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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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Now that no man should think it to be another body, which he had not afore his resurrection, he addeth thereto immediately: It is even I my self. Handle me, & see: a spirit hath not flesh & bones, as ye see me ⟨p. 17⟩have. And with that showed he them his hands and his feet.
NOwe that no man should thinke it to be another body, which he had not afore his resurrection, he addeth thereto immediatly: It is euē I my self. Handle me, & see: a spirite hath not fleshe & bones, as ye see me ⟨p. 17⟩haue. And wyth that shewed he them his hands and his fete.
With this evident testimony of the Lord,1 was S. Augustine moved, boldly to say, that they ought not to be heard, which deny the body of the Lord to have risen again, as it was laid in the sepulchre. For if it were not so, he would not have said to his disciples after the resurrection: Handle me and see, for a spirit hath not flesh & bones, as ye see me have. Now is it as much as to rob God of his honour, if any man would think, that the lord, who is the truth it self, had in any thing, that he spake, not said the truth. &c. Thomas was not ⟨p. 18⟩there, when the Lord showed him self alive unto his disciples: but when he came again, they told him with great joy, what they had seen & heard. Nevertheless he thought it had not been as they spake, and he said: except I see in his hands the print of the nails,2 & put my finger into the holes of them, and my hand into his side, I will not believe it. Therefore after .viii. days, when the disciples were assembled together again, & Thomas with them, Jesus cometh in, while the doors were shut, and standeth in the midst among them, and saith: peace be unto you. Afterward said he unto Thomas: