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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. 30. Where the place of the faithful is.
CHAP. 30. VVhere the place of the faithfull is.
Yet are there s•me, that ask where the region or place of the blessed and faithful believers is. Of this have all righteous & godly men had ever one opinion: namely, that the dwelling of the living shall be with God, according to that, which the Lord saith in the gospel:1 blessed are they which be of a pure hart, for they shall see God. And though God be every where, yet will he not be seen in this time, but principally in the time to come, and in heaven, according as Moses hath written,2 no man shall be able to see God & live. Therefore is ⟨p. 208⟩it necessary for us to depart out of this time, and to be brought elsewhere: namely to the place that is above us, where God dwelleth in a light,3 that no man can attain unto, as Paul saith. For there will he be perfectly seen of his. In S. Luke it is red, that Abraham's lap, or bosom, is above in the height: but the harborow or dwelling of the damned beneath in the depth. It is found also,4 that Elijah was in a fiery chariot taken hence and carried upwards into heaven. And in John doth our Lord Jesus Christ pray,5 saying: father, those whom thou hast given me, I will that, where I am, they also be there ⟨p. 209⟩with me, that they may see mine honour and glory. But in this, that I have treated of afore, it is manifestly declared, that the heaven is the same room and place of Jesus Christ, into the which he is bodily taken up in his glory. Whereof then it followeth of necessity, that the heaven, into the which Christ ascended with his true body, is even the same place and rest, that faithful believers are taken up into.