of Christ in which age the Iewes conceiue Adam was created and when we read that our Lord and Sauiour rose againe besides many other proofes which I brought out of both TestameÌ„ts wherewith to straÌ„gle the hereticke And from that time Paula did so beginne to detest the man and all them who were of his doctrine that she proclamed them with a loud voice to be the enemyes of our Lord Now these thinges I haue mentioned not that I would briefly confute the heresy which is to be answered in many volumes but to the end I might shew the faith of so great a woman as she was who chose rather to vndergo the continuall emnities of men then to prouoke the wrath of God by entertayning such friendships as were faulty I will therefore say as I began there was nothing more docile then her wit She was slow to speake swift to heare as being mindefull of this precept Hearken O Israel and hold thy peace She had the holy Scriptures without booke And though she loued the historicall part thereof and said that it was the foundation and the ground of truth yet she did much more affect the spirituall meaning of it and by that high sence she secured the edificatioÌ„ of her soule In fine she compelled me that together with her daughter she might read ouer both the old Testament and the new whilest I expounded it Which I denying at the first for modesties sake yet at last in regard of her frequent desires I was content to teach that which I had learnt of my selfe that is to say I learnt it not of presumptioÌ„ which is the worst Master of all others but of the most illustrious men of the Church If at any time I were at a stand did ingenuously confesse myne owne ignorance she would neuer leaue me in peace but by a perpetuall kind of demaund compel me to declare out of many various opinions which seemed the most probable to me I will also speake of another particular which in the eye of enuious persons will seem to haue somewhat of the incredible She had a mind to learne the Hebrew tongue which I had gotten in some measure with much labour and sweat from my very youth and euen yet I do not forsake the study with a kind of indefatigable meditation thereof least I should grow to be forsaken by it And she also hath so obtayned this tongue as that she can read the psalmes in Hebrew and pronounce the language without any accent of the Latin tongue which we also see euen to this day in her holy daughter Eustochium who euer so adhered to her mother and so liued vnder her comaÌ„dments that she neuer lodged nor fed nor went without her nor had one penny in her power but did reioyce to see that little fortune which was left of her Fathers and Mothers patrimony to be bestowed by her Mother vpon poore folkes and she esteemed the duty she ought her parent to be her greatest inheritance and riches I must not passe ouer in silence with how great ioy she did eueÌ„ exult when she heard that her graÌ„dchild the young Paula who was begotten and borne of Leta and Toxotius yea conceiued with a desire and promise from them both of future chastity did sing forth Allelluia with her stammering tongue in her cradle in the middest of other childish toyes did breake forth the names of her grandmother and her aunt by halfe words In this alone she had still a desire concerning her couÌ„try to know that her sonne her daughter in law her grandchild had renounced the world and serued Christ our Lord which in part she hath obtayned for her grand-child is reserued to weare the vayle of Christ. Her daughter in law deliuered her selfe ouer to eternall chastity her sonne in law followes on in faith almes and other good workes and endeauoureth to expresse that at Rome which she hath accomplished at Ierusalem But what do we O my soule why fearest thou to come so farre as her end Already the booke is growne big whilest we feare to come to this last cast as if whilest we conceale it employ our selues vpon her praises we were able to put off her death Hitherto we haue sayled with a fore-wind our sliding ship hath plowed vp the crisping waues of the Sea at ease But now my discourse is falling vpon rockes and I am in such dauÌ„ger of present ship wracke as makes me say Saue vs Master for we perish And againe Rise vp O Lord why doest thou sleep For who can with dry eyes speake of Paula dying She fel into extreame indispositioÌ„ or rather she found what she sought in leauing vs and in being more fully ioyned to our Lord. In which sicknesse the approued dear affection of the daughter Eustochium to her mother was more confirmed in the eyes of al She would be sitting vpon the beds side she would hold the fanne to moue the ayre she would beare vp her head apply the pillow rubbe her feet cherish her stomacke with her hand compose her bed warme water for her bring the bason and preuent all the maydes in those seruices and whatsoeuer any other had done to hold that she her selfe had lost so much of her own reward With what kind of prayers with what kind of â—…tations and groanes would she be shooting her selfe swiftly vp and downe between that caue where our Lord had bene layd her mother lying in her bed that she might not be depriued of such an inestimable conuersation that she might not liue an houre after her that the same Bier might deliuer them both vp to one buriall But O frayle and caduke nature of mortall men for vnlesse the faith of Christ raised vp to heauen and that the eternity of the soule were promised our bodies would be subiect to as meane condition as beasts they of the basest kind The same death seises vpon the iust and wicked man vpon the good and bad the cleane and the vncleane him who sacrifices and him who sacrifices not as the good man so him who sins as him who sweares so him who feares to sweare an oath Both men beasts are dissolued into dust and ashes after the same manner Why do I make any further pause and encrease my sorrow by prolonging it This most wise of woemen found that death was at hand and that some part of her body and of her limmes being already cold there was onely a little warmth of life which weakely breathed in her holy brest yet neuertheles as if she had bene but going to visit her friends take her leaue of strangers â—…he would be whispering out those verses O Lord I haue loued the 〈◊〉 order of thy house the place of the habitation of thy glory And How belouâ—…d are thy tabernacles O God of power my soule hath euen saynted with an amorous kind of desire of entring into the Court of thy house
know that I write not therfore to you as suspecting any thing ill of you but I desire your agreement least others should gro◅◅o haue suspition For otherwise if I thought you had bene ioyned together by any tye of sinne which God forbid I should neuer haue written as knowing that I were talking to deafe persons In the second place I would desire that if I sh◅l write any thing which may be of the sharper sort you will not ◅hinke it to sauour so much of my austere condition as of the disease in hand Rotten flesh must be cured with a burning iron and the poyson of serpents driuen away with an Antidot And that which giueth much payne must be expelled by a greater In the last place this I say that although the conscience may haue no wound in it of any crime yet fame suffers ignominy thereby Mother and daughter are names of a Religious kind of tendernes they are wordes of obseruance they are bondes of nature and they are of the highest leagues vnder God It deserues no prayse if you loue but it is extreme wickednes if you hate one another Our Lord Iesus Christ was subiect to his parents he carryed veneration to his Mother whose very Father he was He was obseruant of his foster-father whom yet himselfe had nourished and he remembred that he had beene carryed in the wombe of the one and in the armes of the other Whereupon when he was hanging on the Crosse he commēded his Mother to his Disciple and he neuer forsooke that mother till his death But you O daughter for now I forbeare to speake to the mother whome perhaps either age or weaknes or desire of solitude may make excusable you I say O Daughter can you hold her house too straight You liued ten monethes shut vp in her wombe can you not endure to liue one day with her in one chamber Are you not able to like that she should haue an eye vpon you and doe you fly from such a domesticall witnesse as she is who knowes euery motion of your hart as she who bare you who brought you vp and lead you on to be of this age If you be a Virgin why mislike you to be diligently kept If you be defiled why doe you not marry in the sight of the world This is the second planche or table after ship◅racke let that which you haue ill begun at least be tempered by this remedy But yet neither do I say thus much to the end that after sinne I may take away the vse of Pennance or that she who hath begun ill may perseuer to do ill but because I despaire of any separation after such coniunction For otherwise if you go to your mother after you shall haue beene subiect to that ruine you may in her presence more easily lament your selfe for that which you lost by being absent from her If yet you be entire and haue not lost it take care to keep it To what purpose are you now in that house where it will be necessary for you either to perish or to fight continually that you may ouercome What creature did euer sleep securely neere a Viper who though she do not bite yet she will keep him awake It is a point of more safety not to be in danger of perishing then being in danger not to perish In the one there is tranquility in the other there must be labour and skill in the former we ioy and in the later we do but escape But perhaps you will answere My mother is of a harsh condition she desirs worldly thinges she loues riches she knowes not what belonges to fasting she paintes her eyebrowes blacke she takes care to be curiously dressed and hinders my purpose of chastity and I cannot liue with such an one But first if she were such as you pretend you should haue the greater merit if you forsook not such an one as she She carryed you long in her wombe she nursed you long with a tender kind of sweetnes did endure the vntowardnes of your infancy She washed your fowle cloutes and was often defiled with your silth She sate by you when your were sicke and did not only endure her owne incommodities but yours also She brought you to this age and she taught you how to loue Christ our Lord. Let nor her conuersation displease you who first did consecrate you as a Virgin to your spouse But yet if you cannot endure her but will needs fly away from her delicacies and if as we vse to say she be a kind of secular mother in that case you may haue other Virgins you will not want some holy quier where chastity is kept Why forsaking your Mother haue you taken a liking to one who perhaps hath also forsaken his Mother and his Sister She is of a hard condition but this man forsooth is sweet kind She is a chider but he is therefore easily appeased I aske whether you followed this man at the first or whether you found him afterward For if you followed him at the first the reason is plaine why you forsooke your mother If you found him afterward you shew plainly what it was which you could not find in your Mothers house This is a sharp kind of griefe for me which woundes me with myne owne sword He who walkes simply or plainly walkes bouldly I would faine hold my peace if myne owne conscience did not giue remorce and if now I did not reprehend myne owne fault in the person of another and if by the beame of myne owne eye I saw not the more which is in an others Bu now since I am farre off among my brethren and whilest ēioying their society I live honestly vnder witnesses of my conuersation and I see and am seene very seldome it is a most impudent thing if you will not follow his modesty whose example you haue followed otherwise Now if you say Myne owne conscience is sufficient for me I haue God for my iudge who is the witnesse of my life I care not for the talke of men Heare what the Apostle writes Prouiding to do good thinges not only before God but also before all men If any man will detract from you in regard that you are a Christian or that you are a Virgin let it not trouble you though you haue forsaken your Mother to the end that you may liue in some Monastery with Virgins Such detraction will be a praise to you as when seuerenes and not too much loosenes is reproued in the Virgin of God Such kind of cruelty is piety for you preferre him before your Mother whome you are commanded to preferre before your life it self and whome if she will also preferre she wil acknowledge you both to be her daughter and her sister But what is it such a crime to liue in society with a Holy man You make a wry necke and now you draw me into a kind of quarell and so as that either I must
who liberally affoarded all thinges to sicke folkes and would also giue them flesh to eat whensoeuer her selfe wa◅sicke she gaue her selfe no such liberties and in that seemed vniust that being so full of pitty to others she exercised so much seuerity vpon her selfe There was none of the younger sort healthfull and strong who gaue her selfe to so much abstinence as Paula did with that broken and aged and weake body of hers I confesse that in this poynt she was somewhat too peremptory for she would not spare her selfe nor hearken to any admonition I will tell you what I know by experience In Iuly when the heates were at the highest she fell into a burning feauer and when by the mercy of God she was recouering after she had bene despaired of and the Physitians were perswading her that for the getting of some strēgth she would vse a little wine which was very small least continuing to drinke water she might grow hydropicke when I had priuately desired the blessed Pope Epiphanius to aduise or rather to compell her to drinke wine she as she was discret of a quicke piercing wit did presently find that she was as it were betrayed and smiling declared that that was my doing which was his saying To be short when the blessed Bishop after hauing vsed much perswasion was gone forth I was asking her what he had done she answered I haue gone so farre as that almost I haue perswaded the old man that I might drinke no wine I haue related this particular not that I allow of those burdens which are vndertaken inconsideratly aboue ones strength for the scripture fayth Take not a burdem vpon thee but only to the end that I may proue euen hereby the ardour of her mind and the desires of her faithfull soule And she said My soule thirst towards thee and how plentifully doth my flesh also thirst A hard thing it is to keep the meane in all things And indeed according to that sentence of the Philosopher vertue is in the meane and excesse is reputed vitious which we expresse by one short little sentence Take not too much of any thing She who was so peremptory and strict in the contempt of food was tender in the occasions of her greif and was euen defeated by the death of her friends and especially of her children For in the death both of her husband of her daugters she was euer in danger of her owne life And though she would Signe both her mouth and her brest and procure to mollify a mothers grief by the impression of the Crosse yet she was ouercome by her affection and those bowels of a mother did euen astonish her tender hart and though she were a conquerour in her mind yet she was conquered by the frailty of her body And once vpon such an occasion a sicknesse taking hold of her did possesse her for so long a time that it gaue care to vs daunger to her But she reioyced said Miserable creature that I am who shall free me from the body of this death But here the discreet Reader will say that I writ matter of reproofe rather then praise I take Iesus to witnes whom she serued in deed and whom I serue in desire that I fayne nothing on either side but that I deliuer truthes as one Christian should do of another and that I writ no panegyricke but a story of her and that those thinges which go for vices in her would be vertues in an other I call them vices according to the mind whereof I was and to the desire of all the sisters and brothers who loued her and are looking for her now she is gone But she hath fulfilled her course she hath kept the faith now enioyes the crowne of iustice and followes the lambe wheresoeuer he goes She is now satisfyed to the full because she was hungry she sings thus with ioy As we haue heard so haue we seen it in the Citty of the Lord of power in the Citty of our God O ble◅ed change of things she wept that she might for euer reioyce she despised these leaking cesternes that she might find the fountayne which is our Lord. She wore a haircloath that now she might be apparelled in white roabes say Thou hast torne my sackloath and hast apparelled me with ioy She fed vpon ashes like bread and she mingled her drinke with teares saying My teares were bread to me day and night that she might feed for euer vpon the bread of Angels sing Taste see how sweet our Lord i◅ And My hart hath earnestly vttered a good word I consecrat my workes to the King And she saw those words of Esay or rather the words of our Lord by Esay fulfilled in her selfe Behold they who serue me shall eat but you shall be hungry Behold they who serue me shall drinke but you shall be thirsty Behold they who serue me shall reioyce but you shall be shamefully aflicted Behold they who serue me shall exult but you shal cry out in the sorrow of your harts shall howle through the contrition of your spirit I was saying that she euer fled from those leaking Cesternes that she might find the fountayne which is our Lord might sing with ioy As the hart desires the fountaynes of water so doth mysoule aspire to thee O my God when shal I come appeare before th◅face of God I will therfore briefly touch how she auoyded those durty lakes of the heretikes and esteemed them to be no better ther Pagans A certaine crafty old companion and who in his owne opinion was a shrewd kind of schollar begā without my knowledge to propound certaine questiōs to her and say VVhat sinne hath an Infant committed that he should be possessed by a Diuell It what age shall we be when we are to rise from the dead If in the age when we dye some of vs will need nurses after the resurrection If otherwise it will not be a resurrection of the dead but a transformation of them into others Besides there will either be a diuersity of the Sexes of man and woman or there will be none If there be it will follow that there will be marriage and carnall knowledge yea and generation If there be not then taking away the difference of Sex they will not be the same bodies which rise againe for an earthly habitation doth aggrauate and oppresse the vnderstanding which hath many thinges to thinke of but they shall be spirituall and subtill according to the Apostle The body is sowed carnall and it shall rise spiritual By all which he desired to proue that reasonable soules for certaine vices auntient sinnes were slipped downe into bodies and according to the diuersity and demerit of the same sinnes were to be subiect to such or such a condition so that either he should enioy health of body or riches and nobility of parents or els should fall into sicke
and inflamed with curious fare There are many who tread vpon couetousnes and it is layd aside by them as easily as their purse A reproachfull tongue is mended by imposing silence vpon it To reforme the habite and order of our cloathing doth but cost an houres work All other sinnes ar◅ without the man and that which is without is soone cast away Only lust to which we are enable ◅ by God for the procreation of children if i◅ passe beyond the due boundes proues vicious by a kind of course of nature it striues to breake out into copulation It is therefore a point of great vertue and requires a carefull diligence to ouercome that to which you are borne and not to liue in flesh after a ◅shly manner to fight daily with your selfe and to ha◅e the hundred eyes of Argus which the Poets ◅aigne vpon that enemy who is shut vp within our selues This is that which the Apostle deliuers to vs in other words All sinne which a man commits is without the body but he who commits fornication sinnes against his owne body The Phisitians who writ of the nature of mans body and especially Galen sayth in those bookes which are intituled Of preseruing bodily health that the bodies of youthes and young men and of men and woemen of perfect age boyle vp through their inuate heate and that such food is hurtfull to them at those years as doth increase their heat that on the other side it conduces to their health to take such other meate and drinke as cooles the blood And so also old wine and warmer food is good for old men who are subiect to crudities and fleame Whereupon our Sauiour also sayth Looke to your selues that your har◅s be not oppressed through gluttony drunkennes and with the cares of this life And the Apostle speakes of wine wherein there is luxury Neither is it any maru◅ile that the Potter framed this iudgment of the poore little pot which himselfe had made when the Comedian whose end was no more then to describe the conditiō of mankind sayd that Venus grew could without Ceres and Bacchus First therefore if yet the strength of your stomacke will endure it let water be your drinke till you shall haue passed ouer the heat of your youth Or if your weakenes will not admit of this hearken to Timothy Vse a little wine for your stomacke and for your frequent infirmities In the next place you must in your food auoyd all kind of thinges which are hot And here I speake not only of flesh vpon which the vessell of election pronounces this sentence It is good for a man not to drinke wine nor to eate flesh but also euen in Pulse to auoyd all those things which are windy and heauy and know you that nothing is so good for Christians as the feeding vpon kitchin herbes Whereupon he saith also in another place He that is infirme let him eat herbes and so the heat of our bodies is to be tempered with this cooler kind of cates Daniel the three children were fed with Pulse They were but young were not yet come to the fiery paine wherin that Babylonian King fryed those old iudges By vs that good fayre state of body which euen besides the priuiledge of Gods grace appeared in them by theyr feeding vpon such meates is not esteemed but the strength of the soule is sought by vs which is so much the stronger by how much the flesh is weaker From hence it is that many who desire to lead a chast life fall groueling downe in the midest of their iourney whilest they attend only to abstayne from flesh and load the stomacke with pulse which being taken moderately and sparingly is not hurtfull But if I shall say what I thinke there is nothing which doth so much inflame a body and prouoke the partes of generation as meate when it is not wel digested but makes a kind of conuulsion in the body through windynes I had rather O daughter speake a little too plainly then that the matter we speake of should be in danger You must thinke all that to be poyson which makes a seminary of pleasure A sparing diet a stomacke which is euer in appetite I preferre before a fast of three daies and it is much better to take some little thing euery day then to feed full at some few times That rayne is the most profitable which descends into the earth by little and little A sudden and excessiue shower which fals impetuously turnes the field vp side downe When you eat consider that instantly after you must pray and read Rate your self to a certaine number of verses of holy Scripture and performe this taske to our Lord and allow not your body to take rest till you shall haue filled the basket of your breast with that kind of worke Next after holy scriptures read the writings of learned men of thē I meane whose faith is known There is no cause why you shold seeke gold in durt but you must sell pearles to buy that one Stand according to the aduise of Ieremy neer many wayes that you may meet with that one which leades to our country Transferre your loue of iewels and gemmes and silken cloathes to the knowledge of holy scripture Enter into that land of promise flowing with milke and hony Eate flower and oyle and apparayle your selfe with the variously coloured garments of Ioseph Let your eares be boared through with Ierusalem that is to say by the word of God that the pretious grayne of new corne may bow downe from thence You haue holy Exuperius a man of fit age approued faith who will often instruct you with his good aduice Make friendes for your selfe of the vniust Mammon who may receiue you into those eternal Tabernacles bestow your riches vpon them who eat not pheasants but browne bread who driue hunger away and who do not call lust home Haue vnderstanding of the poore and needy giue to euery one that askes of you but especially to the houshould of faith Cloath the naked the hungry visit the sicke As often as you stretch forth your hand thinke of Christ. Take heed that when your Lord God is begging of you you increase not the riches of other folkes Fly from the conuersation of young men and let not any roof in your house be able to see these dapper curious and loose fellowes there Let the musitian be sent away like a ma◅efactour and thrust you rudely out of your house all Fidlers and minstrells and such quiers of the Diuell as you would anoyd those Syren songes which bring destruction Goe not ◅orth in publicke be not carryed vp and downe according to the liberty which widowes takes with that army of Eunuches going before you It is a most wicked custome that a frail sexe and a weake age should abuse power and should thinke that all is lawfull which they list Though all thinges were
flesh or ◅ls by coming into poor◅ houses might pay the punishment of those antient sinnes be shut vp in this present life and in their bodies as in a prison Which as soon as she had heard and related to me letting me know who the man was and that a necessity lay vpon me of resisting this most wicked viper destroying the beast whō the Psalmist mentions saying Do not deliuer vp to beasts the soules of such as confesse to the And Re◅uke O Lord these beasts of the reed who writing iniquity do speake a ly against our Lord and exalt their mouths against the most high I met with the man by his owne discourse whereby he procured to deceiue her I shut him vp by asking him this short question VVhether or no he belieued the future resurrection of the dead When he had answered that he did I pursued him thus Shall the same bodies rise or shall they be other When he had said the same I asked him whether in the selfe same sexe or in another Vpon which question holding his peace and tossing his head too fro like some snake least he should be hurt because said I you hold your peace I will answere my selfe for you and inferre the consequences If a woman shall not rise as a woman nor a man as a man there will be no resurrection of the dead For the sex implyes distinct parts and the parts make vp a whole body but if there be no sex and parts what will become of the resurrection of bodies which consist not without parts and sex And then if there be no resurrection of bodies there can be no resurrection of the dead But as for that also which you obiect towching marriage If they shall be the same parts it must follow that there will be marriage it is answered by our Sauiour saying You erre not knowing the Scripture not the vertue of God For in the Resurrection of the dead they shall neither marry nor be marryed but shall be like the Angels of God In that he saith they shall neither marry nor be marryed the diuersity of sex is shewed for no man saith of wood or stone that they shall neither marry nor be marryed which are not capable of marriage but of them who may marry yet for beare to do it by the power grace of Christ. If you reply and aske How then shall we be like to Angells since among the Angells there is no difference of male and female I will answere you in few words Our Lord doth not repromise to vs the substance but the conuersation and felicity of Angells As Iohn Baptist euen before he was beheaded was called an Angell and all the Saints and Virgins of God do expresse in themselues the life of Angells euen in this world For when it is sayd You shall be like to Angels a resemblance is promised but the nature is not changed And answere me besides how you interprete that Thomas touched the handes of our Lord after the Resurrection and saw his side boared through with a Lance And That Peter saw our Lord standing vpon the shoare and eating part of a broyled fish and a hony combe Certainly he who stood had feet he who shewed a wounded side had doubtles a belly brest without which he could not haue sides which must be contiguous to them both He who spake did speake with a tongue a pall◅ and with teeth For as the quill hath relation to the stringes so the tongue presses towards the teeth and makes a vocall sound He whose handes were felt must by cōsequence haue armes Since therefore he was sayd to haue all the parts he must necessarily haue had the whole body which is framed of the partes and that no feminine but masculine that is of the sexe wherein he dyed If now you shall reply that by the same reason we must eate after the Resurrection and that our Lord entred in when the doores were shut against the nature of true and solid bodies giue eare a while Do not draw our Fayth into reproach by speaking of meat after the Resurrection For our Lord bad them giue meat to the Daughter of the Archi◅ynagogue when she was raised again to life And Lazarus who had been dead foure dayes is written to haue fed with him at the same table least his Resurrection should be thought to be but a conceit But if because he entred in while the dores were shut you would therefore striue to proue that his body was but aeriall and spirituall by the same reason it must also haue beene but spiritual before he suffered because he walked then vpon the Sea which is contrary to the nature of waighty bodyes And the Apostle Peter who also walked vpon the waters with a wauering pace must be belieued to haue had but a spirituall body whereas the strength power of God is shewed more when any thing is done against nature And to the end that you may know that by the greatnes of wonders not the change of nature but the omnipotency of God is shewed he who walked by fayth began by in fidelity to sinke downe vnles the hand of our Lord had kept him vp when he sayd VVhy dost thou doubt O thou of little fayth But I marueile that you will haue so obstinate a mind when our Lord himselfe did say Bring in thy finger hither and touch my handes and reach forth thy hand and put it into my side and be not incredulous but belieue And els where See my handes and my feet for it is I. Feele and see for a spirit hath no flesh and bones as you see I haue And when he had sayd so he shewed them his hands his feet I tell you of bones and flesh and handes and feet you come talking to me of Globes of the Stoickes and certaine doting fancies of the ayer But if now you aske me VVhy an infant who neuer sinned is possest by a Diuell or of what age we shall be wh◅ we rise againe since we dye of seuerall ages I shall answere you good cheape with this The iudgments of God are a great abysse And O the altitude of the riches of the wisedome and knowledge of God how inscrutable are his iudgments and how vnsearchable his wayes For who hath knowne the sense of our Lord or who hath beene called by him to counselle But the diuersity of ages doth not change the truth of bodies For since our bodies doe continually change and either encrease or decrease we shoud by that reason be euery one of vs many men as we daily vndergo changes I was an other being ten yeares old an other at thirty an other at fifty an other now that I haue my whole head ful of hoary haires Therfore according to the traditions of the Churches and of the Apostle Paul we must answere thus That we shall rise in perfe◅t man in the measure of the age of the fulnes