EpiflleofS. Paull*Titus. CHAP.I.6. ple.rfe God: as though theyhad neuer read, that Godwas the infliruterof 99 it, and not as a remedie, but when there was nomaladie , in the flats of 0ía(18,1; tnnocencic, between innocent perfons, in an innocent place that it was worker in the an ellate ble(Ted by God before the fall, and after the fall had the fame flat reckoned inGalt ç. n.ar bleffiug renewed vpon it to Noah and his children, as though theyhad riagzsnone forgotten that the Sonneof Godhad fandlified it byhis prefence , gra- ced itby his fidi miracle, called it a coniuníctioa ofGod, whom Godhob Matttr.t9 c. loned,&c. as though they would not know what the Apollle had faid, bile°ßcon,`'. that cuerie ordinanceof God, is fanetified by the word andprayer; and gium,vt cum eo that all things arepure ro the pure: and this infiitution fo cfpecially, as á'fa.tia; ¡`de that the infidel-busbandisfana: fiedin thebe leeuingwifc,and the vnbe_ artrndcre. ChtyC.in lot. leeuingwife in the beleeuing husband : and that the woman thorough rc°r74 bearingofchildren than be faued, Valecontinue, &c. But what fhould 'arma's I light fomany candies in fuch funfhine, were it not to difcouer their . rnouflrcus dclufion. Secondly, arenone commandedto beholy but thePriefls, and not as well all the ifraclites ? or was that fanElitie any other, but that which a:aideth inpure heart, goodconfcience, and faith vufained, in innocen- de and loue towards God and men? Now ifall fuch as thus m uli bebo- ly are inhibited mariage, where fhould we fecke an holy feed? Thirdly, ifthe Prieus had fome legal( purifications whichmuff be v- nxprre.e brractuhioroe oe fed before they appeare and app roachbefore the Lord; were they not all typicall reprefentationsofthat fpirituall holines,wherineven we ought àbr(acodíquE to refemble them ?and beeing fo, are they not all dated? or if we conti- pa -set contra- der them a, they were alto antecypes ofChriflspuritie,the highPriefi of fiend° matri. tconi Y!n nee a better couenant, are they not expired ? or if the PopifhP :ietlswill be oodoinquanta focxa& in imitating them, let them glue vs a reafon, why they follow; °rdo,nee orJo inquantum G them not in all filch tires of that kind, as well as in fome? for when the eereftigien i Picas costed the tabernacle, they were prohibited the vfe of wine,Leu. °1u°Çn'at°imo 1 o.9. neither muff theyat any time meddlewith the exegt ies and Fiore- rl Fa ale,. rags ofthe dead, neither muff they be fbauen, Len. ar. r.5. but ro imitate natì,.7. them herein wouldnot (land with their cafe or profit. And yet notwith- (landing all thefepurifications, was it neuer concluded that Priells and Leuitesmight not haue their wiues: but ifany found reafon may bega- thered from their example, it might rather be thus framed ; Enen the Pries and Leuices had their wines, and much mono may theMinifiers of the new Tet amenr. As for that they obit& out of Ifay 56.4..5. The anfser is readie and piain,that"the Prophet fpeakethnot of any that had vowed continency; but of loch as had been madeEunuchs involuntarily,towhom that com- fortable promife ismade, not for their continencie, or beeing Eunuchs, G a but
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