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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A39277	Clavis fidei, or, The key of faith written in Latine by John Ellis ... and propounded by him in publick lectures upon the Apostles Creed, to the students of Harts Hall in the University of Oxford ; faithfully translated into English by W.R. for the good and benefit of the ingenuous reader, as an help to build him up in his most holy faith.	Ellis, John, 1599?-1665.	1668 (1668)	Wing E585; ESTC R40476	36,379	109

at the right hand of God thereby is shown the Majesty of Christ glorified therefore both of them are true in a diverse respect Besides some may argue after this manner The right hand of God is every where the humane nature sitteth at the right hand of God therefore it is every where But in this argumentation you are to say there are four terms as in this which follows The sea compasseth the whole world a certain city is situate by the sea therefore a certain city compasseth the whole world Neither also doth the uniting of two inseparable things require that wheresoever one is the other should be but onely that they are somewhere together and not at a distance This is evident in the soul and in the head which are united inseparably and yet not wheresoever the soul is there is the head when as the soul is in the feet where the head is not But let us give over this subject and be of good courage Christ sitteth at the right hand of God the Father interceding for us O how great a comfort is this Let us therefore embrace the Lord Jesus with our chiefest love and do his will so we shall be blessed when he shall come to judgement of which there is mention made in the next Article From thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead That word From thence designs the place from whence the Judge shall come namely from heaven He shall come from thence whither the disciples saw him ascending Acts 1.9 10. And although the work of judgement may be assigned to every one of the Persons according to decree consent and authority yet the exercise of this visible act and the execution is committed to the Son as he is the Son of man As for that place Object Joh. 5.22 The Father judgeth no man to it we say thus He judgeth no man alone and without the Son Answ but by the Son Neither doth that of Christ in any wise contradict this when he saith Joh. 12.47 I came not to judge He speaks there concerning his first coming in the flesh in the which he came not to condemn the world but to save it and not of his second coming which is unto judgement Neither is that which is said of the Apostles that they shall judge the twelve tribes Matth. 19.28 and of the Saints that they shall judge the world 1 Cor. 6.7 any let hereunto for this shall be done of them by way of approbation not of authority The end of Christs Advent or Coming is explained by the distribution of the subjects that he may judge both the quick and the dead under which terms all men altogether are comprehended who are said to be quick of dead in respect of that state which precedes the judgement The quick being they whom the last day of judgement shall surprize alive who in a moment shall be changed from a mortal condition to an immortal The dead those who from the beginning of the world have departed this life and before the last day shall be raised up at length by the trump of the Arch-angel and presented before the judgement-seat of Christ and the Angels are included also who kept not their first station Jude v. 6. and are therefore reserved in chains under darkness to the judgement of the great day 2 Pet. 2.4 It may be objected Object that the devil is now judged Joh. 16.11 and he that beleeveth not is condemned already John 3.18 We answer Answ that this is done in part to wit in the word of God in their own consciences or in respect of the beginning of their punishment but they shall be judged afterwards in regard of the manifestation and promulgation of the judgement already made the exasperation of the punishment and the consummation of the torments both of body and soul The last judgement shall be set up that every one may receive what he hath done in his body whether it be good or evil and that the justice of God may be published to the praise of it Since God is just it is necessary that it be perfectly well with the good and godly and that the wicked and impious be for ever miserable this very thing is not done in this world therefore it is righteous to recompense to them who trouble the godly trouble and to you who are troubled rest when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven 2 Thess 1.7 That there shall certainly be a judgement this we know against the Epicureans but the year moneth day and hour we know not no not the Angels in heaven Mark 13.32 The Fanaticks err who either out of an enthusiastical revelation or Arithmetical calculations and Astrological prognostications do set down the time when the judgement shall be but without a right judgement Let us in the mean time prepare our selves all our days and moments of our lives for the coming of Christ and let us take heed lest that day come upon us unawares and finde us unprepared The last day is hid from us that we might watch all our days it is always unknown that it may be always expected let therefore that terrible trumpet ever make this noise in our ears Arise ye dead and come to judgement The second part of the Creed was concerning the Son of God the third follows of the Holy Ghost I beleeve in the Holy Ghost We are to beleeve that the Holy Ghost is God and that he is the third Person of the Trinity equal to the Father and the Son in all perfection This is clear out of Sacred Writ and the doctrine of the Church which do render equal glory to the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost Yet it may be said Object that he who receives from another is not his equal But the Holy Ghost hath received something from the Father and the Son Ergó This is true of him who receiveth part from another Answ in time successively and by grace but the Holy Ghost received from the Father and the Son the whole essence from eternity and by nature Some may object that he that is sent is not equal to him that sendeth but this doth not hold where the mission or sending is by a voluntary consent He is called a Spirit because he is a spiritual essence and that by way of excellency because he is far above all created spirits It may be objected Object that the Father and the Son are by way of eminency Spirits and holy So they are indeed absolutely Answ and bynature but this is attributed to the Holy Spirit by appropriation as it were a characteristical note and because his proper office is to sanctifie the elect He breathes into our hearts good motions and he himself was breathed from the Father and the Son as from one principle or beginning and this is that which the Oriental or Eastern Fathers do teach when they say that the Holy Ghost proceedeth from the Father by the Son even as we

CLAVIS FIDEI OR THE KEY OF FAITH Written in Latine by JOHN ELLIS D. D. and Rector of Whitfield in the County of Oxford AND Propounded by him in Publick Lectures upon the Apostles Creed to the Students of Harts Hall in the University of OXFORD Faithfully translated into English by W. F. for the good and benefit of the ingenuous Reader as an help to build him up in his most holy faith 2 Tim. 1.13 Hold fast the form of sound words which thou hast heard of me in faith and love which is in Christ Jesus CAMBRIDGE Printed by John Field Printer to the University 1668. To the Right Worshipful The VICE-CHANCELLER And to all other the Reverend Masters and Heads of Colledges in this University of CAMBRIDGE W. F. Wisheth all increase of the true Grace of Christ and the blessed fruition of the Glory of God in Heaven Right Worshipful I Humbly beseech you to pardon my boldness in presenting these rude and unpolished lines to your learned views You whom God hath set on high and like Stars of the greater magnitude which shine forth more bright then others or like as the Celestial Signs moving in their own proper Sphere govern the several parts of mans body so in like manner you Reverend Doctors and Heads of Colledges moving in your Sphere do superintend and govern the whole Body of this Famous University being under your Care and Tuition I had not presumed to present this small Tract to your Worships if that of the Poet had not came into my minde Audaces fortuna juvat whereupon rushing on you unawares and at an adventure I beseech your Worships pardon and that you would be so far pleased as to grace this small Treatise with your favourable acceptance which contains in it certain observations upon the Apostles Creed or as the Author thereof John Ellis a Reverend Doctor of Divinity styled it Clavis Fide● the which in a Translation from Oxford to Cambridge hath in a short space learn'd in plain English to speak its mother tongue and I rather implore your patronage and protection of it then any other by reason of the calumnies and aspersions that some may cast upon me the Translator thereof qui nunquam gradum suscepi and although I was no Scholar brought up at the University yet à teneris unguiculis even from my tender years I have ever bin a lover of learning and a Scholars servant there being about thirty and nine years expired since I was first a servant to Mr Thomas Buck at the Art of Printing but having h●● a long vacation from my employment of composing letters in that late and epidemical time of Plague and Pestilence I began to consider with my self how to spend my time to the best advantage and taking this small Book into my hand and here and there perusing it I did at last assay to translate it the which through Gods assistance I have finished and exposed to publick view And now at length hoping of your Worships favourable acceptance and patronage of it your unworthy servant shall ever be paying that which is but his duty to do the debt of gratitude and thankfulness to you though never to the full Si ingratum dixeritis omnia dicitis for as one well spake An ungrateful man is no man but an enemy to God and man but your humble servant hopes that your Worships shall have no cause to say so of him nor yet suspect him to be guilty thereof but he shall ever pray to Almighty God that he would so water your studies with the dew of his heavenly benediction that after this painful life ended he would translate you from hence into the Kingdom of his dear Son The which he prays for who is and shall ever remain Your Worships most humble and obedient servant William Flower To the Courteous Reader I Here propose to thy view this small Treatise the which if thou wilt bestow the pains to read thou wilt finde much matter comprized in few sheets and I doubt not if thou readest it with understanding but that thou mayest finde many things contained in it which may be of no small advantage to build thee up in thy most holy faith For without faith as the Apostle St Paul intimates unto us it is impossible to please God It may be styled a Breviary or certain short observations upon the Apostles Creed or more properly The Key of Faith wherein many mysteries of faith are opened and made evident to thy understanding And as a Cabinet containing in it many jewels of great value if it be kept continually lock'd proves to be of little or no use to the owner in like manner this book if it had remained still in the original had been of as little use to thee but now being translated and accommodated and fitted to thy capacity this Key of Faith doth now open unto thee and as it were unlock those mysteries of faith which were hid from thy understanding I have heard from the Pulpit by one that was well vers'd in History and a learned man that the Proceres or Noblemen of Poland did use to stand up at the reading of the Creed with their swords drawn in their hands ready to defend it in case any should offer to oppose it how much more then should we of the true Catholick faith endeavour vi armis as much as in us lies to vindicate the same for the Creed is commanded by publick Authority to be learn'd of all even by children when they come to years of discretion and whatsoever is commanded in general ought to be every ones particular concernment For as the Nautick Chard or Compass doth direct the Mariner that hath skill in it qui oculum ad astra manum ad clavum habet to steer his course aright to whatsoever place he is bound that he runs not precipitately upon dangerous rocks or shelves in like manner this little book may be some help to direct thee to look up to God by an eye of faith that thou splitst not thy self upon the dangerous rocks of unbelief and ignorance and it may by Gods assistance bring thee into safe harbour even to heaven the haven of happiness whilest others remaining in unbelief making shipwrack of faith and a good conscience become cast-aways Lege ac perlege veruntamen nè dijudica antequam perlegisti Read it over and over but judge not before thou hast throughly perused it and if thou reapest any benefit give God the glory for I acknowledge my self to be but a weak instrument for such a work as this yet as near as I could avoiding circumlocutions or hyperbolical phrases I have expressed the scope and meaning of the Author verbatim There is contained in this small Tract the mystery of the Trinity explained so far forth as is necessary for thee to know and likewise many excellent observations upon the Incarnation of our Saviour with the manner of his crucifixion expressed ad vivum to