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A17654	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.; Psychopannychia. English.	Calvin, Jean, 1509-1564.; Stocker, Thomas, fl. 1569-1592.	1581 (1581)	STC 4409; ESTC S118888	80,056	216

thing that a man may say or beleue of the faythfull chosen whose kingdome and glory is to be in the glorious kingdome of God as to raygne as it were with God and to be glorified with him and finally to be partakers of the diuine glory And although this kingdome is not yet come yet notwithstanding it may bee seene in some measure For they which haue in some measure the kingdome of God within them beginne to be in the kingdome of God and to raigne with him Math. 16. agaynst whom hell gates cannot preuayle For they are made righteous in god as it is said of them Isaiah 43. All the seed of Israell shall bee made righteous vnto the Lord and be also blessed So that to say truely This kingdome is the building vp of the Church or the aduauncing of the faythfull which thing S. Paule describeth vnto vs Ephe. 4.13 who by all degrees of ages might grow vp vnto a perfect man Now these Gallantes see here the beginning of this kingdome and the encreases thereof and so soone as they see these thinges with theyr eyes they geue no longer place vnto fayth neither can they beleue that which is set before their fleshly eyes But S. Paule telleth them another matter for thus he saith Col. 3.3.4 Ye are all dead and your life is hid with Christ in God For when Christ who is your life shall appeare ye also shall appear with him in glory He sayth that our life is hidd in God with Iesus who is our head Now he deferreth our glory vnto the day of the glory of Iesus Christ the head of all the faythfull shall bring with him his members as the head of them S. Iohn also sayth the very selfe same thing Dearely beloued 1. Iohn 3.2 wee are nowe the sonnes of God but yet it doth not appeare what we shall be and we knowe that when he shall appeare we shall be like him For we shall see him as he is Now he sayth not by the way that we shal be made nothing for a certayne tyme but because we are the children of God who looketh for inheritaunce of our Father he therefore sustayneth and vpholdeth our hope vnto that day wherin the maiesty and glory of God shall be made manifest in vs all and we for our part shall gloryfy our selues in him Now they will here agayne maruell whēas they heare the children of God who may not returne againe vnto their sound and perfect vnderstāding and feele this generation to bee immortall which commeth from God whereby we are made partakers of the diuine Immortalitye But let vs goe on with that which we haue begonne Let them crye out as much as they will say that the blessed ones of God are not called vnto the kingdome before the great daye of iudgement and that saluatiō is not promised vnto the children of God before that tyme. Yet this I say that Iesus christ is our head whose kingdome glory haue not yet appeared But if the members shoulde goe before the head it were a crooked kinde of order And therefore we shall nowe follow our Captayne and King whenas he shall come into the glory of his Father and sit in the seat of his Maiesty And yet notwithstanding that whiche is in vs from God Math. 16. 25. to wit our spirite liueth because that Iesus Christe who is our life is liuing For it were an absurd thing to say that our life were liuing yet were vtterly perished And this life is in God and with God and is also blessed because it is in God All these thinges doe very well accord agree with the trueth For why is it sayd of them who are dead in the Lord that they are not yet deliuered or that they do not as yet enherite the kyngdome of God It is because they lyue in hope of that whych yet they haue not and haue not as yet attayned vnto the end of their felicyty Wherefore then are they not yet blessed It is because they right well knowing that God is merfifull vnto them and seing a farre of the reward to come doe reast themselues in the sure hope of the resurrection And surely so long as we dwell in this earthly prison we hope for the thing which we see not and agaynst all hope beleeue in hope and that is the thing which Saint Paul speaketh of Abraham But Rom. 4. when as the eyes of our vnderstanding who being now buryed in this fleshe haue their sight troubled shall be no more bleared Heb. 10. ver 27. we shall then see the thinges we looke for and take pleasure in this hope For we are not a feard to speake thus after the maner of the Apostle who sayth to the cōtrary That there remaineth none other thing for the reprobate but a fearefull looking for of iudgemēt and violent fier which shall deuoure them Seing then that the thing which the reprobate looke for is terrible it is most sure that the thing which the chosen and faythfull looke for is ioyfull and therefore of very right ought to be called most blessed And because my meaning is to instruct our aduersaries rather then to constrayne them let them geue vs the hearing when as we shall draw the trueth out of a figure of the olde Testament and that not without good warrant For as S. Paul in the passing of the children through the re●●●a 1. Cor. 10.1 handleth by an Allegory the ouerthrow of Pharaon and their deliueraunce through the water euen so also let them geue vs leaue to say that our Pharaō is drowned in Baptisme our olde man crucified and our members mortified that we are buryed with Iesus Christ are deliuered out of the captiuitie of the Deuill and out of the tyrānous gouernmēt of death albeit notwithstanding we walke onely in the wildernes which is a dry and barren ground Psal 142. Except the Lord ●ay●●● Manna from heauen to vs and maketh the water come out of the Ko●ke For our soule is lyke dry ground without water which gapeth with drynes before the Lord and is pressed with want of all goodnes vntill such time as he rayneth and droppeth the graces of his holy spirite thereon And soone after they were brought into the land of promise vnder the conduct of Iosua the sonne of Nawe a land flowing with milke and hony That is to say The grace of God deliuereth vs frō the body of death by our Lord Iesus Christ Howbeit this was not done wtout sweate shedding of bloud For then the fleshe chiefly stryueth and layeth open her power and force agaynst the spirite After we haue made our abode vpon the earth we are then satisfied with plenty For we haue white garments geuen vnto vs and we recouer our reast Howbe ●t Ierusalē the chiefe Citie of the kingdome is not yet built and set vp Neither doth Salamon the king of peace fully gouerne

to be the signe of a league that the Lord made with men Gene 9.12 13. Apoc. 14.13 Which thing the same S. Iohn hath more manyfestly taught in another place saying Blessed are the dead which dye in the Lord. Surely the spirite sayth that they doe rest from their labors This is then the bosome of Abraham For he it is who with so ready a minde embrased the promised blessing in his seed so that he nothing doubted but that the word of God was both strong and true And as if God had now fulfilled in deed the thing which he had promised that blessed seede he looked for it with as an assured fayth as if he had handled it with his handes had felt it with all the powers of his minde and body Iohn 8.36 And so our Lord Iesus Christ witnesseth that he saw the day and was glad of it Thus we see what the peace rest and sleape of Abraham is so that this honest name be not defaced with the foule mouth of these sleapers For what sweeter thing can a conscience haue wherein it may rest it selfe safely then in this peace which openeth vnto it the treasures of the heauenly grace and maketh it dronken with the maruelous sweetenes of the Lordes cupp But what O you my maisters the slepers when you heare this word to be dronken doe you not thinke of your blockishnes of your heauy hedds and of your grosse and carnall sleape For these griefes and discomodityes wayte vpon drounkennes And you according to your grossenes doe euen thus vnderstand it But they which are instructed of God know that by this maner of speach sleape is called peace of conscience which the Lord geueth vnto his in the house of peace after the which maner also dronkennesse is called plēty wherewith the Lord filleth his in the house of abundaunce If Abraham enioyed this peace being yet in the middest of the thronges trauelles and daungers of his enemies yea carying with him his owne fleshe which is an home enemy then the which nothing is more hurtfull how much greater must we thinke his peace to be in respect when he shall be quite out of daūger of the blowes and dartes of his enemies Will any man now maruell why it is sayd that the elect of God doe rest in the bosome of Abrahā who are passed out of this lyfe vnto their God namely because they are receiued into the seate of peace with Abraham the Father of the faythfull August de ciuita Dei lib. 19. where they haue the full fruition of God without werysomenes And therefore it is not without cause that Augustine sayth in a certaine place Lyke as sayth he we call lyfe euerlasting the end of the blessed ones 1. Cor. 14. so also may we call it peace For he that can geue no better nor greater thing then him selfe who is the God of peace can geue no better then it Therefore when we shall heareafter speake of the bosome of Abraham let them not put it ouer to their sleape For the trueth of the scripture reprehēdeth and ouerthroweth their vanytie This rest say I Math 5.8 9. is the heauenly Ierusalem that is the vision of peace wherein the the God of peace geueth himselfe to be seene to his peacemakers according to the promise made by Christ But so often as the holy ghost speaketh of this peace in the holy scriptures he so familiarly vseth the figure of sleape and rest as that a man can finde nothing oftener Thy faythfull shall reioyce sayth Dauid and be glad in their beds Psal 149.5 Isaiah 26.19.20 Also thy dead shall lyue and thy slayne shall rise agayne Awake and geue prayse ye inhabitantes of dust for the deaw of the fielde is thy deaw and thou shalt bring the land of the mighty ones to destruction Goe my people enter into thy tentes and shut the dores vnto thee and hyde thy selfe for a while vntill such time as wrath be passed ouer But the Hebrue tongue vsurpeth this word to the signification of all surety and trust Dauid also sayth I will lay me downe to sleape and take my quiet rest Ose 2.18 The prophet lykewise sayth In that day will I make a league with the beastes of the field with the foules of the ayre and with all creping thinges I will destroy vpon the earth the bowe the sworde and warre and they shall sleape without feare Leuit. 26.6 Moyses also sayth I will make peace in your borders and there shall no man be afeard Ioel. 11.18 19. But in the booke of Iobe it is sayde Thou mayest then be of good comfort because there is hope and entrench thy selfe and sleape quietly thē mayst thou lye down none shall make thee a feard many shall make sute vnto thee The soules of the lyuing doe sleape and are in peace which repose themselues vpō the word of the Lord and desier not to passe beyond the will of their God but being ready to goe whither soeuer he shall call them they hold them selues vnder his hand and conduct which thing is commaunded them Aba 2.3 though his trueth tary yet wayte for it Isaiah 30.15 lykewise In hope and quietnes shall your strength be Now since it is so that they desier something which they see not and looke for something which they haue not it appeareth that their peace is imperfect contrariwise seing they are certayne of that which they look for desire in fayth that which they do desyre it is most certain that their desyre is peaceable This peace which leadeth the faythfull to the place of peace doth death encrease aduaunce to the vttermost hauing deliuered them from the warr of this world and as it were crusshed it in peeces And hauing theyr eyes and harts wholy fixed vpon God there is nothing better or more blessed whereon they may cast theyr eyes or set theyr desyre And yet for all this they want something of that which they desyre to see which is the most excellent and perfect glory of God wherunto they alwaies desyre to come And although theyr desier be not impaciēt yet is not their rest ful and perfect For a man may very well say him to be at rest who is at that place where he desyreth to be his desyre hath neither measure nor end vntill such tyme as he be at the place whither he entended to goe Now if the eyes of the chosen doe looke vnto the excellent and perfect glory of God as vnto their marke their desyre is alwayes a foote on the way vntill such time as the glory of God be accomplished which the great day of iudgement will fully accomplish Psal 17.17 Thē shall that saying be verified I shall be satisfied whenas I shal be awakened with the sight of thy countenaunce And now to the end we may passe ouer the reprobate vnto whome what may befall we haue not greatly to do