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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A32058	The saints transfiguration, or, The body of vilenesse changed into a body of glory a sermon preached at Martins Ludgate, October 19, 1654, at the funerall of that reverend and faithfull minister of Jesus Christ, Dr. Samuel Bolton, late master of Christs College in Cambridg : with a short account of his death / by Edmund Calamy ... ; to which are annexed verses upon his death, composed by divers of his friends and acquaintance.	Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1655 (1655)	Wing C265; ESTC R5821	27,503	41

splendour It is sown in dishonour but it is raised in glory 1 Cor. 15. 43. The body is not so miserable under the curse as it is blessed in the promise As in the state of corruption it is abased lower then all created bodies so in the state of glory it is exalted higher then all other bodies For the righteous shall shine forth as the Sunne in the Kingdom of their Father Not that they shall not out-shine the Sunne but because there is no more shining body visible to us therefore are the bodies of the Saints in glory compared thereunto The glory of the body saith one will exceed all the beauty and splendour of Gems Pearls Heavens Sunne Moon and Starres yea even the Heaven of Heavens though all were put together This Text tells us that our vile bodies shall be made {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} conformable to the glorious body of Christ This is abundantly sufficient to set out the glory of our body at that day for the body of Christ now in Heaven is unexpressibly glorious We have a specimen of this in the transfiguration Matth. 17. 2. Peter James and John were not able to bear the sight of the glory there manifested which yet was but a glimpse of that glory which he now hath in Heaven Some Divines are of opinion that the brightness which Paul saw when he was strook blinde and fell to the earth was the brightness of the body of Jesus Christ Sure I am that Christs body is the light of Heaven And if Stephens face in this life was seen as the face of an Angel if Moses his face did so shine in being fourty dayes with God that the people could not behold it how glorious shall our bodies be when we shall be for ever with the Lord and when our bodies of vileness shall be fashioned like unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ 4. The fourth endowment is beauty and comeliness The bodies of the Saints shall be perfectly compleat in all their parts if maimed and defective here it shall be supp●ied at that day which is a day of restitution of all things Acts 3. 21. And not only so but all crookedness lameness and ill-favouredness which are the fruits of sinne shall be removed Jacob shall halt no more nor Mephibosheth complain of lameness nor Isaac of dimness As the body of Adam in innocency was lovely and beautifull compleat in all its parts so shall ours be at the resurrection 5. The fift is majesty Great shall be the majesty of the body at the resurrection If a good man in this life hath such a majesty in his countenance as to cause men to fear to sinne in his company If Valens the Emperour said of Basil That he never looked upon him but his countenance strock an awe and terror into him oh what majesty will be in the faces and countenances of the Saints in that day 6. The sixth is spirituality It is sown a natural body it is raised a spiritual body 1 Cot. 15. 44. Not spiritual for substance but for qualities For 1. It shall have no need of meat or sleep c. but shall be as the Angels of God Matth. 22. 30. Non quoad Angelicam essentiam sed Angelicas proprietates Tertullian saith That the Saints shall have corpora reformata Angelificata If Moses was fourty dayes upon the mount without meat and without sleep upheld by the power of God in the state of mortality much more shall we be upheld for ever in the state of immortality 2. It shall be a spiritual body because it shall be absolutely subject to the spirit In the state of glory the soul shall not depend upon the body but the body upon the soul In this life the soul is as it were carnall because so serviceable to the flesh but then the body shall be spiritual because so serviceable to the spirit 7. The seventh is Agility and nimbleness It shall be able to move upwards and downwards like a bird in the aire Luther saith That the body shall be able to move up and down like a thought Austin saith It shall move to any place it will as soon as it will The Scripture saith some such thing 1 Thes. 4. 17. We shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet the Lord in the ayre as so many AEgles flying up to their blessed Carcass Upon this account also it is said That we shall be as the Angels because we shall be able to move as they do If the Saints shall be like the Sunne in its brightness why not saith one in its motion also which the Learned allow to move a Million and one hundred sixty thousand miles in an hour If so swift may be the motion of natural how swift the motion of glorified bodies shall be we shall know when we come to make use of it The eighth endowment is Powerfulnes It is sown in weakness but it shall rise in power 1 Cor. 15. 43. The power that the body shall have will be wonderfull Luther saith That it shall have a power to be able to tess the greatest mountains in the world like a ball Anselme saith They shall be able to shake the whole earth at pleasure How true this is we shall know hereafter Sure I am for the present That the weakest in glory shall be stronger then Sampson in his greatest strength and that the bodies power shall be so great as to be able to be the souls instrument in the enjoyment of God in all the highest operations without intermission In this life when the soul is busied about high and sublime matters the body presently faints Dan. 8. 27. but then it shall attend without any faintness or weariness In this life the eye is dazeled at the brightness of the Sunne but then it shall be strengthened to behold glorious sights and not be dazeled at it the body shall be elevated and strengthened by God to bear that exceeding eternal weight of glory that shall be put upon it Unto all these glorious perfections and excellent indowments I might add An admission to behold with our bodily eyes the sight of Christ as man That we shall see Christ as man with these eyes Job manifestly testifieth Job 19. 25 26 27. And that this sight will add much to our happiness is easily evinced For the sight of Christ as man is the next object unto the beatificall vision it self For the fullness of the Godhead dwels in him bodily and this doth as it were radiate through his body hence there must needs arise as one saith great joy unto the beholder both from the eminency of and our interest in this object Christ in glory and Christ in glory ours As much of the Creator as is possibly visible in the nature of man will be to be seen in Christ as much contentation as the creature can be made partakers of by the sight