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Again; the same Apostle saith, ‘Know ye not, that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.’*
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Again; the Apostle saith, ‘You know how we exhorted, com- ------------------------------------------------------------
*1 Cor. vi. 19, 20.
A Serious Call to forted, and charged every one of you, that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.’*58 - /
For how can the holiness of the Christian life be set before you in higher terms, than when it is represented to you aswalking worthy of God? Can you think of any abatements of virtue, any neglects of Devotion, that are well consistent with a life, that is to be made worthy of God? Can you suppose that any man walks in this manner, but he that watches over all his steps; and considers how everything he does, may be done in the spirit of holiness? and yet as high as these expressions carry this holiness, it is here plainly made the necessary holiness of all Christians. For the Apostle does not here exhort his fellow Apostles and Saints to this holiness, but he commands all Christians to endeavour after it. ‘We charged,’ says he, ‘every one of you, that you would walk worthy of God, who hath called you to his kingdom and glory.’