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Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection…
Remains of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...Remaines of that excellent minister of Jesus Christ, Mr. Joseph Alleine being a collection of sundry directions, sermons, sacrament-speeches, and letters, not heretofore published ...
London: printed for Peter Parker, 1674
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Fourthly, You are the Temples of his presence, when others are the sties of uncleanness, God doth live in you, and walk in you: this is the honour that God doth put upon you. The Apostle tells you, that you are Gods hou•e, Heb. 3. And God says of you his spiritual house, as he did of the Typical house, (for the sense belongs more to the thing typified, then to the house,) 1 Kings 9. 3. God says of every believer as of that house, I have hallowed this house to put my name there for ever. And mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually. Thus doth God for th•e believer, that art his house. Or as it is in, 2 Kings 21. 7. In this house and in Jerusalem which I have chosen out of all the Tribes of Israel will I put my name for ever. That was but a typical Temple, you are the real Temples of the holy Ghost, 1 Cor. 6. 19. What, know you not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? every believer, is a real Temple wherein God is especially present, so 1 Cor. 3. 16. Know you not that you are the Temple of God? and that the spirit of God dwelleth in you? Brethren, if you indeed believe, methinks this privilege should be matter of unspeakable Joy to you. What! art thou of no meaner use then this to be a habitation of God through the spirit? What! art thou a Temple for God to dwell in? will God make of this Soul a Temple, where all ⟨p. 159⟩manner of lusts have dwelt? and say of thy soul, here will I dwell for ever, this is my rest for I have desired it? Oh, adore the riches of Gods condescending grace! others are the vessels of uncleanness, the coffins of rottenness, in whom Satan hath set up his throne, 'tis true of every wicked man, what God says of Coniah, Jer. 22. 28. He is a vessel wherein is no pleasure, He is a vessel of the most noisome filthiness in the world.