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An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of…
An exposition with practical observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the sum of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus near the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...An exposition with practicall observations continued upon the eighth, ninth and tenth chapters of the book of Job being the summe of thirty two lectures, delivered at Magnus neer the bridge, London / by Joseph Caryl ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Henry Overton, 1647
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Verse 30. If I wash my self with snow-water, and make my hands never so clean;
Washing is an act proper to the cleansing of the body,1 or of bodily things; and in Scripture-story we find travellers had water provided for them at their journeys end, to refresh and cool their bodies. These were civil washings. But besides these we find many ceremonial washings of the body, or bodily things, which implied the removing and taking away of sin, and so were a token of internal purification. Therefore the Apostle (Heb. 9.10.) describing the Jewish worship, and showing the several parts of it, saith, It stood (we supply that word, but it suits the text well; for the substantials, the pillars upon which their worship stood, were shadows, consisting) in meats and drinks, and divers washings. In allusion to which the Lord promises (Ezek. 36.25.) I will sprinkle you with clean water: And the Apostle Peter speaks of the sprinkling of the blood of Christ (1 Pet. 1.2.) And Paul of the laver of regeneration, Tit. 3.5. The Saints who came out of great tribulation, are said to have washed their ⟨p. 366⟩robes, and made them white in the blood of the lamb (