ke uſe of humane or even the Law he word here ultt cher an impit diminution fron 2w with brethret by circurſtanc » ſo as mensgoui 1igion; the credl ro us than any | Jlace. 2 When " It is againſt t to recover to Wl nnot do It Witldl £ revenge. It Þ *whar very few'd cupt Nature- qi Riansto take a it red of their 118" » credit of the 6 et. Andt0
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I CORINTHIA4ANG "chat 35, thoſe who ſo live and die, ſhall not inherit. If we take
m Unrighteous here to be a generical term, the Species or _— che principal - 0m of which are afrerwards enumerated, |to fin againſt God any way. Pl
me with notoriouſly wicked men. But if we take 1t tO ſignifie perſons guilty of afts of injuſtice towards
even of Jawful things, as to be brought under the power of them which men are, when they become potent temprations to them,
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ane be ore ds HE but God ſhall deſtroy both it and them 3. Now thebo- or others, 1t ca re underſtood as a . ——_ = |
ow ger to-all whoſe Species of Sinners after enumerated ; ” ck _ b = + bur for the Lord k, and the or f [dolater5 cannot properly be called Unrighteous, but Ungod- Ora ior t - 0 Yor : ;
4 Men. p BY nor deceived ( faith the Apoſtle) either by any falſe # The beginning of this verſe ſeemeth to give a great lighrto Sachers, or by the many il examplesof fuch ſinners that you our true underſtanding of the former verſe, and maketh if very
daily bave, nor by Magiſtrates connivence at theſe ſins. q Neither probable, that the Apoſtle ſpake with reference to the free uſe © fach as being ſingle perſons commit uncleanneſs with others (for Thos and drinks, when he faid, - A!! 2ings are lawful for me. here the Apoſtle diſtinguiſherh theſe ſinners from Adulterers, whom ough God hath ordained mears forthe filling of the belly, an ke mencioneth afrerward.) » Nor ſuch as either worſhip.the Crea-
ath made the belly for the receiving, and meats for rhenouriſh.
eure inſtead of God, or worſhip the true God before Images. | P<nt of rhe body, ſoas the uſe of meats anddrinks is lawful; yet
;Nor fuch as being married perſons break their Marriage-cove-
when we ſee that the free uſe of them proverh inexpedient, as
ar, and commir uncleanneſs with ſuch as are not their yoke-fel- | 20 much pampering the body, and d iſpoſing it to wantonneſs, ſo
ot ; Nor perſons that give up themſelves to laſciviouſneſs, far as they do fo, they are to be avoided. : Others make the con.
eurde Tec continually in luſt. « Nor ſuch as areguilty of the ſin of — thus, all your conteſtsare but for thingswhich concera ths D
Seder, a fin nor to be named amongſt Chriſtians or men.
elly, for mears and drinks, for periſhing things : now in things
;0 Nor thieves 2, nor covetous x, nor drunkards y, of this nature, all things that are Jawful are not expedient, O-
nor revilers 2, nor extortiogers 4, ſhall inherit the
kingdom of God.
thers ſay, That the Apoſtle here anſwereth or obviateth-whar the N:colaitans or the Epicureans held, Thar all ſorts of meats and drinks
[were lawful, yea, fornication it ſelf. The Apoſtle grants the firſt,
» Nor ſuch as take away the goods of their Neighbours clan- | bur denieth the ſecond, there being not a ey of reaſon for the dſtinely, or by violence, without their conſent or any juſt au- | lawfulneſs of meats, and drinks, arid of fornication. # He tells chority. x Nor perſons who diſcover themſelves exceflively to X |
Jove money, by their endeavours to get it into their hands any | the fomach and belly, for way, by oppreſſion, cheating, or defrauding others. »y Nor per-
them, God had ordained meatsfor the belly of man, and had created
the reception of mears for the nouriſh-
ment of man's body, and the preſervation of his life; yer th f6ns that make drinking their buſineſs, and uſe it exceſſively, Ys AE te; yet tney
without regard to the Law and Rules of Temperance and Sobrie-
ought to uſe them lawfully, and to conlider expedience in th2 ui
: : orie- | of them, and nor too eagerly to contend for them, for God ſhill ty. z Nor perſons that uſe their rongues intemperately, railing] deſtroy both the belly, and the uſe of mears as to the belly. In rhe 2; others, and reviling them with reproachful and opprobrious| Reſurre&ion,as men ſhall not marry, nor givein matriage, ſothey names. « Nor any ſuch as by violence wring our of peoples hands| ſhall hunger and thirſt no more. & But God had nor created the what is cot their due, None of theſe not repenting of theſe ſin. body of a man for fornication, but for himſelf, thar men by, and al courſes, and turning from them into a contrary courſe of lite,
ſhall ever come in Heaven.
with it, might glorifie his Name, by doing his Will. / And the
Lord is for the body, as the head of it, toguide and dire& the \ 11 And ſuch were * ſome of you 5: but ye are
' waſhed, but ye are ſanRified.c, but ye are * juſtified in -the Name of the Lord Jeſus, and by the Spirit of our
" God d.
þIn the two Iaſt verſes the Apoſtle had pronounced: a terrible th eſpecially to the Corin:hians, who having been heathens from whoſe ReſurreQion the Apoſtle, C lately, had wallowed in a grear deal of this guil:; he therefore!
uſe of the ſeveral members of it ; and as the Savioar of it, to raiſe it upatthe laſt day, ashe further declarerh in the next words.
wil allo raiſe us up by his own power ».
” Almighty Power. here, that chey might be humbled ; and havelow thoughts of them. ; . fees, and hoy puffed up (as he had before charged chem) mind-|, 15 how ye not that * your bodies are the mem- Chap,
«h them, that ſome of them had been guilty of ſome of theſe
-» The Lord Jeſus Chriſt as the firſt-fruits of thoſe thar ſleep, }
Fs 5 hap. 15. largely proverh * Cot. 4. our reſurrefion, = that God will raiſe up his Saints by his own 14
bers of Chriſt o? Shall I then take the members of g*, "7:
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13 * Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats þ -* Mat. 15;
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Col. 2, 22,
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14 And* God hath both raiſed up the Lord », and * Rom. 6.
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ecormous ſins, ſome of them of one, or ſome of them, and others| Chriſt, and make them the members of an harlor p ? __ 4 of othec of them. c But that they might not deſpair in their | Ggq forbid. She refleions upon that guilr, he tells them, 7hey were waſhed, not . & 5.
only wich the Baptiſm of water, but with the Baptiſm of the blood o Chriſt is united to the perſon of the Believer, and he is