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A13529	Christ revealed: or The Old Testament explained A treatise of the types and shadowes of our Saviour contained throughout the whole Scripture: all opened and made usefull for the benefit of Gods Church. By Thomas Tailor D.D. late preacher at Aldermanbury. Perfected by himselfe before his death.	Taylor, Thomas, 1576-1632.; Jemmat, William, 1596?-1678.	1635 (1635)	STC 23821; ESTC S118150	249,193	358

stand to his judgement What if men applaud and commend thee for an honest man a good neighbour a just man if he judge thee a leper What had it beene better if all the congregation had taken part with a leper if the Priest pronounced him uncleane And if he pronounce thee uncleane he will shut thee out of the campe out of the society of God and his Saints till thou be est seasonably cleansed Men may faile in their censures and shut out the cleane for vncleane as Ioh. 9. 34. the Jews did the man that was borne blind and hold in the uncleane for base respects but Jesus Christ he shuts him out unpartially whom hee pronounceth a leper II. Then was the leper healed when in the judgement of the Priest hee was so and then the Priest must pronounce him so The Priest could not make him clean but pronounce him cleane Even so thou art then cleansed from thy sinne when in the judgement of Christ our high Priest thou art so who not onely can pronounce thee cleane but make thee so Quest. But how may I know that Christ accounts mee cleane Answ. When his word by the mouth of his servant pronounceth thee cleane accounts thee so Whatsoever yee bind or loose in earth shall bee bound and loosed in heaven Matth. 16. 19. with Ioh. 20. 23. Christ onely properly pardons sinne and remits it 1. by merit 2. by efficacy of conferring and no Minister can thus remit sinne But every Minister must pronounce and declare pardon to penitent sinners and when he doth this in Christs Name Christ from heaven pronounceth the leper to be cleane Object But there may bee errour in the Priests sentence and the Ministers judgement is not infallible Sol. The sentence of the Priest was infallible if hee kept him to the rules of inquisition And the Minister pronouncing pardon upon penitent sinners cannot be deceived though thou mayest deceive thy selfe in applying promises and grants of pardon not belonging unto thee Quest. What are the rules of inquisition of direction Answ. 1. If by rubbing the place hee see it grow red the leprosie is in way of cure if it bee not red by rubbing it is incurable So if the sinner be ashamed and blush at his sinne if godly abashment hath begun his repentance it is a good signe of cure 2. If the spot pricked with a needle there come forth blood it is in the way of cure So sinners pricked with the needle of the Law if they have sence of paine which makes them cry out of themselves and see the need of Christ it is a good signe Men pricked now adaies stirre up their blood against the Physician but such are farre from cure 3. A leper was healed when his leprosie was stayed and went no further So hee is to be pronounced cleane who truely turnes to God sinne hath lost dominion in him sinne growes lesse and lesse the stirrings of corruptions are abated hee cannot doe as he hath done or would doe nor forget that he was cured 4. When the conscience is bathed in that fountaine in which water blood have met then is the leper clean When by the merit of Christ the sinner is fully justified by the Spirit of Christ he is in part sanctified riseth up towards full sanctification then is he truly pronounced clean Object Alas I am then vncleane still I find much foulenesse and folly present with me Sol. 1. The leper and sinner may be truely cleansed never fully in this life for every day will make him foule even after true repentance but wee must daily renue our repentance for daily cleansing 2. Remember that the leper must shave his haire againe and againe but hee leaves the roots behind yet hee was pronounced cleane though the haire was still growing and for all the roots 3. The running water in the basen for the cure of the leper signified a continuall flowing of a fountaine of grace from Christ to the heart of the sinner for his continuall washing III. What every man must doe in sence of his spirituall leprosie Something is to bee done before the cure something after I. Before the cure 1. As the leper discerning his owne misery esteemed him an happy man that was cleane So thou seeing this disease must judge thy selfe most unhappy and miserable of all men as Paul Rom. 7. and never thinke thy selfe happy till thou hast got a cure Psal. 32. 1. Every leper cried out I am uncleane the same must bee thy complaint and cry 2. Get thee to the Priest Goe to Christ in humility as that leper Matt. 8. 2. Lord if thou wilt thou canst make me clean and the least touch of Christ shall make thee clean ver 3. 3. Naaman being strucke with leprosie must wash and bee cleane So must thou bewaile and lament thy estate wash thy selfe in the salt sea of teares that God may wash thee with a sea of mercy Especially in greater sinnes as in a deeper leprosie take up deeper humiliation and repentance as David washed his couch with teares II. After the cure 1. If God have healed thy leprosie be thou thankefull so Naaman 2. King 5. 15. Not as the nine lepers of whom none returned backe to give thankes Would to God one of ten were as thanfull as we ought for so great a cure 2. Bring thy gift to the Lord for the curing for so the lepers were enjoyned that is pay thy vows offer up thy selfe and all thy obedience an acceptable sacrifice unto God Rom. 12. 1. Resigne unto God present all thy sacrifices by the high Priest Jesus Christ in whom alone thou canst finde acceptance Object Alas I have nothing worthy giving unto God Sol. 1. Thou canst give no lesse then true endeavours of obedience and then be they never so weake hee that accepts the will for the deed will accept them 2. God prescribed a smaller offering fo● the poore then for the rich the poore man must provide a sacrifice according to the labour of his hands To comfort the weake Christian who offering according to his ability is respected according to that he hath not according to that hee hath not 3. The third thing after the cure is to avoid the company of lepers 1. Cor. 5. 11. If a man be an incorrigible sinner let him be to thee as an heathen or Publicane Matt. 18. 17. A good lesson for Masters of families to cast out leprous persons from the rest It is incredible what mischiefe one swearer one drunkard one wanton one profane beast may doe in an house We have not more usually seene an whole house infected and poisoned up by one plaguie person then whole houses corrupted by some one leud person which suffered as one swine in a garden roots up all that is good So much of holy persons Now follow holy things CHAP. XVII Holy things types of Christ. HAving now intreated at large of such holy persons as wee

house and for all the people but not without blood Signifying that Christ by one alone sacrifice of himselfe hath opened the Sanctuary of heaven and by his ascension hath made entrance into it on our behalfe and there appeares before God once for all to make intercession for us See Heb. 10. 12 19. And as he must goe alone without all attendants so Christ must tread the winepresse alone No friend no disciple stands with him no fellow no companion goes with him to make attonement but all feare and flye that we might cast our eye on no other Mediatour but him 1 Tim. 2. 5. IV. He must continually decide the highest controversies he must judge betweene the cleane and unclean he must excommunicate the one out of the congregation and receive in the other when he was legally cleansed Signifying Christ who in the Church and Scriptures is the supreame Judge of all controversies It is his word alone can binde or loose justifie or condemne According to his direction obstinate persons are to be cast out and penitent offendors received in As Pharaoh to Ioseph so God to Christ Without thee shall no man lift up his hand or foot in all the land of Aegypt Gen 41. 44. I. Ministers of the new Testament must learne hence to attend diligently on their charges and know that the substance of all these duties lyeth as heavy on their shoulders as upon those Priests of the old Testament Every conscionable Minister is bound 1. To prepare sacrifices to the Lord. In the old Law the Priest presented dead sacrifices but we must offer living ones They dead beasts but we living men quickened by faith alive by the Spirit of God holy and acceptable They externall and unreasonable we reasonable and spirituall such as God who is a Spirit may accept and delight in They must first kill and then sacrifice so we can never present any man an acceptable sacrifice without killing his sin As the poore beast must be killed and cut in pieces and then offered so we must by the sharpe knife of the Law urging repentance and mortification cut asunder the heart-strings of sinne mangle the body of sinne and let out the life-blood of mans lusts and corruptions And as they having slaine the beast must wash the entraile burne the fat cast the filth and dung into the place of ashes so the Minister after his labour in mortifying sinne must bring men to the lavour of sanctification separate them from their foulenesse and bring them to full holinesse in the feare of God 2. The Priest must preserve knowledge his lips must feed many hee must stand in the counsell of God and bee as his mouth And as Jesus Christ brought the whole will and counsell of God from the bosome of his Father So must his Minister declare that whole counsell to the Church and keepe nothing backe 3. The Minister must daily dresse the holy lampes and lights morning and evening and preserve the light from going out he must prouide oile for the continuall feeding of the lights that is by painefull and diligent study of the Scriptures and meditation hee must furnish himselfe to the worke of the Ministery that the light of holy doctrine may shine by him on all occasions that having the tongue of the learned he may be alwayes ready to speake a word to him that is weary and never want words of comfort which may bee as oile to the distressed soule 4. He must daily burne incense before the Lord upon the Altar of sweete perfume that is offer daily prayers as sweet odours in the Name of Christ who is the Altar of sweet perfume both for himselfe and his people He must pray also for the people and blesse them as Samuel God forbid I should sinne against God and not pray for you For his office is to stand betweene God and his people Every man must bee his owne mouth to God but hee must bee the mouth of every man 5. He must weekly set the Shew-bread before the Lord that is propound Jesus Christ the true bread of life the Manna that came downe from heaven the continuall strength and nourishment of the Church of God both in the ministery of the Word and Sacraments which the ancient Church did weekely celebrate as the Priest did weekly set these loaves Nay hee must not onely set them before others but himselfe must feed on them as the Priests did on the Shew bread all the weeke and yeare long lest it befall him as that Prince 2. King 7. 20. that saw plenty of food with his eyes but tasted not of it for being troden under foot he died II. Every Christian as a Priest unto God must 1. Daily labour in his owne mortification Every day kill some beast or other some lust or other that as wilde beasts are untamed and dangerous to the soule 2. Morning and evening dresse his lights and looke to the clearing of his lamps setting himselfe a taske of daily reading the Scriptures for the clearing of his judgement and the informing of his minde and for the reforming of his heart and life that hee may shine every day more clearly then other in holy conversation 3. Every day burne incense before the Lord upon the Altar of sweet perfume both morning and evening Every Christian morning and evening must offer up dayly prayers and praises as a sweet smell unto God That as the smoke of sweet incense goeth upward and disperseth it selfe abroad in the aire so the incense of prayer ascending may disperse it selfe abroad for the benefit of the person family Church at home and abroad What else calls the Apostle for saying Pray continually in all things give thanks but that the Lord should smell the sweet odours of our morning and evening prayer especially when wee rise and goe to rest How this duty is neglected and with manifest contempt and losse every mans conscience can tell him Now in offering this incense 1. See no strange incense be offered that is no prayer without faith 2. None but upon the Altar of incense none but in the Name of Christ. 4. Every weeke on the Sabbath day as the Priests in the Law provide himselfe of shew-bread to serve for his provision all the weeke that is make such conscionable use of the holy Ministery as hee may preserve life of grace and strength of grace which falls to consumption in the soule except it be continually repayred even as the body wasteth without naturall food 5. Every yeare set apart a day of expiation to make an atonement for himselfe for his house and all the people This proportion shewes it not amisse once a yeare to set apart a day of humiliation in serious fasting and prayer to make atonement for our owne and others sinnes The equity of which seemes not onely grounded in that Law Levit. 16. 29. which enjoines the Jew a yearly standing fast wherein once a yeare every