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The doctrine of the bodies fragility
The doctrine of the bodies fragility: with a divine project, discovering how to make these vile bodies of ours glorious by getting gracious souls. Represented in a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate at the funeral of that worthy and reverend minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, Master of Christ College in Cambridge, who died the 15 of Octob. 1654. and was buried the 19 day of the same month. / By that painful and pious minister of Gods Word Mr. Edmund Calamy, B.D.The doctrine of the bodies fragility: with a divine project, discovering how to make these vile bodies of ours glorious by getting gracious souls. Represented in a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate at the funerall of that worthy and reverend minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, Master of Christ College in Cambridge, who died the 15 of Octob. 1654. and was buried the 19 day of the same month. / By that painfull and pious minister of Gods Word Mr. Edmund Calamy, B.D.
London: printed for Joseph Moore over against the Pump, 1654London: printed for Joseph Moore over aginst the Pump, 1654
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A Sermon preached At Dr. Samuel Bolton's Funeral.A Sermon preached At Dr. Samuel Bolton's Funerall.
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WE are here met at this time to perform the last office of love for a worthy, reverend, and godly Minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton Master of Christs College in Cambridge; and this Text that I have chosen, will afford us many suitable and seasonable considerations for such a meeting: for here you have, first, the condition that the bodies of men (even the best of men, the Saints of God) are in, in this life, they are vile bodies, the Greek is very emphatical [Greek or Hebrew], corpus vilitatis, that is, bodies of vileness, or a vile body, the Greek [Greek or Hebrew] signifies abjectam conditionem, a vile and abject condition, such as is the condition of slaves or bondmen.
WEE are here met at this time to perform the last office of love for a worthy, reverend, and godly Minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridge; and this Text that I have chosen, will afford us many sutable and seasonable considerations for such a meeting: for here you have, first, the condition that the bodies of men (even the best of men, the Saints of God) are in, in this life, they are vile bodies, the Greek is very emphaticall 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, corpus vilitatis, that is, bodies of vilenesse, or a vile body, the Greek 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 signifies abjectam conditionem, a vile and abject condition, such as is the condition of slaves or bondmen.
2. Here we have the condition that the bodies of the Saints shall be in at the glorious resurrection of the Just, then their vile bodies shall be made like to the glorious body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the body of vileness shall then be the body of glory.
2. Here we have the condition that the bodies of the Saints shall be in at the glorious resurrection of the Just, then their vile bodies shall be made like to the glorious body of the Lord Jesus Christ, the body of vilenesse shall then be the body of glory.