804 The Go,fpel of the Leprof . Objefí. But all this that bath been Paid, goes upon this Suppofition that the Officers are faithful in the difcharge and execution of their Office. But fuppofe the Officers be unfaithful, and will not exclude i::'norant and profane People, or will receive them, and fhut out better then they. Or fuppofe the People be froward, andwill not withdraw from the loofer fort, or will not confent to have them caft out ; what is tobe done in fuch a Cafe ? What is the Remedy there ? Anfw. This is a Cafe that feldom or never falls out in refoT Hied Churches, in Churches rightly conítituted, and Officers rightly quali- fied, it cannot often fall out ; becaufe the Lord bath promifed his Pre- fence to be in the midft of them ; and therefore he will manifeft and make known his Mind, and their Duty to them. But if it doAfter all other Means ufed, Light held forth, and pa- tient waiting and Peeking to theLord, and to the Goofy -w i e for Ad- vice and Council, &c. The gait Remedy that Minifters have, is, to reform t';,,- matter of the Church, bywithdrawing from fuch a corrupt Major as not. be perfwaded to obey them in the Lord, and to clofe will the Lefler, but founder part of the People. And this is the Remedy that all the Godly Minifters generally have taken : They have left out the igno- rant and profane Part of the Parifh from the Sacraments, efpecially from the Lord's Supper. So in like manner ; if Minifters be fo large in their Principles, that they will needs pollute the Ordinances ; what can the People do in fuch a Cafe to help themfelves : But, after all other Means ufed, to be- take themfelves to fome better Minifter and purer Church ? This is tile'laft Remedy in fuch a Cafe And fo I have done with the fourth Obfervation concerning the Leper's Duty or Punifhment. Betide other Things, be mull. dwell alone and befñut out. 061: s. We may here note the marvellous defiling, ivfelling Nature of Sin, in that the"Leprofy infe6teth Cloaths, and Skins, and `Garments, Verf 47. 48. And fometimes Houfes alfo, hee Cap. 14. It gets into the Walls and Timber ; fo that Sin reacheth other Things betide the Perfon. Sin may fpoil a Man's Bufinefs, infe& all his Comforts, it may ruin his Houfe. We fee of what an infeûious Nature it is: There- fore keep off at the greateft Diftance, have 'nothing todo with it. We fhould hate the very Garments fpotred with the Fleth. O6f. 6. Note from the whole, what an intricate and cumberf me Dif- _penfation the People ofGod were thenunder in thofe legal Times, in regard of
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