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See also ‘Commentaries on the Apostles’ Creed’ on ‘And the life everlasting’.
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Olevian, Caspar – An Exposition of the Apostle’s Creed (London, 1581), pt. 2
Testimonies out of the prophets and apostles
The meaning of this article
The scope or use of this article
Olevian (1536–1587) was a significant German reformed theologian, and has been said to be a co-author of the Heidelberg Catechism along with Zacharias Ursinus (though this has been questioned).
Zanchi, Girolamo – Ch. 30, ’Of Eternal Life’ in Confession of the Christian Religion… (1586; Cambridge, 1599), pp. 269-72
Ursinus, Zachary – The Sum of Christian Religion: Delivered… in his Lectures upon the Catechism… tr. Henrie Parrie (Oxford, 1587)
1. What Everlasting Life is
2. Who gives everlasting life
3. To whom everlasting life is given
4. For what cause everlasting life is given
5. When everlasting life is given
6. How everlasting life is given unto us
7. Whether we can be assured in this life of everlasting life
Beza, Theodore, Anthony Faius & Students – 81. ‘Of Eternal Life’ in Propositions & Principles of Divinity Propounded & Disputed in the University of Geneva by Certain Students of Divinity there, under Mr. Theodore Beza & Mr. Anthony Faius… (Edinburgh: Waldegrave, 1591), pp. 272-74
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Bucanus, William – 39. ‘Of Eternal Life’ in Institutions of Christian Religion... (London: Snowdon, 1606), pp. 482
How many kinds or differences of life do the divines make?
But how many ways is eternal life taken?
By what arguments do we prove that there is a life eternal?
What are the epithets, whereby it is commended in Scripture?
But why is it called eternal?
What is life eternal?
What are the causes of everlasting life?
Why is the gate called strait and the way narrow which leads unto life, Mt, 7:14
What is the object of eternal life?
But do not we enjoy God already, and see Him in this earth?
Shall men know one another in this eternal life
For whom is eternal life ordained?
What shall the quality or condition of eternal life be?
Shall the glory of everlasting life be common to all the elect after an equal measure?
When shall eternal life take beginning?
Do the souls of the godly already separated from their bodies enjoy a perfect and absolute happiness?
What is the place of eternal life?
What is the end of eternal life?
What are the effects of eternal life?
What is the use of the doctrine, of life eternal?
What are the opinions disagreeing thereunto?
Walaeus, Anthony – 52. ‘On Life & Death Everlasting & on the End of the World’ in Synopsis of a Purer Theology: Latin Text & English Translation Buy (1625; Brill, 2016), vol. 3, pp. 582-625
Wolleb, Johannes – 36. ‘The End of the Age and Life Everlasting’ in Abridgment of Christian Divinity (1626) in ed. John Beardslee, Reformed Dogmatics: J. Wollebius, G. Voetius & F. Turretin (Oxford Univ. Press, 1965), bk. 1, pp. 185-91
Wolleb (1589–1629) was a Swiss reformed theologian. He was a student of Amandus Polanus.
Leigh, Edward – ch. 4. Of Everlasting Life in A System or Body of Divinity… (London, A.M., 1654), bk. 10, pp. 868-73
Turretin, Francis – 8. ‘Will eternal life consist in the vision of God or in the love and enjoyment of Him? And under what symbols is it usually described and why?’ in Institutes of Elenctic Theology, tr. George M. Giger, ed. James Dennison Jr. (1679–1685; P&R, 1994), vol. 3, 20th Topic, p. 608 ff.
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1600’s
Alsted, Johann H.
ch. 32, ‘Life Eternal’ in Distinctions through Universal Theology, taken out of the Canon of the Sacred Letters & Classical Theologians (Frankfurt: 1626), pp. 138-40
ch. 18, ‘On the Resurrection of the Flesh & of Life Eternal’ in Theological Common Places Illustrated by Perpetual Similitudes (Frankfurt, 1630), pp. 105-111
Wendelin, Marcus Friedrich – ch. 27, ‘Of Glorification: of the Resurrection & Life Eternal’ in Christian Theology (Hanau, 1634; 2nd ed., Amsterdam, 1657), bk. 1, ‘Knowledge of God’, pp. 551-69
Voet, Gisbert – 1. Of Life Eternal (its Essence, the Beatific Vision & its Mode, & the Adjuncts & Properties of Eternal Life) in Syllabus of Theological Problems (Utrecht, 1643), pt. 1, section 2, tract 6 Abbr.
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Bible Verses on Degrees of Punishment in Hell
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