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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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Yet God forbid we should therefore believe that they shall be spirits: but bodies shall they be, which shall have the substance of the flesh. And forasmuch as they are preserved and made alive through, the spirit, they shall suffer no grief or infirmity. Then shall not man be earthy, but heavenly: not that the body, which is made of the earth shall no more continue the same body: but that through the heavenly gift and grace he shall be so from henceforth, that being such a kind and nature as can not perish, and altered from all infirmity, he shall be able to dwell commodiously in heaven.
Yet God forbid vve shoulde therfore beleeue that they shall be spirites: but bodies shall they be, vvhich shall haue the substāce of the flesh. And forasmuch as they are preserued and made aliue thorovve, the spirite, they shall suffer no greefe or infirmitye. Then shal not man be ea•thy, but heauenly: not that the bodye, vvhich is made of the earthe shall no more continue the same body: but that thorovv the heauenly gift and grace he shall be so from henceforthe, that being such a kinde and nature as can not perishe, and altered from all infirmity, he shalbe able to dvvell commodiously in heauen.
Furthermore saith s. Austen in the. 22. book the 30. Chapter.
Furthermore saith s. Austen in the. 22. boke the 30. Chapter.
How the bodies there shall move, I dare ⟨p. 156⟩not rashly define for I can not comprehend it, it passeth my understanding. Yet shall their moving and state, even as also their proportion, be altogether beautiful: and how so ever it shall be, it shall be in that place, where nothing can be but that, which is beautiful and comely: yea where the sprite vvil, there straight shal the body be also. Nether vvill the spirit any thing that is not very seemly and comely both for him and it.