A42763:48
CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church
Edinburgh: printed by Evan Tyler, 1647
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Yea that those who were polluted with sins and crimes were reckoned among the unclean in the Law, Maimonides in more Nevochim, Part. 3. Chap. 47. proveth out of Lev. 20. 3. Lev. 18. 24. Num. 35. 33, 34. Therefore seeing the shedding of mans blood was rightly esteemed the greatest pollution of all; Hence it was, that as the society of the leprous was shunned by the clean, so the company of murderers by good men was most religiously avoided, Lament. 4. 13, 14, 15. The same thing is witnessed by Ananias the high Priest, in Josephus of the Jewish War. 4. Book, Chap. 5. where he saith that those false Zealots of that time, bloody men, ought to have been restrained from access to the Temple, by reason of the pollution of murder; Yea as Philo the Jew witnesseth in his book of the Offerers of Sacrifices; Whosoever were found unworthy and wicked, were by edict forbidden to approach the holy thresholds.
Yea that those who were polluted with sins and crimes were reckoned among the unclean in the Law, Maimonides in more Nevochim, Part. 3. Chap. 47. proveth out of Lev. 20. 3. Lev. 18. 24. Num. 35. 33, 34. Therefore seeing the shedding of mans blood was rightly esteemed the greatest pollution of all; Hence it was, that as the society of the leprous was shunned by the cleane, so the company of murtherers by good men was most religiously avoided,