sacrifice. Here, consequently, we have an affinity of the
outward act, p. 11.
-II. From the Christian Dispensation we learn, that the inward
purpose of the outward act, so far as regards that Dispen-
sation, is atonement for sin, p. 12.
III. But, hitherto, we have only reached a presumption, that such
also was the inward purpose under the two preceding Dis-
pensations, p. 13.
1. Case of the Levitical Dispensation, p. 14.
(1.) Under the Levitical Dispensation, the inward
purpose is the same, as under the Christian Dis-
pensation, p. 14.
(2.) And, to this identity of inward purpose, is
superadded a studied and intentional connexion,
p. 15.
2. In the case of the Patriarchal Dispensation, we have
hitherto determined nothing more than the actual
existence of animal sacrifice, p. 16.
(1.) With respect to the inward purpose and the
intentional connexion, we can as yet urge
nothing beyond bare analogical presumption,
p. 16.
(2.) Should this presumption prove well founded,
piacular sacrifice must have been instituted of
God from the beginning, p. 17.
(3.) If God were the original institutor of piacular
sacrifice under Patriarchism, this circumstance
would evince its intentional connexion with the
consummating piacular sacrifice under Christi-
anity, p. 19.