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A fruitful treatise and full of heavenly consolation against the fear of death Whereunto…A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto…
A fruitful treatise and full of heavenly consolation against the fear of death Whereunto are annexed certain sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life everlasting, and of the blessed state & felicity of the same. Gathered by that holy martyr of God, John Bradford.A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.
London : Perused corrected & augmented according to the original, & imprinted in Fletestrete near to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell, ca. 1564London : Perused corrected & augmented according to the originall, & imprinted in Fletestrete neere to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell, ca. 1564
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That there is an everlasting life, none will deny but such as will deny God. For if he be true and just (or else he is not God) then can there not be but an eternal life. That he hath both spoken it &. promised it in Math 25. 1. Cor. 15. Hebr. 4. 11. 13. 1. Peter. 1. it appeareth, & else where in very many places. So that to deny an everlasting life, is to deny God, to deny Christ, and all that ever he did: also to deny all pity and religion: to condemn of foolishness all good men, Martyrs, ⟨image 34⟩Confessors, Evangelists, Prophets, Patriarchs. Summa, the denial of eternal life is nothing else, but a denial of the immortality of the Soul, and so a plain making of man nothing better then beasts. If it be so, let us then eat and drink, for to 1morrow we shall die. Lord deliver us from this Sadduceal and Epicureal impiety, & grant us for thy mercies sake (dear God) that we may be assuredly persuaded that there is in deed an eternal life & bliss with thee for them that put their trust in thee: amongest whom account me for thy mercies sake.
THat there is an euerlastyng lyfe, none will deny but such as wyl deny God. For if he be true and iuste (or els he is not God) then can there not bee but an eternal life. That he hath both spoken it &. promysed it in Math 25. 1. Cor. 15. Hebre. 4. 11. 13. 1. Peter. 1. it apereth, & els wher in very many places. So that to deny an euerlasting life, is to deny God, to deny Christe, and all that euer he did: also to denye all pitie and religion: to condempne of folyshnes all good men, Martyrs, ⟨image 34⟩Confessors, Euangelistes, Prophets, Patriarkes. Sūina, the deniall of eternall lyfe is nothing els, but a denyal of the immortality of the Soule, and so a playne makyng of man nothyng better then beastes. If it be so, let vs then eate and drynke, for to 1