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The hope of the faithful Declaring briefly and clearly the resurrection of our Lord…The hope of the faithfull Declaring breefely and clearly the resurrection of our Lord…
The hope of the faithful Declaring briefly and clearly the resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ past, and of our true essential bodies to come: and plainly confuting the chief errors, that hath sprung thereof, out the Scripture and doctors. With an evident probation, that there is an eternal life of the faithful, and an everlasting damnation of the unfaithful. Newly imprinted and corrected. 1574.The hope of the faithfull Declaring breefely and clearly the resurrection of our Lord Iesus Christ past, and of oure true essentiall bodies to come: and plainly confuting the cheefe errors, that hath sprong thereof, out the Scripture and doctors. VVith an euident probation, that there is an eternall life of the faithfull, and an euerlasting damnation of the vnfaithfull. Nevvly imprinted and corrected. 1574.
Printed at London : In Creed Lane, by Hugh Singleton, at the sign of the Golden Tun, Anno. 1574Printed at London : In Crede Lane, by Hugh Singleton, at the signe of the Golden Tunne, Anno. 1574
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For he will certify us, that even the very same body, which at the first was made of dust, and now into dust is sown, & through the corruption is become dust again, yea even that same very body & none other, shall be raised up.
For he will certify vs, yt euen the very same bodi, which at the first was made of dust, and now into dust is sowne, & thorow the corruption is becom dust agaī, yea euen that same very body & none other, shalbe raised vp.
But to the intent that no man should draw or refer the dust to ⟨p. 99⟩any other thing, than to the body of man: It followeth moreover in holy Job, that after they (namely the father, the son, & the holy ghost) have with my skin (not with a strange, but with mine own skin) clothed the body, even mine own body, which I now have called dust (& thereby understandeth he the flesh, the sinews & the bones) then shall I see God in my flesh: that is, fully and perfectly shall I be restored & made whole again. For to see God, is nothing else but to be partaker of eternal joy & salvation. And to see god in, or from out of, yt flesh, is to be taken up corporally into everlasting joy. Besides this, ⟨p. 100⟩he doth yet more evidently express the perfectness of the resurrection of the flesh, and faith: Whom I for my self shall see (that is, to my commodity and salvation) mine eyes shall see him, even I my self shall see him, and none other for me. In the which words it is principally to be noted, that he saith, I shall see him, yea even I my self. Then, mine eyes shall see him. Finally, I and else none other. As he would say: even I ye now have true flesh and bone, & look now upon you with mine eyes, shall with the very same eyes behold God also. Therefore in the resurrection of the dead, we shall, with the essential substance & ⟨p. 101⟩nature, be even the same that we were before death: namely we shall have our members, as head, eyes, bones, belly, arms, legs, hands, feet. &c. Now where this distinction is, there must be also circumscription, there must the same have compass and limits. It followeth yet farther in Job: my reins (namely my desire & lust) are wasted away and consumed within me: that is, with in me, namely in my hart, are ceased all other desires, lusts and pleasures, in comparison of this my hope towards the resurrection: yea in comparison thereof, they all are nothing, neither worthy to be esteemed. For in the only