Blessedfull

For in his .xxxi. Psalme describeth he also this blessedfull state of man, declared now by the gospel, shewyng y it is not geuē & receiued, as due vnto vs for the workes of Moses law, but by the fre goodnes of God, wherby we are moued & drawen to beleue.

Then without doubt ſhal we receiue at the lords table that bleſſedful and euerlaſtynge lyfe, which is purchaſed vnto vs, with yͤ precious bloud of our ſauior Ieſu Chriſt.

His wordes are these: If the soules of the dead were present in the matters or businesses of the liuing, or shuld talke with vs, when we se them in our slepe (that if I should holde my peace of the other) my godly mother wold neuer a night forsake me, which folowed me both by sen & by land, that she myght lyue in my companie. For, God forfend, that she should in the blessedfull lyfe be made more cruell: in so muche that when any thyng troubleth my heart, she wold comfort me hir son beyng in heauinesse, whome she loued entierly, whom she would neuer see to be striken in sadnesse.[…]What miracles soeuer (sayeth this holy father) bee so diuinely wrought & done, eyther by angels or by som other mean that they do cōmend the religion & worshipping of the only god, in whom only the blessedful lyfe is: we must beleue that they are truly done of them or by them whiche do loue vs according to the truth & godlinesse, God him selfe working in them.

To bee shorte, this transitorie life, shall in a moment, and in the twincklyng of an eye, bee chaunged into a moste blessedfull life, whiche neuer shall haue ende.

The Kingdome of God is taken two manner of wayes. First it is taken for that blessedfull lyfe, and for that euerlasting felicitie, which we shall enioye after this mortall lyfe.

And two bodyes that be blessedfull[…]

Then by that happy blestfull day, / More peacefull Pilgrimes I shall see, / That have cast off their rags of clay, / And walk apparelled fresh like me.