The sixth Principle expounded.
Q. After that a man hath led a short life in this world, what followeth thē?
A. Death, which is the parting asunder of bodie and soule.
Q. Why doe wicked men and vnbeleeuers die?
A. That q 1.1 their bodies may goe to the earth, and their soules may be cast into hell fire.
Q. Why doe the godly die, seeing Christ by death hath ouercome death?
A. They die for this ende, that r 1.2 their bodies may rest for a while in the earth, and their soules may enter into heauen immediatly.
Q. What followeth after death?
A. The day of iudgement.
Q. What signe is there to know this day from other daies?
A. s 1.3 Heauen and earth shall be consumed with fire immediatly before the comming of the iudge.
Q. Who shall be the iudge?
A. Iesus Christ the Sonne of God.
Q. What shall be the comming to iudgement?
A. He t 1.4shall come in the cloudes in great maiestie and glorie, with infinite companie of Angels.
Q. How shall all men be cited to iudgement?
A. At the u 1.5 sound of a trumpet, the liuing shall be changed in the twinck∣ling of an eye, and the dead shall rise againe euery one with x 1.6his owne bodie, and all shall be gathered together before Christ: and after this, the good shall be seuered from the bad, y 1.7 these standing on the left hand of Christ, the other on the right.
Q. How will Christ trie and examine euery mans cause?
A. Thea 1.8 bookes of all mens doings shall be laide open, mens consciences shall be made either to accuse them, or excuse them, and euery man shall be tried by the workes which he did in his life time, because they are open and manifest signesb 1.9 of faith or vnbeleefe.