A discourse concerning the Redeemer's dominion over the invisible world, and the entrance thereinto

And let Texts of Scripture be consulted about that, how Hades, and (the correspondent word in the O. T.) Sheel, are used there. ⟨p. 13⟩If we take the Help of Interpreters, the impartial. Reader is to judge of their Fidelity, and Ability who go our way^*.

1. *Primate Usher's Judgment may be seen in his Answer to the Jesuits Challenge, that this word properly signifies the other World, the place or state of the Dead —So that Heaven it self may be comprehended in it. Grot. on Luk. 16.23. Makes Hades most certainly to signify a place withdrawn from our sight; spoken of the body, the grave; of the soul, all that Region wherein 'tis separate from the body. So that as Dives was in Hades, so was Lazarus too, but in separate Regions.—For both Paradise, and Hell, or as the Grecians were wont to speak) Elysii and Tartara were in Hades. You may have in him more Quotations from the Poets, the sense of the Essenes from Josephus, and passages from divers of the Fathers to the same purpose. Dr. Hammonds mind was the same, copiously expressed on Matt. 11.20. But differs from Grot. in ascribing to Philemon, the Jambicks above recited, which the other gives to Diphilus. Dr. Lightsoot is full to the same purpose. On the 4th Art. of the Creed. And tho' Bellarmin will have this word always signify Hell (which if it do with Sheol the correspondent word; Jacob desired to go to Hell to his Son, as Dr. H. argues.) Camero (as good a Judge) thinks, except once, it never d•es. If any desire to see more to this purpose with little trouble to themselves, let them peruse Martinius's Lexic. on the word Inserus, or Insernus. I could refer them to many more whom I forbear to mention. Only if any think in some or other Text of Scripture this word must signify Hell only, since it is of that latitude as to signify Heaven in other places, an impartial view of the circumstances of the Text, must determine whether there, it be meant of the one, or the other, or both.Primate Usher's Judgment may be seen in his Answer to the Jesuits Challenge, that this word properly signifies the other World, the place or state of the Dead —So that Heaven it self may be comprehended in it. Grot. on