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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

but to worship him with the mouth to the end that others might heare But if they would here disturbe me of my purpose and talke and say that it is lawfull for them to doe the same if they be in heauē with God as we beleue to this I aunswere that to be in heauē and to lyue with God is not to talke one with another and one to heare another but onely to take pleasure in God to feele his good will and to reast in him And therefore if they haue any other reuelatiōs els where let them looke well vnto them For as for my selfe I will neuer goe about to seeke after such crooked questions which serue more to styrre vp debate and strife then to set fourth Religion and the feare of God Neither doth that saying which is written in the booke of Ecclesiasticus tēd to this end That the soules of the dead doe pearish But when he exhorteth that we in good time and as occasion serueth might geue thankes vnto God he soone after teacheth that after death there is no more tyme to prayse him That is to say that there is no place left for repentaunce Now if there be any emongest them that doe yet murmure and are not contented saying this toucheth vs nothing at all that destruction it selfe must come vnto children I aunswere for the faythfull Psal 118.17 Psal 84 4. that they shall not dye but lyue and shall set fourth the workes of the Lord. They that dwell in the house of the Lord Psal 146.2 will prayse him for euer The sixte place which they alledge out of the psalmes is this I will prayse the Lord during my lyfe and as long as I haue any being I will sing psalmes vnto my God And thus they reason If a man must prayse the Lord so long as he lyueth and hath any being he will not prayse him after death and whē he hath no being And because as I thinke that they speake this meryly and in the way of iesting euen so will I also for their sakes speake some thing by the way of myrth When Eneas as it is writtē in Virgile promised vnto his hostesse to acknowledge that humanitie and curtesy which he had receiued at her handes as long as he thought of her meant he hereby that he would sometymes forget her when as he sayd So long as my soule shall styrre in my body did he thinke by this that he would acknowledge the good turne after death in these fabulous fieldes God forbidd that we should suffer this wrong to be done vnto this place of scripture least soone after we suffer our selues to be ouercome of that cursed heretique Heluidius And this I speake in good earnest And to the end they should not finde fault with vs that we haue not done as much as them selues I will yeald them fiue tymes as good a reckoning hereof Psal 30.12 First where it is sayd I will geue thankes vnto thee O Lord my God for euer and euer Psal 34.1 Lykewise I will alway geue thankes vnto the Lord his prayse shall continually be in my mouth Also Psal 52.9 I will alway prayse thee because thou hast done this Lykewise O my God my king Psal 145.1 I will extoll thee and blesse thy name for euer and euer Psal 61.8 Also So will I alwayes sing prayse vnto thy name for euer And euen very now they see that Dauid who was so much their friend fighteth here sharpely agaynst them And therefore let vs make no compt of these Argumēts which are built vpon the poynt of a nedle or vpon so weake a foundation The Seuenth place which they alledge is this Psal 39.13 Stay thine anger from me that I may recouer my strength before I goe hēce and be no more And therewith they ioyne that which is sayd in Iobe Iob. 10. ver 1.21.22 Let me a little complayne my sorrow and griefe before I goe hence and shall not returne euen into the land of darknes and shadow of death into a land I say darke as darkenes it selfe and into the shadow of death where is none order but the light is there as darkenes All this geare serueth them to no purpose For these are words full of heate and of a troubled conscience in trueth expressing and liuely representing as in a Table the affection of those who being touched to the quick with the fearefull Iudgement of God are no longer able to beare his hand And therefore these men pray that if they deserue that God should forsake them yet that they might at the least in some small measure and that at the last cast gaspe for lyfe before the Iudgement of God wherewith they are shaken and terrified And we ought not to maruell although the faythfull seruauntes of God are driuen to this poynt For it is sayde 1. Sam. 2.6 That it is the Lord that killeth and maketh aliue bringeth downe to the graue and rayseth vp And this saying not to be signifieth to be seperated from God For if in this case there is no man that hath his being but he that is they that are not in him haue no true being because they are for euer confounded and cast out from before his face Moreouer I see not how we should be so greatly offēded with this manner of speach if it be simply sayd of the dead that they are not so that this saying be referred to men For with men they are not although before God they are And so to conclude in a worde not to haue any being is not to be seene any more According to that which is sayd in Ieremy Iere. 31. A voyce was heard in Rhama a mourning and bitter weeping Rachell weeping for her children refused to be comforted for her children because they were not Let vs now come to that which remaineth out of the story of Iob. Iob. 3.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19 For we haue herebefore handled something touching the same matter as it came in question The first is Why dyed I not in the byrth or why dyed I not so soone as I came out of my mothers wombe why did the knees preuent me and why did I sucke the breastes For so should I now haue lyen and bene quiet I should haue sleapt then and bene at reast with the kinges and Counsellers of the earth which haue builded themselues desolate places or with the Princes that had Gold and haue filled their houses with siluer or why was I not hid as an vntimely byrth or as Infants which haue not seene the light The wicked haue there ceased frō their tyranny and there they that labored valiauntly are at reast The prisoners reast together heare not the voyce of the oppressor There are small and great and the seruaunt is free from his Maister But what if I bring against them the fourtenth Chapiter of Isaiah Isaiah 14.10 Where he bringeth in the dead comming