15 If any man's work ſhall be burnt, he ſhall faf. yet fo, as
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c Bur if his work 4 not abias, if he ſhall appear upen the more clear and b:ight ſhining our ef the truth of the Gotpel, that though he hath held the foundation right, yer he kath buile upon it wood, hay, and' flubble, mixed fables and idle forics, and cor. rupt Dottrine with the DoGtrine of the Goſpel, he ſhall fuller !:", 9y zt, ether by the affli&ing hand of God, or by a loſs of his re. purarion, or ſome other way. & Burt yet God wiil not caft off Soul tor every ſuch errour , if he keeps to the main fonndarion. }-ſus Chriſt. He fhal! be ſaved, though it be as by fir:, that i5 with difficulty, which certainly isa more natural (enſ2 of this J exe, than thoſe give, who interpret 7s bz fre, of the fire of hc Goſpel. or the fire of Purgatory, of which the Papiſts underſtznd it For, 11. Ir 1s, and always hath been a prov:rb:al form of ſpeech to expreſs a thing obtained by difficulty, we ſay, 7: {5 got out of rþ2 fire, &c. 2. Fer the fire of Purgatory, it 15a tiction and meer ima- ginary thing, and of no further ſignificancy, than co make rhe Popes Chimney ſmozk. 3 That prerended fire only pargeth Ve- nial f1ns : rhis fire tryeth every man's work, che gold as well as the ſtubble.
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and 794 the Spirit of God dwelleth in you 2 e. particular Members of ir, Gods building ; after this he haG inlarged 20
perſtruQture upon that foundation ; now be retarns again to ſpeak of the whol2 Church, whom he here callcth the T:mple of God, with j@ manifeſt alluſion to that noble and ſplendid Houſe which $!c- 0n firſt builded, and was atterwards rebuilded by Zorobabel, Exrga,
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"x Forother foundation can norman lay, then * thatjand Nehemiah at Feruſulzm;, as the publick place” for. the Jewiſh K -; Gr _—_ *1ad, * which is Jeſus Chriſt 2».
(Church to meet into worſhip God according to the preſcript of the Zewitical Law, in which houſe God was feid to dxz!!, becauſe there he mer his people, and bleffed rherr, and thire he cave an{wersto them from the Mercy-ſeat: He cails them the Temple of God, becauſe they were 64/t, that is, effe&valiy called for this very end, thatthey might be 70 the pratje of the glory of his grace, wher:in hs hath mane 15 acceptes. in the beloved, Eb. 1. 6.. And asthe Apoſtle Peter further expoundeth this Text, 1 Pc:. 2.5. The p:0372 of God are a (prritual houſe, an holy pricſtivood, to offer up ſciritual ſacrifices a:c:ptable to God by Jeſus Chriſt, And Ged hy bis Spiric dwelt is *7em, both by his perſon, and by his gitts an4 graces, which is a far more .noble dwelling in them, than rh2 dwelling of God was in the Jewiſh Temple. From this Texr may be terch'd an evident proof of the Divine Nature of the third Ferfon in the bleſſed Trinity ; for he is not only cull'd here the Spiric of God ”_ he 15 ſaid to dw-!! 2 ce Saints : which dwelling of God in his people, 15 that very thing which maketh ther the Temple of Ged , and thoſe who are here called, The Templ? of God, are, Chap, 6. 19 called, The Temple of the Holy Ghoſt. |
17 It any man | detile the temple of God, him ſhall!) Cr, --
God deſtroy f: for the temple of God is holy g, which "97 temple 72 are. | ey
/ The word which we tranſlate df! and :/iroy (for the Greek word 1s the ſame for both) ſignifieth to v/e/ato, corrrp?, | Our Tranſlators generally render ir cor-p7, Char. 15, 33. 2 Cor. 7. 2. & 11. 3. Ep. 4.2. Jrde 10. Rev. 19. 2. The people of God which are here called 72 T:-mple of God are defiled, eirher by un- bibing falſe DoQrine, or being temprel ro any looſenels of lite
[9a converſation. Now (faith che Apoſtle) if any oae goeth a-
bour to do this, which all Preachers do, who tzach any falſe Do- ftrine, or any Principles that lead ro a liberty for che fle{hk, or lead an 11] and ſcandalous lite, God thall deſtroy thoſe men. g For as the Temple of God cf old was a. place buildel and ſer apart for holy uſes, and therefore not without grear p:ril to be abuſed and profaned: fo thoſe that are the people of God, are by God called and fet apart in a more immediate eminent manner for the hogour and glory of God, and therefore canno* be debauchel or detiie1 by any as inſtruments in that a&ion, wichout exceeding great peril and hazard to them that endeavour and attempt any ſuch thing.
mong yon feemeth to be wie in this world 2, let him -. become a fool, that he may be wiſe #, 1% © There are ſome that with their Z/oquence, ani flouriſhes of words, or with their Philoſophical notions and reatonings (vhich, Col. 2. 8. .the Apoſtle calls v4:2 deceit) or with their Traaltioy; atf ter the rediments of the Wa: id{as the Apottlc addeth in thar place)
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5 deed often called the day of the Lord, Chap. 1. S.
© Mt in the day of Judgment. The ſame thing 1s alſo to
would cheat and deceive ycur Souls, under a pretence ct making you wounderfully wile - the Wifdom of the World is Foolithnets with God. # If any of you feemeth unto others, or f{e2merh unro himſelf, that is, thinketh that he is endued wich what the World calleth Wiſdom. + If ever he would be truly wite, v:i1te vnto God,zrd to etern:l Life 2nd Salvation, let him be contented by the wiſe men and Philoſophers of this World ro be loot vron as a too),
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16 Know ye not that * ye are the temple of God ? * « Cor. 16. 15. e The Apoſtle, v. 9. had called the Church of Corintf, and the EPN- 22.
in & diſcourſe concerning the builders, and the foundation and ſy. eb.
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of the Apoſtles argumi'ni from h.nce, wiy they ſhould rat glory in men.
Tit. 8.7. | Pet. 4. God b,
Reafnand Philoſophical Principles, which agree not with the Di-
vine Povelation, that io he may be truly and ſpiritually wiſe ; tru-
I muderftanding, favouring and believing what God hath 1n his
| revealed, and is atone? able to make the man of God wiſe to
10n, tizourhly Firaiſked unto every good work.
'or the wiidom of this world is foolithneſs with
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God acconnreth that folly, which the World calleth wiſdom,
and indeed it is fo (for God cannot err, nor be miſtaken 1n his
ers of the Goſpel, they are but Miniffers, that is, gw...