The law unsealed

4. The fourth Argument is from the Law of Washings and Sacrificings for the sin of uncleanness in mens dreams, when they pass seed in their sleep, which seemeth to say thus much, that both sleeping and waking men should be holy; and although there be sacrifices and cleansings appointed for somethings that are not morally sinful, as the touching of a dead body, having Leprosy, &c. yet simply to say so of the case in hand were hard: For 1. If it be said there was no moral sinfulness in that kind of pollutions, what then could these Sacrifices and Washings signify? If any say, ⟨p. 15⟩as they must say, they looked to secret actings of original sin, it doth confirm what we have said: But 2. Is there in any such things as are not accounted sinful in themselves, such a dependency upon, or likeness to any Commandment, as there is in that which is mentioned Levit. 15. to the seventh Commandment, to which it seemeth to have a direct reference?

4. The fourth Argument is from the Law of Washings and Sacrificings for the sin of uncleanness in mens dreams, when they pass seed in their sleep, which seemeth to say thus much, that both sleeping and waking men should be holy; and although there be sacrifices and cleansings appointed for somethings that are not morally sinfull, as the touching of a dead body, having Leprosie, &c. yet simply to say so of the case in hand were hard: For 1. If it be said there was no moral sinfulness in that kind of pollutions, what then could these Sacrifices and Washings signifie? If any say, ⟨p. 15⟩as they must say, they looked to secret actings of original sin, it doth confirm what we have said: But 2. Is there in any such things as are not accounted sinful in themselves, such a dependency upon, or likeness to any Commandment, as there is in that which is mentioned Levit. 15. to the seventh Commandment, to which it seemeth to have a direct reference?