A30567:73
The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached
The difference between the spots of the godly and of the wicked preached by Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs at Cripple Gate.
London : s.n., 1668
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you have a notable Scripture there; and the reading of that Scripture, did hint to me this notion about the difference of the sins of the one and the other: Now the Leprosy was but as a type of the uncleanness of sin: The whole Chapter, you shall find, is spent in the discerning of Leprosy, what is the spot of Leprosy, and what not: Now mark, all a long you shall find that the Priest looking upon the spot, and seeing it to be thus and thus, saith the Text, he shall pronounce him unclean; but now in the 44. v. The Priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean, his Plague is in his head: If a man had it in other parts, then the Priest was only to pronounce him unclean: But now, when the Priest comes and looks upon a man, and sees the Plague to be in his head, then saith the Text, the Priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean: So here in the Leprosy of sin, if there be Leprosy of sin in a mans affections, it's very ill, he may be unclean by it; if it be ⟨p. 44⟩got into his will, or got into his thoughts, there is a great deal of evil, but if it be got into the upper part of all, if it be got in the senses, the body, the actions, it may make him unclean; but if it be got into his judgment, if a man hath such a corrupt judgment, that he gives a judgment against Gods ways, against the goodness and strictness of them, he gives a judgment against the holiness of the word, and saith, What need men be so precise and strict? and, the Law of God is not so strict with men. Now I say, when it comes to the judgments of men and women, such a Man or Woman is to be pronounced not unclean only, but utterly unclean, for the Plague is got into his head: But there's […] symptom of life that is in the Saints, though they be over taken with corruptions, yet their judgments are for God, and the strictness of the ways of God, whereas the others are not.
you have a notable Scripture there; and the reading of that Scripture, did hint to me this notion about the difference of the sins of the one and the other: Now the Leprosie was butas a tipe of the uncleanness of sin: The whole Chapter, you shall find, is spent in the discerning of Leprosie, what is the spot of Leprosie, and what not: Now mark, all a long you shall find that the Priest looking upon the spot, and seeing it to be thus and thus, saith the Text, he shall pronounce him unclean; but now in the 44. v. The Priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean, his Plague is in his head: If a man had it in other parts, then the Priest was onely to pronounce him unclean: But now, when the Priest comes and looks upon a man, and sees the Plague to be in his head, then saith the Text, the Priest shall pronounce him utterly unclean: So here in the Leprosie of sin, if there be Leprosie of sin in a mans affections, it's very ill, he may be unclean by it; if it be