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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 if thou ponder every thing here thoroughly, thou mu•• needs acknowledge, and being overcome with the truth, tho• must needs confess, that the very true body of the lord was n• laid away, neither turned into the nature of the godhead: but h• a very true man, who at one ti•• is but in one place, ascended a• was taken up into heaven, as • to one place. He led them out• saith he. Who? I pray thee. Eve• the Lord Jesus, which unto ⟨p. 33⟩than, by the space of forty days, had in very deed truly showed himself unto his disciples, that he was risen from the dead with a very true essential body. Even he, the very same that had taken unto him a true body, led his disciples out unto Bethany, & from thence brought he them farther to Mount Olivet. And in the same place, lifting up his hands (no doubt, bodily & human hands) yea with the prints & tokens of the wounds, he blessed them, •amely his disciples: that is, he saluted them, as the manner is of •hose that take their leave of us. And so departed he from them, • set his body corporally in heaven, ⟨p. 34⟩as in one place. For afterward it followeth yet more plain: he departed from them: that is, he was carried into heaven.
Nowe if thou ponder euery thing heere thorowly, thou mu•• needes acknowledge, and bein• ouercome wyth the truthe, tho• must nedes confesse, that the very true body of the lord was n• layd away, neyther turned int• the nature of the godhead: but h a very true mā, who at one ti is but in one place, ascended a was taken vp into heauen, as to one place. He led them out saith he. Who? I prai the. Eue the Lorde Iesus, whiche vnto