with God both in body and soul. And thereof I am sure and doubt nothing at all, knowing that whosoever doubteth of his salvation by Christ, the sameshall not be saved. Therefore as I am sure and certain that Christ is dead, and risen again for me, and therein do not doubt, even so am I sure and certain of my salvation wrought by him, and that without fail I shall be saved, and by him shall enter into eternal life.

XCVIII. I believe, that then I shall see him face to face, whom now I see as through the glass of faith, and then shall know him perfectly, whom now I know but in part: who after that he hath destroyed and confounded all his adversaries, and hath made them his footstool, shall make all things new, for the glory of those that are his. Then shall he be a whole God in all, and over all things. Then shall none teach his brother, saying, Know the Lord; for then all shall know him, from the greatest unto the least.

XCIX. I believe also, that as the spirits of the infidels, wicked, and reprobate, after they are departed from their bodies, immediately dogo to hell unto everlasting fire, their bodies nevertheless abiding in the earth, corrupting and rotting: even so likewise the souls and spirits of the faithful and chosen children of God, immediately after they do depart from their bodies, without any tarrying, are on high in heaven, to be in glory with the Lord, and there do still wait with an earnest desire for the coming and whole redemption of their bodies, the which they have left rotting and corrupting in the earth; the which thing they shall obtain at the last day, and not before. Therefore I refute the fond opinion of the sleepers, which affirm that the spirits of the saints are not yet in heaven, but do sleep in a certain place unknown to us, until they shall receive their bodies at the last day, at which day the mystical body of

Christ, wholly, perfectly, and fully, must enter into glory.

C. I believe for a conclusion, that as the saints and the blessed, when the judgment is ended, shall go with Christ triumphantly through the air in body and soul, to dwell everlastingly in glory with him and his angels; even so the wretched, wicked, and miserable damned shall go to hell in body and soul, with the devil and his angels, eternally to dwell and to be tormented with him in the fire of hell, which never shall be quenched, where shall be continual weeping, wailing, and gnashing of teeth, with such as be stung to the quick with the worm that never shall die. From the which the Lord God, of his great mercy and grace, vouchsafe to preserve and keep us. Amen.

CERTAIN COMFORTABLE

EXPOSITIONS

OF THE

CONSTANT MARTYR OF CHRIST

JOHN HOOPER,

BISHOP OF GLOUCESTER AND WORCESTER,

Written in the Time of his Tribulation and Imprisonment,

UPON

THE 23D, 62D, 73D, AND 77TH

PSALMS

OF THE

PROPHET DAVID.

Whoso continueth to the end, shall be saved.

MATT. XXIV. 13.

At London: Printed by Henry Middleton, Anno 1580.

REPRINTED FROM THE ORIGINAL COPY.