Serm.5. checkSin in the firfi rijiings of it ? 95 man defile the Temple of God, him will God deflroy ; for the Temple of God is hely,whichTempleye are. So then that which the Rule amounts CO * That a good by this interpretation is,WaIk in the#iris, * i.e.Walkasbecomes the rein- mans foul is a pies ofthe Holy Ghof , andye fhall not fulfill the lulls of the, flejh. Temple which God inhabits, the PhiloCophers acknowledge ; and that the honour and woríhip rendred to him in a pure and holy mind, is incomparably more worthy and acceptable, than all the cofllieft facrifices and offerings in Temples made with hands, how magnificent foever. Móver y tp c'ids Ir v ó o4yertrpres ó çpHCV, éxuov xiitgoton (92áyrsX at or Texvriver rLw eu7k 4,4 vgi red ess ti odbyci rr 9 A¢w TósToeticwiS nzteso7L ci sssvytuxilsd''srtyti°ue;s7énopoIt &7-tJy c,7ñ yñs Súsex öts rtgi a 7rv'ana cruttpep=_7ue Aéyurv-- 'Euotißsou d ti ße.97a7s wcot 76 o óTor óAtiF,caev. Hierocl. in Pythag.- aur.carm.p.2 B. S. Walkin theSpirit, i. e. Fulfill the counfels and advices of the Spirit, and you Aaail not fulfill the lulls of the flefla: Every renewed foul is the Scean and Stage, wherein the two mightieft Contraries in the World, the Spirit and theFleíh, i.e. Light and Darknefs, Life and Death, Heaven and Hell,Good and Evil,Michael and his Angels, and the Dragon with his, are perpetually combating hand to hand. And well it is for a Chrillian that the Holy Spirit is luftinf,, in him againg theRena, d7,chari Picts lld5 ;o731o,God cakes thy parr,Chriaian, the Spirit of the Lord of Hogs is with thee, if thou dole not fin and grieve him away. Follo v but thy Leader, be prompt and ready to fiart at theDivine lignai, when the Holy Ghoft difplaies his Enfigns then 1' Ixvsu ßdtys Stiaso, March prefently forth under thofe mighty and vi4orious banners, and thou (halt become Invincible. * When a Chriflian goeth out thus towarfare,following the Almighty conduct of his God, hemull needs proceed conquering, and to conqater. Myfowl fslloweth hard after thee(faith David) thy right handupholds me,Pfa.63.8. TheOriginal is '2 ) `j' )fl rip:1, My foul cleaves asfer thee : As if he had laid, Go,lead on my God, behold I follow as near, as dole as I can, é vefligó, I would not leave anydiftance, but purfue thy foottleps, flep by aep, leaning upon thine everlaging arras, that are underneath me,and following thy manududion. Lot had almoll perifht in Sodom, for lingringwhen his God hagned him away, Gen.l 9.16. Bur Sampfon ( till then invincible) awoke too late from the bofomeof hits Dal;lah, when the Philiflines had flawedhis feven locks : And he thought to go out and(hake of their cords wherewith they boundhim, as at ether times, but the Lordwas departedfrom him,and they tookhim and put out both his eyes, ttidg.r 6.zo,2r. A Chritiian is more then a man when he ads in con- currence with his God, Pfal.27.I. The Lord is my light and myfaiva- ison, whom flaall 1 fear, the Lord is the flrergthof my life, ofwhom 'hall 16e afraid ?
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