Epsflit ofS. Paul toTittle. mencie ofthe affirmation aboueall the former , and lot theywere all very good. Now althouh we may truely fay,that (notwithflanding the va- uitie which is befallen euery creature fince the fall) all things according to their common nature, naturali parts, and created qualities,are Gods good creatures , euen the fub1 ance, reafon , and vnderaanding of the deuillhimfelfe , yet none of thispuritie is here properly meant by our Apoßle : But that purchafed purity which cannot be fo fitly declared, till we haue confidered how fince the fall,thefe things became imputed. Which to refolue , we muff know that feeing no creature in the nature of it neither in the beeing nor manner of beciog; nor yet in the natu- rall parts or qualities is impure ; all the impuritie which is vpon them is accidencal1: and that either by I. Gods holy inffitutions, or 2. mans corruption. By the former,creatures and abhions in themfclues, neuer fo good , become to mans vfe impure : r. when God by his morali law doth interdict any thing : as for example, the common vie ofeuery fea- uenth day in our ordinary affaires; which is a neceffary, perpetuall, yea and an eternall rule ofrighteoufneffe: vnder which head is included all morali vncleannetï'e, contrabled by omitting goodduties , andcom- mitting euill abfions. 2. When by his law ceremoniall he forbiddeth to force people the touch , talf, or handling of many creatures ; which in themfelues,andwithout fuch a refrains are euery whit as good,and as pure, as things not forbidden ; foas fuch dilfint1ion Pd prohibition, proceeded not from the difpofition and temper of their owne nature,as force haue grolfely imagined but from this commandemen,c, which fanaifieth this,and poliuteth that;in which cafe,prohibited things may not in any cafebe naedled withall, no more then though they were e- uill in their ownenature. Daniel determined not ro defile himfeife with the Kings meare, andwine,aot that the meare was polluted in it felfe, but among other reafons,becaufe theChaldeans ate,and lawfully, many forts of meat which wereprohibited the Iewes,as hares,blood,&c.And here it muff be rernembred , that ceremoniall and fignificatiue vnclean nes any way contracted , beeing neither naturall nor tnorall,is neither generali to pollute ail men, nor all creatures, but only that people to whom, and thofe creatures ofwhich the law was giuen ; neither was it perpetuall,but only for the time ofthe prohibition. And thus curia the tree of good and euill,of what kind focuer.it was, was neither euill in it felfesnor in regard ofthefruit : but byGods infiitution the vfe of it was vncleane : as appeareth both byGods exception, and interdih'cion ofthat tree,as alto by the cueut:neither did it remaine euill by that in- ffitution after the fal,it beeing appointed a facrament only for the time ofinngcencie. But CiHAP.r.I 5. 287 All the impuri tie vpon the creature is ei- ti,er by ¡.0 od. holy infl tun - ons.manscor. r upcan. Porphyrius. Dan.1.8.
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