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A32058	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.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing C265; ESTC R5821	27,503	41

had been cast upon the stone then every thing weighed down the stone The Morall is t●ue though the History prove a fable as one of his Wisemen told him This stone said he sheweth what thou art oh Alexander Whilest thou livest thou weighest down all that oppose thee the whole World cannot new content thee when a little dust is cast upon thee that is when thou art dead then every man will outweigh thee minor eris quam quicquid mundi thou wilt be lesser then any man in the world Such another story is reported of the Father of Alexander that he kept a boy on purpose to come to him every morning and to bid him Remember he was a man Let us be alwayes mindfull that we are but dust dust we are and to dust we must return Let us cast dust upon our silks and velvets upon our gold and silver upon our beautifull faces Let the great Ladies make this Doctrine their Lookingglasses to dress themselves by every morning Remember thy body is a vile body and therefore be not proud of it 2. A Lesson of Mortification This vile body of ours is subject to be abused by the devil to vile abominations and therefore let us go to Jesus Christ to get power to mortifie and crucifie the flesh with the affections and lusts There is a body of sinne in all men and this is that which makes this body of ours to be so vile Let us by a lively faith make application of the death of Christ that the old man being crucified with him the body of sinne may be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sinne Excelledt is that expression of the Apostle 1 Cor. 9. 27. But I keep under my body and bring it into subjection least that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a castaway Upon which words Austin hath this saying Si aries de grege quid tener agnus c If the great Ram of the flock hath need to beat down his body and to bring it under subjection how much more should we tender Lambs use all means for the keeping of it under The body is called by Hierom jumentum animae the beast of the soul and when this beast begins to kick against the soul we must labour to subdue it by fasting and prayer and say as Hilarion did Faciam Asine ut non calcitres 3. A Lesson of Contentation Let us be contented with our condition though never so Poor Though thy apparel be mean and thy diet mean mean things become a vile body And if for a good conscience thou be put into a vile prison into a dark and stinking dungeon as the Martyrs have been let us be contented with it for our bodies for the present are vile bodies Thou canst not be poorer then thou wert at first and wilt be at last for naked we came into the world and naked we must return again And though thou hast a diseased and sickly body and hast met with many losses and crosses yet be contented remember that the bodies of the best of Saints in this life are vile bodies I have read of Themistocles that he invited many Philosophers to dinner and that he borrowed divers dishes of one Amyntas in the midst of dinner Amyntas comes and fetches away half his dishes the Philosophers asked Themistocles how he was able to bear this affront He answered mildly He might have took away all If God hath taken away half thy children half thy estate be contented all is his and he might have taken away all 4. Let this Epithete teach us a lesson of heavenly courage and fortitude let us not fear what the worst of men can do unto us for they can but kill this vile body This our Saviour teacheth Matth. 10. Fear not them that can kill the body and after that can do no more If a Tyrant could kill the soul then indeed he might be feared but he cannot reach that he can but hurt the body ths vile body a body subject to a thousand diseases and to innumerable abominatious a body that will shortly dye of its own accord and why then should we fear what vile man can do against this vile body especially if we consider that when he hath done his worst against it it shall in spite of him rise again and of a vile body become a most glorious body Oh let us not make shipwrack of a good conscience to preserve this vile body let us not destroy our precious souls to save this vile carcass 5. If the body be vile in comparison of the soul then let us be encouraged unto soul-diligence Let us not set the servant on horseback and suffer the Master to go on foot let us not preferre the handmaid before the Mistress the box before the Jewel the vile body before our pretious and immortal souls The body is made of dust and who ever advanced dust we use to sweep away dust from off our clothes and out of our houses The body is but a lump of earth a rotten carcass without the soul oh let us not preferre it before the soul let us not bestow that time that heart those affections and endeavours upon the body which are due unto the soul It is a sad thing to consider how most people even those that beleeve the Doctrine of the souls Immortality do Jacob-like though upon a different occasion put their right hand upon the youngest Sonne and their left hand upon the eldest spending the best of their dayes and strength and affections upon these vile bodies and in the mean time neglecting to provide for their eternal souls Give me leave to illustrate this by a similitude Suppose a man should invite a Nobleman to his house and only provide provender for the Noblemans horses without any provision at all for himself only such as his horses feed on would not this be a course entertainment and yet so do most men deal with their immortal souls The soul is as this Nobleman lodging in a body of clay as in a poor cottage the body is as you have heard jumentum animae the souls beast and when you consume your dayes in pampering and cloathing your bodies taking no care for your noble souls this is but as it were providing provender for the horses without any provision for the Nobleman for the soul is never the richer for all our worldly wealth never the fatter for our delicate fare nor ever the finer for our silken clothes I read that St John in 3 Joh. 2. prayeth for Gaius That his body might prosper and be in health even as his soul prospered But if we should make such a prayer for many of our people we should rather curse them then pray for them for if they had no better bodies then they have souls they would have very poor lean and naked bodies Let Christians labour so to live that this prayer

may be fit for them that we may cheerfully put up this petition for them That their bodies may prosper even as their souls prosper Let the chiefest part have the chiefest care the best part the best of our strength and dayes 6. Lastly Let us from this Epithete learn a lesson of thankfullness Our bodies are bodies of vileness and therefore if God hath given thee a body more handsome and more healthfull then others have if God hath made any of us ex meliore luto of better earth if he hath made us golden vessels in regard of our outward condition if he hath raised any of us from the dust and set us in high places especially if God hath made us elect vessels vessels of mercy in regard of our eternal condition as I doubt not but there are many such here oh give God a great deal of glory and give him all the glory If he hath made thy vile body an instrument of righteousness unto holiness if he hath sanctified it and made it a Temple fit for the holy Ghost to dwell in then let me speak to you in the language of the holy Ghost Know you not that your bodies are the members of Christ will you take the members of Christ and make them members of an harlot God forbid Know you not that your body is the Temple of the holy Ghost which is in you c. And If any man defile the Temple of God him will God destroy Will you abuse that body that is the Temple of the holy Ghost to sinne and iniquity God forbid I shall now pass from the first Observation to the second with which our worthy and dear brother was much refreshed and did often repeat in my hearing and upon that account I made made choice of this Text at this time The Observation is That the Lord Jesus Christ at the great day of judgment shall raise these vile bodies and change them into the likeness of his own glorious body This Doctrine is an Alablaster box full of pretious consolation It was a great comfort and support to our dear brother when he was going out of this world and oh that it might be a like pretious Cordial to us when we shall be in his condition For the better understanding of the Doctrine I shall propound these five Questions 1. What is that change that Christ shall make in our vile bodies at the resurrection The bodies of the Saints when dead and separated from their souls are not separated from Jesus Christ and therefore are said to be dead in Christ while dead they are united to Christ and by virtue of this union Christ as their Head will raise them at the last day and at their resurrection they shall be changed non quoad substantiam sed quoad proprietates the substance of their bodies shall not be altered but only the qualities As wool when it is died into a purple or scarlet die is the same wool for substance though it be made more glorious so the bodies of the Saints at the resurrection shall be the same for substance though made more excellent and more glorious This was Jobs comfort that with those very eyes of his he should see his Redeemer and that he himself should see him and not another The Apostle tells us That this mortall body must put on immortality and this corrupt●ble body must put on incorruption The ancient Christians when they rehearsed that article of the Creed Credo resurrectioneme carnis I beleeve the resurrection of the flesh were wont to add Etiam hujus carnis even of this my flesh It cannot stand with Gods justice saith Hierom that one body should sinne and another body be damned that one body should serve him and another be crowned this is contrary to the justice of God and to the very nature of the resurrection for a resurrection is when the same body that dieth riseth again otherwise it is rather a new creation then a resurrection As the body of Christ after his resurrection was the same for substance though much more excellent and glorious so shall the bodies of the Saints be at their resurrection As a Goldsmith saith Chrysostome takes a little gold and puts it into a refining pot and melts it and then out of that gold forms a golden vessel fit to be set before Kings so the Lord Jesus Christ melts the bodies of his Saints by death and out of their dead ashes and cinders will form a vessel of gold a glorious body fit to live with God and sing Hallelujahs in Heaven to all eternity 2. What are those transfigurations and transformations that Christ shall make in our bodies at this day what is this metamorphosis wherein doth it consist It is impossible to set out all the glorious excellencies with which Christ will adorn our bodies in the great day of the resurrection Quae sit quam magna spiritualis corporis gloria quoniam nondum venit in experimentum vereor ne temerarium sit omne quod de illâ profertur eloquium How great the glory of our spirituall bodies shall be because we have no experience of it I fear it will be rashness for any man saith Austin to speak peremptorily about it It will be the marriage day between Christ and his Saints and he will endow their bodies with glorious qualities as well as their souls for he assumed their bodies as well as their souls suffered in body as well as in soul died for their bodies as well as for their souls and therefore will glorifie their bodies as well as their souls Give me leave to mention some of those glorious perfections with which our vile bodies shall be beautified at that day 1. The bodies of the Saints at the resurrection shall be free from all sinne Paul shall not then complain of a law in his members rebelling against the law of his minde nor cry out Oh miserable man that I am who shall deliver me from the body of this death we shall at that day not only have a posse non peccare a possibility not to sinne as Adam had in innocency but a non posse peccare an impossibility of sinning 2. Our bodies shall be made immortall and incorruptible 1 Cor. 15. 53 54. This mortall shall put on immortality as a garment never to be put off again Death shall be swallowed up in victory Adam in innocency as he had a power not to sinne so also not to die but the Saints at the resurrection shall have an impossibility of sinning and of dying Not but that our bodies are naturally corruptible even at the resurrection but by the presence of God filling them they shall be made like the Angels immortall And if embalming the body can preserve it from putrefaction for many years much more will the presence of God preserve it from death for ever 3. The third endowment is brightness and

righteousness if enriched with the jewels of the Spirit thy body shall be everlastingly beautifull and glorious for the happiness of the body depends upon the souls happiness If when thou diest thy soul goeth to hell thy body at the resurrection must go thither also If to Heaven thy body will follow it thither also according as thy soul is beautifull or deformed so shall thy body be happy or miserable So much in answer to the five Questions Vse 1. To you that are the Saints of the most high God who have your conversation in Heaven while you are upon earth who are reall members of Christs mysticall body whose souls are adorned with the robe of Christs righteousness To beseech you to consider the blessed and happy condition that your bodies shall be in at the resurrestion for then your vile bodies shall be made like unto the glorious body of Christ {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} shall be {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} then shall you shine forth as the Sun in the Kingdom of your Father All sinne and all sorrow and all bodily deformities shall be utterly removed you shall be as the Angels of God in heaven your bodies shall be honourable glorious powerfull spirituall perfectly beautifull lovely and majesticall and as Aquinas saith transparent like glass Let the consideration of this 1. Comfort you against the fear of death As God said to Jacob Gen. 46. 3 4. Fear not to go down into Egypt for I will go down with thee and I will also surely bring theo up again c. So let me say to you Feat not to go down to the house of rottenness fear not to lay down your heads in the dust for God will certainly bring you out again and you shall come out in a most glorious manner Fear not to have this house of your body pulled down for God will rear it up again and make of it a most glorious structure 2. Let this comfort you against the death of your godly friends for when a godly man dies nothing dies totally and finally in him but sinne Death to a Saint is nothing else but sepultura vitiorum a burying of his sinne Non homo sed peccatum hominis moritur the man dies not but his sinne for the soul doth not die at all but is immediately taken up into the bosome of God and the body though it be turned into dust yet even this dust is pretious in Gods sight this dust is part of Gods elestion this dust is united to Jesus Christ and therefore when a Saint dies he is said to fall asleep in Christ 1 Cor. 15. 18. and to be dead in Christ 1 Thes. 4. 16. and at the last day it shall be raised up again It is sown in corruption but it shall be raised in incorruption It is sown in dishonour it shall be raised in glory it is sown in weakness it shall be raised in power it is sown a naturall body it shall be raised a spirituall body There is a Text in Job which our Reverend Brother did mention often in his sickness and with which he did seem to be much refreshed it is Job 21. 33. The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him Which words though spoken of the wicked yet are in a more eminent manner applicable to the true Saint who sleeps quietly and sweetly in his grave as in his bed free from all trouble and molestation 3. Let this comfort those that have diseased or deformed bodies that are troubled with the Stone Gout Strangury disiness in the head or any other disease whereby they are made unserviceable or at least not able to do that good they would there will a day come wherein they shall be perfectly healed and cured The Resurrection is the Saints best Physitian 4. Let this encourage you to be willing if God call you to it to part with your ears eyes leggs hands or head it self for the keeping of a good conscience for you shall have all your limbs restored to you again at the great day of restitution of all things Famous is the story that Josephus tells of one of the seven Children in the Maccabees who when he was to have his tongue cut out and his ears cut off he said to his Mother These members I have received from Heaven and for the Law of my God I despise them and trust that I shall receive them again I shall have a better tongue at the resurrection of the just 5. Let this exhort you especially that are true Saints whose bodies by grace are become the Temples of the holy Ghost to labour to glorifie God in your bodies as well as in your spirits for they are Gods and they are bought with a price as well as your souls To labour to keep under your bodies and to bring them into subjection To yeeld your members as instruments of righteousness unto God and as servants of righteousness unto holiness Let me beseech you by the mercies of Jesus Christ who hath redeemed your bodies that ye present your bodies a living sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service Think not any service too much for God with those bodies which shall one day be made so beautifull and glorious Let godly Ministers be encouraged to wear out their bodies in their Ministeriall imployments for they that turn many unto righteousness shall shine as starres for ever and ever Vse 2. To you that are wicked that is who are members of the devil whose souls are beleapred with sinne who minde earthly things whose God is your belly whose glory is your shame To beseech you to consider the sad and miserable condition you shall be in at that day Your bodies indeed shall rise but they shall rise unto everlasting cindemnation Joh. 5. 24. and unto everlasting shame and contempt Dan. 12. 2. your vile bodies shall then be cursed bodies and your sinfull bodies shall be tormented for ever with the worm that never dieth and the fire that never goeth out Vse 3. A divine project how to make your bodies beautifull and glorious If there were a Physician here upon earth that could cure all your bodily diseases and deformities and make them immortall how would you prize him I have told you this day of such a Physician even the Lord Jesus Christ who shall one day come from Heaven on purpose to make our vile bodies like unto his glorious body Oh that this word were mingled with faith Methinks if any Motive could prevail with you that are Gentlewomen and great Ladies this should Behold a way how to make your bodies eternally beautifull What trouble and pain do many women that are crooked endure by wearing Iron bodies to make themselves strait What vast expences are many at for the beautifying of their rotten carcasses Hearken unto me thou proud dust and ashes thou guilded mud that labourest to beautifie thy body by vain foolish and