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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 the precious Effects of it calls for the most preciousest of our Obedience to God again for as God the Father gave us his Son so did God the Son give himself for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity and Purifie us to himself a peculiar People zealous of good Works Titus 2. 14. 2d Vse This should serv● to teach us all only to look upon the Bloud of Christ for the Curing of our leprous Souls Oh have a care of mingling Christ's Bloud with the polluting Dross and Dregs of Creature-worth and Worthiness the Bloud of Christ will cleanse the pollutedest Leper in the World if it be applied in its own Purity by Faith but if mixed with the least of Self-merit it spoils the Vertue Power and Efficacy of it and renders it of no use to the Soul 3d Vse Learn hence also to put an inestimable Value upon the Bloud of Christ O remember it is the Bloud of Cleansing and no Bloud but this can cleanse Lepers Thou hast heard that nothing but the Bloud of the slain Sparrow could heal the corporal Leper to shew you that nothing but the pure Bloud of Jesus Christ can cleanse the Soul from his spiritual Leprosie Oh what a high Price should you put upon this Bloud Peter calls it precious Bloud 1 Pet. 1. 19. Hence then How should we say of every thing with the greatest Indignation that would offer itself as a Co-worker with Christ's Bloud in the Cleansing of our Souls as Paul did Phil. 3. 8. Yea doubtless and I count all things but Loss for the excellency of the Knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord for whom I have suffered the Loss of all things and do count them but Dung that I may win Christ. PART III. WE are next to speak to the earthen Vessel over which the Innocent Bird was to be killed in which Vessel was the running Water Lev. 14. 5. And the Priest shall command that one of the Birds be killed in an earthen Vessel over running Water Mark It must be running Water which signifies the Purity and the Liveliness of it in opposition to standing Water which is usually dead and corrupt therefore this Water in the earthern Vessel must be running Water it must be Water that hath Life and Purity in it But first of all to begin with the earthen Vessel which may signifie the reality of the Humane Nature of Jesus Christ from whence our Healing comes You see that the Leper was cleansed by the Bloud of the Bird and so must we be cleansed from ou● Soul-leprosie by the Bloud of Christ if ever we be cleansed indeed 1 John 1. 7. Now this Bloud could not proceed from Christ as he was only God abstracted from his Manhood for as he was God only he was no way capable either to suffer or to shed Bloud therefore the Godhead of Christ assumes an earthen Vessel even our Humane Nature to his Divine answering the earthen Vessel over which the Sparrow was to be killed that so out of that Humane Nature he might issue forth the Bloud of our Cleansing He was born of a Virgin he took her very Nature upon him but not the Sinfulness of it in the least degree no he left all that behind and this Humane Nature was very earthly for from the Earth it came and to the Earth it must return again And inasmuch as the Body of our Saviour was made up of this earthy Nature he as to his Body may well be called an earthen Vessel signified by the Vessel over which the Bird was killed Secondly By the running Water in this earthen Vessel is understood by some the Water of Sanctification which comes from him for saith John He came by Water and Bloud But this cannot be exclusive of the Divine Nature of the Son of God which rendred the whole Sacrifice of Christ only sufficient to Cleanse us from our spiritual Leprosie and Soul-pollution in the sight of God For as the Godhead of Christ could not issue forth Bloud to Cleanse us apart from his Manhood so neither could the Bloud of Christ apart from his Godhead have been any way availing to our Cleansing from the Guilt or Filth of Sin in our Souls so that the Union of the two Natures in the Person of Christ became so wonderfully efficacious to our Justification and Sanctification wherein lieth the Leper's spiritual Cleansing hence Christ's Bloud is called the Bloud of God Acts 20. 28. because of the Union of the two Natures in the Person of Christ Thus you see how the earthen Vessel and the pure Water must go together in our spiritual Cleansing From whence we shall observe this Note Doct. That the Bloud of Jesus Christ who is very God and very Man is the only appointed Means to Cleanse our Souls from our sinful Leprosies and Pollutions in the Sight of God The Truth of this cannot be called in question by any who question not the Truth of Scripture Rev. 1. 5. And from Jesus who is the faithful Witness the first Begotten from the Dead unto him that hath loved us and washed us from our Sins in his own Bloud Rev. 5. 9. For thou wast Slain and hast Redeemed us unto God by thy Bloud 1 John 1. 7. And the Bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all Sin Heb. 9. 14. The Bloud of Christ who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without Spot to God purge your Consciences from dead Works to serve the Living God And so we come to the Reasons of this Truth and the first is this Reason 1. It must be so because the Bloud of Christ is the only Means which God hath appointed to be used for this Purpose in opposition to all other Means whatsoever Acts 4. 12. Neither is there Salvation in any other for there is no other Name under Heaven whereby we must be saved Reason 2. And it must be so because as God hath only appointed this Means for Soul-cleansing so hath he only fitted this Means for Soul-recovery Isa 61. 1. The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good Tidings unto the Meek he hath sent me to bind up the Broken-hearted to proclaim Liberty to the Captives and to open the Prison Doors to them that are bound Therefore whoever they are that shall make use of nay other Means besides this for the Cure of their Souls will find it so far from Cleansing that himself will be found guilty of the highest Presumption because it is a slighting of the Bloud of the Covenant and counting it a common thing as Paul speaks Heb. 10. 29. and then upon so doing the same Apostle tells you that such Men who are found guilty of such a Sin will find it a fearful thing to fall into the Hands of the Living God Ver. 31. And so we come to the Application of the Point Vse This serves to inform us then of the dangerous Principles of two sorts Persons

know that I am ●e which searcheth the Reins and Hearts and I will give unto every one of you according to your works Christ's Severity upon some Offenders will make others the more affraid to offend when the angry Father takes up the offending Child to correct it this makes the rest of the Children to quake and tremble The second Reason It is so because Christ will perform the Trust which is reposed in him by his Father with relation to the Churches and that with the greatest circumspection all the Churches of Christ in the World were originally the Fathers John 17. 6. Thine they were and thou gavest them to me That is the Father gave them to Christ to be kept watch'd over governed and ruled in his Father's Name as Vers 12. sheweth and one special purpose why the Father hath ●ntrusted Christ with the care of his Churches is that God might have fruitful service from them John 15. 8. In this is my Father glorified that you bear much fruit The Church is God's Vineyard and Christ is made the Vine-dresser of it with this Commission That if any of the Vines proves so rotten that instead of bringing forth of good Fruit they bring forth nothing but wild Grapes then must he cut down such unfruitful Vines Isa 5. 1 2. with Vers 5. My Beloved hath a Vineyard in a very fruitful Hill and he looked that it should bring Grapes and it brought forth wild Grapes now I will tell you what I will do to my Vineyard I will take away the Hedge thereof and it shall be eaten up and I will break down the Wall thereof and it shall be trodden down And this Trust our Lord Jesus dischargeth with a world of Justice on each hand first of all he dischargeth this Trust in order to the making of his Vineyard fruitful Isa 27. 2 3. In that day sing ye to her a Vineyard of red Wine I the Lord do keep it I will water it every moment lest any hurt it I will keep it night and day Secondly And he is as righteous to fulfil his Commission upon them if they prove unfruitful Vers 5. of the 26th Chapter For he bringeth down them that dwell on high the lofty City he layeth low he layeth it low even to the Ground he bringeth it even to the Dust So that if Churches will not be Trees of Righteousness Christ will fell them to the Ground for Trees of Rottenness if they will not yield him Fruit for his Father's Table they must be Fuel for his Father's Fire Luke 3. 9. Now the Ax is laid to the root of the Tree every Tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down and cast into the Fire Christ is his Fathers Servant in this great Work and the Will of his Father he must and will do both in the preservation of some or destruction of other of his Churches in this Life according as they prove either fruitful or unfruitful in his sight for he came not to do his own Will but the Will of him that sent him John 6. 38. The third Reason It must be so because Christ will manifest to all the World the Righteousness of his Government over his Churches whilst here on Earth In Isa 9. 6. it 's said that the Government shall be upon his Shoulder and his Name shall be called the wonderful Counsellor and as it shall not be said that so wonderful a Counsellor Rules indiscreetly so neither shall it be said that he rules his Churches unrighteously It is said that Christ our Lord will order his Kingdom and establish it with Judgment and Justice for ever therefore let those Churches which will not be subject to the Government and Discipline of this high Governour know their doom Deut. 32. 20 21 22 23 24 25. And when the Lord saw it he abhorred them because of the provoking of his Sons and of his Dvughters and he said I will hide my Face from them I will see what their end shall be for they are a very froward Generation Children in whom is no Faith they have moved me to jealousie with that which is no God they have provoked me to anger with their vanities and I will move them to jealousie with those which are not a People I will provoke them to anger by a foolish Nation for a fire is kindled in my anger and shall burn to the lowest Hell and shall consume the earth with her increase and shall set on fire the foundation of the Mountains I will heap mischief upon them I will spend my Arrows upon them they shall be burnt with hunger and devoured with a burning heat and with bitter destruction I will send the teeth of wild Beast upon them with the poyson of Serpents of the dust the sword without and terror within shall destroy thy young Men and the Virgin the Suckling also with the Man of gray Hairs This will our Lord do to his polluted Churches to vindicate his righteousness in the Government which he exerciseth over them So that I shall conclude with this hearty Prayer That God would give you the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelation in the knowledge of these things that so you might have a clear discerning of the fatal Ruine which is like to light upon our Luke-warm Congregations who have the Leprosie of so much Formality upon them who with Sardis have a Name to live but are dead and that you may be of the few Names in Sardis which have not defiled your Garments and having your Lamps trimmed your Lights burning and Garments shining and so accounted worthy to walk in white with your dear Lord Jesus both now and for evermore Amen FINIS A Catalogue of BOOKS lately printed for Will. 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