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4 The Leprosy was a dangerous disease, yet curable by natural means: but ours is by so much the worse, as it admits not man as Physician, nor nature it se•fe as Physic, sufficient to cure it. The medicine is supernatural; the Blood and Water of that man, who is God. Faith must lay hold on mercy: Mercy alone can heal us.

4 The Leaprosie was a dangerous disease, yet curable by naturall meanes: but ours is by so much the worse, as it admits not man as Physitian, nor nature it se•fe as Physicke, sufficient to cure it. The medicine is supernaturall; the Bloud and Water of that man, who is God. Faith must lay hold on mercy: Mercy alone can heale vs.

5 The Leprosy is a sore disease, so entering and eating, that it is even incorporate to the flesh: yet still (cum carne exuitur) it is put off with the flesh. Death is a Physician able to cure it. Mors una inter••t & leprosum & Lepram. Death (the best Empiric) kil• at once the Leper and his Leprosy. But the Leprosy of sin cleaves so fast (not only to the flesh, but) to the Soul, that if spiritual death to sin do not slay it, Corporal death shall neither mend it nor end it.¹ It ⟨p. 93⟩shall not fly the Soul, when the soul doth fly the body: but as it accompanies the one to the judgement fear of God, so it shall meet the other in hell, if they both cannot be rid of it, through Christ on earth,

5 The Leaprosie is a sore disease, so entring and eating, that it is euen incorporate to the flesh: yet still (cum carne exuitur) it is put off with the flesh. Death is a Phisitian able to cure it. Mors vna inter••t & leprosum & Lepram. Death (the best Empericke) kil at once the Leaper and his Leprosie. But the Leprosie of sinne cleanes so fast (not onely to the flesh, but) to the Soule, that if spirituall death to sinne doe not slay it, Corporall death shall neither mende it nor end it.