{"number":3,"title":"Of the going downe of Christ into Hell","part":null,"questions":[],"paragraphs":["3.1"],"clauses":[],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"As Christ died for vs, and was buried: so also it is to be beleeued, that he went downe into Hell.","segments":[{"text":"As Christ died for vs, and was buried: so also it is to be beleeued, that he went downe into Hell.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"The Proposition. Christ went downe into Hell.","segments":[{"text":"The Proposition. Christ went downe into Hell.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"The proofe from Gods word.","segments":[{"text":"The proofe from Gods word.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"Sundrie be the texts of Scripture for Christ his descension into Hell.","segments":[{"text":"Sundrie be the texts of Scripture for Christ his descension into Hell.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"Mine heart was glad (saith Dauid, a figure of Christ) & my glorie reioyced, my flesh also shall rest in hope. For why? Thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell.","segments":[{"text":"Mine heart was glad (saith Dauid,","proofs":["Psalm 16:10–11","Acts 2:26–27"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 16:10–11","osis":["Ps.16.10-Ps.16.11"]},{"printed":"Acts 2:26–27","osis":["Acts.2.26-Acts.2.27"]}],"note":null},{"text":"a figure of Christ) & my glorie reioyced, my flesh also shall rest in hope. For why? Thou shalt not leaue my soule in hell.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"O Lord my God, I cried vnto thee, and thou hast healed mee. Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of Hell.","segments":[{"text":"O Lord my God, I cried vnto thee, and thou hast healed mee. Thou Lord hast brought my soule out of Hell.","proofs":["Psalm 30:1–2"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 30:1–2","osis":["Ps.30.1-Ps.30.2"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"I will thanke thee, ô Lord my God, with all my heart; & will praise thy name for euermore. For great is thy mercie towards mee; & thou hast deliuered my soule frō the nethermost hell.","segments":[{"text":"I will thanke thee, ô Lord my God, with all my heart; & will praise thy name for euermore. For great is thy mercie towards mee; & thou hast deliuered my soule frō the nethermost hell.","proofs":["Psalm 86:12–13"],"refs":[{"printed":"Psalm 86:12–13","osis":["Ps.86.12-Ps.86.13"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"In that he ascended, what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest parts of the earth? He that descended is euen the same that ascended, farre aboue all heauens, that he might fill all things.","segments":[{"text":"In that he ascended, what is it but that he had also descended first into the lowest parts of the earth? He that descended is euen the same that ascended, farre aboue all heauens, that he might fill all things.","proofs":["Ephesians 4:9–10"],"refs":[{"printed":"Ephesians 4:9–10","osis":["Eph.4.9-Eph.4.10"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"O death, where is thy sting? O hell, where is this victorie?","segments":[{"text":"O death, where is thy sting? O hell, where is this victorie?","proofs":["1 Corinthians 15:55"],"refs":[{"printed":"1 Corinthians 15:55","osis":["1Cor.15.55"]}],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"Also that Christ went downe into Hell, all sound Christians both in former daies, and now liuing, doe acknowledge: howbeit in the interpretation of the article, there is not that consent as were to be wished, some holding that Christ descended into Hel.","segments":[{"text":"Also that Christ went downe into Hell, all sound Christians both in former daies,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"He descended into hell. Symbol. Apost. Athan."},{"text":"and now liuing,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Confess. Helv. 2. c. 11. Basil. ar. 2. August. ar. 3. Suevica. ar. 2."},{"text":"doe acknowledge: howbeit in the interpretation of the article, there is not that consent as were to be wished, some holding that Christ descended into Hel.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"1. As God onely, and not man; as they doe which say, how Christ descended powerfully, and effectually, but not personally into hell; and that the deitie exhibited it selfe, as it were present in the infernall parts, to the terror of the deuill, and other damned spirits.","segments":[{"text":"1. As God onely, and not man; as they doe which say, how Christ descended powerfully, and effectually, but not personally into hell; and that the deitie exhibited it selfe, as it were present in the infernall parts, to the terror of the deuill, and other damned spirits.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"2. As the man onely; and that as some thinke, in body onely, as when death as it were preuailed ouer him lying in the graue; as others deeme, in Soule onely, when he went vnto the place of the reprobate, to the increasing of their torments.","segments":[{"text":"2. As the man onely; and that as some thinke, in body onely, as when death as it were preuailed ouer him lying in the graue; as others deeme, in Soule onely, when he went vnto the place of the reprobate, to the increasing of their torments.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"3. As God and man in one person; as they do which affirme that Christ in bodie, and soule, went, some thinke, as it were into Hell, when vpon the Crosse, and els where he suffered the terrors and torments prophecied of Esay. 53. v. 6.10. Psal. 116. v. 2. and mentioned, Matth. 26. v. 38. or 27. v. 46. Luk. 22. v. 42. some say euen into Hell (the verie place destinied for the Reprobate) which he entred into the very moment of his Resurrection, at which time hee shewed and declared himselfe a most glorious conqueror both of death, and Hell, the most powerfull enemies.","segments":[{"text":"3. As God and man in one person; as they do which affirme that Christ in bodie, and soule, went, some thinke, as it were into Hell, when vpon the Crosse, and els where he suffered the terrors and torments prophecied of Esay. 53. v. 6.10. Psal. 116. v. 2. and mentioned, Matth. 26. v. 38. or 27. v. 46. Luk. 22. v. 42. some say euen into Hell (the verie place destinied for the Reprobate) which he entred into the very moment of his Resurrection, at which time hee shewed and declared himselfe a most glorious conqueror both of death, and Hell, the most powerfull enemies.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]}]},{"question":"","answer":"Errors, & adversaries vnto this truth.","segments":[{"text":"Errors, & adversaries vnto this truth.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[{"question":"","answer":"But till wee know the natiue, and vndoubted sense of this article, and mysterie of religion, persist wee adversaries vnto thē which say:","segments":[{"text":"But till wee know the natiue, and vndoubted sense of this article, and mysterie of religion, persist wee adversaries vnto thē which say:","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"That Christ descended not into hell at all, calling this article, an error, and a fable, as Carlile doth.","segments":[{"text":"That Christ descended not into hell at all, calling this article, an error, and a fable, as Carlile doth.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Carlile against D. Smith. p. 28.77."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"That Christ beeing dead, descended into the place of euerlasting torments, where in soule he indured for a time the very paines which the damned spirits, without intermission, doe abide. Bannisters error.","segments":[{"text":"That Christ beeing dead, descended into the place of euerlasting torments, where in soule he indured for a time the very paines which the damned spirits, without intermission, doe abide. Bannisters error.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Treat. of Bannisters errors."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"That Christ aliue vpon the crosse, humbled himselfe, Vsque ad inferni tremenda tormenta, euen vnto the dreadfull torments of hell: endured for a time those torments, quales reprobi in aeternū sensuri sunt, which the reprobates shall euerlastingly suffer in hell: euen despaired of Gods mercie, finding God at this time, Non Patrem, sed Tyrennum, no a Father but a Tyran; and ouercame Despaire by despaire, death by death; hell by hell; & and Satan by Satan: suffered actually All the torments of hell for our redemption; and descended into the heauiest torments that Hell could yeeld: suffered the torments of hell, The second death. Abiection from God: and was made a cursse, that is, had the bitter anguish of Gods wrath in his soule, and body, which is the fire that shall neuer be quenched.","segments":[{"text":"That Christ aliue vpon the crosse, humbled himselfe, Vsque ad inferni tremenda tormenta, euen vnto the dreadfull torments of hell:","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Pagets Catec. Latin."},{"text":"endured for a time those torments, quales reprobi in aeternū sensuri sunt, which the reprobates shall euerlastingly suffer in hell:","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Pisc. in Luc. 12.10."},{"text":"euen despaired of Gods mercie, finding God at this time, Non Patrem, sed Tyrennum, no a Father but a Tyran; and ouercame Despaire by despaire, death by death; hell by hell; & and Satan by Satan:","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Ferus in Matth. 27."},{"text":"suffered actually All the torments of hell for our redemption; and descended into the heauiest torments that Hell could yeeld:","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Humes reioind. p. 38.138.152."},{"text":"suffered the torments of hell, The second death. Abiection from God:","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Ho. sehold catech."},{"text":"and was made a cursse, that is, had the bitter anguish of Gods wrath in his soule, and body, which is the fire that shall neuer be quenched.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Giffords catech."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"That Christ personally in Soule went downe into Lake Lymbo, to fetch from thence as Canisius; to loose from thēce, as Vaux he saith, the soules of our forefathers, which afore his death (as the Papists dreame) were shut vp in the close prison of Hell.","segments":[{"text":"That Christ personally in Soule went downe into Lake Lymbo, to fetch from thence as Canisius; to loose from thēce, as Vaux he saith,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Vaux catech."},{"text":"the soules of our forefathers,","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Canis. catech."},{"text":"which afore his death (as the Papists dreame) were shut vp in the close prison of Hell.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Test. Rhem. an. Luk. 16 26."}],"items":[]},{"question":"","answer":"That Christ by his descension hath quite turned Hell into Paradise: Costerus, the Iesuits error.","segments":[{"text":"That Christ by his descension hath quite turned Hell into Paradise: Costerus, the Iesuits error.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":"Coster. instit. l. 5."}],"items":[]}]}]}],"text":null}