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A86122	Of the article of our creed: Christ descended to Hades, or ad Inferos. Posit. 1. Christs soule went to Hades, or ad Inferos. 2. It concerns a Christian to know the right meaning of this article. Quest. 1. What is meant in the creed by this article? 2. Did Christs soule goe to heaven or Gehenna? With answers to both of them severally.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1220; Thomason E128_3; ESTC R22249	20,794	28

that the true acceptation of the word Hades might the better bee understood 4. Master J. Casaubon on Greg. Nyssen Epist ad Eustat c. Not. 116. saith They who think Hades is properly the seat of the damned bee no lesse deceived then they who when they read Inferos in Latine writers doe interpret it of the same place namely Gehenna Here is plainly intimated by this worthie My●tes of sac●ed and humane learning that he judged Haden and Inferos to denote proper●y the common state of all dead and improperly onely and oy consequence the place of the damned In which regard a so they may sig●e the lodg of the blessed And hence I conceive it is that Luk. 16 22. the Rich man is said to be in Hade or apud Inferos in Hel in torment If Had●s properly and of its own force had signified G●h●nna Hel be words in torment might have bin omitted 5. Archbishop Vsher in his above cited T●eatise full fraught with diligent reading and judicious observations out of all kind of good litterature so that it containes what soever in the Treasury of learned Antiquity may conduce to the right understanding of the termes here questioned concludes 1. That Christs dead body though free from corruption yet did descend into the grave the place of corruption 2. That Christs soule being separated from his body departed hence to the other world or world unseen as all other mens soules in that case use to doe So that hereby is asserted that Hades signifies the other would or world unseen whither other mens soules go without any distinction in the word it selfe of their joy or misery 3. That Christ went to the dead and remained for a time in the state of death as other dead men aoe These assertions in the fornamed book pag. 37.goe as far as is necessary for the point in controversy between my Lord and the lesuit Elswhere pag. 353 it is further averred That it had bin sufficiently declared out of good Authours that Hades signifies the place of soules departed in gener all and so is of extent large enough to comprehend under it as well 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that part of Hades or the world unseen which is in Heaven as that which is by Iosephus cald 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the darker Hades and in the Gospel 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 outer darknesse And pag. 376. it is on very good ground concluded that seeing the Rule of faith common to great and small ones in the Church as is fit should containe such verities onely as are generally agreed upon by common consent of all true Christians Christ descending to Hades may have this meaning in gener all that hee went to the dead and continued in the state of death untill the time of his resurrection and further that the particular determination of the place of blisse or of torment or of both may bee left as a number of other Theologicall points are unto further disputation Thus this most learned Bi●hop in a right Christian moderation and pious study of the Churches peace gives his judgment concerning the article and permits further disquisition concerning the particular part of Hades whither Christs soule went 〈◊〉 any passages out of learned Authours are in that Treatise cited mon judiciously and may serve very pertinently to shew their opinion to bee that Christs soule went at his death to Paradise to Heaven to the place where the soules of the Saints were So that not my self onely but even all who are studious to find the truth in this controve●sy shall stand highly ingaged to this most reverend learned Bishop as for many other to for that his most learned and exact producement Now then I might call in hither the authorities of some of those learned writers and much in large this Treatise but having taken in hand as may well be permitted to make further disquisition into the point my course hath bin though I have thought good to cite the learned paines of the Iudicious late writers above a few of many yet especially to stand upon and maintain the point from sacred Scriptures and deductions grou●ded thereupon These I shall stil hold unto and rest upon because they have fully satisfied my self and having clearly and briefly propounded them they may I hope prevaile with others who read without prejudice and judg without partiality So I proceed from these grounds of my answer to a punctuall and distinct answer to the second Question The second Question answered and some Objections against the Answer resolved IT hath bin shewed above that Hades Sheol Inferi of their own force expresse no more but in generall that Christs soule went to the other world or world unseen and further that if generall termes serve to expresse something more particular as generall termes very often doe circumstances considerable about Christs person and places of Scripture touching thereupon must inforce the same Now I having declared the circumstances of cheif weight and moment in this point and in the severall chapters above having cosidered the Scriptures on which the knowledge of those circumstances depend I thus answer the 2d Question 1. That Christs soule at his death commended into the hands of his father went to Paradise or Heaven typed by the Sanctum Sanctorum into which Paradise or Heaven the believing malefactours soule and the soules of all the then dead Saints were carried and into which all believers soules now and hereafter goe at their deathes 2. That Christs soule going from the crosse to Heaven did in Heaven amidst the blessed and holy assembly of the Saints keep an holy Sabbath is his body did rest in his grave untill his resurrection and that his soule came from Heaven to his body on the third day as the soules of the dead Saints which rose with him at his resurrection did to their bodies and as all believers soules shall at the generall resurrection Obj. Against this Answer some man will perhaps object Bee it granted that Christs soule went to Paradise yet some passages of the ancient Fathers make Paradise a different place from Heaven shut up the soule● of the Saints whilst their bodies lie in the dust in refriger●o in a place of refreshing and not of perfect blisle Whence some conceive it to bee said that they are under the Altar and cry How long Lord holy and true dost thou not avenge our bloud on them that dwel on the earth Ans I Answer 1. The soules of the Godly enjoy the blessednesse which they are capable of during the time of their separation from their bodies The want which any one hath conceived so to diminish their blisse that is is not full and perfect can bee no other then that which proceeds from their bodies still lying in the dust Whence their bloud spilt in which once was the life soule L●v 17.14 cries as did Abels for Gods justice on their persecutours 2. In the old Testament the happ●nesle

OF THE ARTICLE OF OVR CREED Christ descended to Hades or ad Inferos Posit 1. Christs soule went to Hades or ad Inferos 2. It concerns a Christian to know the right meaning of this Article Quest 1. What is meant in the Creed by this Article 2. Did Christs Soule goe to Heaven or Gehenna With Answers to both of them severally LONDON Printed in the yeare 1642. To the Christian Reader GOD hath in these later dayes opened a plentifull fountain of sacred truth to informe our judgements and direct our practise yet such is humane frailty that ignorance and curiosity have broached many Controversies and prejudice and partiality maintained most of them with much vehemency of contention and disaffection of hearts Whereby the propagation of the Gospel and the advancement of Gods glory is much retarded These things it becomes us not onely tolament but to endeavour by all possible meanes to remedy Now what better and speedier course can be taken for cure herein then for the Sons of the God of Peace Subjects of the Prince of Peace men renewed by the Spirit of Peace to take to themselves a calm and peaceable temper to treat of sacred matters without malice and bitternesse in points of much controversie and difficulty to use a punctuall plain and breif discourse That Truth bee neither lost nor undiscerned nimium altercando by vastnesse of debate nor clouded by extravagant far fetcht and nice expressions I have in this present Treatise endeavonred to bring arguments and grounds most perspicuous breif and pertinent that the point here handled might not bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a rock of offence amongst us Some passages herein require not an ordinary skill in tongues So that men not versed that way are to bee intreated not to precipitate their judgments but many passages are so cleared by Scripture and good deductions thence that my appeale may be to any indifferent judge Such as this discourse is I present it unto your gentle perushall and serious consideration and humbly desire Gods gracious blessing on both our paines and the Divine assistance of his Holy Spirit leading us into all Trueth Two Positions about the ARTICLE Descendit ad Inferos to Sheol or to HADES POSITION I. Christ did Descendere ad Inferos to Sheol or Hades THe Old and New Testament the two excellent witnesses of sacred Truth affirme with one accord That Christs soule was in Sheol or Hades and as in latine these termes be generally by all translate apud inferos For Psalme 16.10 T is said Thou wilt not leave my soule in Sheol or Hades nor suffer thy holy one to see corruption And Act. 2. These very words are expresly cited from the Psalm And there S●nt Peter expounds the latter part of the words thus Nor suffer thine holy one to see corruption that is Christs Body or Flesh to to turne to dust in the grave The meaning therefore is that Christs So ●e going to Sheol or Hades or ad Inferos should not there bee left to abide or continue longer then the third day For Christ promised to rise againe and set the time of his Resurrection to bee not before the third day This it pleased him to doe that he might fulfill what was typed in Ionas As also that wee might assuredly know that he was truly dead From Christs interring untill the third day Christs flesh or body did rest in hope which could not in any wife bee frustrate And therefore on the third day Christ was quickned by the Spirit 1 Peter 3.8 So that his Sou●e which h●d beene in Sheol or Hades or apnd Inferos and his body which was in the grave united and that himselfe role dead For these passages concerning Christ David as a Prophet saw before and spake concerning Christs rising from death Which death to Christ as to all men was the parting of the soule and bodie to bee sent each to their due place Thus it is manifest by facred Scripture that Christs soule did descendere ad Inferos or goe to Sheol or Hades For what was not left there must goeth●ther be there and come thence Seeing Scripture is so expresse in this point I shall not need to use any further proofe thereof POSIT 2. It doth much co●cerne us Christians to understand aright what is meant by Christs Soule going ad Inferos to Sheol or Hades IT behooves us truely to understand what is meant by the descent of Christ because 1. It is a ru●h affirmed by the Holy Ghost in both Testaments and an expression of a chiefe action of CHRIST about his death and Resurrection 2. Because Saint Peter doth cite from the Old Testament words witnessing the same and expounds them as u●eful to be knowne for the confirmation of a Christians faith in the point of Chri●●efurrection which is a matter of great consequence for our salvation 3. Because this clause 1. Is taken into the common Creed of the Churches in this part of the world 2. Expounded as part of the Creed by many of the ancient Fathers and mentioned in diverse parts of their workes and generally acknowledged and received by late Writers upon the Creed 4. Because the different expositions thereof have in these latter times occasioned much controversie and jarres among Christians and beane a great stumbling blocke to Iewes who are of themselves too averse from Christianity and made by misprision and quarrells about this Article much more to disaffect our Doctrine ● What inconvenience and mischiefe these have brought to the Church of Christ in these our days is most apparent In regard of these and other reasons which might bee produced it very much concernes us Christians to understand aright and to professe what according to sacred truth is meant by Christ Soule going ad Jnferos That I may clearely set downe what I conceive both from Scripture and the learned and worthy paines of the most judicious Divines and exquisite searchers into the fa●red Text is meant thereby I propound the two following questions and answer thereun●o QUEST 1. What is the full meaning and true sense of the word in our CREED Hee des ended ad Inferos to Sheol or Hades● FOr the making a distinct punctuall answer to this question I will first produce the various significa ●o●s of the words Sheol Hades Inferi For unlesse ambiguous words bee well and rightly distinguished neither can I fully and perspicuously expresse my meaning nor others without misprision conceive what they endeavour to understand If words give not a certaine sound wee shall but beate the ayre and leave the matter doubtfull and give occasion to further dispute First Then Sheol Hades Inferi signifie Death when they are spoken of a person in danger of his life As Psalme 18.6 The sorrowes of Sheol compassed mee that is the sorrowes of Death or sorrowes bringing to the Grave and Ps●me 116.3 The paines of Sheol found mee that is griefe and paine hastning death They doe also signifie