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A18292	The cleansing of the ten lepers, or, Briefe notes on Luke 17, vers. 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 by Mathevv Caylie minister of Gods Word at Maidford in Northamptonsh.	Caylie, Mathew.	1623 (1623)	STC 4890.3; ESTC S281	13,796	82

will I helpe thee He will not suffer the soules of the righteous that cry vnto him to famish but will satisfie them in the daies of dearth as the Psalmist speaketh according to his promise Heb. 13. 5. hee will not forsake them neuer faile them nor withholde any good thing from them 3. But lastly although the eyes of the Lord are vpon the righteous yet his face is against them that doe euill He fulfilleth indeede the desire of them that feare him but as for vngracious and imprudent persons hee will not in fauour be found of them nor to their benefite heare them When these spreade foorth their hands he will hide his eyes from them when they make many praiers hee will not heare More particularly hee will neither heare the praiers of them that turne their eares from the poore when they cry nor of those that listen not to the word when it is preached Who so stoppeth his eares at the cry of the poore hee also shall cry himselfe but shall not be heard And hee that turneth away his Eare from hearing the Lawe euen his prayer shall bee abhominable I wil close vp this point with the words of the man that was blind God heareth not sinners but if any man bee a worshipper of God and doth his will him he heareth Goe shew your selues vnto the Priests This commandement our Sauiour gaue vnto them because to omit other reasons it was ordained that the lepers in the day of their cleansing should bee brought vnto the Priest by whom they should bee discerned to be cleane according to that which wee reade Leuit. 14. 2. Now hereby Obser he teacheth vs That none of the ordinances and rites which were prescribed by God were to bee neglected disregarded or disused vntill the Lord himselfe who ordained them did disanull them These are the commaundements the ordinances and the iudgements said Moses which the Lord your God commanded mee to teach you that yee might do them where as by the word Commandements is meant the morall Law and by the word Iudgements the iudiciall Law so the Ceremoniall Lawe is meant by the word ordinances all which were to bee reuerenced and obserued vntill the time of reformation as the Apostle saith that is of Christs reuealing came who was the body of those shadows Concerning Circumcision the Law was Euery man-child among you shall bee circumcised of him that was vncircumcised it is said That soule shall be cut off from his people Concerning the Passeouer all the congregation of Israel was to keepe it and whosoeuer did eate leauened bread for the space of seuen daies wherein leauen was forbidden euen that soule should be cut off from the Congregation of Israel So Aaron was to make the belles which were vpon his garment to sound when he went into the holy place before the Lord and when he came out that he die not saith the text And the Priests When they went into the Tabernacle of the Congregation or to the Altar to minister were to wash their hands and their feete in the brazen lauer that they die not Zachary and Elizabeth are commended for walking as in all the commandements so in all the ordinances of the Lord Yea our Sauiour himselfe shewing his due regard vnto them was circumcised the eight day presented vnto the Lord went to Ierusalem at times appointed and as hee did here enioyned the lepers whom he cleansed to goe shew themselues to the Priests Vse The multitude of ceremonies which were to be vsed before Christs comming the Lord hath now as it is obserued reduced to two Sacraments And as those heretofore so these now are to be respected not disregarded not despised Farre be it from any man to scorne them because of the meane shew they make or basely to esteeeme of them because they seeme weake and simple rather must we giue them their due valuation because they bee of diuine institution Let vs reuerence and honour them feeing that the Lord hath ordeined them Verily I say vnto you whosoeuer shall despise one of these as to the carnall eye they seeme vile Sacraments which Christ hath ordained in his Church it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his necke and that hee were drowned in the depth of the sea As they went The example Text. Obser of these men teacheth vs obedience to Gods cōmands When Elisha said vnto Naaman who was also a leper Goe and wash in Iordan seuen times and thou shalt be cleane Naaman at first was wroth saying Behold I thought he will surely come out to mee and stand and call on the name of the Lord his God and strike his hand ouer the place and recouer the leper and he went away in a rage But when our Sauiour said vnto these lepers Goe shew your selues to the Priests they were not angry neither murmured they and said Behold We thought he will surely come vnto vs and put forth his hand and touch vs as he did another leper Matthew 8. vers 3 but they without any adoe cheerefully went their waies I might tell you of the like obedience of Abraham who when the Lord said vnto him Get thee out of thy countrey from thy kindred fathers house departed as the Lord had spoken vnto him and of other holy men all which haue said vnto God as the people to Iosuah All that thou commandest vs we will doe and whither soeuer thou sendest vs we will goe Now for the vses of this point First these lepers beeing commanded to goe went There are diuers in these daies who being commanded to goe goe not like vnto him in the Gospel to whom when his father said Goe worke to day in my vineyard went not And as those idle loyterers to whom it was spoken Math. 20. 6. Why stand ye here all the day idle they stand still as though they had no commandement to goe about the works of that vocation wherein God hath set them But we are all enioyned to goe Magistrates must goe to the gate and iudge the people Ministers must goe and preach the Gospel People must goe and worke with their owne hands do their owne businesse that is such as to their speciall places appertaineth As the Lord therfore hath called euery one So let him walke as the Apostle saith 1. Cor. 7. 17. Thus much for the particular calling Vse 2 Secondly for our generall calling As these Lepers went so they went as it may be well thought directly and not as Ionah who being commanded to Arise and goe vnto Nineueh arose to flie to Tarshish And thus must Christians go directly also and make straight pathes to their feete as the Hebrewes are exhorted Heb. 12. 13. They must beware of circuiting perambulations take neede of going about and fetching of compasse in religion Their eyes must looke right on and their eye-lids straight

before them Let vngodly men gallop for their pleasure or profit or preferment in by-pathes and wry-waies wee must with Dauid runne and that directly in the way of Gods cōmandements and turne aside neither to the right hand nor to the left We must still be ayming at the marke of the high price of our calling and haue it alwaies in our eye as it were and as Paul went with a straight course vnto Coos so must wee striue to keepe an euen and direct course vnto it Vse 3 Lastly These Lepers went and went on still till they came to the Priests So Christians hauing once entred the way that leadeth vnto life must not then sit downe but be still going onwards Saint Paul reached forth and pressed still toward the marke Phil. 3. 13. And as he did thus himselfe so exhorted hee others saying So runne that yee may obtaine 1. Cor. 9. 24. Now they that would obtaine must not giue ouer running till they come to the goale Though now and then we slip and fall and so are staied yet we must not lye still but vp againe and make more hast in our way then before And to be short we must go from knowledge to knowledg from strength to strength from vertue to vertue from grace to grace till we become perfect men in Christ Iesus Thus much of the obedience of these Lepers Now in the next place let vs goe on to what happened vnto them in the way as they went And it came to passe that as they went they were cleansed As they went they Text. Obser were cleansed From hence we may obserue that As we walke according to Gods commandements it shall goe well with vs. If Naaman the Syrian had not at last washed in Iordan as Elisha badde him hee might well haue beene a leper vnto the day of his death but going down and dipping himselfe seuen times according to the saying of the man of God his flesh came again like vnto the flesh of a little childe and he was cleane And if these lepers had not went as our Sauiour bad them they might as well haue continued still as they were vncleane but as they went according to his commandement they were cleansed As also the blind man going and washing in the poole of Siloam whither Christ sent him came backe againe seeing and his eyes were opened More generally As Iosiah did iudgement and iustice as he iudged the cause of the poore and needie it was well with him and it was as well with Vzziah as long as he reigned well as long as he sought the Lord God made him to prosper What the Prophet Ieremy said vnto Zedekiah is worthy the remembring Obey I beseech thee the voice of the Lord so shall it be well vnto thee Ierem. 38. 20. And to the same purpose is that exhortation of Moses to the Israelites You shall walke in all the waies which the Lord your God hath commanded you that yee may liue and that it may be well with you Deut. 5. 33. Vse 1 It is not then in vaine to serue God as the wicked imagine It was not in vaine that these lepers went according to Christs commandement neither will it be in vaine for vs to walke according to Gods cōmandement As they went they were cleansed and as we walke we shal be blessed Blessed is euery one that feareth the Lord that walketh in his waies Happy shalt thou be that doest thus and it shall be well with thee as the Psalmist saith Psal 128. 1 2. Vse 2 Secondly they take but an ill course to thriue and prosper that wander in the by-waies of disobedience and they are farre wide that imagine that it shall bee well with them as they liue ill It will bee euill with such and that first in regard of their bodies Our Sauiour cleansed these Lepers that were obedient but the Lord will smite such as are disobedient with the pestilence with a consumption and a feuer an inflammation with the botch and the itch As Gehazi was smitten with the Leprosie for his falshood 2. King 5. 27. and Vzziah for his pride 2. Chron. 26. 20. And 2. in regard of their estates for the treasures of wickednesse will profite nothing Prou. 10. 2. They may indeede prosper in the world but alas their very prosperity shall destroy them Prou. 1. 32. Hence it is that as the Lord would haue it pronounced to the righteous that it shall bee well with them for they shall eate the fruite of their doings So hee would haue it denounced against the vnrighteous Woe vnto the wicked it shall be ill with him for the reward of his hands shall be giuen him Esa 3. 10 11. 3. Lastly here is encouragement for the godly to proceede in the wayes of godlines and as the Lord said to Iosuah if they would haue good successe to obserue what hee commandeth Indeede as the most godly faile in their obedience so are they many times corrected for the same but yet so farre as they are religious so farre they are sure to bee prosperous as farre as they are godly they are sure to be happy Surely I know saith Solomon that it shall be well with them that feare God but it shall not bee well with the wicked because they feare not before God Eccles 8. 12 13. And one of them when Text. he saw that hee was healed turned backe and with c. From the practise Obser of this Samaritane we may learn our duty which is this To glorifie God and giue him thanks for fauours and benefits receiued from him This is the expresse Commaundement of God Call vpon mee in the day of trouble I will deliuer thee and thou shalt glorifie me Psal 50. 15. Where as prayer so praise for deliuerance is required euen as the Apostle also would haue thanksgiuing ioyned with prayer and supplication Phil. 4. 6. So that there is a necessary coherence betweene prayer and thanksgiuing as prayer is the sending out for those things wee neede so thanksgiuing is for the receiuing of them hauing receiued the things by prayer desired of God we must giue him thankes for the same The first thing which wee aske in the Lords prayer is to haue grace to glorifie Gods name and the last thing we are to performe in the same prayer is to ascribe all glory to the said sacred Name Moses composed a song for the Israelites deliuerance from the Egyptians Exod. 15. 1. and so did Hannah for her sonne both in thankfulnesse vnto God Dauid calling to minde Gods benefits and bethinking with himselfe what hee should returne for them What shall I render vnto the Lord for all his benefits towards me resolues on this duty I wil offer vnto him the sacrifice of thanksgiuing Psal 116. 12. 17. And thus this Samaritane perceiuing that hee was cleansed renders this sacrifice for the same he glorified God and gaue thankes Vse 1 The Apostle foretold