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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

Lord ver 15. Know ye not that your Bodies are the Members of Christ and thence he infers Shall I take the Member of Christ c. VVe should do nothing with our Bodies but what is fit to be done by a part of Jesus Christ Shall I swear or lie with the Tongue that is a part of Christ Shall I make any part of Christ drunk or unclean or worldly no certainly our Bodies being Parts and Members of Christ should be moved at the VVill and Pleasure and for the Honour of our Head in Heaven 4. By Dedication Our Bodies are dedicated to the Honour and Service of God ver 19. What know you not that your Bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost which is in you and is of God And therefore saith he Ye are not your own ye are for the Lord whose Temples you are These Temples should be kept Holy and Pure and for the Use and Service of God You may easily conceive what a horrid thing it would have been to have seen a Company of People VVhoring and Drunk and Swearing and Fighting in the Temple of God What make the Temple of God a Bawdyhouse No The Temple of God is to be a House of Prayer a place Devoted to the Service of God so it 's a very horrid thing that our Bodies which are the Temples of God should be filled with all manner of Sin Eyes full of Adultery Mouths full of Lies and Oaths and the whole Temple of God filled with all manner of Sin Beloved we know the Glory of God was seen in the Temple his Glory did shine in the Temple and indeed we may see the Glory of God in the very Looks Countenances and Languages and Behaviour of the very Bodies of Holy Men which speak their Bodies to be the Temples of God 5. By Covenant This is one great use of Baptisme and the Lords Supper that we do therein bind our selves our Souls and Bodies to be for the Lord. So that it may be said of us as in Deut. 26.17 18. Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God Or As some read it Thou hast made the Lord say this day that he will be a God to thee verse 18. The Lord hath made thee say this day That you will be a peculiar People unto him And every time we stand before God to worship him in the use of any Ordinance We do profess our Bodies to be the Lords and for him II. Reas Because there is much work for the body to do for the Lord. The Commands of God bind the body to Obedience as well as the Soul Jesus Christ lived here in the body and left us an Example of bodily service and sufferings Our profession of Religion must be by the body Rom. 10.10 With the heart man believeth and with the mouth confession is made to Salvation We must by the use of our bodies confess Christ before Men that he may confess us before his Father in Heaven Matth. 10.32 We must with our bodies worship God in all the Ordinances of Worship We must pray with our bodies as well as our Souls We cannot hear or read the Word but in the use of our bodies The Sacraments are bodily Signs that by them we may with our bodies as well as our Souls Worship God We cannot eat or drink in the Lords Supper without the Body Water in Baptisme is to wash the Body Our Bodies are to be employed in our particular Callings for the Lord. The Graces of Gods Spirit come into the Soul by the Body Rom. 10.17 Faith cometh by hearing And all the Graces are exercised by the Body I believed therefore have I spoken The Soul sets the Body on work Ps 45.1 My Heart is inditing a good matter c. and my Tongue is the Pen of a ready Writer Matth. 12 34 35. Out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh A good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth good things VSES I. Of Dehortation II. Of Exhortation I. For the First Of Debortation In respect 1. Of the Bodies of others 2. Of our own Bodies 1. If the Bodies of Men are for the Lord do not debauch or corrupt any Persons by enticing them to bodily Sins Do not draw them to Whoredom and Drunkenness They have a better Master to serve and better work to do they may be honouring and serving God whilst they are serving thy Lusts Their Bodies may be better employed than by Drinking and Whoring with thee entice no body to any thing but what their bodies were made and purchased for Draw them to nothing but what is fit for a Spouse and Member of Christ to do 2. Do no wrong to the bodies of any Persons by unjust beating them or hurting them How darest thou disable any person for the service of God You Masters be not cruel to your Apprentices their bodies are for the Lord You would not starve or overwork or abuse a dear Horse that cost many Pieces Look on thy Apprentice he is a dear Child do not abuse that body which was bought with the blood of God prize it and cherish it for the Owners sake 3. Do not cheat any of their bodily Wealth by Theft by Over-reaching them in buying or selling by withholding the just Debts which thou owest They and their Estates are for the Lord and the Lord will concern himself to take vengeance on thee 1 Thess 4.6 It may be sad to many to think that they have consum'd that on their Lusts for which many Parents and their Children would be blessing God for And here I may warn Husbands and Wives and Parents that they consume not the bodily Wealth which is for the good of their Yokefellows and Children Oh what a cruel Husband or Wife art thou who hast consum'd that on thy lusts which would have maintained thy Yokefellow And how can Parents endure their Children should cry We might have been better Scholars or might have had better Trades or Portions had it not been for our Fathers and Mothers Lusts II. Dehortation In respect of your own Bodies Do not abuse your own Bodies by Sin This sets all the Members of the Body against the Lord which should be for the Lord Let not your bodies be us'd as Instruments to execute or bring forth the sins of your hearts Remember the Apostle Rom. 6.12 Let not sin reign in your mortal Bodies More particularly keep your Bodies clean from these four sorts of Sins 1. All manner of Whoredom and Uncleanness Mark the Text The Body is not for Fornication but for the Lord see ver 18. How the Apostle pleads against this Sin as being more against the Body than other Sins Flee Fornication saith he The reason follows Every sin that a man doth is without the Body but he that committeth Fornication sinneth against his own Body i. e. Although the Body be the Organ or Instrument to execute other sins yet the matter which by

most inward parts of Hearts and Souls waiting for the Adoption viz. the full possession of the Inheritance which by Adoption belongs to us viz. the Redemption of our Bodies We look and wait that our bodies be freed from Sin and Death and made perfectly glorious with Christ let us live as those who look for such things 1. As ever you expect to be like Christ at the Day of Judgment Labour to be like him now 1 John 3.2 3. 2. Labour to be such as Christ may own you and accept you at the day of Judgment 2 Pet. 3.13 14. 2 Cor. 5.9 Do nothing but what you are willing Christ should come in the Clouds and find you doing do nothing but what Christ will accept of and reward you for when you must see him with those Eyes and in your Flesh stand before him The LIFE of Mr. Gilbert Lorimer Late MERCHANT of LONDON MR. Gilbert Lorimer late Merchant of London was accomplished with Learning and Parts He was Master of the Latin Tongue and understood several other Languages He was most inclin'd to study Divinity but by reason of his Bodily weakness and because he could not comply with the terms of Conformity though he much valued all sober good Conformists He applyed himself to Merchandise wherein he was skilful diligent and just and faithful When he was about Thirteen or Fourteen years old it pleased God to turn his Heart to himself he told a Holy and Judicious Person nearly Related to him the Time when and Place where Infinite Grace began that blessed Work wherein something was so signal that made such an abiding Impression upon him as to say with David Psal 119.93 I will never forget thy Precepts for with them thou hast quickned me It pleased God to exercise him with divers Afflictions especially Bodily Distempers which for four or five years before he died were often accompanied with stinging Pains but in all God had his Heart and Love and he possessed his Soul in Patience This is evident by several Letters which he writ to his Holy Learned and Judicious Brother Mr. William Lorimer Minister of the Gospel part of which I thought sit to Communicate In Feb 23 168● After his Recovery from a dangerous Sickness he writ to him thus What shall I render to the Lord for all his benefits who healeth my Diseases and crowneth me with loving kindness and tender Mercies O that I may no more live to my self but to God my most Gracious and Almighty Deliverer for this I desire your Prayers and to return thanks to God through Jesus Christ on my behalf On June 7. 1687. He wrote to him of the Death of their Dear Mother Some of his Words therein are these O that through the hope of our being also with the Lord we may purifie our selves as he is pure that we may despise whatsoever in this World would take us off from the Love of Christ Blessed Jesus draw our Hearts to thy self in Heaven where thou sittest at the Right Hand of the Father that Death may be the Messenger to open the Prison Doors that we may flee away and be at rest with Christ the beloved of our Souls Amen In September following his former Distemper returned with greater force But when by means of two able Physitians he had some ease he wrote to his Brother aforesaid on Septemb 12. 1687 wherein among many other of the like Nature are these words Lord support and comfort me under my Bodily Pains and grant that I may wholy resign my self to the will of my Heavenly Father I desire your Prayers although I am chastised sorely Yet the Lord will not give me over unto Death not to a Temporal Death so long as the continuance of Life may be for his Glory and my good however I stedfastly trust in the Infinite Mercy of God through the perfect Obedience Sacrifice and Intercession of my Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ that the second Death shall never have power over me On Sept. 24. 1687. He writ to his Brother in Answer to one of his to him wherein he saith I have received your very comfortable and Christian Letter the only fault in it is that it runs in expressions more suitable to those who are in some high degree of Christian perfection than to me a vile sinner I am nothing but Christ is all in all in me and for me adding his pain was much abated for which said he Magnifie the Lord with me and let us exalt his Name together Salvation and Glory be ascribed to the God of Salvation pray rather for a sanctified use of my Afflictions than for deliverance from them and O that the consideration of the shortness of them may keep me from being weary of the chastening of the Lord or fainting when I am rebuked of him In a Letter of Octob. 15. 1687. He gave notice to his Brother of another Relapse into Sickness wherein he saith I desire to bless God for the good of my Soul through the Afflictions of my Body pray that I may improve my Afflictions unto Victory over Sin and increase in all Grace On November 22. 1687. He wrote how ill he was saying with David Day and night thy hand is heavy upon me It is the Lord let him do with me what seemeth him good I am his by right of Creation and therefore at the disposal of his Sovereign Will and I am also his by right of Redemption and Purchase in the Blood of Christ and therefore he will save me if not with a Temporal yet with an Everlasting Salvation in hopes whereof I desire to possess my Soul in Patience His last Letter to his Brother was on July 14. 1688. wherein after he had given him account of his present Distemper he saith Lord help me that I may be more and more fitted for Communion with God here and for the full enjoyment of him for ever of which I am an Expectant through the alone Merits and Mediation of Jesus Christ my ever blessed Lord and Saviour About a Moneth before he dyed his Worthy Brother heard him often say as he lay awake in the Night on his Bed Come Lord Jesus Amen Even so come Lord Jesus I was with him about half an hour before he dyed he continued to the last both thesame Man in the use of his Reason and the same Christian in the Exercise of Grace I desire his surviving Relations will never forget his Counsel and Example which they heard and saw This Israelite indeed passed into the World without Sin on Octob. 26. 1688. I was ever tender of what I said on such occasions as this making Conscience of these 2 things I. To give no Person that Character in my Words which they have not in my Heart II. To speak nothing of any one when they are dead which I did not think or speak of them whilst they were alive but I had personal knowledge of him for many years and therefore have given this true Relation Edward Lawrence FINIS