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Ch. 9. Paul’s Doctrines

3 § Causes of P.s Asceticism

§. 3. Paul’s asceticism absurd

3. Behold now a third argument. A man’s body is the temple of the Holy Ghost. But being the temple of the Holy Ghost it belongs to the Holy Ghost and so to God, with whom the Holy Ghost is sometimes the same thing sometimes a different thing. But / Moreover / belonging as it does to the Holy Ghost and to God or to one or the other or to both it belongs not to the man himself: therefore he ought not to do with it the thing in question. So says Paul: nor as some one else might add, any thing else: but, not being of any great use to the purpose of the arguments this more extensive conclusion may be suffered to drop without further notice.

4. Count / Behold / now the last in this string of arguments: and high time it surely is that they should come to an end. By the sentence to wit by which Jesus was put to death A man of / every man belonging to / the set of men in question was bought by Jesus alias / i.e. / Christ alias / i.e. / the Lord with a price: and by the fact of a man’s abstaining from the gratification belonging to the sense in question, God (by whom the Lord has been so raised as aforesaid) is glorified: that is made more glorious than he would have been otherwise: glorified viz in the man’s body, as also in the same man’s spirit: the said body and the same spirit being both of them God’s: or to save ambiguity say at the hazard of misinterpretation say belonging to God. But, as, per argument 2, a man’s being a member of a harlot is a bad thing, God’s being made more glorious than he was is a good thing.