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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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CHAP. 18. The divers errors that sprung about the article of the bodies resurrection.
CHAP. 18. The diuers errors that sprong about the article of the bodies resurrection.
Hitherto have I told, what the Scripture of the Prophets and Apostles doth hold & testify concerning the resurrection of the dead, and of our ood• that is to say, our own true flesh• namely, that our true flesh and body shall rise from death, and be glorified in the resurrection, and that the glorification doth not therefore take away the verity of the body, or make it nothing, but doth translate and bring it ⟨p. 139⟩it into a more upright and better state: so that nevertheless the true essential substance of the the body remaineth still. Upon this now, to the commodity of the reader, & for a more evident declaration and understanding of the aforesaid words: I will show what errors spring-up concerning the resurrection of the dead, that any good faithful Christian may the better avoid the same.1 That there have ben many, which denied the resurrection of our bodies, and had it utterly in derision, all Stories declare. In the which register, the Philosophers for the most part are reckoned and esteemed them ⟨p. 140⟩Hymeneus and Philetus, 2of whom Paul maketh mention. In like manner are there many recited of Ireneus, Tertullian, Eusebius, Epiphanius, Philastrius & Augustine: namely these, the Simonians, Valentinians, Marcionites, Cerdonians Carpocratians, Caijnes, Archontici, Severians, Hierarchits, Seleucians, Appellites and Manichees.