An wholesome antidotus or counter-poison, against the pestilent heresy and sect of the Anabaptists…An holsome antidotus or counter-poysen, agaynst the pestylent heresye and secte of the Anabaptistes…

Sy. Thou shouldest peradventure have persuaded somewhat, to Timens, and Phaedrus, Plato's disciples, I had leaver hear Scriptures.

Sy. Thou shuldest peraduenture haue persuaded somewhat, to Timens, and Phedrus, Platos disciples, I had leauer heare Scriptures.

Joia. The Sadducees, did teach that there was no Resurrection, and by this, did deny the immortality, and perpetual working of the soul, yea, and also Angels, and all manner of Spirits. Act. xiii. The Lord did stop their mouths, with these reasons. Ye err (saith he) not ⟨image 115⟩knowing the scriptures, nor the virtue of God. God, after the death of the Fathers, calleth him self, the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, which is not the God, of the dead. but of the living, and that therefore, Abraham, and the other Fathers were a live, and not dead. They were dead in body, a great while afore, and buried: Therefore Christ speaketh here, of the life of the soul. Ergo, the soul being separated from the body, is in her own kind, worketh lively, and sleepeth not. This syllogism and argument, do I put to all the Anabaptists, to answer to, that they may clear them self from the heresy of the Sadducees. For they are like unto the Sadducees and Manicheans. What should I say of ⟨image 115⟩the words of Christ, which hanging upon the Cross, doeth comfort, the thief with these words, saying: To day thou shalt be with me in Paradise.

Ioia. The Saduces, dyd teache that ther was no Resurrection, and by this, dyd denye the immortalitie, and perpetual workyng of the soule, yea, and also Angels, and all maner of Spirites. Act. xiii. The Lorde dyd stop their mouthes, with these reasons. Ye erre (sayth he) not ⟨image 115⟩