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…

Or lastly, He may say, If I wash in snow-water, because he would express the cleanest washing, such as makes the body look like snow, white and pure. White as snow is a proverbial (Isa. 1.18.) for the most resplendent whiteness.¹ And we find in Scripture, a thing is said to be washed with that, the likeness of which after washing it represents: Thus the Church glories in Christ, That his eyes were as the eyes of a Dove by the rivers of water washed with milk (Cant. 5.12.) that is, his eyes were white as milk, after washing. So here, Though I wash my self with snow-water, that is, though I wash my self, till I become as white and as pure as snow, &c. We read a like phrase (Psal. 51.9.) Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean, in allusion to the Levitical law, which appointed the Priest to sprinkle both things and persons with a bunch of hyssop (Levit. 14. Numb. 19.) So the Chaldee paraphrase expounds the Psalm, Cleanse me, as the Priest sprinkling with hyssop cleansed the people. Though I wash my self with snow-water, And make my hands never so clean.

Or lastly, He may say, If I wash in snow-water, because he would expresse the cleanest washing, such as makes the body look like snow, white and pure. White as snow is a proverbiall (Isa. 1.18.) for the most resplendent whitenesse.¹ And we finde in Scripture, a thing is said to be washed vvith that, the likenesse of vvhich after washing it represents: Thus the Church glories in Christ, That his eyes were as the eyes of a Dove by the rivers of water washed with milk (Cant. 5.12.) that is, his eyes were white as milk, after washing. So here, Though I wash my self with snow-water, that is, though I wash my self, till I become as white and as pure as snow, &c. We read a like phrase (