CHAP. V. 55 being exempted frommansufe ; dedica- ted to God,and imployed in his fervice. Hence was it that all ílrange or unclean perlons were forbidden to i Bate, yea or to touch the holy things. And when the Ifraelites were fánftified ceremonially, it was k by waíhing their garments , abf- teyning from their wiues,thus preparing their bodiesand minds to converfe with God. And in the wholecourfe of their life, this was their:fan&ification & fignes thereof, to ábfleyn fromall finn and un- cleannes, as alit from communionwith the finners and uncleane: and to giue themfelues to the fervice ofGod,&kee- ping of his lawes. :z. This is to be feene in many parti- culars. As,the calling and i feparatingof 1 Lew.2o, 26 Ifiael fr6 other people , that they might be holy unto God. The flhadow hereof; -namely ab.fnence from eating uncleane mAs. Ye, r s meats (which figured n1 their refreyning 18' &z°' from the fellowship :ofwicked men)for raev. i I,44 a figne and teftimonyof their n fanéifi- 45 cud. 12. cation and holynes with theLord. To 31' de111,14, Moloch they might not offer their chit- 21. dren, for that was to o defile Gods fan- oLcv.a0,3. D 4 dual:ie, i rx0.29,33 lev. 22)3,4» 5,6,9,ßo. kExo. x9.14 r5»22o
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