Two little workes defensiue of our redemption that our Lord went through the veile of his flesh into heaven, to appeare before God for vs. Which iourney a Talmudist, as the Gospell, would terme, a going vp to Paradise: but heathen Greeke, a going downe to Hades, and Latin, descendere ad inferos. Wherein the vnlearned barbarous, anger God and man, saying, that Iesus descended to Hell: and yeelde vnto the blasphemous Iewes by sure consequence vpon their words, that he should not be the Holy one of God. By Hugh Broughton.
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Two little workes defensiue of our redemption that our Lord went through the veile of his flesh into heaven, to appeare before God for vs. Which iourney a Talmudist, as the Gospell, would terme, a going vp to Paradise: but heathen Greeke, a going downe to Hades, and Latin, descendere ad inferos. Wherein the vnlearned barbarous, anger God and man, saying, that Iesus descended to Hell: and yeelde vnto the blasphemous Iewes by sure consequence vpon their words, that he should not be the Holy one of God. By Hugh Broughton.
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Broughton, Hugh, 1549-1612.
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[Middelburg :: R. Schilders],
1604.
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Bilson, Thomas, 1546 or 7-1616.
Whitgift, John, 1530?-1604.
Jesus Christ -- Descent into hell -- Early works to 1800.
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"Two little workes defensiue of our redemption that our Lord went through the veile of his flesh into heaven, to appeare before God for vs. Which iourney a Talmudist, as the Gospell, would terme, a going vp to Paradise: but heathen Greeke, a going downe to Hades, and Latin, descendere ad inferos. Wherein the vnlearned barbarous, anger God and man, saying, that Iesus descended to Hell: and yeelde vnto the blasphemous Iewes by sure consequence vpon their words, that he should not be the Holy one of God. By Hugh Broughton." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A69004.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 19, 2024.
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To the aged Sir, IOHN of Canterb. Arch∣bishop,
grace and truth.
MAISTER Francis Hall told that your G. de∣priued
M. Pickaerd and him of their benefices,
and gaue both to Bar Lo (whom he described
after his name, a babe most bad) for defending
your Gehenna: which haeresie of yours was vsed
for a barr, that you were not fit to confirme o∣thers,
who so erred your selfe: against all the
Bible, all Greekes and Hebrewes. That the children whiche you
would haue confirmed and you together may be truly firmed here∣in,
behold your owne graunt in D. Bilson: to whom in Bar Lo his
booke, your grace & wisedome referreth the vnlearned for a lear∣ned
defence of your minde: which held that the Creed telleth whe∣ther
our Lordes soule went hence. And this is your Proposition &
myne too: and you will aduenture your eternall state vpon it, and
I myne. This it is: The Place into which our Lordes soule went
hence, is Hades or Hell of the Creede. This position is built vpon
a rocke: that no storme, windes, nor waues can shake it. And if we
agree to what place our Lord his soule went hence, we agree what
Hades or your Hell is in the Creede. Nowe to your Proposition,
this assumption D. Bilson layeth downe, fol••o 219. Paradise is the
place to which our Lord went hence. Therefore by your owne graūt
Hades or Hell in the Creede is Paradise. Seeing then the whole
tenour of Moses and the Gospell, cannot mooue you: seeing the
vniversall iudgement of the Hebrewes for their owne tongue, can
not mooue you: seeing 3000. yeares heathen Greeke cannot mooue
you: and Eulogines Patriarcha 1200. yeres old, with all other Chri∣stian
Greekes which doe place Abraham in Hades, can not mooue
you, and seeing the Zurick confession, which sayth, per Inferos in∣telligimus
non locum supplicij designatum impijs, sed defunctos fide∣les,
& sinum Abrahae can not mooue you, let your owne confession
mooue you: and publish it in print, that the simple deceaued by
you, may know how you led them to deny that our Lorde went
through the vaile of his flesh into the most holy. Which they that
will denie, may as well denie all religion and trueth of God. You
haue most highly iniuried the Maiestie of God: pretendinge that
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Sheol Psal. 16. was the Devils lodge, which no Ebrew euer thought,
neither suffreth Moses to thinke: contemning the Gospell for the
hand of God receaving the holy soule of our Lord: pervertinge so∣rowes
of death into the second death, Act. 2. to befooll all Christi∣anitie,
turning Saint Paul to Gehennean darknes: where he purpose∣lie
speaketh of the Gospells brightnes: in these three iniuries you
staine all the Bible, while you make some iarr from all the rest, and
befoole the most holy Writers. This your sinne is haynous. So
your despising of Ebrew DD. For their owne tongue, wilbe holden
of the Scottish mist and Brettish nation, and all nations a brutish
parte. and no lesse the reiecting of Heathen Greeke, for the Creede
penned for heathen: and your restrayning of Greeke only to Poets:
and your teaching as generall that Hades in them is vgly, this your
learning wil be holden babish. Also where D. Bilson reiecteth the
world of soules, as checking all Iewes in their owne tongue, his
wrangling was senseles: that he knew no place where soules were
togeather. Hath he euer seene in this world all bodyes togeather;
other saw them not, yet the speach, this world is currant with all
men. And for Hades Macedones call it Heaven. Portus Dictio∣narie
would haue taught you so much, though you sought no dee∣per
Graetians. And in Clemens Alexandrinus, Hades is Iuppiter.
To your blame for denying the lxx. in Psal. 110. a warrant for the
New Test. Greeke, you say nothing, as damned. And D. Bilson
saith: the Greeke Fathers vnderstood not Josephs Haden. Such
owles you bring to Athens: and make your Witgifte a scoph to all
learned. Also you answer nothing to your blame for saying, that
it were better the trueth of Daniel were hid, then antiquitie should
be disgraced for missing. Others thought it a gracelesse speach. So
when you condemne Saint Paul for cursing Ananias, which thing
he was bound to doe, by expresse lawes, for stryking treacherouslie,
and misleading the blind, you check Christ that promised a mouth
that no adversarie could resist, and befoole Moses for making a de∣fence
for an open impudent iudge. The blind, the deafe, the officers
may not lightly be cursed: but in open wilfulnes they be cursed, as
Saul of Dauid, and Sedechias of Ezechiel, and the Pharises. Mat. 23.
Herein you stand at the mercy of God. Moreover touching. Abra∣ham
Ruben the Iew, you haue iniuried Christ our Lord, & all Chri∣stians
most wickedly. If he had not bene answered, all Christians
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had bene worse thought of. Now he & all the Iewes in the Empire
speak better of Christianity. And some by that haue bene baptized:
and one D. told that he would be baptized and come to Englande:
he is the man that prefaced to Aruc. So a rare learned Iew, to whō
at Basil one gaue Rubens epistle, and shewed the apostles Thalmu∣dicall
rare skil, he made request to the Professours, when the party
was gone, to desire him to returne to instruct him more fully: (but
the party could not) and afore requested his teacher to translate in∣to
Ebrew, as he spake to him, the new Testament. This deserued bet∣ter
then your language. You say the party feigned that whiche is
written of his praise: and scoph his skil in Ebrew and Greeke: and
terme him an asse, and offre all disgrace. For all, Christians & Iewes
should thinke you vnworthy to haue the benefit of Christian poli∣cie.
And as you know you haue the Anathema maran Atha giuen
you. It returneth to the giuer if you deserue it not. If your desert be
doubtles, you are surely miserable: as in your perpetual vntruthes
and misvsing of the Realmes authoritie to Satans slavery. So when
you scophed the hope in the Scottish mist, and the Brittish nation,
what meant you but to endeuor to set millions to kill one another.
Six yeres Beza noised a Testament bent badly, and Geneua meant
to kill one for leaning on the Scottish mist: as three Scottes there
then tolde the party: and Beza wrote much alike to your old head.
Yet the party boldly printed the Scottish mist then to be his King.
And now with what face can you looke for any good subiect, who
knowes the blessing of the Scottish mist turned to a shyning sunne
ever to wish you well: after your so great endevour to overthrow
your owne nation; The Brettish nation would, as Davids 37. wor∣thies,
haue layde their life in their hands for their lefull Prince, then
and now most deare King. And wisheth you, after pardon, to be an
harty subiect. Great cause you haue.
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