The Gofpel of Cleaningfrom the Leprofy. 3 4 Meal Babylon that Leprous Church, whole Idolatry and Supetftitioa is a fpiritual Leprofy, which did over-fpread the whole Church of God in the time of Popery ; therefore away with all the Monuments and Remainders of it. Dwalphintramis applies this not impertinently to the Pope's Ma¡s- Book. The Pope's 1MMafs -Book was a Leprous Honfe, the Stones and Timber whereof fhould have been caft afide as polluted and an Abomi- nation : Therefore it was an unhappy and a fatal Error in the firft Reformation, to take Materials out of that to reform with to take the Stones and Timber of that Leprous Houfe to ufe in the Worfhip of God, which muff be therefore framed to comport with thofe le prous polluted Things. It hath been the occafion of a new Confli& to the People of God in this Age, and of manifold Sufferings to the Ser. wants of Chrifk, becaufe they contended, that there leprous polluted Things fhould be cart afide. This might have been prevented, if there had been a thorough Reformation at firft, and the Stones and Tim.- ber of thofe Leprous Houfes, the Pope's Mafs-Book, Ritual, Pontifical, and Breviary, had been at our firft Reformation call forth as polluted and abominable. Obf. 3. How difficult, and yet withal how neeeffar, a Work, the purify- ing and cleanfing of the Leprofyws. TheLeprofy was a Type of Sin and finful Corruption, efpecially that original and univerfal Pollution and Defilement of our Natures : The Purification ofthe Leprofy therefore, is nothing elfe but the Work of Mortification, or purging out of fia- ful Corruption. This is a difficult Work : See how many Ingredients mutt concur to it in the Type : There mutt be two Birds, with Cedar, Scarlet and Hyf- fop, and a great many Ceremonies about there Materials. There mutt be Spring-Water, and an Earthen Veffel, and Killing, Dipping, fprinkling, Warning, Shaving, &c. And when all this is done, there is but halfthe Work done; for there mutt be alfo three Lambs for a Burnt-Offering, a Trefpafs-Offering, a Sin, Offering. And three Omers offine Flower with 0,1 for a Meat-Offering, and a Log of 0,1; and a multitude offacred Rites and Ceremonies about there Materials. O how much ado there is to get a Leprous Perron purified and made clean ! And all thefe things inftru&t and Thew you all along the method of the Lord's pro. ceeding in purifying the Hearts of Sinners. There mutt be a great deal of pains taken with thy own Heart, in the Ufe of all the Means and Ordinances that God hath appointed. And though there be all this Pains and Difficulty in the Work, yet it muff be done, there is a Necejfty of it : For this Difeafe is very T t 2 trovbie,
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