A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.

Title

A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford.

Author

Bradford, John, 1510?-1555.

Publication

[London] :: Perused corrected & augmented according to the originall, & imprinted in Fletestrete neere to saint Dunstons Churche by William Powell,

[ca. 1564]

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Subject terms

Death -- Religious aspects -- Christianity -- Early works to 1800.

Meditations.

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"A frutefull treatise and ful of heauenly consolation against the feare of death Wherunto are annexed certeine sweet meditations of the kingdom of Christ, of life euerlasting, and of the blessed state & felicitie of the same. Gathered by that holy marter of God, Iohn Bradford." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A16577.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed April 30, 2024. content_copy

Contents

• title page
• epigraph
• ¶ A treatise agaynst the feare of death.
• A meditation
  • part
  • ¶ Scriptures prouing Christes kingdome to be spiritual.
  • ¶ Scryptures prouinge that in Christes Church vppon earth there shalbe good and bad min¦gled vntil the day of iudgemēt.
  • ¶ That there is an euerlastynge life, where it is, & what know¦ledge and vnderstanding ther∣of may be had in thys life.
• ¶ A Meditacion of the blessed state and felicitie of the lyfe to come.
• ¶ A short introduction to the vnderstanding of the Scriptures, conteininge the summe of all the Diui∣tie necessarie for a Christian con∣science.
• ¶ A Prayer, whiche Ihon Bradford sayd a lit∣tle before his death in Smithfelde
• epigraph
• errata