A09339:1777
A Golden Chain
A golden chain: or The description of theology containing the order of the causes of salvation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seen in the table annexed. Hereunto is adjoined the order which M. Theodore Beza used in comforting afflicted consciences.A golden chaine: or The description of theologie containing the order of the causes of saluation and damnation, according to Gods word. A view whereof is to be seene in the table annexed. Hereunto is adioyned the order which M. Theodore Beza vsed in comforting afflicted consciences.
Cambridge: printed by John Legat, 1600Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legat, 1600
AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED. I believe in God. &c.AN EXPOSITION OF THE CREED. I beleeue in God. &c.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Object. II. Act. 2.37. Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thy holy one to see corruption. Answer. These words cannot prove any ⟨p. 374⟩local descent of Christs soul. For Peters drift in alleging of them is, to prove the resurrection, and he saith expressly, that the words must be understood of the resurrection of Christ, vers. 31. He seeing this before spake of the resurrection of Christ. What? namely these words, his soul was not left in hell, &c. Now there is no resurrection of the soul, but of the body only, as the soul can not be said to fall, but the body. It will be replied that the word [Greek or Hebrew] cannot signify the body, and the word [Greek or Hebrew] the grave. Ans. The first word signifies not only the spiritual part of a man, the soul; but also the whole person, or the man himself, Rom. 13.1. 1. Cor. 15.41. And the second is as well taken for the grave, as for hell. Apoc. 20. 14. Death and [Greek or Hebrew] are cast into the lake of fire. Now we can not say, that hell is cast into hell, but the grave into hell. And the very same word in this text, must needs have this sense. For Peter makes an opposition between the grave into which David is shut up, and the hell out of which Christ was delivered, vers. 29.31. Again it will be said, that in this text there be two distinct parts: the first of the souls coming forth of hell, in these words,1 Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell. The second, of the bodies rising out of the grave, in the next words: neither wilt thou suffer my flesh to see corruption. Ans. It is not so. For flesh in this place signifies not the body alone, but the humane nature of Christ, as appears vers. 30. unless we shall say that one and the same word in the same sentence is taken two ways. And the words rather carry this sense: Thou wilt not suffer me to continue long in the grave; nay which is more, in the time of my continuance there, thou wilt not suffer me so much as to feel any corruption; because I am thy holy one.