1 Corinthians 6

In this sense Christ is a Redeemer, [〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉], he has paid a price. Never such a price paid to ransom prisoners (1 Corinthians 6:20): You are, Pretio Empti, bought with a price; and this price was his own blood. So in the Text, By his own blood he entered in on…

Faith throws itself into Christ's arms; it says, Christ is my Priest, his blood is my sacrifice, his divine nature is my altar, and here I rest. This faith is seen by the effects of it, a refining work and a resigning work; it purifies the heart, there is the refining work; it m…

What worthiness in the Corinthians, when God began to call them by his gospel? They were fornicators, effeminate, idolaters (1 Corinthians 6:11). Such were some of you, but you are washed, etc.

Spiritual worship is the virgin-worship. Though God will have the service of our bodies, our eyes and hands lifted up, to testify to others that reverence we have of God's glory and majesty, yet chiefly he will have the worship of the soul (1 Corinthians 6:20): Glorify God in yo…

Question. How shall I get a part in this unchangeable God? Response. By having a change wrought in you (1 Corinthians 6:11): "But you are washed, but you are sanctified." When we are changed, A tenebris ad lucem, so changed as if another soul did live in the same body, by this c…

2. The glory which is ascribed to God, or which his creatures labor to bring to him (1 Chronicles 16:29): Give to the Lord the glory due to his name. And (1 Corinthians 6:20): Glorify God in your body, and in your spirit. The glory we give God is nothing else but our lifting up…

Let Christ's golden maxim be observed (Matthew 7:12): What you would have men do to you, do you even so to them. You would not have them wrong you, neither do you them; rather suffer wrong than do wrong (1 Corinthians 6:7). Why do you not rather take wrong?

God the Son is said to justify (Acts 13:39). By him all that believe are justified. God the Holy Ghost is said to justify (1 Corinthians 6:11). But you are justified by the spirit of our God. God the Father justifies as he pronounces us righteous; God the Son justifies as he imp…

Nothing will hold out but grace; it is only this anointing that abides; paint will fall off. Get a heart-changing-work (1 Corinthians 6:11). But you are washed, but you are sanctified.

Jude 14: Behold the Lord comes with ten thousands of his saints to execute judgment upon all. 1 Corinthians 6:2: Do you not know that the saints shall judge the world? The saints shall sit with Christ in judicature, as justices of peace with the Judge; they shall applaud Christ'…

Keep your bodies pure: keep your eyes from unchaste glances; your hands from bribes; your tongues from slander: defile not your bodies which you hope shall rise one day to glory. Your bodies are the members of Christ; and hear what the Apostle says (1 Corinthians 6:15). Shall I…

Revelation 18:4: Come out of her my people, that you not be partakers of her sins, and that you do not receive of her plagues. Idolatry lived in cuts men off from heaven (1 Corinthians 6:9). So then it is no small mercy to be delivered out of idolatrous places.

(Joel 1:5): Howl, you drinkers of wine! Drunkenness excludes a person from heaven (1 Corinthians 6:10): Drunkards shall not inherit the kingdom of God: a man cannot go to heaven reeling. King Solomon makes an oration full of invectives against this sin (Proverbs 23:29): Who has…

They sit on a better throne: King Solomon (1 Kings 10:18) sat on a throne of ivory overlaid with gold; but the saints are in heaven higher advanced; they sit with Christ upon his throne (Revelation 3:21). They shall judge the princes and great ones of the earth (1 Corinthians 6:…

We have no call to sin; we may have a temptation, but no call; no call to be proud, or unclean, but we have a call to be holy. 2. The necessity appears in this, without Sanctification there is no evidencing our Justification; Justification and Sanctification go together (1 Corin…

It is a tearing of God's picture, and breaking in pieces the King of Heaven's broad-seal. Man is the temple of God (1 Corinthians 6:19). Do you not know that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost?

A king's palace must be kept clean, especially his presence-chamber. The body is the temple of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 6:19) — then the soul is the Sanctum Sanctorum; how holy ought that to be? Secondly, you are to dwell with God.

(2.) Injurious to God the Son, two ways. First, as he has purchased you with his blood (1 Corinthians 6:20). You are bought with a price.

Covetous Achan stole the wedge of gold. Therefore thieves and the covetous are put together (1 Corinthians 6:10). 9. Covetousness is a breach of the Ninth Commandment, You shalt not bear false witness.

The Holy Ghost works miracles, which transcend the sphere of nature; as raising the dead (Romans 8:11). To him belongs [illegible], divine worship; our souls and bodies are the temples of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 6:19), in which temples he is to be worshipped (verse 20). We…

Thus justification and sanctification are not the same; yet, for all that, they are not separated. God never pardons and justifies a sinner, but he does sanctify him (1 Corinthians 6:11): "but you are justified, but you are sanctified." (1 John 5:6): "This is he that came by wat…

Adam was created a glorious creature but mutable, a bright star but a falling star, but in the kingdom of heaven is a fixation of happiness: when Christ's kingdom of glory comes you shall be rid of all your enemies: As Moses said (Exodus 14:13), The Egyptians whom you have seen…

2. Moral actions are done out of a vain-glorious humor, not any respect to God's glory. The Apostle calls the heathen magistrates unjust (1 Corinthians 6:1). While they were doing justice in their civil courts they were unjust; their virtue became vice, because faith was wanting…

1. That he offered himself a sacrifice to God, to make atonement for our sins, and that in his death and sufferings (Isaiah 53:10): "When you shall make his soul an offering for sin" (John 1:29): "Behold the Lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world" (Ephesians 5:2): "Chr…

He has no consideration of the person in this case, nor is it enquired about him, whether he have been a greater or lesser sinner, whether he has lived a longer or a shorter time in a state of alienation from the life of Christ; but this righteousness is as readily and willingly…

For his Temple, is now to be built of living stones (1 Peter 2:5), men spiritually and savingly quickened from their death in sin and by the Holy Ghost, whereof they are partakers, made a meet habitation for God (Ephesians 2:21, 22; 1 Corinthians 3:16; 2 Corinthians 6:16), which…

(2) In judging with the Elders according to rule, what in all cases of offence is necessary to be done, for the good of the offenders themselves, and for the edification and vindication of the whole Church. (3) In their consent to, and concurrence in the admonition, ejection, pa…

Now whereas he is the head and King of the Church, the next immediate and special law-giver of it appointing to it all his ordinances, and its whole worship, as it becomes him who is Lord of the house, the institutions of the Gospel worship are his most especial commands. And in…

Let us come to the first of these benefits which is our justification; and first tell me what is the meaning of the word to justify? It does not signify to make an unjust man just by changing his qualities; for then it were all one with sanctification from which it is distinct (…

Q. How else do they differ? A. Justification makes no real change in the soul, as when the judge acquits a man, but makes him never a whit the more honest than before; but Sanctification makes a great change in the soul from sin and corruption to purity and holiness (Romans 6:17…

This circumstance is worth the marking: for, good Jacob, by reason of the weakness of his body and old age, was not able to come forth of his bed, and kneel down or prostrate himself; but raises himself up upon his pillow towards his bed's head: and by reason of feebleness being…

For, Noah being told of a miraculous thing, and believing it, and being commanded so unreasonable a thing, as the making of the Ark, and obeying, shall condemn that wicked world, who would not believe God's ordinary promises; nor obey his ordinary and most holy commandments. And…

How could she believe, being a harlot in former times? for it is said, That neither fornicators, nor adulterers, shall inherit the Kingdom of heaven, 1 Corinthians 6.9. Answer.

I beseech you brethren upon the mercifulness of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, and acceptable to God, which is your reasonable service. You are bought with a price; glorify God therefore in body and spirit, which are God's (1 Corinthians 6:20). Third…

So the Redemption that is by Christ, is everywhere said to be a price, a Ransom. See (Matthew 20:28; Mark 10:45; 1 Corinthians 6:20; 1 Timothy 2:6; 1 Peter 1:18, 19). It is the deliverance of persons out of a state of captivity and bondage, by the payment of a valuable price or…

But (1) it is required that this property of repentance be prevalent against the common sins of the world, men's old sins which they lived in before their conversion. Those sins which are expressly declared in the Gospel to be inconsistent with the profession, ends and glory of…

1. He undertook as the Surety of the Covenant to answer for all the sins of those who are to be, and are made partakers of the benefits of it. That is, to undergo the punishment due to their sins; to make atonement for them, by offering himself a propitiatory sacrifice for their…

(2.) Because the body is the instrument of the perpetration of them; hence are they called deeds of the body; the members of the body; our earthly members (Romans 3:13, 14, 15, 16; chap. 8:13; and 12:19; Colossians 3:3, 4, 5). (3.) Because the body is defiled by them, some of th…

1. These few sermons will be so many witnesses against you that have heard them; they will rise up in judgment against you. He that uttered them, and all they also that profited by them, shall appear in judgment against you; and perhaps these and those whom you now despise, shal…

The dealing of the world in this case is no example for us to follow. For through rage and stomach men will abide no private agreement, and therefore they use the law in the first place, as the Corinthians did: but what says Paul (1 Corinthians 6:7), it is utterly a fault among…

But such are all habitual sinners; those who having prevalent habits and inclinations to sins of any kind unmortified, do walk according to them. Such are profane swearers, drunkards, fornicators, covetous, oppressors, and the like, who shall not inherit the kingdom of God (1 Co…

Your tongues are not your own to speak what you please, nor your hearts your own to think what you please, nor your hands your own to do what you please; by virtue of your Creation you are another's, and are bound to live and act for another, according to his Will, for his Glory…

These are three sad sights indeed, and oh that my head were waters and my eyes fountains of tears, that I might weep abundantly over them all! For the first I would mourn heartily, considering that they (so continuing) must be damned eternally (2 Thessalonians 1:8-9; 1 Corinthia…

All that are truly good will not only make conscience of serving God, but will also provide things honest in the sight of men (Romans 12:17). So (1 Corinthians 6:9) Know you not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the Kingdom of God; that is, are you so ignorant of the princi…

1. The meritorious procuring cause of this liberty, is the death and blood of Jesus Christ. So is it declared (1 Peter 1:18, 19; 1 Corinthians 6:20; chapter 7:23). Nothing else could purchase this freedom.

But to be changed (Romans 12:2), and renewed (Ephesians 4:23), and put off the old man, and put on the new (Ephesians 4), yes to grow in grace and holiness (2 Peter 3:18), and be stronger and stronger (Job 17:9), that our good works may be more at the last, than at the first (Re…

Hence he argues against Bellarmine, that so it ought to be in the Christian Church also, because the privilege of Christians is no less than the privilege of the Jews. Camero tells us, that when the Apostle (1 Corinthians 6) reproves the Corinthians, for that when one of [illegi…

We desire not to affright you with false fears, but to admonish you, that you be not deceived. I find this sentence, Be not deceived, prefixed before many places of Scripture, where God's judgments are denounced, as 1 Corinthians 6:9: Be not deceived, neither fornicators, idolat…

The dealing of the world in this case, is no example for us to follow. For through rage and stomach they will abide no private agreement: and therefore, they use the law in the first place, so did the Corinthians, but what says Paul (1 Corinthians 6:7)? It is utterly a fault amo…

If we were clear that our share was there, and that our iniquities came in among the rest to make up the libel, and if we could aright discern him so [reconstructed: pinched] and straitened in satisfying for us, would we not think ourselves eternally obliged to him, to hate sin,…