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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A91744	The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls Church, London, Octob. 28. / By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to the Kings Majesty. Printed by the order of the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen.	Reynolds, Edward, 1599-1676.	1660 (1660)	Wing R1263; Thomason E1048_2; ESTC R203481	17,874	45

THE LORDS PROPERTY IN HIS REDEEMED PEOPLE OPENED IN A SERMON AT ST. Pauls Church London Octob. 28. BY EDWARD REYNOLDS D. D. and Chaplain in ordinary to the Kings Majesty Printed by the Order of the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen LONDON Printed by T. R. for George Thomason at the Rose and Crown in St. Paul's Church-yard 1660. ALLEYNE MAYOR Die dominica in festo Simonis Judae Apostol. 1660. Annoque Regni Regis Caroli secund. Angliae c. duodecimo It is Ordered that Dr. Reynolds be desired from this Court to print the Sermon he preached this day at Pauls To the Right Honourable Sir RICHARD BROWN Lord Mayor of the City of London Sir THOMAS ALLEYN the last Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen Right Honourable BEing desired by the Order of your Court to print this Sermon preached on the last day of the then Lord Mayor and the first of the present I shall humbly crave leave to mind both those honourable Persons and all others of the signal providence of God to them and us this last year How graciously the Lord hath carried the last Lord Mayor through the storms and difficulties of a most troublesome government bearing him up by a spirit of prudence and calmnesse above potent frowns and popular passions till at last his year was honoured with the most glorious spectacle that this City hath seen for many and many ages in the happy return of our dread Soveraign unto his royal Throne our eyes have been abundantly witnesses of From how many afflictions and dangers your present Lordship hath been wonderfully delivered the Lord providing shelters and chambers to hide you in from the jealous eyes and iron arms of those who were then in power reserving you unto and recompencing you with this present honour you cannot but with thankful adoration of divine providence be most sensible of and affected with What terrible things the Lord hath done for these three Kingdomes things which we looked not for in breaking Governments infatuating Counsels melting Armies levelling Mountains and preparing a way for his sacred Majesty through the hearts of his people to the possession of of his Throne is so eminently known to all Nations as if it were registred with a beam of the Sun and proclaimed by an Angelical Herald What use both you and all of us should make of these wonderful workings of divine providence I cannot give you in better words then in those of Samuel unto Israel 1 Sam. 12. 24. Onely fear the Lord and serve him in truth with all your heart for consider how great things he hath done for you If unto such a wise and holy improvement of mercies this present Sermon may be of use unto you wherein is set forth how Ransomed persons are not their own and therefore not to seek or serve themselves and how much they are engaged to live to the Glory and service of him that delivered them I shall have abundantly the fruit of my labours and I hope therewith the benefit of your prayers who am From my Study Nov. 20. 1660. Your Honours most humbly devoted ED. REYNOLDS AT PAVLS-CHVRCH Octob. 28. 1660. 1 COR. 6. 19 20. Ye are not your own For ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and in your spirit which are Gods SUch is the desperate corruption of mans heart that those very blessings of God which should oblige unto his service do usually alienate and estrang the same from Him so that the very Table of wicked men is a snare and the things which are for their good do become unto them an occasion of falling Psalm 69. 22. They no sooner wax fat but they kick Deut. 32. 15. Their wealth becomes the fuel of their lust and their prosperity the mother of their luxury and intemperance When they are filled with their pastures they forget God H●s 13. 6. When the Lord feeds them to the full they commit adultery and assemble themselves by troops in the harlots houses Jer. 5. 7. Thus it fared with the people to whom our Apostle writes in this Epistle Corinth was a rich City in Peloponesus between the Ionian and the Aegean sea the Head of Achaia one of the principal Emporia or Mart Towns of Greece celebrated by a Homer Strabo Cicero Florus for the great wealth thereof And as it was famous for Riches so was it as infamous for those sins which plenty and prosperity use to produce especially the sinne of uncleannesse and fornication insomuch that {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} was an expression amongst the Greeks for Scortation and they were wont b as Athenaeus tells us c when they prayed for success in their undertakings d to vow that they would bring Whores into the City as if it had been an honour and service unto it And learned men are of opinion that the Apostles in their Council at Jerusalem did by letters forbid unto the Gentiles Fornication Acts 15. 20. because amongst them it was judged a free and lawfull thing to make use of mercenary harlots who for gain did prostitute themselves unto the lusts of men How much this sinne did prevail at Corinth not only before their embracing of Christianity as ver. 11. but even after they had been taught by the Apostle and given entertainment unto the Gospel as is evident by his complaint 2 Cor. 12. 21. So we may further gather from the special arguments he furnisheth them with in this Chapter against it 1. That which alters the end and use for which the body was made is not to be allowed but fornication makes a quite contrary use of the Body then that for which it was made which was to be for the Lord dedicated to those services wherein he should imploy it The body is not for fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the Body ver. 13. The Body for the Lord to serve and honour him and the Lord forthe Body to sanctifie and save it 2. The body which is to be raised unto glory and which we hope shall be mede like unto Christs glorious body is not in the mean time to be conspurcated and dishonoured with so impure a pollution But God hath raised up the Lord and will us v. 14. 3. The Members of Christ ought not to be made the members of an Harlot in as much as this is an high indignity unto Christ that so pure and holy an Head should have so leaprous and filthy Members But our Bodies by the inhabitation of the Spirit of Christ in us are his members and therefore should not be made one flesh with an Harlot verse 15 16 17. 4. That which 〈◊〉 this is more unnatural and atrocious then other sins in that other sins do not terminate themselvs in the body but go out unto other objects is not to be admitted But fornication brings a peculiar dehonestation and contumely upon the Body therefore it is not to be admitted v.