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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.
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Ans. The body may be said to be a vile body,
1. In reference to its primitive constitution, even before it was defiled with sin; for it was made of dust of the earth, the and not of dust simply, but of dust mingled with water, of clay and muddy dust, ex pulvero limoso & lutoso: The body was not made of celestial materials, of the Sun, Moon or Stars; nor of precious materials, of gold or silver; but of the worst and lowest of the elements, ex fragili & vili materiâ, of frail and perishing, of ignoble and contemptible materials, and therefore may fitly be called a vile body.
1. In reference to its primitive constitution, even before it was defiled with sin; for it was made of dust of the earth, the and not of dust simply, but of dust mingled with water, of clay and muddy dust, ex pulvero limoso & lutoso: The body was not made of coelestiall materials, of the Sunne, Moon or Starres; nor of pretious materials, of gold or silver; but of the worst and lowest of the elements, ex fragili & vili materiâ, of frail and perishing, of ignoble and contemptible materials, and therefore may fitly be called a vile body.
2. Since the fall of Adam, our bodies are called vile bodies, because subject to vile diseases, there is no disease so vile, but the body of man is subject unto: Job was a man eminent in godliness, yet his body was full of soars and boils ••om the crown of his head to the sole of his foot; and he says of himself, Job 7. 5. My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust, my skin is broken and become loathsome. Who can reckon up all the diseases that mans body is liable unto? The Stone, the Gout, Leprosy, Plague, Colic, Strangury, Diabolical possession, Madness, Sciatica and small Pox, are not the tithe of them; and therefore it may fitly be called a vile body.