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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

and that he may harden his Children in their Sins and damp the Resolutions of weak Christians in Godliness Oh! how should this stir up the Hearts and Hands of all that have any Love to Christ to be pressing on so much the more in the Practice of true Godliness redeeming the Time because the Days are evil that the World may see that Christ hath yet a few Names in Sardis that do walk with him in white and have not defiled their Garments as the most have done Have other Churches their Spots upon them How should you get your Garments washed in the Bloud of the Lamb Are other Churches publickly Scandalous Earthly-minded walking with a proud and haughty Spirit Oh! how should you labour to regain the lost Honour of Christ again in labouring after a more heavenly frame of Spirit in being meek holy and humble in the sight of all Men Oh! that you would consider this that Jesus Christ was never more wounded in the House of his Friends than at this Day Oh! if you have any Love for Christ labour to heal these Wounds again by adorning the Doctrine of God and your Saviour with your holy Conversations Oh! forget not what a large Portion he hath given you in his Bloud and what a good Inheritance he hath purchased for you by his Bloud let him have the Fruit of it which is a holy Conversation John 15. 8. Herein is my Father glorified that you bear much Fruit. 2d Vse Have the Houses of Christ been hitherto subject to their Defilements and Pollutions Learn hence then by Faith and Prayer to hasten on those happy Times which the Word of Prophesie faith are yet to come upon the Churches of Christ in this Life when these spiritual Habitations of his shall no more be troubled with these leprous Defilements and Pollutions in this World There is one Prophesie which I shall mention for all the rest Psal 102. 13. with 16 Ver. Thou shalt arise and have mercy upon Zion for the time to favour her yea the set-time is come When the Lord shall build up Zion he will appear in his Glory I grant that this Prophesie partly had its fulfilling in the Jews Redemption out of their seventy Years Captivity by Cyrus and in the building of the second Temple by Nehemiah but this was not the utmost extent of the Prophesie which clearly points to the latter times of the Gospel-churches even when as in Ver. 22 of this Psal The People are gathered together and the Kingdoms to serve the Lord. Which time John the Divine placeth after the great Rent that shall be made in Antichrist's Kingdom Rev. 11. 13. and then he tells you in Ver. 15. that the Kingdoms of this World are become the Kingdoms of the Lord and of his Christ and he shall Reign for ever and ever so that then and not till then may we expect the full Accomplishment of this Prophesie in this 102 Psal Ver. 13 with 16. Certainly this must needs be a glorious Work and a very glorious Day when the Lord shall arise to build Zion himself but although it be said that God will build Zion himself we are not to understand it in opposition to the use of outward Means or humane Instruments which God hath formerly used in this Work no but comparatively such will the marvelous Presence of his Glory be which he will then attend those withal which he will employ in this Work of building his Zion as if God had never had a Hand in the Work before which will make the Work exceeding excellent and glorious in four Respects beyond whatever the Churches were adorned with before First For Beauty and Glory in the Eyes of the World Isa 54. 11 12. Oh thou afflicted and tossed with tempest and not comforted behold I will lay thy Stones with fair Colours and lay thy Foundations with Saphires I will make thy Windows of Agates and thy Gates ●f Carbuncles and all thy Borders of pleasant Stones Secondly This Work of building Zion will be marvelous for Light and Knowledge in Mysteries of Faith about our Redemption and Justification by Jesus Christ together with those lesser Points about which the Churches heretofore have been so apt to disagree Isa 60. 19. The Sun shall be no more thy Light by Day neither for Brightness shall the Moon give Light unto thee but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting Light So Isa 29. 18. And in that Day shall the Deaf hear the Words of the Book and the Blind shall see out of Obscurity and out of Darkness Thirdly This Work will be as marvelous for Peace and Quietness to the Churches who have enjoyed very little of this in the Ages of the World heretofore indeed for a spurt or a short space of time we have found that the Churches of Christ have had s●me silence in their heavenly Places for the space of half an Hour Rev. 8. 1. some short breathing some little freedom from Persecution but their Clouds have soon returned upon them again after the Rain Oh! but when the Lord shall arise to build Zion himself then Violence shall no more be heard in their Land nor Wasting and Destruction within their Borders but they shall call their Walls Salvation and the Gates Praise Isa 60. 18. Fourthly When the Lord shall arise to build Zion the Work will be firmly and lastingly done tho' the former Builders were gracious and godly Men yet how quickly have their Work tumbled down again David and Solomon which builded the Temple and City of Zion at first and though they were holy and wise Men yet their Building stood not long after them And the like we read of Nehemiah Ezra and Zerubbabel Men of great Wisdom and Integrity who were Builders of the City and Temple of Zion a second time but alas how soon did the Romans demolish their Work again But when God shall arise to build Zion himself the Work shall surely stand for ever as that no Sanballet or Tobiah shall be able to obstruct it nor no Nebuchadnezzar or Roman Titus shall ever be able to pull down this Work to the World's end Isa 4. 5. And the Lord will create upon every Dwelling-place of Mount Zion and upon her Assemblies a Cloud and a Smoak by Day and the Shining of a flaming Fire by Night for upon all the Glory shall be a Defence Oh that we could get such a sight of this glorious Work by Faith as might put us upon the hastning of it into the World by Prayer Last Vse In the mean time until this glorious Work comes into the World let what hath been said about i● serve to make us who may never live to see this glorious Day but must yet remain amongst the Churches of Christ so subject yet to their Defilements and Pollutions let the Thoughts of it make Heaven the more desirable to us Oh! think often upon the Purity of that new Jerusalem which is above and comfort your selves

which shall smart their Backs to recover their Hearts Isa 27. 9. By this therefore the Iniquity of Jacob shall he purged this shall be the Fruit thereof I will take away their Sin Oh! therefore all ye that are the Seeds of Jacob be you thankful to God that he hath given you his Word and will not suffer you to want his Rod they being both appointed in his divine Wisdom as a healing Means against your spiritual Leprosies whenever they shall break out upon you How should the thoughts of this abundant Care of God over you make you to cry out with David Psal 103. 2 3. O bless the Lord O my Soul and all within me forget not his holy Benefits who forgiveth all thy Iniquities and healeth all thy Diseases 2d Vse Let this Truth serve to perswade all the cleansed Lepers of Christ to carry the Matter as they ought to do towards the means of their Cleansing which as you have heard consists of these two things First The Word of Instruction Secondly Of the Rod of Correction First of all See to it that you carry the Matter well towards the Word of Instruction so as not to imprison it in your Heads make not your Heads as too many do a Jayl to the Word there be but too many that will hold the Truth in Unrighteousness who are unwilling that the Light of the Word which is got into their Heads should come down into their Hearts for fear lest its shining Light should become a perplexing Heat within them to prevent that they strive to hold fast the Doors against the Truth as a Man who fears an Arrest bolts fast the Doors of his House against the Bailiffs but if ever you mean co have benefit by the Word so as to be cleansed from your sinful Leprosies you must let the Truth out of Prison and give it a free Passage that it may be glorified in you Let it run from Room to Room from the Head to the Heart and from the Heart to the Will and from the Will to the Conscience and from thence to the Affections that so it might have an uninterrupted Out-let into the Conversation so to do is co carry the Matter as you ought towards the Word of Instruction Secondly Be sure you carry the Matter well towards the Rod of God's Correction when Afflictions do light upon you do not fret repine nor murmur at them as if some sore Evil had hapned to you for your Hurt but rather rejoyce under them that God by them is about to scrape and cleanse you from that Heart-naughtiness which cleaveth to you and if the Rod seems to smart do not say to God as Jonah did Jonah 4. 9. I do well to be angry to Death But rather to say with David Psal 119. 75. In faithfulness hast thou afflicted me And instead of muttering at the length or strength of your Affliction you should reason thus It seems that our Lusts are strong and our Corruptions are rooted fast in us which makes our dear Redeemer to put the greater strength into our Afflictions for where the Disease in a Body is more malignant than ordinary there the Ingredients must be the stronger in the Medicine to work it forth again Christ had rather his People should be preserved in Brine than rot in Honey and you may be sure of this that when Christ by his Rod hath done his Work upon you then may you expect the removal of it from you Isa 4. 4 5. When the Lord shall have washed away the Filth of the Daughter of Zion then will be create upon the Dwelling-places thereof a Cloud and a Smoke by Day and the shining of a flaming Fire by Night and a Glory with a Defence upon it Thus you have seen what the Priest was to do in order to the Cleansing of the Levitical leprous House and how well it shadowed out the Way Instruments and Means which our great Gospel High Priest useth in Cleansing of his Churches from their spiritual Leprosies and Defilements We now come to a second Work which the Priest was to do in order to the preserving of the Levitical House that was infected his Work was to pull out the infected Stones thereof and to put other Stones in the room of them Lev. 14. 40 with 42 Ver. Then the Priest shall command that they take away the Stones in which the Plague is and be shall take other Stones and put them in the place of those Stones and he shall take other Mortar and plaister the House Thus you see if scraping of the Walls wherein the Infection lay would not serve the turn then the infected Stones must be pulled out and cast away into an unclean Place which Action in a most lively manner leads us to behold the sacred Order which our Lord Jesus Christ observes in the Cleansing and keeping Clean of his Gospel-churches who in like manner if the Means he hath already used will not do as his scraping of them by his Word of Instruction and the smarting of them with his Rod of Correction if nothing of this Means will heal then out must the Stones be pluckt in which the Infection lay Quest. But some may ask What or who may we understand by the Stones of Christ's spiritual Houses Ans They are the visible Members of Christ's Churches 1 Yet 2. 5. Ye also as lively Stones are built up a spiritual House an holy Priest-hood to offer up spiritual Sacrifices acceptable to God by Jesus Christ. So that the Meaning will amount to this That if any of these Stones shall be so leprous as that neither the Word nor Rod will procure their Amendment wherein they walk contrary to sound Doctrine either in Judgment or Practice then ought they to be separated from the rest of their Brethren by a Church-excommunication You see how clear this appears in the Tipe the infected Stones were to be pulled out of the House to shew us that the incurable infected Members of Christ's House which Peter calls the Stones thereof must be pulled out from thence also From whence we may observe this Note Doct. That when ordinary Means have been used to reclaim offending Church-members but all to no purpose then is the Church to cast out such corrupt Members by an Act of Excommunication This is such a necessary Rule to the keeping of the Churches clean that it is an established Rule by our Saviour himself Matt. 18. 15 16 17 18. If thy Brother shall trespass against thee go to him and tell him his Fault between thee and him alone and if he shall hear thee thou hast gained thy Brother but if he will not hear thee then take with thee one or two more that in the Mouth of two or three Witnesses every Word may be established and if he shall neglect to hear them tell it to the Church but if he shall neglect to hear the Church let him be unto thee as an heathen Man and Publican The