566 Chap.I4. An Expofation upon the Book of Jon. Verf. 4. An unclean, and then I (hall confider lobs (cope in ufing this plea, who can bring :a clean thing out of qnunclean ? 'MU) mundi_ The word which we render clean, fignifies fhining, beautiful, tiem niters= a fubf}ance fo pure and tranfparent that we may fee through it,, ten; denotes. fo pure that it is free from all fptt or defilement, from all black- nefs and darknefs': Who can bring filch a clean thing out of an unclean ? The Hebrew word (Tama) comes near the word (Contaminatum) which is ufed by the Latines for unclean ; and Itimmun- it fpeaks the greateft pollution, the fordidneffe and filthineffe d1cs,pulchra of habit , the Goar of Blood, the muddinefs of Water, what- foever is loathfome or unlovely, noifome or unfightly : All thefe eft illisu tur- meet inand make up the meaning of this word, who can bring a "pitudinis 6. clean thing out of this uncleannefs ? fordium ap- Clean andunclean may be taken twoyvayes, either firíf cor- pellatio a ,porally and externally. Or fecondly, morally and internally, qualmfqualor yob fpeaks not of the former, theuncleannefs here meant ismo- Viidemmce- ral or internal. rents! ammo Which is alfo twofold, Firft, the uncleannefs of our natures: forditatui Secondly, Of our a&ions, the uncleannefs which lies in the in_ habitus, ern- ward man, puts it felf forth in theoutward man, and fo we are iris &fan- uncleanbothwithin and without. atainis macu- who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean ? This queflion lie, nubile, may undergoa threefold expofition. Firft thus, who can bring cralTa omnia amorally clean perfon out of a perfon originally unclean ? the turbida im- word which we render bring is give in the Hebrew , who can auudaque give a clean thing out of an unclean ? Which may well referre d. Pined. to the birth of man ; So the word is ufed (Gen. 17. 16.) God promifeth Abraham to biefs Sarah and give him a fonof her : Sohere, Who can give a clean thing?That is, caufe it tobe born of an unclean ? 7ob fayes his hand upon his birth-fin ; as if he had laid, all men are naturally unclean, therefore the Children born of them are unclean too. Secondly, who can bring aclean thing out of an unclean ? May refer tithe action of the fameman, take lob or any other per- fonwho is morally unclean by nature, this man being unclean cannot bring forth a clean thing, that is, a cleanaetion ; As the root is,fuch is the fruit;we are finch fruit as ouiparents are unclean both, and our fruit isfilch as we the parents are, unlean both. T,irid-
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