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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 therefore these men pray that if they deserve that God should forsake them, yet, that they might at the least in some small measure, and that at the last cast, gasp for life before ⟨p. 62⟩the Judgement of God, wherewith they are shaken and terrified. And we ought not to marvel, although the faithful servants of God are driven to this point. For it is said:1 That it is the Lord that killeth, and maketh alive, bringeth down to the grave, and raiseth up. And this saying: not to be, signifieth, to be separated from God.
And therefore these men pray that if they deserue that God should forsake them, yet, that they might at the least in some small measure, and that at the last cast, gaspe for lyfe before ⟨p. 62⟩the Iudgement of God, wherewith they are shaken and terrified. And we ought not to maruell, although the faythfull seruauntes of God are driuen to this poynt. For it is sayde:1 That it is the Lord that killeth, and maketh aliue, bringeth downe to the graue, and rayseth vp. And this saying: not to be, signifieth, to be seperated from God.
For if in this case, there is no man that hath his being, but he that is, they that are not in him have no true being, because they are for ever confounded, and cast out from before his face. Moreover, I see not how we should be so greatly offended with this manner of speech, if it be simply said of the dead, that they are not, so that this saying be referred to men. For with men, they are not, although before God, they are. And so to conclude in a word, not to have any being, is not to be seen any more. According to that which is said in Jeremiah: