Cleanperfons, types fChrifl, nually to have this water of feparation for the wailing of our hearts daily, and often every day ; becaufe it is gathering fume uncleanneffe every hours, yea every mo- ment. 3. An uncleane creature or veffell could not bee of any fervice to man, for leemuff not touch it till it be cleanfèd : So a firmer Co long as he is uncleane and impe- nitent cannot be ofanygood ufe, nor prefent any accep- table fervice to God. And therefore theProphet, Wah you, and cleanfeyou, and then come. Noman dare prefent any thing to a Kingwith a foule hand : the Lord will ac- cept no fuch prefent. 2. Cor. 6.17, r 8. touch nounclean thing, and I triói receive Ion, andbee a father unto you Implying that the Lord will not receive him thatany way cornmunicats with finne, if obfhinate and impeni- tent. 4. Nothing elfe can recover our beauty and firff eflateof holinef a and happincffe but this laver. Acloth once foiled clever recovers the beauty and whiteneffe but by wafhing. This laver onely brings backe a white and unfpotted innocency. All the holy water in the Sea of Rome cannot wafh one finne ; for that bath nocoin- mandement, no inflitution, no promife. Betides, all le- gall Ceremonies aredead, which intheir life timecould not cleanfe by the meere deed done, as they fay theirs doth. S. How vainc is it to feemen and women cu- rious and careful' in wafhing their bodies and clothes, they will not fuffer the leaf' fpot on them, but wadi them weekely : andyet goe on yeare by yeare in the foule defilements offinne,and never define tobe wafhed and rinfed in the water of feparation ; nay nothing more troubles them then tobe called to reformation ? A clean- ly man will have his clothes waffled weekely, but his hands and face every day A cleanlyChriftianwill not be4effe carefull of his heart. I I L Seeing there was fomuch btufineffe in legali cleanfing of the loft fòulenefhe; howcarefull were the Jews to avoid thofe foulenef es ? and howmuchmore N 3 thould Note. 3. Be very careful to avoid (piri- tuall unclean- ncilc.
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