10 September 2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—“good works,” resurrection and “everlasting life,” p.54
10 September
2015 A.D. Jewel’s “Apology”—“good works,” resurrection and
“everlasting life,” p.54
Jewel, John. “The Apology of the Church of England.”
Project Gutenberg. 5 Aug 2006. http://www.gutenberg.org/files/17678/17678-h/17678-h.htm. Accessed 1 Aug 2015.
Thus therefore teach we the people, that God hath
called us, not to follow riot and wantonness, but, as St. Paul saith, “unto
good works, to walk in them:” that God hath plucked us out “from the power of
darkness, to the end that we should serve the living God;” to cut away all the
remnants of sin, and “to work our salvation in fear and trembling:” that it may
appear, how that the Spirit of sanctification is in our bodies, and that Christ
Himself doth dwell in our hearts.
To conclude, we believe, that this our self-same
flesh wherein we live, although it die, and come to dust, yet at the last day
it shall return again to life, by the means of Christ’s Spirit which dwelleth
in us: and that then verily, whatsoever we suffer here in the meanwhile for His
sake, Christ will wipe away all tears and lamentation from
our eyes: and that we through Him shall enjoy everlasting life, and shall for
ever be with Him in glory. So be it.
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