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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.
The very self same thing doth S. Paul also more manifestly witness, so that if they would even burst, yet shall they never be able to resist the spirit of God.1 Hear what he saith, Surely we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we have a building with God, an everlasting habitation in heaven, which is not made with man his hand. And therefore we groan, desiring to be clothed with our heavenly mansion, that we might be found clothed & not naked. And in very deed, we that are in this tabernacle, do groan being burdened, because we desire not to be unclad but to be clad, to the end that this mortality might be swallowed up of life. And a little after, wherefore we are always of good cheer, and in good hope and do know that so long as we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walk by faith, and not after the outward show) nevertheless, we are of good comfort, ⟨p. 30⟩and had a great deal rather, to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
The very selfe same thing doth S. Paule also more manifestly witnesse, so that if they would euen burst, yet shall they neuer be able to resist the spirite of God.1 Heare what he sayth, Surely we know that if our earthly house of this tabernacle be destroyed, we haue a building with God, an euerlasting habitation in heauen, which is not made with man his hand. And therefore we groane, desiring to be cloathed with our heauenly mansion, that we might be foūd cloathed & not naked. And in very deede, we that are in this tabernacle, do groane being burthened, because we desire not to be vnclad but to be cladde, to the end that this mortality might be swallowed vp of life. And a little after, wherefore we are alwayes of good cheare, and in good hope and do know that so long as we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord (for we walke by fayth, and not after the outward shewe) neuerthelesse, we are of good comfort, ⟨p. 30⟩and had a great deale rather, to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.
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