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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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2. Let this comfort us against the death of our godly §2friends; when a child of God dies, nothing dies in him totally and finally but sin, his soul doth not die at all, and his body shall be raised again a glorious body, it is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sown in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sown in weakness, it is raised in power; it is sown a natural body, it is raised a spiritual body.
2. Let this comfort us against the death of our godly §2friends; when a childe of God dies, nothing dies in him totally and finally but sin, his soul doth not die at all, and his body shall be raised again a glorious body, it is sowen in corruption, it is raised in incorruption; it is sowen in dishonour, it is raised in glory; it is sowen in weaknesse, it is raised in power; it is sowen a naturall body, it is raised a spirituall body.
This body of ours in the grave is a member of Christ, ⟨p. 14⟩and united to Christ, even in the grave; and this dust of thine is precious, and therefore we are said to die in Christ.
There is a Text that did very much refresh this our Brother (upon his death-bed) which I never took such special notice of before, and that is in Job 21. 33. says Job there, the clods of the valley shall be sweet unto me; they made their graves in the valleys, and says Job, the mould and clods that fills the grave shall be sweet unto me: the earth shall be sweet to the Saints.