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ll
Cleane
perfpns,
types
of
Geri
fi.
The
of
ea
of
all
moran
uncleanneffe
is
to
thrill}
every
man and
woman under
the
curfe
of
the
Law
and
wrath
of
God
;
who
can
no
more
abide
a
man in
the
fouleneffe
of
his nature, then
men
can
the fpawne
of'
a
mof}
vene-
j
mous ferpent.
In
Adam
all
died.
S.
As
the defcription
of
thofe
iffues
brought the
Jewes
to
the
legali
purifica-
tion
;
for when
the Jew
faw the danger
of
his
unclean-
neffe,and
that
ifhe
feparate
not from
it
hee (hall
die
in
it
for defiling Gods
Sanauary,
verf.
3
z.
this
made him
feeke
to the
remedy
;
So
the true underf}anding
of
a
mans
forlorne
and defperate
elate
by
nature
;
and that-
except
a
man
bee borne
againe
of
water
and
the
holy
Ghoft,
he
can
never
fee
the
IVngdome
of
God,
this
makes
a
man
flie
out
of
himCelfe
to
feeke righteoufneffe and
purity in
the
meanes
which
God
bath
appointed.
And
thus
by
the
very
defcription
of
our
uncleanneffe
we
are led un-
to
Chrif
},
by
whom how
wee
are
to
bee cured, wee
are
after
to
fee.
Iohn
s.s.
SeEp.
III.
3-
I
I
I.
The
third
Legal! uncleanneffe
was
by
the di-
Byleprofie.
feafe
of
leprorie;
then
which
none
was
more
foule,
more
hatefull. None
fo
lively
refembled the
native
face
of
finne;
none
had
fo folemne
and
fignificant rites
for
cure;
none
did
more
exprefly
fhadow
all
conftitutions
as
conduce
to
the
purging and
removing
of
finne
;
and
eonfequently
none more
forceably
led
us
to
Chrift,
who
is
not
in
any
Ceremony more
lively
figured.
The
Lord
would
have
the
,Jews
and
us
in this inilance
to
bee
ledd
Per
fAz,ihilia
ad
by
things
/enfible
to
things
intelleEt
call
;
by an
externall
i,telliibilia,
and
fenfible difeafe
to
be
caried
to
that which
is
internal!
and
leffe
fenfible, for
the
molt
part.
And
though
of'
all
bodily
difeafes, none more exprefly declareth
the di-
kale
of
finne
in
the
foule
then
leprofie
;
yet
it
comes
rarrethort of
it
in
the
defperate
and
dangerous
proper-
ties
of
it.
We
mull therefore prepare
men
to Chrift
by
defcribing
i