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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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After all this, doth holy Jo•• add hereunto, that maketh the understanding perfect, and concludeth his saying, thus: Seeing I this knowledge & confess, why hold ye me for ungodly? Why ⟨p. 103⟩do ye persecute me and vex me thus with spiteful words of reproach and slander? Yet is the root of the word found in me. And he calleth the root of the word, the right foundation and ground of godliness. As if he would say: forasmuch as the true head article of salvation is found in me.
After all this, dothe holy Io•• adde herevnto, that maketh the vnderstanding perfect, and concludeth his saying, thus: Seing I this knowledge & cōfes, why holde ye me for vngodly? Why ⟨p. 103⟩do ye persecute me and vexe me thus with spiteful wordes of reproche and slaunder? Yet is the roote of the worde found in me. And he calleth the roote of the worde, the right foundation and grounde of godlinesse. As if he woulde say: forasmuche as the true head article of saluation is found in me.
For like as the rote giveth all virtue & sap unto the tree: even so is the matter of the resurrection of the dead through Christ, the chiefest, greatest, and true principal point of the word and affairs of God. Repent therefore (saith Job) for wrath handleth or doth nothing right, but rather ⟨p. 104⟩provoketh god unto vengeance. The prophet Isaiah in his twenty six chapter doth testify the Resurrection […] this manner:1 Thy dead shall ••e, even with my body shall they arise. Stand up & be glad, ye that rest (or dwell) in the dust: for the dew of the herbs is thy dew, & the ground of tyrants shalt thou cast down. Thy dead O god (saith the prophet) shall live, namely the souls of those that for thy sake are slain, and that have worshipped thee. Nevertheless, their bodies shall not prevent my body in the Resurrection: but at the last judgement, or upon domes day shall they rise again with my body?