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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
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A SERMON PREACHED AT Dr BOLTONS Funeral.A SERMON PREACHED AT Dr BOLTONS Funerall.
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5. If the body be vile in comparison of the soul,1 then let us ⟨p. 10⟩be encouraged unto soul-diligence. Let us not set the servant on horseback, and suffer the Master to go on foot; let us not prefer the handmaid before the Mistress, the box before the Jewel, the vile body before our precious and immortal souls. The body is made of dust, and who ever advanced dust? we use to sweep away dust from off our clothes, and out of our houses. The body is but a lump of earth, a rotten carcass without the soul, oh let us not prefer it before the soul! let us not bestow that time, that heart, those affections and endeavours upon the body, which are due unto the soul!
5. If the body be vile in comparison of the soul,1 then let us ⟨p. 10⟩be encouraged unto soul-diligence. Let us not set the servant on horseback, and suffer the Master to go on foot; let us not preferre the handmaid before the Mistress, the box before the Jewel, the vile body before our pretious and immortal souls. The body is made of dust, and who ever advanced dust? we use to sweep away dust from off our clothes, and out of our houses. The body is but a lump of earth, a rotten carcass without the soul, oh let us not preferre it before the soul! let us not bestow that time, that heart, those affections and endeavours upon the body, which are due unto the soul!
- 1Lesson 5.
It is a sad thing to consider, how most people, even those that believe the Doctrine of the souls Immortality, do Jacob-like, (though upon a different occasion) put their right hand upon the youngest Son, and their left hand upon the eldest, spending the best of their days, and strength, and affections upon these vile bodies, and in the mean time neglecting to provide for their eternal souls. Give me leave to illustrate this by a similitude: Suppose a man should invite a Nobleman to his house, and only provide provender for the Nobleman's horses, without any provision at all for himself, only such as his horses feed on, would not this be a course entertainment? and yet so do most men deal with their immortal souls. The soul is as this Nobleman, lodging in a body of clay as in a poor cottage; the body is (as you have heard) jumentum animae, the souls beast; and when you consume your days in pampering and clothing your bodies, taking no care for your noble souls, this is but (as it were) providing provender for the horses, without any provision for the Nobleman: for the soul is never the richer for all our worldly wealth, never the fatter for our delicate fare, nor ever the finer for our silken clothes. I read that St John in