8+ LEVITI CUS 2 Cor.76I.Heb.I0.22.So the Apoftic faith,Cknfe your hank , ye fumers , and purifieyour hearts , ye dou- ble rni,del, Iam.4.8. I 2 Verf i z. ofearth] or (posters earth, filch as pot - bakers burn in the kill : fee the notes on Lev.' t. 33. Ail veflls that are unekare, are made clean by water faveveffrofpetters- earth, andvefIItofglafe: filch have no eleannef but breaking. Maim. in Milt vaoth,eb.t.f.3. Earthen veffells fometime fignify reprobateperfons,Pfa.2.9Jer. t 9.1 I.fo the brea- king of thefe might figure the deftru&ion of un- godly men; the tintingand fcouring of other vef- fels,hgnifyingthe purging of repentat beleeving (inners, by theblood of Chrift, and waters of his word and fpirit. Or,if it be applied generally,as all men areearthen vela-ells ; it figured the utter a- bolilhingof fin& uncleannes,by death;as is Chew- ed onLev.tt.i3. ofwocd]orof other ftrong matter, as of silcer, braffe, copper, and the like. About the washing of veffells , the lewes have thefe rules;that nothing mutt part the veffell, or any partof it, and the water, as pitch, clay,or the like that cleaveth to the veltell: that it a ve7li be turned the mouth downward and baptifed, it it oc ifit were not baptized, becaufe the water fo comes not to all parts of io. Likwife a vef11 fill of any ligour (except water,) and bapttf d , it it at if it were not bap- tifed. Maimony in Illil;vaoth, c.3.f. i. t 2.18. Vnto the ordinances of the Lord for wafhing men and veffels that were unclean ; the Pharifees after ad- ded traditions of their owne,wafhing when they were not unclean, for, except they wafhed their hands oft, they did not eat; and when they came from the marlt , etrceptthey were baptifed, they did not eat : and many other thing: they had received to bold, the baptifing ofcups, and( pots, and of brazen vef ls, andofbedr. For thefe, Chrift blamed them, that they layd afide the commandement of God, and held the tradition of men : Mark.7.4-8.yea fo ferre proceed- ed they in their fuperftition, that they Paid ; wha- feever eateth without wafhing of bit hands-he it a! one that lyeth with a harlot: leafing for this, that fcripture in Prov.6.28.as R. Menacbem on Deut.8. alledged from the Talmud in Sotah. VerC 13.fhall beeleanfed] that is, healed; but the 3 means of healing are not declared , fare that by the rites & (acrifices following,God would teach thê,that his gracein Chrift maketh them whol;& by the Prophet he faith, Iwillfaveyoufamallyour seozeleamefs,Ezek.36.29.and, fromallyour thine(, artdfrnm all IOW idols , trillIclenfeyau, Ezek. 36.25.. which cleanfing is [hewed to be,by pardoning in- iquities, Ier.33.8. and by creating a clean heart in finners,Pfal.5 s.I z.fo that they come unto Chrift in faith;as the woman that had an little of blood, and had fpent all her living on Phyfxcians, beet could not be heakdofany; when the touched the border of thrifts garment,her litheRanched; and Chris laid unto her, Thy faith bath made thee whole ; Luke 243 .4448. (even daies for biseleanfng] to try whether he be perfeltly cured and clean ; and to lead him in myftery unto the day ofChrilt, and Sabbath or reif from fin under him: for fo the number fevcn fignified ; as is noted on Ex.I 2.15. X V. Levii.4. 7. And from hence the Hebrewes gather, he muff count fever clean daier , and be baptifed in the feventb, and bring bid airing in the eight. If he fee any appearance of his ifue, though it he at the end( the fe- ventbday after be is baptifed; all that be bath done ie nothing, but be nmlt begin again to rechet fever clean Bayer, after the day of the laf appearance of his if ire. Maimony in Meehofreicapyorab,ch.3.fea.1. bathe]or,wafb his f efb, w'h the Greek tranllateth, weft hisbadie. See verf.5. living water] that Is, as the Chaldee expoundeth it,fpring (or fountain) water : whereof fee the notes on Levit.t4.5. The Hebrewes explain this law thus. The man that bath an Ore ii not eleanfedbntinafoumaitte, for loeitie faidofhim, In living water : but the woman that bath an ifue, and other unclean either men or vefllt, are baptifed though in a gathering of waters. Maimony in Mikvaob,c.t.C5. The Pond, orgatherittgof waters ( called in Hebrew MikZueh whereof lee Levitt I. 36. ) was requifite for the cleanfing of other un- clean perlons that needed baptifing. All me/can either meteor vefßs, &c. were notcleanfed but bybap- tiffng in waters gathered together upon the ground. By the law they might baptifein all waters gathered toge- ther, into one place; fo many a would fufe to baptiff thewhnk body of a man. The quantitie , their wife men determined to be fartie Seahsof water : ( the Scab was more then our Englilh pee/;e, as is noted onGen.t 8.6.) Such a pond or bath,they fay,be- canie unlawfull to wafh in, by change of the colour of the water only; not by change of taft , or change of fined. Running waters that flowfrom a firing; are at the fpring it felfe , for any matter. Standing water is not allowable for men that have the iftse, nor for the Lepers , nrrfor the water ( purification , ( Numb. t 9. 17.) Thefe things and fundrythe like, Maimony hath recorded in Mikvaoth, ch.t.f..t.and c.4.f t. and c.7.f..I . and ch. t 9.1. t 3. Among the Latines, fpring and running waters,were called alfo living; as, Attre/lare refer, doter me fumiste vivo Abbtero. Virgil,./E neid.2.T his living water,figured the blood and fpirit of Chrift : for he bath wafted 141' from ourfenain his awn blood , Rev.z.5. front his throne proceedeth a pure river ( water of life, into his Church, Rev.2 z.I . his mouth and Law,is a well of (water of) life, Prov. t o. t rand 13.14.Iohn 4.1o. and the Spirit which they that beleeve in him doe receive, is as rivers of living water, lohn 7.38.39. Thefe clean waters, when God fprinkleth upon finners,they fhallbe clean, Ezek.36.25.2y. and(hall be clean] if then he wafhed not, he could not be clean : as by theHebrew canons, Theman or woman that had, an ifue, and the menftruout, and the woman in childbed; they are unclean forever, and doe defile men and ref lls , and fiat andfaddle, un- til they be baptifed. Although they tart' many jeers, and have no appearance of their smo /eanaffè : yet if they be not baptifed, they arefhill in their uneleamefle.Maini. in Metamei mifbeab, e. 5 t . So fines that men have committed, though they doe them not eve- ry day , yet the guilt of thim remaineth as un- cleanneffe upon them, till by repentance and faith they wafh themfelves in the blood of Chritt,2 Cor.I2.2 Id Ich 5.94 i o. Verf. ...,....,....,
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