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

to be, sharers of his life and glory forever. O blessed hope of the pious. This faith never allows those in danger to fail, who also ask with perpetual prayers that this be increased and confirmed for them by the Lord, who alone grants it.

I believe in eternal life. These words of our Lord will explain to us furthermore an article of faith, indeed the last in order, but not the last in fruit or utility. That is, I believe in eternal life. They will also teach that the salvation of the faithful is indubitable, and that a life more blessed than this worldly life is prepared for the pious, and that it is granted through Christ to those migrating from this world. Therefore, the scoffers of blessed happiness of our age will be refuted, wicked men to whom that song of the filthiest Egyptians, nay, of Epicurean pigs, is never absent from their foul mouth, in those luxurious feasts of theirs, saying, Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we shall die: these are fables that are told to us by those morose preachers about the immortality of souls, about the resurrection of bodies, and the life of the future age. But rather let us enjoy this present age, not anxious about that uncertain and fabulous future. The words of the Lord, however, will instruct