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to reconcile his Father to us, and to be a sacrifice, not only for original guilt, but also for actual sins of men."

In this Article on the Incarnation of the eternal Word, we believe that God spared not his own Son, "God manifest in the flesh;" but delivered him up to shame and suffering, to effect our reconciliation and salvation.

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The following words, in this Article, were not in those published in 1552: " begotten from everlasting of the Father, the very and eternal God, and of one substance with the Father."

x Eph. ii. 16, 17, 18.

y Is. liii. 4, 5, 6. 1 John ii. 2.

2 Hooker's Eccl. Pol. 1. 5. 51.

factione Christi.

chism. p. 64. 66.

2 Cor. v. 21.

Pearson, on the Ap. Creed. Art.

2, 3, 4. Cave's Dissert. de Eusebii Arianism. Grotius, de SatisScott's Christian Life, p. 2. c. 7. Nowel's CateClemens Rom. ad Cor. c. 49. Ignatius ad Smyrn• Apol. I. c. 83. Irenæus adv. Hær. 1. 1. c. 1. § 20. Ibid. 1. 4. c. 14. Clemens Alex. Quis div. Salv. c. 37. Origen contra Ibid. 1. 6. p. 308. Tertull. adv. Gentes, c. 21.

Justin Martyr,

Celsum, lib. 3. p. 135.

Cyprian, de Idol. Van.

ARTICLE III.

OF THE GOING DOWN OF CHRIST INTO HELL.

"As Christ died for us, and was buried, so also is it to be believed, that He went down into Hell." a

St. Matthew gives a plain and circumstantial account of the death and burial of Christ. Commentators have remarked, that the word here translated "Hell," from the Hebrew and the Greek, signifies merely the state of the dead.c It is observed by Bishop Pearson, that, in the Aquileian Creed, about four hundred years after Christ, this descent was first mentioned in any confession of Faith; and when the descent was expressed, the burial was omitted. St. Paul mentions the death, burial, and resurrection of Christ, but omits his descent into Hell.d

a Acts ii. 25.

b Matt. xxvii.

c Pearson, Art. 5.

el's Cat. p. 70, 71. Animâ, c. 55.

d 1 Cor. iii. 4.

Hammond's Pract. Cat. 1. 5. § 2.

Irenæus adv. Hær. 1, 5. c. 31.

Now

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The descent of Christ into Hell, or the grave, will inspire us with comfortable hope that it is a place of sacred repose, until the general Resurrection; when the soul will re-assume its former state, and we shall be completely and eternally happy both in body and soul.

At the first establishment in 1552, of the Articles, the Church imposed a certain meaning upon this article in the following words, " For his body lay in the grave till his Resurrection; but his soul, being separate from his body, remained with the Spirits which were detained in prison, that is to say, in Hell, and there preached unto them, as witnesseth that place of Peter." But upon the re-establishment of them ten years afterwards, it omitted this explanation, and left its members to form their judgment upon it, as they should find most analogous to Scripture.

e 1 Pet. iii. 19, 20.

ARTICLE IV.

OF THE RESURRECTION OF CHRIST.

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THIS doctrine is proved from various predictions of this event, as well as from many undediable testimonies of their accomplishment. He "took again his body, with flesh, bones, and things appertaining to the perfection of man's nature." After his Resurrection, "He* ascended into Heaven, and there' sitteth" at the right hand of God, "until Hem return to judge all men at the last day." For the truth of this doctrine, there is that weight of evidence which

f Mark ix. 31.

g Luke xxiv. 5.

Ps. xvi. 10.

Acts i. 3. 1 Cor. xv. 3-8.

Pearson, Art. 5.

Scott's Christian Life, p. 2. c. 7. § 13. Homily of the Resurrection. Nowel's Catechism, p. 71, 72.

.h John xx. 27, 28. Luke xxiv. 39, 40.

i Acts x. 41, 42. Ignatius ad Smyrn. Irenæus adv. Hær. 1. 5. c. 7. Tertull. adv. Marcion, lib. 4. c. 43. Mark xvi. 19.

k Luke xxiv. 51.

1 Col. iii. 1. Acts iii. 20, 21. Nowel's Cat. p. 73. Pearson on

the Creed, Art. 6.

Nelson's Festivals, Ascension Day. Scott's

Christian Life, p. 2. c. 7. § 5.

m Acts x. 42.. xvii. 31.

John xii. 48. Irenæus adv. Har.

lib. 3. c. 18. Nowel's Cat. p. 86. Pearson, Art. 7. Scott's Chris

tian Life, p 2. c. 7. § 11.

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no human authority could suppress, no artful contrivance of its adversaries could elude, and no ingenuity could invalidate.

This Article is the same as that published in 1552.

ARTICLE 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."

That the Holy Ghost proceedeth" from the Father and the Son, is proved from the Scriptures; that he is P of one substance, majesty, and glory with the Father and the Son; and, therefore, that he is "very and eternal God."

n John xv. 26.

1 Peter i. xi.

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Iræneus adv. Hær. 1. 1. c. 2.

Gen. i. 2. 26, &c. 1 Cor. ii. 10,

1 Tim. iii. 16.
Tertull. adv. Prax. c. 30.

John iii. 18.

• Gal. iv. 6. P Matt. i. 18. 11. 14. vi. 19. 9 Acts v. 3, 4. Art. 8. Scott's Christian Life, p. 2. c. 7. § 1. Nelson's Festivals, Trinity-Sunday. Prideaux Fasc. Controv. C. 2. Q. 5. 6. Andrews, on Acts xix. 1, 2, 3 , 3.

Homily on Whit-sunday. Pearson,

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