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The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard BaxterThe Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter
The Protestant religion truly stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Daniel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.The Protestant religion truely stated and justified by the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter ; prepared for the press some time before his death ; whereunto is added, by way of preface, some account of the learned author, by Mr. Danel Williams and Mr. Matthew Sylvester.
London: printed for John Salusbury, 1692
Protestant Religion Truly Stated, and Justified, &c. › The Six and Fortieth accused Point.
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.
The Six and Fortieth accused Point.
That Jesus Christ descended not into Hell, nor delivered thence the Souls of the Fathers.
Ans. 1. And do not these false Accusers know that both the Creed which we all profess, and the Articles of the Church of England, say expressly that Christ descended into Hell? 2. And those ahat dislike the Translation of [Greek or Hebrew] into Hell, yet grant Christ went into [Greek or Hebrew]; and that's all the Scripture saith: So that all the doubt is but what [Greek or Hebrew] signifieth? Whether the Hell of Torment, or more Generally the unseen state of separate Souls! If you mean ⟨p. 158⟩the last, what Protestants deny it? If you mean the first, what presumptuous cruelty is it, to believe that all the Souls of the Fathers were in Hell, till the Death of Christ? Christ alleging, I am the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, sure meant not, that God was their God, because they were in Hell: Was Lazarus in Hell when Abraham said, Now he is Comforted? It was a Hell of Joy and Comfort: Were Samuel, Elisha, Job, Daniel, &c. in Hell? Was Moses in Hell, that appeared in Glory on the Mount with Elijah? But what is it that the Infallible Church cannot make good, when they have once presumed to affirm it?
Ans. 1. And do not these false Accusers know that both the Creed which we all profess, and the Articles of the Church of England, say expresly that Christ descended into Hell? 2. And those ahat dislike the Translation of into Hell, yet grant Christ went into ; and that's all the Scripture saith: So that all the doubt is but what signifieth? Whether the Hell of Torment, or more Generally the unseen state of separate Souls! If you mean