S~m~ __ Io_. ____ o~~-t_h_e_R~E~S~U_R_R_E~C~T_I_O_N~· ------~--~4_8~3- ~mpleofHis body. So, they lhouldhave taken it. ForfoHemean~ it: Ipfo Vc~f,•!, 4Jittm di<ebat, &c. But HeJJalce ofthetempl~ ofHis body. And He knewHis ownemea- . bell , and reafon would, lhould be Hts owneInterpreter. · nlDgAnd this meaning of His it had becneno hard matter for them to have hit 00 : b he came but abirding, but to catch from Htm fomc advantage, and fo were V::~~;n yto miftakc Him. As, this they caught as an adv~ntage (we fee) and bid it up for a r~iny day, and three ycares after, out they came With 1r, and framed an Indictt Pon it as if. He had mea11t to hav~deflroyedthetr Templt, MactluG.<fr: men u ' ' Id. b · · d H 1.n . . M"k', s· Burwasitlikely, orcou ttoncc. etmagtne, e meanttoaeJ.rOJtt~ It was The Pb;;;h,; G 's houfe. And the '{;Ale if Go o s ho1;fe (but even a verfe before) confumed fmfi could no~ ,.~ 0 Anddoth His zeale now (like the zeale ofourrimes)conrume Go o's h 011 re? vb• '~"··. "' 1 '"' · -" r b B ~· J'd ""'"' What, and that fo qtuckly ~ nur.a Vene etweene~ ut even very now, He purge. ·· it: And did Hepurge tt to have 1t pull1ddowne l That were prcpolterous. Now lt · waspurged,p"U itdowne? Nay, p11llit downe, when it waspolluted : Now it 'fs cleanr fed !er it ll<md. To refm»e Churches, and thenfeeke todi/[olwthem, will be co;nted among theer~ours of our Age. C " ~ I s T '":as farre from it;. He that would oot fee it abu!ed, would never endure to hav~ lt depruyed; fpectally, n~t, when He had reformed the ab1.1fes : And yet more fp~ctally, not evenprefentlyup-. on it (they mightb=fure.) • • . But that, which mull needs lead imm to the nght meantrtg, was : that thefe words (Templum hoc) Heecould not fay them, ~ut by_rhe manner of His uttering them by His very gefture, at the delivery of rhts pamde (hoc) they mutt needs knO\;what Temple it was, He intended. It was ealie to marke, whether He carried His h:ind or call His eyeup/~ thefahriqueofit; or, whether H~cbare them, to H iG 6ody: Which one thing on~ly, w~s enoughto have refolved themof this point, and to quit our.saviourof eqm~ocation. . • . . · · We wtll thenwavethetrs as the wrong mean111g,And rake 1t(ashe w.ilheth,who Th•trllifnfr; leant on His breif andbell: knew His minde) oftheTemple of His hody. Chap.•l·'l' &twhat refemblance is there, berweeneahodj and aTemple l or how canahody 1 befotermed~Wellenough: For,I aske, Why is it a Temple? What makcsitfo ~ ABoiit,• Is it nor, becaufe it is D~1nm P'!ttriJ mei (as Hefa(d, a little before) becaufe G o o ~~~t~·6• dwellethllme I For,as that, wherein mandwels, is ahoufo: So, that,wbercin GoD, - • isaTempleproperly. That(Ifay) wherein; be it place, or be it body. So come we rohave two forts of1'm:,oles; Temples ofjlefhand6one,as well as Temples oflimeand f11ne. For, ifour hodiube termed hDnfi's becaufe our foules (tenant-wife) abide and dwell in them; If, becaufe our foules dwell, they behoufes; if Go o doe fo, they beTemples; whynot~ Whynot~ why know ye not this (faith the Apoflle) that your. I Cor.f••, : . very bodies (ifthe Spirit of Go o abide in them) eo ipfo, Temples they he(fuch as they · be~ l Bur then they befo fpecially, when actually wcimploy them in the fcrvice of Goo. For, being in HisTtmple,and thereferving Him,thenifever, they be Templain Templo, LivingT~mples iu. aTt!JJple 1Vith011tlife. Ah~dy then, may be a Temple: Even this ofours. And ifours, thefe ofou_rs (I fay) in which, theSpirit ~f Go o dweUeth onely 2. by fome gift or grace.- wtth how much better right (better infinitely) Hrs~ody CHR xsTs (CH RI s T's) in whom the JJ~ho/e God.hwl,in allthtfulnejfe ~fit, dwelt corpora/Jy? body> Ttmtk• Corpor.UJ (1 fay) and not Spiritually. a.Ion~ (as, in us:) By natr~re; .byperfona!ltmion: Ca!...g. not(as,mus) bygrace, and byparttctpAtwnoftt, onely. Agame, tf ours which we fulferofr to bepollutedwith ftnne, that many times they ll?and lhut up, and no fervice 0 .thcm fora long feafon together; how much more His, that never was defiled ~tthany the lea!! linne, ~ever lhut but continually taken up, and wholly imployed · xn_Hu Fathers fervtce~ Hts, above ~11 exception; His, without all comparifoA, cer- ~~ely. Alas 1 ours butTAhemaclesundergoat skins; His, the true, the Marble, the 5 e •;;Te~t~p/emdeed. c, a Is T's Eodythcn,aTemple. fo~RIST S the ut{!'fimpleat large,will not ferve: It mull: beTemplum hoc,that veryTemple, Th[,·Temptc, ytoo ett or. And iowe to proceed yet further, and to fcekc a congruitic of •rTcm,u.,. Xx 4HiJ 1 "''
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