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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.
2. A Lesson of Mortification: 1This vile body of ours is subject to be abused by the devil to vile abominations, and therefore let us go to Jesus Christ, to get power to mortify and crucify the flesh with the affections and lusts. There is a body of sin in all men, and this is that which makes this body of ours to be so vile. Let us by a lively faith make application of the death of Christ,2 that the old man being crucified, with him the body of sin may be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin. Excellent is that expression of the Apostle, 1 Cor. 9. 27. But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection, least that by any means when I have preached to others, I my self should be a castaway. Upon which words Austin hath this saying, Si aries de grege, quid tener agnus, &c, If the great Ram of the flock hath need to beat down his body and to bring it under subjection, how much more should we tender Lambs use all means for the keeping of it under? The body is called by Hierom, jumentum animae the beast of the soul, and when this beast begins to kick against ⟨p. 9⟩the soul,3 we must labour to subdue it by fasting and prayer, and say as Hilarion did, Faciam Asine ut non calcitres.
2. A Lesson of Mortification: 1This vile body of ours is subject to be abused by the devil to vile abominations, and therefore let us go to Jesus Christ, to get power to mortifie and crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts. There is a body of sinne in all men, and this is that which makes this body of ours to be so vile. Let us by a lively faith make application of the death of Christ,2 that the old man being crucified, with him the body of sinne may be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sinne. Excelledt is that expression of the Apostle,