f Chriſt, and with the Baptiſm of the Holy Ghoſt, born agzin of WWa-
the Head of the Church, which is the myſtical Body; ſo that the
bodies of Believers are in a ſenſe the Members of Chriſt and ter and of the Spirit, John 3. 5. yea, and not only waſb:d, bur rh kd” Bled with new, ſpiritual habits, through the renewing ſhould be. uſed by usas the Members of Chrift, which we ſhould
of the Holy G/oſt. d Having obtained a true righteouſneſs, in which
not rend from him : but p hethat doth commit fornication, rends
: his body from Chriſt, and maketh ic the member of an Harlor - they might ſtand and appear before God, even the Righteouſneſs : RR , of Cnil reckoned unto them for righteouſneſs; j«fti:d through for asthe man and wife are one fleſh by Divine ordination, Gen, 2
the Merits of the Lord Jeſus Chriſt, and ſan#ified through the
24. {0 the Fornicator and the Harlor are one fleſh by an impure
Spirit of Holineſs. So that the waſhing firſt mentioned in this Ir
verſe, ſeemerh to be a generical term, comprehending both 7uſt:. ſation, remiſſion of ſin, and deliverance from the gui!t of it, and alſo Regeneration and San#ification, which is the proper effe& of | ONE fleſh q. the Spirit of Grace, creating in the Soul new habits and difpoſiti- ons, by which iris inabled and inclined, as to die unto lin, fo to live unto God. This the Apoſtle doth nor ſay, of them all, (for it is very probable there were in this Church ſome Hypoccites(but
of ſome of them.
q The Conjunction of the husband and wife mentioned, Ger. 2, 24. and the conjunction of the Fornicator and the Harlor, differ not as to the ſpecies of the act, only as to the morality of it ; the former isan honeſt and lawful act, the other a diſhoneſt and filthy act. So that he that is wickedly joined to an harlot makerh
- . himſelf one fleſh with her wich whom he commicerh that folly
-_ All things are Led — ho © Y = - and Jewdneſs, and he muſt needs by it ſeparare his body from irs wings = v4 | mX rs f : h eyes. Fogo aw of Memberſhip with Chriſt, whoſe Holineſs will admit no.ſuch Union. }. or me, but 1 Will nor DE Drougnt Under tne Power
an
e , he words of this Text are not ſo difficult in themſelves as t is to make out the connexion they have with, and the depen-
ſpirit 7,
| Deut. 16. 20. To him thou ſhalt cleave, He that hath attainedto dence they have upon what went before, and what followeth af-| thar myſtical Union, which is berwixt Chriſt and every one that is ter, Some thinking that they refer unto what the Apoſtle had ſaid | a true Believer, is nor eſſentially, bur ſpiritually and myſtically before about their going to Law before Infidels in the ſeven firſt | one Spiric,- with Chriſt, 1 Cor, 6, 7. He is united by the Spirit to verſes, leſt any ſhould ſay, Is it not then lawful for men to ſue| Chriſt, and isone with him by Faith, whence folows his beingone it Lay for their juſt dues and rights? The Apoſtle anſwers, Ad-| with Chriſt in Love; Chriſt and he have one Will, &$c. and he is Lutit be, yet Chriſtians ought not only to conſider what is ſtri&t-
lawful and juſt, but they ought to conſider circumſtances; for
ruled and governed by Chriſt : therefore you muſt take heed whar
- : TTILERS you do in making your bodies the members of Harlots, which Wiequid non expedit, in quantum nom expedit mon licer, is an old|they cannotbe, and che Members of Chriſt alſo. ad good Rule; An ation that is in it ſelf lawful, may be by
ccumſtances made ſinful and unlawful ; and that was the caſe as
18 Flee fornication : Every fin that a man doth,
v the Chriſtians going to law before Infidels. Bur others, and | without the body To but he that committeth fornt- thoſe the moſt, think that the Apoſtle here begins a new head of |Cation, ſinneth againſt his own body 7. os
courſe to diſſuade from the ſin of fornication, and from an in-| 5 The Apoſtle cometh to a new Argument, by which he pref. temperate uſe of 2eat and drink, as being provocativeof luſt, and |ſeth them to flee the ſinof Uncleanneſs. Ir is obſerved by ſome, dipolng them to that fin. Now leaſt they ſhould ſay, Is ir not [that this fin is peculiarly to be dealt with,not ſo much by reſiſting Wful then to eat and to drink liberally, muſt weeat and drjnk |it, and pondering arguments againſt it, as by flying from it, a- vt bare neceſſity ? He anſwereth, All things are lawful for me, voiding all occaſions of it, and not ſuffering our thoughts to feed
ut is, all things which are not forbidden by the Law of God
upon it ; but the Apoſtles Argument is,becauſe other ſins are with-
My beuſed, may be done. under fair circumſtances; but circum. | ow# the body, that is, the body hath not ſach a blcmifr and note or
ances may alter the caſe, all things may nor be expedient to be
mark of infamy laid upon it by any other fin as by this: indrunk.
nn, or done by all perſons, or at alltimes. The Corinthians might enneſs the /:quo?, in gluttony the near ; in other ſins, fomerhing
y conclude too much from what he had told them, that they
without a man's ſelf is that which is abuſed, bur the body is ſelf
"re voſhcd, juſtified and ſan#ifird, viz. that now all things were | is the thing which is abuſed in this filthy ſin. # So he that is guil-
Ju to them, at leaſt all chings not fimply and abſolutely con-}ty of it, ſinneth not only againſt his wife, with whom he is one Med in the Word of God ; the Apoſtle correteth their miſtake fleſh, bur againſt his body, which he abuſerh in this vile and finful bf telling them they were to have a regard to exped:ence and, att, and upon which he imprints a mark of infamy and diſgrace, it profit of others, the negle& of which might make things} a blot not to be waſhed out bur with the blood of Chriſt. So as bat were in themſelves lawful, ro becomeunlawful. g Beſides, | though by other ſins men may fin againſt their own bodies, yet by ” - muſt take heed, that they 4d not male ſach an uſe, | no {in fo emiaently as by this fin. Other fins have their fear in
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Eph.'5.31.
17 But he that is joined unto the Lotd, * is one * Job. 17.
21, 22,23.
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