Now that the soules neither of the faithfull nor of infidels do wander any longer on the earth, when they be once seuered from the bodies, I wil make it plaine and euident vnto you by these reasons following. First, certaine it is, that such as depart hence, either die in faith, or in vnbeliefe. Touching those that go hence in a right beliefe, their soules are by and by in possessiō of life euerlasting, and they that depart in vnbelief, do straightway becom partakers of eternal damnatiō. The souls do not vanish away & die with the bodie, as yͤ Epicures opinion is, neither yet be in euery place, as som do imagin: touching this matter I wil alleage pithie & manifold testimonies out of the holy scripture, out of which alone this questiō may and ought to be tried & discussed. Our Sauiour Christ Iesus which could well iudge of these misteries, in the 3. of =Iohn= saith: So God loued the world, yͭ he wold giue his only begotten son, yͭ who so beléeueth on him, shuld not perish, but haue life euerlasting. For god sent not his son into yͤ world to cōdemn yͤ world: but that yͤ world by him might be saued. He yͭ beléeueth in him is not cōdemned, & he yͭ beléeueth not, is cōdemned alredy, because he beléeued not in yͤ name of yͤ only begotten son of god. And in yͤ 5. of =Iohn= he saith: Verily verily I say vnto you: he that heareth my word, & beléeueth on him yͭ sent me, hath euerlasting life, & shall not come into iudgemēt or cōdemnation, but hath passed alredy frō death to life: he doth not say yͭ his sins shuld first be purged in purgatorie. And in the 6. cha. he saith: This is yͤ wil of him yͭ sent me, that euery one yͭ seeth the son, and beleeueth on him, should haue life euerlasting, and I will raise him vp at the last day againe: verily I say vnto you, he that beléeueth on me hath life euerlasting. In the 14. of =Iohn=, also our Sauior Christ Iesus saith, that he wil take vs vp to himselfe, that where he is, there should we be also. &c. When Christ sent forth his disciples to publish his gospel in yͤ 10. of =Mat.= he said vnto them: Go ye into the whole world, and preach yͤ gospel to euery creature: he yͭ beléeueth and is baptized, shalbe saued, and he yͭ beleeueth not shalbe cōdemned: & in the 5. cha. of yͤ 2. to yͤ =Cor.= yͤ apostle S. =Paul= saith: we know yͭ if the earthly house of this tabernacle be destroied, we haue a building of God, yͭ is, a house not made [tw] hands, but eternal in yͤ heuens, &c. By these places it may be euidently gathered, yͭ the soules of the faithful are takē vp into eternal ioy: and the soules of the vnfaithful assoone as they are departed frō their bodies are condemned to perpetual torment. And yͭ this is done straightway after death, may be perceiued by the words yͭ Christ spake to the théefe on the crosse, when he hoong on his right hand: This day shalt thou be with me in paradice. And in the 14. cha. of the =Apoc.= it is written, And I heard a voice yͭ said vnto me, write, Blessed ar yͤ dead yͭ die in the lord,