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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. 8. What Gods right hand is, and to whom it is referred.
CHAP. 8. VVhat Gods right hand is, and to vvhom it is referred.
First, the right hand of God is not referred unto god him self, but unto men, that are on the right hand. So that first the right hand of God doth signify the eternal salvation, and the place of those, that be saved. This did holy Augustine teach, whose words I may well allege, forasmuch as he also doth confirm & prove his opinion by the divine and holy Scriptures. In his book ⟨p. 46⟩de Agone Christiano, 1he saith: we ought not to hear them, that deny the son to sit at the right hand of God. For they say, hath god the father also a right or lef• side, as bodies have? Nether d• we understand that of the father For with no bodily proportion can God be described or comprehended. As for the right hand o• the father, it is nothing else but eternal salvation, which he sha•• give to all godly & faithful believers. In like manner is the left hand rightly taken for the everlasting damnation, that shall com• upon the unbelievers. So that n• of God, but of the creatures • must be expounded, that is writte