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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A74654	A brief and plain exposition of the creed, commonly called the Apostles Creed. By Christopher Cartwright minister in York.	Cartwright, Christopher, 1602-1658.	1649 (1649)	Wing C683; Thomason E1421_1*; ESTC R209463	35,241	119

opposition in the words there immediately following But the gift of God is eternall life through Jesus Christ our Lord. why Christ suffered death Christ therefore suffered death to free us from death from the second death altogether Verily verily saith Christ if a man keep my saying he shall never see death he meanes eternall death John 8. 51. So John 11. 26. He that beleeveth in me shall never die to wit eternally And so also Christ by his death hath freed all that beleeve in him from the first death as it is a curse so that the nature of it is changed it is now to them as no death but an entrance into life even life eternall The sting of death is sinne saith the Apostle and the strength of sinne is the law But thanks be unto God who giveth us victory through Iesus Christ our Lord 1 Cor. 15. 56 57. To live to me is Christ saith he and to die is gain Phil. 1. 21. And he adds Vers 23. that he desired to be dissolved and to be with Christ which was farre better for him How the death and passion of Christ is so efficacious The death and passion of Christ is of such vertue and efficacie as to satisfie for our sinnes and to deliver us from that wrath which by reason of our sinnes is due to us because his death is not the death of a meer man but of God himself that Person that dyed for us being not onely man but God also God as God is immortall and cannot die but God assuming the nature of man in that nature as man did die for us God with his owne blood hath purchased his Church Acts 20. 28. The blood of Christ is the blood of God and therefore it is indeed precious blood as it is called 1 Peter 1. 19. It is a price sufficient to ransom and redeem all Therefore what ever thy sinnes be yet as Paul said to the Jayler Beleeve in the Lord Iesus Christ and thou shall be saved Act. 16 31. Of Christs buriall And buryed Christ being dead was buried as the Evangelists testifie And he was buried for these reasons Reasons why Christ was buried First to shew that he was truly dead and not in appearance onely For men use not to be buryed till they be dead indeed And the Scripture notes unto us that Pilate did first diligently enquire whether Christ was already dead and was certified of that before hee would give leave that he should be buryed Marke 15. 44 45. Secondly that so Christs rising from the dead might bee the more conspicuous and manifest Therefore he was not onely buryed but buried in a Sepulchre hewne out of a Rock and in a new Sepulchre wherein none before had been buried Matth. 27. 60. Iohn 19. 41. So that it could not be said either that Christs Disciples did undermine the Sepulchre and so get him away or that it was not he but some other that did arise Neither yet could it be pretended that Christ rose not by his own power but by the touch of some other that had been buryed there before as we read of one who being laid in the grave of the Prophet Elisha as soon as he touched the dead bones of the Prophet revived 2 Kings 13. 21. Thirdly Christs buryall was a further degree of his humiliation in that he condescended and stooped so low as to be laid in the Grave the common receptacle of the dead Iob speaking of a man that is most potent while he liveth shews how low he shall be brought when he dyeth Who shall declare his way to his face and who shall repay him what he hath done Yet shall hee bee brought to the grave and shall remaine in the Tomb. The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him Iob 21. 31 32 33. Fourthly this makes Christs victory over death the more glorious that he not onely dyed but was also buryed death seemed to have full conquest over Christ having got him into its Den yet even there did Christ vanquish and subdue it O death I will be thy plagues O grave I will be thy destruction saith he Hosea 13. 14. Now through Christs victory over death and the grave we may be assured that death shall bee no plague the grave no destruction to us We may say O death where is thy sting O grave where is thy victory 1 Cor. 15. 55. As Christ was crucified dead and buryed so also must we in a Metaphoricall and mysticall sense be crucified dead and buryed that is our old man our carnall corrupt nature must be crucified dead and buryed They that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts Gal. 5. 24. Knowing this that our old man is crueified with Christ that the body of sinne might be destroyed that henceforth we should not serve sinne Rom. 6. 6. And v. 3. 4. Know ye not that so many of us as are baptized into Christ are baptized into his death Therefore we are buryed with him by Baptism into death c. So Col. 2. 12. Buryed with him by Baptisme Of Christs descending into Hell and what is meant by it He descended into Hell As all the other Articles of the Creed are grounded upon and clear by Scripture so is this also For those words Psal 16. 10. Thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell suppose that his soul should be in Hell otherwise it were absurd to say that it should not be left there if it should never be there Now that was spoken by David not of himself but of Christ For David speaketh concerning him c. saith Peter Act 2. 25 But what is here meant by Hell Surely not that which we commonly understand by the word Hell to wit the place where after this life the damned are in torment Christ never came there for any thing that we can finde in Scripture and therefore we have no reason to make that any part of our Beliefe The foure Evangelists Matthew Mark Luke and John write of Christ from his Incarnation to his Ascension yet mention no such thing as that Christ went to Hell in that sense Neither was it any part of the Gospell that Paul preached as appears 1 Corinth 15. 1 2 3 4. There rehearsing some of the Heads of the Gospell which he had preached he mentioneth Christs death and his buriall and his resurrection but for his going to Hell the Hell of the Damned he neither expresly nor implicitely makes any mention of it Again David was left in that Hell in which Christ was not left This appears by Peters argument which he useth to prove that David in those words Thou wilt not leave my soul in Hell spake in the person of Christ and not in his own person He proveth it by this that the words were not true if meant of David but most true as meant of Christ Men and Brethren saith he let me freely speak unto you of the Patriarch

Lord Jesus Christ who according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us againe unto a lively hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead unto an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled and that fadeth not away reserved in heaven for us 1 Pet. 1. 3 4. 3. To assure us of our resurrection For the resurrection of the Members depends upon the resurrection of the Head the resurrection of Christians depends upon Christs Resurrection See after upon those words The resurrection of the body Quest But if Christ rose the third day to wit after that he dyed how is it said that he should be three dayes and three nights in the heart of the earth that is in the grave Matth. 12. 40. Answ That is not so to be understood as if Christ were three dayes and three nights compleat in the grave but onely some part of three dayes and three nights He dyed as the Evangelists shew the day before the Jewish Sabbath that is on Friday as we call it in the afternoon and was buryed the same day That part of the day stands for the whole day and also the night going before which the Jews beginning their naturall day that consists of 24 hours at Evening Levit. 23. 32. did belong unto it Then he rested in the grave all the night following and the next day which we call Saturday And the night after hee also remained in the grave rising early in the Morning on Sunday as we call it Now together with that night is rekoned the day following to which it belonged and so taking the part for the whole as sometimes it is taken Christ was three dayes and three nights in the grave though otherwise hee was little above two nights and one day in it After this manner is it said that Esther and the Jewes did fast three dayes and three nights Esth 4. 16. for the Fast was ended on the third day as is clear by Esthers putting on her royall apparell and addressing her selfe to the King on that day Esther 5. 1. As Christ rose from the dead corporally so must we spiritually wee must rise from the death of sinne to the life of grace Awake thou that sleepest and stand up from the dead and Christ shall give thee light Ephes 5. 14. We are buryed with him by Baptisme into death that like as Christ was raised by the glory of the Father even so we also should walk in newnesse of life Rom. 6. 4. And Vers 11. Likewise reckon ye your selves dead indeed unto sinne but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. And Col. 2. 12. Buryed with him by Baptisme wherein also you are risen with him c. And Col. 3. 1. If ye then be risen with Christ seeke those things which are above where Jesus Christ sitteth at the right hand of God He ascended into heaven This is the second step of Christs exaltation That Christ ascended into heaven the Scripture testifies Mark 16. 19. Luke 24. 51. Acts 1. 9. Of Christs Ascension into Heaven It was requisite that Christ should ascend into heaven Reasons why Christ ascended into Heaven First because he came down from heaven not that he brought his body from heaven as some Hereticks imagined but in that by his Incarnation he made himself manifest upon earth whereas before he onely kept residence as it were in heaven The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us and we beheld his glory as the glory of the onely begotten Sonne of God c. Iohn 1. 14. In this respect Christ is called The Lord from Heaven 1 Cor. 15. 47. And it s said that he came down from Heaven John 1. 13. Now as Christ thus came down from heaven so having finished the worke for which he came it was meet hee should return to heaven I came forth sayes Christ from the Father and am come into the world again I leave the world and go to the Father John 16. 28. And speaking to his Father I have glorified thee on earth said he I have finished the work which thou gavest me to do And now O Father glorifie me with thine ownself with the glory which I had with thee before the World was Iohn 17. 4 5. Secondly that it might appeare that his Kingdome is not of this world as he said John 18. 36. Thirdly that hee might shew himself to triumph over sinn death and him that had the power of death that is the Devill Thou hast ascended on high thou hast led captivity captive Psal 68. 18. That was spoken of Christ as the Apostle sheweth Ephes 4. 8. To lead captivitie captive is as much as to lead a multitude of Captives as appears by Iudges 5. 12. Fourthly that he might send down the Spirit and inrich his Church with the gifts and graces of the Spirit Thou hast ascended on high c. thou hast received gifts for men Psal 68. 18. When hee ascended up on high c. he gave gifts unto men Ephes 4. 8. The holy Ghost was not yet given to wit in such measure as afterward because that Iesus was not yet glorified Iohn 7. 39. It is expedient for you that I go away for if I goe not away the Comforter will not come unto you but if I depart I will send him unto you said Christ to his Disciples Iohn 16. 7. Fiftly that having offered himself a Sacrifice for us on the Crosse he might present himselfe likewise unto God in heaven and make intercession for us For Christ is not entred into the holy places made with hands which are the figures of the true but into heaven it selfe now to appear in the presence of God for us Hebr. 9. 24. 6. That he might make way for us to ascend into heaven also I go to prepare a place for you said he to his Disciples John 14. 2. Whither the forerunner is for us entred even Jesus c. Heb. 6. 20. He is called the forerunner because he going before and preparing the way we also in due time shall follow after But in the mean time in our hearts and affections we must ascend into heaven whiles in respect of our bodies wee are here upon earth Set your affections on things above not on things on the ●arth Col. 3. 2. For our c●nve●s●tion is in heaven Phil. 3. 20. Of Christs sitting at the right hand of God And sitteth on the right hand of God This is the highest step of Christs exaltation It is expresly mentioned Mark 16. 19. Hebr. 1. 3. and in other places But how is Christ said to sit And how on the right hand of God First for sitting it is not here taken properly as it imports such a distinct kinde of bodily posture What is meant by sitting It is not the intent of the Holy Ghost in the Scripture to shew what bodily posture now in heaven Christ useth to what purpose were it for us to know that But to sit we know is a posture of