He  is  the       This  aforesaid  stone  is  Christ,  upon  which  every  faithful  soul  must  be  builded ;
stone        since,  upon  none  other  ground  than  upon  Christ's  living  and  his  teaching,  any  body
we  must    "^^y  make  any  building  or  housing  wherein  Christ  will  come  and  dwell.     This
build.        sentence  witnesseth  St.  Paul  to  the  Corinthians,  showing  to  them  that  no  body
may  set  any  other  ground  than  is  set,  that  is  Christ's  living  and  teaching.  And
because  that  all  men  and  women  should  give  all  their  business  here  in  this  life,
to  biuld  them  virtuously  upon  this  sure  foundation,  St.  Paul,  acknowledging  the
fervent  desire,  and  the  good  will  of  the  people  of  Ephesus,  wrote  to  them  com-
How  we    fortably,  saying,   '  Now  ye  are  not  strangers,  guests,  nor  yet  comelings,  but  ye
iire  made  g^j.g  ^]jg  citizens,  and  of  the  household  of  God,  builded  above  upon  the  founda-
ple  of        dament  of  the  apostles  and  prophets.     In  which  foundament,  every  building
God.         that  is  builded  or  made  through  the  grace  of  God,  it  increaseth  or  groweth  into
an  holy  temple  ;'  that  is,   every  body  that  is  grounded  or  builded  faithfully  in
the  teaching  and  living  of  Christ,  is  there  through  made  the  hoi)'  temple  of  God.
