Book IV. s I N AN u N c L E A N N E s s. a Defilement and Uncleannefs s Sin, it is not in one Part only, but in and upon the whole Man, it goes quite through; there is not the leall: Part free from Head to Heel. :They are a/! gom out of the Way and become vile, vile all over. There is a double uni– verfality of this Uncleanncfs. 1. It defiles all Men. 2 . All 0f Man, not one Man in the World but is unclean by Sin, and not one Pan in Man but is unclean; view him in his Underftanding, Will, Judgment, Memory, AffeCtion, Confcience, Eyes, Hands, Tonaue, Feet, al l ]>arts of the Body, and Powers of the Soul are unclean. Ill. Some Uncleannefs is aCtive, prevailing and powerful, it encrealeth and grows worfe and worfe, and defiles, and pollutes more and more ; fuch an Uncleannefs is Sin. Man is unclean ac; he comes into the World, but this Uncleanne!S grows and p:-c.:vaiJs more and more upon him, by aChtal Sin he becomes worfe and worfe, and is morr. defiled every Day; it ftrives to captivate and bring the Souls of all Men under the de– filina Power and Pollution of it, Ram. vii. 23. IV. Some Uncleannefs is fo loathfome, that it caufcs fuch Things to il:ink as come near it; Sin makes the Sinner ftink, his l'erfon flink, his Life !link, and his Services .and Prayers, and all his bell: Actions to ftin!< in the Noil:rils of God. '!'he Sacrifices of .tbe Wicked are ail /lbominati·"' to the Lord, Prov. xv. 8. V. Some Uncleanneffes are inward, hidden, obfcurc, appear not to the external Eyes. Sin is not a Spot in the Garment, or vifible Pollution in <he Face, or Rottenr.efs in the Flefh, though that is bad, and fometimes the ElfeB:s of this U ncleannefs, but it is Rottennefs in the Heart; all a Man's ln£rail5are as it were corrupted. Man, as tau heard, and every Part of Man is defiled, and yet externally this Uncleannefs doth not appear, the Sinner feems as beautiful and comely ·to the outward Eyes as other Men, thts U ncleannds IS mterna!: As Samts <nternally arc glonous and beaunful, fo Sin– ners internally are foul, filthy, and deformed, their Heart, Liver, and Confcience, is defiled, '!'it. i. -I 5· 'D S P A R T Y. I. WHAT Pollution and Filth is fo .fixed and abiding, that all tire Nitre and Ful– . ]er's Soap in the World cannot wa!h It off, nor the hotteft Fire purify, purge it out, or confume it ? But !'uch an Uncleannefs and Pollution is Sin, that all the Water in the mighty Ocean cannot wo<h it out; nay, could a Man bathe himfelf in brini!h Tears of god ly Contrition, it wdi not cleanfe, or take away the Filch of his Tranfgref– !ion. '!'hough thou wajb tbee wzth N111·e, and :ake unto thee much Soap; yet thy Iniquity is marked before me, faith the L ord, Jer. ii. 22. A \I the Fire ,,f Hell cannot burn it out. Hell-fire !hall never, as facth Mr. Caryl, conlu mc thrs FJlch; thofe who are not pur~ed in this Life, !ball never be purged in the next. The Wicked fhaH ever be in punitive F lames, but fhall not find, as l'apifts dream, any pur~ative Flames; the Fire ,and Brimll:one of Hell !hall necver fetch tillS Uncleannefs out of the Damned. 11. What Uncleannefs, and abominable Filth and l'ollmion is enfJ1aring? Men and Women are fhy of, and ready at all turns to Oy from, nnd avocd any external, horrible Uncleannefs : But Sin is a bewitching and enfnaring Uncleannefs. All rhe bodily Beauty in the World did never entice fo many, as the Defornmy and fou l Face of Sin hath. Beauty and Comelinefs are the Attractives, the Loadll:cne ofLove;. Chrilt was not loved by many, becauCe he did not appear beauuful, he v01led hrs fSlonous Beamy : Luft is loved, though it be alto;;ether unbeautrful. Clmft <S the lvlrrror of Beau·y; though .tome fee no Comelinefs 111 hem, he rs famr than tbe Cht!dren of Men: But there is no :Form or Comelinefs in Sin, nothing indeed why it 010uld lre drfJ,,ed ; yet how is it ad– mired and efteemed by all Sorts of Men! They dote upon it, and run mad with love ro - it. it is fo bewitchina, as the choiceft Beauty in the World. '111. \Vhat Fil th, Unclcannef;, or Pollution, is of fuch a mttrdering, killina, and de– ftroying Nature, as Sin? It is true, [ome .horr~t! ~ollution is of. a corrupting, Poifooous, and dd\royina Q,<Jality, but not !eke Sm : Jlus Venom, thrs Uncleannefs, is worfe than any, mo~e mortal than any; it kills b-nh Body and Soul too ; it deflroys eter– nally. 0 ~h.ere is no find.mg out the curfed ~atu;·e o~. Jt; there 1s ?o;Iung can fave from the kilhng Power of!(, nor deanfe from us l ollth<On, but Chnft s mood. I N F E R E N C E S. I. Q 'Nhat a woeful Condition is Man in by Nature, how unclean in God's Sight ! \Veil might Elipbaz fay, How abominable and jiltby is Man, wbo drinketb in JniIO U quitf
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