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A83667	The saints sacred laver. By Iames Eglesfield, master of arts, minister of Gods word at Knightsbridge. Preached at Padington, September the first, 1645	Eglesfield, James, b. 1601 or 2.	1646 (1646)	Wing E254A; ESTC R231737	12,295	39

Jezabel anoynted her face when David washed his hands and threw ashes upon his head a great disfiguring to his person yet was he cleaner in the sight of God then the slippery singing Queene of Israel Ezekiah cleansed his hands and Job made a covenant with his eyes pretious parts both yet none so pure so entire so holy as the bathing of our Hands in Innocency I meane not that Pharisaicall cleaning of the hands for that is not comparable to the cleaning sincerity of the heart if you paralell the parts but I meane the hands by way of a symbolicall and figurative resemblance the phrase not being so much to be ●●cand as it is an externall washing and so ●roper to hypocrites but as it is a symbole of internall purification and so proper to the Saints Now some washing their hands onely will rashly salute the Altar of God beeing coloured with seeming appearance this is Hypocrisie Others will wash their hands as a testimony of the purity of their hearts and so reverently approach the Mercy seate of God being beautified with reall integrity This is Innocency But why did David say his hands more then his feet or any other part of his body Because the principall Organs of all externall Actions are the hands and so Symbolycally the truest resemblance of all hearty and spirituall ablution When therefore it is said David washed his hands c. Wee must not understand onely an outward and visible cleansing of his carnall body but a generall cleansing of his soule and Spirit Hands being the Executioners of all externall Actions and so the Figure of a totall and generall both exteriour and interiour Sanctification Wherefore when thou lookest into the house of God look to thine Eye least that grow wanton take heede to thy Tongue that it speake no guile looke to thy feete that they slip not but especially wash thy Hands that they miscary not let not those be rough like Esau's but smooth as Iacobs set with gold Cant. 5.14 Then mayest thou put thy finger in thinge eye if it trouble thee then mayest thou nipp thy self by the Eare to keep them from sleep in security strike thy selfe on the feete if they stumble or tripp beat thy selfe on the heart if that prevaricate or play the whore smite thy selfe on the mouth if it talke idlesy rubb thy selfe on the Temples if they grow dull in a word then mayest thou doe all things decently as befitts the house of prayer So that the washing of the hands in Innocency is the true resemblance of all Spirituall ablution Now many will wash but few in Innocency Some with Pilate before blood publiquely Mat. 27.24 Some with the Pharisee before dinner hypocritically and some with the Gentiles before an oath superstitiously But let us with the religious Levite and Christian professor purifie and purge not onely the visible flesh of our hands but also the invisible taints of our Spirit Fo● the former sanctification is but only a figur● of that which followeth as you may read● Heb. 9. but the latter is a modell of that true and lively sacrifice of Christ himselfe who through the eternall Spirit of God offered himselfe without spot to God purging our consciences from dead works to serve the everliving God Wherefore O Lord sprinkle with thine hysope the blood of thy Sonne that the water of thy Spirit may never cease to purifie our hands till they bee as white through Innocency as thy Throne above is beautified with Ivery Especially wee of the seede of Aaron that every action of ours may bee acceptable our hands with which we hold the T●ble of the Covenant our hands with which we slay the Sacrifice our hands with which wee blesse the Congregation with which we gird about the linnen Ephod of an holy conversation with which wee lift up the sacred Challice with which wee distribute thy holy Body our hands by the continuall intention of which in our Prayers wee lift up the hinges of the everlasting doores that the King of glory may receive us Let all these bee made cleane and pure from all filthynes let us wash our hands in all our Actions that being thus prepared we may goe to his Altar Thus much for the Quo modo now followes the holy presence 〈◊〉 Lord. In which note two things first the Maesty Domine Secondly the Mirror in this article ô First of his Majesty Domine Some writers divide the Names which ●re common to the Trinity by a foure fold ●ifference some onely pointe at the Essence 〈◊〉 Iehovah some at the distinction of per●●ns as Elohim some at the essentiall proper●●●s of his Diety as only wife only just c. ●●d some at the Relation which God hath 〈◊〉 his creatures as Lord of Lords King of ●●ngs And of this last order is the name u●●d in my Text. For power and authority ●●ve a certaine habitude and respect unto the by which hee is subjugated and tyed to a● awfull obedience for we have as Aquina● sayeth a certain reall relation unto God a● our Creator without whom we had had n● Being and God to us a Rationall becaus● he did humble himselfe to exalt us Where fore this name Domine in my Text is neither a Symbole of his infinite essence neither of any personall distinction but only o● a powerfull dreadfull and vindicatory relation he hath to Man which ought to caus● a reverent and fearefull approach into hi● presence Therefore if we refuse his Mercy as he is Deus and so can crowne us yet le● us not despise his power as hee is Dominus and so can crush us For as he is Deus he is a God of bowells and compassion an● carrieth the rod and staffe of comforte P●● 23.4 but as hee is Dominus he is a God 〈◊〉 vengeance that can scourge us with a rod 〈◊〉 yron Ps 2. for our iniquities Wherefore when David in the awfull resolution of his soule and cristall sincerity 〈◊〉 his Spirit commends the Sacrifice of his clevotion to heaven he proposeth such a pr●sence of God as is most extimulatory of feare and reverence I will wash my hands in Innocency O Lord. This Name shewing the Majesty and power of God over man By vertue of his name hee punished the Sacrifice of Cain Gen. 4.5 The rebellion of Corah Numb 16. The bleating and Hypocriticall Sacrifice of Saul By vertue of this he threatens the Israelites I am the Lord by vertue of this he bids battle to the Nations I am the Lord What shooke the Wildernesse The voyce of the Lord. What brake the Cedars of Lebanon The voyce of the Lord by vertue of this Name he ratifies his purposes the voyce of the Lord hath spoken it By vertue of this Name he rides upon the heavens the Chariots of the Lord. By vertue of this Name his wrath is published how long wilt thou be angry O Lord By vertue of this Name hee summons the quarters of the earth the day of the