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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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Object. 1But you will say, In what respect may the body of a Saint be called a vile body?
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Answ. 1The bodies of the Saints may be said to be vile in regard of his primitive creation, before it was defiled with sin; for the body of man was made of the dust of the earth, ex pulvere terrae, not made of excellent materials, as silver and gold; nor of Celestial materials, as Sun, Moon and Stars, but of perishing and contemptible materials, the body was made of dust, of clay and muddy dust, ex luto.
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2. And more especially since the fall of Adam, our bodies are called vile bodies, because subject to vile diseases; there is no disease so vile, but the body of a Saint is subject to it: take the example of Job, a man eminent in godliness, yet his body full of sores and boils, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot; and he says of himself in Job 7. 5. My flesh is clothed with worms, and clods of dust, my skin is broken and become loathsome.
2. And more especially since the fall of Adam, our bodies are called vile bodies, because subject to vile diseases; there is no disease so vile, but the body of a Saint is subject to it: take the example of Job, a man eminent in godlinesse, yet his body full of sores and boyles, from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot; and he saies of himself in