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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

David that he is both dead and buryed and his Sepulchre remaineth with us unto this day Acts 2. 29. By Davids sepulchre remaining with them unto that day he means that David was left in Hell and therefore when he said Thou wilt not leave my soule in Hell did not speak of himself but of Christ and of his resurrection Therefore being a Prophet and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him that of the fruit of his loyns 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 nor his flesh did see corruption Verse 30. and 31. Now if such a Hell be meant as in which David was left and such a Hell we must understand if we will make S. Peters argument good then can it not be the Hell of the Damned the place of torment for David was not left in that Hell he never was in it being none of the Reprobate to whom alone that Hell appertaineth Further it appears rather by Scripture that when Christ dyed as his body went to the earth so his soul went to Heaven and therefore not to Hell as it signifies the place of the Damned This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise said Christ to the beleeving Thiefe that was crucified with him Luke 23. 43. now by Paradise is meant the third Heaven the place of Blisse and Happinesse as appears 2 Cor. 12. 2. compared with 4. These reasons are sufficient to evince that by Hell here in the Creed and so in those places of Scripture upon which this Article is grounded is not meant the Hell of the Damned But may some say what is then meant by it I answer the estate of the dead or the power of death is meant by Hell and the meaning of the Article is that Christ so humbled himself as that for a while he was in the estate of the dead and under the power of death though as David prophesied of him he did not long continue in that estate but was soon delivered out of it Christ being risen from the dead saith the Apostle dyeth no more death hath no more dominion over him Rom. 6. 9. That intimates that for some time though but a short time Christ was under the power of death and it had dominion over him This power and dominion of death whereby it having separated the soul from the bodie keeps it still in that state of separation untill the body be raised up and the soule and it re-united together this I say is that which is meant by Hell when Christs descending into Hell or his not being left in Hell is spoken of The words in the Originall which are translated Hell Sheol Hades do not properly and directly signifie Hell as taken for the place of Torment but they signifie either the grave or the power of death and the estate of the dead in generall whether their souls be in the place of torment or in the place of comfort And thus our English word Hell is sometimes used As Psa 89. 48. in the old vulgar Translation which is in the Book of Common Prayer What man is hee that liveth and shall not see death and shall he deliver his soul from the hand of Hell The Interrogation hath the force of a strong Negation and the meaning is that certainly there is no man living that shall not see death none that shal deliver his soul frō the hand of Hell that is either of the grave as our last translation hath it or of the power of death For it were absurd there to understand the Hell of the Damned many through Christ being delivered from that Hell And so Revel 20. 14. where it is said Death and Hell were cast into the Lake of fire by Hell cannot be meant the Hell of the Damned for that is meant by the Lake of fire but the Power and Dominion of death is meant which after the resurrection there spoken of shall have no place any where but in that Lake of fire which is there called The second death Of Christs rising from the dead The third day he rose again from the dead After Christs humiliation followed his exaltation the first step and degree whereof was his Resurrection or rising from the dead That Christ rose from the dead all the Evangelists have diligently recorded and the Apostles diligently preached See Acts 1. 22. and 4 33. and 1 Cor. 15. 4 15. This Article of Christs rising from the dead is of such concernment that S. Paul sayes If Christ be not risen then is our preaching vaine and your faith is also vain 1 Cor. 15 14. And again vers 17. If Christ be not risen your faith is in vain you are yet in your sinnes Reasons why Christ rose from the dead It was necessary that Christ though hee dyed and was buryed and remained a while under the power of death yet should rise again 1. For the fulfilling of the Scriptures For it was written of him that his soul should not be left in Hell nor his flesh see corruption Psal 16. 10. Therefore there was a necessity of his rising from the dead as S. Peter sheweth Acts 2. 24. 25 c. Whom God hath raised up having loosed the pains of death because it was not possible that he should be holden of it For David speaketh concerning him c. So elsewhere in the Old Testament Christ is spoken of as abiding for ever Psal 110. 4. Dan. 7. 13 14. Which did not import as some erroniously conceived John 12. 32 33 34. that Christ should not die but that hee should not remain dead but be raised up and live for ever O fools and slow of heart to beleeve all that the Prophets have written Ought not Christ to suffer these things and to enter into his glory Luke 24. 25 26. So spake Christ to some who startled at his death and when they were told of his resurrection were slow to beleeve it And in that same Chapter verse 45 46. it is said that comming to his Apostles He opened their understanding that they might understand the Scriptures And said unto them Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day 2. To make it appear that by his death he had fully satisfied for our sinnes and wrought out our redemption for us Who was delivered for our offences and was raised again for our justification Rom. 4. 25. We trusted that it had been he that should have redeemed Israel Luk. 24. 21. So they spake who knew Christ to have been dead but doubted of his rising again They did before expect redemption by him but now they had small hope of it And indeed if Christ had onely dyed and not risen from the dead all hope in him might well have dyed with him But Blessed be God and the Father of our