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Credo resurrectionem carnis a tractate on the eleventh article of the Apostles Creed / by W.H. Esquire sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge.
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Hodson, William, fl. 1640.
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Iubile which Christiās enjoy under Christ by whose blood wee have not only a reentry into the Kingdome of heaven which we lost in the transgression of our great Grandfather Adam which wee had formerly morgaged forfeited by our sins And this was happily signified by the Israelits reentry upon their lands which they had formerly sould and againe the found of the Gospell which was in this Feast typed by the noise of the Trumpets is gone throughout the world The Redemption of Christ Easter Day is a yeere of Iubile the Resurrection of Christ is the chiefe day in the yeere yea Regina Dierum as Ignatius stiles it All Christians herein imitating the patterne of the blessed Apostle in honour of Christs Resurrection 1 Cor. 16.2 observe their Sabbath on the eight day which is the first day of the weeke wheras the Iewes hallowed their Sabbath upon the seaventh day which is the last day of the weeke So that Easter day is the Sabbath of Sabbaths an high and holy day from which every other Sunday hath its name being so called because the Sunne of righteousnesse arose from the dead this day Christs appearing on the eight day is not without a mystery wee labour six dayes in this life the seventh is the Sabbath of our death in which wee rest from our labours and then being raised from the dead the eighth day Christ in his owne body yea the very same body that was crucified shall reward every man according to his works Happy then is that man whose whole life is nothing els but a Lent to prepare him against the Sabbath of his death and Easter of his Resurrection CHAP. 4. Arguments drawne from divers Attributes of God as his Power Mercy Iustice c. to confirme us in this Article of the Resurrection AT my first entrance into the schoole of faith in the very first Article of my Creed I no sooner reade that there is a God but I learne withall that hee is Almighty The doctrine of his Omnipotency is the basis and fundamentall Arch on which is built our Christian religion from the knowledge hereof proceeds all faith because wee beleeve with the blessed Virgin Quia potens est that God is able to doe all those things which reason is not able to comprehend Cōtrariwise the ignorance or the not right understanding of this truth is the cause that there bee so many 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 unbeleevers and misbeleevers Atheists without the knowledge of God Infidels without hope or faith in God It was our Saviours own Argument against the Sadduces you erre not knowing the Scriptures Math. 22.29 nor the power of God i. e. saith the Paraphrase yee Sadduces doe erre grossely dānably in this your miscōceit of the resurrection the ground of your errour is your ignorāce both of the Scriptures which have cleerly revealed the truth thereof and of that Omnipotent power of God wherby is only this otherwise impossible worke If with the men of Berea wee do search the Scriptures wee shall find that before the Sadduces had any being in Israel this heresy of theirs was palpably convinced with an example of the resurrectiō even in Elishaes revived corps Now the power that can raise one man can raise a thousand a milliō a world No power can raise one man but that which is infinite and that which is infinite admits of no limitation In the beginning the Word of the Lord was the seminary of all being his will was his Word and his Word was his deed His Fiat and Fuit met together his Dixit and Benedixit kissed each other All at first was nothing and from that nothing carne all How easy is it then for him to repaire all out of something who could thus fetch all out of nothing How should we distrust him for our resurrection who hath approved his Omnipotency in our creation Our remainder after death can never bee so small as our being was before the world ashes is more than nothing The body wee confesse that is once cold in death hath no more aptitude to a reanimation than that which is mouldred into dust only as it was Gods omnipotēcy to create man out of a substāce that had no ability to produce the matter so likewise it is the Prerogative Royall to revive that dust to forme it into a new Adam to fetch a man a second time from the earth to live with himselfe when time shall bee no more This Resuscitation of the dead is one of those foure keyes which the Hebrewes say are in the hand of him who is the Lord of the whole world The Scripture makes mention of each of them 1. Clavis pluviae the key of raine the Lord will open to thee his good treasure Deut. 28.12 2. Clavis cibationis the key of food Thou openest thy hād and fillest every thing with thy plenteousnesse Psal 145.16 3. Clavis sterilitatis the key of barrenesse God remembred Rachel and opened her Wombe Genes 30.22 4. Clavis sepulchrorum the key of the grave when I shall open your sepulchers Ezek. 37.12 By all which places it is intimated that these foure things God hath reserved in his owne hand and custody Namely Raine Food the procreation of children the raising of our bodies For though at first hee made him ex nihilo out of nothing yet he did not make him ad nihilum to returne to nothing There may be a dissolution of soule and body for a time but there cannot bee an annihilation of either because they must be revnited againe to remaine for ever As we have derived a maine proofe of the Resurrection from the power of God so likewise may wee argue from his other glorious and divine attributes but because I will not enlarge a treatise into a volume I will herein follow the Schoole-men who reduce all communiter ad duo his Mercy Iustice These be the two master Attributes which set all the rest on work these bee the two feete of God whereupon he walketh al his wayes When God makes a covenant with his owne it is an incorruptible everlasting covenant Numb 18.19 therefore it is called a covenant of salt to note the perpepetuity of it In this covenant are all the dead Bodies of the Saints and the Lord forgetteth them not When Iacob wēt down to Aegypt Genes 46.4 the Lord promised to bring him backe againe but how did the Lord bring him backe againe seeing hee died in Aegypt the Lord was with him when hee was brought out of Aegypt So the Lord preserveth all the bodies of the Saints Psal 34.20 and hee keepeth all their bones yea even then when their bed is made in the dust because they are within the covenant It is said of Iosias although hee was slaine in battle yet he was gathered in peace to his Fathers i. e. to the Spirits of his Fathers who enjoy peace for hee was not gathered in peace in
Credo Resurrectionem CARNIS A Tractate on the eleventh Article of the Apostles Creed By W. H. Esquire sometimes of Peter-house in Cambridge SPES ADDIDIT ALAS LONDON Printed by E. P. for N. Bourne and are to be sold at his Shop at the South Entrance of the Royall Exchange 1633. Credo Resurrectionem Carnis CHAP. I. Of the Creed in generall WHat Origen said of the inventiō of Hieroglyphicall Learning Origen Hom. 7. in Exod. may not unfitly be applyed to these Breviaries and Epitomes of Holy Writ like the Iewes Manna they fall downe in round and small cakes yet afford good nourishment Like rich Iewels they carry worth in every sparke and in these little maps is contained a world of matter As those decem verba the short Law of the Decalogue is a patterne of all duties to bee done As that Oratio quotidiana authorized by our Saviours lips is the curious Archetype master-peece of all prayer the common place the originall copie the platforme of all requests to bee made So the Apostolicall Creed is a plaine and absolute summe of all holy Faith It is called in English the Creed from the first Word Credo quia omnia credenda according to that of Athanasius whosoever will bee saved before all things it is necessary that he hold the Catholicke faith which faith except every one keepe whole and undefiled without doubt he shall perish everlastingly It is called Apostolicall because it summarily conteines the chiefe and principall points of religion handled and propounded in the doctrine of the Apostles Other confessions are received not as new but as paraphrases and expositions and enlargements for the better clearing of this for as there is but one Faith so but one Creed as the foure Gospels are indeed but one Gospel so the Apostolicall Athanasian and Nicen Creed are but one in substance This of the Apostles hath ever been accounted in the Church most ancient and of greatest authority which although it be not Protocanonicall Scripture yet is it the key of Scriptures medulla Scripturarum the pith of the whole Bible Here have I an hādful of holy flowers which are called from the several beds of that spacious garden of the sacred Scripture here is collected into one faire body the substance and sweetnesse of all those divine mysteries which either lie hidden or scatterd in the volume of holy writ This is that Parvulus Iudex the little Iudge in matters of quarrell about religion for what doctrine soever is contrary to the Analogie of faith in these things ought and must bee rejected If a foole say in his heart there is no God If a Iew deny Christ If an Epicure beleeve not a life everlasting If a Cain deny the remission of sinnes or a Corinthian the Resurrection of the flesh All these crossing the Articles of our Christian faith the Church rejecteth them God condemneth them And they fearefully perish without his mercy to recall them The matter or object of the Creed concerneth 1 God 2 Church First God 1 The Father and our Creation Article 1. 2 The Son our Redemption in the 6. next Art 3 The Holy Ghost Article 8. Secondly it concerneth the Church in the 4. last Articles which is more fully described by her Properties 1 Holy Article 9. 2 Catholicke Article 9. 3 Knit in a Communion Article 9. Prerogatives In the soule remission of sins Art 10. In the body resurrection Art 11. Body soule everlasting life Art 12. These bee the twelve signes in the Zodiake of our faith through which passeth Christ Iesus the Sun of righteousnes O never may the clouds of infidelity darken or eclypse his beames These twelve Articles are so necessary and so lincked together that hee that denyeth one by consequent denyeth all because that of any one so denyed the denyall of the very foundation of our faith is straightly inferred He that with Marcion denyeth the Humanity of Christ may be easily convinced to deny the passion of Christ because the God-head is impassible he that with Ebion denyeth the Deity of Christ may with the like facility bee convinced to deny the Resurrection of Christ because the manhood onely never had beene able to raise it selfe from the dead Rom. 1.4 And hee that denyeth the Resurrection of Christ cannot beleeve his Ascension because the Apostle telleth us Ephes 4.9 that hee which ascended is the same which descended first into the lower parts of the Earth By this manifest inference may we plainely see the connexion of these Articles If yee deny one yee deny all and if yee renounce any one yee cannot be saved But I will not take a large survey in a small plot It s a good rule to be observed by booke-writers which a great master in oratory hath prescribed ut titulum legant to reade the title of their bookes and often to aske themselves what they have begun to handle From this maine sea I will therefore strike into a little channell and having drunke of the brooke in the way and given a tast of the Creed in generall I descend to this particular Article which is rhe subject of our following Treatise CHAP. 2. Each terme in this eleventh Article remarkable from the explication of which is inferred the immortality of the Soule and consequently of the rising againe of the body IN our precedent Chapter we shewed the dependancy of one Article with another and that to deny any one of these principles is the next degree to infidelity Wee may farther illustrate this truth by this Article of the Resurrection Hee that beleeves not this beleeves all other things in vaine for if there bee no Resurrection from death then can he receive no reward of his faith Nay I will take the note a little higher He that beleeves not this beleeves no other Article of his Creed for as our English Postiller hath observed from Erasmus aptly The whole Creed in grosse every parcell thereof argueth a resurrection If there bee a God Almighty then hee is just and if just then another reckning in another world If a Iesus Christ who is our Saviour then must hee dissolve the workes of Satan sinne and death If an Holy Ghost then all his holy Temples which have glorified him here shall bee glorified of him hereafter If a Church which is holy then a Remission of sins a Resurrection of the body a life everlasting Thus doe wee see how this Primarium Evangelii caput this predominant Article presupposeth all the rest how it is Nexus Articulorum omnium the tying knot on which all other links of holy Faith depend By this hand is religion held up by the head This is the anchor of our hope the reference of our faith the certainty of our salvation and the very dore of the Kingdome of heaven From this mine ariseth another treasure it is worth our observation how this Article of the Resurrection is placed betweene the Article of the