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BRO Of the Resurrection. - — Serm.io.
Indeed, fo greata Sigz, ashe, that was in hell-fire, could not devife, nor did not defire a greater. If but
Lube 16.30. Lazarus, if but oxe come from the dead: then, then regard him : that fign, outof queftion,.. Why, here
: * is one conse from the dead, and this day come, and a greater then Lazarus: 1 truft then, we Willregard
him, we will regard this fign, and not be worfe then he iv hell was, - Let us thea regard fr
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_- The Dinifoa. _~ The ground of the ign (andof all here) is Tewplum hoc, About it, two main Als, they fhev forth
' : themfelves: The razing of it down, in Solvite ; The raifing of it up, in Excitabo,~Thefein figure, - An-
{werable to thefe, This Temple, is Chriff’s body, The razing it down, -is Chrift crucified and flain, The
“raifing it up, is Chriff reftoredto life, ee: wee
Af OF which two. (to divide itby the Perfons ) Solvite is their part: Excitabo, His, That, his Paffien
by their aff € Solzite : ) This, his Refurreé#iou, by his own, (Excitabo,). ~~ ot
~ Now, this (he faith ) fhall be done: And faith further, fhall not belong indoing: No longer, then |
three days, Andwithin the compafs of the time limited, he didit: For, this is now the third day; and “y
today, by Sua-rifing, itwasdoue. + ~ : . a te
lL. So upon the matter, there come to be handled thefe four points, (1, That Chrifts body is Tewspluns |
— TL TIL hoe. 2: The diffolution of itby death, in Solvite, 3. The rearing it up again by his refurrettionin Ex 4
~ LV... citabs. “4, Thetimeto doitin, three days, ee . a
: ~ By which circumftance of three days, and this day the third of them, cometh this time, to claim a kind {
of property in this paffage of Scripture. And that, two wayes. oe : i
» For firft : at this Fea/P, were thefe words here {poker :. (.you may fee, they were fo, at the thirteenth !
verfe before: atthe Feaff of after.) .
- ' And fecondly : at this Fea/? again, were they fulfilled after the So/zize, three days ince; the Exci- i
. eitabo, this very day, So, at this Feaft, the promife, and at the very fame, the accomplif-ment of it. The
accomplif-ment, once’; the memorial, ever. — Coe eg . . i
. . _ Being then, acthis very time, thus fpoken and dohe: Spoken, here now ; done, three years after: Be- '
"ing (Ifay) f{pokei, and done, and at this time fpoken and done ;; Never fo fit as now,
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lL. Olvite Templum hoc, Templumboc, we begin with... It is a borrowed term,’ But we cannot mifs \
Thetwo fenfes C the fenfe of it, For, both are fet down here to our hand: the wrong fexfe, and theright, The ;
_of Templan bec WD wrong (thenext Verfe of all ) for the rsaterial Temple, So the Pharifzes took it, and mif-took it. : :
_ Merle 2057 - The right, (the next Verfe after) for the Temple of his body. So they fhould have taken it, For
- _ Weert, fo he meant it: Ipfe autem dicebat; &c:- Bet he fpake of the Temple of his Body. And he knew his own
: : meaning belt ; and reafon would, fhould be his own Interpreter, eee
. And this meaniig of his, it had been no hard matter for them to have hiton: but they came buta dird-
tg, but to catch from bim fome advantage, and fo were willing to mif-take him. As, this they caught as
> * Marh36.61, amadvantage (we fee)’ and laid it up for arainy day, and three years after, out they came with it, and fra-
~ Mer.t4.g8..° med an Inditement upon it, as if he had meant'to have deftroyed their Temple,
The Pharifes , Butwasit likely, or couldit once be imagined, he meant to de/froy it? twas Gods houfe, and the zeal
ferfe coald nce 9 Gods houfe ( buteven a Verfe before ) coafumed hira : And doth his zeal how (like the zeal of our
be true. times ) confume Gods houfe 2 What, and that fo quickly ?, buta Verfe between ?. But even very now, he
Verle 18. - parged it’: And did he purge it to have it pulled down ? That were prepofterous, Now it was purged, pull
st down? Nay pull it down, when it was polluted: Now itis cleanfed, let it Rand, To reform Churches,
‘and then feek to diffalve them, will be counted among the errours of our Age. Chri/? was far from it, “He
_ that would not fee it abiifed,: would never endure.to heve it, deffroyed ; -fpecially, not, when ‘he
. had reformed the abufes : and yet-more’ {pecially . not even ,prefently, upon it (they might be
fure,) * : : ede ht set we, .
‘ But, that, which muft néedslead them tothe right meaning, was; that, thefe words ( Temsplum hoc’)
he could not fay them, but, by the manner of his uttering them, by his'very. gefture, at the delivery of
this particle “(hoc,)) ‘they mutt needs know what Tersp/e it was, heintended, - It was eafieto mark,’ whe-
ther he carried his hand, or caft his eye upto the fabrick of it; or whether he bare them, to his body ?
~ Which one thing onely, was enough to have refolved them of this point, and to quit our Saviour of equi-
: vocation. ° : a ere alpen yg
dhe true ferfe, - \We'will then wave theirs, as the wrong meaning ; ‘and takeit, (ashe witheth, who Lact on his breft,
?P+13-23- and belt kneww his mind ) of the Temple of hisbody. 0 a ts
lu But what refemblance is there, between 4 Body and a Temple? or how cana Body be fotermed? Well.
A Body,aTem- enough: for Lask, why is it a Temple ?. what makes itfo? Isit not, becaufe it is Domus Pasris mei, (as
fle. he faid a little before) becaufe God divelleth there 2 For, as that, wherein man diwvels,. is a-houfe : Soy
that, wherein God, is a Temple properly, That (-I fay.) wherein; be it place, or.be.itbody. So
come we tohave two forts of. Temples; Temples of fleth. and -bore, ,as well as Temples of lime and
: . flowe, For, if our bodies be termed houfes, becaufe our fouls ( tenaxt-wife ). abide and dwell in them ;.
: Jf, becaufe our fouls diel, they be houfes ; if God do fo, they be Temples y why not ?' Why not? why
1Cer.6.t0. . know ye not this," ( faith the oA poftle ) that your very bodies “(if ‘the Spinitof Ged abide in them } co
Verle 16,
. ipfo, ‘Temples they be, ( fuch as they be?) But then they be fo {pecially, when ¢Ctually we imploy them
on in thefetvice of Gad, For, beirigin his Tensple, and there ferving him, then, if ever, they be,Temmpla
Oo res —— "Templo,
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