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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

if through the Spirit ye mortifie the Deeds of the Body ye shall Live Ephes 4. 22. That ye put off concerning the former Conversation the Old Man which is Corrupt according to the deceitful Lusts Col. 3. 5. Mortifie therefore your Members which are upon the Earth Fornication Vncleanness inordinate Affection evil Concupiscence and Covetousness which is Idolatry Tit. 2. 11 12. The Grace of God that bringeth Salvation hath appeared to all Men teaching them to deny Vngodliness and wordly Lusts to live Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World 1st Reason The Reason of the Point lieth here because this was one special Purpose of Christ in satisfying the Law for us and thereby in reconciling of his Father to us it was that Sin might be destroyed in us Rom. 5. 10. with Rom 6. 6. For when we were Enemies we were reconciled to God by the Death of his Son Knowing that our Old Man is Crucified with him that the Body of Sin might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve Sin 2d Reason It must be so because our Lord Jesus Christ designed and intended that every one of his Redeemed and Cleansed Lepers should hold a holy Communion with himself both in the Life that now is and in the Life which is to come John 14. 20 21. At that Day ye shall know that I am in the Father and you in me and I in you and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father and I will love him and I will manifest my self to him Tit. 2. 14. Who gave himself for us that he might Redeem us from all Iniquity and Purifie to himself a peculiar People zealous of good Works Christ is the Prince of Purity his Eyes are Eyes of Purity that cannot look upon Iniquity his Nature is a Nature of Purity he is called the Holy holy holy Lord God of Hosts whose Glory filleth the whole Earth Isa 6. 3. therefore he cannot live in an impure Heart nor have communion with impure Souls that are no way washed from their Iniquities Surely then this makes it highly the Duty of every Christian to be Cleansing of himself from all filthiness of the Flesh and Spirit and to be perfecting of Holin●ss in the fear of God 2 Cor. 7. 1. Thus having given you the Reasons of the Point we next come to the Application of what hath been said upon it Vse If this be so let it serve then for Matter of Examination to every Christian whether we are of the number of Christ's Cleansed and Healed Lepers Oh! what a blessed thing would it be if upon trial and search we might appear to be such not in shew but in substance not in appearance only but in reality also an Israelite in deed and in truth as Nathanael was in whom was no Guile There be not a few but would fain perswade themselves that they are the Men in whom the Leprosie is cured they hope that the Bloud of the Lamb Christ hath been applied to the Ear Thumb and Toe of their Souls but let me ask such Men whether the Pri●st's Razor have yet been upon them Oh! bethink your selves and remember that those which were healed Lepers were shaved Lepers the Hair of their Heads Beards and Eye-brows is all shaved off which were the parts and places in which the Scurf and Filth of the Disease lay and hid it self before The same is spiritually true of thee if thou art a healed Leper indeed the Scurf of thy Corruption which hath lain hid in thy Heart as to the Dominion of it is shaved off and ●emoved out of thy Soul Rom. 6. 14. Sin shall not have Dominion over you Christ will have clean Work made in the Heart wherein he begins to Work Rev. 21. 5. Behold I make all things new saith Christ and so saith Paul 2 Cor. 5. 17. If any Man he in Christ he is a new Creature all old things are d●ne away and all things become new So that there is a unive●sal Change made in the whole Man of every one that are the cleansed Le●ers of Jesus Christ the Judgment Will and Affections are all new and renewed by the washing of Regeneration and renewing of the Holy Ghost Tit. ● 5. Now Soul what Shaving-work hath there been upon thy Heart and Life Reflect upon thy former Conversation Hast thou not been a loose Liver a Swearer a Blasphemer an unclean Person a Sabbath-breaker a Harer of Godliness a wicked Scoffer and cruel Persecutor of those which have truly feared God But is this shaved off from thee Is this filthy Scurf gone and removed from thy Heart within and thy Life without Thou knowest that thou hast been a common Drunkard an unjust Dealer a known Lyer a wretched Worldling a greedy covetous Oppressor thy whole Life hath been a prayerless Life an irreligious Life casting the Word Worship and Ordinances of God behind thy Back spending of thy precious Time which should have been spent in the Service of thy God Oh! this precious Time which thou canst never recal more hast thou laid out in the satisfying of thy Lusts and sensual Appetite Oh! but hath the Razor o● thy High-Priest shaved all this away and canst thou now say in the Words of Paul to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 6. 11. Such were some of you but ye are Washed but ye are Sanctified but ye are Justified in the Name of the Lord Jesus and by the Spirit of our God Be not deceived there was never a healed Leper came out of Christ's Hands but he was a shaved mortified and sanctified Leper the Bloud the Oil and the shaving Razor always went together the Bloud to justice the Oil to sanctifie and the Razor to mortifie the Affections and Lusts Redemption from the Guilt of Sin is only proved by our Mortification to the love and power of Sin in our Natures Rom. 8. 1. There is therefore no Condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit Mark There is therefore no Condemnation there is Guilt removed who walk not after the Flesh but after the Spirit there is the Truth of it proved the shaving of the Head Beard and Eye-brows were evident Signs what the Man had been and with whom he had been they were Signs that the Man had been a Leper and secondly That he had been with the Priest for a Cure and is now come off healed and cleansed of his Distemper So likewise if thou hast been with Jesus Christ indeed he hath fixed these visible Signs upon thy Soul 2 Cor. 5. 17. Thou art come of a new Creature all old things are done away and all things are become new in thee but if the Signs of thy Cleansing be not upon thee thou hast still cause with the Leper Lev. 13. 45. to rent thy Clothes and to go with thy Head bare and to put a Covering upon thy Upper-lip crying out to every one which thou meetest Vnclean unclean PART VIII

in the Meditations of the Spotlesness of those heavenly Societies unto which you are a going Houses that never had the least of a Leprosie found in them nor the least spot of any Defilement or Pollution obstain them where you may be sure to find all clean and pure clean from Sin and Corruption or the least inclination thereunto where Hypocrisie and Heresie never was nor ever enters where Strife and Contention shall never shew its Face nor a Backbiter ever appear within the limits of that holy City which have so troubled and perplexed the Churches of Christ in this Life Oh! let the Thoughts of these things comfort your Hearts that it is your Father's good Pleasure to give you a Kingdom PART IX Thus having dispatch'd what related to the Disease of the House which was a Leprosie together with what the Inhabitant in it was to do upon the breaking forth of the Disease namely he was to go to the Priest and say It seems to me that there is as it were a Plague in the House WE next come to the Grounds and Reasons why the Inhabitant of the House was to make such a Discovery of the Plague to the Priest The Reason was this viz. To preserve the things in the House from the like Infection Lev. 14. 36. Then the Priest shall command that they empty the House before the Priest go in to see the Plague that all that is in the House be not made Vnclean Now if we apply this to the spiritual Houses of Jesus Christ it will afford us this profitable Observation Doct. That it is the Duty of the Churches of Christ who are sound and healthy in the Faith in order to their Preservation to keep as much at a distance as they can from such Churches as are corrupted and will not be healed The Truth of this Observation appears both from the Old and New Testament First From the Old Testament when the ten Tribes became Corrupt with Idolatry through their Compliance with Jeroboam's Calves at Dan and Bethel who had several Prophets of the Lord sent to them to reduce them to their Obedience again but would not be reclaimed upon this Refusal God sends an Exhortation to the Church of Judah not to do as Israel had done Hosea 4. 15. Though Israel play the Harlot yet let not Judah offend But to prevent Judah from being defiled with Israel's Pollution a thorough Separation is enjoyned upon Judah that their Communion with the ten Tribes might not occasion their Pollution with the same Idolatry Hos 4. 15. with 17 Ver. Come ye not unto G●lgal neither go ye up to Bethaven Ephraim is joyned to Idols let him alone I know that some are of the Opinion that this 17 Verse is to be applied to the Prophet Hosea he only was to let Ephraim alone so as not to Preach or Prophesie to them any more seeing they would still be a rebellious House but who ever shall compare Chap. 1. Ver. 9 with the 4 Chap. and the 15 16 17 Ver. must needs conclude that it was Judah's Separation from the ten Idolatrous Tribes which was principally intended in these Texts Secondly The like Truth will the New Testament afford us for if we consider the Church of Rome in its original and first Plantation none can deny but that it was a famous Gospel-church of Jesus Christ and one of the Golden-candlesticks amongst which he delighted to walk for we read that their Faith was spoken of throughout the World Rom. 1. 8. but withal you may read when they became a leprous Church and would not be healed are then all the sound People of God required to separate from her Rev. 18. 4. And I heard another Voice from Heaven saying Come out of her my People that ye be not Partakers of her Sins and that ye receive not of her Plagues Quest But what kind of Corruption is it which will warrant our Separation from any Church in order to our Preservation Ans That most of our Divines do agree in this that a Churches Corruption in the Doctrine of the Gospel and will not be reformed this gives Warrant for our Separation from such a Church And that a Separation from such a Church appears to be our Duty will appear from these Grounds First Because of the Reason which is given in the Case of the Levitical House Lev. 14. 36. Ye shall empty the House that all that is in the House be not made Vnclean But spiritual Pollution is the most dangerous of all it seizeth the spiritual part therefore the more to be abandoned Nature teacheth Men to avoid the Plague which only endangereth the Body and ought we not much more avoid that Plague which doth inevitably endanger our Souls to our eternal Dammage A corporal Leprosie doth only shut out the Diseased from Communion with Men but a spiritual Leprosie shuts Men out from Communion with God Isa 59. 2. But your Iniquities have separated between you and your God and your Sins have hid his Face from you that he will not hear God can Love us Comfort us and hold Communion with us under the greatest outward Pollution that can light upon our outward Man but he can neither Love us or Delight in us not hold the least Fellowship with us in our allowed Sins 2d Reason Why we ought to separate from corrupt Churches if unreclaimable because otherwise we make our selves Partakers with them in their evil Deeds for we ought not to partake with other Mens Sins Rev. 18. 4. Partake not with her in her Sins 3d Reason Because if we partake with others in their Sins we are liable to partake with them in the Punishment which God shall inflict upon them for the same Rev. 18. 4. Partake not with her in her Sins lest ye partake of her Plagues God hath Plagues for Apostatizing Churches and Punishments for those that shall ioyn with them Good Jehoshaphat's joyning with an Idolatrous Ahab was like to cost him his Life God will punish the Circumcised with the Uncircumc●sed if they be both found in one Transgression 4th Reason Why we must separate from unreclaimable corrupted Churches is because in so doing we are Witnesses for God against their evil Deeds You may read that when the Church of Rome became a corrupt Church first God gave his reformed People a Call to separate from her Rev. 18. 4. And secondly Stirs up his People to be Witnesses against her Rev. 11. 6. And so we come to the Application Vse From all that hath been said upon this Point let us learn these four Lessons 1st Let us learn to be Humble 2dly Fruitful 3dly Thankful And 4thly Watchful First Let us learn to be Low and Humble in our own Eyes many of us may have Parts Gifts and Graces enough to make us to forget our selves if the Lord by a strong Hand upon our Hearts did not keep us Humble Oh! remember that all your Advancements are of Free-grace you have nothing which