I Spiritual Perfection, culty of purifying from `Uncleannefi, and the Caufes of it fpecified. Means for purifying. T HE Words are argumentative, inferring the indifpenfable Duty of Chriftians to preferve them- felves untainted from the idolatrous im- pure World, by the confideration of the Promifes fpecified in the precedent Chap. ter : What fellowfbip bath Righteoufnef with Vnrighteou,fnefs ? And what commu- nion bath Light with Darknef ? Andwhat concord bath Chrift with Belial ? What part bath he that believes with an Infidel ? The form of ()hellions evidently implies the abfolute inconfiftency between them i and the danger from fuch Communion. We are not in Paradife, where the Vi. per and the Alp were innocent , and might be handled without danger from their Poyfon, but in a contagious World, full of Corrupters and Corrupted. He reprefents the dignity of true Believers Te are the temple of the living God : He hath fad, I will dwell in them, andwalk in them ; andI will be their God, and they ¡hall be my People. The unclean Spirits that poffefs'd the Man fpoken of in the Gofpel, dwelt among the Tombs, the Repofitories of the Dead, in their Cor- ruption and Roennfs but the holy Spirit
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