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The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls…
The Lords property in His redeemed people. Opened in a sermon at St. Pauls Church, London, Octob. 28. / By Edward Reynolds, D.D. and chaplain in ordinary to the Kings Majesty. Printed by the order of the Lord Mayor and court of aldermen.
London: printed by T.R. for George Thomason, 1660
Title page typeset from the transcription.
AT PAULS-CHURCH, Octob. 28. 1660.AT PAƲLS-CHƲRCH, Octob. 28. 1660.
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.
AT PAULS-CHURCH, Octob. 28. 1660.
AT PAƲLS-CHƲRCH, Octob. 28. 1660.
1 COR. 6. 19, 20. —Ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods.
1 COR. 6. 19, 20. —Ye are not your own. For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorifie God in your body, and in your spirit, which are Gods.
Such is the desperate corruption of mans heart, that those very blessings of God which should oblige unto his service, do usually alienate and estrange the same from ⟨p. 2⟩Him, so that the very Table of wicked men is a snare, and the things which are for their good, do become unto them an occasion of falling, Psalm 69. 22. They no sooner wax fat, but they kick, Deut. 32. 15. Their wealth becomes the fuel of their lust, and their prosperity, the mother of their luxury and intemperance. When they are filled with their pastures, they forget God H•s. 13. 6. When the Lord feeds them to the full, they commit adultery, and assemble themselves by troops in the harlots houses, Jer. 5. 7. Thus it fared with the people to whom our Apostle writes in this Epistle. Corinth was a rich City in Peloponnesus, between the Ionian and the Aegean sea, the Head of Achaia, one of the principal Emporia, or Mart Towns of Greece, celebrated by