Charles H. Spurgeon on Psalms 16:10

Many of the elder Reformers held that our Lord in soul actually descended into hell, according to some of them to suffer there as our surety, and according to others to make a public triumph over death and hell. This idea was almost universally, and as we believe, most properly repudiated by the Puritans. To prove this fact, it may be well to quote from Corbet's witty itinerary of,

"Foure clerkes of Oxford, doctors two, and two

That would be doctors."

He laments the secularisation of church appurtenances at Banbury, by the Puritans, whom he described as, — — — — — — —"They which tell

That Christ hath nere descended into Hell,

But to the grave." —C. H. S. The quotation is from Richard Corbet's Poems, 1632.