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A39279	A defence of the Thirty nine articles of the Church of England written in Latin by J. Ellis ... now done into English ; to which are added the Lambeth Articles ; together with the judgment of Bishop Andrews, Dr. Overall, and other eminent and learned men upon them.; Articulorum XXXIX Ecclesiae Anglicanae defensio. English	Ellis, John, 1599?-1665.; Andrewes, Lancelot, 1555-1626.; Overall, John, 1560-1619.; Church of England. Thirty-nine Articles.	1700 (1700)	Wing E587; ESTC R1641	74,086	146

the Acuteness of Punishment and to the Consummation of Torments both of Body and Soul ART V. Of the Holy Ghost THE Holy Ghost proceeding from the Father and the Son is of one Substance Majesty and Glory with the Father and the Son very and eternal God Obj. 1. Altho' the Spirit of Truth be said to proceed from the Father John 15. 16. yet it does not seem to proceed from the Son because it is no where said so in Scripture Answ. Although it be not said in the very Words that the Spirit proceeds from the Son yet 't is plainly called the Spirit of the Son Gal. 4. 6. And the Spirit of Christ Rom. 8. 9. And then Christ says John 15. 26. that he would send them the Spirit from the Father In which Words he seems to mean that it would proceed from him likewise Though speaking as a Man by way of Respect he attributes it to the Father There is no need to dispute too nicely about this Matter if it be but granted that the Holy Ghost has an eternal Dependance on the Son 't is to no purpose to strive about Words and Terms Obj. 2. The Holy Ghost was not from Eternity John 7. 39. Answ. This Place does not speak concerning the Being or Person but of the Gifts and Operations of the Holy Ghost Obj 3. The Holy Ghost is not every where because he changes place The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee says the Angel to Mary Luke 1. 35. And in the same place the Virtue of the most High shall over-shadow thee therefore neither is he the most High Answ. The Words come upon thee do not signifie any change of Place but a particular Manifestation in some certain Place And then the Holy Ghost is essentially the most High tho' not personally so if by the Name of most High the Father be understood Obj. 4. The Holy Ghost does not know all things because none knows the Father but the Son Mat. 11. 27. therefore he is not God Answ. The Word none excludes only Creatures and not the Holy Ghost who perfectly knows the Father 1 Cor. 2. 10. Obj. 5. All things are made by Christ and so is the Holy Ghost Therefore he is not God Joh. 1. 3. Answ. All things are said to be made by Christ which are made but then only Creatures are made Obj. 6. He that prays to God is not God but the Hooly Ghost supplicates God for us Answ. It is not said what the Holy Ghost acts immediately and of it self but what it stirs up and effects in us Obj. 7. He that is sent is inferiour to him that sends but the Holy Ghost is sent by the Father and then he is not of the same Mijesty and Glory Answ. Mission and Obedience do not always take away an Equality of Power for an Equal may sometimes be sent by his Equal ART VI. Of the Sufficiency of the Holy Scriptures for Salvation HOly Scripture contains all things necessary to Salvation so that whatsoever is not read therein nor may be proved thereby is not to be required of any Man that it should be believed as an Article of the Faith or be thought requisite or necessary to Salvation In the name of the Holy Scripture we do understand those Canonical Books of the Old and New Testament of whose Authority was never any doubt in the Church Of the Names and Number of the Canonical Books Genesis Exodus Leviticus Numbers Deuteronomium Jeshua Judges Ruth the First Book of Samuel the Second Book of Samuel the First Book of Kings the Second Book of Kings the First Book of Chronicles the Second Book of Chronicles the First Book of Esdras the Second Book of Esdras the Book of Hester the Book of Job the Psalms the Proverbs Ecclesiastes or Preacher Cantica or Songs of Solomon Four Prophets the greater Twelve Prophets the Less And the other Books as Hierom saith the Church doth read for Example of Life and Instruction of Manners But yet does it not apply them to establish any Doctrine such are these following The third Book of Esdras The fourth Book of Esdras The Book of Tobias The Book of Judith The rest of the Book of Hester The Book of Wisdom Jesus the Son of Sirach Baruch the Prophet The Song of the Three Children The Story of Susanna Of Bell and the Dragon The Prayer of Manasses The first Book of Maccabees The second Book of Maccabees All the Books of the New Testament as they are commonly received we do receive and account them Canonical It may be thought that the Scriptures do not contain all things necessary to Salvation for Obj. 1. It is necessary to Salvation that we should know what and how many Books are Canonical Answ. This is not so absolutely necessary for we only enforce it that the Faithful may be Baptized may Believe and Live well Obj. 2. It is likewise necessary to know that these Books came to us uncorrupted Answ. The Goodness of God is such that he would not suffer those Books to be corrupted which contain the business of Salvation There was a Promise made to Esay that his Prophetical Writings should remain for ever Esay 30. 8. and Christ has promised Mat. 5. 18. That not one● Iota or Tittle should pass from the Law Obj. 3. We ought to know how many Articles of Faith are to be believed by every one under the hazard of forfeiting his Salvation but neither ●is revealed in the Sacred Writings Answ. We have a Creed that is collected from the Scriptures but yet it is not necessary to Salvation to have a distinct knowledge of the number of our Mysteries One thing is needful as Christ answered Martha Luke 10. 42. One thing is absolutely necessary namely that in comparison of Christ we should look upon all things as Loss I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him Crucified says St. Paul 1 Cor. 2. 2. Obj. 4. We no where meet with the Means that God made use of to purifie Females from Original Sin or Males that died before the Eighth day or indeed concerning the Gentiles how they were to be saved under the Old Testament Ans. By the circumcision of the Men the Females were consecrated the Married Women belong'd to their Husbands the Unmarried to their Parents The purging of Females from Sin was done chiefly by Faith they and the Children of Jews that died before the Eighth Day were saved by vertue of the Promise made to Abram I will be thy God and the God of thy Seed God was not bound to any external Sacrament even without that he could conferr his Grace So also the Gentiles were justified by Faith Gen. 12. 3. All the Families of the Earth shall be blessed in Abram Obj. 5. If the Scripture be perfect either the single Books of the Canon are perfect or the whole Canon It is granted that the single Books of it are not so And then the whole Canon is

and Mother in respect to different Natures not simply so For he was without Father in respect of his Humane Nature and in respect of his Divine without Mother Obj. 7 God was not angry with M●nkind but abundantly loved it and therefore out of meer Charity sent his Son for which Reason there was no necessity that the Father should be reconciled to us Answ. God was certainly angry with us although he sent his Son He loved us as Creatures and hated us as Transgressors God's Wrath excludes the special and particular though not that general Love of God wherewith as such he loves his Creatures ART III. Of the going down of Christ into Hell AS Christ died for us and was buried so also it is to be believed that he went down into Hell Obj. 1. The Evangelists that have mentioned the most minute Circumstances in the History of Christ do not speak one Word of this Descent into Hell Answ. The Evangelists desired only to relate those things of Christ whereof either they themselves were Eye-witnesses or else had it from others that were so but no Mortal could see Christ descend Obj. 2. Christ did not go down into Hell in his Deity which is every where nor in his Body which was laid in a Sepulcher nor in his Soul which was in Paradise Luke 23. 43. Answ. The Soul of Christ might be upon one and the same Day in Hell and in Paradise For why may we not say that Christ after his Death and the Union of his Soul and Body restored might in a Moment descend into Hell and in a Moment return from thence We ought to believe many things the Manner and Circumstances whereof we are not able to define Obj. 3. Christ did not descend that he might shew his Victory because his Resu●rection was but the beginning of his Triumph nor that he might further suffer because he said upon the ●ss It is finished nor finally that he might free the Fathers from Limbo since Limbo is a meer Tale. Answ. * The Opinion ●f Bishop Pea●on and other emment Men of our Church in this Matter seems to be safer and l●ss liable to Exceptions That by He● or Hades is meant rather ●he Place and State of the Dead after the Separation of Soul and Body when Christ as to his Humanity was willing to be detained ●ill his Resur● His Resurrection was the beginning of his Triumph manifested to us but perhaps not absolutely so for his Descent into the Lower Parts mentioned Ep● 4. 9. was before his Resurrection And this Place seems very strongly to prove the real Descent of Christ into Hell Nor by our Adversaries Confession is there any Impiety in this Opinion if it be said that Christ went to manifest his Victory to the infernal Spirits and then presently enter'd into Paradise as he promis'd the Thief Obj. 4. It did not become Christ to honour those with his Presence who had been unworthy of his Favour and were eternally damned Ans. It did become Christ and for the Demonstration of his Justice and Glory it was fitting that he should present himself a Conqueror to infernal Spirits that he might bring a Terror upon the Devils and reproach the damned with their Folly and Wickedness However it be let us believe that Christ went down into Hell although we are not fully and plainly satisfied of the Sense and Manner of it ART IV. Of the Resurrection of Christ. CHRIST did truly rise again from Death and took again his Body with Flesh Bones and all things appertaining to the Perfection of Man's Nature wherewith he ascended into Heaven and there sits until he return to judge all Men at the last Day Yet it should seem that Christ could not raise himself from the Dead For Obj. 1. It appears very unaccountable that any one should die and yet raise himself to Life again Answ. It is indeed very unaccountable that mere Man should rise again by his own Power but Christ is God as well as Man Obj. 2. The Scriptures generally ascribe the Resurrection of Christ to God the Father as Rom. 6. 4. Answ. His Resurrection is indeed ascribed to the Father but not to him alone It is attributed to both because of the perfect Unity of their Essence Whatsoever the Father does that does the Son do likewise Obj. 3. 'T is objected That Bodies after Resurrection are not Flesh and Bones but of a Spiritual Nature 1 Cor. 15. 44. how could Christ then reassume his Body with Flesh and Bones Answ. Bodies after their Resurrection are said to be Spiritual not as to their Substance and Essence but as to their Qualities and Endowments they will be like to Spirits immortal and wanting neither Meat nor Drink Obj. 4. Bodies of Flesh are not immortal because as the Praphet Esa. 4. 6. says All Flesh is Grass Ans. All Flesh of pure Man is corruptible and as Grass but the Flesh of Christ is not such The Prophet there speaks of the common and ordinary Condition of Mortals and not of a most glorious Saviour who is very God Obj. 5. The Apostle tells us 1 Cor. 15. 50. That Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of God how then could Christ with both these ascend up into Heaven Answ. The Apostle speaks of Man as corrupted and not washed from his Sins by Christ or else of Flesh not yet freed from Corruption That such shall not inherit the Kingdom of God for the Body cannot enter into Heaven till it be freed from Corruption Obj. 6. Christ will not forsake us even to the last Judgment for he told his Disciples Mat. 28. 20. Lo I am with you even to the end of the World And in the way to Damascus he appeared to St. Paul Acts 9. 17. And again in the Castle he stood by him in the Night Acts 23. 11. Answ. Christ speaks of a Spiritual Presence by his Grace and not of a Bodily one by Nature And then what if Christ did promise his Disciples that he would be with them by a Substantial Presence if need so required We are not to fix Christ so to the Heavens as if he could not appear upon Earth as perhaps in an extraordinary manner he did appear to St. Paul although many understand that place of a mental Vision However Heaven is the ordinary place of his Residence Obj. 7. It is apparent that Christ will not judge all Men for he that believes shall not come into Judgment John 5. 24. The Prince of this World the Devil is already judged John 16. 11. And also he that believes not John 3. 18. is condemned already Answ. He that believeth shall not come into the Judgment of Condemnation but of Absolution But the Devils and all Infidels are already judged in God's Decree or in his revealed Word or by their own Consciences which is the beginning of their Punishment but hereafter they will be condemned accordding to the Revelation and Manifestation of Judgment already made to

and bewail them Lastly Bernard Epist. 107. ad Thom. Beverl saith After a Man is once come to a knowledge of himself in part let him boast in Hope but not yet in Security Security and Fear are with Bernard two Extreams the one is the Excess and the other the Defect See Serm. in Cantio 11. That the Faithful are thro' their whole Lives uncertain of their Predestination and Perseverance St. Austin is very full and clear De Corrept Gratiâ Cap. 13. almost at the Beginning Contrà Ar●iculos sibi falsò impositos Artic. 12. In Epist. 107. De bono Perseverantiae Cap. 13. near the beginning And then in his Book De Civitate Dei Book 11. Chap. 12. THE OPINION OF THE Church of England CONCERNING Predestination And the consequent Doctrines of it Explained by Dr. Overal Divinity-Professor at Cambridge CHAP. I. Concerning Predestination THE Opinion that the Church of England holds in this Matter is plain in its XVII Article That the eternal purpose of Predestination concerning the Elect's being saved in Christ is so to be taught that in the mean time we must receive God's Promises in such wise as they are generally set forth to us in the Holy Scriptures And in our Doings that Will of God is to be followed which we have expresly declared unto us in the Word of God In all which we must suppose that the necessary and effectual means both of inward Grace and the outward Word towards 〈◊〉 receiving the Promises of God and doing hi● Will are to be understood to be by ver● of 〈◊〉 Gospel-Covenant which is the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of the Spirit and not of the naked Letter according to that of Leo. He that looks only on the Duty goes without his Guide Wherefore under a general Promise and Precept every one may safely repose himself by a stedfast Faith and by a certain Hope and Trust may come boldly to the Throne of Grace at the same time assuring himself that if he does not trust in God's Promises nor obey his Commands he must blame himself and not God And own too that 't is thro' his own Negligence and not for want of Divine Grace lest he fall into that of Solomon Prov. 19. 3. The foolishness of Man 〈◊〉 his Way and his Heart sretteth against the Lord which St. Austin has frequently repeated against that Opinion Our Article therefore has thought sit so to join that eternal purpose of God concerning those whom he has chosen in Christ to be saved with the Divine Precepts and Promises as they are generally laid down together with the Means and Assistances annex'd to them that ●so we may fetch the original Ground of our Salvation from the eternal stedfast Purpose of Divine Election and not from any temporal unconstant variety of Man's Will That Grace may not be thought to be the necessary Consequence of Free-will but that all our Vertue and Strength in pious Affections and good VVorks of Faith as well as Perseverance is owing not to the uncertain co-operation of Man's Free-Will but to the efficacy of Divine Grace That in the End all may be ascribed to God and that he that Glories may glory in the Lord. These things being thus adjusted on both sides this seems to be the Order of God's Predestinating of us set forth in the XVII Article viz. That God foreknowing the Fall of Mankind did for a Remedy of the same determine to send his Son out of his meer Mercy and Compassion and so in him placed the condition of our Salvation For the performance of which he did appoint necessary Helps and sufficient Means more or less to all in general But to those whom he hath chosen in Christ out of the rest of Mankind he hath out of his good Pleasure bestowed and granted a greater and more abundant provision of Grace whereby they are most certainly led on to Faith Perseverance and eternal Salvation As for the rest they have nothing to complain of for hereby is shown both what the Free-will of Man left to it self can do under the Aid of a common yet sufficient Grace and also the singular Benesit of a special and prevailing Grace in those to whom God shall please to bestow it So that St. Austin's Opinion is true not only of the first Man but likewise of all his Posterity The God and Lord of all things has so disposed the Life of Men and Angels as first to show therein what their Free-will could do and then how far the Advantage of his Grace and the Love of Justice would prevail Thus God is the Saviour of all Men but especially of them that believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. which words of the Apostle as Prosper thought ought to determine this whole Cause CHAP. II. Concerning the Death of Christ. THE Opinion of our Church concerning the Death of Christ is so plain and every where so consistent with it self That Christ died for All Men or for all the Sins of all Men that it is to be wondered that any of us should ever have ventured to call it in Question It is said in the II. Article that Christ truly Suffered was Crucified Dead and Buried to reconcile his Father to us and to be a Sacrifice not only for Original Guilt but also for all the actual Sins of Men. Article VII As well in the Old as New Testament everlasting Life is offered to Mankind by Christ who is the only Mediator between God and Man being both God and Man Article XV. Christ came to be a Lamb without Spot who by Sacrifice of himself once made should take away the Sins of the World And again Article XXXI The Offering of Christ once made is that perfect Redemption Propitiation and Satisfaction for All the Sins of the whole World both Original and Actual And the same is to be met with in the common Catechism as the most plain sense of the second part of the Creed wherein it is proposed to every one to believe in God the Son who hath redeemed him and all Mankind according to the Nicene Creed who for us Men and for our Salvation descended c. And in many other places of our publick Liturgy as in the Prayer of Consecration in the Sacrament O God! who didst give thine only Son jesus Christ to suffer death upon the Cross for o● Redemption who made there by his o●e Oblation of himself once offered a full perfect and sufficient Sacrifice Oblation and Satisfaction for the Sins of the whole World And to every single Person to whom the Sacrament is administred t is said The Body of our Lord Jesus Christ which was given for thee And again His Blood which was shed for thee preserve thy Soul c. The Death of Christ therefore considered in it self must be a Price sufficient for All Men if it was given for All. But the Scripture saith plainly That God gave his Son for the World and lays a Condition thereon not the Death of Christ but