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Heb.7.y3.
Viè.
r
No
calle
mat-
ter
to
be
rid
cf
lìnae.
Clean
perfons;opes
of
arift.
ly
applyed
to
every
beleever,
to
every
thing
that
is
to
be
cleanfed
:
Partly
by
Gods imputation
of
Chrift
and his
merits
to
the
penitent
Eimer
:
Partly
by
his
Minitiers
in
the
publi(hing
and fpeciall
applying the particular pro-
miles
to
every
foule
that
is
weary.
3.
Seven times
fprinkling noteth
r.
Perfect
juftification
by
the
blood
of
Chrift,
the number
offeven times, perfect
fprinkling;
he
is
able
perfewy
Ca
fave
all
that
come unto him,and
nee
-
deth
no
other
feeking
ofother
merits to
fatisfie
or
jufli-
fie.
2.
To
put the
uncleane
perfon
in
minde
how
hard-
ly he parts
from
his fouleneffe
:
and
us,
that
it
is
no
ease
thing to
be
rid
offinne..
3.
How
weakly
and
imper-
fetly
our
felves apply
theblood
of
Chri(l,that
have need
of
Co
many fprinklings
:
to humble
us
for
our
weaknefï'e
offaith,
and
flow progreffe
in
fanaification.
Sect,
I
X.
I.
All
thefe
ordinances
and
ceremonies
in
difcerning
and curing this
difeafe,
in
generali teach
us
two
things.
I.
That it
is
no fmall bufineffe
to
be
rid
ofthe
leprofie
of
the
uixile,
and
infectionoffinne;
which
was but fha-
dowed
in
that,
as
that
was
occafioned by
this. For
whence
is
bodily leprofie, but
from
leprofie
ofthe
foule?
Or what
is
it
that
ftTikes
the body
with
filch
contagious
fickneffe,
but the
infection
and ficknef
e
ofthe
foule
?
As
in
Çehezi,
'
irians,
Yzzizh
whole
bodies were
fo
fou-
ly infected
and
deformed
by
the
leprófie
ofthe
f©ule,and
corruption
of
heart.
And
who
fees
not
how
the Lord
would
lead
them
and
us
to
take
fpeciall
notice
hereby
of
the
foules
leprofie
by fànne,
in
that
bee
committeth
the
knowledge
and
discerning
of
this
difeafe
of
leprofie
to
the
Priefts,
fending
them
to
the
Phyfitians
of
their
foules
and
not
to
the
Phyfitians
of
their bodies,
whom
one
would
thinke,it more
fpecially
and
properly
concerned?
This Ibould admonifh
us
all,that
ifthere
be
fo much adoe
toget
cleane
bodies,
cleane
faces,
cleane
skins;
how
great