made Lord of all things, be they in heaven, or in earth: King of all kings: our everlasting and only high Bishop: our only Attorney; only Mediator; only Peace-maker between God and men. Now, since that he is entered into his glorious Majesty, by sending down his Holy Spirit unto us (as he promised) he lighteneth our dark blindness; moveth, ruleth, teacheth, cleanseth, comforteth, and rejoiceth our minds, and so will he still continually do, till the end of the world.........

I say therefore, that both by these and other doings of Christ, two commodities do grow unto us; the one, that all the things, that ever he hath done for our profit and behoof, he hath done them, . so that they be as well our own, if we will cleave thereunto with stedfast and lively faith, as if we had done them ourselves. He was nailed to the Cross; we were also nailed with him, and in him our sins punished. He died and was buried; we likewise with our sins are dead and buried, and that in such sort, that all remembrance of our sins is utterly taken out of mind.

He is risen again, and we are also risen again with him; that is, are so made partakers of his rising again and life, that from henceforth death hath no more rule over us. For the same Spirit is in us, that raised up Jesus from the dead. Finally, as he is gone up into heavenly glory, so are we lifted up with him. Albeit, that these things do not now appear, yet then shall they all be brought to light, when Christ, the light of the world,

shall shew himself in his glory, in whom all our bliss is laid up in store. Moreover, by his going up are granted us the gifts of the Holy Ghost; as Paul doth sufficiently witness. (Eph. iv.)

The other commodity, which we take by the · doings of Christ is that Christ is set for an example unto us, to frame our lives thereafter. If Christ hath been dead; if he hath been buried for sin; he was so but once. If he be risen again; if he be gone up to heaven; he is but once risen, but once gone up. From henceforth he dieth no more, but liveth with God, and reigneth in everlasting continuance of glory. So, if we be dead; if we be buried to sin; how shall we hereafter live in the same? If we be risen again with Christ; if by stedfast hope we live now in heaven with him: heavenly and godly things, not earthly and frail, we ought to set our care upon. And even, as heretofore we have borne the image of the earthly man; so, from henceforward let us bear the image of the heavenly.

ARCHBISHOP PARKER'S PREFACE BEFORE THE NEW TESTAMENT.

In this is discoursed the whole mystery of our salvation and redemption, purchased by our Saviour Christ. Here is his holy conception described, his nativity, his circumcision, his whole life and conversation, his godly doctrine, his divine mira

cles. In this book of the New Testament is set out his death, his resurrection, his ascension, his sending of the Holy Spirit, his session in our flesh on the right-hand of his Father, making continual intercession to him for us. In this book is contained the form and order of his last judgment, after the general resurrection of our bodies. These be the mysteries of our faith; these be the grounds of our salvation; these be thus written, that we should believe them, and by our belief should enjoy life everlasting.

JEWELL'S APOLOGY OF THE CHURCH.

For we believe that for our sakes he died, was buried, descended into hell, and the third day by a divine power, returned to life, and arose, and after forty days, in the sight of his disciples, ascended into heaven, that he might fill all things, and that the very body in which he was born, in which he conversed, in which he was despised, in which he had suffered most grievous torments, and a most direful death, in which he rose, and now ascended to the righthand of his Father, was placed above all principalities and power, and every name which is mentioned, not only in this world, but in that which is to come, in majesty and glory. And we believe that he doth now sit there, and shall sit there till all things are fulfilled; and although the ma

jesty and divinity of Christ is diffused every where, yet his body (as St. Augustine saith) ought to be in one place. We believe that though Christ added majesty to his body, yet he took not from it the nature of a body; nor is Christ to be so asserted to be God that we should deny him to be man; and as the Martyr Vigilius said, Christ left us as to his human nature, but he hath not left us in his divine nature; and though he is absent from us by the form of a servant, yet he is ever with us by the form of God.

And from thence we believe, Christ shall return to exercise a general judgment, as well upon those he shall then find alive, as upon all that are then dead.

NOWELL'S CATECHISM.

Master. Now let us forward to the rest. Scholar. The third day after he rose again; and by the space of forty days oftentimes shewed himself alive to them that were his and was conversant with his disciples, eating and drinking with them.

Mast. Was it not enough that by his death we obtain deliverance from sin and pardon?

Scho. That was not enough if we consider either him or ourselves. For if he had not risen again, he could not be thought to be the Son of God: ; yea, and the same did they that saw it,

when he hung on the cross, reproach him with and object against him. "He saved other (said they); himself he cannot save. Let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him." But now, rising from the dead to eternity of life, he declared a greater power of his Godhead, than if, in descending from the Cross, he had fled from the terrors of death. To die certainly is common to all; and though some for a time have avoided death intended against them, yet to loose or break the bonds of death once suffered, and by his own power to rise alive again, that is the proper doing of the only Son of God, Jesus Christ, the author of life, by which he hath shewed himself the conqueror of sin and death, yea, and of the devil himself.

Mast. For what other cause rose he again?

Scho. That the prophecies of David and of other holy Prophets might be fulfilled, which told before that neither his body should be touched with corruption, nor his soul left in hell.

Mast. But what profits bringeth it unto us that Christ rose again?

Scho, Manifold and divers. For thereof cometh to us righteousness, which before we lacked; thence cometh to us endeavour of innocency, which we call newness of life: thence cometh to us power, virtue, and strength to live well and holily: thence have we hope that our mortal bodies also shall one day be restored from death, and rise whole again. For if Christ himself had