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spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	temple_n	7,031	5	7.9574	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A26751	Corporal vvorship discuss'd and defended in a sermon preached at the visitation April 21, 1670, in Saviour's-Church Southwark, and published to prevent farther calumny / by W.B.	Basset, William, 1644-1695.	1670 (1670)	Wing B1051; ESTC R37086	18,178	37

Corporal Worship Discuss'd and Defended IN A SERMON Preached at the VISITATION April 21. 1670. In Saviours-Church Southwark And Published to prevent farther Calumny By W. B. LONDON Printed for Tho. Basset at the George near Cliffords-Inne in Fleet-street 1670. To the Right Worshipful Sir Mondeford Bramston Knight Dr. of Laws and one of the Masters of his Majesties High Court of Chancery and Chancellour of the Right Reverend Father in God George by Divine Permission Lord Bishop of Winton my Diocesan Right Worshipful COnsciousness of my own weakness sufficiently deters me from publick censure therefore I should not have entertain'd one thought of appearing abroad had not this discourse been made both a Chimney and as I may speak a Pulpit-talk amongst the froward Enemies of our Church yet had they any thing of truth and modesty in their reflections I should have layn unconcern'd beneath them but as it is their practice to load whatever makes against them to speak modestly with all the aggravations it is capable of receiving so it is the peoples pleasure to imbrace whatever they say as Folia Sibyllae articles of faith or undoubted maxims of truth be pleas'd to take one instance I have heard several particular persons affirm I am loth to say one of their Preachers too who pretended he had read and understood the book that the Author of the Eccles Pol. declares it more excusable for any man to be guilty of all manner of debauchery than to go to a private Meeting and though I knew it was so grand an abuse of that Ingenious Author yet could by no means drive them from that perswasion some of their Leaders had brought them to and if they had the confidence to abuse that piece that was offered to the view of any that would give themselves the trouble of reading how much more will they abuse my Notes if not suffered to speak for themselves These considerations put me upon some inlargements in transcribing the first Copy a task You was pleased to lay upon me but since your commands of making it publick have brought my wavering thoughts to a fixed resolution and since it is abroad I wish them more candour and ingenuity in the reading than some had in the hearing of it shall they think fit to oppose I am ready as much as in me lyes to strengthen those assertions which too much hast hath hudled over but as you was pleased to call this piece to skirmish from the Pulpit and since to face its Enemies in the open Field I leave it under your Conduct and Protection wishing your Authority may be both its Incouragement and also a Bulwark to secure our Church against the assaults of her peevish Enemies so having fought for Religion in this Church which they have made Militant more than in a figure you may be a Member of that which is Triumphant is the Prayer of Your Humble Oratour W. B. 1 Epist Cor. 6.19 20. Ye are not your own For ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and your spirit which are Gods MAn being a rational Creature we should deal with him by reason not endeavouring to affright him into the worship of a Deity or the closer imbraces of Virtue and Religion by some thundring speeches which have it may be neither sufficient ground to stand on nor are strengthen'd with any considerable arguments which is a folly that would certainly be not only decry'd but easily amended too if in this all would frame their discourses by the Apostles pattern who layes down such arguments that the duty he presses to doth flow as a necessary consequence from them for disswading the Corinthians from fornication he shews they belong to God by dedication and redemption and consequently by that double tye are oblig'd to all manner of virtue and religious worship For Know ye not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost and Ye are not your own For ye are bought with a price therefore glorifie God in your body and your spirit The Text is a perfect Enthymeme or if you will an imperfect Syllogisme with an argument inserted between the proposition and conclusion 1. A proposition Ye are not your own 2. An argument to prove it For ye are bought with a price 3. A conclusion from that proposition which is usher'd in with the Illative therefore Therefore glorifie God in your body and spirit which are Gods The meaning of the proposition is clear Ye are not your own i. e. not proprii juris to live as you please your selves for it is contrary to the law of reason as well as the express law of the land that any man should imploy that which is alienum belonging to another as he thinks fit himself But lest the proposition should be deny'd the Apostle brings an argument to prove it Ye are bought with a price and therefore belong to him that purchas'd you But certainly there is another way at least in order of time before that of redemption or dedication by which we belong to God and that is Creation He made he redeem'd us therefore we are not our own Seeing our duty of glorifying God will follow more strongly from both I shall discourse on each That we belong to God by creation is evident for man and all the world must Have been from Eternity Or be made by chance Or be the makers of themselves Or else be made by another which can be none but God to whom they belong No other way surely can be imagin'd how things could possibly come to an actual existence therefore the three first being evidently false the last must needs be true that we belong to God by creation and therefore are not our own Had the world been from Eternity Unless from Scripture what is the reason that we have no certain knowledge of any thing done before a few of the last Generations nor any monuments of Antiquity whose beginning is not either known or shrewdly guest at If we come to the Pyramids in Aegypt they were thought by Josephus to have been built by the Jews during their bondage there and by others more probably since whereas It is but of late years since many parts of the world were discover'd and no longer since than in the time of Alexander the Great that little which was known was so poorly fortified and thinly inhabited by unskilful and timerous people that he soon made himself Master of it all Many ingenious Arts are but of late invention and Seneca tells us it was not in his time one thousand years since ingenuity and learning began to flourish in the world therefore if any savour this opinion they must have very high thoughts of this and some few of the last Generations and but little or no charity at all for millions before them in leaving them like Bruits without understanding and be beholding to a few of the last for whatever is worthy of notice Hence the world