Clause 12
And the life everlasting. Amen.
Related (2)
An Orthodox Catechism (1680), which expounds this clause
Question 57
What Comfort takest thou of the Article of everlasting Life?
That forasmuch as I feel already in my Heart the beginning of everlasting Life, it shall at length come to pass that after this Life I shall enjoy full and perfect Bliss, wherein I may magnify God for ever, which Blessedness verily neither Eye hath seen, nor Ear heard, neither hath any Man in thought conceived it.
Heidelberg Catechism (1563), which expounds this clause
Question 58
What comfort takest thou from the article of “life everlasting?”
That since I now feel in my heart the beginning of eternal joy, after this life, I shall inherit perfect salvation, which “eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither hath it entered into the heart of man” to conceive! and that, to praise God therein for ever.
Commentaries (4)
Caspar Olevianus, 1581, An Exposition of the Symbole of the Apostles (2 parts)
That the kingdome of Christ is offered vnto vs in the Articles of our faith; and that the faithfull are partakers of it, whilest they liue here It is certaine, that there are two…
Caspar Olevianus’s text
William Perkins, 1595, An Exposition of the Symbole or Creed of the Apostles
Thus much of the third prerogatiue or benefit: now followeth the fourth & last, in these words, And life euerlasting. To handle this point to the full, and to open the nature of…
William Perkins’s text
Zacharias Ursinus, 1587, The Summe of Christian Religion (2 parts)
On Heidelberg Catechism (1563), Question 58, which expounds this clause
What comfort takest thou of the article of euerlasting life? That for asmuch as I feel already in my hart the beginning of euerlasting life, it shal at length come to passe, that…
Zacharias Ursinus’s text
Jeremias Bastingius, 1591, A Catechisme of Christian Religion, with the Arguments and Use
On Heidelberg Catechism (1563), Question 58, which expounds this clause
What comfort receiuest thou by the Article of everlasting life? That because in this present life, I feele the beginnings of everlasting ioy in my hart, I shall after this life…
Jeremias Bastingius’s text