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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

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

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

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

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.