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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. 6. Of the true Ascension of the Lords body, that arose a body and no Spirit, and of his place whether he went to be in.
CHAP. 6. Of the true Ascension of the Lordes body, that arose a bodye and no Spirite, and of his place vvhether hee vvent to be in.
Moreover, it shall be expedient to know, to what ⟨p. 30⟩place the true body of the Lord was carried or came: whether it was laid in the earth again, or vanished away, or turned into the nature of the Godhead, or otherwise changed into a sprite. In this point, we affirm thus: The right old Christian faith, the upright holy scripture, & the ancient Doctrine of the Christian church, doth teach, hold, and confess, that Jesus Christ, very go• and man, hath not laid away, no• mixed together, nor yet put of hi• natures, the godhead & the ma• hood: but that he keepeth still both natures in their properties v• blemished, & that he ascended v• to heaven very true God & ma• ⟨p. 31⟩For so we knowledge and confess in the Creed: he ascended up to heaven. We find also in the gospel of Mark: so then, when the Lord had spoken unto them,1 he was received into heaven, & sitteth on the right hand of god. Item Ruffinus an old writer (who hath declared the articles of the faith) saith: