2136 The Go.Biel of' the Ceremonial Uncleannejes, &c. of found Judgments and good Lives, are Perfons fit to converfe with, Thus you fee that under the Law they had unclean and clean Meats, and they contra fed Uncleannefs or not, by touching or not touch- ing. 2. The fecond fort ofVncicannefs, was the unclean Iffues. 3. There wa6 alfo the unclean Difeafe of Leprofy, as in Levit. i3. and the cleanfing of it, Cap. iq., This indeed of the Leprofy, was the worft of all the Ceremonial llncleannefi'es, and it (hall be fpoken to, from Levit. i3. All that we Ihall do now, is to conclude with fome general Ufes by way of Inference from all that hath been faid, referring the further Explication and Profecution thereof, until the next Opportunity : And now for the Improvent of thefe Things. . Vfe r. Here vs a further Difcovery of of the Popifh Superftitions You may here obferve both the Rife and the Evil of them. Three Whings there be that are ftill retained amongft them, and other Super- ftitious Chriftians that retain fome Remnants of Baal, Popifh Superfti- tions in the Worfbip of God. i. The Differenceof Meats: Not to eat fuch and fuch Meats, at leaft not at fuch or fuch Times. They borrowed this from the Ceremonial Law ; fome things might be eaten, fome not. -ì. They have their Holy Water. And this they had from the Water of Separation fpoken of here, the Allies of an Heifer fprinkling the Unclean, mentioned Numb. 19. which Water, was a Water of Sepa- ration made of the Afhes of an Heifer, and with this they fprinkled the Unclean, which fanEtified them when they had eaten or touched any unclean Thing, which the Scripture calls Holy Water, Numb. 5. x7. Now thisDeviceof Holy Water theyhad from thence, a foolifh and ridiculous Device it is in them, being wholly without anyWarrant from the Word ofGod in New Teftament-Times. 3. The third is the Purification, or Cburching of Women after Child- birth. An apifh Imitation of that old legal Ordinance of God, in Levit. i -2. for the Purification of Women. In the Book of Common Prayer, they have omitted fome grofs Things, but retain the Title, Churchiugof Women, and order the Women to fpeak in the Church, and fay the 116, or 127. Pfalm, wherein too they leave the good and found Tranflation which we have in our Bibles, end follow a corrupt One, wherein they make the Woman talk of giving a Reward unto the Lord : And moreover, they appoint abfurd broken Refponds and Tof- fings of their Prayers like Tennis Balls, as is common with them alfo in other of their Offices. The
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