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I Have considered the wonderfull price of mans purchase, and the reason of our being Gods owne peculiar body in this price given, thus Christ having given himselfe for the life of the world, and being gloryfied from the sufferings in mortality, hath obtained to give his holy spi∣rit to those which follow him in the new birth, Ioh. 14.16—26. with Act. 2.33.
All therefore that deny themselves in their sinnes, and bring their bodies subject to God, so as he accepts of their body for a Temple, by the gift of his Holy Spirit; these are now bought with this price of the holy Spirit which is of God: Therefore seeing the spirit which is in the body, is one with God in Christ, it is manifest, that not so much as the body is any mans owne, but it is Christs which liveth in it, 1 Cor 6.19.20 17. with Gal. 2.20.
And thus every man that in the Baptisme of Christ, hath received the earnest of his Spirit, as 2 Cor. 1.22. & 5.5. Ephes. 1.14. Is bought with the precious blood of Christ, in that by the death of his flesh, he imparted the Word of the living God, which remaineth for ever, according to the Worke of God in the resurrection of Je∣sus, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 1 Pet. 1.18. to 25. So as now he must give his body, which is thus bought from the earth, and from earthly men, to follow the holy Spirit of Christ, whithersoever it shall guide his body till death. Ioh. 16.13.—with Revel. 14.3.4.