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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

man being God from all eternity in due time he also was made man When the fulnesse of time was come God sent his Son made of a woman Galath 4 4. This woman was called Mary which is the same name with Miriam as it is written in the Old Testament When she conceived and bare Christ she was a pure Virgin Behold a Virgin shall conceive and bear a Sonne and shall call his name Immanuel that is being interpreted God with us Isai 7. 14. It was prophesied of Christ who was conceived and Born of a Virgin Matth. 1. 22 23. It was not by the concurrence of man but by the Power of the Holy Ghost that Christ was conceived in the Wombe of his Mother That which is conceived in her is of the Holy Ghost said the Angel to Ioseph Mat. 1. 20. And so the Angel told the blessed Virgin The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the most High shall overshadow thee c. Luke 1. 35. Therefore Christ was holy from his very Birth and Conception alltogether free from that originall pollution which others being conceived and borne after the ordinary course of Nature draw from Adam and bring into the world with them as David confessed of himself Psal 51. 5. That therefore Iob 254. How can man be clean that is born of a woman that I say is meant of such as are borne after the usuall manner by naturall generation it extends not unto Christ whose birth was extraordinary and above nature As the Virgin did corporally conceive bear Christ in her womb so must we spiritually conceive and bear him in our hearts My little Children of whom I travell in birth again untill Christ be formed in you said Paul to the Galatians Gal. 4. 19. And Christ pointing at his Disciples said Behold my mother and my brethren For whosoever shall do the will of my Father which is in heaven the same is my brother and sister and mother Matth. 12. 49 50. Of Christs Passion or suffering Suffered under Pontius Pilate Christs whole life was a continuall suffering his very Incarnation was a Passion For him who was God blessed for ever to take upon him the nature of man for him who was Lord of all to take upon him the forme of a servant this was a great and wonderfull suffering So whiles hee lived hee was never free from suffering Being newly born he was laid in a Manger there being no room for him in the Inn where he was Luke 2. 7. Eight dayes after his Birth he was circumcised Luke 2. 21. Soon after he was persecuted by Herod and was fain to be carried into Egypt to escape the danger he was in Matth. 2. 13 14 15. Of the rest of Christs life untill hee was about thirty yeares old Luke 3. 23. the Scripture speaks but little it being not so necessary for us to know Yet thus much it tells us plainly of him that he was subject to Joseph and Mary Luke 2. 51. And it intimates unto us that Christ did exercise the Trade that Ioseph his Mothers husband was of For whereas it is said Matth. 13. 55. that some did say of him Is not this the Carpenters son S. Mark relates it Is not this the Carpenter Mark 6. 3. Which implies that as Ioseph his supposed Father was a Carpenter so he also for a while did follow the same Trade After that he came abroad to shew himselfe to the world and to execute the Office for which he was sent how was he opposed by the Scribes and Pharisees and such as could not endure the holinesse of his Life and Doctrine Besides he still lived a mean and despicable kinde of life Though he were rich yet for our sakes he became poor 2 Cor. 8. 9. Even so poor that others did minister to him of their substance Luke 8. 3. And whereas the Foxes have holes and the Birds of the air have nests he had not where to lay his head Luk. 9. 58. Thus was Christ continually suffering all his life long but the things that he suffered at the last at and immediately before his death were such and so great that they peculiarly are called his Passion or Suffering And this is that which is here said Suffered under Pontius Pilate This Pontius Pilate was Governour of Iudea under Tiberius the Romane Emperour to whom the Jews were then subject See Luke 3. 1. Pilate was the Judge that gave sentence upon Christ and condemned him as all the Evangelists record And even forraign Writers as namely Josephus a Jew and Tacitus a heathen testifie that Christ was put to death by Pontius Pilate But the Scripture relates as more fully what Christ suffered to wit how he was buffetted spit upon reviled scourged crowned with Thorns c. so also why he suffered to wit not for any offence that he had done no Pilate himself as the Evangelists shew did divers times declare him to bee innocent but for our sins which he was to beare and to satisfie for He bare our sins in his body on the tree 1 Pet. 2. 24. Him that knew no sinne God made sinne for us 2 Corinth 5. 21. Surely he was wounded for our transgressions he was bruised for our iniquities the chastisement of our Peace was upon him and with his stripes we are healed All we like sheep went astray turning every one to his owne course and the Lord laid upon him the iniquities of us all Isai 53. 5 6. Of Christs crucifying Was crucified Here follows now more particularly after what manner Christ suffered He was Crucified that is nailed alive to the Crosse and so did hang untill hee were dead So the History of the Gospel shews and hence the Crosse of Christ is so much spoken of in the Scripture This kinde of punishment was not in use among the Jewes untill they came under the power of the Romans with whom it was frequent It was a punishment both full of pain and also full of ignominie onely such as were of meanest rank and vilest Malefactors were wont to have this punishment inflicted on them why Christ suffered on the Crosse yet as painfull and ignominious as it was Christ was content to suffer it for our sakes Yea it was a cursed kinde of punishment and therefore Christ submitted unto it to free us from the curse which by reason of our sinnes was due unto us Christ saith S. Paul hath redeemed us from the curse of the Law being made a Curse for us for it is written Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree Gal 3. 13. And Phil. 2. 8 he exaggerates Christs humiliation by this that he humbled himself and became obedient unto death even the death of the Crosse Of Christs Death Dead The Wages of sinne is death Rom. 6. 23 Not onely the first death the separation of the soul from the bodie but also the second death the damnation both of soul and body as appears by the