to Christ yet I apprehend that this is the true spirituall meaning of God in the words which I have opened to you this day The point then will be this the dead bodies of the Saints which shall be raised are the dead bodies of Christ himselfe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 cadaver meum resurgent They shall arise as my carkasse or dead body which I shall enlarge by some considerations First consideration Christ and his members are one therefore the Saints shall be raised as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ The members of the body are the members of the head Christ Jesus he is the head of the body therefore the bodies of the Saints being raised they are raised as the body of the Lord Christ Ephes 5.30 We are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones The body of a Saint is the body of the Lord Jesus the flesh of a Saint is the flesh of the Lord Jesus and the spirit of a Saint is one with the spirit of Jesus Paul persecuted the Saints and cast their bodies into prison Christ calls to him from heaven Why persecutest thou me When the body of a Saint is imprisoned Christ is then shut up in prison so when the bodies of the Saints are raised the body of the Lord Jesus Christ is raised As the Animall spirits lie in the head by which motion is conveyed to the members so the spirit of power lies in the Lord Jesus Christ by which we are moved by which we are raised in which spirit we both in body and spirit are made one with the Lord Christ This Doctrine of our union with Christ is likewise set forth by Paul 1 Cor. 6.15 Know you not saith the Apostle that your bodies are the members of Christ shall I then take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot As the hand or foot of a man may be said to be part of the man so the bodies of the Saints may be said to be part of the Lord Jesus For as the head and all the members of the body make one naturall body in that one spirit that is in them all and acts in them all so Christ and all believers make one in flesh and spirit by that one spirit which dwells in the flesh of Christ and in the flesh and spirit of every true believer 1 Cor. 12.12 As the body is one and hath many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also is Christ Here you see that the Apostle calls the members of Christ Christ mysticall so also is Christ saith he he gives the Church the name of Christ by reason of this neare union which is between Christ Jesus and all his members Againe the Saints they are married to the Lord Jesus as the body of the wife may be said to be the husbands so the bodies of the Saints as wel as their souls belong to the Lord Jesus and are one with him And as Adam when Eve was brought to him said This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh so Christ when the dead bodies of the Saints shall be raised raises his owne body and will say This is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh then shall be the great marriage of the Lamb then it shall be solemnized in a most glorious manner and then Christ shall owne all those who were given to him by the Father and there in a solemne manner shall he marrie them to himselfe he shall owne them all for his own wife and they all shall be looked on as one in him Likewise the bodies of the Saints that are raised are the body of Christ as the sprigs of a tree or the branches of a vine may be said to be part of the tree or part of the vine Our Saviour sets forth this similie to us Joh. 15. where he compares himself to a vine and all believers to branches in this vine Christ shall be as the great vine in the resurrection and all believers shall be branches and sprigs sprouting out of this vine from that life power and spirit that God shall put forth through the body of the Lord Jesus This union is not by the confusion of things which are united as the ignorant Familists doe fondly conceive but by the union of things which are different in their personall beings and individuall natures which will appeare by the similitudes which God doth make use of for the illustrating of this truth unto us As of body and members though all the members doe make but one body yet every member doth retaine its proper place office and being in the body so that the hand is not the foot nor the foot the arme or head so it is between Christ and his people Christ still remaineth in his owne person as head and they as severall members belonging to that head The spirit and body make one man yet the spirit is not the body nor the body the spirit The vine and branches are one yet the vine is not the branch nor the branch the vine The Husband and wife are one yet the Husband is not the wife nor the wife the Husband The second consideration for the amplifying of this point may be this because that whatsoever he did or suffered was that he might bring all believers to an onenesse with himselfe and the Father and this is that he prayes for Joh. 17. The glory that thou gavest me I have givent hem that they may be one as we are one Christ did therefore beare our sinnes Christ did therefore put himselfe under all the curses due to us for our enormities he did therefore man fest himselfe as a conquerour over all the Enemies that opposed us that all things that might bee any hindrance to our union or hinder our spirituall communion with God being removed in him Eph. 12.14 we might be brought to an onenesse and see our selves as one body and one spirit with him Our happinesse lyeth in our onenesse with Father Word and Spirit which are but one Man made himselfe miserable by disuniting himselfe from God who is but one Mar. 12.29 and Christ doth make him happy by bringing him back again to that onenesse which he had with God It was the office and employment of Christ to bring all things from disunion to union and onenesse with himselfe and the Father which he hath effected for us and therefore they shall be raised as the body of the Lord Jesus Christ My dead body shall they rise The third consideration is this they shall rise as his dead body because they shall rise as the proper goods possession and inheritance of the Lord Jesus Ask of me and I will give thee the beathen for thine inheritance and the utmost parts of the earth for thy possession they shall be raised as the body of Christ because Christ shall have a right propriety and Interest in them Ye are not
may have knowledge enough to carrie me to Heaven yet I am very ignorant of many truths of Christ Thus a man that truely lives the life of Faith he is not puffed up as these are that fall to these hideous and blasphemous notions and opinions Hab. 2. He that is lifted up his heart is not upright but the just shall live by his Faith You shall find that Familisticall spirits are puffed up with a conceit of their knowledge notions and speculations when indeed they are wholy carnall and understand not the deepe things of Gods grace in the face of Jesus Christ But he that truly walks with God faithfully that man walks humbly with his God True Faith as it exalts us and shewes us our priviledges and honour by the grace of God in Christ so it humbles us by the sight of what is in our selves The light of grace will as well discover what wee are in our fleshly part as what wee are by the grace of God in the spirit of the Lord Jesus Christ And these that are thus enlightned shall never fall totally and finally from the pure and simple Gospel of Christ the Spirit in them doth assure them that they shall abide in him John 2.27 Therefore beware of pride the bane of Angels and the ruine of men and the mother of Familisme But grow in humility conceit not that you are full when you are empty As long as the Widow had empty vessels the oyle did still run so as long as there is an empty vessel in thy heart the oyle of grace shall flow in unto thee The fourth Direction Take heed that thou dost not embrace the Doctrines of free will and falling away from grace some of the Familists of the City have been great sticklers to uphold these points and to revive Arminian Tenets among Professors before they did arrive to the top and height of Familisme That man will not stand long who hath no strength but his owne legs to uphold him Neither will that man stand long for Christ who stands more by the strength of his owne will then by the power of Gods grace Adam standing in his owne strength lost his happinesse when he was wise and righteous and canst thou maintaine thy selfe in an happy condition by thine owne strength when thou art unrighteous True Saints are kept by the power of God through Faith unto salvation 1 Pet. 1.5 The word is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which signifieth a keeping of any thing as by a Guard Gods grace is a guard by which he doth keepe all his in the way of salvation so that it is impossible they should fall away from his grace It is no wonder then if they fall away from grace to Familisme who doe maintaine that Saints may fall away from grace The fist Direction Be not loose or licentious in life or neglective of Sanctification under the profession of the Doctrines of Free-grace and Justification Many of the professed Familists which we meet with have been loose Professors of the Doctrine of Grace The Libertine doth live next dore to the Familist and Libertinisme is the broad road and high-way or beaten-path to Familisme Lastly take heed of vaine janglings and disputings in matters of Religion Religion is more in practise then Controversies or speculation Be more conscientious to practise what thou knowest then curious in disputing about things that thou knowest not And let thine eare be rather open to those that will instruct thee then to those that will dispute with thee The Disputes and Controversies of the times have made many Atheists and Familists in these times Origen speaking of these words in the 21. Exod. 22. If men strive and hurt a woman with child so that her fruit depart from her c. doth thus allegorize them The woman with child saith he are weake Christians who are with child and ready to bring forth truth The men that strive are Professors that with bitternesse and violence doe contend for their opinions and while they strive in heat and bitternesse for their opinions the Christian miscarries and doth not bring forth truth How many who did seeme to have Christ almost formed in them have miscarried and fallen to Familisme by the strivings and contentions of Professors that thou mayst therefore learne wisdome by their folly and stand more stedfastly by their fall treasure up the truths which have been delivered and imprint them upon your memories and because reasons precepts exhortations and Rules doe little advantage us to preserve us in the Profession of the Truth without the power of him who is truth looke unto him to preserve you in the Faith of your union with himselfe and his Father in the Spirit and to ascertaine you of your resurrections as part of his body and to enable you as his members to glorifie him and his Father in the Spirit for evermore Amen The great Joy of Saints in the great Day of the Resurrection SERMON III. Preach'd on a Thanks-giving DAY ISAIAH 26.19 Awake and sing ye that dwell in the dust for thy dew is as the dew of herbs and the Earth shall cast forth her dead I Have shewed unto you that these words are a present comfort or cordiall given by God unto his people for the refreshment of their languishing spirits and sad hearts in the midst of their afflictions And have proved that the bodies of the Saints shall arise and that they shall arise as the body of the Lord Jesus He is their head they shall rise as his members He dyed to bring his people to a spirituall onenesse with himselfe and his Father They are his possession and inheritance And as a body may properly be called the body of that soule which doth informe it so Christ shall be the spirituall forme and soule to those that shal be raised at the great day of the generall resurrection By these and other spirituall considerations I did evidence this truth that the bodies of the Saints shall be raised as the dead bodie of their blessed Saviour My dead body shall they rise I shall now by the Assistance of Gods grace briefly open unto you the words that follow in the Text and make choyse of one proposition from them which may heighten your spirituall joy this day upon which I shall enlarge my selfe and so shall commend you and what I shall deliver to you to the blessing of the Almighty The next word which doth present it selfe to us in the Text is this Awake which doth afford us this observation that Death is but a sleep It is night for a time with the Saints while they sleep in their graves but they shall awake at the morning of the resurrection The grave is a bed of rest perfumed and made sweet to all Saints by the death of the Lord Jesus Christ who hath taken away whatsoever is bitter and unpleasant in it It is no longer a curse to the Saints but rather a part of their happinesse
Wherefore as you desire to breath forth your soules with joy into the bosome of the Lord Jesus live in the comforts of the resurrection through Christ That will make you say in the midst of the pangs of death with Simeon Lord let thy servant now depart for mine eyes have seene thy salvation Or else such musick will bee in your hearts as was in Stephens when he prayed Lord Jesus receive my spirit yee shall have peace at the last which shall bee everlasting The life of grace shall be lengthned out with an eternity of glory which God and the Father grant unto you in the riches of his grace through his sonne our blessed Jesus and Redeemer Amen Christs Title to the dead bodies of Saints maintained SERMON II. CHrist is a Christians shield and buckler so that none can strike at a Christian but through the sides and loynes of his Saviour We cannot wrong Saints unlesse we injure the King of Saints Christ and his people have the same Enemies This is evident in the opposers of the resurrection who as they are enemies to Christians so they are to Christ and they doe not so much wrong to his people as they offer violence unto him as they would bereave his members of the happinesse of their resurrection so they would rob him of his limbs members and glory And therefore as I have pleaded against the living adversaries of dead Saints so I shall now plead the cause of Christ against those enemies of Christ who in denying the resurrection deny the raising of his mysticall body which doth fight against that truth which doth next present it selfe unto us in the text in these words My dead body shall they arise I must speak something for the exposition something by way of amplification of that which I apprehend to be the truth of God mainly pointed at in the words Together with my dead body shall they rise So it is in our translation and those that carrie it thus they make this to be the meaning of the words that the bodies of the Saints shall be raised together with the body of the Lord Jesus And if the Holy Ghost did point at this then the first thing that should be observed would be this that Christ Jesus had a body a naturall body If it doe not clearely appeare from this place yet it doth from others for it is said he was made of the seed of David according to the flesh And likewise Joh. 1. The word was made flesh And great is the mystery of godlinesse God manifested in the flesh 1 Tim. 3.16 which will overthrow that which some Familisticall spirits dare to assert in our times that the Lord Jesus Christ never had any naturall bodie allegorizing the whole history of the incarnation life and death resurrection and ascension of the Lord Jesus But secondly if it be thus expounded as some learned men doe expound the words the next observation will be this that This bodie of Christ was a dead body Revel 1.18 I am be that liveth and was dead The true Christ in his body was once dead his body was a crucified body He his own self saith Peter in his owne body bare our sinnes upon the Crosse 1 Pet. 2.24 He was wounded for our iniquities his body was bruised for our transgressions Isa 53. Thirdly that The dead body of the Lord Jesus was raised with my dead body they shall rise it is supposed that this dead body spoken of shall arise and this is that that is so frequently preached by the Apostles who were witnesses appointed by God to testifie that the Lord Jesus did rise from the dead The Devill knew what a truth this was how much life glory sweetnesse and power there is in it therefore he imployed his instruments the Scribes and Pharisees to doe what they could to smother this truth of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus What lies did they not make what stones did they not turne what paines did they not take that they might possesse the people with this perswasion that the Lord Jesus Christ did never rise out of the grave but that his Disciples came and stole him away But brethren Christ is risen and those that rightly understand this doe find what sweetnesse and consolation comes to their hearts by believing this point There is so much in it that Paul professeth he desired to know nothing but Christ and him crucified Phil. 3.10 the power of his resurrection and the fellowship of his sufferings And Peter 1 Pet. 1.3 saith that God hath begotten us againe to a lively hope through the resurrection of the Lord Jesus The hope of the Disciples was almost dead and extinguished when the Lord Jesus lay in the grave but now Christ is risen and hath discovered his power in vanquishing his and all our enemies now we have a lively hope in us that believe the resurrection of Christ for in the believing of his resurrection we have a sweet and comfortable assurance of our owne resurrection from the dead Fourthly with my dead body shall they rise Christ as I hinted before did all things and suffered all things as a publick person he died not for his owne but for our sinnes Qui non habuit propria portavit aliena Ful. He that had no sinnes of his owne did beare the sinnes of other men he rose not so much for his owne as for our Justification He died for our sinnes Rom. 4. the last and he rose for our Justification So that when Christ did rise we rose And he that believes this in the spirit sees that he himselfe is risen with the Lord. There is is a two-fold resurrection A resurrection by Faith when we doe believe that we are risen in Christ our King head and leader and there is a resurrection in our owne persons when we shall be raised in our owne bodies Christ did rise for the good and in the behalfe of all his people and Christ keepes possession of Heaven after his resurrection for us in whose person we are already risen and in this respect it may be said that together with his dead body we shall arise Fiftly with my dead body shall they rise Some interpret it thus by the power of the Lord Jesus Christ they shall rise that is there shall come at the last day a power from the Lord Jesus Christ to raise up the Saints to enjoy glory with the Father But because I doe not find these two words in the Hebrew Together nor with therefore be pleased to let me passe by these observations and to give you what I doe apprehend to be the plaine meaning of the text and to read the words thus My dead body shall they rise They are the words of the Lord Jesus delivered by him for the comfort of his people assuring them that they shall be raised as his body And though some doe understand them concerning the restauration of the Jewes and the bringing in of them unto
your owne yee are bought with a price your bodies as well as your spirits are Gods c. 1 Cor. 6.20 the Apostle gives this reason why Christ died and revived and rose againe that he might be Lord of the quick and dead Rom. 14.9 that as a servant is more his Masters then his owne so Christ being the Lord of the resurrection we shall be more his then 〈◊〉 owne we shall be raised as those in whom Christ hath a propriety and Interest we shall be looked on as the inheritance of the Lord Jesus he shall be King and Lord over us all and rule over us His Scepter of glory shall be set up in every heart and his Throne shall be exalted in every spirit Thus My dead body they shall rise They shall rise as mine they are my dead men and they shall be my living men Here you see that Christ will owne them for his when they are in the dust There are some that shall speak to Christ at the resurrection as though they were familiarly acquainted with him whom he will not owne saying Depart from 〈◊〉 I know you not yee workers of iniquitie But Christ will owne his Saints Mal. 3.17 They shall be mine saith the Lord of Hosts when I make up my Jewells or speciall treasure and I will spare them as a man spareth his owne sonne that serveth him As men will not part with their Jewells so Christ will not lose the bodies of his Saints they are part of his speciall treasure The fourth consideration is this the bodies of the Saints that shall be raised may be called the body of the Lord Jesus for this reason because Christ in the Spirit shall be the life soule and forme that shall give life and being to the bodies of the Saints at the resurrection As the body is called the body of the Spirit that dwells in it so Christ Jesus dwelling in the bodies of his Saints by his Spirit their bodies may be said to be his body And as a man may say this is my body it belongs to that humane spirit in me because his humane spirit moves lives in it and doth as a Divine power act in it so our bodies being raised may be said to be the bodies of Christ because he shall act as the Spirit forme and soule in them Christ shall be the soule which shall give life and being to all Saints which shall be raised by him The fifth consideration Death cannot dissolve the union which is between Christ and a believer The love of the Father is the urne in which the ashes of dead Saints are preserved Rom. 8.38 39. I am perswaded saith Paul that neither death nor life nor Angels nor Principalities nor powers nor things present nor things to come nor height nor depth nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord. Man doth consist of a naturall body and humane spirit And death cannot make a separation between Gods love and our bodies no more then it can make a separation between his love and our soules Among the things which God hath bestowed upon us in Christ the Apostle doth reckon up death 1 Cor. 3.22 which sheweth that it is not a curse but a blessing to Saints It would be a curse unto us did it bring an irrecoverable ruine and destruction to our bodies Rev. 14.13 Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord. Deaths disability to cast our bodies out of Gods love and protection is that which doth convert death through Christ into a blessing unto us Paul calleth Saints in respect of their bodily death 1 Thess 4.14 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Those that sleep in Christ As sleep doth not bereave men of life so death doth not take away from Saints their life which is in Christ As a Philosopher told a tyrant he might kill him but not hurt him so death may kill but cannot hurt a Saint because the union between God and him is indissolvible Rom. 14.8 Whether we live or die we are the Lords And therefore it may be truly said My dead body shall they arise Sixt consideration The bodies of Saints are sanctified by Christ and therefore hee cannot but owne them Sanctification is the marke or seale of Christ As merchants doe set their seales and markes upon their goods which they will owne so Christ will for ever owne that upon which he hath set the seale and marke of his sanctifying Spirit The spirit dwelleth in the body as well as in the Spirit of a Saint and Christ will never cease to own his own house and the place which he hath chosen for his habitation God doth not only honour our bodies by calling them his house but calleth them his Temple 1 Cor. 6.19 Know yee not that your body is the Temple of the holy Spirit It is not a paradoxe then in Divinity that Christ at the resurrection should owne them as his owne Seventh consideration Christ should be incompleat A man that wanteth a member is incompleat and imperfect so Christ should be imperfect and incompleat were he defective in any of his members at the resurrection And therefore all the bodies of the Saints must be raised as his body It is an Argument that some of the Schoole-men make use of to prove the necessity of a resurrection of bodies from the incompleatnesse of the soule when it is separated from its proper body which it did informe and with which in union it made one compositum So the bodies of Saints must be raised that Christ may be compleat in his mysticall body as he is in his owne person The Church is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the fulnesse of Christ Eph. 1. last because as a body is not full and compleat in his being that wants a member so Christ should not be compleat if any part of him were wanting And therefore the bodies of all Saints must be raised that Christ may appeare in his glory and compleatnesse at the resurrection And thus having opened this Doctrine and illustrated it by these considerations I shall draw some usefull conclusions from it Vse 1. Seeing Christians shall be one body at the resurrection this should teach us to be one here in the bond of love That one member should oppose and fight against another member is against nature And that one Christian should fight against another or take his fellow-member by the throat is against the principles of grace In the 13. of Gen. and the S. ver Abram doth thus speake unto his brother Lot Let there be no strife I pray thee between mee and thee for we are Brethren Christians should not strive or contend one against another because they are fellow-members It is reported of John that in his old age being unable by weaknesse to speake long unto the Congregation he would stand up and in stead of a long Sermon ingeminate this Precept Diligite filioli diligite
assure and ascertaine us that he will raise us he himselfe is risen in his own person If the head be above the water the whole body may be drawne out of the water without drowning Christ our head is above water above the billowes that overwhelmed him is above sinne that was charged on him is above the curses of the Law that came upon him when he was made a sacrifice for finne above the temptations of Satan above the weaknesse of the flesh Death could not hold him as her prisoner and this may ascertaine us that wee his members shall be drawne up out of the water wee shall be above all things that we may call finne in our selves above the reach of Satans fiery darts we shall be above Death that will be fulfilled which is spoken in the 1 Cor. 15. Death is swallowed up in victory Christ hath already fully conquered Death in his owne person and will conquer it in the person of all those that are his members enabling them to believe in him Christ doth infuse spirit and fortitude into all his souldiers by enabling them to looke on him their Generall Respice ad Ducem Look unto your Captaine was the old Roman word of Command to the common souldiers to stirre them up to imitate the valour and fortitude of their Commanders And Christian souldiers are made truly valiant by looking upon the fortitude and conquests of him who is the Captaine of their salvation Heb. 2.10 And knowing their union with him they see their head Captaine risen whose they are which maketh them Conquerours of death as his valiant souldiers by a strong perswasion from him and in him of a suture resurrection In the next place you see that the bodies of Saints shal be raised for heaven as his body Therefore this may teach us to glorifie God in our bodies and spirits while wee are here below If the Lord Jesus Christ will raise our bodies as his owne bodie it is consonant to reason that we should use our bodies as the bodies of Christ This consideration if God goe along with it will be marvellous powerfull to teach us to be holy not only in our spirits but in our bodies confidering that they are the bodies of the Lord Jesus Christ will raise thy body at the last day as his owne it is his body and not thine his spirit informes it he is owner and possessor of it thou art not thine owne thou art bought with a price 1 Cor. 6.20 Thererefore glorifie God in thy body and in thy Spirit which are Gods Seeing Christ will raise thy body as his body when it is dead therefore behave thy selse towards thy body as the body of Christ while thou art alive This is that that the Apostle presseth from this confideration 1 Cor. 6.15 Shall I take the members of Christ and make them the members of a harlot a Christian would not misdemeane himselfe toward his body if he did consider what his body is it is the house and Palace of the Lord Jesus the Temple of God It was accounted a great fault for any man to misbehave himselfe in the Temple of Solomon which was a place then by Gods appointment more holy then other places Our bodies are spirituall Temples therefore defile not the Temple of the Lord. Bring not in the abomination of desolation into the holy place bring not the filth of sinne into it suffer not lust to lie in thy body suffer not pride in thy flesh sinne not against thy owne body in any kind take heed of riot and drunkennesse take heed of those fins that are sinnes against the body because by them thou sinnest against the Temple and house of God thou sinnest against that that is not thine owne but is the Lord Jesus Christs Our bodies should not be like the Egyptian Temples that were stately Edifices and buildings but in them there was nothing but some noy some and filthy beasts Thy body is a stately Edifice O set not up thy beastly lusts as Idols to be worshipped there Galen that great Physitian when he came to anatomize mans body he stood in admiration of the workmanship wondring at the skilfull hand and finger of him that was the maker of it Thou must not only looke on thy body as it is a naturall Edifice but as it is a building for the Lord Jesus as a Temple that Christ hath made choyse of a Temple for the Holy Spirit to dwell in Therefore suffer not Crocodiles and noysome beasts to sit there stoup not to lusts fall not downe on thy knees before thy corruptions sacrifice not to uncleannesse Suffer not any sinne to reigne in thy mortall body Rom. 6. thy body is the body of the Lord it is under the power of Christ therefore let Christ onely reigne in it Sinne shall not have dominion over you because you are not under the Law but under grace Rom. 6.19 As yee have yeelded your members servants unto uncleannesse and to iniquity unto iniquity even so now yeeld your members servants to righteousnesse unto holinesse If men did but consider the glory of their persons the glory that God hath put upon their spirits in making them one spirit with his owne and the glory that God hath put upon their bodies in making them his houses Temples and places of glory to dwell in through the goodnesse of God it would restraine them from sinne That the high and lofty One that inhabiteth eternity should come and dwell in these humble and low cottages of ours That the God of glory should come and dwell in houses of clay in houses of mud in houses that presently must be pulled downe and lye in the dust O how should the serious and spirituall meditation of this put bounds and limits yea a period to our corruptions As Luther doth report of one that being tempted to any sinne by the Devill would answer that she was Christian Thy body is Christs by conquest he hath dispossessed the Devill of the strong hold which he had in thy body and therefore suffer not the Devill to rule there as he did when he was Lord of thee If the Devill come and tempt thee to commit any sinne which is a finne that thou mayst act with thy body answer him thus Satan away my eares cannot be open to thy temptations I cannot listen to thee to commit this sinne my body is not mine owne but the body of the Lord Jesus Christ And when thou findest thy selfe in thy body at any time unwilling for the service of Christ confider with thy selfe my body is not mine owne it belongs to the Lord Christ he will have a care of it at the resurrection he will not lose my earth or ashes he will preserve my dust and keep it as a precious Diamond in the casket of his owne love Therefore be willing to serve Christ in thy body he ownes the bodies of Saints here and will owne them hereafter he hath a speciall