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A67066	The leper, and the leper's house, cleansed being, an exposition upon some part of the XIVth chapter of Leviticus; the mystery of which is explained and applied to the state and condition of a sinner's becoming a saint. With profitable uses and applications. As also, what chapter may be applied to, as to the cleansing or destroying of any particular church of Christ, in and under the time of the gospel. Divided into ten parts. Written for the information of those which seldom concern themselves about the types and shadows of the Old Testament: very useful for all people. By Thomas Worden, author of, The types unvailed.	Worden, Thomas.	1695 (1695)	Wing W3578; ESTC R218033	86,936	103

for the over-spreading Nature of it a corporal Leprosie runs over all the parts of the Body so doth this sinful Leprosie as you have seen it spreads itself over all the parts and powers of the Soul leaving no part of it untainted The same which the Prophet spake of the State of Israel as a Body Politick with respect to its Pollution by Sin Isa 1. 6. From the sole of the Foot unto the Head there is no soundness in it but Wounds and Bruises and putrifying Sores they have not been closed neither bound up neither mollified with Ointment Thus having discovered the spiritual Leprosie which cleaves to every Man by Nature I shall next give you the Grounds and Reasons of it Reason 1 FIrst of all the Reason and Ground of this spiritual Leprosie took its rise from the Sin of Adam upon a double account First Naturally Secondly Morally First Naturally as we are the Off-spring of Adam our first Father in the Flesh for we were vertually included in him as a multiplicity of Seeds in the first Seed and so reasonably must partake of the same natural Quality which were in him For if it be granted that his Posterity descending from him by ordinary Generation had partook of the Qualities of Righteousness Wisdom and Holiness from him had he not fallen then is it not as reasonable to conclude that we must necessarily partake of his Sin and Pollution the Effects of his Fall which fastened upon him by his Transgression And that you may see the Attestation which the Spirit of God gives to this as a Truth read Gen. 5. 3. And Adam lived a hundred and thirty Years and begat a Son in his own Likeness after his Image Now for Adam to beget a Son after his own Image if we respect his external Form and parts of his Body this carried no such note of Observation in it for who would expect that it would be otherwise Because ordinary it is not unless the Birth be monstrous but the thing to be noted in the Text is this That as Adam by his Transgression became a poor depraved sinful leprous Creature himself so his Child which naturally sprang from him derived from him the same leprous Pollution which Adam by his Fall procured to himself and unavoidably to every one else which should succeed him But then Secondly It is so upon a moral account because Adam and all his Posterity were in Covenant with God together and in that Covenant both himself and all his Seed made up as it were one entire Man in the Account of God Adam's Person representing under that Covenant every Man Woman and Child that ever did or should spring from him to the end of the World so that when he fell we all fell in him and when he broke Covenant with his Creator we then broke Covenant with him and in him and consequently when the Penalty of Covenant-breach which was the Curse and Death fell upon him it fell upon us in him at the same time So reasons the Apostle Rom. 5. 17. For if by one Man's Offence Death reigned by one So. ver 18. Therefore as by the Offence of one Judgment came upon all Men to Condemnation So ver 19. For as by one Man's Disobedience many were made Sinners See ver 12. also So that upon this moral Account as by Adam's Sin we were made Guilty so by the same Transgression are we become leprously Filthy Ezek. 16. 6. I saw thee polluted in thy Blood Hence saith our Saviour Matt. 15. 19. Out of the Heart proceed evil Thoughts Murders Adulteries Fornications Thefts false Witness Blasphemies Reason 2. Why this spiritual Leprosie is so unavoidable it 's because it is an Evil propagated from Father to Child by a natural Generation it runs in a Line from one to another it is such an entailed Evil as cannot be cut off by any thing that Man can do it is as impossible for Man not to beget a leprous sinful Substance as it is for him not to beget a natural fleshly Substance if his Loins be fruitful to beget any thing at all It is the Order which God hath planted in Nature that every Kind should bring forth his like Therefore if a Man be an Instrument to produce any thing by Generation it must be in his own Likeness for though Man originally was not unclean but as Solomon speaks he was made Just and Upright yet as the case now stands with Man he being corrupted with this sinful Leprosie he cannot beget his own Likeness unless he do naturally and instrumentally produce an ugly Leper like himself From hence we infer these two Uses 1st Vse This informs us then of the Ground and Reason of that great Distance that there is betwixt God and Men as the Apostle speaks Ephes 2. 13. We are afar off from God and as we are at a great distance from God so is he at as great a distance from us all which ariseth from the Impurity and Defilement of our Natures upon the account of this Leprosie God is a holy God and ● we are sinful and unholy Creatures the Nature of God will not permit of any Fellowship with sinful Men He is of purer Eyes than to behold Iniquity Hab. 1. 13. neither can Evil dwell with him Isai 50 2. Your Iniquities have separated betwixt you and your God and your Sins have hid his Face from you So 2 Cor. 6. 14. What fellowship hath Righteousness with Vnrighteousness and what communion hath Light with Darkness 2d Vse Let it serve to teach us Humility Alas What little cause have Lepers to be proud or to harbour a high-minded frame of Spirit in the least degree What if they wear better Clothes than other Folk and walk with their sweet perfuming Smells about them yet according to the Law about Leprosie Levit. 13. 45. they were to cry out to every one they met Vnclean unclean Vzziah though a King and in his Royal Robes yet when a Leprosie brake out upon him he was driven out from his Throne to live in a separated House alone from the Society of all other Men 2 Chron. 26. 20 21. So that the best that can be said of Lepers let them be never so Rich Noble or gorgiously Attired richly Perfumed yea though they are mounted upon the Throne yet still there is a Leprosie cleaving to them yea when they mount up their Heads at the highest they are but Lepers It may be that thy Gifts and Parts do exceed many of thy Equals in going beyond them for Learning and Knowledge and Utterance yet for all this remember that a Leprosie is upon thee thou art but a knowing learned eloquent Leper at the best and thou hast always cause to rent thy Clothes and to make thy Head bare and to put a Covering upon thy Upper-lip and to cry out Vnclean unclean according to Levit. 13. 45. Isaiah had as large a Portion of Gifts and Parts as the Proudest of you all had

which this Truth is bottomed The Reason is this That as one scabbed Sheep may spoil a whole Flock so may one spiritual Leper spoil a whole Church The Apostle told the Corinthians that one incestuous Person amongst them might leaven all the rest of the Society if not with the same spiritual Pollution yet with so much Guilt for their allowing of him amongst them which might procure some heavy Judgment upon them 1 Cor. 5. 6. It 's true while we are in the World we cannot avoid a common Commerce with them upon a civil account but we ought to avoid a spiritual Communion with them in the highest Christian Ordinance upon any account because they are Lepers Vse This then may serve for Instruction to the Churches of Christ First Who they should keep out Secondly Who they should keep out Secondly Who they should thrust out of their Fellowships and Communion First of all this Truth may reach them who should keep out of their Fellowships and Communion namely The leprous Person None can deny but that the House of Isael were the visible Church of God and few but will grant That a spiritual Leprosie is far more dangerous therefore more to be avoided than that which is corporal so then if the Church of God under the Law were to drive out from their Communion those which had the less dangerous Leprosie then surely the Churches of Christ in Gospel-times ought to keep out those from their Communion which have the more dangerous Leprosie upon them therefore the same which the Apostle saith of him that is a Brother may very well be applied to one that with respect to particular Church-communion would be a Brother If he be a Fornicator or Covetous or a Drunkard or a Railer or an Idolater or an Extortioner with such a one no not to Eat 1 Cor. 5. 11. 2dly This serves to instruct the People of God who they are which they should thrust out of their Fellowships and Communion viz Every spiritual unclean Leper that will not be cleansed you have seen that as soon as the Leprosie was broken out upon the Body of the Jewish Leper he was immediately put out of the Camp of Israel which Camp was the Church of God Lev. 13. 46. As long as his Disease shall be upon him he shall be defiled he is unclean he shall dwell alone without the Camp shall be his Habitation So also you may read how agreeable to this Levitical Rule is the Order which Christ hath established in his Gospel-churches Matt. 18. 15 16 17. with 1 Cor. 5. 1 2 3 4 5 Verses This special Care which ought to be taken by the Churches in keeping close to this Rule is not only enjoyned upon the Ministers of the Gospel but it was the great Duty of the Priests and Prophets under the Levitical Administration Jer. 15. 19. If thou take forth the Precious from the Vile thou shalt be as my Mouth let them return to thee but return not thou unto them Ezek. 44. 6 7. with Ver. 9. And thou shalt say to the Rebellious even to the House of Israel thus saith the Lord O ye House of Israel let it suffice you for all your Abominations in that you have brought into my Sanctuary Strangers uncircumcised in Heart and uncircumcised in Flesh to be in my Sanctuary to pollute it even my House when ye offer my Bread the Fat and the Blood and they have broken my Covenant because of all your Abominations Only this Rule is to be observed before the Leper is to be separated Matt. 18. 15 16. Go and tell him his Fault between thee and him alone if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy Brother but if he hear thee not then tell it to the Church It is not simply the Offence committed which proves a Ground of casting out the spiritual Leper but it 's his persifting in his Offence his refusing to return and his unwillingness to be cleansed Thus far touching the Action of the Leper in order to his Cleansing First He was to be brought to the Priest Secondly If his Disease were found to be a Leprosie then was he to be separated from all Communion and Fellowship with his Brethren 2dly We next come to the Action of the Priest by whom the Cure was to be wrought and here we shall handle the Action of the Priest together with the Means he was to use in order to the Cleansing of the Leper Lev. 14. 4 5 6 7. Then shall the Priest command to take for him that is to be cleansed two Birds alive and clean and Cedar-wood and Scarlet and Hyssop And the Priest shall command that one of the Birds be killed in an earthen Vessel over running Water As for the living Bird he shall take and the Cedar-wood and the Scarlet and the Hyssop and shall dip them and the living Bird in the Blood of the Bird that was killed over the running Water And he shall sprinkle upon him that is to be cleansed from the Leprosie seven times and shall pronounce him Clean and shall let the living Bird loose into the open Field Now for the opening of this Mystery we shall begin with the two Birds which some think were two Sparrows and they are called Clean with respect to that Statute Lev. 11. which made the difference betwixt Things allowed and disallowed to be Eaten those Creatures which were allowed to be Eaten were called Clean of which kind were these Birds that are here used in the cleansing of the Leper Now these two Birds are very significant of the twofold Work of Christ in our spiritual Cleansing from our leprous and polluted Natures For first of all you read that the first Bird was killed which shadowed out the Death of Christ for as the Leper could not be healed of his corporal Leprosie without the shedding of the Blood of the innocent Sparrow no more could we be healed of our spiritual Leprosie of Sin without the shedding of the Blood of an innocent Saviour 1 John 1. 7. And the Bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all Sin Rev. 5. 9. For thou wast Slain and hast redeemed us to God by thy Blood Heb. 9. 22. And without shedding of Blood is no Remission 2dly The living Bird was to be let loose or to be let to fly away into the open Field which signified the Action of Christ in order to his Work of Intercession who was likewise to be let go from the Grave tha● from thence he might take his flight for Heaven there to fit at the right-hand of God to make Intercession for us according to Heb. 7. 25. For as by his Death upon the Cross he made a full and compleat Satisfaction for all our Sins so by his Ascention to Heaven he there is making continual Intercession for Sinners and as by his Death upon the Cross he made Peace with God for us so by his Intercession he maintains that Peace with God for us And again as