Selected quad for the lemma: conscience_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
conscience_n	die_v	fire_n	worm_n	1,088	5	9.7140	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51261	An addition to the Clavis aurea with an enquiry upon what terms the salvation of man doth depend; whether entirely on faith or entirely on works, or whether entirely on grace or free-gift. By Thomas Moor, author of the Clavis aurea, living in St. Thomas's in Southwark.; Clavis aurea. Addition.	Moor, Thomas, fl. 1695-1697.	1696 (1696)	Wing M2608AA; ESTC R216354	26,490	32

AN ADDITION TO THE Clavis Aurea WITH An Enquiry upon what Terms the Salvation of Man doth depend whether entirely on Faith or entirely on Works or whether partly on Faith or partly on Works or whether entirely on Grace or Free-gift By THOMAS MOOR Author of the Clavis Aurea living in St. Thomas's in Southwark God hath chosen the foolish things of the World to confound the wise and weak things of the World to confound the mighty 1 Cor. 1. 27. London Printed in the Year 1696. TO THE READER MY Clavis Aurea lies unanswered before that Book was printed I was so careful to send a such-like Copy to Dr. Stillingfleet another to Mr. Laughton at Trinity-Colledge in Cambridge and the same Copy that is now in print to Mr. Bradford now Minister of Bow but all of them refused to discourse me the reason I could never know of their Refusal Dr. Stillingfleet would not flatly deny me but tyred me out in coming after him This Clavis Aurea now in print I sent one to Mr. Vincent and after some time I visited him with two Friends with me but he positively refused to discourse one Once I visited Cambridge having chosen the Trade of a Barber preferring it before the tempted Life of a Lawyer to which my Parents designed me where having that opportunity as I Trimm'd them I put Questions to the Schollars by which and their Answers I was well Satisfied of the Strength of my Argments Most of the Ministers about where I live have had that Clavis Aurea but none of them have been so Charitable if they thought me in an Error to endeavour to convince me Alas Disputation is ten Thousand Times beyond Preaching for Men by Reading and Study may be well Skill'd in the Moral part of the Scriptures and pay from them preach to the World seemingly very good Doctrine and be cryed up for excellent Preachers but Disputation tryes a man to the quick it was the usual Custom of Paul in all places he came to to dispute and to enter into the Jews Synogogues and dispute them nay in the Market-Place Acts 17. 17. and he disputed daily in the School of Tyrannus Acts 19. 9. and received all that came unto him so that he sought Disputation net Shamming them of pleading Excuses and turning them out of Doors for fear of his Reputation and consequently his Interest I would have all men take especial notice that 't is a true thing that Custom in a false Religion hath diverted Men from the belief of what cannot be overthrown whereas its safer to rely on such unanswerable Proofs and that renders us excusable though the Tenets in themselves should prove erronious since we close with the Truth as near as we can and better cannot be expected from us but to adhere to what we cannot by Argument maintain is altogether Sinful having no Plea or Reason to give In Scripture Divinity was ever a Free-gift and could not be obtain'd by study and was given to Labouring and Tradesmen as the poor Fishermen and Paul a Tent-maker who work'd with his Hands to maintain himself and left it for an Example to others who now do not follow the Example of him that was able to reach them all 2 Thess 3. 8 9. As the Clavis Aurea hath not yet been answered so I account this likewise will prove unanswerable because I have followed an infallible way to ground my Tenets upon Thus All Scriptures are certainly true and as they are true they cannot contradict one another Really for then some of them must of necessity be false they may seemingly as they do contradict one another but not really because they are all true and nono false if rightly interpreted from the Originals and the Originals be also true but I take them as they lie in the last Interpretation which Interpretation if any pretend to contradict the only way to be satisfied of that is by these Books I have writ by veiwing their Harmony which if they were not rightly interpreted from their true Original● in what I write they could not be united in Sense one with another From this Rule I make choice of some place of Scripture for our satisfaction in Salvation that will admit of no other Exposition than its own literal Sense and besure no other Scripture must contradict that Scripture really because they are all true hence I make my choice of Rom. 11. 25 26. Blindness in part is happened to Israel till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in and so all Israel shall be saved I find this Text will admit of no other Exposition than its own literal Sense and Experience confirming its literal Sense true of their Blindness to continue so long which makes this literal Sense an infallible Exposition For Israel in part do die in Vnbelief and are born to die in Vnbelief since their Vnbelief is to contine so long till the Fulness of the Gentiles be come in which could not be for any Sin they had committed because they were not born and were they to have Free-will they could not be foreseen to contiune so long in Vnbelief which Exposition is infallible as in this Book I prove more largly I must of necessity then since all Scripture is true and none false bring all Scriptures of that concern to concur with it and they must not contradict it for then some Scriptures must be false but this will appear more easy to your Vnderstanding in reading this Book I must likewise tell you that all Scripture of Salvation that carry a double Sense must be brought to this of Rom. 11. 25. otherwise they prove nothing in themselves as carrying a double Sense so all Arguments that carry a double Sense I reject because then there will be no end of Controversy As for Example The Worm that never dies and the Fire that is never quench'd Isa 66. 24. may be brought to signify a sting of Conscience and a real Fire after this Life or may be taken thus when united to Rom. 11. 25. when a new Heaven and Earth is made as appears in the Texts before then all Flesh that is all Men shall come and worship before me from one new moon and from one Sabbath to another that is always and shall go forth and look upon the Carcases of the Men that have sinn'd against me c. Now if all Flesh come and worship before him who are left for them to go forth and look upon but as they have been the Children of the Flesh and now in Glory they shall consider themselves and abhor their former condition in the Flesh and so by the Worm that never dies and by the Fire that is never quench'd may be signified the Wrath of God excluding these very Persons Bodies eternally from Heaven This last Exposition of that Text then will appear the truest and let the Exposition be what it will it must not contradict that Text of Rom. 11. 25. which will