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The saints transfiguration, or, The body of vileness changed into a body of glory…The saints transfiguration, or, The body of vilenesse changed into a body of glory…
The saints transfiguration, or, The body of vileness changed into a body of glory a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate, October 19, 1654, at the funeral of that reverend and faithful minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, late master of Christs College in Cambridge : with a short account of his death / by Edmund Calamy ... ; to which are annexed verses upon his death, composed by divers of his friends and acquaintance.The saints transfiguration, or, The body of vilenesse changed into a body of glory a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate, October 19, 1654, at the funerall of that reverend and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, late master of Christs College in Cambridg : with a short account of his death / by Edmund Calamy ... ; to which are annexed verses upon his death, composed by divers of his friends and acquaintance.
London: printed for Joseph Cranford, 1655
Title page typeset from the transcription.
A SERMON PREACHED AT Dr BOLTONS Funeral.A SERMON PREACHED AT Dr BOLTONS Funerall.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
1. Comfort you against the fear of death: As God said to Jacob, Gen. 46. 3, 4. Fear not to go down into Egypt, for I will go down with thee, and I will also surely bring theo up again, &c. So let me say to you, Feat not to go down to the house of rottenness, fear not to lay down your heads in the dust, for God will certainly bring you out again, and you shall come out in a most glorious manner: Fear not to have this house of your body pulled down, for God will rear it up again, and make of it a most glorious structure.
2. Let this comfort you against the death of your godly friends; for when a godly man dies, nothing dies totally and finally in him but sin: Death to a Saint is nothing else but sepultura vitiorum, a burying of his sinne. Non homo sed peccatum hominis moritur, the man dies not but his sin; for the soul doth not die at all, but is immediately taken up into the bosom of God; and the body, though it be turned into dust, yet even this dust is precious in Gods sight; this dust is part of Gods election, this dust is united to Jesus Christ, (and therefore when a Saint dies, he is said to fall asleep in Christ, 1 Cor. 15. 18. and to be dead in Christ, 1 Thes. 4. 16.) and at the last day it shall be raised up again. It is sown in corruption, but it shall be raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonour, it shall be raised in glory: it is sown in weakness, it shall be raised in power: it is sown a natural body, it shall be raised a spiritual body,
2. Let this comfort you against the death of your godly friends; for when a godly man dies, nothing dies totally and finally in him but sinne: Death to a Saint is nothing else but sepultura vitiorum, a burying of his sinne. Non homo sed peccatum hominis moritur, the man dies not but his sinne; for the soul doth not die at all, but is immediately taken up into the bosome of God; and the body, though it be turned into dust, yet even this dust is pretious in Gods sight; this dust is part of Gods elestion, this dust is united to Jesus Christ, (and therefore when a Saint dies, he is said to fall asleep in Christ,