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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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And thus now, to sit at th• right hand of God, is eve• as much, as to be in rest: that to say, all wretchedness & miser• set aside, to live in a godly life, to be partaker of eternal joy Now that this word (to sit) used in Scripture for rest, the places declare. In the. 4. book Moses it is written thus: sha• your brethren go to war,1 & wo• ye sit here?2 And in Micah: eu• ry ⟨p. 49⟩one shall sit under his vine and figtree. &c. Mani mo such places there be. Wherefore now, wham the scripture saith, that the lord Jesus sitteth at the right hand of his father, it understandeth it chiefly of his human nature: which he he toke upon him, that the same being discharged and free from all travail and misery of man, is now all in joy, & partaker of the kingdom everlasting. Thus saith also Rufinus in his exposition of the Creed:3 to sit at the right hand of the father, is convenient for the manhood received, which is received through a mystery. For to ascribe that to the divine nature, it is unseemly, as though it had ⟨p. 50⟩a seat in heaven: but of the human nature it is properly understand and spoken.
ANd thus now, to sit at th• right hand of God, is eue• as much, as to be in rest: that to say, al wretchednesse & miser• set aside, to liue in a godly life, to be partaker of eternall ioy Now that this word (to sitte) vsed in Scripture for rest, the places declare. In the. 4. boke Moises it is wrytten thus: sha• your brethren go to war,