The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.
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- The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B.
- Author
- Bentley, James.
- Publication
- At London :: Printed by I.R. for Nicholas Ling ...,
- 1600.
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"The harmonie of Holie Scriptures vvith the seuerall sentences of sundry learned and vvorthy vvriters : collected for the comfort of all such as are desirous to seeke after theyr soules health / by I.B." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A08598.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 15, 2024.
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them be blessed of him, with sundry bles∣sings both in bodie and soule.
They shall first and formost, be blessed in body, with such wonderfull beauty, that they shall euery way be equall to the Sunne in brightnes and glory.
Secondly, they shal be endued with such agilitie or quicknes, that they shall be like vnto the Angels of GOD, in theyr spee∣die moouing.
Thirdly, theyr fortitude shall be so suffi∣cient, that no creature what-soeuer, shall be able to withstand theyr strength.
Fourthly, theyr libertie shall be so free & secure; that nothing shall haue any power eyther to hinder or resist them.
Fiftly, they shall possesse perfect health, vvithout any manner of greefe, or infir∣mitie.
Sixtly, they shal be throughly filled with an ineffable delight: and vvholy repleni∣shed, with an vnspeakeable aboundance of inestimable ioy. Yea, euery part and mem∣ber of them, shall be filled with such won∣derful sence and feeling of incomparable pleasure and delight, that the whole man shall quaffe of the riuer of Gods pleasure, and be made drunke vvith the plentie of
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ioy vvhich hee shall haue in the House of the Lord.
Seauenthly, they shall be blessed vvith such length and perpetuity of life, as shall neuer receiue any end: but cōtinue alwaies in eternall ioy and pleasure: and endure therein euen with GOD himselfe, so long as his life and power lasteth; which can ne∣uer come to conclusion, nor at any time be diminished.
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Anselmus.
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The seuerall blessings that the bo∣dies of the faithfull shall receiue in the king∣dome of heauen. According to the say∣ing of An∣selmus.