tear. I, Yq , v1Commemlarie.vpon the 27a fons and_peógioar:,f9{ theLewes taught chatthefame difference "mail, ncd.tóbcoltfer h4 Csill,;as. Motes from;theLord commanded it: fo as yet Conte ñ atAs !wirecommon,and`fomec-leane; Come dales were more holy then-ot#ìers;.fo.garments and perlons muchmore lay open to legal! pollution byiltues, touchings, ice. whereas the appearing of Chrih procured &nail freedoaae from all fuch impuritie, fo as according toPe- ters vifion,Ad.ro.no man, no thing is tohe calledpolluted or vncleane. Qef. But why cloth the Apoffle call lush do6lrines fables, teeing r. they were fromGod : z, neceffarily impofed.vpon Godsownepeopie Why focalicd. in paineof death and cutting off from his people in café of contempt, yeaor omiffion : 3. they included in them that euangelicall truth wher- W,Aot.Js gfor atke ic byboth they and we are faued ? Anf. Yet for all this he rearmeth them :ird t,adHomer fo, i. Bccaufe euen thefe legall conflitutions of God himielfe , when ththebetter, h;cin they were at the bell, were but a&wall .Apologies, or fhadowes ofthings better. fenfc. Heb.eo., a?J,efep l }.citx. Fj_a}iT1Yák to come; caryir gafhew,or figureof truth but not the body , nor the truth it felfe : to the fame effea faith Paul , Gal 4.24. that they were Allegories, that is bceing the things that they were,fignified the things that they were not, a. Becaule thole conffitutions although they had their times and feafons, yet now were they dated : and now to teach or vrÿe them was asvaine ,as void of ground out of Scripture, as voide of profit, as void of truth, as if they had taught the mot+ vainehélions, and vnprofitabic falfehoods that men could poffibly deuile. And hence looke as if a man fhould relate to vs a narration , not onlyof fufpc&cd, !but of knownevncruth : as for example, that fuch a manwith whom we hauecate, drunke, conuerfed , but whom weknow to be dead and haue feenc buried, were aline againc : andnot only fo, but ofhis perfect fircngth and (fate as euer he was ; might not we be more diffident then Thomas was,and in good forme offpeachfay,that he told vs a fable ? e- uen fo,ifa Lew (hall at?îrme the life ofthe ceremonies of the law, which we know to be dead, rotten , and buried fo long fince in the graue of Chrifi, although they once had a truth, yet now this is but falle and fa- bulous: or elle ifa Iew fhould come and vrge ( as they doe) that pro- phecie,Ifay 7. Beholdavirginfhall conceiue,&c. as a thingwhich they hill expe&the aecomplifhment of; is it not cuident that he leaneth vino a Iewifh lie and fable ? for that whichwas once abfolurely neceffaric to be belceued vnto (ablation, is now become fo falfe , as that he that belee- ueth it,is lure tobe damned. Commandments ofmen, ] Thele words if they be taken by way ofexpoltion of the former, addc fomcthing to the more full aufwer of the former queflion, imply- ing that thofe ordinances of which we fpeake, the which while they fftiod
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