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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49759	Two funeral sermons of the use and happiness of humane bodies Preached on I Corinth. vi. 13. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. With a brief account of the life and death of Mr. G. Lorimer, merchant; upon the occasion of whose death the second sermon was preacht. By Edward Lawrence, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Lawrence, Edward, 1623-1695.	1690 (1690)	Wing L655; ESTC R216653	22,474	88

will improve all for the good and Glory of his whole Self 2. It informs us of the dreadful condition of wicked men what a sad state are they in both as to their Bodies and Souls I am now speaking of the Body thou hast got good Meat and Clothes for the Body good Houses and Lands for thy Body but is the Lord for the Body No this great Lord is against thy Body Infinite Power and Wisdom and Justice will be all set on work to torment thy Body Thou canst not endure an aching Tooth a broken bone a fit of the Stone or Gout The pains of a Travelling Woman Oh little dost thou think what thy Body is to endure for ever Go and dress thy self make thy self fine set out thy self to the best look in the glass see if every hair or pin stand right but remember what that head and face and arms and Limbs must suffer when they burn in Hell Oh Sinners pity your Souls and Bodies and never rest till thou hast got the Lord for thy Body I tell thee thy body hath more need of Christ than of Meat and Drink 3. It informs us what are the greatest and best things for the body you may know this by considering what the Lord doth for the body For certainly Christ his Spouse live best and fare best and are always most happy And if it were best to be Lords and Ladies Nobles and Princes do you think Christ would not make his Members and Spouse such Can any be so foolish as to think that Christ doth more for Turks and Pagans than he doth for himself and for his own Body and therefore we must conclude that the best things are amongst Gods Children to be Holy and Happy to live a life of Godliness and Obedience to God in order to Glory this must needs be the best for this is that which the Lord who is for the Body doth in Infinite Wisdom and Love chuse for and give to his people we must believe that the best and worst things are reserv'd The Wicked for the most part have the Gold and Silver Honours and Pleasures of the World Oh but consider what is reserved for them is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever Jude 13. Gods people are often poor afflicted and persecuted in this World But there is an Inheritance Incorruptable that fadeth not away reserved in the Heavens for them 2 Pet. 1.4 It s a sweet comfort to think that those things which are best at present are most durable If spiritual things were to last no longer than the Vanities of the World yet for the present they are better than the Riches Honours and Pleasures of the World if we had but a day in Gods Courts its better than a Thousand elsewhere Ps 84. but they are not only incomparably best at present but they are Everlasting VSE 2. Of Comfort to the Godly In three Particulars 1. This secures to us the Providence and Care of God in outword things for the Body The Lord is so for the Body that we may be assured the body shall not want any thing that is good for us in order to our Eternal Happiness Indeed its fit we should leave it to God who hath more Wisdom to know what is good for us and more love to give what is good for us than we have to chuse to do us good in his own way He knows best how to use his own care to exercise his own Providence and to shew his own Love it s enough for us to know that the Lord with the Infinite Wisdom Power and Love of the Godhead is for us so as to be the Cause of our Eternal Happiness but seeing we may believe that this will be the effect and that the cause is sufficient to work it we may well leave it to God to take his own way to make us blessed Observe our Saviour Luk. 13.32 Fear not little Flock c. Christ is there pleading against our inordinate care about the Body and saith he Fear not for it 's your Fathers good Pleasure to give you the Kingdom of Heaven and therefore shall not want what is good for you in your way thither 2. Comfort against all the Enemies of your Bodies we have more for the Body than can be against it For the Lord is for the Body and if God be for us who can be against us Rom. 8.21 And on this account fear not them that can kill the Body For if the Lord be for the Body fear not all that Wicked Men can do to the Body let them spoil us impoverish us imprison kill us yet they do but fulfil the Counsels of the Lord for the Body For as long as the Lord is for the Body things that are seemingly against the Body are indeed for the body for the Lord rules all and turns it to the Welfare of the Body 3. Comfort against Death If the Lord is for the Body then Death is for the Body too It comes from the Lord as a blessing on the Body to fulfil his good Will and Counsel concerning it and therefore welcome Death the Body cannot be happy in this World This World of Meat and Drink and Money c. Cannot so much as make the body of Man happy the Body must die or at least be changed before it can be happy And therefore take a full view of Death of the Grave of Worms of Rottenness See Job 19.25 26 27. I know that my Redeemer lives c. Believe this that the Lord is for the Body and then say Death take my Body Grave cover my Body Worms eat my Body yet the Lord will be still for the Body and he will raise it up I shall see him and stand before him at the last day and be like him and appear with him in Glory Last use of Exhortation to three Duties 1. Bless the Lord for what he doth for the body It s the Lord that gives you Life Health Liberty and Estates and therefore observe and take notice of the Lord in all your Mercies to the body You which are Tradesmen if a Customer come into the Shop it s the Lord which sends him for thy good and deal with him as coming from the Lord. See your Tables fill'd with the Lord especially if you were ever enabled to do him any bodily service 2. Pray to the Lord for the body there is care and love in the Lord for the body but it must be drawn out by Prayer As there is Milk in the Mothers breast for the child but the child must suck and draw it out of the breasts into his own body so we must by Faith and Prayer suck and draw out Mercies from the Lord both for Soul and Body 3. Live as those who look for the Lord Jesus to shew himself for the body to make the body compleatly blessed and happy Rom. 8.28 We groan within our selves c. Observe We groan within our selves viz. in the