The works of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons…The workes of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honovrable House of Commons…

Name: The works of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons…
Author: Joseph Caryl

The works of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honourable House of Commons at their late solemn fast, April 27th 1642 / by Joseph Caryl ...The workes of Ephesus explained in a sermon before the honovrable House of Commons at their late solemne fast, April 27th 1642 / by Ioseph Caryl ...

Joseph Caryl 1602–1673London: printed for John Bartlet and William Bladen, 1642London: printed for Iohn Bartlet and William Bladen, 1642

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A SERMON PREACHED At the late FAST before the Commons House of PARL…: A SERMON PREACHED At the late FAST before the Commons House of PARLIAMENT.

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For as it was in the Laws of Leprosy among the Jews: Many who had risings and scabs, or spots in ¹the skin of the flesh, were not yet to be judged unclean, and put out of the Camp. There were certain Criteria, signs or tokens given by God himself, on which the Priest was to ground his judgement. So now many have sins and errors (whereof those spots and risings were a figure) who yet must not be thrust away from us presently. Such indeed must, whose spiritual sores carry a proportion (if we can find it out) with those corporal. It is agreed on by all, that those leprous spots did note out our several malignities of soul-diseases; but what degrees or kinds of soul-diseases is not agreed. It were to be too much an Origenist, strictly to enquire about all, or confidently to conclude about any; yet there can be no danger in offering a conjecture suiting the rules before given.

For as it was in the Lawes of Leprosie among the Jewes: Many who had risings and scabs, or spots in ¹the skin of the flesh, were not yet to be judged unclean, and put out of the Camp. There were certaine Criteria, signes or tokens given by God himselfe, on which the Priest was to ground his judgement. So now many have sinnes and errours (whereof those spots and risings were a figure) who yet must not be thrust away from us presently. Such indeed must, whose spirituall sores carry a proportion (if we can find it out) with those corporall. It is agreed on by all, that those leprous spots did note out our severall malignities of soule-diseases; but what degrees or kinds of soul-diseases is not agreed. It were to be too much an Origenist, strictly to enquire about all, or confidently to conclude about any; yet there can be no danger in offering a conjecture suting the rules before given.

1Lev 13.

:84p. 34

I shall instance only in four of those signs, whereof the first, which is also often mentioned in that Chapter, is, when the hair in the sore is turned white, and when the plague in sight is deeper then the skin. The white

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