ἁπαρτἱ =amodo=, as the old trāslatiō redeth, yͭ is by & by, out of hand, without delaie. Steuē in the very point whē he looked to be stoned, cried lord Iesu receiue my spirit. He douted nothing, but was assuredly persuaded yͭ his soul shold straitway be translated to eternal ioy. Paul in the 1. chap. of his epist. to the =Philip.= saith: I desire to be losed, or I couet to depart hence, and to be with Christ. Here is no mentiō at all of purgatory, in which the soules should be first purged. If thou wilt here obiect that the persons afore alleaged were saints and martirs, we say farther, that paradice was opened also to the théef assoone as he became repentant. And that the soules both of the faithful & vnfaithful, which presently after their death are translated to heauē or hel, do not return thence into the earth before the day of the last iudgement, may wel be perceiued by the parable of the rich man cloathed in purple, and =Lazarus=, as we read in the 16. of =Luke=. For when the rich man praised =Abraham= that he would send =Lazarus= vnto him, to coole his toong, =Abraham= gaue him this answere: Betwixt this and vs, there is a great gulfe set, so that they which would go hence (from =Abrahams= bosome) to you (in Hell) cannot: neither can they come from thence to vs. And when he besought him, that he would send =Lazarus= to his fathers house to admonish his fiue brethren, least they also should come into that place of torment: he saide vnto him; They haue =Moses= and the Prophets, let them heare them. And again: If they heare not =Moses= and the Prophets, neither will they beléeue though one rose againe from the dead. CHAP. V. Testimonies of the auncient Fathers, that dead mens soules parted from their bodies, doo not wander heere vppon earth. [Sidenote: August.] This matter was also thus vnderstood by the holy and auncient Fathers. For =Augustine= in his 18. Sermon _De verbis Apostoli_, hath, that there be two mansions, the one in euerlasting fire, the other in the euerlasting kingdome. [Sidenote: Idem.] And in his 28. Chapter of his first booke, _De peccatorum meritis & remissione contra Pelagianos_, in the seuenth tome of his workes, he saith: Neither can any man haue any middle or meane place, so that he may be any other where than with the diuel, who is not with Christ. [Sidenote: Idem.] And in his notable worke _De ciuitate Dei_, the 13. booke and 8. Chapter, he saith: The soules of the godly so soone as they be seuered from their bodies be in rest, and the soules of the wicked in torment, vntil the bodies of the one be raised vnto life, and the other vnto euerlasting death, which in scripture is called the second death. [Sidenote: Iustine.]