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Of the preparation to the cross, and to death and of the comfort under…Of the preparation to the crosse, and to deathe and of the comforte vnder…
Of the preparation to the cross, and to death and of the comfort under the cross and death, two books very fruitful for devout people to read, translated from latin to english, by Richard Tracy.Of the preparation to the crosse, and to deathe and of the comforte vnder the crosse and death, two bokes very fruictefull for deuoute people to rede, translated from latyn to englysshe, by Rycharde Tracy.
Londini : In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum privilegio ad imprimendum solum, Anno. M.D.XL. 1540Londini : In ædibus Thomæ Bertheleti typis impress. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, Anno. M.D.XL. 1540
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¶The body is buried, but it shall rise again in the last day. Cap. xi.
¶The body is buried, but it shall ryse agayne in the laste daye. Cap. xi.
IT IS the only comfort of the godly, to hold surely in all adversity this article of our faith, that is to say, the resurrection of the flesh, the which ought to comfort the righteous: because through the grace of god they shall be revived, and raised up, as well the body as the soul, the souls to justice, the bodies to glory. This hope the wicked have not. For their bodies shall be the more punished and overthrown down to the ground, although they have seemed here to be mighty: but their bodies shall be raised up and quickened by the word of god, to whom all things obey. Of whose promise the very empty and dry bones shall be partakers.1 This saith ⟨image 88⟩the ruler, the lord of these bones: Behold, I do bring into you a spirit, and you shall be quickened, and I will put upon you sinews, and I will raise up flesh upon you, and I will cover you with a skin, and I will put in you a spirit, and you shall live, and you shall well know, that I am the lord.2 Thou shalt raise up my skin, which this flesh beareth. And I do know, that my redeemer doth live, and at the last he shall raise me up of dust, and shall compass my body about with skin, and in my flesh I shall see god.