C3 141 faces toGod, may b heard in the prayers which they mace for the fafetyof thepeople ofGod;fee- ing it is written, that :,d heareth not a firmer, but if any mean warfhip God, and do his win, him he heareth. 3. For w>iich reafon., with full diligence, and incere tryil. th.afe men nri.t be chofen to the Prie (hood, whom it is manifeft (33,1 loth hear. And let nor the Lay people .latter themselves, as if they could be free from the Contagion of the crime, wriera they communicate with a finful Pries , :an.ri give their content to the uniult and un- lawfïl E rifcopacv of their overnour, feeing by the Prophet Ilya a God's centhre threatneth, and faith, Their Sacrific°s are as the bread offarrow ; all that eat of it fha'f be d'gfed Teaching and fhew- ing that all they do fin who are defiled by the fa® crifice of a pro,,lrane and uniuft Prieft ; which we find afro manifeited in Nambcrs,where Corah, Da- than and Airarn challenged to themfelves againft Aaron the licenfe of facrificing. The Lord there by Mefis commandeth that the people be fepa- rated from them, left being joyning to the offen- ders,they be guilty of their crimes. Be feparated, faith he, from theTents of thofe obdurate tnèn,and touch nothing which-is theirs, left ye perifh with them in their fins. 4. Wherefore the Lay people, obeying the Lords comm?nd, and fearing God, muff feparate themfel ties ( a peccatore prapo ato ) from a finful Prelate (or Paftor) and muff not mix the tnfelves at the facrifices ofa facrilegious Priem; becaufe they chiefly have the potter either to chute ráeJés that are worthy, or to refute thefe that are unworthy : Which very thing, we fee, defcendeth fromDivine AA. thority, that the f'rieft, the Lav- people being prefent, be chufen tinder the Eyes of All,
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