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Cleaneperfons,t,perofChri/1.
Good
to
rice
and
know
our
filrhineil'c,by
firme.
the blood
ofChritl:
fo much
undervalued
and
men fo
hardly
driven out ofthemíelves
to
feeke
righteoufnefï'e'.
by
him
?
But
becaufe
they
fee
not
their
owne
unclean
-
nefl'e,aud
therein
their
hatefull eflate before
God
untill
Chrift the
high
Priefi
have made
atonement
for them.
For
as
that
man
who (being
rick to
death)
feeles
not
his
fickneífe,
nor
difcerns
the
depth and
dangers
of
it,
feekes
not greatly after
the
Phyfitian
,
he
applyes
either
no
means, or fotne
idle
and
impertinent
things
to
linall
purpofe
:
fo
he
that
fees
not
the
mifery
of
his
difeafe
of
finne, fees
not
the
need
of
Chrifl,
negle
s
the
right
meanes,
and
contentedly
deludes
hirnfeltè, running
any
whither but
to the
right
remedy.
It
is
fit
and
fruitful to
looke
a
little
neerer this
difeafe
of
nature,
that
we
may
not
onely make
confcience
of
the
fouleneffeofnature, but
be
thruff
out
ofourfèlves
to the
meanes
of
our cleanfing
:
Confidèring
r
.
That
this
uncleane
ifliite
(which
the
legali ifiùes
poynt
us
unto)
is
a
finne
againff
the
whole Law
of
God
in all
branches
ofit,
whereas
other
fines
are
again([
one
of
the Tables,
and
one
of
the Commandements.
2.
This poyfon
of
na-
ture
is
the
fame in
all
men,
that
all
may be
humbled who
are
borne
children
of
the
devil], enemies
to
rightecuf-
neffe,
all
of
us
being in
our
very
birth
formes of
death
:
for
in
efd
tm
all
are
dead.
And
as
an
image
of
rotten
wood
muff
needs
be
rotten
:
fo
wee,
hewne out
of
fo
rotten
a
flocke.
Who
is
it that
is
not
a
Leper
from
the
wombe
?
Let
any
man
thrufi
his
hand
into
his
bofome,as
Mofes
did,
Exod.
46.
and
he
[hall pull
it
out
againe
le-
prous, and
as
white
as
fiww.
Every man hath
caufe
to
cry
with
the
Leper
,
I
are vncleane,
lam
uncleane.
Z
he
fpawne
of
a
Serpent
are
Serpents
;
and
what
are
wee
but
the fpawne,
the
.feed
of
Adam
?
3.
This
Iffue
is
a
generali
diforder
of
the whole
man, and
of
all
parts.
Neither
is
bodily leprofie more
generali
and
univerfally
fpread
over
all
the
members,
then
finrc
in the foule,
which