YOVR Graces zeal , how you will burn in this opinion , that Christ descended to Gehenna , & your vsage of the Q. auctority to haue your conceit accepted , hath caused exceding great harm in the Church of England , & is like to cause more vnlesse God giue you grace to acknowledg openly how dangerously you were deceaved . You gaue great advantage to the families that refuse your assemblies to make theyr cause seem good : and so far that some aduentured theyr Eternal state , vpon theyr cause . For thus they reasoned . They who hold that Christs soule went to Hel , Gehenna Hel , make the Gospel to tell a Lye . Where , it is certen , he went to heaven : But the Church of England ( say they ) doth that : Therfore , belying the Gospel it ought to be refused . Now such as dealt with them from you denyed the proposition : which religion of trueth would not haue denyed : and graunted the assumption : as betraying the Q. religion . For Hell in our Diuinity & translations of the old testament signifieth but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sheol , that which requireth all to come to it : and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Haiden , the world vnseen . Generally , Hell is that world which haleth all hence : whether Ioy of Paradise ; or Torment of Gehenna , be theyr lot there . Your defenders amazed at the term hell : & not knowing the religion of the realm , missed , as I sayd , to Deny the true proposition , and to graunt the slaunder , in the assumtion : Therupon the adversary familie , thinking that one as your G. should not be ignorant what religion the Q. hath sworn to defend , was hardened in theyr condemnation of the trueth : & some , holding on to theyr death & shortening of theyr dayes , ventured theyr Eternal state on this ; that in the issue , ioyned vpon in disputing , they held the trueth , & that yow were deceaued . So the Q. subiectes by your want of divinity came to theyr death , by holding that which the Q. hath sworn to defend . And many fearing to be of theyr mynd herein , bring an heresy into the Crede & think in deed that Christ descended to Gehenna . That is bred in them by your zeal set on flame for Gehenna . Also your self in speach to a D. that told me , blasphemed one as being of theyr family ( whom they held , theyr deadliest enemy ) for that in this syllogism he would . graunt theyr proposition . Y ou might better haue ioyned your self for agreeing in the assumtion , to slaunder the Q & all the religion of the realm . Your eyes haue seen by the same D. yf letters in cariage perished not : how the Lerned gentry censure , that yf the party blasphemed by you would handle to the full of his knowledge that for the descent of Christ into 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it wold be as well accepted as any thing that mans peynes euer studied . Yet you to hinder all his recompense demaunded in print ( as the Q gouvernement should be thought honorable , & promised most honorably ) take occasion of exception , wher better desert then the former & of more dayly use , was exhihited to the good of the Church : & being in this giddines of gouvernement , you held on beyond all loyalty & Christianity to force the party greued , approved over the world , & by the furthest enemies as the likest to procure the comon good of Christendom , him you compel to shew his monstrous recompense by you : after word was sent him by a M. of request that the Lords thought him second to no scholer . The time was when you could send him word that by your faith he deserved as good a place , as you your self had , & made him likewise a match in lerning with the best . Gehenna marred al that good ( which I hope to banish from your Crede ) In M. Barowes case & Grenewoods . The terme HEL , being 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Haides in Greek , & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Sheol in Ebrew , Inferi in old Latines , must be expounded as the orginal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Crede , & wheras our old translations vse HEL for 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sheol still through the prophets , where properly the losse of this world only is meant : ( when further sense cometh , the argument caryeth it , not the words force ) HEL must be taken ( as in old Saxon when they knew no Gehenna ) for the state after this life : whether the party is haled . Now 64. times 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 coming in the holy tongue , Hell as often in our old translations & never directly for Gehenna , but as by the argument , & so it may be heaven , in speach of the Godly , nether should HEL in the Crede mean any thing els but the world to come : the world of Soules . We may not be so simple as not to know our owne language . Likewise HEL cometh nyne times vpon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the new Testament . But neuer in all those places doth it signifie Gehenna . As twelue times Gehenna is in the Greek : & ther HEL is in your graces meaning . But 73. times in a general meaning of separation from this world , & such lot , as in the matter foloweth , cometh it in both testaments . Wherfore the comon vse of the term should make the Crede not strange to vs . This I delivered as a most constant trueth : and shewed that our L. was to sacrifice him self for sin here in this world : wher we might see it : & beleue it : and that when he had powred out his soule to death , a Sinoffring , ther was no further suffring : but all suffering was fulfilled : and that our Lord went presently through the veyl of his flesh to Paradise ; to heaven , to his hingdom , as the thief beleued : and his own tongue taught : & as he commended his soul to the hand of God . Now a narration in brief for the prophane world , must speak of al this but generally : HE DESCENDED INTO THE WORLD OE SOVLES . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Descendit ad Inferos : HE Descended to HEL . The force of the Greek maketh the matter plain ; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Vnseen . The world vnseen to vs that be here . Plato bringeth it pleasanter of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Delight . Holding all true happines to be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : In that world , into which our L in the Crede is sayd to haue gone : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 shaal the Ebrew cometh to the same effect : TO REQVIRE : as requiring all , simply , to come thither . So the tongues of both testamen●es haue a sure mark in the tërm , that none should be deceaved : who had any whit aboue bare Latin studies . Seing the story of our Lord 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is the glory , the crown , the pearl of all story , and his soules story in the passion the chief in al the Gospell , and such as must be dayly cited ouer all the earth in the Abridgement of our belief , & was penned in the Crede so sure for speach that no Iew nor Gentil , from Babels breeding of tongues , till the Cred was penned , can be found to differ from one comon meaning ; it was a pitifull thing that Sectaries should pick quarels with the Q. wher all the wit of men or Angels could not find fault : & where the Q. meant no further them the blamers knew to be true : That Christ his immortal Humane soul left the body fully , & all this world , & went ( as all the holy are sayd to haue gone ) into Sheol , the world of Soules It would make a mans hart to bleed that in so plain a case , men should not be told that theyr mynd diffred not from the Q. how they were senseles who blamed that which they allowed , The four Evangelistes , the Man , the Lion , the Oxe , the Egle , all full of Eies , and penning four times the redemtion for the worthines of the matter , these all four will condemn vs for beasts , blind , skurfy , larne , & vnclean , who would over-reach them all , to bring from Satans spirit a iourny to Satans Lodging , which should vtterly disanul all the Holy Bible . The Bible , whence true religion cometh , & wher the place is of all divinity . Whence , from plain rules four times told , & told in the passion story , all that toucheth our Lord for death & till the resurrection , must be fetched . All that Moses and the prophets spake , the old charet , on whom Christ sate , that all , all the Evangelists touch : omitting nothing : and he that cannot find a going down to Gehenna for Christ in the passion story , & would find it from the prophetes or the Epistles , he hath litle considered in what place every article should be most fitly taught . Some places troble some , in the Epistles S. Paul writeth : Say not in thy hart who shal ascend to heauen , to bring Christ down , or who shal descend into the deep : to bring vp Christ from the dead : There the term Deep may troble some : bicause it is strange . He meaneth by the DEEP but the graue : forced to that word from Moses text alluded vnto . where he hath : who shall goe beyond the sea ? For sea & for the graue his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Elegantly serueth . Again S. Paul saith that Christ descended 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 David gaue him his phrase who in the 70. sayth in thanks for preservation from death : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , Ps. 86. 13. For the coniunction that the soul hath with the body , to make one person , the terms propre to the body , are spoken of the soul : or of the whole person , as in Eph. 4. The Ps. 88. often cleareth the speach with other terms of equal force . My life is come nere Sheol , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Sheol , Hell , nere death . Again : Thou hast set me in the pit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 In darknes : & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by S. Pauls term , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , by the 70. Again wilt thou doe wonders for the dead : Shal 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the dead rise vp & prayse thee . And 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 here must be expounded . DEAD by the Hebrew , & not as Galen vseth the term : and so HEL in the Crede , not as from Papists : but from our own translations , wher the matter telleth what the term must mean . So I expounded S. Peter 1. 1. Ep-3 . that his Godhead & Eternal Spirit made alive his Humanity : ioyning the soul to his body : which spirit preached , at the begining , to the first spoken too for that by God : to them who by Iobs phrase , are now but spirits , theyr bodies eaten by the waters , & ( by sure rules from Es. 42. ) are in prison . The sum of my exposition is in print . And yf your G. cannot see that I cleared Peter more then any before , it is because you neuer knew the vse of Ebrewes , according to whose meaning the Apostles speak plainly : where ignorance bredeth curiosity to troble all religion & all the world , vnder pretence of deep study in the fathers : wher the cause must be opened by ancienter then the primitive Church , for any Turk or Iew . Here also serued that comon saieng from Epiphanius : that all the fathers were in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & that Christ went to them : now they be in heauen : When the resurrection brought a new world : and a new phrase for theyr place : Yet they nothing altered , theyr place but be yet in 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , in paradise , in heauen , in ioy . And an Ebrew Child wold soon conceave what Epiphanius autourmeant . After 300. yeres when the term 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was left as particular to the wicked , & Christs case knowen : many Credes wisely & lernedly left out the article : which conteyned but absolute death , in a soul immortal : & without the phrase , the matter was graunted . So Eusebius in his apologie medleth not with it : as conteyning no matter litigious among Christians : so the Nicene Crede & Athanasius left it out . This was the sum of my speach : In this sense I handled the article . For the saluation of your G. desperately bent to burn for Gehenna for Ever . Your G. hath in print my mynd in the Epistle to the Lerned nobility . I requested your G. as you know , when you ceazed vpon that Epistle , in 400. copies , to chose out 400. whom you would , ( yf you mistrusted my choise ) to iudge whether the Q. and the nobility with Doctors & all sortes were not wel aduised when they meant to haue mended the breaches of the temple : & might , with small change , haue made former paynes , that in the Geneva , glorious for euer . And yf you mistrusted not your opinion , both here , & for the Bible , you could not mislike my petition . Ther your G. may see further my opinion . In further opening of this cause , that you may better see your fault , after I haue touched the Q iudgement ( against which you turned her auctority ) a fuller declaration of the cause shal be afforded . Now for the Q. iudgement , & the whole realms . Let vs consyder whether I accused you iustly of turning the Q. auctority against her oth : when you vsed the high commissions gravity to greue me : So that the LL. were ashamed , & desyred me not to record it : and yet I did not tell the fourth part of those vnhonorable partes which might iustly place you lower wher you should offend lesse . Thus I reason . Edw. the sixt and his subiects held that Christ ' his soule neuer went to Gehenna : The Q. & her subiectes set vp religion in the same sense : as all the first parlement wil shew : Therfore the Q & all her good subiects mean to die in this fayth that Christ went presently hence to Paradise . For K. Ed. Peter Martyr his chief , & Martin Bucer , Duo fulmina belli Scipiadae , as good divines as the world saw these thousand yeres , who held the sterne of religion in the realm , they shew the kings mynd . They were his tongue , and his hart . I mentioned your errour , somwhat phantastical , among the Lerned of Basil : wherupon they sought out Bucers mynd and P. M. and shewed Bucers Cathechism : and preached openly vpon the article in my mind : from both those rarely Lerned fathers , whom God so honored that theyr bones should not rot in the apostatical Land that so soon shrank from Paradise to descend to Gehenna . Your tutor D. Pern might somwhat deceaue you : But you should haue tryed the tongues your self . In this Q. time M. Anthony Cevalerius in Cambridge scholes spake afore the whole vniversity : that Sheol 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 neuer signified Gehenna : being 64. times vsed . D. P. heard him . And I heard of one that left the vniversity a litle before , who held this your mynd in answearing for his degree : But was generally misliked . And beside him I neuer heard of any myne elder but all graunted that our L. Soule went presently to heauen : saying your G. into whose head by reason of your bare Latin studies for Infernus , the manifold poincts of this question cannot so soon be beaten . The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that to descend to Hell in the Crede is to go vp to heaven , maketh you so amazed , that you rage & take against all the realm . But I plainly accuse you . The realm knoweth the Q. oth . Now let vs search the Scripture fully : both for this phrase , & the word Sheol 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : & for the Prophets maner of speach for the world to come . In the Scripture the law is to be loked vnto first : & therein the patriarchs tongue . Iacob sayeth when he thought that Ioseph had ben dead : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . I wil descend vnto my sonne mourning , into HEL . This one place might geue your grace sufficient warning that the heathen maner of speath Which the Patriarchs were to vse , taketh descending to Hel , for all Leauing of this world , though a man goeth vnto the ioyes of God . You shall haue an other place , of the same Patriarch , speaking vnto his sonnes all , saving Ioseph . 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . You shall cause my old age to descend with sorow into HEL . There your G. hath it the secnd time . You may see a third place spoken amonge all the Patriarchs by Iudah vnto Ioseph for Beniamin , of Iacob : in the former words in in Gen. 44. 31. They be in substance the very same syllables . Thus thricewe haue the same : that in the mouth of three witnesses the matter may be setled to stand . And the auctorities be the strongest : These be twelve precious stones that make the right of iudgement on Aharons brest : Whose speach for the world of Soules while you folow : you folow twelve sure foundations to build a Ierusalem from heauen . The Abridger of the twelue Apostles doctrin to make gates & windowes as clear as pearl , would be sure to take theyr phrase in theyr meaning : and as they would nothing troble the heathen but vse theyr speach as theyr streates : so the holy congregation that penned the Crede wold as much tender the weaknes of the world . The later Iewes in Ezekiel 28. be the very same Iewels that the Patriarchs were . Nine of the twelue he nameth : the very same stones : Where the 70. supply the other three : lest the heathens should maruel why he went so far & stayed : & the revelation hath ten the Greek termes of Ex. 28. The 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or Chalcedon cometh for Iudas Iewel to illustrat a speciall scripture : Es. 54. Where the Apostles Ierusalem full of light is sent downe from heauen : with windowes of Chalcedon : & gates of pearl . Also the Sardonyx is a new name geven to zabulon : as by S. Iohn . and Moses may surely be gathered : though one wold think Beniamins onyx should haue the sardonyx . But his Ebreu jaspe calleth Iaspis from Zabulon . For Beniamin must be the first foundation : when Ieroboam made Ioseph lose dignity So Chrysoprase is new made for Nepthali . Seing then the Apostles the reapers of that wich others sowed , treade most carefully in theyr steppes , even for the very syllables of the Greke wordes : and that for stones names : we may be sure theyr disciples by theyr spirite wold be as careful for phrases in the height of religion : for which men be the stones of the Sanctuary : and the Garden of Eden : nolesse then Israel , when King Hyram was amongest them in the building of the temple . The knowledge whether the soule commended in the last breath to the hand of God , departeth from the myrie clay that is a precious poinct : and a speach of it sure among Christians for an heavenly meaning , and nothing offensive nor envious in heathen eares , must be held as a treasure deeply hid in a field , neuer to deare : Such is both Iacobs speach and the Speach of the Crede , the first & last vsed fully in the same sense : that , when Ioseph was sold by Iudah for sicles : & thought of Iacob to be rent of wicked beasts : & that of Christ , sould by Iudah sot mo sikles : & rent in hand & foot by wicked dogs . Yf your G. wold take leasure to think but vpon this much : you would never more think of Gehennaes HEL : to burn in defense , that Christ commending his soule vnto the father , had presently that lodging : but that his descending to Hell was in our later language , ( later then Iacob : at the first vse 1600. yeres ) going vp into heavens ioyes vnto the Kingdom of Heauen . Next Genesis , Iob is the most ancient : Who both lived before Moses , & , as may be gessed , about twenty yeare after him : Liuing 140. yeares after his affliction : afflicted when Satan most bragged of General conquest . Which when it was , God would most punish Israel . But Israel was most punished when Moses was born a redresser . Wherfore Satans triumph & Iobs Patience then seem to haue shewed them selves . So Iob shal be found to liue afore & after Moses . He for his father Abraham & mother Ketura fastened in the house of God : & more then his cosyns Eliphas Isakides , & Bildad , though of Ketura : This Iob disputing with four Prophets : & being nere the Leaving of this world wherby the world to come should fitly fall into spech , should be the fittest to shew the signification of Sheol : specially when God him self cometh moderator of the question & vseth the like term . Iob speaketh of all men thus : That when we descend to sheol , we come not euer vp hither : & our place knoweth vs no more . And he wished that God would lay him vp in Sheol : till his change ( in the resurrection ) should come : and he loked that Sheol should be his house : & that all his hopes should descend with the Beer , 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 into Sheol . He that would ouerreach Iobs style should need wisdome : as high as the heauens , deeper then Sheol , longer then the earth , broader then the sea : & should need his wisdom : before whom Sheol is naked . And in speach of the wicked : that as heat maketh a riddance of snow : So doth Sheol of synnets : He meaneth by his open speach , but theyr riddance hence : as when he commendeth theyr outward prosperity : for children many , & lusty ; & for deliting pleasures , how they spend theyr dayes in prosperity : and go down to Sheol in a moment : And thus Iob speaketh , to four Prophets of Terahes diverse families in Arabia . And wher God moderateth & mentioneth the world to come , he sayth : Haue the gates of death ben revealed to thee ? or canst thou see the gates of the shadow ? That which Iob would haue termed Sheol , the Lord termeth death . And thus by Iobs book the controversy is decided : in Iobs tongue for Sheol a lodging to him self and to all men . Now ther was neuer any book written , since the pen became the tongue of a writer , of a more curious style then Iob : in verse of many sorts : & vse of words more nyce then any Greek or Latin writeth : & for Grammer hath more trickes & difficulty then all the Bible beside : arabizing much : but fuller of Ebrewe depth in language . God saw it needful to honour with a style of al ornaments the particular cause of Iob , lest it should be despised or thought a fayned matter , And therfore gaue that book a more curious style then any other part of the Bible hath : & such depth of skill in the tongue as no Rabbin could be thought euer to haue such in the holy tongue . In such a style 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 would be consydered in in his exact propriety : vsed in such a company of the best lerned princes for so many ( all hauing the holy Ghost ) that ever were in the world : The prince of princes coming moderatour of the disputation So again the book of Iob alone might fully satisfie your G. that you should chose a better theme for your martyrdom then to burn for Gehenna from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 : the Hell of our old translations , which by 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 & nere consequent , is often that which we now call Heaven . After Iob let vs se wher to descend to Hell is vsed , next in time . In Num. 15. the rebellious companies descended aliue to Sheol , or Hel : they & all theyr Houses & substance descended to Sheol . Ther the matter telleth , that Gehenna cannot be meant , but a destruction from this world : as in Deut. 32. wher Moses prophecyeth of the nations destruction & Ieremy twice citeth his spech : How an anger kindled burneth vnto Sheol . The next place of descending to Sheol is in Speach of Anna Samuels mother , how she greued long & greatly was aweary of her life , & at deaths dore : and sayth of the Lord : that he causeth to descend vnto sheol , & yet bringeth vp again . The next descending to sheol is in Davids tongue , in Psal. 55. wishing Gods enemies a destruction hence . Let them descend to sheol alive . The phrase sheweth that he looked vnto Korah & his company , of whom , that they all perished for euer , none will soon determin . And that theyr bodies then went to Gehenna : that none wil say . In Davids tongue for two more the cause is clear : in speach to Salomon for Ioab : & in the same terms for Semei . Thou shalt not suffre his old age to descend to Sheol in peace : And , thou shalt cause his old age to descend to Sheol or Hell with blood . But nether Ioab nor Semei died out of Gods covenant : nether could Salomon send to Eternal destruction : nether wished David that to his sisters sonns nor yet to Semei . And these be all the places for 3000. yeares : where descending to Hell is vsed : none signifiyng Gehenna , directly : but oftener by consequent that wich now we call Heaven . And that is most evident in Holy Ezekias : in a speach much like : I shall go into the gates of Hell : & so forth as I haue printed in myne Epistle which you haue . Ther Ezekias hath other Speaches which make this phrase voyd of all doubt . So in Ezekiel of a mighty kingdom , wher all were given to death : vnto the lowest earth ; vnto the sonns of Adam which descend vnto the pit often cometh the speach of descending to Sheol , for open destruction by the K. of Babylon In Apryes dayes : wher Eternal destruction was dayly on Prophane Egypt : & Ezekiel telling of descent to Sheol once , twice , thrice four times could not Prophecy any newes : but that which they had since the nation was . And so again one Chapter of Ezekiel , wold haue resolued your G. yf you read it , ether in Ebrew or in Greek , and made you clean of an other mynde . In the Babylonian , soone after the Egyptian fall the like speaches haue theyr euent . He was the day star : & exalted vnto Heauen : but he was caused to descend , & his pride was caused to descend to Sheol , wher , as heauen signified not the propre heauen , as now we speak : nether doth Hel meane the propre HEL , as now we speak . And these I trow be all the places where the Credes phrase : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 , cometh in the Scripture , saving for Capernaum Matt. 11. nothing to our Question : where Gehenna is neuer in the direct meaning . So that all Scripture refuseth to warrant you . And yf you search Scheol alone , thinking to defend a new made phrase it wil help you nothing . In these senses it wil come : for the lowest place or case in this life : in Amos : yf they dig Sheol , thence my hand shall take them : as yf they goe vp into Heauen , thence I will cause them to descend . In the same tenour of speach David afore spake : Ps. 139 , But that Hyperbole cannot be applyed hither . Like vnto that is the whales belly : a Sheol to Ionas : or the graue . But in ful privation hence it wil signify Death . & in the bodies case the graue , and corruption by the power of death . In the soule the state of separation from the body : or the world vnseene hence . Dauid doth often take it for death : as in Ps. 18. & 2 Sa. 22. the snares of Sheol , death compassed me about . There the matter telleth what must be signified : euen sorowes neare death . For full death , For all the good it cometh it in Psal. 89. what man liueth that shall not see death ; who can deliuer his soule from the Hand of Sheol , or HEL ; as generally cometh it in Osee : Chap. 13. I will redeeme them from Sheol : I will deliuer them from death . That S. Paul expoundeth to be meant of the resurrection of the faithfull bodies ; deliuered from corruption . And more often by much doth Dauid vse the term for the Godly then for the wicked . So the term alone will help nothing . That in Ps. 16. whence our contention began : thou wilt not leaue my soule to Sheol ; hath but this sense playne and comon : the world of Soules separated from the body . So generally the Iewes agreed in that sense : that they held in S. Peters time , and in the Talmud still : that Dauid died not : thincking that Dauid spake of himself . S. Peter graunteth that spoken of one whose soule left not the body to see corruption ; as Dauids did by all graunts ; and sheweth how Dauid spake of Christ his resurrection . So 3000 turned to him . Yf he had wrested the text to Gehenna : he had differed from their meaning touching the word . As death in the wicked is Eternall death : so euery term of their destruction , is Eternall destruction . So Sheol may be by a consequent . But neuer in speach of the Godly : nor in the wordes force . The seauenty translaters considering what term in Greek was fittest to expresse Sheol the Ebrew , they considered deeply that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 was generally taken of Greeks , for all mens comon case after this Life . And for Sheol , wher they translate it , they set 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the Greek term ▪ comonly . Now & then 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Death . & for the Ebrew term of death they have more then once : 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 . Dealing most suerly in the term as all Heathen would soone conceave their meaning . So about 60 times your G. wil be found ignorant of theyr mind : & oftener of the Ebrew : of all those textes : of all the matter depending theretvpon : and of all the Septuagintaes iudgment for Greek writers betwixt Homer & Menander , who seemed to learne of them principles of Gods vnity : and better manners then he himself practised . Of theyr age he was : and then were infinite mo Grecians such as Clemens nameth , who perished afore our tyme : but endured beyond the birth of the Creed : wher the Penner would Look to the Septuaginta . So , as Esay raiseth vp an infinite company from Sheol to meet the Chaldean , in Like sort the Septuagint will raise against you :