260 , TheGofpel of the Trefpafs-Offering. CHear a Voice of Swearing 3 that is, either of the Judge adjuring, or callinghim forth to fpeak upon Oath. Or, of Sinners Swearing, Curing, Blafpheming. You have an Inftance oftheformer in the HighPrieft, Mqt. 26. 63; l adjure thee by the LivingGod, that thou tell us whether thou be Cbrift the Son of the LivingGod. Unto which Adjuration or Voice ofSwearing, our Lord jefus Chrift made Anfwer, and did declare the Truth, tho' before he held his Peace. For it was Cafus Cotfeffonis, a Cafe where- in Confefliion of the Truth was called for. Of the latter we have an laitance in Levit. 24. ro, I i. Thy that heard the Man Blafpheme, made Complaint to Authority. A Man may contraa upon himfelf the Guilt of other Mens Sins, by concealing them, if he be called to reveal them. This prefuppofeth a Magiftrate that is not given to Swearing, and Curling and Damning himfelf ; for if God give up his People unto the Hands of fach Magiílrares, fuch a Cafe they have none to complain to 2. The fecond Inftanee, is Ceremonial Unc-cannefs, Verf 2. and 3. whereof you read in the r ithChapter of this Book, and fo forward to the r6th. wherein the feveral.forts of legal or ceremonial Unclean- nefs are treated of at large. . But do- there Things defile the Confcience, and contra& a Guilt up- on theSoul ? They do not under the Gofpel. ;. but yet they did under the Laws. becaufe then God had forbidden it.. But fuppofe it were unknown and involuntary; is the Confcience defiled by Cafualties ? No, but yet they muff feels. Atonement, and bring their Trefpafs . Offering. Doubtlefs this was to teach them and us to feek Pardon for" unknown and fecret Sins I mean unknown to our felves, as well as to . others, ?fat. I9.. I z. Who can underftand his Errors ? Cleanfe thou me from fieret Faults. When he knoweth 3 As loon as God convinceth the Confcience of any Sin, any Defilement that we have contracîed, there is no de- laying, but we mutt make hafte to make our Peace with him : But as Loon as the Sin is known, by the Knowledge of the Rule which en- Om Duty and forbids Difobedience, Men muff look out for Pardon, 3: The third Thing in thisfir'f; Cafe u, Swearing to do an unlawful thing, as David did, a Sarn.25. 22. Herod's, Oath, Mirk 6. 23. was fuch an . one;, and fawas theirs that fware to kill Pani, A&s 23. 21. Of this fort was.7eptbah's Vow, 1ndg. Ir. 3o, 31. it was a rafh:'Vow.. What if Dog or a Swine had met him first ? Or forte other<I eafi.that: was. yatckeng'for Sacrifice?: Here.
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