the burnt-offering] That is, the lambe of the first yeare; the sin-offering was to be made for reconciliation with God, before he would accept an oblation of thankesgiving from man. Some demand, why there should be an offering for leprosie, it being no sinne? the Answer is, that though it be not a sinne in it selfe; that is, no breach of the morall law, yet the ceremoniall law requireth a cleanenesse to which the leprosie is contrary; and so it may be said to be ceremonially a sinne; or it may require a sacrifice, because it many times presupposeth a guilt of sinne which did deserve such a shamefull curse; as you may see in the case of Miriam, Numbers 12. vers. 10.