EpiflleofS. Pad toTitra. CHAP.t.15 conceiue of an abfolure impuritie afcribed to the beleeuer (which is log the onlydifference in theoppofîrion) for whereas puritie was in the for- Impurity silar" mer branch attributed to the beleeuer in Tome rcfpeEi onely : for I. the ger then purity bet( are cncotnbred with original! finite. 2. but in part, andnot fully re- ' "boleenerc. generate. 3. ouertaken not fieldome with aEivall fraufgreRon, which may and doth make them gill cry out with Dauid, Lord createa cleave PtáLrr.ra bear: wit me. This itnpuritie is abfolutely , and without any reliraint afcribed to vnbeleeuers andvnconuerted men. And in this branch alío the Apofile bendeth himfelfe againí} the error of the Iewifh teachers; who were very ftriEt and curious !call they (hould be outwardlyby this or that meare, day, garment, or otherwifebe defiled : for hewouldhaue them conceiue that he fpake ofno fuch thing:neither were chele the fub- ieels wherein their impuritie did fo much conf ß : but in Inch a thing as flucke nearer them then any outward thing, yea then their fiery skinnes, euen in vnbeleefe , and confequent'y in fuch a power of finne in their hearts as made all things,though in their nature and inßiturion neuer (o good, yet veto them, and in their vfe, nootherwife vncleane, then a fu- the veffell corrupteth the fweeteß wines that canbe powred into it. And therefore would he haue thefe cercmonie- maulers to turne their eies into themfelues, and look into their infide,and then they (hall fee themfelues bootlefly to employ al! their paints in keeping themfelues fromoutward pollution, fo longas they carrie that within them , which defileth e- uery thing they meddle withal!. Whence we learne fundry inßruEli- ons. Doftr. a. We haue here a good argumentof the diuinitie of Scrip- Diuinirieof ture, in that it can, anddoth as Godhimfe.lfc cntery on, and turd ) p d uc bydifcoue. the thoughts ofmen : andofmen themfehies (not as men ) from things ring the inward without ,but euenaccordin to their cleannes orvu- thoughts of g r wickedaim cleannesbefore God.From this argument the Apofile prooueth the fame thing, lFebr.4.ta. the word of Gods is huely, ndmihtie inoperation, and deuideth, and cutteth a fy alder the foule and thefpirit : that is , it work-, ethnot onely vpon the it out faculties which are Infìe pure, but upon the pureß and moll fupreame part of the foule called the fpirit, and the minde; and by Paul, thefpirit of the anude: for nothing is fo feeret in Fph +ai ,the foule ,but it lieth vnder thedroke of the word, which peircetb as farce as the eie of the author of it,to whom all things arc naked ando- pen , verf. 13. No Anatomiß canby cutting vp one part of the bodie . after another,.fomanifeillydifcouer to the eie the feuerall parts of man; as doth theword and the fpirit therein difcouer and reprooue the moß inward thoughts:fuch a light it carieth with it,aschafeth away the dark - neffe of the foule i letteth afimple men fee the fecretr of his route laid- o- ; ,,c,r,,a,Ig, V z pen,
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