Posted at Reformed Standards:First published in 156017. The Immortality of the Soul
The elect departed are in peace and rest from their labors a, not that they will sleep and come to any certain oblivion (as some fanatics do affirm), but they are delivered from all fear, all torment, and all temptation to which we and all God’s elect are subject in this life b, and, therefore, do bear the name of the kirk militant. As contrariwise the reprobate and unfaithful departed have anguish, torment, and pain that cannot be expressed. So that neither are the one nor the other in such sleep that they feel not joy or torment as the parable of Christ in the sixteenth of Luke, His words to the thief and these words of the souls crying under the altar,
“O Lord thou that are righteous and just, how long will thou not revenge our blood upon those that dwell on the earth?”
Source: The Scottish Confession | Reformed Standards
