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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

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.