What wilt thou be a slave to the Devil now? Thou hearest how
God hath dignified the nature of man into so neer a union with
himself, Oh doth not this mysterie of the Gospel call to all the
children of men? Oh all you children of men! Behold what
God hath done for man kind! surely the thoughts of God for
man-kind are great and glorious, there be higher things you
may attain unto, and will you yet perish, and chuse your por∣tion
here in this world, and be groveling on the ground, as if
there were no higher thoughts that God had for your good,
than meerly to live as brute beasts, to eat and drink, and then
rise up to play? Oh if God hath advanced mans nature so, do
not despise it in the meanest of the children of men, the lowest
servant, or poorest boy that lies begging at your door for a piece
of bread, (for it is of the same kind that is united in a personal
union with the second Person in Trinity, of the same nature
which this poor boy that lies begging at your door for broken
bread and meat) therefore honor humane nature in every one,
and do not vilifie it in thy self; those men that live under the
Gospel and vilifie humane nature, they put a dishonour upon
Jesus Christ. And even reverence thy self in private when thou
art alone, (I say) reverence thy self, do not abuse thy body,
it is the Temple of the holy Ghost. Oh remember this all you
that are professors of Religion, that these bodies of yours, this
flesh of yours (if you be godly and walk answerable to your
profession) I say this flesh of yours it is the very Temple of the
holy Ghost, do not abuse it; it's the Apostles argument, There∣fore
fly fornication, and be not joyned to whores; for your bodies are the
temples of the holy Ghost: Oh it makes the sin of uncleanness to one
that professes the Gospel of Christ a cursed sin, the sin of unclea∣ness
in a professor of the Gospel, it's a thousand thousand times
more abominable than the sin of uncleanness in another: why?
Because they know how God hath advanced humane nature in∣to
a personal union with himself, and how their bodies are the
Temples of the holy Ghost. What shal I make the Temple of God
a y for the unclean spirit, a cage of unclean birds? God for∣bid.
There hath been a great deal of do about stony Churches
and Temples, and you should have a great many base whore∣masters
plead for the Whore of Rome (the Mistris of all fornica∣tions)
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