The quick and dead are

judged.

The reward and punish

certain.

done, not by any long, troublesome, or changeable process,
as is used in our courts of law, but even in the twinkling of
an eye.
For then shall all men's hearts be laid open, and
every man's own conscience shall accuse himself. This is
more at large set out in Matt. xxiv. and xxv., Wisd. iii. and
v., 1 Cor. xv., 2 Cor. v., 1 Thess. iv., v., Rom. ii., 2 Pet. iii.
&c.

Now we do simply confess, that the quick and the dead shall be judged. This do some expound of the godly and ungodly. But the Symbol or Creed was ordained for the most simple of understanding; and simple things are fittest for to teach simple men. Therefore we say simply, that the dead are all they, that from the beginning of the world even until the last day are departed out of this mortal life and the living are they, which at that day shall be alive in this world. For the apostle saith: "Behold, I tell you a mystery; we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed by the last trump, in a moment of time, and in the twinkling of an eye. For the trump shall sound, and the dead shall rise again incorruptible, and we shall be changed." And again, in another place, the same apostle saith: "This I say unto you in the word of the Lord, that we, which shall live and be remaining at the coming of the Lord, shall not prevent them which are asleep. Because the Lord himself shall come down out of heaven with a great noise, and the voice of an archangel, and the trump of God: and first shall the dead in Christ rise up again; then shall we, which shall be alive and be remaining, be caught up together with them in the clouds into the air to meet the Lord: and so shall we be with the Lord for evermore 2."

We confess therefore in this seventh article, that we ment is most believe there shall be an end of all things in this world, and that the felicity of the wicked shall not endure for ever. For we believe that God is a just God, who hath given all judgment unto his Son, to repay to every one in that day according to his works, pains to the wicked that never shall be ended, and to the godly joys everlasting. And so in this article we profess, that we look for a deliverance, a ceasing

[ 1 Cor. xv. 51, 52. per extremam tubam, Lat. and Erasmus. The Vulgate has, in novissima tuba.]

[2 1 Thess. iv. 15-17.]

from troubles, and the reward of life everlasting. For how should he destroy them that believe in him, his people and his servants, who in the most true gospel saith, "Verily, I say unto you, that ye, which have followed me, in the regeneration, when the Son of man shall sit on the seat of his majesty, ye also shall sit upon twelve seats judging the twelve tribes of Israel 3?" There are most certain rewards and penalties appointed for the godly and ungodly in the word of truth. He cannot lie that said to Esay: "Say to the righteous, that it shall go well with him; for he shall enjoy the fruit of his study. But woe be to the wicked: it shall be evil with him; for he shall be rewarded according to the works of his own hands." And thus much touching the second part of the Creed. Now are we come to the third part.

article of our

The eighth article of our belief is this: "I believe in The eighth the Holy Ghost." This third part of the Creed containeth faith. the property of the third Person in the reverend Trinity. And we do rightly believe in the Holy Ghost, as well as in the Father and the Son. For the Holy Ghost is one God with the Father and the Son: and rightly is faith in the Holy Ghost joined to faith in the Father and the Son. For by him the fruit of God's salvation, fulfilled in the Son, is sealed to us, and our sanctification and cleansing is bestowed on us, and derived from him to us, by the Holy Ghost. For the apostle saith: "God, which anointed us, is he also which hath sealed us, and hath given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts"." And again: "Ye were indeed defiled with naughtiness; but now ye are cleansed, and sanctified, and lastly justified, through the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God." The Father indeed doth sanctify too, but by the blood of Jesus Christ, and poureth the same sanctification out of him into us by the Holy Ghost: so that it is, as it were, the property of the Holy Ghost to sanctify; whereupon he is called Holy or the Sanctifier. Therefore, so often as we hear the Holy Ghost named, we must by and by think of the power in working, which the scripture attributeth

The Father in Christ hath fully given us all heaven

to him, and we must look after the benefits that from him do flow to us. For the power, operation, or action of the Spirit is that, whatsoever the grace of God doth work in us through the Son so that of necessity we must believe in the Holy Ghost. And in this eighth article we do profess, that we do verily believe, that all the faithful are cleansed, washed, regenerated, sanctified, enlightened, and enriched of God with divers gifts of grace for Christ his sake, but yet through the Holy Ghost. For without him there is no true sanctification: wherefore we ought not to attribute these gifts of grace to any other means; this glory belongeth to the Holy Ghost only. Of whom I will more largely and fully discourse in my other sermons.

"It

The hour is spent, which warneth me to wrap up briefly and make an end; therefore I exhort you all to have your ly treasures. faith religiously bent upon the Lord Jesus: for him hath the heavenly Father sent to us, in him hath he wholly expressed and shewed himself to us, and him doth the Holy Ghost print in our hearts and keep in our minds. And in Christ is all man's salvation and every part thereof contained; wherefore we must beware that we derive it not from any thing else. pleased the Father," saith the apostle, "that all fulness should dwell in the Son," and in him to recapitulate, and as it were, to bring into a sum, all points of salvation, that in him all the faithful may be fulfilled'. For if salvation be sought, then even by his very name are we taught that salvation is in his power for he is called Jesus, that is, a Saviour. If we desire the Holy Spirit of God and his sundry gifts, we shall find them also in the anointing of Christ: for he is called Christ, the Anointed, I say, the Holy of holies, and the sanctifier, or else the anointer of us with his Spirit. If any man have need of strength and might, of power and deliverance, well, he hath to look for it in Christ his dominion: for Christ is Lord of all. In the same Christ we find redemption: for he hath redeemed us that were sold under Satan's yoke. In his conception we have purity; in his nativity we have sufferance2: for he became like to us, that he might suffer grief as well as

[1 Col. i. 19; Ephes. i. 10. ȧvaкepadaιwσaobai, id est, recapitulari. -Erasm. Annot. in loc. cit.]

[2 indulgentiam, Lat.]

we3. For in his passion we have forgiveness of sins, in his
condemnation we have absolution, satisfaction in his offering or
cleansing sacrifice, cleansing in his blood, and an universal
reconciliation in his descending into hell. In his burial we
have the mortification of our flesh, the newness of life; yea
rather, the immortality of the soul, and resurrection of our
bodies in his glorious resurrection. We have also the in-
heritance of the heavenly kingdom, with the assured sealing
thereof, in his ascension and sitting at the right hand of the
Father. And there is he our Mediator, Priest, and King, our
safeguard and our head, our defender and most sure rest3.
From thence he poureth into us his Holy Spirit, the fulness of
all good things; and doth communicate himself wholly to us,
joining us unto himself with an indissoluble knot. From thence
we do with confidence and joy look for him to be our Judge,
to be, I say, our patron and deliverer, which shall condemn
and send down headlong into hell all our enemies with Satan;
but shall take us and all the faithful of every age up into
heaven with himself, there to sing a new song, and to rejoice
in him for ever. To him be glory for ever.
Amen.

OF THE LATTER ARTICLES OF CHRISTIAN FAITH CON-
TAINED IN THE APOSTLES' CREED.

THE NINTH SERMON.

LET us call to our Father in heaven, through our Lord Jesus Christ, that he will vouchsafe to pour his grace into us, that we may to our no small profit dispatch and expound the last part of the articles of christian belief.

article of

The ninth article of faith is this: "The holy catholic The ninth church, the communion of saints." After the confession of our our belief. belief in the holy Trinity, and in the mystery of the Son of God, our Lord Jesus Christ, and lastly in the Holy Ghost, the sanctifier and restorer of all; now, in the fourth part, is reckoned up the fruit and power, the effect and end, of faith, and what doth come to, and is bestowed on, the faithful. There cometh to them communion of God and all saints, sanc

[3 condolere nobis, Lat.]
[5 securitas, Lat.]

[4 expiatorio, Lat.]

in our confession say,

I believe in

tification, remission of sins, the resurrection of the flesh, and life everlasting. Of which I will speak in order as they lie, so far forth as the bountiful Lord shall give me ability.

Now then here we have to rehearse' out of the eighth article this word, "I believe :" we must (I mean) say, "I beWe must not lieve the holy catholic church." Some unlearned there are, which hold opinion, that in this point of our confession we the church. should say, "I believe in the holy church." The reason that leads them so to think is this; because they find written in the Constantinopolitan Creed, "And in the Holy Ghost, the Lord that giveth life, who proceedeth from the Father and the Son, who together with the Father and the Son is to be worshipped and glorified, who spake by the prophets in one catholic and apostolic church." For these words they do so distinguish, that, as they do repeat out of the premisses these words, "I believe," and make this the sense, "I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Lord;" even so here again they do repeat these words, "I believe," making this to be the sense, "I believe in one catholic and apostolic church3." But this is more than needeth, yea, and against all godliness do they wrest these words of the Creed: for this, "In one catholic and apostolic church," is not referred to the verb, "I believe," but to the Holy Ghost, because he spake by the prophets in one catholic and apostolic church. For our meaning is, and we confess, that one and the same Spirit did all things in both Testaments, contrary to the opinion of them which imagined, that there were two spirits contrary the one to the other.

Cyprian.

Moreover St Cyprian, in his exposition of the Apostles' Creed, saith: "He said not, In the holy church, nor, In the remission of sins, nor, In the resurrection of the body. For if he had added the preposition 'in,' then had the force of those clauses been all one with the force of that that went before. For in those words wherein our belief touching the Godhead is set down, we say, 'In God the Father, in Jesus Christ his Son, and in the Holy Ghost:' but in the rest, where the

[1 repetendum est, Lat.]

[2 locutus est per prophetas in unam catholicam, &c., Lat.]

[3 All this is comprised in that principle, I believe the catholic church. And therefore the council of Nice said, I believe in the church (σTEUw eis tηv ékkλnoíav), that is, I believe and trust the me in all things.-Annot. of Rhiems Test. in 1 Tim. iii. 15.]