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heaven_n	father_n	son_n	trinity_n	2,382	5	9.7008	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A16577	A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.	Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.	1564 (1564)	STC 3481; ESTC S106823	29,063	104

let vs then eate and drynke for to morowe we shal die Lorde deliuer vs from this Sadduceal and Epicureal impietie graunt vs for thy mercies sake deare God that we may be assuredly perswaded that there is in dede an eternall life blysse with thee for thē that putte their truste in thee amongest whom accompte me for thy mercies sake Agayne thys eternall life and the place appointed for them that bee thy seruantes all men doe graunt to bee with thee Not because thou arte euerye where they doe therefore thynke so of eternall lyfe that it is euery where For they by thy word do knowe that in as muche as no man can see thee and lyue this eternall life and thy blessed presēce is moste pleasaunte and hadde in fruition after in an other world wherunto by corporal death they doe depart and are translated to a place aboue them where thou dwelleste in a lyghte where vnto no man can approch Abrahams wsome they reade was aboue as the place for the wicked was alowe and beneath Helias was caught vp into heauen and thy sone our deare sauiour praied that wher he is those also might be which thou haddest geuē him and might see his glory Nowe hee deare father we learne by thy spirite was asceuded and taken vp in his very body into heauen whether Steueu loked vppe and sawe thy Christ standing on thy right hand to whom he praied Oh Lorde Iesu receaue my Spirite Graunte I beseche thee gracious God and father that I maye haue a cleane harte more more to see thee and so in spirite to see and loke vppon often thys place whether brynge me at the length in body also I hūbly pray thee Now what a thing this euerlasting lyfe is no man is hable to conceaue much lesse hable to vtter For the peace of God whych is eternal life passeth all vnderstanding The eie hath not seene the eare hath not hearde neyther can mans hart cōceaue those thin ges which thou deare god haste prepared for them that loue thee whatsoeuer therefore can be spokē or imagined of thy kingdome of the clerenes ioye and felicitye of the same is nothinge in comparison as we may see by thy Prophets which because they could not otherwyse vnder corporall things haue shadowed the same So that the confidence of eternal lyfe what a thing it is can in no wise be tolde Howe ve it somewhat we maye be broughte into some sighte of it by earthly thinges to thynke on thys sorte If God haue geuen here so manye thinges in a straunge place how many are the great good thinges that be at home if in a prison are so many mercies how many are they in the palace If the wicked haue so many benefites what is y e store prepared for thy seruāts Oh Lorde if thy children fynde such comforts in y e daye of teares and mourninge what shall they fynde in the daye of the mariage If wyth beastes men being haue y e vse of so innumerable blessings oh howe many are the blessinges which they shal enioye wyth thy Angelles and with thee thy selfe O deare God when they shall see thee and haue the fruition of thee in whom is fulnes without lothing of all good and faire thinges so that nothinge can be more desited and that for euermore This thy Chyldren doe not so see as they nowe beleue it I say that euē in their bodies they shal see it for euer as Iob said They beleue that they shal see thee and their owne eies behold thee whē these our corporall eyes our bodyes being reysed shall doe theyr duties Suche a knowledge of thee they beleue to haue as shal not be onely intellectuall and by faith as nowe it is but euen a ful sight and fruition yea a coniunctiō felowship with thee Now they see but in a glasse euen in a dark speaking but then they shal see face to face For fayth though it be the substaunce of thinges hoped for and a certaine dark sight of thee yet it may not be cōpared to the rewarde of fayth and glorious sighte which we shal see in the lyfe to come when fayth and hope shal cease Now thy childrē knowe that they bee thy sonnes thoughe it yet appeare not what they shal be we know say they that when our Christe God and man shal apeare then shal we be like vnto him for we shal see him euen as he is Oh great prerogatiue to see Christ as he is which is not to bee considered so muche for the manhod as for the Godheade it selfe as Paule doth also write that when all thinges are subiect vnto the sonne then shall he be subiect vnto thee deare father allo that God may bee all in all And therfore Christe oure Sauiour prayed for vs that we myght knowe thee the only true God Not that our Chryste thy Sonne is not with thee the true coequal and substancial God but that we might know howe that after the iudgement suche a mysterie of hys mediatorship shall not bee in heauen as is nowe in earth Thē thou blessed trinitie God the father God the sonne God the holy ghost shalt be al in all thou shalte be the ende of our desires thou shalt be loked vpon without ende thou shalt bee loued without lothing thou shalte be praysed without werines Althoughe lothsomnes be wonte to followe fulnes yet our fulnes in the contemplaciō of thy pleasurs shal bring with it no kinde at all of lothsomnes Sacietie of ioyes shall be in the beholdinge of thee pleasures are in thy righte hande for euer we shalbe satisfyed whē wee aryse after thyne Image I meane in the resurrection Oh deare Father shewe thy selfe vn to vs and we aske no more Oh graunt vs with thy Sainctes in euerlastinge lyfe to prayse wyth perpetual praises thy holi name Happy then and happye agayne were we if that day were come that we myghte singe wyth thy Aungels elders and innumerable thousands a newe songe and say thou christ Iesu which waste slayne art worthy to receaue power and ryches and wysedome and strengthe and honoure and glory blessing In this blessed life al kind of maladyes griefes sorrowes and euilles bee farre away and all full of all kinde of mirthe ioye and pleasure Oh that we mighte see nowe a lyttle with S. Iohn that holye Cytie newe Ierusalem discending from heauen prepared of GOD as a bryde trunmed for her husbande Oh that we mighte nowe something heare the greate voice speakynge out of the throne beholde the tabernacle of GOD is with men he will dwell with them and they shalbe his people and he shall be vnto them their God he wyll wype awaye all teares from theyr eyes and death shall be no more nor wepinge nor crying nor sorrowe for the former thinges are gone ¶ A Meditacion of the blessed state and felicitie of the lyfe