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A86122	Of the article of our creed: Christ descended to Hades, or ad Inferos. Posit. 1. Christs soule went to Hades, or ad Inferos. 2. It concerns a Christian to know the right meaning of this article. Quest. 1. What is meant in the creed by this article? 2. Did Christs soule goe to heaven or Gehenna? With answers to both of them severally.	Hayne, Thomas, 1582-1645.	1642 (1642)	Wing H1220; Thomason E128_3; ESTC R22249	20,794	28

OF THE ARTICLE OF OVR CREED Christ descended to Hades or ad Inferos Posit 1. Christs soule went to Hades or ad Inferos 2. It concerns a Christian to know the right meaning of this Article Quest 1. What is meant in the Creed by this Article 2. Did Christs Soule goe to Heaven or Gehenna With Answers to both of them severally LONDON Printed in the yeare 1642. To the Christian Reader GOD hath in these later dayes opened a plentifull fountain of sacred truth to informe our judgements and direct our practise yet such is humane frailty that ignorance and curiosity have broached many Controversies and prejudice and partiality maintained most of them with much vehemency of contention and disaffection of hearts Whereby the propagation of the Gospel and the advancement of Gods glory is much retarded These things it becomes us not onely tolament but to endeavour by all possible meanes to remedy Now what better and speedier course can be taken for cure herein then for the Sons of the God of Peace Subjects of the Prince of Peace men renewed by the Spirit of Peace to take to themselves a calm and peaceable temper to treat of sacred matters without malice and bitternesse in points of much controversie and difficulty to use a punctuall plain and breif discourse That Truth bee neither lost nor undiscerned nimium altercando by vastnesse of debate nor clouded by extravagant far fetcht and nice expressions I have in this present Treatise endeavonred to bring arguments and grounds most perspicuous breif and pertinent that the point here handled might not bee 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and a rock of offence amongst us Some passages herein require not an ordinary skill in tongues So that men not versed that way are to bee intreated not to precipitate their judgments but many passages are so cleared by Scripture and good deductions thence that my appeale may be to any indifferent judge Such as this discourse is I present it unto your gentle perushall and serious consideration and humbly desire Gods gracious blessing on both our paines and the Divine assistance of his Holy Spirit leading us into all Trueth Two Positions about the ARTICLE Descendit ad Inferos to Sheol or to HADES POSITION I. Christ did Descendere ad Inferos to Sheol or Hades THe Old and New Testament the two excellent witnesses of sacred Truth affirme with one accord That Christs soule was in Sheol or Hades and as in latine these termes be generally by all translate apud inferos For Psalme 16.10 T is said Thou wilt not leave my soule in Sheol or Hades nor suffer thy holy one to see corruption And Act. 2. These very words are expresly cited from the Psalm And there S●nt Peter expounds the latter part of the words thus Nor suffer thine holy one to see corruption that is Christs Body or Flesh to to turne to dust in the grave The meaning therefore is that Christs So ●e going to Sheol or Hades or ad Inferos should not there bee left to abide or continue longer then the third day For Christ promised to rise againe and set the time of his Resurrection to bee not before the third day This it pleased him to doe that he might fulfill what was typed in Ionas As also that wee might assuredly know that he was truly dead From Christs interring untill the third day Christs flesh or body did rest in hope which could not in any wife bee frustrate And therefore on the third day Christ was quickned by the Spirit 1 Peter 3.8 So that his Sou●e which h●d beene in Sheol or Hades or apnd Inferos and his body which was in the grave united and that himselfe role dead For these passages concerning Christ David as a Prophet saw before and spake concerning Christs rising from death Which death to Christ as to all men was the parting of the soule and bodie to bee sent each to their due place Thus it is manifest by facred Scripture that Christs soule did descendere ad Inferos or goe to Sheol or Hades For what was not left there must goeth●ther be there and come thence Seeing Scripture is so expresse in this point I shall not need to use any further proofe thereof POSIT 2. It doth much co●cerne us Christians to understand aright what is meant by Christs Soule going ad Inferos to Sheol or Hades IT behooves us truely to understand what is meant by the descent of Christ because 1. It is a ru●h affirmed by the Holy Ghost in both Testaments and an expression of a chiefe action of CHRIST about his death and Resurrection 2. Because Saint Peter doth cite from the Old Testament words witnessing the same and expounds them as u●eful to be knowne for the confirmation of a Christians faith in the point of Chri●●efurrection which is a matter of great consequence for our salvation 3. Because this clause 1. Is taken into the common Creed of the Churches in this part of the world 2. Expounded as part of the Creed by many of the ancient Fathers and mentioned in diverse parts of their workes and generally acknowledged and received by late Writers upon the Creed 4. Because the different expositions thereof have in these latter times occasioned much controversie and jarres among Christians and beane a great stumbling blocke to Iewes who are of themselves too averse from Christianity and made by misprision and quarrells about this Article much more to disaffect our Doctrine ● What inconvenience and mischiefe these have brought to the Church of Christ in these our days is most apparent In regard of these and other reasons which might bee produced it very much concernes us Christians to understand aright and to professe what according to sacred truth is meant by Christ Soule going ad Jnferos That I may clearely set downe what I conceive both from Scripture and the learned and worthy paines of the most judicious Divines and exquisite searchers into the fa●red Text is meant thereby I propound the two following questions and answer thereun●o QUEST 1. What is the full meaning and true sense of the word in our CREED Hee des ended ad Inferos to Sheol or Hades● FOr the making a distinct punctuall answer to this question I will first produce the various significa ●o●s of the words Sheol Hades Inferi For unlesse ambiguous words bee well and rightly distinguished neither can I fully and perspicuously expresse my meaning nor others without misprision conceive what they endeavour to understand If words give not a certaine sound wee shall but beate the ayre and leave the matter doubtfull and give occasion to further dispute First Then Sheol Hades Inferi signifie Death when they are spoken of a person in danger of his life As Psalme 18.6 The sorrowes of Sheol compassed mee that is the sorrowes of Death or sorrowes bringing to the Grave and Ps●me 116.3 The paines of Sheol found mee that is griefe and paine hastning death They doe also signifie

may to their horrour see the glorious state of Christ triumphing in Heaven So that 'c is no more necessary for Christ to goe to Gehenna to triumph over the damned soules there then for a King who hath vanquished rebells and imprisoned them to come and abide some dayes triumphantly in the prison which commonly is a place too loathsome for him to come neer Obj. But some will farther say Where ever Christs soule was though in Gehenna it might and would observe an Holy Sabbath no externall matter could molest or disquiet it no hellish representation of torture or hideous noyse of the damned no anguish of theirs could break off or interrupt its Sabbath and rest Ans Bee it so Yet wee must know that the Iewes for the observation of their Sabbath did not onely every man in himselfe enjoy a sacred retirement from outward and wordly affaires and contemplated in his private thoughts on Heavenly matters but did joyn also with many others a publick congregation in their Synagogues cald houses of God where with one accord they praised God Now whether something answerable to this was to be done by Christs soule in Gehenna or amidst the Quire of Saints and Angels in Heaven let any man judg The Iudgment of some worthy and learned writers about these points PReg●an● evid●nces of Scriptures and next to them sound deductions the ce are of greatest validity to settle divine Truth the judgments o● pious learned and long exp●rienced divin●s though they bee of much infertour author●ty to the forme● yet have their use and are nor to be neglected ●spec●a●ly where their 〈◊〉 and abili●es served to clear texts obscure or liable to●on rov●rsie Give me leave the fore for the fuller opening o● this present poin● to produce the judgements of some later divines who since the ●eviving of sacred knowle●ge have attained much skill in the 〈◊〉 and become diligent and se●ious Searche●s into the ●xt indited by the holy Ghost and by their 〈…〉 afforded much light to the discussion of the business now 〈◊〉 hand 1. Henry Bullinger in his Decads where hee wries on this Article saith to this estect By Infers in the Creed we understand not the place of ●erment d●stinated to the wicked but the godly departed out of this life as by Superi wee understand them who are ye● alive And therefore the soule of Christ descended a● Inferos that is was carried into Abraha●s besom in which were gathered together all believers deceased Therefore when Christ said to the malefactour the believing thief crucified with him This day shalt thou bee with ●ee in Paradise hee promised him society with himselfe and the blessed spirits in life eternall And where as Christ is said to descend that is onely from the custome of that tongue or speech We further confesse in this Article that soules are immortall presently passe to life when the body dies This I have read cited for the judgment of the Zurich divines If they concur herein then it is of so much the more weight as a whole Churches consent out weigheth the determination of one particular Treacher That Juferi are taken for the dead Superi for the living the speech of Maxim Taurinus De sep●lt Domini Hons 3 shews Quid quar● apud Inferes quem re●iisse jam constat ad Superes why seekest thou him among the dead this with reference to the body which the soule left and went unto the world unseen who is well known to bee now among the living And Macrobius a judg for Latine words not incompeten● speakes to the same purpose Nos defunctis Superi habemur we here living are called Superi in regard of them who are gone to another world In So●n Scip. 1.3 And they by the opposition of the words are called Jnferi This is the custome of speech which H. Bullinger mentions 2. Bishop Bilson a very learned man and much versed in this point was overcome by the force of truth and in some sort yeelded the cause against himselfe For though hee held that Christs soule did descend ad locum damnatorum yet he expressy saith Wee have no warrant in the word of God so to fasten Christs soule to Hel that is to Gehenna that it might not bee in Paradise before it descended to Hell and hee first shew himselfe to the Saints to their unspeakable comfort before hee went to subject the powers of darknesse under his yoak Serm. pag. 219 Vpon this his grant I infer Seeing hee yeelds that according to the Scripture Christs soule went at his death to Heaven 1. the Scripture never mentions nay hath not one title to prove that his soule went from Heaven to Gehenna 2. If it were first in Paradise and came with the soules of the Saints thence at his resurrection as there is little reason to hold the contrary why should wee not think that it continued in Paradise from its accesse thither untill its comming thence with the soules of the Saints who rose with Christ 3. If Christs soule went first to Paradise and there shewed it self to the Saints great comfort it might in Heaven also shew it self to the spirits in torment to their utter confusion So Abraham as I said before appeared in the place of happinesse to Lazarus his comfort and yet was seen by the Rich man to his utter despair of remedie And indeed Christs appearance in Heaven in the sight of the damned spirits in Hell might though himselfe uttered no words at all intimate to them somewhat like to that in the parable expressed as spoken by Abraham Remember that yee in your life time received pleasures and on the contrary the Godly as did Lazarus evill things but now they are comforted and yee are tormented 3. Master H. Broughton a man very skilfull of the sacred Originall and an earnest and studious searcher into passages of Scripture and other writers making for the clearing of this point saith Hades is the generall word expressing the place of all kind of soules and by different circumstances is sometimes Heaven sometimes Hel. Reply pag. 37 Andagain Sheol comes 64 times in the Holy tongue Hel as often in our old Translation and never directly for Gehenna but as by the Argument may be concluded and so it may bee Heaven in speech of the Godly Neither should Hel in the Creed expressing Haden and Inferos mean any thing else but the world to come the world of soules Likewise Hel cometh 9. times for Hades in the New Testament but never in all these places doth it signifie Gehenna Thus 73. times in a gener all meaning of separation from the world and such lot as the matter where you find it followeth it cometh in both Testaments Explic. of the Article pag. 3. That hee might shew his Iudgment to bee sound and orthodox in this point hee in the book last quoted hath diligently expounded most of the Scriptures where these termes are found and brought many speeches of forraign writers