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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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Socrates also, the right famous and most excellent among all the wise men of the heathen, marked such a like thing, & saw it as in a dream, when, as Cicero witnesseth of him,1 he was unto death condemned of the judges or counsel, and now should drink the poison. For he said: O how much better and more blessed is it, to go unto them, that well and uprightly lived here in time, then to remain ⟨p. 237⟩here in this life upon earth? O how dear and worthy a thing is it, that I may talk with Orpheus, Museus, Homerus, Hesiodus, with those excellent men? Verily I would not only die once, but many & sundry times also, if it were possible, to obtain the same. &c. After this sort, like as in a dream, did the good Philosopher imagine in himself joys vain and of none effect. But we promise unto our selves true assured joy, in that we hope and know, that in the eternal and ever during country, after the resurrection of the dead, we shall see Adam, our first father:2 Noah, the dearly beloved friend ⟨p. 238⟩of God:3 Abraham, to whom god made special great promises: Moses,4 the most gentle hearted man, and one, that had greatest experience of all the mysteries of god:5 Samuel, the friendly and loving prophet: David, the king and Prophet,6 who was Gods elect according to his own will and desire:7 Josiah the most godly and best among all the kings of Judah: likewise John the Baptiste,8 holier then whom there was none borne of woman: and with all these, the holy Virgin Mary,