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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
A63895	A discourse on fornication shewing the greatness of that sin, and examining the excuses pleaded for it, from the examples of antient times : to which is added an appendix concerning concubinage : as also a remark on Mr. Butler's explication of Hebr. xiii, 4 in his late book on that subject / by J. Turner ...	Turner, John, b. 1649 or 50.	1698 (1698)	Wing T3297; ESTC R10983	44,117	68

has a Title in and a just Authority over them So that the Foundation of this Pretence is delusive and vain As Creatures of God we must be subject to his Dominion and as the Redeemed of Christ we must receive from him what Laws Injunctions and Commands he pleases 1 Cor. vi 19 20. Ye are not your own for ye are bought with a Price therefore glorifie God both in your Body and in your Spirit which are God's Right and Property And this is the very same thing that he urged v. 13 14. Now the Body is not for Fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the Body i. e. Christ was raised from the Dead that he might raise us also to Immortality and therefore we are bound not to live unto our selves by giving up our Bodies to Pleasure in the Lusts of the Flesh but to devote our selves to the Service of that Great God who made us and to the Obedience of Christ who died to expiate our Guilt 2. He argues in the next place from the great Uncomeliness and Indecency of this Practice in Consideration of our close and near Relation to Christ v. 15 16. Know you not that your Bodies are Members of Christ shall I then take the Members of Christ and make them the Members of an Harlot God forbid c. In which Words he declares what our Liturgy has truly and properly express'd that we Christians are one with Christ and Christ with us And that Union is not only in the way of Polity Ecclesiastical as we are Members of his Church and intitled to the Spiritual Privileges and Offices thereof but in a much Nobler and Diviner Sense He has taken upon him our Flesh and he has communicated to us his Spirit and this Spirit is the Bond and Medium of that Unity betwixt us For by one Spirit we are all baptized into one Body 1 Cor. xii 13. And as the Soul of Man is the Foundation of Life and of Vital Union in all the Members of the Body so is the Spirit of God the Foundation and common Principle of Spiritual Life and Grace in all true Christians whatsoever And as certainly as Jesus Christ has taken on him our true and real Flesh so certainly has the same Christ communicated to us of that Holy Spirit which abides in him For which reason our Apostle says v. 17. He that is join'd to the Lord is one Spirit with him and Rom. viii 9. If any Man hath not the Spirit of God he is none of his Now having instructed the Corinthians in this Doctrin he recommends it to their own Serious Consideration how Unseemly and Shameful and Unworthy it is for Men in so near a Relation to God and so close an Alliance to the Son of God to have Fellowship and Union with the most Infamously Vile and Detestable of all Human Creatures Shall I take the Members of Christ and make them the Members of an Harlot God forbid This is an Evil that ought not to be done This is scandalous and abominable He appeals to the common Sentiments of Mankind It must be preposterous and absurd to pretend Union with Christ and to profess that Union the Foundation of our Hope of Mercy and Salvation by him and at the same time to consociate with the most hateful of all Creatures by a Vice forbidden under the Penalty of everlasting Condemnation The very Nature of God who is Holiness and Light and in whom there is mo Darkness at all is a sufficient Proof how disagreeable all such sinful Practices are how offensive how hateful and how dangerous 3. He argues from the great Dishonour which a Man does hereby to his own Body He debases and reproaches himself He becomes one Flesh with such a Person as he is ashamed to own his Relation to and for which all Mankind besides will despise him tho' he does not scorn and loath himself He becomes in every sence polluted and defiled Every other Sin that a Man doth is without the Body but he that committeth Fornication sinneth against his own Body The Prophane is injurious to God and the Fraudulent to his Brother and the Mischief of all other Sins falls first at a distance from ones self But the Mischief of Fornication falls more immediately on the Offenders own Head his own Body is debased in the very Trespass he has committed Nay the Apostle has improv'd this Consideration from the former and tells us that by the Residence of that Holy Spirit within us our Bodies are so honour'd by Almighty God as to be esteem'd and valued as his Temples Places of his Residence dedicated to his Use and devoted to his Service v. 19. Know you not that your Bodies are the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you and which you have of God And again 1 Cor. iii. 16. Know you not that ye are the Temple of God and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you From whence he takes occasion to warn them of the Danger of dishonouring of themselves by Fornication because v. 17. If any Man desile the Temple of God him will God destroy For the Temple of God is holy which Temple are ye These are the Arguments which St. Paul makes Use of to convince and to dissuade all Christians from this Vice These indeed are Christian Arguments founded upon Christian Doctrines and Spiritual Reflections but of very great Force and not at all to be despis'd For this Union with Christ by the means of his Spirit is one of the great Priviledges of a Christian one of the great Benefits of our Redemption and our only Hope of Mercy and Peace and Comfort and Reconciliation thro' his Blood Does then Fornication break off this close Alliance with Christ destroy this Union that is to the Soul in a Spiritual Sense like loping off an Arm or a Leg from the natural Body 'T is alienating the Man from Christ and cutting off all his Hope of Reconciliation in him 'T is in effect rejecting him from the Covenant of Grace and blotting out his Name from the Book of Life Again does St. Paul say that by Fornication a Man dishonoureth his own Body and desileth those Temples which God has consecrated to himself to be the Habitations of his Holy Spirit God who has punish'd the Pollutions of his Temple at Jerusalem with the Death of the profane Offender will certainly punish the defiling these living Temples with Eternal Death and the most dire Effects of his severest Vengeance and Indignation Besides in desiling the Habitation of God's Holy Spirit we must grieve that Spirit and resist and repel it and drive it away from the intended place of its Residence and Abode And how can a Practice be either innocent or safe that so provokes our God that we become abandon'd of the true Principle and Foundation of all Grace Spiritual Life and Sanctification Especially when St. Paul has so solemnly declar'd That if any Man have not the Spirit of