Psychopannychia, or The Theory of the Soul-sleep

John Calvin in his own characteristic manner speaks of this doctrine as "the error entertained by some unskillful persons who ignorantly imagine that in the interval between death and the judgment the soul sleeps," an "absurd dogma of babblers," and a "madness which should be severely repressed." It concerns itself with the intermediate state, which is, as Calvin puts it, the interval between death and judgment, between our departure from this life and the consummation of all things in the...