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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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Neither hath S. Peter spoken it in the same sense, that a thousand years are but as a day before God. But when as certain false prophets, did count the hours and days, because they went about to reprove God of lying, when as he fulfilled not his promises at the first, according to their Imaginations: he admonisheth them that God is everlasting, with whom a thousand years is scarcely a moment. ⟨image 49⟩But because they feel themselves to be yet entangled, they stiffly contend and say, that this word, to day, signifieth in the scriptures the time of the new Testament: as this word, to morrow, signifieth the time of the old.
Neither hath S. Peter spoken it in the same sence, that a thousand yeares are but as a day before God. But when as certein false prophets, did count the houres and dayes, because they went about to reproue God of lying, when as he fulfilled not his promises at the first, according to their Imaginations: he admonisheth thē yt God is euerlasting, wt whom a thousand yeares is scarsely a momēt. ⟨image 49⟩But because they feele thēselues to be yet entangled, they stifly contend and say, that this word, to day, signifieth in the scriptures the tyme of the new Testament: as this word, to morrow, signifieth the tyme of the olde.
1To this purpose wrest they that which is written in the Epistle to the Hebrews: Jesus Christ that was yesterday, and to day, is the same also for ever. Howbeit, they are greatly deceived. For if he was only yesterday, then he that was not before the beginning of the old Testament, had sometime his beginning:2 Where shall Jesus then, that eternal God be, the first borne also of all creatures, as touching his humanity,3