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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. 26. The bodies of the unbelievers, being raised, are passible.
CHAP. 26. The bodies of the vnbeleuers, being raised, are passible.
For that the bodies, which come again to the souls & are raised up, are passible: it may well be understand and perceived by that, which is treated of already. S. Augustine Lib. 21. de civitate Dei. Cap. 4. showeth by many natural examples and evidences, that living bodies may well remain & continue in the fire. But touching the place of the punishment, or where the souls with their bodies shall be tormented, the scripture saith simply & plainly, that the unbelievers go down into hell. Hereof is it easy to perceive, that hell is under us in the earth: notwithstanding to go about to describe, to show ⟨p. 181⟩and to compass precisely the place and the room, where it lieth, and to point it out, becometh not us verily, but is a foolish presumption. The testimonies of the scripture are simple & plain.1 For the Prophet David saith: let death fall suddenly upon them, & let them go down quick into hell: for wickedness is in their houses and privy chambers. Item: with all their substance went they down quick into hell,2 and the earth covered them, and they perished from out of the congregation.3 Hereunto serveth also right well the destruction of Sodom, and that which the Prophet Ezekiel