I11 366 Chap. 9. An Expofition upon the Book, of J O B. Verf. 30, robes, and tn:de themwhite in the blood of the Lamb (Revel.7.14..) Sanf,}ification, which is cleanfing from the filth of fin, and ¡uni- fication, which is cleanfing from the guilt of fins are fat forth by wathiug, i Cor. 6. 9. Tut ye are waiSed. Thus the Prophet counfels the polluted Jews jfa. 1, 16.) Wall; you, make you clean 's which he expounds by a moral duty in the next words, Put array the evil ofy.)ur d: inns from btfore mine eyes, ceaf t to do dntiguiinunt evil, learn to do well. It was ufual among the Heathen to wadi, fait mi. balneo autcoperùat'- as a lign of purification, efpecially before they went to wor(hip - lutiane, ad d.- their gods, or after they had defiled rhemfelves with fome grie- tcrgendar ani- vous crime. One of the Poets gives them a reproof, 0 ye who mi fader. arefo credulous,or eafte ofbelief, to thinkthat the bloody fin of mar_ dónimium fa. therm the bodies of ctber men, can be taken away by wafhingyour ciler,tui triffia g f crimina esd,,, own bodies. a They had a great opinion of a cleanfing vertue in Fluminea tali the fea, to which fome think the Prophet Micah alludes (Chap. p4 pnrats a- i 19. (He will calf all theirfins into thedepths ofthe Sea, b. The !u °' ancient Chriffians, cling to wafh before they prayed, (hewed a slìni nolu. grunt oma partilei little touch of Judaifme, or of their old Gentilifine. Some ear mac, ( fed have given this for one reafon, why the Lord appointedfo many inculguntr'nfu- wafhings among his people, that the Heathens might be the ea- t") influmen tier gained to the religion of the Jews, when they found Come sbjscera,ne tam delati client in what fymbolizing with their cufionis among them : which if it vtare,ipfumpoi were fo, yet it cannot bear out thofe, who have mixed Chritlian iuerunt,guore- worfhip with Heathenifh obfervations, thereby to facilitate their uraqúa viola. conversion. But doubtlefs Jobhad reference to thofe rites either to font, expiarí of the Jews or Gentiles, when he laid Ctc. ' , in Orar. pro Though I wafh my felt with Snow-water. lìofc. bchriflien u le Why with Snow- water ? That is (fay tome) with the moll pure has orar. pert. water, with the cleared-fpringing fountain water, or in the moll dé Drat c. to. ' Ckm 1.8. cryflal fireatns, not in the water of melted Snow; but in water coal?. 488. like Snow for purity and orient clearnefs. Atlrqui ex Ides Others, Conceive it an allufion to that peculiar rite of thole nr legurnalli times when they took Snow-water to wafh with, rattier then` gu aivM,rg1ae nivr. Pined, fpring or river water, becaufe that came from the Heavens, not from the Earth here below and was therefore (in their opinion)' more excellent in it's nature, becaufe it hid' a, more excellent' original. Thirdly, J®b is thought tò fpecifie fnoi:w-taarer,bccaufe in thofe Countrycs the fountainor river-water was 'not' pure, and there- fore
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