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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

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