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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A78767	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.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1654 (1654)	Wing C229; Thomason E814_8; ESTC R207348	14,379	23

Saints of God fear not to go down to the house of rottennesse fear not to lay down your heads in the grave for God will certainly bring you out again and you shall come out a glorious body fear not to have this house this tabernacle of thy body pulled down for God shall raise it up again and make of it a glorious structure 2. Let this comfort us against the death of our godly friends 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 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. saies Job there the clods of the valley shall be sweet unto me they made their graves in the valleys and saies Job the mould and clods that fils the grave shall be sweet unto me the earth shall be sweet to the Saints And then again let this comfort any of Christ Mysticall body any of Gods children that have deformed bodies or diseased bodies you that are troubled with the Stone Gout Dissinesse in the head that makes you unserviceable to God in your places and unable to doe what good you would here is comfort for you at the glorious resurrection our vile bodies shall be changed and all our diseases shall be cured our Stone and Gout and Head-aches and infirmities shall be cured And then again let this comfort us and encourage us to be willing if God cals us to it to lose our ears for Christs sake to lose our hands for Christs sake and to lose this vile body if God call us to suffer for him let us be willing to lose a member for Christs sake for you shall have all restored to you again at the resurrection therefore the day of judgement is called the day of restitution of all things wherein God will repair all our breaches as in that story in the book of Martyrs of the seven Children that were put to death and one of them his tongue going to be cut out comforted his mother in telling her he should have a better tongue at the resurrection From the consideration of this let us be exhorted and oh that I could speak so that my words might be effectuall and operative upon all your hearts let me humbly beseech you to glorifie God in your bodies Oh you that are the Saints of God whose bodies by grace are become the Temples of the Holy Ghost let me beseech you by the mercies of that God that hath sanctified your bodies and made them instruments of his service that you would yeeld up your bodies and present them a living sacrifice holy and acceptable unto God which is your reasonable service make your bodies more and more the instruments of righteousnesse unto righteousnesse And let us that are Ministers think of this let us not think it much to wear out our bodies in Gods service at the day of Judgement we shall then have glorious bodies Let us not think we can do God too much service with our bodies especially when we consider how glorious our bodies shall be at the resurrection even conformable to the glo●ious body of Jesus Christ Here is another Use I should make of this which I shall but name to you and that is a divine project how to make your bodies glorious If there were such a Physician amongst you that could cure all your deformities and diseases and make your bodies immortall how would you prize him Beloved I have this day told you of such a Physician and that is the Lord Jesus Christ that shall one day come from heaven and make our vile bodies like to his glorious body Hearken to me thou proud dust and ashes thou that spendest all thy time in decking and adorning thy body with sinfull deckings consider thy madnesse that whilest thou takest more care for thy vile body then for thy precious soul thou doest ruine and destroy both Do but hearken to me and I will shew you a way how to get glorious bodies and glorious souls too labour to get gracious souls here and you shall be sure to have glorious bodies and souls hereafter labour to have your conversations in heaven here and then at the great day of Judgement Jesus Christ will let out some of his glory to make you glorious he shall change our vile bodies and fashion them like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself But I must forbear and leave things imperfect because there is another text that I must speak a little to It hath pleased God now of late to take away many worthy and godly and learned Ministers from amongst us And certainly my brethren this is a great Judgement and so much the greater because people are so little sensible of it And it is not only a great Judgement it self but also a presage of a greater The Jewes had a saying That it was an ill sign to the world when the Luminaries of heaven were eclipsed God hath lately eclipsed many Luminaries and put out many glorious lights I need not put you of this city in minde of Dr. Gouge Mr. Walker Mr. Whitaker Mr. Gatiker Mr. Strong I need not put those of the University in minde of Dr. Hill and now this reverend and worthy Minister Dr. Samuel Bolton Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridge If I should enter into his commendations I might justly say that which another said in the like case That there is more fear lest we should say lesse then he deserved then that we should praise him above his deserts He was a burning and a shining light in this our Israel he was an Interpreter one of a thousand a man of excellent ministerial abilities a workman that needed not to be ashamed dividing aright the word of truth he was one that did not only preach well but live well he was one whose life was an excellent commentary upon his Sermons As Nazianzen said of John the Baptist who is called the voyce of the cryer saies he John the Baptist was tota vox all voice in his prudence all voice in his habit all voice in his diet all voice in his dwelling all voice in his conversation so was our dear Brother all voice he was a voice in his life as well as in his Doctrine and let me tell you that the life of a Minister preacheth as

much as his Doctrine it was a saying that Ruffinus hath of Gregory Nazianzen which I may apply to this our Brother he not condemning himself by living contrary to what he preached but he did do those things himself that he taught to others He had not only dona sanata but dona salutifera not only gifts for the good of others but grace for the good of his own soul Many Ministers have rare gifts and parts but they are like a Pearl in a Toads head because their Lives give a lye to their Doctrines but this our Brother was one that not only had gifts for the good of others but grace for the good of his own soul and that is his greatest commendation he was an humble Saint There are 4. things saies Luther that make a Minister prayer reading meditation and temptation our Christian Brother was not only a man of reading prayer and meditation but a man assaulted with many temptations more I beleeve then many hundreds of Ministers are he was much assaulted with temptations and therefore the better able to comfort those that were tempted with those comforts where withall he was comforted And let me take the boldnesse to tell you that he hath left a writing behinde him wherein he hath recorded all the outgoings of God toward him and all the experiences of Gods shining with the light of his countenance upon him and also of his withdrawings and hiding his face from him both those times when God was at a distance from him and when he approached nearer to him He was so zealous in his Ministeriall function that though he was head of a Colledge in Cambridge yet notwithstanding for many years together he preached freely without any salary at the publique Church in that City And this puts me in minde of what was said in a Sermon in print of that reverend and godly man Doctor Hill that he preached the Gospell without any charges to them that heard him and so did this our Brother for many years and for three or four years he was Lecturer in this place where he preached to the great satisfaction of the godly both here and in many other places of the City that duly waited upon his Ministry And though he be now dead yet he still speaks not only by the holinesse of his life and graciousnesse of his Doctrine but also by the many books that he hath left in print behind him in which books you may see a fair character of his piety and Ministeriall abilities He was very orthodox and sound in Judgement no spirituall leprosie in his head witnesse those two Books of his The Arraignment of Errors and A Vindication of the right of the Law and of the Liberties of Grace He was a man of a publique spirit witnesse that Book of his A Work in season to a sinking Kingdome He was very carefull in his Sacramentall admission when he had a place wherein to exercise his Ministry he was very exact in that particular witnesse that Book of his called The Wedding Garment For the time of sicknesse it was long tedious and constant and yet notwithstanding it pleased God to measure out to him a great deal of patience and consolation and it is observable and may be for the comfort and encouragement of those Ministers or people that meet with a great many crosses and troubles and temptations in their life times they do commonly receive the greatest comforts at their death It pleased God to come in to this our godly Brother with a great deal of comfort in so much that before he dyed he said his heart was as full of comfort as it could hold and saies he though the providences of God have been very dark towards me yet I thank God I have light within me When I was last with him he was wonderfull desirous to be dissolved and to be with Christ and I heard him say Oh this vile carkasse of mine when will it give way that my soul may get out and goe to my God Oh this vile carkasse when will thou be consumed that I may goe to my God And when he did see any symptomes of death any thing that did threaten death which he called the the little crevises at which his soul did peep out it was the joy of his heart It was his desire to be buryed without any Funerall pomp which puts me in minde of good Pell when he was a dying the Scholars of the University came to him and asked him whether he would be buried in his Scholastick habit or no saies he No I desire to die as an humble Christian not as a Doctor as a humble Saint not as a learned man and I trust I shall appear at the great day not clad with my Doctors Robes but with the Robes of Christs righteousnesse And this was the desire and the hope of our dear brother and this Text that I have preached on he did with a great deal of earnestnesse of spirit rejoice in when he considered of that day when this vile body of his subject to so many diseases should be made like to the glorious body of Jesus Christ in whose blessed Armes we leave this our dear Brother beseeching God that he would make up this great losse of him to the Church of God in generall and to the University of Cambridge in particular FINIS Object Answ Vse Lesson 1. Lesson 2. Lesson 3. Lesson 4. Lesson 5. 1 Cor. 6. 15 19. 3. 17. Doct. 2. Quest 1. Answ Quest 2. Answ Quest 3. Answ Object Answ Object Answ Ans. 2. Answ 3. Vse Rom. 12. 1. Vse 2.