Selected quad for the lemma: truth_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
truth_n	lord_n	spirit_n	word_n	8,458	5	4.2143	3	true

Text snippets containing the quad

ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14943	The hope of the faithfull Declaring breefely and clearly the resurrection of our Lord Iesus Christ past, and of oure true essentiall bodies to come: and plainly confuting the cheefe errors, that hath sprong thereof, out the Scripture and doctors. VVith an euident probation, that there is an eternall life of the faithfull, and an euerlasting damnation of the vnfaithfull. Nevvly imprinted and corrected. 1574.; In sacrosanctum Jesu Christi Domini nostri Evangelium secundum Matthaeum commentariorum libri XII. English. Selections	Bullinger, Heinrich, 1504-1575.; Coverdale, Miles, 1488-1568.; Werdmüller, Otto, 1511-1552, attributed name.	1574 (1574)	STC 25250; ESTC S111633	60,785	256

then that it cā receiue or suffer suche vile vncleane lusts and tentations yea such a stained and defiled fleshe For afore the bodies of mē come in heauen they must be wholely perfectly altered that is clensed and purified from all filthinesse and frailty This did our sauioure teache also whan he answered to the question of the Saducees who denied the Resurrection of the dead Of the which I haue written much vpon the gospell of Mathew Holy Augustin saith also This doth sore hinder the Ethnikes and heretikes that vve beleeue that the earthye bodye is taken vp into Heauen for they thinke that into heauen there can come no earthy thing But they knovv not our scripture neither vnderstand hovve it is spoken of Paule it is sovven a naturall bodye and shall rise a spirituall bodye For this is not spoken to the intent as thoughe the bodye should become a sprite or be changed into a sprite For euē novv also our body vvhich is called naturall or soulishe and is naturall in deede is not changed into the soule and become the soule But therefore is the body called a spirituall body that it may so be prepared to dvvell in heauen VVhich thing commeth to passe vvhan al feblenesse and earthy blemish is changed into an heauenly purenesse and stedfastnesse All these are the vvords of Augustine CHAP. 18. The diuers errors that sprong about the article of the bodies resurrection HEtherto haue I told what the Scripture of the Prophets and Apostles doth hold testify concerning the resurrection of the dead and of our ood● that is to sai our own true flesh● namely that our true fleshe and body shall rise from deathe and be glorified in the resurrection and that the glorification dothe not therfore take away the verity of the bodi or make it nothing but dothe translate and bring it it into a more vprighte and better state so that neuerthelesse the true essencial substāce of the the body remaineth still Vpon this nowe to the commodity of the reader for a more euident declaration and vnderstanding of the aforesaid wordes I will shew what errors spring-vp cōcerning the resurrection of the dead that any good faithfull Christian may the better auoide the same That there haue ben many which denyed the resurrection of oure bodies and had it vtterly in derision all Stories declare In the which register the Philosophers for the most parte are reckened and estemed them Hymeneus and Philetus of whom Paul maketh mention In like maner are ther many recited of Ireneus Tertullian Eusebius Epiphanius Philastrius Augustine namely these the Simonians Valentinians Marcionites Cerdonians Carpocratians Caijnes Archontici Seuerians Hierarchits Seleucians Appellites and Manichees Among the Grekes also Latinistes there wer excellent mē that turned thēselues to the golden and yet earthy Hierusalem promising muche I wotte not what of a kingdom of the worlde to come after the resurrection ascribing vnto vs suche bodies as being partakers of the kingdom should also beholden wyth these earthye desires To these there is foūd yet the third part which as touching the substāce and state of the glorified bodies so saide and taught that they vtterly take away and ouerthrew the bodely nature and gaue vnto it no more nor other thing then a sprite Against the second sort speaketh holy Hierom that forasmuch as they were carnal they haue also loued onely the fleshe Against the third speaketh the saide Hierome that they being vnthankfull for the benefites of God would not haue and beare the flesh wherin Christ yet was borne and rose againe Wherevpon he geueth very godly coūsell that we tary in the meane way Namely that we esteme and make the glorified bodies no more spirituall then the perfectnesse property and truthe of the bodies maye permitte and suffer Contrarywise that we make them not altogether so carnall and vngostly that it myghte he thought howe that naturall and fraile bodies shall be in the glory Olde wryters say also that Origen did not perfectly confesse the resurrection of the fleshe but that in the resurrection he fantasied and imagined suche a body as hathe little difference from a sprite And therefore in Definicionibus Eclesiasticis there is a Chapter againste the saide Origen in maner folowing If that vvhich falleth doe stande vp againe then shall our flesh truely rise againe for the same falleth in very deede and shall not come to nothing as Origenes opinion vvas that there shoulde be made a shifting and change of the bodies namely that there shuld be geuen vs a nevv body for the flesh but euen the same fraile flesh that falleth of the iust and vniust shall vvithout feblenesse rise againe that because of sinne it may suffer paine or els according to his desertes continue in eternall honor and glory CHAP. 19. The errors of Origen concerning the resurrection confuted by Hierome BVt forasmuche as I haue once recited Origens opinion touching the resurrection of the body and somewhat recited the errors of some that deuided the resurrection declaring the scornful opinion of those whom they cal Chiliastes I wil shew nowe more largely what holye Hierome held of the resurrection of the dead and howe he confessed the true vprighte beleefe He speaketh to Pammachius concerning the errors of Ihon bishop of Hierusalem and in the same wryting he comprehēdeth the doctrine and opinion of Origen concerning the resurrection in maner folowing Origen sayth that in the church there be sprong vp tvvo errors the one from vs the other from the heretikes Namely that vve as the simple and louers of the flesh say that euen these bones this bloud and this flesh that is that oure face members and all the proportion of the body and the vvhole body it selfe shall rise againe at the last day so that vve shal also go vvith the feete vvorke vvith the hands see vvith the eyes and hear vvith the eares This saith he vve speake as simple homely grosse and ignorant people But the heretikes as Marcion Appelles Valentinus and madde Manes deny vvholely and vtterly the resurrection of the fleshe or body geuing saluation only vnto the soule and saying that oure vvordes are nothing vvhan vve affirm that according to the ensample and paterne of our Lord Iesus Christ vve shall rise againe saying that the Lorde himselfe rose in a fantasy or sprite and that not onely his resurrection but also his birth came to passe more in imagination than in very truthe that is that he vvas not borne in very dede but supposed to be borne Novve for the opinion and mind of both these parties Origen saythe it pleased him not namely that he abhorieth the flesh on oure side and the fantasye on the heretikes part for eche of them doth too muche And namely they of our side for that they vvold be again the same they vvere afore and the other for that they vtterly denye the resurrection of the bodies

gon againe from Hierusalem they came to the Disciples minding to shew them and to geue them to vnderstād what they had sene and hard Then preuented they them and said the Lord is truly risen in deede and hath apeared vnto Simon Nowe while they were talking of suche things among them selues Iesus stode in the middes of them and said peace be vnto you But whan they sawe him they were sore afraid thinking that they had sene a spirit or some other vision Thē said the lord vnto them why are ye troubled And why doe thoughtes arise in your hartes Behold my hands and my fete CHAP. 4. The body of Christ rose again not a spirite but a true body NOwe that no man should thinke it to be another body which he had not afore his resurrection he addeth thereto immediatly It is euē I my self Handle me see a spirite hath not fleshe bones as ye see me haue And wyth that shewed he them his hands and his fete With this euident testimony of the Lord was S. Augustine moued boldly to saye that they ought not to be heard which deny the body of the Lord to haue risen againe as it was layed in the sepulchre For if it were not so he wold not haue saide to his disciples after the resurrection Handle me and see for a spirite hath not flesh bones as ye see me haue Now is it as much as to rob God of his honor if anye man wold thinke that the lord who is the truth it self had in any thing that he spake not sayd the truthe c. Thomas was not there when the Lord shewed him selfe aliue vnto his disciples but whan he came againe they told him with greate ioy what they had sene heard Neuerthelesse he thoughte it had not bene as they spake and he sayd except I see in his hands the print of the nailes put my finger into the holes of them and my hand into his side I will not beleeue it Therfore after .viii. days whan the disciples were assembled together againe Thomas with them Iesus commeth in while the dores wer shut and standeth in the middes among them and saith peace be vnto you Afterwarde sayde he vnto Thomas reache hither thy finger and beholde my handes put thy hande here also and lay it in my side be not faithlesse but beleuing Thomas answered and said vnto him my Lorde and my god For S. Paule also in the firste chapter of the Epistle to the Romaines doth out of the resurrection of the Lord proue the god-head thus which was borne of the seede of Dauid after the flesh and euidently declared to be the sonne of god after the spirit that sanctifieth and by that he rose again from the dead namely Iesus Christ our lord What cā be spoken more plaine more euidēt or more certain For freely did the Lorde sette before their eies his body which was hāged vpon the crosse that they might see it handle it For the body was pearsed with nails and marked with the printes therof Oute of this now it foloweth that the lord with his true bodye did verelye rise again and not a spirit And further the Lorde also sheweth himselfe vnto the seuen whych then were in Galile fishing at the sea of Tiberias The Euāgelist addeth likewise thervnto that it was not expedient for any of the Disciples to aske him who hee was for they knewe that it was the lord In the .28 chapter of Mathewe the eleuen Apostles saw the Lorde and worshipped hī as it is declared afore Some think that the same was the excellent appearing that Paul speaketh of saying Afterward was he sene of moe then fiue hundred brethren at once of whom many are aliue this day but some are a slepe or dead And in the same place dothe the Apostle make mention yet of two moe appearings saying after this was he sene of Iames then to al the Apostles And laste of all he was seene of me as of one that was borne out of due time Luke the Euangelist in the beginning of the Actes of the Apostles hath in maner collected all the probations together The Lorde sayeth he shewed himselfe aliue vnto his apostles after his Passyon and that by manye tokens appearing vnto them forty dayes and speaking of the kingdom of god S. Peter also instructing Cornelius in the Faithe of Christ said we are witnesses of all thyngs which he did in the lande of the Iewes and at Hierusalem whō they slue hanged on tree Him God raised vp the third day and shewed him opēly not to all the people but vnto vs witnesses chosen before of god for that intent which did eat and drinke with him after he rose frō death With these plain probations testimonies as I suppose it it is euidētly declared and sufficiently shewed that our Lord Iesus Christ with his owne very true body which hāged on the cros did vereli rise from the dead As touching the glorificatiō I shal speake therof when I come to the resurrection of the bodies and there will I shew more that the glorification dothe nothing minishe the veritye or truthe of the body read the sixt chapter CHAP. 5. The frute of the Resurrection of Christe NOw I wil declare the occasion whye I haue with suche diligence and so earnestly preased vnto this that Iesus christ with his true body did truly rise againe That is how profitable necessary it is so to beleue and what frute the true resurrection of Christ doth bring engender vnto vs And albeit that hereof as of a plentiful treasure muche might be spoken yet wil I comprehend it all in a short summe Thoughe we be cōplete made perfecte thorowe the deathe of Christ while the iust iudgemēt of god is satisfied the curse takē away the penalty recompenced and paid Yet saith Peter we are borne again thorow the resurrectiō of Iesus Christ vnto a liuīg hope For like a christ with his resurrection ouercame death so standeth also the triumph victory of our faith in the resurrection of Christ Therfore thorowe his death is sinne taken away by his resurrectiō is rightuousnesse brought againe For how could he with his death haue deliuered vs frō death if he himself had of death ben ouercome Or how could he haue obteined the victory for vs if he had bene destroyed in the battell himself Therfore thorow death is death discomfited and with the resurrection is life to vs restored Hereof commeth it that Paul sayth if Christ be not risen then is your faith in vaine and ye ar● yet still in youre sinnes and so they that be a sleepe in Christe are lost And to the Romaines Christ sayth he was deliuered vp for our sinnes rose again● for our iustification Heerevnto serueth it also that h● wryteth in the. 10. Chapter I● thou confesse the lorde Iesus with thy mouth and beleeue

And after certain words doth Hierome set forth Origens opinion and what he held of the resurrection and saith There is promised vs another body namely a spirituall and heauenly that can not be comprehended nor sene vvith eyes nor hauing any vvaighte or burthen and that according to the circumstance and diuersitye of the places that it shal be in shal be changed And after certain words doth Hierome set forthe the opinion of Origen yet more plainely saying O ye simple the resurrection of our Lord Iesus Christe oughte not to deceiue you in that he shevved his handes and feete stode on the sea shore vvent ouer the fielde vvith Cleophas and said he had fleshe and bones This body that vvas not borne of the seede of man and of lust or pleasure of the fleshe is endued vvith greater fredome then another body and vvith his nature it is not vnlike the spirituall and heauenly body For vvhan the dores vvere shut he entered and in breaking of the bread vanished he avvay from their sight c. But at the last Hierome answereth vnto Origens foundation and sayth Like as he shevved his true handes and his true sides so did he truly eate vvith thē vvent truely vvith Cleophas spake to them truly vvith his mouth sate truly at the table vvith them at supper toke the breade vvith his true handes gaue thankes brake it and reached it them And vvheras he immediatly vanished oute of their sight that is ascribed to the povver of God and to no fantasy or false body VVhan he afore his resurrection vvas brought out from Nazareth that they mighte throvve him dovvne from the top of the hill he passed thorovv the middes of them that is he escaped oute of theyr handes May vve then talke vvith Marcion that his birthe vvas therefore but a fantasy because that he against nature escaped those that had him Hovve sayest thou did not they knovve him in the vvay vvhan he yet had the body that he had afore Vpon this heare the scripture their eies vvere holden that they should not knovve him But vvas he any other vvhan they knevve him not or vvas he any other vvhan they knevve him Verely he vvas alvvay one and like himself And therfore to knovv and not to knovv is geuen to the eyes and not to him that is sene although it be ascribed vnto him also that he helde their eyes least they shoulde knovv him Aftervvard vvith many vvords geueth he ansvver to that that the Lord entred vvhan the dores vvere shut Yet dothe he brefely ansvver thervnto in his Commētaries vpon the laste Chapter of Esaye and sayeth I maruell that some after Christes Ascension vvill geue and measure him a body made of the aire and soone returned to aire againe because the Lord by the povver of his maiesty came into the Apostles vvhā the do●es vvere shut considering that afore his resurrection also he vvent vpon the vvater of the sea permitting the same vnto holy Peter vvho at the first thorovv faith vvalked vpon the vvater But aftervvard vvhan he being fainte in faith began to sincke and go vnder he said vnto him O thou of little faith vvhy hast thou doubted Thus muche wrote Hierome against Origen many other moe yet in this boke wrytten to Pammachius againste Iohn bishop of Hierusalem which because of greatnesse and lengthe I haue omitted to put heere in wryting CHAP. 20. S. Hieromes opinion of the resurrection of the flesh YEt in the same booke hathe the saide Hierome sette hys owne opinion touching the resurrection of the flesh directing the oration vnto Bishop Iohn and saying If thou vvilt novve confesse the resurrection of the flesh after the truthe and not after fantasy as thou sayest then loke that vnto the vvordes vvhich thou haste spoken to content the simple that euen in the body vvherin vve die and are buried vve shall rise againe thou adde these vvords also and say seeing the sprite hathe not fleshe and bones as ye see me haue and forasmuch as it vvas so distinctly spoken vnto Thomas put thy finger in my hands and thy hand in my side and be not faithlesse but beleuing Therefore saye thou that vve also after the resurrection shall haue euen the same members that vve daily vse yea euen the very same fleshe bloude and bone The vvorkes vvherof the holy scripture condemneth and reiecteth and not their nature And this is the right and true knovvledging of the resurrection vvhich so geueth honor vnto the flesh that therevvith it minisheth nothing the verity of the fleshe Afterwarde speaketh he yet more euidently I vvil frely confesse though ye vvry your mouthes at it scratch your head and scrape vvith your feete yea and though ye should stone me to deathe forthvvith Yet vvill I manifestly and plainly knovvledge and cōfesse the faithe of the church or congregation of God and boldly pronounce that the right profound Christian truth of the resurrection can vtterly not be vnderstād vvithout flesh bone bloud and members VVhere flesh bones bloud and members are ther must nedes be a difference of kind as of man and vvoman And vvhere these bothe are distincte the one from the other there Iohn must be Iohn and Mary must be Mary But thou nedest not to be astonied at the matter as though a vvedding also vvere there to be kept in all the haste seeing that before they died they liued vvithoute the vvorke of their kinde that is vvithoute the acte of mariage It is promised vs that vve shal be like vnto the Angels that is partakers of the saluation in the vvhich saluation the Angels are vvithout fleshe and distinction of kind And yet it is geuen vnto vs in our flesh kinde Thus beleueth my simplicity and vnderstādeth that the kind must be vnderstand hovv be it vvithout the vvorks of the kinde yea that men muste rise againe and so become like vnto the Angels of God. Neither oughte the resurrection of members forthvvith to be therfore esteemed vnprofitable superfluous because they shall not do their office but stand idle For vvhile vvee are yet in this life vvee endeuor oure selues not to performe the vvorkes of oure members As for the comparison tovvardes the Angels it is not a changing of men into Angels but it is an increasing of the mortality and glory Thus much haue I spoken of the confession of holy Hierome CHAP. 21. S. Augustines minde of the Resurrection of the fleshe TOuching the resurrection of oure fleshe not onely did holy Hierome beleue thus who yet testifieth that he knowledgeth and cōfesseth the vniuersall Christian faithe But also S. Austen wholely agreeth vnto s Hierome and namely Lib. 2. Retractat Cap. 3. For in repeting correcting certaine poyntes out of the .32 Chapter in the booke de Agone Christiano he sayth I sayd it shall not be flesh and bloud but an heauenly body This oughte no man to vnderstand that therefore there shall be no true substance of the fleshe

Nowe did not the fish cast vp to the dry land ani other for Ionas but euen the same Ionas himselfe whome he had swalowed Therefore the verye same true bodi of the Lord also that was buried arose againe Which thing the holye Apostle Paule minding perfectly to expres said first of all I deliuered vnto you or taughte you that which I receiued how that Christ died for our sinnes agreing to the scriptures and that he was buried and that he rose again the third dai according to the scriptures Lo what can be spoken more euident and plain He that died for our sinnes and was buryed euen he himselfe the very same rose also againe Of this now it foloweth that the very true substancial body of our lord did rise againe for euen the same died was buried But to the entent that it mighte the soner be beleeued Paul the holy teacher declareth furthermore that he speaketh this according to the contentes of scripture and that the same was taughte in the scriptures afore meaning vndoutedly the lawe the Prophets Neuerthelesse we will nowe bring forth the true and euident testimonies of the Angels who in Marke Luke and Mathew speake vnto the wemen that came to the sepulchre Ye seke Iesus of Nazareth him that was crucified Why seeke ye the liuing among the dead He is risen he is not heere Beholde the place wher they had laid him Remēber howe he spake vnto you while he was yet in Galile saying that the son of man must be deliuered into the hāds of sinfull mē and be crucified the thirde day rise againe Therefore goe quickly and tel this to his disciples that he is risen from the deade And beholde he shall goe before you into Galilee ther shal ye se him as he himselfe tolde you These are the wordes of the Angels which if al circumstāces be thorowly well cōsidered do plainly declare that the very true body of the Lord did verely arise from the dead The wemē come seeke the body of the lord desiring to annoynt it therefore the question is touching the body of Christe The Angels also speake of the true body of Christ make answer saying Ye seke Iesus of Nazareth Whervnto they adde distinctly him that was crucified Now are we sure that his very true body was crucified and died He say they namely that died euen Iesus of Nazareth the same is become aliue againe Why seke ye the liuing among the dead The lord died of a truthe but deathe must not haue dominion ouer him nether muste his body putrify or corrupt as other mens bodies doe according as holy Dauid sayde before Afore hand I sawe God alwayes before me for he is on my right hand that I shuld not be moued Therfore did mi hart reioyse and my tong was glad Moreouer also my flesh shal rest in hope because thou wilte not leaue my soule in Hell neither wilte thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption Thou hast shewed me the wayes of life thou shalt make me ful of ioy with thy coūtenance and at thy right hād ther is pleasure for euermore These words extend wholely vnto Christ according as the .ii. excellent Apostles namely Peter in the second and Paul in the 13. of the Acts do declare Out of the Angels wordes also is it com into the articles of the crede as we all cōfesse with these words he rose again from the dead This word from the dead doth truly expresse the death and resurrection after this sense He died as other men also doe according to the law of nature And euen in the same fleshe which he therefore toke vpō him that he might die receiued the immortalitye and toke it vnto him againe Therefore say the Angels he is rise● again But that thing riseth no vp which fel not afore therfore euen the same bodye of Christe that fell in death is from death risen vp againe Moreouer they name also the place where he was laide to expresse perfectly that the very true body was risen saying beholde the place wher they layed him The mortall body of the Lorde hath his certaine place yea his owne place that the Logicians cal Vbi that is to say where in the which he was laide And as he now is become immortal he hath his own place againe For if the bodye that was raised vp were euery where then had not the Angels sayde Beholde the place wher they laid him Yea they had not bene able to shewe any one place wher he was not if the immortall body must be euery where But now they shew a place in the which the immortall body was not and that with plaine expresse wordes saying he is not heere Of this nowe it foloweth that the body of Christe which is but in one place did verely rise again In the gospel o● s. Iohn also the sepulchre cloths wherin the Lord was wrapt as the hed cloth that which was about his body are mencioned as strong testimonies of the bodi risen vp which clothes Pete● and Iohn did perfectly see Furthermore the Angels proue his very true resurrection out of th● word of god and say remembe● what he saide vnto you while h● was yet in Galilee the sonne o● man muste be deliuered into th● handes of sinfull men c. Wit● these wordes will they instructe vs that the sonne of man a very true body is truly risen againe They say moreouer go quickly tel the disciples that he is risen from death Now was the body dead and as all mens bodies that die laid in the graue And euen the same body was made immortall rose again from the dead He shall go before you into Galilee yea before you shal he goe with a true bodi that moueth from one place to another there as in a certaine place shall ye se him Ye shal se him I say for with a visible palpable body is he risen as ye are told by the Lorde himself who can neither lie nor deceiue CHAP. 3. Appearings of the body raised vp HEreunto extende the manifold appearings or opē shewings of Christ mencioned by the Euangelists In Mark it is wrytten thus whan Iesus was risen early the first day after the Sabbothe he appeared firste to Mary Magdalen To whom in the gospel of Iohn he sayth goe to my brethren and tel them I go vp to my father and your father to my God and your god Now whan she came to the disciples she tolde thē that she had sene the Lord that he had spoken suche things vnto her In Mathew he meteth the wemen and sayeth All haile Fear not goe and tell my brethren that they go into Galilee there shall they see me In holy S. Luke is mēcion made of two appearings The first when he shewed himselfe to the two that went to Emaus opened vnto them the true resurrection of hys bodye The second whā they were