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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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Part 3 › Chapter 31: Howe the salvation shall be.Part 3 › Chapter 31: Hovve the saluation shall be.
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If I be demanded, what the blessed shall do in this spiritual body, I shall not say that I now see but that which I believe. Therefore I say, that even in this body they shall see God.
If I be demaunded, vvhat the blessed shal do in this spirituall body, I shall not say that I novve see but that vvhich I beleue. Therfore I say, that euen in this bodye they shall see God.
Thus also did holy Job hold thereof, and said:1 I shall see him to my self, and mine own eyes shall see him, yea I and none other. Even of this occasion spake S. Augustine in the last chapter ⟨p. 216⟩of this .22. book, that the corporal eyes of the body raised up,2 shall execute their office, that is, they shall see. What he farther treated of the beholding of god, it is penned at large in the .112. Epistle,3 which he wrote ad Paulinam. Our Lord Jesus saith also in the holy gospel: this is the eternal life, that they know thee to be the only true, God, & whom thou haste sent Jesus Christ. This knowledge is not only belief, and the knowledge of understanding: but also the present beholding and fruition of God, and the fellowship with God, which after this life shall happen unto all faithful believers. For ⟨p. 217⟩Paul said: we see now through a glass in a dark speaking,4 but then face to face. For faith is a steadfast substance of things, that we hope for, and as a beholding or sight of God: albeit somewhat more dark, and not so evident & clear, as shall be that, which, as a reward of faith, shall be given to the faithful in the world to come. To see face to face is nothing else but to use, enjoy, & have the fruition of all things: presently also to behold the promise, and perfectly to be partaker thereof. Therefore sayeth the holy Apostle John yet more evidently: dearly beloved,