=Iustine= also an auncient Father, writeth in _Responsione ad Orthodoxos, quest. 75._ that the difference of the iust and vniust, both appeare euen assoone as the soule is departed from the body. For they are carried by the angels into such places as are fit for them: that is, the soules of the iust are brought vnto Paradice, where they haue the fruition of the sight and presence of Angels, and Archangels: and moreouer the sight of our Sauiour Christ, as it is conteined in that saying, whiles we are straungers from the bodie, we are at home with God. And the soules of the vnrighteous on the other side, are carried to Hell, as it said of =Nabuchodonozor= the king of _Babylon_: Hell is troubled vnder thée, being readie to méete thée, &c. And so till to the day of resurrection and reward, are they reserued in such places as are méetest for them. [Sidenote: Hillarie.] Saint =Hillarie= in the ende of his exposition of the second Psalme, writeth: that mens soules are straightway after death, made partakers of rewards or punishments. [Sidenote: Dormitantii.] [Sidenote: Caluin.] And touching the soules of the old Patriarkes, that died before the natiuitie of Christ, =Austin=, =Hierom=, =Nazianzen=, and other holy Fathers teache, that God in certaine places by him chosen out for that purpose, hath preserued the soules of al those that are departed from this life in the true faith of the =Messias= to come, in such sort that they féele no griefe, but yet are depriued of the sight of God. This place they call =Abrahams= bosome, and Hell (for Hell doth not alwaies betoken a place of torment, but also generally the state that soules are in after this life.) And that our Lord Iesus Christ did visit and release them, and when he ascended, carried them with himselfe into heauen. Albeit certain of the Fathers, as =Ireneus=, =Tertullian=, =Hilarie=, & others, think that they shall at the last day ascend to heauen. Some also there be of our time which maintaine this fonde opinion, that the soules sléep, vntil the day of the last iudgement, in which they shall be again coupled with their bodies: but this assertion hath no ground in holy scripture, of the which point diuers haue entreated. But especially =Iohn Caluin=, that worthie seruant of God, in a proper Treatise that he wrote of the same matter, in which he doth learnedly confute their reasons that maintein the contrary opinion. [Sidenote: Ciprian mar.] [Sidenote: Soules do not walke.] [Sidenote: Tertullian.] [Sidenote: Athanasius.]