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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

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 in Little-Britain and are to be sold at Westminster and in Pauls Church-yard 1655 To the Christian Reader READER WEE live in such times wherein most men in the world cry out with those the Psalmist speaks of in the 4. Psalme Who will shew us any good inquiring and listening after the pleasures and profits and preferments of the world spending all their time and improving all their parts abilities and opportunities for the promoting their temporall interests and providing for their frail bodies subject to diseases infirmities and corruptions and which ere long must be laid down in the dust and in the mean time neglecting the concernments of their precious and never dying souls never valuing or at least not labouring after the light of Gods countenance which is better then life and the joyes of his salvation which are unspeakable and glorious but preferre their bodies before their souls greedily pursuing the world and only minding earthly things whose end as the Apostle saies will be destruction both of soul and body if they still run on without repentance This Sermon was designed to cure part of this evill and to put a stop to the folly and madnesse of such people by discovering to them a better way how to advance the interest of their bodies and to make them happy and glorious by having their conversations here in heaven and securing the interest of their souls in the first place Possibly this ensuing discourse was only intended for the edification of that particular Congregation where it was delivered but being there taken from the Authors mouth by the pen of a ready writer and now exposed to publique view all good people may partake of the advantages that are therein recorded whereat I hope no man ought to be offended A Sermon preached At Dr. Samuel Bolton's Funerall PHIL. 3. 21. Who shall change our vile body that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself WEE are here met at this time to perform the last office of love for a worthy reverend and godly Minister of Jesus Christ Dr. Samuel Bolton Master of Christs Colledge in Cambridge and this Text that I have chosen will afford us many sutable and seasonable considerations for such a meeting for here you have first the condition that the bodies of men even the best of men the Saints of God are in in this life they are vile bodies the Greek is very emphaticall {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} corpus vilitatis that is bodies of vilenesse or a vile body the Greek {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} signifies abjectam conditionem a vile and abject condition such as is the condition of slaves or bondmen 2. Here we have the condition that the bodies of the Saints shall be in at the glorious resurrection of the Just then their vile bodies shall be made like to the glorious body of the Lord Jesus Christ the body of vilenesse shall then be the body of glory 3. We have h●●e the persons that shall be thus changed at the glorious resurrection and they are such who have their conversations in heaven Who shall change our not every vile body but our vile body whose conversations are in heaven from whence 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 4. We have the person that shall do all this and that person is the Lord Jesus Christ 5. The time when this shall be done and that is at the great day of Judgement from whence we look for the Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who at that day when he comes to judge the world shall change our vile bodies 6. We have the means by which all this shall be accomplished and that is according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself and therefore able to make this glorious transfiguration and transformation of our bodies You may perceive by what I have said that this Text is a Cabinet of many precious truths here you have the Doctrine of the bodies fragility and vilenesse and the Doctrine of the bodies immortality and glorification at the resurrection of the just You have the Doctrine of the eternall day of judgement you have the doctrine of the main design and end why Jesus Christ will come to Judgement one chief reason of it is that he may change our vile bodies and fashion them like unto his glorious body My purpose is to pick out two of these jewels to speak to at this time 1. The condition that the bodies of the Saints are in in this life 2. The condition that the bodies of the Saints are in at the great day of judgement First I shall speak of the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the body of vilenesse or the vile body and then of the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} of the body of glory 1. That the bodies of the Saints as long as they are in this life they are vile bodies 2. That the Lord Jesus Christ at the day of jugement shall raise up these vile bodies and make them formable to his glorious body 1. That the bodies of the Saints in this life they are bodies of vilenesse the holy Apostle foresaw how prone men and women would be to be proud of the bodies and pamper their bodies and spend their time and care about their bodies even to the neglect of their precious souls and therefore he is pleased to call our bodies vile bodies and in 1 Cor. 25. 43. there he cals them bodies of dishonour {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} bodies of dishonour or bodies of vilenesse Object But you will say In what respect may the body of a Saint be called a vile body Answ. The 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 2. And more especially since the fall of Adam our bodies are called vile bodies because subject to vile

at that great and glorious resurrection Augustine hath this expression saies he How great the glory of our spirituall bodies shall be at that day because we have no experience of it I am afraid it will be rashnesse for any man to speak peremptorily about it If I had time there are many places of Scripture I would crave leave to open to you concerning this we shall at that day be made equall to the Angels it is sowen a corruptible body but raised an incorruptible body 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 c. And many other places but I shall confine my self to the expression here in the Text These vile bodies of ours shall be made {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} conformable to the glorious body of Christ and this is enough to set out the excellency of them for the body of Christ now in heaven certainly is unexpressibly glorious you have a specification of this in his transfiguration the face of Christ did shine as the Sun in so much that Peter was swallowed up with the brightnesse of that glory and yet that was but a glimpse of his glory now in heaven Rev. 2. 2. There shall be no need of the Sun there for the Lamb shall be the light of Heaven There are many Divines of opinion that the brightnesse that Paul saw when he was struck dead off his horse was the brightnesse of the body of Jesus Christ surely great is the glory of that body now the bodies of the Saints shall be changed into the likenesse of the glorious body of Jesus Christ Quest But how shall this be done Answ. My brethren with man this is impossible but with God nothing is impossible my Text tels you how this shall be done even according to the mighty working whereby he is able to subdue all things to himself The Lord Jesus Christ he is almighty and therefore he is able to do it and let me tell you this our dear Brother did thrice repeat these words according to his mighty power his mighty power even his mighty power he is able to change this vile body of mine and make it like unto his glorious body Object But shall all bodies be made thus glorious Answ. No the bodies of the wicked shall rise at the last day but it shall be to their everlasting shame and ruine and confusion the bodies of the wicked shall be immortall but they shall be immortall fuell to immortall flames the bodies of the wicked shall come out of the grave as the Baker did out of prison in Egypt to be executed they shall go out of prison to the place of execution out of the grave as out of prison to be hung in chains for ever and ever the wicked shall rise but their bodies in stead of being glorious shall be loathsome and abominable Object But what is the Character of those men and women whose bodies shall be made thus glorious at that day Answ There is one Character of them in the Text if thou art one that hast thy conversation in heaven then thy body shall be glorious For our conversation is in heaven from whence also we look for a Saviour the Lord Jesus Christ who shall change our vile bodies and make them like to his glorious body c. If thou beest a man that mindest earthly things if thou art an Epicure and voluptuous and given over to fulfill the desires of the flesh and of the minde thy body shall rise but it shall rise to the resurrection of everlasting condemnation But you that are heavenly minded that have your dispositions and conversations in heaven then when Christ comes from heaven he shall make your bodies glorious 2. You that are Members of Christs mysticall Body Christ hath a Naturall body and a Mysticall body all the godly that are true beleevers and really united to Christ they are all Members of his Mysticall Body now if thou beest a Member of Christs Mysticall Body thou shalt be made as glorious as Christs Naturall body Mistake me not I speak not of the quality but likenesse he will make his Mysticall body as glorious as his Naturall body therefore it is said in 2 Thess. 1. 10. that at the day of Judgement he shall be glorified in his Saints that is glorified in the glory that his Saints shall have at that day here Christ is glorified by his Saints but there he shall be glorified in his Saints in the glory that the Members of his Mysticall body shall then have Christ shall have a double glory in heaven a personall glory and a refl●xive glory the glory of the Members of Christ shall be the glory of Christ at that day all you that are true and reall Members of Christs Mysticall body your vile body at the great day of Christ appearing shall be made like unto his glorious body 3. All you that have gracious souls now you shall have glorified bodies hereafter It was a rare saying that of Bernard and worthy to be written in letters of gold saies he Christ hath a double coming he comes now by his Ministers to make thy soul glorious and at the day of Judgement he will come in his person to make thy body glorious This is the great mistake of the world they spend that time in pampering their bodies which they should imploy in providing for their souls This present time is not the time for thy body this is the time for thy soul wherein thou shouldst labour to get that adorned with grace and holinesse and then Christ will come on purpose from heaven to make thy body glorious hereafter Do not therefore mistake your time study to get good and gracious souls here and you shall be sure to have glorious bodies hereafter and you that defile and pollute your souls and starve them by living in sin and iniquity you that have vile souls here shall be sure to have miserable and wretched bodies hereafter There are many rare Uses that may be made of this point give me leave to name one of them to you and that shall be to all you that have gracious souls I hope I speak to many such this night whose soules are adorned with the robes of Christs righteousnesse to all you that minde heavenly things who have your conversations in heaven to all you that are members of Christs Mysticall body consider I beseech you what a glorious condition your vile bodies shall be in at the great day of Christs appearing consider it and that in these two particulars 1. Let this consideration comfort us against the fear of death and let me say to you as God said to Jacob in Gen 44. Fear not to go down into Egypt saies God for certainly I will bring thee out again So say I to you that are the

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

called Jumentum animi the beast of the soul now when this beast begins to kick against the soul we must labour to subdue it by fasting and prayer 3. Let this epithet teach us a Lesson of heavenly courage and fortitude let us not fear what man can do unto us Let us not fear what the worst of men can do for they can but kill this vile body and therefore saies Christ Fear not him that can but kill the body and after that can do no more they cannot reach the soul of a Saint they can but hurt the body and that is a vile body too subject to a thousand diseases and abominations and therfore why should we fearwhat vile man can do against us seeing they can only hurt this vile body and when they have done all they can this body in spite of them will rise again and this vile body will become a most glorious body Oh let us not make shipwrack of a good conscience to save this vile body Oh let us not destroy our souls to save this vile carkase in a good cause 4. In the next place from this Epithet of vile body let us learn this Lesson not to set the servant on horse back and let the Master go a foot let us not prefer the handmaid before the Mistresse let us not prefer the box before the jewell this vile body before our precious and immortall souls The body is made of dust and who ever advanced dust we use to sweep that away off from our cloathes and out of our houses oh therefore let us not advance our bodies that are but dust the body without the soul is but a lump of clay a rotten carkasse doe not then preferre it before thy precious soul It is a sad thing to consider how most people even those that beleeve the Doctrine of the souls immortality do spend the best of their time and cares and affections upon these vile bodies and in the mean time neglect to provide for their eternall souls Give me leave to illustrate this by a similitude Suppose a man should invite a Noble man to his house and only provide provender for the noble mans horses without any provision at all for himself only such as his horses feed on would not this be a course entertainment and yet this is the disposition of most people in the world the soul is this Nobleman which dwels in this body of clay as in a poor cottage and we pamper our bodies and provide provender for them but take no care at all of our noble souls we neglect them our souls are never the richer for all our worldly wealth nor are our souls the finer for all our golden clothes I have read a prayer that I have oftentimes wondred at and that is the prayer of S. John concerning Gaius in 3 Joh. 2. he does there pray that his body might prosper and be in health even as his soul prospered if we should make such prayers 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 leanbodies You should labour so to live that this prayer might be fit for you that we might pray that God would prosper your bodies even as your soul prospereth let your chief part take up your chiefest care Once more in the fifth place Let us from this Epithet learn a lesson of thankfulnesse seeing our bodies are bodies of vilenesse then if God hath formed you into a more handsom or healthful body then other men if God hath made any of us ex meliore luto of better earth if God hath made us golden vessels in regard of our outward condition if God 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 eternall condition as I doubt not but there are many such here Oh give God a great deal of glory and give God all the glory If God hath made thy vile body an instrument of righteousnesse unto holinesse if God 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 a harlot God forbid Know you not that your body is the Temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you 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 sin and iniquity God forbid But I must passe from this point and come to the second which was that our worthy and dear brother was very much refreshed withall and did often repeat in my hearing and upon that account I made choice of this Text at this time The second observation then is this That the Lord Jesus Christ shall come down from heaven at the great day of Judgement and shall raise those vile bodies of ours and shall make them like unto his glorious body This Doctrine is an Alablaster box full of precious consolation it was a great comfort and support to our dear brother when he was going out of the world and oh that it might be a precious Cordiall to every one of us when we come to lie upon our death-beds I shall here by way of illustration propound three short questions and then answer them Quest 1. What is that change that Christ shall make in our vile bodies at the glorious resurrection Answ. God will not make a substantiall change of our bodies but only of the quality of them the same bodies that are now vile shall then be glorious that look as a piece of wool when it is dyed into a scarlet dye yet it is the same wool for substance though it be made more glorious so likewise shall our bodies be at the resurrection they shall be the same bodies only made more glorious Mat. 22. They shall be bodies of glorification we shall be made equall to the Angels not in regard of essence but in regard of qualities Chrysostome hath a fine simile to this purpose saies he as a Goldsmith takes a little gold and puts it into a refining pot and melts it and then out of that gold formes a golden vessell fit to be set before Kings so the Lord Jesus Christ will melt the bodies of his Saints by death and then out of their dead ashes will form a vessell of gold a glorious body fit to live before God and sing Halelujahs in heaven to all eternity Quest What kinde of transfiguration or transformation shall our bodies have at that day What is this metamorphosis this change wherein doth it consist Answ It is impossible to set out those glorious excellencies that God will bestow upon our bodies