Vse 1. This may serve to admonish us, to have a care accordingly not to defile the Temple of God, 1 Corinthians 3.16,17. that our Priesthood doth not dishonour God, and that our Sacrifices be not lame, and maimed, and such as are not acceptable unto God.
2. To exhort us, to addict our selves wholly to Gods glory and his worship; for God will be sanctified in those that draw neere him, Leviticus 10.3.
3. To refute the Papists, that rob Christians of this honour, and obtrude carnall Temples, priesthoods, and sacrifices upon God and men in stead of spirituall.
Doctrine 18. Those duties which we performe in Christ are acceptable unto God by Christ.
This is gathered from the 5 verse, at the end. But they are acceptable not as merits, but as sacrifices of praise and thanksgiving, as it is intimated in the Text.
Reason 1. Because by Christ our persons are reconciled unto God, and received into the number of those whom God approves and by whom he delights to be worshipped.
2. Because Christ covers our infirmities.
3. Because by his intercession our duties are commended unto God.
Use 1. This may serve to comfort us, even when we looke upon our owne infirmities, and the unworthinesse of all our performances.
2. To exhort us, to go cheerefully about the duties of piety, because our worke shall not be in vaine in the Lord, 1 Corinthians 15.58.