ARTICLE IV. Suffered under Pontius Pi∣late, &c.
This is an Article that you have often told me I ought well to un∣derstand;
The Christian's manual in three parts ... / by L. Addison ...
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- The Christian's manual in three parts ... / by L. Addison ...
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- Addison, Lancelot, 1632-1703.
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- 1691.
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"The Christian's manual in three parts ... / by L. Addison ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A26360.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 11, 2024.
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for it respects Christ's Death, upon which the whole Hinge of my Salvation turns. I find the History of it to be clearly and fully set forth by the Evangelists; and as to the know∣ledge of it, St. Paul valued it so highly, that he desired to know nothing else but Jesus Christ cru∣cified. Now by my believing of the Crucifixion, I confess, that according to the Prophecies Christ suffered in his Humane Nature. both in Soul and Body; his Di∣vine Nature being uncapable of suffering. And that this hapned at the time when Pontius Pilate was the Roman Governour of Ju∣daea; who being addicted to Cru∣elty and sinful compliance, con∣demned Christ to be crucified: And as Moses lifted up the Serpent on the Pole in the Wilderness, so was Christ lifted up on the Cross; and by a painful, ignominious, and accursed Death, did expiate my sin, and redeemed me from all
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vain Conversation, and from the Curse of the Law, and gave me an Entrance into Heaven. All which unspeakable Benefits are justly to be ascribed to the Blood of Christ, because it was of infinite value, as being the Blood of that Person who was God as well as Man.
And as I believe Christ volun∣tarily laid down his Life, and that his Soul was really separated from his Body; so I likewise be∣lieve, that as a dead Man he was buried, after the manner of the Jewish Nation; namely, that he was bound in Grave-clothes with Spices, and laid the Grave, with an heavy Stone rolled to the mouth of the Sepulcher. All which were certain Tokens of his Death, as being the usual known Rites of a Jewish Funeral. I also believe, That Christ being dead, his Soul and Body remain'd in a separate condition, under the Power of Death; and that his Soul was re∣united to the Body before it did
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putrifie in the Grave. But as to the various Opinions about his Descent into Hell, I think them either too high, or too unprofita∣ble for my research.
And as you have taught me, so I believe, that Christ's Birth, Death, and Burial, or being under the Dominion of Death, were the Three Degrees of his Humiliati∣on; answerable to which were the Three Degrees of his Exal∣tation, namely, Resurrection, As∣cension, and Glorification in Hea∣ven.