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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.
Dedication: TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARL OF WARWICK, BARON OF LEEZE.
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.
These Lessons are very suitable and seasonable for all sorts and degrees, but especially for you (Right Honourable) whose body now begins to wax old, and will shortly go down to the house of rottenness and be crumbled into dust.
I doubt not but God hath sufficiently taught you the vanity and emptiness of all earthly greatness. That greatness without goodness, is like the greatness of a man with a Dropsy, which is his disease not his happiness: That Riches without Righteousness are but heaps of dung: And that nothing but Grace will make you truly and eternally honourable.
I doubt not but God hath sufficiently taught you the vanity and emptiness of all earthly greatness. That greatness without goodness, is like the greatness of a man with a Dropsie, which is his disease not his happiness: That Riches without Righteousness are but heaps of dung: And that nothing but Grace will make you truly and eternally honourable.
God hath taken you off (out of love to your precious soul) from all public employments, and thereby hath lent you much time to provide for eternity. He hath given you a Noble Countess, a precious Consort, a beloved Companion, a dear Yoke-fellow (united to you not only by marriage relation, but by true love and most entire affection) who will be glad to go hand in hand with you in heavens way.
God hath taken you off (out of love to your pretious soul) from all publike employments, and thereby hath lent you much time to provide for eternity. He hath given you a Noble Countess, a pretious Consort, a beloved Companion, a dear Yoak-fellow (united to you not only by marriage relation, but by true love and most entire affection) who will be glad to go hand in hand with you in heavens way.