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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

TWO Funeral Sermons OF THE Use and Happiness OF HUMANE BODIES Preached on 1 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 London Printed by J. R. for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside 1690. TO THE READER Reader THou hast many Discourses of the Souls of Men And here I offer thee one Plain and Short Discourse of Mans Body yet also with respect to the Soul It will cost thee but a very little Time to read it and but a very little Money to buy it If it may be of any use to preserve thee from wasting thy Time at the Door of Eternity and from losing thy Soul in a vain Religion and to save thee from a stinging Death and tormenting Eternity I have my end Febr. 17th 1689 90. Thy Servant for Jesus sake Edward Lawrence THE BODY FOR THE LORD 1 COR. 6.13 Now the Body is not for fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the Body IT is ordinary for Nations and Cities Families and Persons to be in a special manner inclined to some particular sins The Cretians were branded for a Lying People Tit. 1.12 The Cretians are always Lyars And the Jews also to whom St. James writes seem by his Epistle to be much addicted to the Sins of the Tongue and this is exemplified in the Corinthians which were much given to Fornication and therefore we read that in Corinth there was a Temple erected for this Sin One reason of the prevalency of this Sin amongst them was an Opinion of the Gentiles which prevailed in Corinth that Fornication was no sin but a thing indifferent Hereupon the Apostle in this Chapter pleads against this Sin the argument he uses against it is That this sin is against the right use of the Body of Man Now saith he The Body is not for Fornication c. The words shew us the true and proper use of Mans Body And this is express't 1. Negatively the Body is not for Fornication 2. Affirmatively But for the Lord And this is amplified by another proposition which shews why the Body is and ought to be for the Lord viz. The Lord is for the Body By the Lord is here meant the Lord Jesus Christ as appears by his being mentioned with God the Father ver 14. and hath both raised up the Lord. The words chiefly teach us Two Doctrines I. The Body of Man is for the Lord Jesus Christ II. The Lord Jesus Christ is for the Body of Man I. The Body of Man is for the Lord Jesus Christ Method 1. What is meant by the Body of Man 2. What is it for the Body of Man to be for the Lord. 3. The reasons of the Doctrine 4. Use By the Body of Man is meant that visible and essential part of Man which is distinct from the Soul and Spirit this is that part of Man which was at first form'd out of the dust of the ground Gen. 2.7 and at death returns to the Earth when the Spirit returns to God that gave it Eccles 12.7 This is visible may be seen and felt and therefore Christ demonstrates his Body by this Luke 24.39 Behold my hands and my feet handle and see for a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see me have 3. This is distinct from the Soul as appears verse the last of this Chapter Glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit viz. In your Body and Soul Now this Body is for the Lord which implies Four things 1. The Body with all the Members of it in particular are for the Lord. The Eyes Ears Tongus Hands Feet are for the Lord. They have all work to do for the Lord Christ And it s a great piece of Skill to understand what is the main use we are to make of our Senses and of the Members and Limbs of our Bodies What is the chief work these are to be employed in they are to be used for the Lord they are to work for the Lord Christ 2. The Life Health Strength and Activity of all these is for the Lord Rom. 14.8 Whether we live we live unto the Lord If we have better Health and Strength than others it is that in the use thereof we may do more for the Lord than others 3. All things that are for the use and service of the Body are to be used for the Lord that with them you should serve him What Christ appointed his Disciples to say in a special case concerning the Ass and the Colt Mat. 21.3 The Lord bath need of them is true in ordinary cases The Lord hath need or use for them your Money Cattel Corn Goods and Apparel that with them you should serve him your Meat and Drink Preferments and Estates Houses and Lands are for the good of your Bodies but you must eat and drink to the Lord 1 Cor. 10.31 You must honour the Lord with your substance Prov. 3.9 When you buy or sell or build be able to say I get this Money for the Lord I trade in this Shop for the Lord I build these Houses for the Lord. The Lord Jesus shall have all at his service and for his Glory The Heavens Earth Seas c. must praise the Lord by your Mouths 4. All the time of Bodily Service The time wherein we are in the Body is for the Lord. Ps 148.12 13. Both young Men and Maidens old Men and children let them praise the name of the Lord. A young Boy or Girl hath work to do for the Lord. You should make all your Works and Recreations serviceable to the Lord. There is no time but you may find something to do for God 2. What is it for the Body to be for the Lord Account in seven particulars 1. It is for the Lord chiefly This doth not exclude our Natural much less our Spiritual Self Neither doth it exclude our Families Relations or the Publick the Body is for all these in their places but chiefly for the Lord and for all these things in and to the Lord. The Body is for Food and Raiment for to get Money and Wealth c. in their places but the Body with all these must be for the Lord as the last end You may take all the good God hath put in any Creature for your use and service but you must honour and serve God in the use of it And it s most certain that any Creature is best to you and you have most of the Comfort and sweetness of it when you do honour and serve God with it You will eat and drink with as true gladness of Heart as any Man alive when you eat to the Lord and drink to the Lord and you may get and keep riches with as much diligence

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