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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A23678	A practical improvement of the articles of Christ's descent into hell and rising again from the dead in a sermon, preach'd in the parish church of Bridgewater, on Easter-Day, Anno Domini, 1697 / by William Allen.	Allen, William, fl. 1681-1697.	1697 (1697)	Wing A1078; ESTC R16583	15,368	32

A PRACTICAL IMPROVEMENT Of the Articles of Christ's descent into AND Rising again from the Dead IN A SERMON Preach'd in the Parish Church of Bridgewater on Easter-Day Anno Domini 1697. By WILLIAM ALLEN ● ● Vicar of Bridgewater in Somerset What will this Babler say because he Preached unto them Jesus and the Resurrection Acts 17.18 Am I therefore become your Enemy because I tell you the Truth Gal. 4.16 London Printed for J. Taylor at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-Yard and J. Miller Bookseller in Sherborne and at his Shop in Yeavill 1697. TO JOHN HARVEY Of the Castle in Bridgewater Gent. T IS a Priviledge that the Country Ministers are bless'd with above your great Towns Vicars or Lecturers that their People remembring their Catechisms presume not to think themselves more Learned or Wiser than their Teachers but according to Christian Primitive Modesty and Doctrine they Learn of and Obey Reverence and are Ruled by their Spiritual Pastors But your Corporation Catechumens your Men of Gath are big of themselves especially if Opulent and Thriving and will not allow Master Parson whether he belongs to Church or Conventicle for that 's the diminitive word they scornfully Salute with the Levitical Order whether in Gown and Cassock or in Coat and long Cloak they will not I say allow them so much as to think otherwise than they think nor to speak otherwise than they would have them speak nor grant that their University Education or much Study or many years Exercise in the Ministry gives them any ascendant above their Level If they will not say their Pater-Noster the way they would have them they shall have no Peter's Pence from them Thus stands the Case of your Town and City Clergy And some of the Sons of the Church I am loath to think them Sons of Belial but they have appear'd such Sons of strife and stiffness as indeed provok'd me against mine inclination to publish the following Sermon at the Preaching of which two of your discontented Pew-Mates carried themselves as at other times ever since the * Tho' they have very early taken the Oaths to K. W. and Q. M. Revolution with all the proud and insolent contempt imaginable yea and in seeming great rage and wrath quitted the Congregation as if I had been about overturning Foundations and deny'd the Faith once deliver'd to the Saints and were running apace to the Dissenters and was doing their work This is the Charge and this is the Crime and I think it a very great one too if I should think say or do any thing against the Church But I have deliver'd no more than what you may read in the Bishop of Worcester's Discourse against the Socinians or in Dr. Lightfoot Bishop Peirson Dr. Towerson and others of our Learned Church of England The Dissenters as the Novatians of Old may be right in their Doctrine except in that which causes or occasions their separation And I heartily wish all that are Zealous for or against Ceremonies were as warm for Peace and Holiness Truth and Concord and that all of us as Disciples of the humble and holy Jesus under the Ministry of Paul or Apollo would as new-born-Babes desire the sincere Milk of the word that we may grow thereby in Grace and substantial Knowledge which is the earnest and sincere Prayer of the Minister of the Parish and Parish Church of Bridgewater and therefore your very Humble Servant William Allen. From my Study Bridgewater April 1697. THE PREFACE IT was an early Custom in the Asian Church and continues so to this very day says Sir Paul Ricaut for Christians to Salute each other with this Chearful Congratulation on Easter Morning Christ is Risen and the Return is Christ is Risen indeed For 't was a melancholy interval with Christ's first Disciples which he foretold them of that they should mourn when the World did rejoyce All the while the Son of Righteousness was in an Eclipse his poor Disciples were in a state of darkness and fear and trouble and almost despondency as we may gather from their faint hopes in their way to Emaus Luke 24.21 We trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel But in a farther Conference our Saviour chides and rebukes them for their little confidence O Fools and slow of Heart to believe all that the Prophets have spoken whereof this is one Thou wilt not leave my Soul in Hell neither wilt thou suffer thy Holy One to see Corruption He descended into Hell is one of the Articles of that which we call the Apostle's Creed Not that I believe it is in totidem verbis any more the Apostle's-Creed than it is yours or mine Indeed there was a certain Writer tells us a Story That the Apostles before their parting from Jerusalem into the several parts of the World to Preach the Gospel agreed upon a form of Christian Faith and that every one cast in his Symbolum or Article which made just Twelve But for this we have only this one Man's word but all the other Ancients know nothing of this Matter Or that the present Creed commonly call'd the Apostle's-Creed was as Ruffinus reports theirs All the Learned now a-days in Church-History are agreed it was never composed by them Not but that there was a form of sound words but not as now Some were derived from the Apostles or from their days As I Believe in God the Father Or as the Greeks read it in One God the Father in opposition to the Polytheism of the Heathens And in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our Lord I Believe in the Holy Ghost the Resurrection of the Body and the Life Everlasting These are all we can call Primitive from the Apostles Tho' all the other are true yet the others were added since in opposition to Heresies as they sprang up in the Church As was Conceiv'd by the Holy Ghost was put in in opposition to the Carpocratians Ebonites and Corinthians who taught that Christ was born in the ordinary and common way as other Men and Women are Was Born of the Virgin Mary Suffer'd under Pontius Pilate was placed in the Creed in contradiction to the Docetae Simonians and others who affirmed Christ to be a Man not really but phantastically and in appearance I believe the Remission of Sins was added to the form of words against the Basilidians and Novatians They only held that not all Sins but only involuntary ones would be remitted The other deny'd remission to the lapsed But to come more immediately to my Theam and to trace no longer the rest The Article of the descent into Hell was brought in toward the latter end of the Fourth Century From this account of the Creed I may again assume my assertion that that we commonly call the Apostles as it stands in our Liturgy is no more their Creed than it is mine or yours That is you and I believe all these Articles because they are in the Scriptures and