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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 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? ⟨p. 105⟩Likewise saith also S. Peter, that the souls of such,2 as died afore time, do live with god, but with the flesh they shall be judged as other men. Therefore did the holy Prophet Isaiah believe & confess the general resurrection of all bodies at the last day. In the which Resurrection, he openly knowledgeth, that his own body also shall rise again. Afterward bringeth he in an Archangel blowing the trumpet, and saying: stand up & be glad, ye that rest in the dust. To rest in dust, is nothing else but a description of mans body.3 For the souls and sprites do not rest or lie in dust: but the bodies are buried therein, ⟨p. 106⟩& become dust. Therefore men, according to the substance & state thereof, wherein they rise again, are called inhabitants and I•• dwellers of dust, or such as rest in dust.
For like as the rote geueth al vertue & sap vnto the tre: euen so is the matter of the resurrection of the dead thorow Christe, the cheefest, greatest, and true principal poynt of the worde and affaires of God. Repent therfore (sayth Iob) for wrath handleth or dothe nothing righte, but rather