a sin-offering for the people, and brought his blood within the veil, and sprinkled it also seven times upon the mercy-seat and before the mercy-seat.  Then he went out to the Altar, and sprinkled it also seven times with the blood of the bullock, and as often with the blood of the goat.  After this he laid both his hands upon the head of the live goat; and confessed over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel_, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat; and sent him away into the wilderness by the hands of a fit man:  and the goat bore upon him all their iniquities into a land not inhabited_, Levit. chap. iv. & chap. xvi.  While the High-Priest was doing these things in the most holy place and at the Altar, the people continued at their devotion quietly and in silence.  Then the High-Priest went into the holy place, put off his linen garments, and put on other garments; then came out, and sent the bullock and the goat of the sin-offering to be burnt without the camp, with fire taken in a censer from the Altar:  and as the people returned home from the Temple, they said to one another, God seal you to a good new year.

In allusion to all this, when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.  And an Angel stood at the Altar having a golden Censer, and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all Saints, upon the golden Altar which was before the throne.  And the smoke of the incense with the prayers of the Saints ascended up before God out of the Angel’s hand.  And the Angel took the Censer, and filled it with fire of the Altar, and cast it to the earth, suppose without the camp, for sacrificing the goat which fell to God’s lot.  For the High-Priest being Christ himself, the bullock is omitted.  At this sacrifice there were voices and thundrings, of the musick of the Temple, and lightnings of the sacred fire, and an earthquake:  and synchronal to these things was the sealing of the 144000 out of all the twelve tribes of the children of Israel_ with the seal of God in their foreheads_, while the rest of the twelve tribes received the mark of the Beast, and the Woman fled from the Temple into the wilderness to her place upon this Beast.  For this sealing and marking was represented by casting lots upon the two goats, sacrificing God’s lot on mount Sion, and sending the scape-goat into the wilderness loaden with the sins of the people.

Upon the fifteenth day of the month, and the six following days, there were very great sacrifices.  And in allusion to the sounding of trumpets, and singing with thundring voices, and pouring out drink-offerings at those sacrifices, seven trumpets are sounded, and seven thunders utter their voices, and seven vials of wrath are poured out.  Wherefore the sounding of the seven trumpets, the voices