II. Eternal life defined; why called life and eternal
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II.Eternal life is the citizens of God's kingdom's absolute immunity from sin, Satan and the tyranny of the impious, and every misery, and joined with this the eternal and fullest fruition of every good in the blessed vision and communion of God, perfect glorification of soul and body, restoration of the divine image, most joyful fellowship of holy angels and all the pious,and unexhausted joy for perfectly celebrating God's glory.
We call it life by metonymy of the subject for the elect's beatitude in a protected and youthful state — here to live is to be blessed.We call it eternal to differ both from temporal bodily life and from the faithful's spiritual life in this world, which is a degree and beginning of that eternal life now hidden with Christ in God (Col. 3:3).
Latin
II. Vita aeterna est civium regni Dei absoluta immunitas a peccato, Satana & impiorum tyrannide, omnique miseria, & cum hac conjuncta aeterna & plenissima omnis boni fruitio in beata Dei visione & communione, perfecta animae & corporis glorificatione, divinae imaginis instauratione, consortio sanctorum angelorum omniumque piorum jucundissimo, laetitia inexhausta ad Dei gloriam perfecte celebrandam. Vitam dicimus electorum beatitudinem protecto & juventium statu, per metonymiam subjecti — hic vivere est beatum esse. Aeternam dicimus ad differentiam tum vitae corporalis temporalis, tum spiritualis fidelium in hoc mundo, quae est gradus & principium aeternae illius vitae nunc absconditae cum Christo in Deo, Col. 3.v.3.