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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.
Here I must not forget what hath been told me since the preaching of this Sermon; That our dear Brother, in the ordinary course of his Ministry, had preached over the third Chapter to the Philippians, to the latter end of the verse immediately before my Text: and behold how by the overruling Providence of God (unknown to me) it hath happened, that the last verse of the same Chapter (which he left unfinished) was chosen for his Funeral Sermon. But though he lived not to preach of this verse, yet he now lives in Heaven, waiting for that blessed time, when his vile body shall be raised out of the grave, and be made like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ.
Here I must not forget what hath been told me since the preaching of this Sermon; That our dear Brother, in the ordinary course of his Ministry, had preached over the third Chapter to the Philippians, to the latter end of the verse immediatly before my Text: and behold how by the overruling Providence of God (unknown to me) it hath hapned, that the last verse of the same Chapter (which he left unfinished) was chosen for his Funeral Sermon. But though he lived not to preach of this verse, yet he now lives in Heaven, waiting for that blessed time, when his vile body shall be raised out of the grave, and be made like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ.
Before he was Master of Christs College, he preached three or four years in this place, six or seven years at Saviours Southwark, and for some time at Andrews in Holborn, to the great satisfaction of all the godly that waited upon his Ministry. And though he be now dead, yet he still speaks, not only by the holiness of his life and graciousness of his doctrine, but also by the many Books he hath left in print, in which you may behold a fair character of his piety and Ministerial abilities. He was very orthodox, and sound in judgment, he had no spiritual ⟨p. 26⟩Leprosy in his head, witness those two Books of his, The Arraignment of Error, and A Vindication of the Rights of the Law, and Liberties of Grace. He was of a public spirit; witness that Book of his A word in season to a sinking Kingdom. He was very careful in admitting men and women to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper; witness that Book of his called, The Wedding Garment.