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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

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

diseases there is no disease so vile but the body of a Saint is subject to it take the example of Job a man eminent in godlinesse yet his body full of sores and boyles from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot and he saies of himself in Job 7. 5. My flesh is clothed with wormes and clods of dust my skin is broken and become loathsome 3. They may be said to be vile because subject to vile abominations to vile wickednesses and impieties for since the fall our bodies are become the instruments of iniquity unto iniquity unto drunkennesse and adultery to murders and theeveries and idolatries c. 4. In the best of the Saints their bodies are impediments to their nobler souls and therefore the body is called vincula animi the bonds and fetters of the soul that hinders the soul from and in heavenly operations 5. The body may be said to be vile in reference to its finall corruption and dissolution for when the soul is separated from the body then you will all say that the body is a vile putrified rotten stinking carkasse turning to dust and eaten up of worms that saies to corruption Thou art my father and to the worms Thou art my mother and my sister 6. The body may be said to be vile in comparison of the precious soul for the body as one saies is but the worst half of the soul it is half but it is the worst half the body is but the cark●sse the shell the box of the soul Intus est quod homo est it is the soul of a man that is the man of man the soul is like an Angell dwelling in the body as in a house of clay The soul is not made of the dust as the body is but the soul is made of the breath of God ex ore Dei as one saies not made of the essence of God but of the breath of God and therefore in that respect in comparison of the soul the body may be said to be a vile body 7. And lastly the body may be said to be vile in this life in comparison of what it shall be at the glorious resurrection for then it shall be a most glorious body conformable unto the glorious body of Jesus Christ Now for the application of this let me beseech you sirs that you would often and often meditate upon this appellation and epithet that is here given unto our bodies they are called vile bodies vile when separated from the soul vile when united to to the soul vile before the fall of man but especially vile since the fall of man subject to vile diseases and abominations and one thing more which I forgot before and that is they are vile because subject to be abused by wicked persecutors and by malicious tyrants for though a tyrant cannot hurt the soul of a Saint yet he may torment the body and therefore in Heb. 11. it is said of the holy Saints that they underwent cruell mockings and scourgings and bonds and imprisonment and wandred up and down in sheeps skins and goats skins being destitute afflicted and tormented all which is understood of their bodies and therefore vile bodies because subject to be abused and subject to all manner of wickednesses but especially vile in comparison of the precious soul and in respect of what their bodies shall be hereafter Now let this meditation teach us these Lessons 1. Let this epithet teach you a lesson of humility the bodies you carry about you are vile bodies let us not then be proud of them Beza translates the words corpus humilitatis a body of humility on purpose it was that God made the body of the lowest elements that we might not be lifted up with pride of our bodies but have a mean and low esteem of them and hence it is that the body in Scripture is compared to things that are very mean and contemptible as to the grasse of the field to hay and dry stubble as in Job 13. 2. to a leaf driven to and fro with the winde to a rotten thing and to a garment that is moth-eaten in the 28 verse of this chapter it is compared to such mean things that we might learn to have a mean esteem of our bodies Why art thou proud oh dust and ashes what is thy handsome body but gilded rottennesse what are all your riches and honours but heaps of dung and dust and God will shortly lay your honour in the dust Every bird makes her nest of that thou are made of every beast treads that under feet that thou art made of every creeping thing disposeth of that thou art made of every blast of winde scatters that which thou art made of and why then art thou proud oh dust and ashes what is man but rottennesse and corruption but worms meat I remember what I have once read in a manuscript concerning a stone that was presented to Alexander the Great the nature of it was this that being put into one part of the ballance it weighed down what ever was put in the other part of it but if a little dust were cast upon the stone then every thing weighed down the stone and he that brought the stone being demanded what he meant by it he answered Oh Alexander thou art this stone thou whilest thou livest doest weigh down all that are against thee and treadest down all before thee but when thou comest to die and there is a little dust thrown upon thee then every man will outweigh you and then you will be lesse then any man in the world Remember you are but dust dust you are and to dust you must return Oh therefore cast dust upon your beauty cast dust upon your riches cast dust upon your bodies and be not proud of your vile bodies This is one Lesson of humility 2. Here is from this Epithet a Lesson of mortification this vile body of ours is subject to be abused by the Devill to vile abominations and therefore now let us go to Jesus Christ to get power to mortifie and crucifie this body of flesh this body of sin that is in us for we have a body of sin and that is it which makes this body of ours to be so vile therefore I say let us bury our selves in the grave of Christ that so we may draw mortifying graces from the Lord Jesus Christ that may tend to the subduing of our corruptions and the lusts of our flesh Excellent is that expression of the Apostle in 1 Cor. 9. 27. saies he I keep under my body and bring it into subjection lest that by any means when I have preached to others I my self should be a cast-away Upon which words S. Augustine hath this saying if the great Ram of the flock saies he hath need to beat down his body to bring it into subjection how much more should we tender lambs use all means for the keeping of them under the body is