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 corruptâ—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
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 Colledge in Cambridg With a short account of his Death By EDMUND CALAMY B. D. Pastor of Aldermanbury in London To which are annexed Verses upon his Death composed by divers of his Friends and Acquaintance The righteous perisheth and no man layeth it to heart and mercifull men are taken away none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come Isa. 57. 1. Your fathers where are they and the Prophets do they live for ever Zach. 1. 5. London Printed for Joseph Cranford at the Sign of the Phoenix in Pauls Churchyard M.DC.LV. TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE ROBERT EARL OF WARWICK BARON OF LEEZE Right Honourable IT hath pleased God to take unto himself a Reverend Learned and Pious Minister Dr BOLTON one who feared God above many who was not without just cause highly esteemed by your Lordship whose memory is very pretious to you and who was very dear to a Religious Daughter of yours now with God whom I mention for Honour sake the Lady Lucy Roberts The ensuing Sermon preached at his sad Funerals I crave leave to dedicate to your Lordship as a publike acknowledgement of the many and great favours I have received from you The design of it is to wean Christians from the overmuch love of their bodies All men by nature are prone curare cutem magis quà m animam to take more care and spend more time for their bodies then for their souls Hence it is that they think no cost too much that is laid out for the feeding and cloathing of their bodies no gift too great that is given to the Physitian to heal them when diseased but any thing too much which is given to a godly Minister for the good of their souls Hence it is that the working dayes are too few and too short for their bodily profits and pastimes but the Lords day which is the Queen of dayes because it is the Souls Market-day for Heaven is burdensome to them and very tedious Hence it is also that they are willing to lay out Nine parts of their Estate for their bodies but unwilling to part with the Tenth for soul-advantages The scope of this Sermon is to shew the vanity and sinfulness of these and such like practises It tells your Lordship That the Body is the worst half of man the boxe the shell the carcasse That the Soul is the Jewel the life the man of man That the Body is a Vile body made of vile materials subject to vile diseases and to vile abominations and that he that provides for his body and not for his soul is like unto a husbandman that in harvest time gathers in his stubble and leaves his Corn to be devoured by his Hoggs or like unto a Goldsmith that weighs exactly his dross but disregards his gold And also He that provides for his Body with the neglect of his Soul is like unto a Merchant that overloads his Ship so as to drown himself or to a man that makes so great a fire to warm himself by as to burn his house and himself in it It sheweth your Lordship also That this vile body will never be changed into a glorious body till the great day of the resurrection and that then the Lord JESUS will come from Heaven on purpose to fashion our vile bodies like unto his glorious body That this life is not the time appointed for the good of our bodies only or chiefly but of our souls principally and especially That the only way to make our bodies glorious is by getting our souls to be made gracious That the happiness of the body depends upon the happiness of the soul If the soul be adorned here with Christs righteousness the body will be cloathed with glory unexpressible hereafter If the soul when separated from the body be polluted and belepred with sinne the body and soul will both of them be eternally miserable at the resurrection These Lessons are very suitable and seasonable for all sorts and degrees but especially for you Right Honourable whose body now begins to wax old and will shortly go down to the house of rottenness and be crumbled into dust I doubt not but God hath sufficiently taught you the vanity and emptiness of all earthly greatness That greatness without goodness is like the greatness of a man with a Dropsie which is his disease not his happiness That Riches without Righteousness are but heaps of dung And that nothing but Grace will make you truly and eternally honourable God hath taken you off out of love to your pretious soul from all publike employments and thereby hath lent you much time to provide for eternity He hath given you a Noble Countess a pretious Consort a beloved Companion a dear Yoak-fellow united to you not only by marriage relation but by true love and most entire affection who will be glad to go hand in hand with you in heavens way To both of you my obligations are very many and very great the characters of your Love are visible and legible by all All that know me know my relation to you My prayers to God for you both shall be That God would give you more of himself and of those mercies which cannot stand with damnation That he would keep you good in bad times and constant to your principles in Apostatizing times That he would lengthen out your dayes for his glory and that this Sermon may be instrumentall to make you minde your bodies lesse and your souls more that when the great day of judgement shall come your vile bodies may be changed into the likeness of the glorious body of JESUS CHRIST So prayeth My Lord your servant in all spiritual things EDM. CALAMY A SERMON PREACHED AT Dr BOLTONS Funerall PHIL. 3. 20 21. From whence also we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things unto himself WE are here met to perform the last office of love for a worthy reverend and godly Minister of Jesus Christ Dr SAMUEL BOLTON late Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridge And this Text that I have chosen will afford us many suitable and seasonable meditations and considerations for such a meeting For here you have 1. The Condition that the bodies of men even the best of men are in in this life they are vile and contemptible Our vile body The Greek words are very emphaticall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} the body of vilenesse a corpus humilitatis nostrae or b corpus nostrum humile The word {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifieth vilem abjectam conditionem
had been cast upon the stone then every thing weighed down the stone The Morall is tâ—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
body shall be raised out of the grave and be made like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ Before he was Master of Christs Colledge he preached three or four years in this place six or seven years at Saviours Southwark and for some time at Andrews in Holburn to the great satisfaction of all the godly that waited upon his Ministry And though he be now dead yet he still speaks not only by the holiness of his life and graciousness of his doctrine but also by the many Books he hath left in print in which you may behold a fair character of his piety and Ministeriall abilites He was very orthodox and sound in judgment he had no spiritual Leprosie in his head witness those two Books of his The Arraignment of Error and A Vindication of the Rights of the Law and Liberties of Grace He was of a publike spirit witness that Book of his A word in season to a sinking Kingdom He was very carefull in admitting men and women to the Sacrament of the Lords Supper witness that Book of his called The Wedding Garment The time of his sickness was long tedious and costly his diseases many very many but his patience was exceeding great he would usually say That though the providences of God were dark towards him yet he had light within A little before he died he said to one that was lifting him up Let me alone let me lie quietly for I have as much comfort as heart can hold The last time I was with him I found him wonderfully desirous to be dissolved and to be with Christ I heard him say Oh this vile carcass of mine when will it give way that my soul may get out and go to my God When will this rotten carcass be consumed that I may mount up to Heaven And when he saw any probable symptoms of death which he called the little crevises at which his soul did peep out he was exceedingly joyfull It was his desire to be buried without any Funeral pomp which puts me in minde of a saying recorded in the life of Pellican of an Vncle of his who would not be buried in his Scholastick habit as the custom then was testamento cavit ne aliter sepeliretur quam simplex alius Christianus He ordered it in his Will to be buried as a private Christian and not as a Doctor and the reason he gives is because he hoped resurrecturum se ad judicium non ut Sacerdotem Doctorem sed ut humilem Christianum That he should rise at the day of judgment and appear before God not as a Priest or Doctor but as an humble Christian This was the desire and hope of our Reverend Brother and this text that I have preached on was matter of great rejoycing unto him whilest he thought of that day when his vile body subject to so many diseases should be made like unto the glorious body of Christ according to the working the mighty working as he three times repeated it whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself And so I leave him in the arms of his blessed Saviour beseeching God to make up this great loss of him to the Church of Christ in generall and to the Vniversity of Cambridg in particular FINIS TO THE Memory of the Right Worshipfull SAMVEL BOLTON D. D. late Master of Chr. Coll. in Cambridg COme let our Petty brooks of sorrow fall Into a full swolne stream of generall Sadness in pursuit of that blest soul hence Put off to the eternal confluence And Ocean of goodness Happy he Whose grief is swallow'd in that blissefull sea Weep we once more whose Fathers hast'ned death And Church-estate expiring with their breath Make us a lower sort of Orphans we Who found in Him still freshest memory Of whose we were that tenderness of heart Which the deceased spirits seem'd to impart And yet nor we nor she from whose torn breast Death snatcht away th'indearing close lodg'd guest Untimely misaccounting his years summe And hudling up in 's life dayes yet to come Such were our hopes and such the promises Of a firm tempers seeming healthfulness Nor we nor she to private loss must pay What we should in the common treasure lay In universaller calamity There 's sacriledg in such a privacy Such is the fright when the main body flies Or gives ground or when a Souldier spies A breach in the chief-fortress so were we Who fanci'd a blest perpetuity Appaled when we saw his strength decline Whom we wisht as immortal as divine The Colledg scarce could hear 't though by degrees We were dril'd on into our miseries Was it death's mercy or deaths cruelty That we might feel or fit our selves to dy We languish'd all the while in him at last Into th' Dead Colledg all our Fellow 's past This grief 's too straight still and he little knew What the World ow'd that thinks his tears undue Doth not if such a part of goodness fall Goodnesses common spirit convey to all A members sadness I'n't the Church throughout Its body pained when an Eie 's put out Where shall we now such a meek Moses finde To recall wrangling Brethren to one minde Many will help it on but who 'le bemoan A sad Church rent into division 'T was the work of a soul as his orecome With benigne sweetness such a one in whom Dwelt th' image of full Goodness as above Calme and serene in its firm peace and love One to the World so dead that evermore In the worlds things he seem'd stept out of doore As one that 's gone for some few hours abroad Or whom some small affairs call out of 's road Then was he at his home then onely free When the employment was pure heavenly How naturally in spiritual discourse Was his speech fluent ready without force And unaffected one might safely say Then he was in his temper in 's own way Like him who tyred with a barb'rous sound In a strange country happily hath found One of his natives now he may reflect On his own home in 's well known dialect View his divine attendance his soul prest On messages to Heaven and addrest To his immortal Fathers not with words Which malapert Buffons speak to their Lords Nor peremptory sauciness built on A fond God-levelling communion But in beseeming reverence By and by As toucht by'illapses of Divinity Rais'd into heav'nly ardors while just as Bodies mov'd swifty along where they pass By their own violence impress a motion Ev'n on by-standing dulness His devotion Rouz'd and enliv'ned all the neighbour hearts By holy-magick touch more then the arts Of Pulpit-Orators more motive he Snatcht our souls up by vigorous sympathy Such was his zeal a fire not nourished By earthy matter purer then what 's fed By popular applause and basest gain His zeal was of a farre more heav'ly strain It ner'e gave fire to Cannon nor did light Musquitiers matches in no civil fight Was it a
conduct or ere serv'd in flame To burn dissenters bodies or their Name Such searching fires earths mixture do proclaime When like some wandring fires from book to book Skipt it From Paul to Littleton or Cook 'T was pure and steady powerfull nor fierce By gentleness it had the might to pierce A sinners heart asham'd to see more sense In him then in himself who did th' offence In preaching prayer and life we well might see Divineness Man now in mortality Plead not blest soul against us that th' art gone As tyr'd with us dull to be wrought upon That thou mad'st hast impatient of our stay Who fondly loytring would not hie away 'T is but our guilt Hee 's more Good now nor farre Christs-Colledg Keeper still and Tutelar J. SEDGWICK Chr. Col. C. An Epitaph on the truly Religious and Learned Doctor BOLTON Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridg TYr'd with a Body and the Age here lyes One that was Holy Learned Just and Wise Liv'd when the Court seem'd heavy and the See Grew proud yet Patience preach'd and Modesty Though Fears urg'd Fears and Hope pursued Hope Pulpits 'gainst Pulpits bandied yet the scope Both of His Text and Life was peace fair Peace Heaven's Legacy the busie world's scorn'd Ease By taking Care of Souls He did not mean Providing Lordships for his heirs so clean So spotless were his Aimes his greatest store Was Love and Praise Promotion made him Poor 'T was not the practise of his Zeal to Grone Against Plurality and neglect his One His Matter alwayes did become the place Diurnals never turnd the second Glasse Call'd from the City he succeed One Turnd out by Death Fates Sequestration Which Place he serv'd with chearfull Love and Care Firm Justice open Candour hearty Prayer Free from base shriveled Faction hungry strife Ev'n to the loss of Riches Health and Life Stay Reader and bestow a Tear On this Dusty Fruitfull Bed The Spring will then dwell alwayes here And Violets ner'e hang the head Pray the Earth may lightly presse Her entrusted Urne below May the same prayer thy Reliques blesse When they shall rest as his do now T. STANDISH Upon the Death of the Pious and Learned SAMUEL BOLTON Doctor of Divinity and Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridg NOt that my gadding Muse affects to shew Her courser beauties to the common view Not that she thinks such harsh ill-tuned Layes As hers are fit to celebrate thy praise Dares she present these verses but as they Who hundreds hold of others yet do pay Nought but a Pepper-corn by this she showes Though she brings little yet 't is much she owes To thy dear Memory and honour'd Name Immortal BOLTON Heir of lasting Fame Whose known deserts and unreproved worth Needs not her slender skill to blaze it forth But can commend it self to after-times Without the help of Elegiack Rimes Though others under brasse and marble plac'd Keep not their Names and Titles undefac'd Though Monuments themselves decay and must Confess their ruins and resolve to dust Though all things else be subject to the Laws Of fickle Change and Times devouring jaws Yet wisdome hath a ne're decaying root And vertuous pains bring everlasting fruit And they that labour'd have and liv'd like Thee Their Names shall last to all eternity Nor seems it strange that vertuous men should best Oblivion scape which oft involves the rest Of things and persons whose poor low desires Are not affected with such high aspires The Principles by which most men do move Are private Interest and base self-love So farre their friendship and their hate extends It self as serves their own contracted ends Hence as that Earth-begotten brood which grew From teeth which Cadmus in the furrowes threw Within a while by civil discord slain Return'd unto her Mother earth again And scarce left any token to appear To tell th' ensuing age that once they were So bad men quickly vanish and are gone Buried in earth and dark oblivion But those like thee whose more enlarged breast With better thoughts and purer fire 's possest Who make themselves no scope to which they bend Their actions but the common good attend Cannot pass unregarded hence but Fame Ennobles and perpetuates their Name Who ere did to the infant world impart Some signal benefit or usefull art Had Temples built unto him Hence arose Ceres and Bacchus and such gods as those Would truth dispense and piety admit Of such like Deities 't were farre more fit T' account Thee one then those that taught us how To tread the winepress first and hold the plow Since this grand difference 'twixt thee we finde And them they fed the body thou the minde Wm W BRYCHE On the deplored Death of the Reverend Doctour SAMUEL BOLTON Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridg TO mourn in verse and write an Elegie Is even grown as common as to die Poëtick sorrow serves but for a mask To other passions 't were an easie task For grief that 's feigned or at best but fain'd To boast it self in eloquent complaint But where internall sorrow hath possest The very vitals and corrodes the breast With inward care where the oppressed heart Doth inly languish with consuming smart The soul is choaked and the spirits spent With mutual conflict e're they finde a vent Such reall anguish such unfeigned grief Doth scarce admit the pitifull relief Of sighs and tears such dolour scarce affords Imperfect sentences and broken words The case is ours whom sorrows violence Hath strongly touched with a vigorous sense Of our calamity whose deep distress Our mindes with grief astonish'd can't express No wonder then in so just cause of tears And sad complaints so little pomp appears Of mournfull Elegies and funerall songs This loss doth more affect our hearts then tongues Our sincere mourning seeks not after fame In these iust Rites let others then proclaim Their forced sorrow with exalted cries Our reall grief makes silent Obsequies W. LEIGH Upon the Death of the Reverend his never to be forgotten Friend Dr BOLTON Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridg IS BOLTON dead and shall not England weep That we no longer such a Saint could keep Alas the world not worthy was of Thee The Saints above did want thy companie Thy virtues graces praises and thy worth No tongue alive is able to set forth Thou wast a burning and a shining Light In this ovr Orb few left which shine so bright Thy Minister ' all Gifts thy Zeal were rare Thy Piety no less thy gifts in Pray'r And in a word Blest Soul Thee to commend Thy Praise knows no beginning nor no end JOHN CROFTS Minist. C. C. C. FINIS a Tremelius b Beza Corpus humilitatis pro eorpore humili Hebraismo non ignoto Justinianus in locum The Greek for a body is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} quasi {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} a {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} 2 Cor. 5. Bernard Gen. 2. 7. Vse Lesson 1. Isa 40. Job 13. 25 28. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Lesson 2. Rom. 6. 6. In vita ejus per Hieronymum Lesson 3. Lesson 4. Lesson 5. Lesson 6. 1 Cor. 6. 15. 19. 3. 17. Doct. 2. Quest 1. Answ. 1 Thes. 4. 15. Job 19. 25 26 27. 1 Cor. 15. 53. Quest 2 Answ. Aug. de Civ. Dei lib. 22. Rom. 7. Mat. 13. 43. M. Norton in his Orthodox Evangelist Acts 9. Rom. 22. 23. Acts 6. 15. Exod. 34. 30. Vbi volet spiritus ibi protenus erit corpus M. Norton Norton in his Orthodox Evangelist Quest 3. Answ. Tertul. 1 Cor. 15. Quest 4. Answ. Quest 5. Answ. 1. Answ. 2. 2 Thes. 1. 10. Col. 3. 3. Answ. 2. Matth. 13. 43. 1 Cor. 9. 27. Rom. 6. 13. 14. 1 Chro. 12. 31. Isa. 57. 1. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Gregorius vir per omnia incomparabilis qui verbo operibus clarus splendididissimum lumen scientiae Ecclesiae praebuit dum ca docuit quae fecit nec seipsum condemnavit agendo contraria quam docebat Dr Tuckney in his Funerall Sermon of Dr Hill Melchior Adamus in vita Pellicani