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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. Our bodies shall be made immortal and incorruptible, 1 Cor. 15. 53, 54. This mortal shall put on immortality, as a garment never to be put off again; Death shall be swallowed up in victory Adam in innocency, as he had a power not to sin, so also not to die; but the Saints at the resurrection shall have an impossibility of sinning and of dying. Not but that our bodies are naturally corruptible even at the resurrection, but by the presence of God filling them, they shall be made like the Angels, immortal. And if embalming the body can preserve it from putrefaction for many years, much more will the presence of God preserve it from death for ever.
2. Our bodies shall be made immortall and incorruptible, 1 Cor. 15. 53, 54. This mortall shall put on immortality, as a garment never to be put off again; Death shall be swallowed up in victory Adam in innocency, as he had a power not to sinne, so also not to die; but the Saints at the resurrection shall have an impossibility of sinning and of dying. Not but that our bodies are naturally corruptible even at the resurrection, but by the presence of God filling them, they shall be made like the Angels, immortall. And if embalming the body can preserve it from putrefaction for many years, much more will the presence of God preserve it from death for ever.
3. The third endowment is brightness and splendour, It is sown in dishonour, but it is raised in glory, 1 Cor. 15. 43. The ⟨p. 14⟩body is not so miserable under the curse, as it is blessed in the promise. As in the state of corruption it is abased lower then all created bodies, so in the state of glory it is exalted higher then all other bodies;1 For the righteous shall shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Not that they shall not out-shine the Sun, but because there is no more shining body visible to us, therefore are the bodies of the Saints in glory compared thereunto.