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An excellent treatise of the immortality of the soul By which is proved, that…An excellent treatise of the immortalytie of the soule By which is proued, that…
An excellent treatise of the immortality of the soul By which is proved, that the souls, after their departure out of the bodies, are awake and do live, contrary to that erroneous opinion of certain ignorant persons, who think them to lye asleep until the day of judgement. Set fourth by M. John Calvin, and englished from the French by T. Stocker.An excellent treatise of the immortalytie of the soule By which is proued, that the soules, after their departure out of the bodies, are avvake and doe lyue, contrary to that erronious opinion of certen ignorant persons, who thinke them to lye asleape vntill the day of iudgement. Set fourth by M. Iohn Caluin, and englished from the French by T. Stocker.
London: printed by John Daye, 1581London: printed by Iohn Daye, 1581
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His enemies also used this wicked speech towards him:1 Shall he that sleepeth, rise any more again? Wherefore, if it be not lawful to think so basely, and vilely of the soul of christ (as heretofore hath largely been handled) we ought not to stand in doubt, that the scripture had only regard unto the outward shape of the body, neither yet hath derived and fetched this sleep from the consideration of men. For these two manner of speeches, he slept with his fathers, and, he was laid or buried with his Fathers, we take indifferently.
His enemies also vsed this wicked speach towardes him:1 Shall he that sleapeth, rise any more agayne? Wherefore, if it bee not lawfull to thinke so basely, and vily of the soule of christ (as heretofore hath largely bene handeled) we ought not to stand in doubt, that the scripture had onely regard vnto the outward shape of the bodye, neither yet hath deryued and fetcht this sleape from the consideration of men. For these two manner of speaches, he sleapt with his fathers, and, he was layd or buried with his Fathers, we take indifferently.
And yet by the way, the soul is not laid or buried by the souls of the Fathers. But the body is carried to be laid in the grave of the Fathers. Samuel likewise in the story of the Kings, attributeth this sleep unto the Faithless kings, as may be ⟨image 63⟩seen in the two last books of the kings, as also in the books of the Chronicles. And therefore when thou hearest it said that a wicked man sleepeth, think thou not once of the sleep of the soul, which can not have a worse hangman to torment and vex it, then an ill and guilty conscience. what becometh then of this dreamer or sleeper, who is thus vexed and distressed?