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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	death_n	destroy_v	resurrection_n	1,008	5	9.2410	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A13819	Saint Peters rocke vnder which title is deciphered the faith of Peter, the foundation of the church, Christs sacrificehood, and the comfort of the holy Spirit. Done by Alexander Top Gent.	Top, Alexander.	1597 (1597)	STC 24122; ESTC S102450	49,647	124

neither 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 far vnder for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 far aboue nor 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the earth for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the heauens But if S. Paul had meant that he descended to the place of the damned he would had said that he descended far vnder all the earth or as the Epistle of Iude mentioneth vnder darknes Iude. where the condemned angels are reserued in euerlasting chaines making a certain analogy of his ascension and descension But Saint Paul was to speake of Christs going downe into the lower parts of the earth to say the bowels of the earth to vanquish death wherwith his humanity was imprisoned as the sonnes of Adam and of his going vp aboue all the heauens to win life and possesse inheritance for all his chosen Therfore by his descension was not meant the place of euerlasting torment but as a man should say he went downe into the parler of the earth to put off his humanity and put on diuinity to put off corruption and put on incorruption to put off mortality and put on immortality and lastly to put off death and cloath himselfe with life to wit that he might be a body in all respects as before but freed from the bands of the flesh shewing plainly the maner of our resurrection toward as it is said 1. Cor. 15. 2● Christ is risen from the dead and became the first fruits of them that sleepe for as by man came death so also by man shall all be made aliue and as in Adam all men dy so by Christ shall all men reuiue But of his resurrection and ascension shall be said more in due place only this a little to shew to what end he descended which was to destroy death in his owne body that was the last enimy to be destroied 2. Cor. 15. 26. Wherfore he being no more in subiection vnto death hath the only power vnder his father to destroy death in vs quick and dead that beleeue at his next comming for as the resurrection to come of flesh is of two kindes one from life to life and the other from death to life Behold we shall not all sleep 1. Cor. 15. but we shall all be changed so Christ was to signify in his death the nature of both It is manifest that he rose as they that shall not sleep for his bones and flesh perished not neither had the wormes hold on him it also appeereth that he was changed as they that sleep for he rose out of the belly of the earth within three daies euen so long was Ionah in the whales belly Seeing then death was his last enimy and all things were put in subiection vnder him saue death it is plaine that by his death which was the conquering of death he finished all that might be expected of him for the saluation of mankind Then as the article followeth HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD We must vnderstand and be sure heerby that he came first downe to the dead which is to say into the earth that bringeth foorth all things to death as if a man should say the mother or the very state of death which in Hebrue is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sheolah or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sheol PETITIO or POSTVLATIO the graue alwais crauing neuer satisfied according to the parable of Agur Prou. 30. 1● Three things yea also the fourth will not be satisfied the graue the barren wombe the earth with raine and the fire that saith not it is ynough Heer is declared the plain and naturall force of that same word with the Hebrues which we call hell the graue This sheol both all and some confesse to be the lowest place of his descension and as concerning the vnderstanding of the Hebrue in Greeke it is translated 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TANQVAM AB OBSCVRITATE from whence the Romans had AEDES vsed for a house a church or a graue a place of darknes the habitation wherof is depriued of the light of heauen So that the word Hades is a word agreeing with the other and are translated ech for other both signifying the state of death or sepulchre of the dead The Syrians inuented gehenna it seemeth from Ieremy And they built the high places of Baal Ierem 32. 35. which are in the vally of Ben-hinnom to cause their sonnes and daughters to passe through the fire vnto Molech an abhomination to the Lord and a sin to Iudah Ierem ● 31. And againe They haue built the high place of Topheth which is in the vally of Benhinnom to wit Ghe-hinnom the vally of Hinnom neer Ierusalem the portion of his inheritance that they might burne their sonnes and daughters in the fire Therfore behold the day commeth saith the Lord that it shall no more be called Topheth nor Ghe-hinnom the vally of Hinnom but Ghe-haregah the vally of slaughter for they shall bury in Topheth till there be no place I suppose that our westerne bonfires do taste of this idolatry or at the least haue remained as a relique of that ceremony vnto this day which the Pope hath conueied heertofore throughout all his dominions Now concerning the situation of Ghe-hinnom Hinnom his inheritance Ios. 15. 8. it was on the south side of the Iebusites and the same is Ierusalem This sufficeth for Topheth in the vally of Hinnom Gehenna The heathen Latines haue as far as they could reach borrowed names for the like place Virgil. as EREBVS of the Greek word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 TENEBRAE CALIGO NOX or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dark night the night that all must sleep Horat. HAEC ENIM NOX EST OMNIBVS DORMIENDA So likewise TARTARVS or TARTARA the profundity of the earth as it is said Hesiod 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the riuers of the swift Ocean Hom. ● and bottom of the earth So STYX INFERNORVM PALVS a riuer for his deadly and horrible coldnes so called ORCVS of the Greek 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IVSIVRANDVM an oth for in this place they vsed their exorcismes and coniurations AVERNVS or AVERNA a lake in Campania dedicated to Pluto Phlegithon a place where the earth is set on fire by lightning So Pluto Denat booke 2. deorum whom Cicero calleth Dis to whom all naturall and earthly force was dedicated whom the Greeks cal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the Syrians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Mammona rich presuming that he had the keeping of all the riches that sprang out of the earth and returned to the earth againe wherby they thought him treasurer of hell and Lord of Hades Acheron is a place by nature so enuironed with hils that it cannot be toucht with lightning Seeing therfore all their fained circumstances so aptly agree with Hades let vs learne with Homer to vnderstand the word Hades aright Iliad A. where he saith 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 speaking of Achilles that his fury sent

imperfection when as the works of God in beginning middle and end are absolutely perfect for euer His beginning endeth his mean time both beginneth and endeth his beginning is a momentary end and there is no other mean time with him Is it then ynough to say I BELEEVE IN GOD THE FATHER ALMIGHTY MAKER OF HEAVEN AND EARTH In no wise for although we are bound to beleeue so much yet is it not all that is required of vs for the very Iews beleeued thus much whose beleef was to be saued They saw the saluation of the Lord a far off through remorse in conscience considering their fall and the wickednes of mans thoughts all day long Adam their father had lost his state of knowledge they therfore remained in ignorance sinfull and their whole hope was to be grounded vpon the comfortable promises of that God and otherwise it had been hard for them to haue conceiued in their minds so great an eternity and such an immortall happines But God bereauing man his image of that honor which he once affoorded him which is to say the inheritance of a paradise would not vtterly destroy him but rather make him by a liuely faith to await for a blessed estate to abide for euer yea for euer and euer As Adam being first in the adoption of blessednes and life and consequently we all by him became accursed and died made vs accursed and to dy daily and as he by the almighty Gods meanes hoped to regain his saluation so we particularly ought to scan the meanes of his saluation to keepe our fraile flesh from desperation to comfort our guiltines of death and to keep vs from euerlasting damnation His meanes was the comfort of a victory wherin he reioiced as a giant to run his course Psal. 19. 5. and he did most constantly beleeue that as God promised so he should vanquish his most subtile and deadly enimy What could more win the hart of man thā such a promise Sundry such promises from age to age were reuealed to his posterity Gen. 9 26. As to Noah Blessed be the God of Sem. To Abraham Gen. 17. 6. I will multiply thee as the stars of heauen when as yet he had no child and his wife was old To Dauid by the prophet Nathan I will be his father 2. Sam. 7. 14. he shall be my sonne if he sin I will chasten him with the rod of men but my mercy shall not part away from him as I tooke it from Saul whom I haue put away before thee and thine house shal be established and thy kingdom for euer before thee thy throne shall be established for euer Ier. 33. 14. In that day I will cause the branch of righteousnes to grow vp vnto Dauid and he shall execute right iudgement in the land then shall Iuda be saued and Ierusalem dwell safely and he that shall call her is the Lord our righteousnes For thus saith the Lord Dauid shal neuer want a man to sit vpon the throne of the house of Israell This is the good then which the Lord will performe vnto the house of Israell and vnto the house of Iuda These were all most delightfull promises still to stay the hart of man in his owne saluation Isay. 7. 14. yet receiued Isay a greater light when he vnderstood the name of this conqueror Dan. 9. 24. but Daniell the greatest comfort to whom the precise time of victory and blessing to all the world was foretold which was in the comming of Messias which we call CHRIST the annointed Iesus that was promised the sauiour of the world These men were reuiued by meer promises but we being adopted heires of their hope do exceed their faith in beleeuing in this Iesus for we conclude with Peter Matt. 16. 16. that he is the sonne of the liuing God Wherfore we say AND IN IESVS CHRIST to be vnderstood euery mans Iesus or Sauiour that beleeueth whom Iesus or Iehoshua the sonne of Nun sauiour and captain of the Israelites prefigured long before that as he led Moses people into the promised land and sustained them in all their iourneyes so shall this Iesus defend and keep vs that call and trust vpon him from all subtile and malitious inuentions of satan and the world whatsoeuer and most couragiously carrie vs through this vale of misery to a promised land of rest a paradise wherin he himselfe is Lord and they that will not endure patiently the calamities vexations and variety of this iourney to rest shall surely haue their reward with the murmurers of Israell and the ten wearied and vncomfortable spies of the land of Canaan which might not see the land againe that they had once without cause blamed Numb 13. 29. to hinder Gods decree And no doubt with their false reports greeued many thousand soules and had not the Lord put into the harts of Iosua and Caleb his valiant seruants to speak the truth many surely might haue perished in infidelity but the Lord found Caleb as a hart harty and couragious not fearing death who was therfore rewarded with a second youth Ioshu 14. 11. both in strength and wisdome his youth came againe vnto him and his age returned forty yeeres answering well the question of regeneration or second birth made by Nicodemus to our true Iosua Iohn 3. 4. or sauiour in the Gospell to still and pacify the grudging mutiny of the people which the false spies had raised through the host Iosua was to them a shepheard signifying our shepheard Iesus that guideth vs to heauen The blind Iewes maketh saluation in this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 saue vs where they haue both in word and sense Iesus yet will it not agree with their consciences to say Iesus saue vs but the cause of their wilfull error in this point is that they may couer many sinnes with one excuse For to say he came not vtterly denieth his condemnation to be by them it denieth that he was crucified by them it denieth that they so wickedly pierced him it denieth that they gaue him gall and vineger to drink it excuseth their buffering mocking and scourging of him their spitting at him their crowning of him with thornes and generally whatsoeuer else they did despitefully vnto him But when these things were alleaged to them and the certainty of his comming to be iust in the fulnes of time prooued they began wheras before they skilfully contended with bashfulnes to plead their own ignorance in the prophets standing amazed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hom. II. as stags at a gaze they say they be the sons of Abraham Christs owne kindred which Iohn Baptist answereth Say not with your selues Matth. 3. 9. that we haue Abraham to our father for God euen of these stones can raise children vnto Abraham Matt. 8. 11. And againe Many shall come from east and west and rest with Abraham Isaac and Iacob in heauen but the children of