H. Zanchius his confession of Christian religion Which novve at length being 70. yeares of age, he caused to bee published in the name of himselfe & his family. Englished in sense agreeable, and in words as answerable to his ovvne latine copie, as in so graue a mans worke is requisite: for the profite of all the vnlearneder sort, of English christians, that desire to know his iudgement in matters of faith.

Zanchi, Girolamo, 1516-1590.

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CHAP. XXVIII. Of the state of souls after death and of the resurrection of the dead.

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I. Mens soules doe neither dye with their bodies, nor sleepe after they are loosed from the bodie, nor lye still out of heauen or hell, nor be tormented in purgatorie.

WE beleeue, that our soules doe nei∣ther dye with our bodies: nor be∣ing loosed frō our bodies do sleep: or not sleeping, do lye still in some close place, both out of heauen and hell: nor yet are tor∣mented in purgatorie: but that out of the bo∣dy also mens soules do liue, vnderstand, & de∣sire: and that the soules of the godly do raigne with Christ in heauen, and of the vngodly, are tormented in hell with the deuills: the Lord himselfe saying of them, when the godly and mer∣cifull men do decay, that is, depart out of this life, they, that is, their soules, * shallbe receiued into e∣uerlasting habitations: * and teaching in another place, that they are with him in paradise: but of the other, by shewing an example of the rich glutton, that they goe downe into hel, that is, into the place appointed for euerlasting fire, Page 259(as we also read of Iudas) there to be tormen∣ted.

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