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…

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.

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…

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…

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,…

And if people have anything, they should not be proud or conceited of it, but mind that what they have, is a fruit of Christ's purchase, and that therefore there is no ground to be proud of it. The 3rd use serves to show what great obligation lies on sinners that get any special…

The effect of this faith follows, when a person is chased and has fled into, and laid hold on Christ; the effect, I say, is, he shall be justified; we may consider this several ways, and for explication's sake I shall shortly put by some of them. 1. Then, according to the exposi…

He is redeemed from his vain conversation (1 Peter 1:18). He is the temple of the Holy Ghost; he is not his own, but bought with a price; and is, being washed in Christ's blood, a king over his lusts, a priest to offer himself to God, a holy, living, and acceptable sacrifice (1…

The saints in Christ's books are jewels (Malachi 3:17) — his only choice, the flower of the earth. All the world is Christ's refuse, and kings are but mortar to him; the saints are Christ's assessors, and the kings' peers to judge the world with him, lords of the higher house —…

6. His coming in the world has no such Arminian end, that we read of, as a possible saving, or an obtained salvation, that thousands, indeed not one in the world may ever enjoy; but he came to seek, and actually, and intentionally, to save that which was lost (Luke 19:10), to sa…

For we knowing our work to be well done, and having a good conscience before God, go forward by honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report, etc. (Philippians 4:4). This says Paul is to have rejoicing or glory in yourself (1 Corinthians 6:3). And this admonition is very n…

Paul says, Christ is made to us of God, wisdom, justice, sanctification (1 Corinthians 1:3). Again, "But you are washed, you are justified, and sanctified" (1 Corinthians 6:11). Secondly, the justice whereby a sinner is justified, is revealed without the law (Romans 3:21).

Thirdly, our duty is, to glorify God and Christ, who has redeemed us, and that both in body and soul. The redeemed must live according to the will of their Redeemer (1 Corinthians 6:20). This is all the thankfulness that we can show to our Redeemer for his mercy.

The first is, when men make more things indifferent than God ever made. Thus the Corinthians used fornication as a thing indifferent (1 Corinthians 6). To many in these days drunkenness and surfeiting is but a thing indifferent.

Now my sons be not deceived. And Paul the Corinthians (1 Corinthians 6:9): be not deceived, neither fornicators, etc. (1 Corinthians 15:33): be not deceived, evil speeches corrupt good manners.

This place is notable therefore, and teaches us to stick fast to the calling of God, that we defile not ourselves with the filth of the world: if corruptions break forth, and that Idolaters let loose the bridle to all villainy; yet must we be held short by another bridle; to wit…

To this pertains that which the prophet adds, And to the Temple; Your foundations shall be laid. Indeed we at this day have no Temple of wood and stone which we are commanded to build, but the living temples of the Holy Ghost (1 Corinthians 6), namely, ourselves, because he has…

“God has not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness,” (1 Thessalonians 4:7.) We are “redeemed with a great price,” (1 Corinthians 6:20,) “the precious blood of Christ,” (1 Peter 1:18-19,) not that we may serve “the lusts of the flesh,” (2 Peter 2:18,) or indulge in unbrid…

For if we will live with him, we must die also with him. If we will reign with him, we must also suffer with him, as Saint Paul says (Romans 6; Colossians 2; Ephesians 4; Hebrews 12; 1 Corinthians 6; 2 Timothy 2) and in many other places. That when his glory shall appear, you ma…

If so be then, that for charity's sake, a man may cease from the use of meats, God's honor not hindered, Christ's kingdom not prejudiced, and religion or piety not violated: they are not to be suffered who for meats' sake trouble the Church. He uses the same arguments to the Cor…

The Members have the same Kind of Life with the Head. It would be strange if Christians should not be of the same Temper and Spirit that Christ is of; when 'they are his Flesh and his Bone, yea are one Spirit, 1 Corinthians 6:17, and live so, that it is not they that live, but C…

They are not bestowed on Men, to make their secular Gain or, Advantage by them, in Riches, Honour, or Reputation, for which Ends Simon the Magician would have purchased them with his Money, Acts 8. 19. No nor yet meerly for the good and benefit of the Souls of them that do recei…

Acts 3. 21. Mat. 18. 19. 1 Cor. 6. 16. 1 Cor. 3. 16. compared. (6.) The Holy Spirit works the Work of Christ; John 16. 13, 14, 15. opened. (7.) The Holy Spirit the peculiar Author of all Grace. (8.) The Holy Spirit workes all this according to his own Will. 1. His Will and Pleas…

Sect. 10 This brief account of the Actings of corrupted Nature until it comes to the utmost of a recoverable Alienation from God, may somewhat illustrate and set off the Work of his Grace towards us. And thus far, whatever habit be contracted in a course of sin, yet the state of…

Ezek. 11. 19. ch. 36. 25, 26, 27. Rom. 8. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13. 1 Cor. 6. 11. 1 Pet. 1. 2. Isa. 4. 4. chap. 44. 3, 4.

That he does require this indispensibly of us, is I suppose out of Question among us; although the most who are called Christians, live as if they had no other Design but to cast all Obloquies, Reproach and Shame, on him and his Doctrine. But if we are indeed his Disciples, he h…