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6^b Ye are bought with a price, therefore glorify God in your body and spirit, for they •re Gods. By this token keep thy body intemerate, saith Christ; I shed my blood […] redeem it. What I have been at such cost to cleanse; do not thou carelessly •efile. No gold or jewels could ransom our bodies, but the blood of Christ: let […] value them according to the price, and we shall not do amiss. Do not for a •oments delight, make frustrate an eternal purchase. Most enormities of life proceed from an error in the understanding; We may do what we list with our own. We may speak what we list; why?^c our tongues are our own. We may spend •hat we list why? our riches are our own.^d Shall I take My bread and My meat, •ith churlish Nabal? He is deceived, for even of life it self man is not Dominus, ••d custos, saith Law and Case-divinity.^e The Lord is the possessor of heaven and ••rth, man but the Farmer. Our bodies are our own, therefore do with them •hat we please? It is false, they are none of ours: but in a true propriety, The Lords. We have but a right of favour from the true Proprietary, and that liable to an account. He lends them us for our use, but his own service. Therefore answer all temptation to lust; This body is not mine own, but His that made it, and bought it:⁵ I •are not alienate it from the owner, and remove the marks he hath set unto it. My •ody is Thine, Lord keep it, and save it for ever.