e :ind and Soul,the body, and commonly ſome particularmem- ber of the body, is but the ſervant of the ſoul. in the execution and committing of them. Luſt, though indeed ir ariſeth from rhe heart, yer it is committed more in the body, than any other fin 1s.
19 What, * know ye not that your body is the tem- ple of the holy Ghoſt which s in you #, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own ? - |
r The Apoſtle. Chap. 3. 16. had called the Chuch of Corinth, the 7:1ple of God, and there made uſe of it, to difuade them from iffentionsand divifions,becauſe by them they defiled and deſtroyed rhe Temple of God ; here he calls the Members of that Church, the Temple of the Ho'y Ghoſt, which ſtrongly proveth the Holy Ghoſt to be God. He makes uſe of it here 25 an Argumeat to diſuade them from the fin of fernication. God's Temple was builded for his habitation upon Earth, the place which he choſe molt to manifeſt himſclf in to his people, and for a place wherein his peo- Die were to pay him that external Homage and Worſhip, which ke required of them under the Law, Soasthe Apoſtlecalling them | the Temple of the Holy Ghoſt, both minded chem of the favour God had: beſtowed on them, and alſo of thar homage and dury, which they with their bodies were to pay unto God: the latter they could nor perform, nor hope for the former , while they lived in the proQice of a linſo contrary to the Willof God. w Beſides, he mindeth them, rhat their bodies were nor their own, they had them of God: they had them from God by Creation,and they were upheld by the daily working of his Providence in their upholding and pretervation; God hark not given them their bodies for this uſe, the body was not fer fornication 8s he had rold them, wv. 13. So as in abulivg their bodies, they abuſed what was not their own, nor in their own power to uſe, as they liſted to uſe rhem ; bur to be uied only for thoſe ends, and in that manner, that he who had given them, had preſcribed and direQed, and in theſe abuſes there was a kind of Sacriledge. As God of old charged the Jews, Exch. 16.17, 18, 19, 20. thatthey had taken the Jewels of his go/d and bis filver, to make Tmages, and commir ſpiritual Whoredom
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T7 Rg-b7 - BS, mine that in this caſe, it wasevery man's duty to marry, ar, very woman's likewiſe; the reaſon of which mug þ« bec God had ordained martiage as a means to bridle men __ : ſtrain them from extravagant luſts. [Hz:s own wife] [þ; wg Land] a clear place againſt Polygamy.
3 * Let the husband render unto the wiſe dye be. s nevolence 4 : and likewiſe alſo the wife unto PA.
husband e. 4 The word tranſlated due benevolence, ſignifieth, due gud wi} kinaneſs, but from wv. 5. it appeareth what the Apoſtle meaneth. Moſes, Exod. 21. 10. calleth it the duty of marriage, both of them uling a modeſt term in exprefling the conjugal a&, as we that obſerve the ſcripture always doing, when there is occaſion to me tion what men of prophane hearts are ready to make a ſcof - 2 The Apoſtle makerh chis the mutual Juty both of hugband and wife under due circumſtances, therefore uſerh the. worg render which implieth the thing required to be an a& of juſtice,
4 The wite hath not power of her own body, by the husband ; likewiſe alſo the husband hath not power
over his own body, but the wite f.
f He gives the reaſon of it, becauſe marriage takes away from each married perſon the power over his or her own body, and giveth irtto their correlate. The Apoſtle ſeemeth hereto anſwer a queſtion propounded to him by jſome Members of this Churc),. Wherher, though they were married, the husband and wifemight nor forbear each other's bed, and make uſe of their ſociety exch with other meerly for helps in other things, ſuch as gerting 47 Eſtate, looking after the affairs of a Family, &c. which the Apoſtle doth by no means judge adviſable,
5 * Defrand not one another g, except it be wit ., conſent + for a time, that ye may give your ſelves {7 taſting and prayer 7, and come together again k, th, Satan tempt you not for your incontinency /.
£ That is, withold not your ſelves one from another, which he
P own uf.
with them, and they had raken his at, his fine flour, his oy, and inccnſe to [et before them, GCC. 4 p
20 * For ye are bought with a price : therefore
'orifie God in your body, and in your ſpirit, which
are God's y.
x What price this 1s thats here mentioned, Peter tells us both Negatively and Poſitively, 1 Pet. 1. 18, 19. Foraſmuch as ye know that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, as filver and gold, from your vain converſation received by tradition from your fathers : But with the frecious blocd of Chriſt, as of a lamb, without blemiſh and r:chout ſpot. So he argueth with them againſt this ſin from their Redemption, it being ſuitable ro reaſon, that thoſe who are redeem. <d our of any flavery or captivity, ſhould bethe ſervantsof him who redeemerth them, not of thoſe Tyrants from whom they are redeerned ; fuch are our Juſts andcorruptions, from which we are | redeemed,as well as ſrom that curſe and wrath, which is the con. ſequent of them. 7 Therefore (ſaith the Apoſtle) you who are redeemed with a price, and with ſuch a price are bound ro gle. »ife God as by ſpeaking well of his Name, ſo by obeying his Will, Mat. 5. 16. And this you are bound to do, not with your bodies or ſpirits only, but in or with your bodies and ſpirits alſo, that is, with your whole man ; for both of them are God's, by a mani- 40/d right, not that of Creation and Providence only, bur that of Redemption alſo: with which exhortation the Apoſtle finiſherh this diſcourſe, and cometh to give them an anſwer to ſome queſti- ons about which they had wrote unto him. .