The French Academie. Fvlly discovrsed and finished in foure bookes. I. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, etc. 4. Christian philosophie ... This fourth part neuer before published in English / All written by the first author Peter de la Primavday.
- La Primaudaye, Pierre de, approximately 1545- Académie françoise. English
- Date:
- 1618
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Credit: The French Academie. Fvlly discovrsed and finished in foure bookes. I. Institution of manners and callings of all estates. 2. Concerning the soule and body of man. 3. A notable description of the whole world, etc. 4. Christian philosophie ... This fourth part neuer before published in English / All written by the first author Peter de la Primavday. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![best ,wnto thew that lane Goa; predestinated to bee made conformableto the image of his Sonne, and whofe bodses are whiolly mertified by Iefus C briftchat ofcorruptible bodies they may rife incorruptible, | fpirituall and glorious bodies to reigne with Chriftyas they [uffered with bim, ae The fecond degreeof a happieand eternall lifeyis to beeconfidered in thefeparation of 1.Cor.1<.42 the fonleand the bodie, which improperly iscalled Death,in eelpect of the faizhtull: for Bere a although their bodies lie and rot in the earth nevertheletle, being then delivered and freed 2,Tim.2,.12 from all corporall difeafes, as hunger, thirft, colde,heate,and a thoufand other torments, which paturally are as many kindes of death, to the frailtie of the fieth, they goctoreft in theirbeds(as E/ay faith, and refting from their labours and trawels, are made bletfed ( faith Efay 57. 1,2 Saint/obn.) And feeing Chrift himfelfe witneffeth,that the body fleepeth when the fovle Apoc.t4-1 3 Jeaueth it; it followeth,that it is not dead, but lining,and as if bee fhould refemble a man, ge hes who beeing difeafed, falleth afleepe,and{o feeleth nopaine. Againe, the refting of the ; “theft AY body in the graue,is according tothe will of God, who hath ordained that men fhali once ‘ oy die in that manner,to whofe glory all the faicbtull live and dic, and before him their death ij precious, Fromthence wee conclude,thet fuch reft cannot properly bee called death, but ratbera kinde of betterlife: for then the foule entreth into the poileflion of the fecond degree of life; for being feparated from the bady,it is carried by the Angels into dérabas botome,in Paradife,with lefus Chrift,exempted from ignorance, incres alitie, diftratt, co- netovfnelle,ambition,envie, feare, concupifcence, and from al] other paflions and corrup- tions,which produce the iruits of death, and whereby it is belieged and alfaulced, ail che cimé that it dwelleth in her terre(triall habitation: Aad tothe contraty, by changing of her dwelling,isfully fanctified, victorious, and aflured againtt the deuill, the world, rhe fieth, and bell: her capitall enemies, by the mott (reight coniusdion and vaioo which thee hath with her Creator,attending the accomplifhing of her glory at the day of the.re- {urveGion of all fleth. : ; - Theo the third degree of ahappy andbletfed life thallappeare, whenour bodies beeing . raifed out of their fleepe,by the found of the rrumpst of the Angel of God, at the glorious Seay comming of Iefus Chritt,fhairifein iacorruption,glory,and power,tranfformed and made phil.z.21 “ conformable and like to the glorious body of our Lord Iefus Chriit. For then our foules 1,Thefl.4-71 beeing revnited with our bodies, they fhall together bee caughe vp in thecloudesinto the Erbe! 4.10 ayte, before the great ludge of the living andthe dead, and after liited vp abouethe beas wens into the cele(tiall hovfeof GodtheirFather. And then thelife of our foules hail bee yon 142 accomplifhed, when wee thall bee wholly where C brill is, and with him,as members of his and 14,24. glorious body ynited vato him, and by bim to God,thefonntaine of life, by that meanes 1,?et.1-4. enioyiog thecommunionof all his goodnelle and benefits,and of the incorruptibleinbe- AP°*-7 +14 ritance that cannot bee defiled,nor withered , which is referued in heaven for them that “oa aa have watfhed their parments, and made them whiteiathe blood ofthe Lambe. Toconz “Tete clude,wee hall chere beelike to the Angels,and our bodies fhall fhine like the Sanne. ow much more thencur Soules ? Luke 16,22, 22524. 5. Singular and (peciall confiderations of Beatitude, and Life eternal, Bot {pecially Saint Panleleuateth our miades into a molt high contemplationol the , co... ye34 felicitie of life eternall,which we areto enioy atterthe relucrection, when heflaith,Tbatthen 73. §-245 Tefees Corilt foail deliner up the king dome to God the Father,that be maybeeallinalls Fortnereby welearne,that we fhall be wholy brought to God, as Chriltisene with him, becaufe all thofewhom the Father had given tothe Sonne, before the foundation ofthe world, to beredeemed, (according to his eternallcounfell anddecree,) by the blood of Ietus Chrilt,and to be members of his Church, by the power of the holy Gholt,ia the latterday fhalibefully made happy and bietfed for euer.For thea Chrilts worke forthefaloation of of man fhall beaccomplithed, and all his offices fhallceafe: in fuch manner ncuertheless that the fruits and fpirirvall benefits wbichtbe Church receiucd thereby, fhal for ener baue their fulleffectin the ele@,becau(et bat God, Father, Sonne and holy Gholt,oneonly God fhall beall thingsia lefus Chrilt;Godand Man:zand by himin vs,as hismemberz, Chrili being made King, Father, lifesand eternallgloryinvs, Theo that whichis written {hall be Matth.25.2% accomplithed,that every faithful feruant,fhal eater into hisma(tersioy. 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