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A23678	A practical improvement of the articles of Christ's descent into hell and rising again from the dead in a sermon, preach'd in the parish church of Bridgewater, on Easter-Day, Anno Domini, 1697 / by William Allen.	Allen, William, fl. 1681-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing A1078; ESTC R16583	15,368	32

return'd to put the Organs again in tune The first Adam brought in Sin and Death into the World the second Life and Immortality An Argument which the Apostle pursues in 1 Cor. 15.47 The first Man is of the Earth Earthy the second Man is the Lord from Heaven Our Bodies must to Dust or Earth because they were made of Dust They must moulder because they are Mortal Our Natures as derivative from a Sinner are decreed to death and dissolution and must sink into the same Principle of which they are compounded but the second Man is the Lord from Heaven the Lord of Life and Immortality He doth not bring Death but Life to Body and Soul And therefore in v. 45. the Apostle stiles him a quickning Spirit keeping his Body tenantable tho' he went out of it and not only so but he was Lord of his own Body and none other had Power and Dominion over it None nor any thing could assault his Body laid up as in a Repository for his returning It seems by what we read in the History of the Gospel he put a Life-guard of Angels upon it or about it while he went into a far Country which frighted both the Souldiers and Devout Women that came to his Sepulchre to look after him Luke 24.4 The Socinians here banter and batter this Bulwark of our Faith by asserting that Christ had no power of his Body that when dead and in the Grave was out of his Care or Concern That 't was God kept his Body incorruptible and rais'd it such It was God the Father that took care of the Body and Soul of God the Son We yield this but he was such a Son of God as dwelt in Flesh not after the manner of the first Adam's Progeny His Body was of a finer make and purer mould conceiv'd of the Holy Ghost and born of the Virgin and so had the Seeds of Immortality in it and was not to corrupt tho' the Inmate was for a while to remove God the Father did indeed raise Christ from the dead as we read Gal. 1.1 But it 's also written that Christ also did raise himself Joh. 2.21 Destroy this Temple and I will raise it again Where he speaks of the Temple of his Body Which he might very properly call a Temple because the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him bodily And in Scripture we are inform'd That when he was risen from the dead his Disciples remembred that he had said this unto them and they believ'd the Scripture and the word that Jesus had said That Christ took care of his own Body and rais'd himself For 't is written Joh. 5.21 As the Father raiseth up the dead and quickneth them even so the Son quickneth whom he will He then which quickneth the dead Bodies of others when he raiseth them he also quickned his own Body when he raised that Thirdly and lastly His body was not to see Corruption because he was as the Christian High-Priest to enter into the Holy of Holiest as the first-fruits of the Dead So our Apologist St. Peter v. 29 c. of this Chapter Men and Brethren let me freely speak unto you of the Patriarch David that he is both dead and buried and his Sepulchre is with us unto this day therefore being a Prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an Oath to him that of the fruit of his loins according to the flesh he would raise up Christ to sit on his Throne He seeing this before spake of the Resurrection of Christ that his Soul was not left in Hell neither his flesh did see Corruption This Spiritual High-Priest must enter into the Holy of Holiest with all his Pontificalibus his Body and Soul Clean and Clear Pure and Perfect Radiant and Glorious the true Regalia that adorn'd the Investiture of this High-Priest He was also to rise as the first fruits the Cause and Pledge of all others Resurrection Afterwards they that are Christ's even Holy and Pious Men shall be raised up but not immediately for their Bodies must remain in the Grave and their Souls in Hades 'till he calls them They must see Corruption and pay the debt of a corrupt Nature and undergo the Pennance of the Grave and Hades Not that they feel pain in the one or the other but they willingly resign to the Divine Decree and for a while rest in hope of a glorious Redemption For the bonds of Death were unloosed by the Captain of our Salvation but they were such bonds as did not fetter they were willingly put on and easily put off The Christian High-Priest was to be a Freeman not a Prisoner he was not to enter with Shackles but rather with the Armature of a glorious Victor Eph. 6.13 c. With the whole Armour of God with the Brest-plate of Righteousness with the Shield of Faith with the Helmet of Salvation with the Sword of the Spirit by which he stood in the day of trial and withstood the fiery Darts of the Wicked and cut in sunder the bonds of Death To allude to the Apostle's Phrase From these Considerations we may conclude his Body could not see Corruption 1. Because in three days according to Promise and Prediction he was to assume his Body 2. Because he was the second Adam and so he was not under the guilt or the penalty of the first 3. Because he as the High-Priest was to enter Body and Soul pure as the Aether into the Everlasting Kingdom the Regions of Light and Glory The Doctrinal part of this Sermon speaks Comfort to us all words of great Consolation that should enliven us and fill us with joy in believing For First The same Lord Jesus that raised and reassumed his own Body shall raise ours and make them like his Glorious Body Phil. 3.21 It is the Faith of all Orthodox Divines that had the first Adam stood we had stood in him in his integrity in a perfect and holy Nature and in the favour of God And that after the expiration of a determinate time our Bodies and Souls had been translated as Enoch's and Elias's without seeing Death into a state of Immortality But what we lost by the first Man's prevarication will be beyond our deserts restored by the second Adam And as in Adam all died so in Christ shall all be made alive All are to live but some to the Resurrection of the Just whose Bodies shall be made like Christ's glorious Body The second Adam say you who is he Why the seed of the Woman that should bruise the Serpent's head Gen. 3. That Seed in whom all the Nations of the Earth are blessed The second Adam in whom and by whom a new Covenant of Grace is made for blessings in this World and far greater in another that now we might have life and that more abundantly the life of Grace and hereafter the life of Glory This is the Christ whose Body did not see Corruption nor his Soul remain among the

may be proved from them which is our Rule to prove that called the Apostle's-Creed by and particularly that of Christ's descent into Hell which is founded upon this Text Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see Corruption ACTS II. 27. Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see Corruption SAint Peter in a short but notable Sermon demonstrates Jesus to be the Messias The Holy One of God The Lord the Christ First From the Miracles he did in his Life-time they being witnesses of the same v. 22. Secondly By the fulfilling of Prophecy in being not only rejected by his own but Crucified by them according to the determinate Counsel of God ver 23. Thirdly From the Wonders he did not in Life only but in Death he brake thro' the bonds of it the Grave could not detain his Body nor Hades his Soul And this according to Prophecy and Promise Psal 16. v. 10. Which is the Apostle's Quotation and my Text. And the Doctrine or Article of Faith grounded upon it is this That Jesus the Christ and Saviour of the World made a Sacrifice for Sin and actually dead and buried went into the Region of Spirits but returned speedily from thence and reassuming his Body rose victoriously from the Grave In discussing this Doctrine I will shew 1. What is the meaning of Christ's Soul being in Hell 2. The Reason and Occasion of this Article boing inserted in our Creed 3. The Incorruptibility of his Body it did not see Corruption Tho' the Jews gave its Death-wounds yet the wounds putrified not Together with the Use we ought to make of these Considerations I shall not mention the various Opinions about this Article they rather disgrace than instruct but speak the truth the whole truth and nothing but the truth and that as concisely and clearly as I can 1. What is the meaning of Christ's Soul being in Hell For with respect to his Godhead we may say of him in the words of the Psalmist Psal 139.7 8. Whither shall I go from thy Spirit whither shall I flee from thy presence If I ascend up into Heaven thou art there If I make my bed in Hell behold thou art there But our Discourse is of the Soul of the Messias and that was for a while in Hell Not in the sense the Damn'd are who are in a State of Torment in a Region of Woe and Misery which is full of Flame and Fire as the Rich Man roars out in the Text Luke 16.24 Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame But the Soul of the Messias when he gave up his Ghost passed into the Receptacle of Blessed Souls into that Paradise where the Redeemed and Pardoned are Lodged and where with him went the Repenting Thief on the Cross Luke 23.43 This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise 'T is this Receptacle of good Souls this Paradise for those that die in Christ that is called Hades that is an invisible State a Being tho' in a remote Region which Eye cannot reach or penetrate I confess 't is a hard matter to beat out of the vulgar Heads the gross conception of the word Hell which sounds to them no other than horrour and blackness of darkness and fire and brimstone The word Hell in our English is harsh and dreadful and speaks to us the place of the Damn'd A * D. Lightfoot place very improper to look for the Soul of Christ when departed out of his Body for Him and His Betrayer Judas to meet in the same place He that had by Death purchased Heaven for others himself after death to descend into Hell This therefore cannot be no is not the meaning of the word Hell where Christ went he came not near that Abyss nor was at all among those Reprobated Crew The word Hell is a word of Latitude and hath a larger signification as all that understand Greek know And I cou'd wish for the sake of the People we cou'd find a softer and more expressive word to speak in for the true easie and natural sense of Hades is an invisible Region the Mansion of blessed Souls which in Scripture is called Paradise Heaven Abraham's-bosom Object If Hades means Paradise why should Christ pray against his being left in Hades and hope that his Soul shall not be left in Hades as he hopes his Body shall not see Corruption Answ He doth not pray thus as if it were not well with his Soul in Hades as to what he enjoyed For his Soul was the Soul of the Messias the Soul of a Redeemer a Soul that was to Conquer Death and not to stay any considerable time from his Body born of the Virgin Mary He had work to do which other Souls had not he was to rise for others justification He was to ascend into the Holy of Holiest as the great High-Priest of our Souls and therefore he must return to his Body that he may as God-Man in Humane flesh for ever enter into the Vale. As if he should say thou wilt not leave me under Death that is my Soul in separation This wou'd be the triumph of the Devil But tho' the Messias's Soul when in its separation was in Bliss and all Holy Souls departed are so yet Christ's Soul had an undertaking that surmounted that of all Humane Souls and therefore to accomplish that he prays for the fulfilling of the Promise That tho' his Soul as others of Humane Kind were really separated yet that his might speedily be re-united for the perfecting of the work he took upon him the form of a Servant and came into the Body at first Secondly The Occasion and Reason of this Article being inserted in our Creed Not that it was there at first but it came in afterward and that occasion'd by a new Heresie that started up in the Church and therefore to obviate that this Article was added as a Truth proveable from Scripture that Christ went into Hades The Errour was this that Christ had no proper Intellectual or Rational Soul Which Heresie was begun and propagated by one Appolonius and his Followers That the Word or the Divinity supplied the place of a Soul and that therefore he was not properly dead when his Body was in the Grave But in opposition to this Error the Christians assert that Christ had a humane Soul that it underwent all the Offices of one in the Body and out of the Body of a humane Soul that first it was infused as other Souls are when a Body was prepared and when in the Body it actuated as other Souls by opening and enlarging its faculties as the Body grew in stature and the Man in years and he hungred and thirsted as other Men did the Union of his Soul and Body being to be preserv'd by