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Cleáne
perfons,
types
of
Chrig.
165
I
___.----.--
defcribing
the
fouleneffe and
rifery
of
the
difeafe.
I.
Leprofie
proceeds from
poifoned
and
corrupted hu-
mours in the body
:
So
firme
is nothing
elCe
but the poi
-
fon
and
corruption
of
the
foule. And
this
fpirituallle-
profie
is
farre
more
miferable
then
e
e
other
;
for that
of
the
body
is
onely
apunifhment,
this
is
aguilt.
And
who
can
deny
but the
corruption and poifon
ofthe
folk
and
fpirit,
is
farre
more
poi(onfull
and
mortal!
then
poifon
of
the
flefh
?
2.
Bodily
leprofie
is a
difeafe
of
fume
men
:
finne
is
of
all
men,
and
of
all
the
man.
Bodily
leprofie fpreads
over
all
parts
of
the
body,
but cannot
reach
the
foule
:
but
this
fpreads over
the
whole
man
;
the
foule and
all
the
faculties are
weakened
and
tainted
;
there
is,
not
a
debility
onely, but
acorruption
in
the
un-
derftanding, will,
confcienee,
memory,
in
all
affeFtions,
in
all fences,
in all
parts
;
no
man no
part
of
man
exem-
pted
or
excepted.
3.
No
difeafe is
more
ftinking,
and
hatefull
to
men
then
leprofie
:
So
nothing
is
fo
hate
-
full and abominable
to
-God
as
finne
;
his
eyes cannot
abide
to
behold
it
;
bee
will not
endure it
in his
deareft
fervants,
no
nor
Angels
themfelves, unrevenged
;
bee
efleemes
the
finner
as
dung.
4.
No
difeafe
more
con-
tagious
and
infectious
:
A
lepermuff
meddle
with
no-
thing
unleffe
bee would
defile
it
:
All
bee
can
doe
is
to
make
others
uncleane
by
breathing, touching,
conver-
fìng.
The
plague
of
peftilence is
not
fo
infe6tious
as
the
plagsae
of
leprofie,
fo
called,
Levit.i
3.2o.
infecting
bodes,
walls,
veffells, garments
:
Nothing
is
fo
infef
i-
eus
as
finne,which
not
onely föules
the perlon
or houle,
but heaven and
earth
and
all
creatures are
fubjec`t
to the
vanity
of
it.
Neither
can
an
impenitent
(inner
doe any
thing
but make
himfelfe and
others
uncleane, by
thefil-
thy breath
of
his
corrupt communication,by
his
wicked
example and converfation
:
No
leaven is fo
(pleading,
no
pitch
fo
cleaving. 5.
Leprofie
of
all
difeafes
feparated
the
infected
perfons
from
the fellowship
of
all
men
M
3
both
Sinne
declared
odious.
God
hates.
In`eFìion.
fis:commdini-
cation.