The Gofpel of Cleaning from the Leprofy. Our Annotators have this Note upon it. The Ear was to be fan&ified for holy hearing, and agatnif the zee..lnxet. hearing of any corrupt Communication : And the Hand Exod. 29.20. for working; and the Foot for walking, that his Con- verfation might be Holy, and bis Perlon fanEtified from Head to Foot So in Baptifm5 there is no Necellïty of plunging the whole Body in Water; bat the fprinkling of it on the Forehead may fuffice to lignify the myftieal Meaning intended by it, whereby aSacramental Synecbdoche, though lout a Part be fprinkled, the Whole is waffled and cleanfed. This is the fécond Ceremony fome of the Blood in thefe Sacrifices of the three Lambs muft be put upon the Leper. 3. The third is,, That the Prieft ú to take the Oyl, andfprinkle part of it before the Lord, and with part to anoint the Leper ; his Ear, Thumb and Foot, in the Place where be hadput the Blood before, andpour the reft upon his Head, Verf. i 5.16, 17,18. This myftical Oyl whereof theyhad fuch continual Ufe under the Law, we have often heard, that' it typi- fies the Holy Gboft : And therefore the Son of God is faid to be anoin- ted with the Spirit, /fa. 61. a. And Ads ro. 38. God anointed 5efus of Nazareth with the Holy Ghoft, and with Power. Therefore the patting ofthe Oyl upon thefe Parts, lignifies the faving-Graces of the Spirit of Chrift, whereby they are cleanfed and fanaified and comforted, who have been juffified and reconciled by his Blood.' As to the putting it upon mere Parts for the Whole, this teacheth us the fame that was noted before out of the fame Ceremony concern- ing the Blood. And whereas he muft put the Oyl upon the Blood, that is, upon the fame Place where he had put the t3lood before, as it is explained more fully Vert. 28. This teacheth us, that our Sanftiftcation flows from. our 'Juflification : The Blood muft be applied firft, and then theOyl upon it: The Spirit of Chrift is the purchafe of the Deathof Chrift ; and therefore the Spirit of Sanaification is the Fruit of the Blood of Juftification.. Look not to have thy Soul cleanfed from the Power of Sin by Sancìification, unlefs it be cleanfed from the Guilt of Sin by the Blood of Chrift applied for Juffification. We are firff juffified and reconciled by his Blood, and then fanaified and anointed by his Spirit. He forgiveth all thine Iniquities, and healeth alPthy Difeafes, PfaI. 103. Juffification is in order before Sanaificatiolr: Firft the Blood,and then the Oyl upon the Blood. Thefe are the Laws and Ordinances for the purifying of the Leper. But now a Cafe ofConfcicnce may arife : What if the Leper be not able to get all thefe Sacrifices and.Requifttes for his Cleanfing, what fhal$ be done in fuch a Cafe ? T t The 321
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