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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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