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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

a Figure of Election To the uncharitable Goats he bids Depart ye Cursed into everlasting Fire prepared for the Devil and his Angels But to the charitable Sheep he saith Come ye blessed of my Father receive ye the Kingdom of Heaven prepared for you from the Foundation of the World c. It 's plain this is a Parable and which must we realy upon Parables that carry a double Sense or Texts of Scripture that Experience makes its Exposition infallible which if granted as cannot be denyed but that we must adhere to an infallible Exposition and all Scriptures being true and none false and so must not contradict one another really all Scriptures then that carry a double Sense must be united to such Scriptures whose literial Sense Experience and Reason confirms which is Rom. 11. 25 and 26 verses Do we think then that Christ will come and sit upon a Throne judging the World when he hath already declar'd the Salvation of all Israel which as touthing the Promise are all Men The manner of the second coming of Christ is in another manner exprest in 1 Thess 4. 14 15 16 17 18. God will bring them with him which sleep in Jesus and those that remain shall be caught up with them in the Clouds to meet the Lord in the Air and Paul bids them comfort one another with these words We see then Men receive their Doom as they Die in that those that are asleep in Jesus God brings with him and in that he bids them comfort themselves with these Words there would be little comfort in a Judgment that one Man shall be cast into a Hell-Fire and another Sav'd like as Men in our Courts of Judicature one condemn'd to be hang'd before a sitting Judge and another sav'd But here those that remain are caught up to meet the Lord in the Air not that there is a sitting and trying of Men for then either by Works or Faith who shall be sav'd but Paul makes this Parable exactly agree to Rom. 11. 25 26. as it is unfolded by Rom. 9. 8. the Children of the Flesh these are not the Children of God but the Children of the Promise are accounted for the Seed For in 1 Cor. 15. ver 42. to the end of the Chapter where is a Distinction between the Children of the Flesh and Promise and particularly in the 50th Verse Flesh and Blood cannot inherit the Kingdom of Heaven And it follows in a Moment in the twinckling of an Eye the Dead shall be raised incorruptible and we shall be chang'd So that this Parabolical or Sitting Judgment figurates God's secret Decree of everlastingly destroying the Children of the Flesh by changing them and so as they were the Children of the Flesh they are punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of God 2 Thess 1. 9. the everlasting Fire here is his wrath everlasting against the Children of the Flesh as it is against Death which he destroyed by raising it to life and so it will agree to Rom. 11. 25 26. which it must not contridict and that 's our Satisfaction Have any yet pretended to define this Hell-Fire which Spirits are said to be cast into Will Elementary Fire burn them Dr. Tillotson in his 35th Sermon saith That Hell-Fire may be threatned but not intended whereby it 's evident he can prove no such real Place nor any Person cast into it Too many say there 's no eternal Death but Hell-Fire what then did Christ deliver us from I answer Call the Soul what you please it 's created and so God can reduce it to its first nothing or not created and then it can be nothing but God himsel● which he cannot kill nor burn And there cannot be a Seperation between the Spirit of God and God no more than you can seperate the Rays of the Sun from the Sun What I have writ is more true if we consider that the Punishment of Vnbelievers is Damnation in Mark 16. 16. And in Rev. 21. 8. Vnbelievers are cast into the Lake of Fire and Brimstone Yet Men are born to die in Unbelief as I have proved How then shall either the Jews avoid this Lake by their Unbelief or we by our Faith which so far comes short of a Saving Fatth But I find another thing in Scripture that terrible things are express'd to come upon Earth far more terrible than any Man ever saw in a literal Sense as can we think that God would give Power to a Beast to make Fire come down from Heaven to deceive Men which must needs do it and to give him Power to overcome the Saints and to cause all that would not worship him neither to buy or sell whereby they must be starv'd and to be kill'd without they worship him and receive his Mark and then to cast those Men that are thus compell'd and deceiv'd to receive his Mark into a real Lake of Fire and Brimstone Rev. 13. and 14. this being not consonant to the Sweetness of the Powers Above We must conclude then by this Fire is meant the Wrath of God cutting off all Men in the Flesh or the Troubles of this Life we are all cast into tho some more than others We find other terrible Places which tell us of a smoaking Pit and out of it came Locusts upon the Earth and had the Power of Scorpions not to kill Men but to torment them five Months But who ever saw such or who ever saw the third part of Men kill'd by Horses with Heads like Lyons or by Smoak and Fire and Brimstone that came out of their Mouths Rev. 9. Figures then in Scripture are more terrible than their Substance they denote And upon other Occasions we find the Figures greater than the Substance they figurate as the rejoycing in Solomon's Days That the Earth rent with the sound 1 Kings 1. 40. and Silver was as the Stones 1 Kings 10. 27. and the Men of Benjamen sting Stones to a Hairs breadth and not miss Judges 20. 16. and in John 21. Toat he supposed the World would not contain the Books that could be written of what Christ did We read of Sodom and Gomorrha are set forth for an Example suffering the vengeance of eternal Fire Jude 7. and Peter explains this 1 Pet. 4. 6. For this Cause was the Gospel preacht to them that are Dead that they might be judg'd according to Men in the Flesh but live according to God in the Spi●it for me to unite all terrible places of Scripture to Rom. 11 c. would swell this into a large Volum but they cannot contradict that Text of Rom. 11. 25 26. for then some Scriptures must be true and some false But I say i● there ●e a Hell-Fire let 's see how we shall escape it Where 's our Saving Faith or how shall Israel escape it and as to our works can we have no Satisfaction till we can live without commiring Sin This would be hard indeed and so we have a Gospel in

but there he saith it was through Christ that God gave him the Victory ●●● Sin and Death that is in reference to another World otherwise we must conclude he never died here in the Flesh The Spirit of Christ moved in him to do that which was good yet he teaches that he had a 〈◊〉 Temptation in the Flesh and preach'd a Doctrine su●eable●●● 〈◊〉 and suppose he got the Victory over Sin how should the Jews over their Unbelief In John 3. it 's said He tha● obideth in Christ sinneth not And in John 1. 8. If we say we have no Sin we deceive our selves c. This is the same as Paul said ' T is no more I that do it but Sin that is in me he did commit Sin but not willingly with a desire to commit it But alas ●● those that have not a Beam in their Eyes may by reading what is commanded and how far short they come of it easily discern they cannot live one Day without committing one ●in or another Now let us see how far short Men come of the Works of those that had this Faith we find St. Paul work'd to maintain himself caring not to burden the Church 2 Thess 3. 8 9 and left it for an Example Where the Holy Ghost was evidently given that Comforter Joh. 16. 7. that sweetness of the Powers Above that gave them assurance of Salvation and ravished them with such Celestial transporting Joys without which we may be said to be in Hell that this World and all its Glory was as dung Phil. 3. 8. They sold their Possessions and distribute● 〈◊〉 their Brethren the Christians wanted and accounted nothing their own they possessed Acts 4. 32. and this was easy to them that had a saving Faith or assurance of Salvation whereby the Love of God was spread abroad in their Hearts but these are hard 〈◊〉 these Days Thus have I ended the Description of Saving Faith without which a Man cannot be saved so that if there were such a lo●● Place of Torment as a Hell-Fire after this Life who can by his Faith escape it But I have proved in my Clavis Aurea and will make it more plain here that Faith is given 〈◊〉 this Life and therein must rest our Satisfaction for little Signs of Faith are now and I pass by the miraculous Cures o● the Apostles and their raising the Dead as Signs of their Faith But if Covetousness Pride Envy c. be Signs of Faith we see enough rich Apparel and out-vying one another instead of searching out and visiting distressed Familes 'T is 〈…〉 themselves give good Examples in this kind 〈…〉 may be they will not let their right Hands know wha● 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hands do An opening of some Obscure Places in the Clavis Aurea In Page 6 and 7. it 's prov'd that Blindness in part ●● happened ●o Israel till the Fulness of the Gentiles be came in Rom 11. 25. But to be more plain if this Unbelief was not ordained for them and to continue till the Fulness of the Gentiles were come in How came St. Paul to know this And such Unbelief could not be foreseen if Free-will was intended for these Men multitudes of them not being born The Fulness of the Gentiles is when the Jews are called evident from the Text viz Blindness in part is happened unto Israel till the Fulness of the Gentiles be come in The Fulness of the Gentiles also is when the Deliverer comes out of Sion to turn Iniquity from Jacob Rom. 11. 26. which Iniquity cannot be turned away but by Faith for as long as Unbelief remains upon them their Iniquity remains And so long as Jerusalem lies trodden under-foot the Fulness of the Gentiles are not come in as 't is writ Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles till the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled Luke 21. 24. From this then we must allow that multitudes of the Jews were ordained before they were born to die in Unbelief and amongst such multitudes the grossest Sins have been committed Yet the Scriptures tell us All Israel shall be saved they being Enemies also to the Gospel yet are elected and beloved Rom. 11. 25. 28. All the Reason then that the Jews are broken off through Unbelief can be no other as the Scripture tells you but that the Gentiles might be grafted in Rom. 11. 17. And so Sin and Unbelief is not the Original Cause that all are not Israel which are of Israel 't is only a Distinction between the Children of the Flesh and Children of the Promise As 't is writ the Children of the Flesh are not the Children of God but the Children of the Promise are accounted for the Seed Rom. 9. 8. The very Text it self tells you they are termed Israel though they are born to die in Unbelief in that it saith Blindness in part is happened unto Israel till the Fulness of the Gentiles be come in Rom. 11. 25. It 's but rational then that these unavoidable Vnbelievers should be saved and the Scripture agrees with it and besides Unbelief is a Cause of Sin as for want of a Saving Faith Men are covetous proud c. having only a form of Godlin●ss These Unbelievers and Sinners are notwithstanding termed Israel and the following Text saith All Israel shall be saved ver 26. So that the Children of the Promise must be all Men in the Spirit in their Glorified Estate tho they are the grossest Unbelievers and Sinners in the Flesh and this is very easy to believe since there is no Free-will in Faith and Unbelief is the Cause of gross Sins committed And in Sin there is not Free-will but some are made Vessels of Wrath as Judas to betray and some are made Vessels of Mercy as Paul who was created in Christ unto good Works which God before ordained be should walk in them Eph. 2. 10. And since such Examples are I would know the Reason why we must ascribe more Free-will to our Selves than the Jews Judas and Paul And why must not we draw a General Rule from these Particular Examples as well as Paul did from the Example of Pharoah's hardness of Heart Therefore saith Paul hath he Mercy on whom he will and whom he will he hardens Rom. 9. 18. They being then such Unbelievers ordained to Unbelief and born to die in Unbelief yet are saved there can be no Hell Fire after this Life considering also that amongst such multitudes that die in Unbelief they have committed the grossest Sins But to proceed farther the Promise extends it self as 't is as reasonable to all Nations nay to all Families of the Earth we see Sin nor Unbelief being no more a hindrance to its Extension than the premeditated Lye of Jacob was to the receiving of the Blessing saying I am Esau thy first-born Gen. 27. The Promise is this Gen. 26. 4. I will multiply thy Seed as the Stars of Heaven c. and in thy Seed shall all Nations of the Earth be