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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
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For these (I mean Gods Children) God hath made all things in Christ Jesus: to whom he hath given this dignity, that they should be his inheritance & spouses.
For these (I meane Gods Children) God hath made all things in Christ Iesu: to whom he hath geuen this dignity, yt they should bee his inheritance & spouses.
This our inheritor Christ Jesus, GOD with God, light of light, coeternal and consubstantial with the father and with the holy Ghost, to the end that he might become our husband (because the husband and the wife must be one body and flesh) hath taken our nature upon him, communicating with it and by it in his own person, to us all his children, his divine majesty, as Peter saith, and so is become 1flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bones substantially: as we are become flesh of his flesh and ⟨image 47⟩bone of his bones spiritually, all that ever we have pertaining to him yea even our sins: as all that ever he hath, pertaineth unto us, even his whole glory. So that if Satan should summon us to answer for our debts or sins, in that the wife is no suitable person but the husband, we may well bid him enter his action against our husband Christ, and he will make him a sufficient answer.
This our inheretour Christ Iesus, GOD with God, light of light, coeternal and consubstanciall with the father and with the holy Gost, to the end that he might become oure husband (because the husband and the wyfe must be one body and flesh) hath taken our nature vppon hym, communicating with it and by it in his owne person, to vs all his children, his diuine maiestie, as Peter saith, and so is become 1flesh of our flesh, and bone of our bones substancially: as we are become flesh of his flesh and ⟨image 47⟩