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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Thus having dispatcht the first part of our Discourse about the Subject contained in this 14 Chap. of Levit. which is the Leprous Person wherein you have seen the manner of his Cleansing with the Particulars which results from it concluding each particular Part with suitable Application Secondly We next proceed to the Leprous House about which you have these things observeable FIrst The Malady 2dly The Remedy 3dly If that failed then Lastly You have the total Ruine and Destruction of the leprous House laid before you But First As to the Malady you may observe these things First The Disease it self 2dly The Signs of the Disease 3dly What the Inhabitant was to do upon the breaking forth of the Disease And 4thly The Reasons of his so doing And Lastly The Application upon the Point But First Here you have the Disease of the House spoken of in the first place and that is a Leprosie which was a contagious Pollution an unclean Infection dangerous to the Inhabitants dwelling in it Levit. 14. 34. And when ye be come into the Land of Canaan which I give to you for a Possession and I put the Plague of Leprosie in a House of the Land of your Possession Secondly You have the SIgns of the House-leprosie described by these Notes as When it appeared in deep Spots reddish or greenish in the Walls of the House and if they were lower than the Wall that is if the Spots were fretted deeper than the Wall then was it to be counted a real Leprosie as Ver. 37 sheweth which litteral or material House with this Pollution cleaving to it may fairly figure out those spiritual Houses or Gospel-churches which our Lord Jesus Christ hath ever had in this World which while they are in this Life they are likewise subject to their spiritual Leprosies Defilement and Pollution by reason of Sin and that this may the better appear it will be necessary to consider the Resemblance which the Scripture gives betwixt a material House and a well-constituted Gospel-Church of Jesus Christ As First In a material House there are the Foundation-stones so there is the same belonging to the Churches of Christ 1 Pet. 2. 6. Secondly To a material House there belongs the chief Corner-stone which upholds all the rest of the Building so there is in the Churches of Christ Ephes 2. 20. Thirdly In a material House there are rows of Stones laid up upon the Foundation-stones so it is in the Churches of Christ Ephes 2. 20. Fourthly In a material House all the Timber-work which hath been fitted and framed for the Building is all laid up and coupled together so it is with the Churches of Christ Ephes 2. 21. Fifthly They agree also for Design and Purpose because the Design of Building a material House is for a Habitation to live in so are the Churches of Christ appointed for the like purpose even to the Habitations for Christ to dwell in Ephes 2. 22. with 2 Cor. 6. 16. Thus as the Scripture gives you the Resemblance betwixt a temporal House and the Churches of Christ so also doth it give the same Denomination to Christ's Churches calling them Houses and Habitations Heb. 3. 3 4 5. Who was faithful to him that appointed him as also Moses was faithful in all his House but this Man was counted worthy of more Honour than Moses inasmuch as he who hath builded the House hath more Honour than the House So Ver. 6. But Christ as a Son over his own House whose House are we if we hold fast our Confidence and the rejoycing of the Hope firm unto the end Thus you see how the Scripture makes a temporal House and the Churches of Christ to agree both for Name and Substance From all which we shall note these two Observations 1st Doct. That the spiritual Houses or Churches of Jesus Christ are subject to great Defilement and Pollution while in this Life 2d Doct That the Defilement and Pollution which the Churches of Christ are subject unto in this Life is many times very open and visible 1st Doct. That the spiritual Houses and Churches of Jesus Christ are subject to great Defilement and Pollution while in this Life In the prosecution of this first Observation I shall First prove the Point Secondly Give the Reasons of it And Thirdly Apply the same by wa● of Use First For the Proof of it you will find that this was the Case of Christ's old Testament-church Isa 1. 4 5 6. Ah! sinful Nation a People laden with Iniquity a Seed of evil Doers Children that are Corrupters they have forsaken the Lord they have provoked the holy One of Israel to Anger they are gone away backward Wh● should ye be striken any more Ye will revolt more and more the whole Head is sick and the whole Heart is faint From the Sole of the Foot even unto the Head there is no Soundness in it but Wounds and Bruises and putrifying Sores they have not been closed neither bound up nor modified with Ointment The like we read hath hapned to Christ's Gospel-churches we read of an incestuous Defilement and sacramental Pollution which broke out in the Church of Corinth 1 Cor. 5. 1. with 1 Cor. 11. 20 21 22. We read of the Defilement of Fornication which broke forth in the Church of Pergamos yea and the Pollution of Idolatry too Rev. 2. 14. We read of the Pollution of false Doctrine which broke forth in the Church of Thyatira Rev. 2. 20. And also we read of the Defilement of carnal Security which hapned to the Church of Sardis Rev. 3. 1. and of the Pollution of a luke-warm Spirit which cleaved to the Church of the Laodiceans Rev. 3. 16. Lastly Do not we likewise read how the Gallatian Church was corrupted and defiled in the Doctrine of it confounding the Righteousness of Christ by Faith with their own personal Obedience Gal. 3. 1 2 3 4. with Chap. 4. 21. Thus you see the Point proved by clear Scripture-evidence and so we come to the Reasons of it The first Reason may be taken from the Ministers of the Churches and Secondly From the Churches themselves But first of all The Pollution and Defilement of the Churches of Christ many times do arise from the sleepy Drowsiness of the Ministers and Guides of the same We read that a Minister's sleepy Season is the Devil 's seeding Season whiles the Minister snores in his Sleep then is the Devil's Season to sow his Seed Matt. 13. 25. But while Men slept his Enemy came and sowed Tares among the Wheat and went his way This was the Unhappiness of the Church of God in the Prophet's Days to be given over to the Conduct of an ignorant lazy sleepy Ministry Isa 56. 10. His Watchmen are Blind they are all Ignorant they are all dumb Dogs they cannot bark sleeping lying down loving to Slumber yea they are greedy Dogs which can never have enough and they are Shepherds that cannot understand they all look to their