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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

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

ready to deliver over to Satan the Hymeneuser and Alexanders that shall dare to Blaspheme 1 Tim. 1. 20. How in the Glory of Reformation gone to the Grave with these famous Worthies For want of whose Zeal for the Truth how are the Vines of God degenerated into wild Fig-trees and his Trees of Righteonsness in many places turned into Trees of Rottenness Have we not cause to run to the Graves and Tombs of those deceased Worthies Moses Samuel David Nehemiah Jeremiah and Paul with the rest of our Church-reformers beseeching them all to arise from their Graves again to put their helpful Hands to the reforming of our disordered Churches in the pulling out of the leprous Stones which have infected the Walls of so many of the Houses of God in our Land which hath made the Sanctuaries of the Lord both unsafe and unpleasant for the sounder sort of Christians to abide in them Oh! if the Graves of the Dead will not hear our bitter Complaints where shall we go to find out any Healers that will close up our Wounds repair our Breaches and make clean our leprous Houses that we may with more pleasure and safety inhabit in them But alas ho● is the Gold of our Zion's become dim How is the most find Gold changed and the Stones of the Sanctuary poured out in the top of every Street Oh! how lamentable is it that some Churches that were the perfection of Beauty and the joy of our Land are now in many places so polluted and defiled that they are become the Objects of Grief and Sorrow to many thousands of sound-hearted Christians and that which adds to their Grief is that there is not one Nehemiah to be found in a Country that zealously concerns himself about these things either to remedy it or labour to be helpful in it but instead thereof the most of Men fall upon the Work of building up the Honour Dignity and Wealth of their own Houses Is this Mens Love to Jesus Christ Is this their Faithfulness to their Lord and Master And had they the Houses of God committed to their Care for no other end and purpose but to let them lye in their leprous Uncleanness whilest themselves are building their own ceiled Houses at the costliest and cleanest Rate they can invent and imagine Will this Work endure the fiery Trial at the great Day of Account 2d Vse Is for caution to those who yet have not ioyned themselves to any particular Church Beware then amongst whom you list your selves for Church-communion especially where Discipline is openly neglected be sure of this that the Leaven of Sin and Wickedness remains a Leaven to be avoided to this day and the danger of leaping into leaprous Houses is as great as ever and the more refined a Church out wardly seems to be yet if Wickedness do allowedly lodge in it the more dangerous will such a Society be to you The Church of Rome hath a Golden Cup but the Poyson of Asps was in it you would account it a high piece of presumption against God should you adventure to lodge in a House infected with the Plague or Leprosie when you may be entertained in other Houses which are free from such Diseases and are willing to receive you and will you be less careful where to house and harbour your Souls Therefore make your Choice of holy Societies and well-governed Congregations then may you expect the Blessing of God upon you and his Presence with you PART X. Now we come to the last Particular about the Leprous House namely That if nothing of the forementioned Means used by the Priest for the Cure of the House would avail then was the House to be demolished and levelled with the Ground LEvit 14. 43 with 45 Verse And if the Plague come again and break ou● in the House after that he hath taken away the Stones after that he hath scraped the House and after it is plaistered then shall be break down the House the Stones thereof and the Timber thereof and all the Mortar of the House and he shall carry them forth out of the City into an unclean place This leads us to behold the end of all polluted and impenitent Churches who wilfully persist in their Impenitency when they hold fast their Iniquities and refuse to return as the Prophet speaks Jer. 8. 5. Then the next thing to be done is they must be pulled in pieces and cast down to the Ground they shall stand no longer the great High Priest will root them up even to the last Foundation Stone what he commanded the Levitical Priest to do to the Levitical Leprous House when no means would heal it pull it down to the Ground the same will he cause to be done to his Gospel poluted Church which refuseth to be healed Rev. 18. 21. Thus with violence shall Babylon that great City be thrown down From whence we may observe this Note for our Information Doct. That when no Means used will heal and help the Leprous Churches of Christ then will Christ unchurch such Churches again In the handling of this Point I shall first prove it 2ly Shew you what that Infection is which will endanger the unchurching of Christ's Churches 3ly Give you the Reasons of it And 4ly apply the whole First For the Proof of this Point you see how evident this appears from the Type it self where command was given for the pulling down the Levitical House when scraping of the Walls nor pulling out of the Stones would avail to the cleansing of it And this holds as true in the Anti-Type How severely did God make this good upon his Old Testament House Behold saith Christ I sent unto you wise Men and Prophets and Scribes some of them ye scourged some ye have persecuted and killed others of them Matth. 23. 34. The sending of these Prophets wise Men and Scribes to them was in order to their Healing but they would not be healed then mark what followed hereupon Verse 38. Behold your Houses is left unto you desolate So if you consider the seven Asian Churches after they began to be Leprous Ephesus Rev. 2. 4. Pergamos verses 14 15. Thyatira verse 20. Sardis Chap 3. 2 3. and Laodicea verse 15 16 17. Unto all these Churches was John the Divine sent as a means to heal them by bringing them to Repentance but because they received no benefit by it at length how hath the great High Priest of Heaven and Earth pulled them all to pieces and thrown them flat to the Ground And what hath he done less to the Church of Corinth Galatia Philippi Thessalonica and the Church of Rome but broke them all down to the Dust with the Stones thereof and the Timber thereof and the Mortar thereof and hath caused it to be carried out of the City into an unclean place for what uncleaner place can there be than to lye in the Dregs of Mahometisin which is the condition of most of the Eastern Churches