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A book of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set forth the chief points…A booke of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set foorth the cheef points…
A book of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set forth the chief points of the Christian religion ... A work right necessary and profitable for all such as shall have to deal with the captious quarrellings of the wrangling adversaries of Gods truth. Written in Latin by the learned clerk Theodore Beza Vezelius, and newly translated into English by Arthur Golding.A booke of Christian questions and answers Wherein are set foorth the cheef points of the Christian religion ... A worke right necessary and profitable for all such as shal haue to deale vvith the capious quarelinges of the vvrangling aduersaries of Gods truthe. Written in Latin by the lerned clerke Theodore Beza Vezelius, and newly translated into English by Arthur Golding.
London: printed by William How for Abraham Veale, 1574
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A book of christen questions and answers.A booke of christen questions and aunswers.
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Answer. The whole scripture speaketh against it1 as often as it maketh mention of the resurrection, which doubtless agreeth not properly to the soul. Again although the body sin not of it self alone: yet doth the whole man sin, and therefore he is justly punished whole. And christ were not a perfect2 redeemer, if he should let the bodies ⟨image 26⟩of his servants lye still in rottenness. Neither had he needed to have taken a body unto him, if he had come to deliver no more but our souls.
Aunswere. The whole scripture speaketh against it1 as often as it maketh mentiō of ye resurrectiō, which doutles agréeth not properly to the soule. Again although the body sin not of it self alone: yet doth the whole man sin, and therefore hee is iustly punished whole. And christ were not a perfecte2 redeemer, if hee should let the bodyes ⟨image 26⟩of his seruaunts lye still in rottennesse. Neither had he néeded to haue takē a body vnto him, if he had come to deliuer no more but our soules.
- 11. cor. 35. &c
- 21. thes. 5. 25. Heb. 2. 14
Quest. But what manner of life shall that