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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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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?1 For the wicked are like unto the raging sea, which can not calm it self when it lusteth, whose flowing surges, cast up filth and stinking baggage: There is no peace saith the Lord, unto the wicked.
And yet by ye way, the soule is not layde or buryed by the soules of the Fathers. But the body is caryed to be layd in the graue of the Fathers. Samuell lykewise in the story of the Kinges, attributeth this sleape vnto the Faythlesse kinges, as may be ⟨image 63⟩seene in the two last bookes of the kings, as also in the bookes of the Cronicles. And therefore when thou hearest it sayd that a wicked man sleapeth, thinke thou not once of the sleape of the soule, which can not haue a worse hangman to torment and vexe it, then an ill and guilty conscience. what becommeth then of this dreamer or sleaper, who is thus vexed and distressed?1 For the wicked are lyke vnto the raging sea, which can not calme it selfe when it lusteth, whose flowing surges, cast vp filth and stinking badgage: There is no peace sayth the Lord, vnto the wicked.
- 1Isyiah. 57. ver. 20.21.