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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.
7. The seventh is Agility and nimbleness: It shall be able to move upwards and downwards,1 like a bird in the air; Luther saith, That the body shall be able to move up and down like a thought. Austin saith, It shall move to any place it will as soon as it will. The Scripture saith some such thing, 1 Thes. 4. 17. We shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, as so many Eagles flying up to their blessed Carcass. Upon this account also it is said, That we shall be as the Angels, because we shall be able to move as they do:2 If the Saints shall be like the Sun in its brightness, why not (saith one) in its motion also, which the Learned allow to move a Million, and one hundred sixty thousand miles in an hour: If so swift may be the motion of natural, how swift the motion of glorified bodies shall be, we shall know when we come to make use of it.
7. The seventh is Agility and nimbleness: It shall be able to move upwards and downwards,1 like a bird in the aire; Luther saith, That the body shall be able to move up and down like a thought. Austin saith, It shall move to any place it will as soon as it will. The Scripture saith some such thing, 1 Thes. 4. 17. We shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the ayre, as so many AEgles flying up to their blessed Carcass. Upon this account also it is said, That we shall be as the Angels, because we shall be able to move as they do:2 If the Saints shall be like the Sunne in its brightness, why not (saith one) in its motion also, which the Learned allow to move a Million, and one hundred sixty thousand miles in an hour: If so swift may be the motion of natural, how swift the motion of glorified bodies shall be, we shall know when we come to make use of it.
- 1Ubi volet spiritus, ibi protenus erit corpus.