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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
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.
Hitherto hath he declared, how frail and brittle our state is: although in deed, nothing under heaven is steadfast and sure: seeing they all corrupt and come to naught. And anon after it followeth: But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall stand fast in thy ⟨image 104⟩sight. Herein we may very well see, how he joineth the salvation of the faithful with the eternity of God.
Hitherto hath he declared, how frayle and brittle our state is: although in deede, nothing vnder heauen is stedfast and suer: seing they all corrupt and come to naught. And anon after it followeth: But thou art the same, and thy yeares shall not fayle. The children of thy seruauntes shall continue, and their seede shall stand fast in thy ⟨image 104⟩sight. Herein we may very well see, how he ioyneth the saluation of the faythfull with the eternitie of God.
And therefore so often as they set before us Job as afflicted by the hand of God, and almost fallen into despair, they speak nothing of hell and death: and I tell them that when God is angry, we can look for none other issue: and that it cometh of his free mercy, when we are taken out of deaths chaps.
And therefore so often as they set before vs Iob as afflicted by the hand of God, and almost fallen into despayre, they speake nothing of hell and death: and I tell them that when God is angry, we can looke for none other issue: and that it commeth of his free mercy, when we are taken out of deathes chapps.