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For thus it was said under the Old Testa∣ment, (and doubtlesse, there is as much need of preparation for Gospell services, as there was for those of the Law,) Let the Priests also, which come neere to the Lord, san∣ctifie themselves; lest the Lord breake footh up∣on them, Exod: 19, 22. The Septuagint say 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, lest the Lord
depart away from them (as being a holy God, and therefore not enduring any unholy thing to come neere him) which I take to be a worse punishment then the former.
Especially after the commission of some fowle sinne; whereby we are defiled. For then we had need to wash our selves first, with teares of humiliation, and repentance. The man that shall be uncleane, and shall not purifie him∣selfe, that soule shall be cut off* 1.1 from among the congregation, &c, Num: 19. 20. See the practise of Job, ch. 1. 5.
The Priests, before they went into the Tabernacle, were to wash their hands & their feet upon paine of death, Exod: 30. 20. What a charge did God give of preparing the peo∣ple to hear him, when he intended to speak upon mount Sinai, even two daies before. Exod: 19. 10, 11. See Gen: 35. 2, concer∣ning the practise of Jacob. And Job: 11. 13, I wish, we were as strict in preparing for all manner of duty; as the Jewes* 1.2 were, and yet are, in externall preparations for the keeping of the Sabbath▪ or, that we were as punctuall to wash our hearts, before we go to sit down at the Lords table: as they were to wash their feet, and the Pharisees their hands, before they would sit downe at their own tables.
Sept. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, shall be destroyed So we ren∣der that word, Act. 3. 23.
The Hea∣then them∣selves be∣fore some of their more solemne Sacrifices, would 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 & 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, i.e. in casto esse, prepare themselves by continence, and abstinence, from such or such things.