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father_n	holy_a	son_n	work_n	20,729	5	6.2497	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15418	Limbo-mastix: that is, A canuise of Limbus Patrum shewing by euident places of Scripture, inuincible reasons, and pregnant testimonies of some ancient writers, that Christ descended not in soule to Hell, to deliuer the Fathers from thence. Containing also a briefe replie to so much of a pamphlet lately published, intituled, An answere to certaine obiections against the descension &c. as lookes that way, and is personally directed against some writers of our Church.	Willet, Andrew, 1562-1621.	1604 (1604)	STC 25692; ESTC S120030	49,797	70

death The soule as it may spiritually liue so it may spiritually die as the Prophet speaketh both of killing and sauing of soules in the same place He shall neuer bee able to shew out of scripture any such example or place that affirmeth anything to be quickened which is not apt to die in the same sense Christs soule then being not subiect to any spirituall death either by sin in this life or by damnatiō in hell cannot be said to be quickened Fourthly therfore Augustines exposition remaineth sure and sound He was quickned in the spirit because by the working of that spirit in the which hee preached to whom hee came his flesh being quickened did rise again in the which earst he came vnto men This exposition by the flesh to vnderstand Christs humane nature by the spirit his diuine by the which hee was raised agame is strengthened by other places of Scripture as Rom. 1. 3. made of the seede of Dauid after the flesh declared to be the sonne of God according to the spirit of sanctification by the resurrection from the dead 1. Tim. 3. 16. Being iustified in the spirit And Saint Paul giueth the sense of this place in other words 2. Cor. 13. 4. He was crucified of weaknes or infirmitie and liueth of or by the power of God And so Bernard to the same purpose saith well All the workes of Christ doe necessarily belong to one of his natures to his humane his miserie to his diuine his power and Maiestie Wherefore as the mortification of Christs flesh being a work of infirmitie belonged to his humanitie so his viuification and being made aliue againe being a worke of power appertained to his Deitie Argum. 2. Whereas Peter here saith In the which spirit he went and preached this may be expounded by the like place 1. Pet. 1. 11 Of the which saluation the Prophets haue inquired c. searching when or what time the spirit of Christ which was in them should testifie c. The Prophets were endued with and spake by the spirit of Christ so that by them as instruments as here by Noah Christ went and preached in his spirit Obiect 1. Thus you erroneously confound the distinct persons of the Trinitie turning the humane soule of Christ first into his diuinitie and then againe into the Holy Ghost Ans. p. 33. 2. So vpon these or like absurdities our late generall surueyer of the controuersies c. thought it better to forge a new figure Christ went in the spirit c. that is saith he Noe went in the spirit of Christ and preached which what els is it then wilfully to correct or rather to corrupt the text of holy scripture to set the Apostle to schoole as not knowing to speake properly c. pag. 33. Ans. 1. This is an vnlearned cauill for while hee feareth the heresie of Sabellius that cōfounded the persons of the Trinitie and made them all one August haeres 52. hee commeth nearer a Tritheist in diuiding Christ and his spirit When Marke saith It is not yee that speake but the Holy Ghost Mark 13. 11. and Matthew thus rehearseth the same place It is not ye but the spirit of my father that speaketh in you Matth. 10. 20 doth the Euangelist confound the persons of the Trinitie Is not the Holy Ghost as well the spirit of Christ as of his Father doth hee not proceed equally from them both This obiection then either sauoureth of error or bewrayeth ignorance Augustine could haue giuen him a solution of this doubt if he had consulted with him For both the sonne is a spirit in the substance of his Deitie and what doth the sonne without the holy spirit or the father when the workes of the Trinitie are inseparable Either of these answers might haue satisfied him 2. You still misreport him that seemeth to bee a great mote in your eye one may well returne Hieromes words vpon you You are toward others as blinde as a mole toward him as sharpe sighted as a goate you with disdaine call him our late surueyor of the controuersies if his leasure would serue him he might soone suruey more slippes and grosse ouersights in this three penie booke then you shall bee ouer able to finde in that greate worke which you so much carpe at But Hieromes words are here most true They doe bite me with an enuious tooth deprauing publikely what they reade in corners the same men being both accusers and defenders approouing in others that they reprooue in me as though vertue and vice were not in the things themselues but were changed with the authors But hee neither correcteth or corrupteth Scripture but you corrupt his words which are these This phrase is neither strange nor vnusuall to say that Christ went in spirit or the spirit of Christ went seeing Noah went in the spirit of Christ Here is nothing added or altered in the text but onely the meaning explained When our Sauiour saith It is the holy Ghost that speaketh in you Mar. 13. 11 but S. Peter holy men spake as they were moued by the holy Ghost 2. Pet. 1. 21 doth S. Peter corrupt or correct Christs words As then for the Holy Ghost to speake in men and men to speake by y e Holy Ghost in scripture is all one so to say y t Christs spirit preached in Noe or Noe preached in or by Christs spirit I pray you sir what difference If any here corrupt the text it is your self that forge a sense to vse your owne terme that by Scripture cannot be iustified and so you are of those of whom Hierom speaketh Non voluntatem legi sed legem iungunt voluntati They doe not conforme their fansies to the Scripture but the Scripture to their fansies This exposition of ours is not new but approoued long since by Augustine Before Christ came in the flesh to die for vs which he did once often before he came in spirit to whom he would speaking to them in visions as it pleased him Argum. 3. In the which spirit he went and preached Augustine further reasoneth that this cannot be vnderstoode of Christs going to hell for if there were preaching there it will followe there should bee a Church and that some may beleeue that are in hell for Christs preaching was not without fruite And if it were thus that any might bee conuerted in hell men would neglect the hearing of the Gospell while they liue to this purpose Augustine epist. 99. Obiect 1. Bellarmine saith that Christs preaching in hell was not to conuert the infidels but to bring tidings of ioy to the godly soules Cont. S. Peter saith contrarie that the Gospell was preached to the dead that they might be condemned according to men in the flesh but might liue according to God in the spirit 1. Pet. 4. 6. what is this else but to preach vnto them for their conuersion Obiect 2. The word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉