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A49759	Two funeral sermons of the use and happiness of humane bodies Preached on I Corinth. vi. 13. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. With a brief account of the life and death of Mr. G. Lorimer, merchant; upon the occasion of whose death the second sermon was preacht. By Edward Lawrence, M.A. minister of the Gospel.	Lawrence, Edward, 1623-1695.	1690 (1690)	Wing L655; ESTC R216653	22,474	88

TWO Funeral Sermons OF THE Use and Happiness OF HUMANE BODIES Preached on 1 CORINTH vi 13. Now the Body is not for Fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the Body WITH A brief Account of the Life and Death of Mr. G. Lorimer Merchant upon the occasion of whose Death the second Sermon was Preacht By Edward Lawrence M. A. Minister of the Gospel London Printed by J. R. for T. Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside 1690. TO THE READER Reader THou hast many Discourses of the Souls of Men And here I offer thee one Plain and Short Discourse of Mans Body yet also with respect to the Soul It will cost thee but a very little Time to read it and but a very little Money to buy it If it may be of any use to preserve thee from wasting thy Time at the Door of Eternity and from losing thy Soul in a vain Religion and to save thee from a stinging Death and tormenting Eternity I have my end Febr. 17th 1689 90. Thy Servant for Jesus sake Edward Lawrence THE BODY FOR THE LORD 1 COR. 6.13 Now the Body is not for fornication but for the Lord and the Lord for the Body IT is ordinary for Nations and Cities Families and Persons to be in a special manner inclined to some particular sins The Cretians were branded for a Lying People Tit. 1.12 The Cretians are always Lyars And the Jews also to whom St. James writes seem by his Epistle to be much addicted to the Sins of the Tongue and this is exemplified in the Corinthians which were much given to Fornication and therefore we read that in Corinth there was a Temple erected for this Sin One reason of the prevalency of this Sin amongst them was an Opinion of the Gentiles which prevailed in Corinth that Fornication was no sin but a thing indifferent Hereupon the Apostle in this Chapter pleads against this Sin the argument he uses against it is That this sin is against the right use of the Body of Man Now saith he The Body is not for Fornication c. The words shew us the true and proper use of Mans Body And this is express't 1. Negatively the Body is not for Fornication 2. Affirmatively But for the Lord And this is amplified by another proposition which shews why the Body is and ought to be for the Lord viz. The Lord is for the Body By the Lord is here meant the Lord Jesus Christ as appears by his being mentioned with God the Father ver 14. and hath both raised up the Lord. The words chiefly teach us Two Doctrines I. The Body of Man is for the Lord Jesus Christ II. The Lord Jesus Christ is for the Body of Man I. The Body of Man is for the Lord Jesus Christ Method 1. What is meant by the Body of Man 2. What is it for the Body of Man to be for the Lord. 3. The reasons of the Doctrine 4. Use By the Body of Man is meant that visible and essential part of Man which is distinct from the Soul and Spirit this is that part of Man which was at first form'd out of the dust of the ground Gen. 2.7 and at death returns to the Earth when the Spirit returns to God that gave it Eccles 12.7 This is visible may be seen and felt and therefore Christ demonstrates his Body by this Luke 24.39 Behold my hands and my feet handle and see for a Spirit hath not Flesh and Bones as ye see me have 3. This is distinct from the Soul as appears verse the last of this Chapter Glorifie God in your Body and in your Spirit viz. In your Body and Soul Now this Body is for the Lord which implies Four things 1. The Body with all the Members of it in particular are for the Lord. The Eyes Ears Tongus Hands Feet are for the Lord. They have all work to do for the Lord Christ And it s a great piece of Skill to understand what is the main use we are to make of our Senses and of the Members and Limbs of our Bodies What is the chief work these are to be employed in they are to be used for the Lord they are to work for the Lord Christ 2. The Life Health Strength and Activity of all these is for the Lord Rom. 14.8 Whether we live we live unto the Lord If we have better Health and Strength than others it is that in the use thereof we may do more for the Lord than others 3. All things that are for the use and service of the Body are to be used for the Lord that with them you should serve him What Christ appointed his Disciples to say in a special case concerning the Ass and the Colt Mat. 21.3 The Lord bath need of them is true in ordinary cases The Lord hath need or use for them your Money Cattel Corn Goods and Apparel that with them you should serve him your Meat and Drink Preferments and Estates Houses and Lands are for the good of your Bodies but you must eat and drink to the Lord 1 Cor. 10.31 You must honour the Lord with your substance Prov. 3.9 When you buy or sell or build be able to say I get this Money for the Lord I trade in this Shop for the Lord I build these Houses for the Lord. The Lord Jesus shall have all at his service and for his Glory The Heavens Earth Seas c. must praise the Lord by your Mouths 4. All the time of Bodily Service The time wherein we are in the Body is for the Lord. Ps 148.12 13. Both young Men and Maidens old Men and children let them praise the name of the Lord. A young Boy or Girl hath work to do for the Lord. You should make all your Works and Recreations serviceable to the Lord. There is no time but you may find something to do for God 2. What is it for the Body to be for the Lord Account in seven particulars 1. It is for the Lord chiefly This doth not exclude our Natural much less our Spiritual Self Neither doth it exclude our Families Relations or the Publick the Body is for all these in their places but chiefly for the Lord and for all these things in and to the Lord. The Body is for Food and Raiment for to get Money and Wealth c. in their places but the Body with all these must be for the Lord as the last end You may take all the good God hath put in any Creature for your use and service but you must honour and serve God in the use of it And it s most certain that any Creature is best to you and you have most of the Comfort and sweetness of it when you do honour and serve God with it You will eat and drink with as true gladness of Heart as any Man alive when you eat to the Lord and drink to the Lord and you may get and keep riches with as much diligence

c. He hath settled all things present upon us so far as 't is for our good 1 Cor. 3.22 Things present are yours We have the Word of God for the good of our Bodies in this Life and certainly the poorest Saint who hath a right to the promises of God for things present is better provided for and in less danger of Famine then the greatest carnal person in the World for the Ungodly have Riches for the Body Silver Gold Houses and Lands for the Body but a Godly Man hath the Lord of all the World for the Body 2. His Infinite Care and Providence is exercised to fulfil his promises for the Body Mat. 6.32 Your Heavenly Father knoweth you have need of these things i. e. he knoweth so as to supply our need of these things And for this David tells Psal 37.16 A little that a Righteous Man hath is better than the Riches of many Wicked because saith he The Arms of the Wicked shall be broken but the Lord upholdeth the Righteous The Righteous have the Lord with their little when the Wicked have often much but the Lord is not with them but against them So that this Lord who made the World for the good of Mans body doth exercise his glorious Providence for the bodies of his People 2. The Lord Jesus makes the bodies of his People blessed and glorious for ever and this appears 1. By considering what he doth for their bodies in this Life in order to their Eternal Happiness 2. By considering what he doth for their bodies when dead 3. At the day of Judgment Lastly For ever For the First Observe Three things which the Lord doth in this Life for the Salvation of the bodies of his people 1. He unites their Bodies to himself ver 15. Know you not that your Bodies are the Members of Christ VVhat could he have done more for that poor dust of thine than to make it a blessed part of himself to make it a part of his own Mystical Body so that what is done to the very Bodies of his People is done to himself Mat. 25.35 I was Hungry and Sick and Naked and Imprison'd Lord say they when saw we thee so and so Yes saith he these little ones are a part of me I and they are all one and what you did to them you did to me Oh how should we be affected with the Lords being thus for the body so as to make it a part of himself Come and I will shew you the Bride the Lambs Wife Rev. 21.9 How or where shall we see that sight Why wherever you see a true Believer you see the Body of the true Bride and Spouse of Jesus Christ 2. He puts a Presence and Glory on the very Bodies of his people Eccles 8.1 A Mans Wisdom maketh his Face to shine The Image of God shines in the very face of a Godly Man We read Revel 7.3 That the Servants of God must be sealed in their Foreheads which some think is an allusion to Slaves who have their Foreheads marked with the Names of their Masters to whom they did belong So there may be read in the very Faces and Countenances and Foreheads of Gods people the Name of Christ to whom they belong for although Grace is Internal yet the Fruits thereof appear in the outward Man And so Revel 22 4. The Name of the Lamb shall be on their Foreheads If that be spoken of Heaven it s in some measure true here and it s most certain that an upright holy Saint carries such a presence with him that it daunts oftentimes the Wicked and the very sight of them puts Gods Children in mind of their Father and Saviour 3. He honours them by fitting their bodies for his Service and using them therein And indeed it is a great Honour to serve so great and good a Master which made Paul so often Glory in that Title The Servant of Jesus Christ Now when a Man is Sanctified and made a new Creature his whole Soul and Body are thereby set for God for his Honour and Service We are said Ephes 2.10 to be Created in Christ Jesus to good works to be made fit for good Works It 's said of a Godly Man 2 Tim. 2.21 He shall be a Vessel of Honour sanctified and meet for the Masters use and prepared unto every good work Thus you see that by the Grace and Life of Christ a Man is fit for any service or suffering which Duty leads him to and hereby the Saints of God may live as a Company of Incarnate Angels in the World II. Consider what Christ doth for the Body when Dead 1. Their blessed Corps are continued in their Union with Christ Death breaks no Union made by Grace and therefore they are said to sleep in Jesus 1 Thess 4.4 And are called the dead in Christ ver 16. Where you think of or look into the Church-yards What a great Mystery it is that so great a part of the Bride and Spouse of Christ should lie amongst those ghastly Skuls and rotten Dust and that there should be more of his Members and a greater part of his Body dead in the Earth than are serving him here in the World 2. He owns their dead Bodies for his They are Christs own 1 Cor. 15.23 Afterward they that are Christs at his coming Observe the Bodies of Believers from the hour of Death till the coming of Christ are Christ's all the while when they are Children of their Earthly Parents no more Husbands and Wives no more yet Christ's still 3. He loves them as his own and as united to him He loves their very rotten Corps as part of himself as part of his own Spouse and Members he knows them all in the Earth he can distinguish between the cursed Corps of Unbelievers that lie in the Graves under the Curses of the Law and who are bound over to suffer Everlasting Fire and the blessed bodies of his Saints who lie in their Graves in a right to Heaven and Salvation When our dearest Relations die we cry with Abraham Bury my dead out of my sight Bury my dead Husband or dead Wife or dead Child out of my sight and they are all to us as dead Men out of mind as it s said Psal 31.12 Yet they are always in the sight and view of Jesus Christ and when they have rotted in the Earth or been swallowed up in the Seas or burnt in the Fire many Hundred years yet these blessed bodies are precious and lovely in the Eyes of Christ Jesus Christ is always looking on the dust of Abraham Isaac and Jacob of David Paul and Peter and all the Saints which are dead with great Love and Delight III. Consider what Christ will do for the Bodies of his people at the day of Judgment In five particulars 1. He will raise up their bodies to Glory and herein he is said to be for the body ver 14. Following the Text God hath both raised up

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