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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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Much after the same wise, doth the Lord himself also use it, saying: then shall the righteous shine as the Sun,1 in the kingdom of their father. Wherefore the glorified bodies shall be clear, bright, & shining bodies, even as the body of Christ was in his transfiguration upon the Mount of Thabor: of whom it is specified in the gospel, that his ⟨p. 127⟩face was as bright as the Sun,2 and his clothes did shine as the light. After the resurrection, did the lord show unto his disciples his palpable and visible, that is, his very true substantial body, but the brightness and shine he reserved, to teach and instruct the weak here beneath: like as also after the resurrection he did eat and drink, not that he needed any such thing, but that he so would declare and prove the true resurrection of his body. The glorification also is set directly against the low estate and dishonour, as Paul evidently declareth, saying: he shall change our vile body, that he may make ⟨p. 128⟩it like unto his own glorious & glorified body. This word humility, low estate or dishonour, comprehendeth all that is called earthy, frail, miserable & mortal. For by means of our sins, we are brought low and into misery: so that we must needs feel & suffer sickness, hunger, thirst, cold, heat, pain, vexation, manifold lusts and affections, fear, wrath, heaviness, and such like things innumerable, yea, and death also at the last.
Muche after the same wise, doth the Lorde himselfe also vse it, saying: then shall the rightuous shine as the Sunne,1 in the kingdom of their father. Wherfore the glorified bodies shall be clere, bright, & shining bodies, euen as the body of Christ was in his transfiguration vpon the Mount of Thabor: of whome it is specified in the gospell, yt hys ⟨p. 127⟩face was as bright as the Sun,2