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A15703	A nevve anatomie of vvhole man aswell of his body, as of his soule: declaring the condition and constitution of the same, in his first creation, corruption, regeneration, and glorification. Made by Iohn Woolton minister of the Gospell.	Woolton, John, 1535?-1594.	1576 (1576)	STC 25977; ESTC S120280	46,530	114

euerlasting paynes and tormentes And this doctrine is setled vppon these groundes or places of scripture Of the Gospell of Iustification of the rewardes of newe obedience of the resurrection and of eternall life The glorification of man in the life eternall is Gods accion vvorke wherin hee restoreth vnto all beleeuers after their resurrection his image perfectly that is to saye he will purifie and clense whole man as well in body as in soule from sinne And beautifying him with al integritie wisedome iustice will translate him into his kingdome to be a felowe and companion of the angels and blessed spirites throughout all eternitie For we learne by Gods vvord that when the godly are remoued hence by corporal death they lay aside al their vveights and burdens of sinne which now so greuously preasseth them in this worlde to the ende that man should not be molested therewith after his resurrection For there is not onely a dissolution of the body and soule but the dregges remnants of sinne are also swallowed vp out of our nature In so much that this temporall death is an effectuall remedy against that puysant and mighty enemy which so dayly and violently assaulteth vs in this corruption mortality When our bodies therfore are laid in the graue they reste in sure and certen hope of the glorious resurrectiō neither are they reteyned there to ignomie and shame but that they may rise and spring vp againe with excellent properties and qualities Whereof P. Martyr that excellent light of our tyme hath vvritten largely and learnedly out of whome I vvill borrow so much as seemeth conuenient for this discourse The schoole mē saith he do call those properties conditions or indumentes neither can I mislyke those whiche they number because I see that they drawe them out of the holy scripture Albeit I thinke they haue not collected all neither can any man doe that because vve cannot see or perceiue exactly in this life the heauenly glory of the celestiall company But the first qualitie or indument accompted of them is immortalitie And in deed whersoeuer any mention is made in the scripture of the lyfe to come the same is said to be eternall and euerlasting The Apostle sayth This mortall must put on immortalitie and this corruptible must put on incorruption And for that both rewardes and punishments which shall be geuen according to the proportion of vvorkes are eternall the subiect or nature vvhich shall susteyne the same must needes be also eternall Moreouer seeing Christe hath ouercome sinne and death it must of necessitie folovve that the lyfe of holy menne shall be immortall The Apostle also speaketh after this manner Christ rysing frō the deade dieth not any more neither hath death power ouer him any more And agayne Fleshe and blood shall not possesse the kingdome of God Whiche vvordes are not to be misconstrued of the very nature and substance of fleshe and blood For those that shall rise to glorie shall be clothed vvith them But the Apostle meaneth of corruption vvherevnto flesh and blood are subiect in this lyfe And therefore it folovveth there And this corruption shall put on incorruption c. Of this qualitie aryseth another vvhiche is that the glorified menne shall not neede meate drinke or anye other corporall sustentation in the lyfe to comme Christe hymselfe hathe taughte vs that they shal be lyke angels For whereas mention is often tymes made in the scripture of eating and drinking in heauen as I will prepare for you as my father hath prepared for me a kingdome that yee may eate and drinke vppon my table in my kingdome This and suche lyke speeches are nothing els but metaphors or translations whereby the holy ghost admonisheth rude and simple men of the ioyes and pleasures of another lyfe In the lyfe immortall then there shal be no neede neither of foode nor of procreation of children Which thinges serue onely the vse of this mortal life The reason of this is because bodely substances are not then worne or consumed there shall be no neede of reparation by meate and drinke And because there shal be no mortality mariage shall not be then needefull by new procreation to preserue and continue natures and substances Shining brightnes is also ascribed by the schoole men to glorified bodyes wherof the Apostle speaketh thus Christ shall chaunge our vile bodies and make them like to his glorious body c. Some signe token hereof was giuen by Christ in hys transfiguration when his face did shine like the sun the Euangelist saith The iust shall shine as the sunne in the sight of God. Whereof the prophet Daniell also maketh mention They ascribe also to glorified bodies nimblenes and agility For the body and all the members shall be subiecte to the soule And hereof it is written in the booke of wisdome of the sainctes That they shall be like sparkes running amongst the stubble And the Apostle We that shall be found alyue and the dead who shall be raysed shal be rapt to meete Christ in the ayre The body of Christe walking vppon the watér was indued vvith this agility vvhiche he lent also for a tyme to Peter to do the same The force or efficacy of this agility as I sayde before is that the soule shall haue absolute dominion ouer the body in so much that the weight and burden of the flesh shall not in any wise hinder or lette the operation thereof And also for that this qualitie apperteyneth to locall motion it maketh many men to meruell why the Vbiquaries are content to guyse this property in bodyes glorified and yet will not graunt any place at all vnto them as thoughe there coulde be a motion from place to place without any place at all The glorified bodyes also are impassible that is to say they shall not be corrupt or diminished with any passions dolors or diseases according as the Apostle writeth It is sowen in corruption it riseth againe in incorruption And for that I haue sayde that the glorified bodies shal not be molested with passions we must consider that passions are of two sortes For some are noysome and hurtefull to nature afflicting and consuming the body as hunger thirst sickenesse paine and such like From these kindes of passions the saintes shall be deliuered Againe there are some other passions which rather helpe and perfect nature then hurt the same Such are the notices of the senses The eye is not hurt with beholding of fayre colours nor the eare with sweete harmony and musike Nor yet is smelling hurt with good odours These and suche like good passions shall not be wanting to our bodyes glorified vvhē vve shal rest in our desired coūtrey They adde also subtilty to glorified bodyes vvhiche is not so to be taken as though these bodies shoulde be turned into spirites become ayery much like the winde

to cōmon personally with our Redeemer to heare him discoursing heauenly things vvhere is in deede the best Scholehouse notablest Vniuersitie of all sapience vvisdome We shal haue societie familiaritie with the Angels Archangels al other heauenly povvers thē with the Patriarks Prophets Apostles and with al those that frō the beginning of the world haue bene souldiers vnder the banner of Iesus Christ For as al damned persons shal be tormēted vvith the diuel his angels in that lake that burneth with fire brimstone So shall the godly enioy endles felicitie in that most florishing kingdome vvith the good iust angels eternally wherevnto shal be adioyned a vvilling obedience seruice of god with al our harts with al our minds with al our willes and with all our strength Then the which obedience toward god our creator redeemer sauiour there cānot be any thing more pleasant delectable There shall be no delight in carnal pleasure in propagation of children in mariages ▪ in worldly regimentes All whiche thinges shall cease but we shal be busied about things farre more excellēt vvhich we see in a glymmis a farre of in this life but shall knowe them perfectly in the life to come And after al these things shal followe a blessed life and that without ending wherin shal be no dolor sicknesse or miserie nor yet shall death haue any povver there according to the promise of our fauiour Christ He that beleeueth in me shall haue eternall life This their glorificatiō will be more apparant vnto vs now and then also if we on th●ther side cōsider the woe misery which damned persons shall abide eternally for vnto the great ioyes of the godly there are correspondent so many tormentes of the vngodly And fyrste those miserable men shall want the sight or vision of God the want of which is called of late Diuines P●na damni payne of losse Whiche is so greeuous a thing by the opinion of Chrysostome and S. Augustine that it were better to be in hell enioying that vision then to be in any place vvithout it Vnto the whiche payne of losse there is added intolerable torments of fyre brimstone and many other infinit agonies vexations which the Diuines call Penam sensus the payne of sence or feling The which two paynes are neuer without despe●ate houling weeping gnashing of teeth What should I here speake of the sun dry and diuers kinds of torments vvherwithall damned persons vexe one another in hell which are so vgglie horrible that we tremble and quake when we do but once thinke vpon them and are so muche more grenous because all releefe and ende therof are vtterly dispayred and distrusted And the same are not a litle augmented when damned men shall caste vp their eyes into heauen and beholde those vvhom they had in this worlde in derision novve on the contrarie parte to rest in peace and to reigne in all glory honor and blessednesse There are two questions vsually demaunded touching the state of glorificatiō first whether the glory of the Elect be cōmon to all without any differēce of mens accions or vocations in this present life or vvhether there be any diuersitie at all Secondly whether in the state of glorification men shall knowe such as were their acquaintance frends in this life Of the vvhich two questions albeit not impartinent to this discourse I vvill write nothing at this time both because the discussing of these questions in my iudgement breede rather pleasure then profit also bicause the same are handled learnedly in our English tong by two of our countrey men M. Allie and M. Beacon albeit one of them borowed his tractation of this matter almost verbatim out of P. Martyr vnto thē therfore I remitte the Reader desitous to knovve further of this matter I thinke it rather expediēt to admonish my reader in this part of the heresie of the Chiliastes vvho supposed that both al mē diuels shuld be saued at the last day Of the vvhich opinion vvas Origen who also helde that the benefite of Christ should extende it selfe as largely as the offence of Adam But there is playne euident mention made in the holy scripture of the paynes of damned men Their worme shall neuer dye Nether is it expressed in the scripture that Christes binefite shuld be extēded as ample as the fall of Adā And albeit some mainteining that proposition to helpe thēselues do affirme that Christes benefit extendeth it selfe to so many in nūber in respect that by his meanes al men are partakers of the resurrectiō vnto this it may be inferred that as the resurrectiō is a benefit to the godly so is it a punishment to the vngodly For the resurrectiō of the wicked is vnto thē partly an execution of gods seueritie and wrath And if the lord pronounced of Iudas that it had bin better for him neuer to haue bin borne why may not the same be spoken of the wicked It were better for them not to rise agayne Moreouer albeit they seme to haue foūd some refuge in respect of the resurrectiō bicause Christes benefit is spred to as many in number as Adams transgression what would they answer if they shuld be vrged with an argument of Adams offence Christes iustice Will they say that all haue bin so iustified in Christe as they haue sinned in Adam Surely to this they can not ananswere For not so many by much shal be iustified by Christe as shall be damned in Adam And this is the minde of P. Martyr in this matter and the Apostle him selfe seemeth to restrayne Christes benefits to those that haue receiued the abundāce of grace gyft of righteousnes For if by the sinne of one death raigned by the meanes of one much more they whiche receiue abundaunce of grace the gift of righteousnes shall reigne in lyfe by the meanes of one ●esus Christ. And albeit I yeeld willingly to the former opinion touching the extending of Christes benefites to the fewer nūber yet it is to be added that the effects of the benefites gifts of christ are more ample notable to that number which are partakers of the same in the state of glorification The dignitie of the image of god after his creation was no doubt notable excellent did brightly shew foorth the loue of the creator toward the creature but that image of god which shal be restored after the resurrection to al those that beleue in Christ shal be much more excellent For we shal be colored and clensed with the precious blood of Christ And this restitution shal be perpetuall vnchangeable wheras in the first state of mā it was changeable indured for a short time And as the heauenly life vvyth Christ dothe farre excell the earthly lyfe with Adam befere his fall euen so no doubt the image