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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.
It is as easy for God to make our vile bodies glorious, as it is for a beggar to put off his rags, and to put on the apparel of a King. Our dear and Reverend Brother did fully believe this, and therefore he three times in my hearing repeated these words; According to his mighty power, his mighty power, even his mighty power, he is able to change this vile body of mine, and make it like unto his glorious body.
It is as easie for God to make our vile bodies glorious, as it is for a beggar to put off his raggs, and to put on the apparrel of a King. Our dear and Reverend Brother did fully beleeve this, and therefore he three times in my hearing repeated these words; According to his mighty power, his mighty power, even his mighty power, he is able to change this vile body of mine, and make it like unto his glorious body.
4. Shall all bodies be made thus glorious?1
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No:1 The bodies of the wicked shall rise at the last day, but it shall be to their everlasting shame, ruin and confusion. They shall be immortal, but they shall be immortal fuel to immortal flames. The bodies of the wicked shall come out of their graves as out of their prisons, and as so many malefactors to appear before an angry Judg. They shall come out of their graves as the chief Baker did out of prison, to be hung in chains in hell for ever, where they shall endure all kind of extremities figured out unto us by the sad condition of Dives, who could not get a drop of water to cool his tongue. The bodies of the wicked shall be as ugly, loathsome carcasses to look upon, and their faces shall gather blackness and darkness,