 
Ifaacy fo Chrifty the Lamb of God, was offered up 
inftead of us;every day (as I faid before) were of- 
fered up two Lambs, belides all other facrifices 
which fometimes did require Lambs and Sheep, 
as in the confecration of Priefisy as alfo on their 
Sabbathsy and New Moonsy and at the Paffovery at 
Pe»tecofty and feveral other Feaftivals,as alfo up- 
on their Confeflions, Purifications, &c. of which 
we may read at large in Exodusy Leviticus y and 
feveral other places, all which were hnt tjipes and 
figures, as they are called, Heb.g. Now we come 
to fpeak of the nature and properties of the 
Sheep. 
I. It is not a crafty, fubtil creature,like to Pox- 
es and Leopards, but dull and ftupid, often wan- 
dring and running into deferts and by-places, 
where he meeteth but with worfe pafture : in the 
Winter time they will run out or the pens into 
the fnow where they are fmothered, neither do 
they ever come back again unlefs the fliepherd 
fetch them ; it was wittily faid by him of a wan- 
dring Ihe;p, 
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