The Catholike faith amongst the Iewes was, that the soules of the dead did not returne into this earth, but either were at rest, which was when they died in the faith of the promised =Messias=, or were cōdemned if they departed hence in their sinnes without repentance. For =Iob= in his seuenth Chapter saith: Euen as the cloude vanisheth and fadeth away, so he that goeth downe to the graue shall come vp no more, nor returne into his house, &c. [Sidenote: _Psal._31.] [Sidenote: _Eccle._12.] [Sidenote: _Wisd._3.] [Sidenote: _Psal._49.] But if thou wilt say that =Iob= was an Ethnicke, it may be alleaged of =Dauid=, that when he was in very great danger, and death euen present before his eyes, he praied in the 31. Psalme. Into thy hands O Lord I commend my spirit. The Preacher also in his 12. Chapter saith: The spirite shall returne to God that giueth it. In the booke of Wisedome (which of olde writers is attributed to =Philo Iudeus=) the third Chapter thereof, it is written: the soules of the righteous are in the hande of God, and no torment shall touch them. And on the other side, the soules of the wicked go downe into hell. In the 49. Psalm it is written of those wealthie worldlings, which for lucres sake, depart from God and his Commaundements: They are laid as shéepe in Hell, Death shall consume them, and Hell is their habitation, &c. [Sidenote: 2. _Samu._ 12.] [Sidenote: _Eccle._ 38.] If the Iewes had beléeued, that the soules after this life were tormented in Purgatorie, no doubt amongst so many diuers kinds of sacrifices, which they offered for the sinnes of the liuing, they would at least haue some one kind of sacrifice whereby to redéeme soules, or in some part to assuage and mitigate their paines. And that soules do returne after death, do offer themselues to be séene and beheld of men, and require aide of them, we finde no where in the old Testament, but rather the contrary. In the 2. of =Samuel= 12. =Dauid= speaketh this of his yoong childe, that he begat by =Bersaba=, that he could not bring him into life againe, that hee would go to him, and the childe should neuer returne vnto him againe. And Iesus the sonne of =Syrach=, in his 38. chapter saith: There is no returning from death. Of the vision which was shewed to =Samuel=, we will straightway speake in his proper place. And that in latter ages, long after Christ came in flesh, there were some amongst the Iewes, who thought that the soules separated from their bodies, did straie and raunge abroad: it may hereby be gathered, for that certaine of the Rabbines write, that the soule of =Naboth= (which was slain, because he would not sell his Vineyard to =Achab=) was that spirit that promised his helpe to seduce =Achab=, being as it were one that coueted his death. [Sidenote: The Turkes opinion.]