man's pra iee, an.. mace ..im _nat was .: ._________; _ clean, tobe thruft without the camp, and to continue fo till he was legally cleanfed; the fecond marred the man's peace before God. The 4d diftin&ion is of a twofold court, where this uncleannefs is charged upon the man; the one is a court wherein the manes flefh is (as it were) judged, 'and that is by men, according to his external profeffion; the other is a court wherein his fpiritual ftate is judged, and that is his Confcience : In thefrfl court, if the mo- ral law charged himnot with guilt, it was not asked whe- ther his Confcience was guilty or not, but he was, on his outward cleaning, admitted to church- privileges ; but the fecond court, which is called the court of Con, fcience, looks not at things as they appear before men, but as they are before God, and therefore will challenge when men do not challenge. The 3d diftin&ion is, of a twofold fan &ificatiòn; the frfi is, that of the flelh, fpoken of v. 13. and that is, when a man is made externally clean 'or holy, whereby he is admitted to the congregation ; the other is that which is inward, which admits, not only to external church- fellowfhip, but to real internal fel- lowlhip with God, and to peace and calmnefs of Confci- ence. Now, for quieting the Confcience, and for gi- ving a man peace, he tells them, That, tho' thefe external ceremonies admitted him to the congregation, yet they did not purify his Confcience ; but that, notwithftanding of all thefe, the quarrel was not taken away before God : And fo they could not be the ground of inward peace, nor bring it in to the man's foul and Confcience; ut that 'tis the blood of Chriff which only loth that And therefore his facrifice is more excellent than all thefe ceremonial facrifices, fprinklings and wafhings ; for it admits a man peace with God, and gives him quiet nefs in his own Confcience. To leave the cornparifon then ; we have, in the lat- ter part of thefe words (which we intend to infift on) a notable eite&, and the great efficacy of Chrift's blood, in purging of the Confcience, holden forth in thefe parti- culars : 1. It is implied, that the ftate of man's Con - fcience by nature is this, viz. It is polluted and defil- ed by deed works z. That the great mean whereby the Con_ i
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