332 Of the lmporfttnce a.ndD·i/flculty· a v~ry Gcrcd·and· venerable thing, and no' profane hand·n1ight intern1eddlc w.ith the 1nean.dl:· offices. that belonged unto it. All' the zeaL and feen1ingly religious care that lJzzah had for the tottering ark, fer.ved not to excufe his-. prefl.1mption, when ·he intrud– ed upon the Le·i!itical funCtion. But, cer... t1inly, as the gofpel.. n1inif1:ery is fo much' n1ore exceHent and fublime, being intruft– cd· with the ad!ninifrration·of thefe holy n1yfl:eries which \\rere but fhadowed in the · former; how pure and holy ought thofo· lips · to ,be, by which:God fpeaketlr unto; his people, and by which they fpeak unt{;)~ him; which fometi'rnes pronounce thofe powerful and"effcCl:ual fcntences of a~fo!u-tion and excommunication, that are f6 fllrcly: ratified in heaven ·; and thofe hands which. 2re employed ih the laver of regeneration, . and ro handle the bread of life LI-li fimt. (faith. holy Chryfoflom de facerd. lib. 3·) quibtu, &c. " Thefe ar.e the n1en that a!I!ft- " at the pangs of the new birth, and tor " w.hon1 baptifmal .regeneration is com1nit-· " ted; . by thofe we put on Chrift; and are· " buried with the Son of God, and fo be- · " co1ne members of that hie!fed ·head. . U-- " pon which- account the facerdotal func- -''-tion .is more creditable than that of kings . " andJ. ...
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