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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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3. Because subject to vile abuses by Tyrants and cruel Persecutors: A Tyrant cannot hurt the soul of a child of God, but he can torture and kill his body. It is said of the blessed Martyrs, of whom the world was not worthy, Heb. 11. 37. They were stoned, they were sawed asunder, were slain with the sword; They wandered about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins, destitute, afflicted and tormented. All these sufferings were bodily, and therefore it may well be termed a vile body.
3. Because subject to vile abuses by Tyrants and cruell Persecutors: A Tyrant cannot hurt the soul of a child of God, but he can torture and kill his body. It is said of the blessed Martyrs, of whom the world was not worthy, Heb. 11. 37. They were stoned, they were sawed asunder, were slain with the sword; They wandred about in Sheep-skins and Goat-skins, destitute, afflicted and tormented. All these sufferings were bodily, and therefore it may well be termed a vile body.
4. Because subject to vile abominations and wickednesses. For since the fall of Adam our bodies are instruments of unrighteousness unto sin, Rom. 6. 13. they are servants to uncleanness and to iniquity unto iniquity, Rom. 6. 19 In some to drunkenness, in others to adultery, thievery and murder; in others to sodomy, by which the bodies of men are made vile and dishonourable, according to the saying of the Apostle, Rom. 1. 24. Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves.
4. Because subject to vile abominations and wickednesses. For since the fall of Adam our bodies are instruments of unrighteousness unto sinne,