Tractatio verborum domini, in domo patris mei mansiones multae sunt, &c. ex XIIII. cap. Evang. secundum Ioannem

to them, and will take them unto himself, so that wherever he may be in that blessed fatherland, there they also may be with him, as sharers of eternal happiness.

The use of this doctrine.

If we weigh these things diligently among ourselves, and believe them faithfully, they cannot but most powerfully console any one of us in any crisis, and even render any hardships soft, and make bitter and difficult things sweet and light. For if grave diseases consume us, if we sustain persecution from the world, and are cast out of our homes by the impious, and are finally afflicted with a shameful death, will we not be preserved in all these evils by a firm hope, which exists from the faith by which we believe that God through Christ is propitious to us? For it is Christ who reconciled us to the Father through his death, and finally, being grafted into the death of Christ, we become sharers in Christ's passions while we are afflicted; Christ also, having entered into heaven, has opened and prepared for us a mansion of eternal happiness; Christ himself cares for our affairs most diligently, and he will indubitably receive us unto himself at the end of our life, so that where he is, there we also may be with him