Chap. i .. An Expoftionupon the Bookof Jo a. Verf. .¢. 575 us, as with rational creatures ; They who are dead in fins and it trefpaffes , may hear the word of life and live. The dead and Arc, unc r,' unclean areinvited to the means of life and cleanfing, and God in non unau the ufe ofmeans bath promifed to cleanfe and enliven them , but o ;s dabir man ofhimfelf cannot cleá e himfelf,nor make himfelfdiff:r from rnundam ex what he is, or others are. s our fan&ification is the will of God, ',mine con- fo it is the work of God too. 'Tis neither our ownpower+nor the Caminato per- power ofany creature, which gives us the new creation : fo thecatis,myiDe_ laft words of the verfe refolve, Who can bring a clean thing out of qui unni an unclean? Not one. eft, qui re- That is, Noman can do it. Some read this interrogatively, mittat ipfi ? or by way ofqu_flion, who can bring a clean thing out of an un- Chaid.Non- clean ? cannot one ? or is therenot one that can? we negatively,There to quifolzu is not one that can : no man can do it. es. Vulg. Ifwe rake ( as we fafelymay) the former reading the que- Solns Deus Ilion affirms ; Is there not one ? yea, there is one, and but one poteft ex em- who can bring a clean thingout ofunclean : As the Scribes faid. mundo facers ( Mar .2.7.) Who can forgive fins but God only ¿ So, who can mundum cleanfe a foul but God only ? God only of unclean, can make us clean. condanande Ilewho can raifeup children to Abraham out of bones, and alter peccata, nam the courfe of nature, he can make the Leper changehis fpot, andcuji pecca- the Slackamore his skin ; to Godnothing is impoffible, but to turn condona- man many things are irnpoffible, and there is nothing more im- tutu eft poífile then this, the cleanfing of the fpirituallyunclean. As that rus eft.Dru. onlycan makeand continue a cold body hot, which is it felfand Sicut de of its felf is hot, fo he only can make an unclean thing clean, gido facers who is himfelfand of himfelf is clean ; God is clean, and calidumoft there is no fpot in him, therefore he can maze us clean, and take ejus,quodper out all our fpots.The ChaldeeParaphraft takes the word, One,for. fe calidam the defcription of God, or for the nameof God. And fo this Ft irade ion place is paralleld by that ( Mar. 2.7,) which according to the mundofacere letter of the . Greek is to be read thus. Who canforgivefans but one, mundano ett or the one God ? ejus quiper fe mande n eft. Uncle quicquidmundume' a Deo munditem habet. Aquin. Vnase accipitur aChaldeopro Dei defèriptone quafi nomino. Carom fa- tiseft refpici mediatorern,qui unit purificationemfaciet. . Some expound this One,ftrit`tly of lefas Chrift, who was de- fgned to that work when he came into the world , who is the treat cleanfer : Inwhom a pountainis opened towalk for finne and
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