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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.
3. How is it possible that ever these bodies of ours should rise again,1 and these vile bodies be made like unto the glorious body of Christ?
- 1Quest. 3.
With man this is impossible, 1but with God nothing is impossible. ⟨p. 17⟩My text tells you how this shall be done, even according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself. The Lord Jesus Christ is almighty, and therefore he is able to do it.2 He that can make a man being nothing, out of the dust of the earth, can certainly repair him out of that dust when he is something. It is as easy to God to give a body to a soul at the resurrection, as to breathe a soul into a body at the first creation. Both Philosophers and Divines write of the Phoenix, that first she is consumed to ashes by the heat of the Sun, and that afterwards of her ashes ariseth a young one, which is the same Phoenix risen from the dead. The Apostle tells us, That the corn must first be cast into the ground, 3and there die and rot before it will spring up; which showeth, that a resurrection from the dead is possible even in nature. What is every night, but the grave (as it were) of the days light? What is the morning, but the resurrection of the day? What is winter, but the death (as it were) of fruits? and what the spring, but the resurrection of them? What is death, but a pulling down of the house of our bodies? and what is the resurrection, but the building up of the same house more gloriously? And cannot the Almighty God do this? We see by experience, that our most curious glasses, are made by art even of ashes; and cannot the omnipotent and everliving God, raise mens dead bodies out of ashes? The earth and sea are Gods stewards, with whom he hath betrusted the bodies of men; and when God shall call them to give an account of their stewardship, they will faithfully discharge their trust, and will not keep back one dead body. The grave is but the bodies withdrawing-room or sleeping-place, and the time will come, when they that are asleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, &c.