92 What wilt thou be a (lave to the Devil now ? Thou heareft how God bath dignified the nature of man into fo neer a union with himfelf, Oh doth not this myfterie of the gofpel call to all the children of men ? Oh all you children of men ! Behold what God bath done for man kind ! furely the thoughts ofGod for man-kind are great and glorious, there be higher things you may attain unto, and will you yet perifh, and chufe your por- tion here in this world, and be groveling on the ground, as if there were no higher thoughts that God had for your good, than meerly to live as brute beafts, to eat and drink, and then rife up toplay ? Oh ifGod bath advanced mans nature fo, do not difpife it in the meaner of the children of men, the loweft fervant,or pooreft boy that lies begging at your door for a piece of bread, (for it is of the fame kind that is united in a perfonal union with the fecond Perfon in Trinity, of the fame nature which this poor boy that lies begging at your door forbroken bread and meat) therefore honor human nature in every one and do not vilihe it in thy felf ; thofe men that live under the gofpel and vilifie humane nature, they put a difhonour upon Jefus Chrift. And even reverence thy fell in privatewhen thou art alone, (I fay) reverence thy felt, do not abufe thy body, it is the Temple of the holyGhoft. Oh remember this all you that are profeffors ofReligion, that thefe bodies ofyours, this flefh of yours (ifyoube godly and walk anfwerable to your profeffion) I fay this flefhofyours it is the veryTemple of the holy Ghoft, do not abufe it; it's the Apoftles argument, There- fore fly fornication ,and be not joyned to whores; forjolty. bodies are the temples of theholy Ghoft:Oh it makes the fin of uncleannefs to one that profeffes the gofpel of Chrift a curled fin, the fin ofunclea- nefs in a profeffor of the gofpel, it's a thoufand thoufand times more abominable than the finof uncleannefs in another : why ? Becaufe they know howGodbath advanced humane nature in- to a perfonal union with himfelf, and how their bodies are the Templesof the holy Ghoft.What fhal I make theTemple ofGod a fty for the unclean fpirit, a cage of unclean birds ? God for- bid. There bath been a great deal ofdo about ftony Churches and Tempels, and you fhould' have a great many bale whore- raafters plead for the Whoreofhome lthe Miftrisofall fornica- tions Gofiel-Converfation.
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