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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.
5. Because even in the best of Saints,1 it is a great impediment and hindrance to their immortal souls, and therefore called sepulchrum animae, and vinculum animae, The sepulchre of the soul, the fetters and manacles of the soul. For the most precious soul,
5. Because even in the best of Saints,1 it is a great impediment and hindrance to their immortall souls, and therefore called sepulchrum animae, and vinculum animae, The sepulcher of the soul, the fetters and manacles of the soul. For the most pretious soul,
- 1The Greek for a body is [Greek or Hebrew] quasi [Greek or Hebrew], And [Greek or Hebrew] a [Greek or Hebrew].The Greek for a body is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 quasi 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, And 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
1. It is hidden in the body as a man in a dark dungeon, or as a bright candle in a dark lantern, the excellent nature, beauty, and glorious operations of it cannot be seen. For it ⟨p. 5⟩may be said of the soul (as Plato saith of virtue) that if a man could but see it he could not but love it: but it is hidden in the body as in a prison.
1. It is hidden in the body as a man in a dark dungeon, or as a bright candle in a dark lantern, the excellent nature, beauty, and glorious operations of it cannot be seen. For it