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A51262	Clavis aurea; or, a golden key: by which hidden and mystical scriptures are opened and explained Wherein is clearly discovered and asserted, the doctrine of the salvation of all men. Also the mystery of iniquity laid open, and the doctrine of freewill fully refuted; by proving, that sin is an infirmity. By Thomas Moor.	Moor, Thomas, fl. 1695-1697.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2608BA; ESTC R216357	21,064	33

that die in Unbelief then there must be two Eternals or Everlastings in Scripture the one as long as this Life endures the other after this Life to all Eternity But now to proceed with Rom. 9. 9. This is the Word of Promise At this time will I come and Sarah shall have a Son Sarah had none but Isaac typifying Christ this then is the figurative Promise the real Promise is Gal. 3. 16. Now to Abraham and to his Seed were the Promises made He saith not unto Seeds as of many but as of one and to thy Seed which is Christ And indeed by no other Name can we be saved The Law of Moses is called the Law of Sin and Death Rom. 8. 2. it discovers Sin and brings us under Sin in that we cannot keep it and inflicts Death if we break it but in one Point Now what is this but that we might be Heirs to the Promise or Gospel This Seed Promise Gospel or Christ was preacht to Abraham four hundred and thirty years before the Law of Moses was given at Mount Sinai Gal. 3. 17. So that the Inheritance by this Seed Gospel Promise or Blood of Christ is by Glorification and not here in the Flesh as St. Paul saith If we have hopes of Christ only in this Life then we are of all Men most miserable For Paul was a great Sufferer in the Flesh as being whipp'd ston'd in Death 〈◊〉 c. Add to this that unbelieving Israel are saved tho they die in Unbelief then is it clear that the Children of the Flesh which are not the Children of God are Men in the Flesh let them be either Good or Evil and that the Children of the Promise which are truly the Children of God are the Souls of all Men that ever were are or will be not one excepted of what Nation soever or of what Belief in their glorified State All Authors have miss'd of this Distinction between the Children of the Flesh and the Children of the Promise which is the cause of so many Volumes in Divinity yet the Scriptures could not be made plain and easy and indeed it is Error that fills Volumes when Truth will lie in a little Compass A farther Illustration of what hath been said both by Reason and by uniting the Scriptures in Sense one with another bringing them to the 9th and 11th of the Romans which is a Key to unlock the rest And I shall also answer some Objections Object 1. If all Men are saved 't is an Encouragement to commit Sin I answer He that fears is not made perfect in Love 1 John 4. 18. That is he doth not believe God to be an Infinite Goodness St. Paul takes notice of our Salvation concluded and agreed upon before the World began not for any Works that we could do but according to his own Purpose and Grace which was given us in Christ Jesus 2 Tim. 1. 9. And these great Mercies of God moved him to please him the more Rom. 12. 1. as being a reasonable Service Love is the fulfilling of the Law Rom. 14. 8 9. Therefore it 's the Sum of all that is expected from us and what can we endeavour more and farther to do The Fear of Hell cannot perswade us to the highest Duties of Christianity which is Love to God with all our Hearts from whence flows our Love to our Neighbour as our selves and to do Good to those that despightfully use us Therefore the Fear of Hell is a hindrance to perform the highest Duties of Christianity perswading us there must be FREE WILL Love thinks no Ill to the Object it loves and as Love is the Price of Love by that Object it is accepted Grace and Mercy must draw us to this Love of God if we believe he is so Good and Merciful to save all Men we have the greater reason to love him but on the contrary if 〈◊〉 believe that he is so severe to punish Finite Sins with 〈◊〉 and Eternal Punishments and that he will never be 〈◊〉 we cannot have so great Affections towards him 〈…〉 in Persons under Despair who are always crying out against him for his Severity And it is evident from Robbers Drunkards Swearers Murderers c. that 't is not the preaching Hell to them but the want of Grace that they do not reform Hence the preaching of Hell makes not Men the better and Grace will do the work much better by Love if it please God to give it otherwise no Good can be wrought upon us If I deny FREE-WILL whereby I must account it reasonable and just for all Men to be saved then the Abuses and Affronts of my Neighbours I can with ease pass by as knowing they have not the rule of themselves So that the Effects of denying FREE WILL and allowing all Men to be saved draws our Affections perfectly to God and our Love and Charity to our Neighbours which are the highest Duties in Christianity and a better Hypothesis than the Doctrine of FREE-WILL which is the Fountain of Enmity and Persecution Well let us farther consider how reasonable it is for all unbelieving Israel to be saved When our Saviour was on the Cross he said Father forgive them they know not what they do and Christ that prayed for them was as able to save them as he was willing in that he prayed for them Israel had a Zeal to God Rom. 10. Now they that have a Zeal to God would do any thing for the best that they were sensible of And Nature in all things is for its Interest Who willingly would act against it The Jews zealously crucified Christ as a Blasphemer and did not the Jews think it for their Interest to believe in Christ Can we be so foolish as to imagine they would not rather believe if they could Thus Unbelief in Israel tho unavoidable to them till the Fulness of the Gentiles be come in yet this Sin of Unbelief is term d their own as all Sins are tho they are unavoidable in that Damnation also is the Punishment for it And so Israel thou hast destroyed thy self Hosea 13. 9. Our Saviour wept over Jerusalem and said How would I have gathered you as a Hen gathereth her Chickens but you would not Mat. 23. 37. And how should they be gathered when the things which belonged to their Peace which was Faith was hid from their Eyes Luke 19. 42. Now with what Argument Men can place FREE-WILL in an Effect passeth my Understanding for I am sure no Example can be brought for it Many are apt to say that the Scriptures are not rightly interpreted from the Original Tongues I answer Many Hebrew and Greek Words may signify divers things but their Interpretation must be according to the Sense of the Text and that Text must agree to other Texts and then the Interpretation is true And none but a Man taught the Misteries of the Scriptures by the same Spirit that Indiced them can discern when they are truly

the Revelations is the same as Romans 11. and 9. Now that Unbelievers are saved or such as have not Faith in this Life observe what our Saviour saith John 12. 47 c. If any Man hear my words and believe not I judg him not for I come not to judge the World but to save the World Which Words he saith were his Father's Words and his Father's Words are Life everlasting and saith Mat. 12. 31. that all Sins shall be forgiven nay all Blasphemies only the Sin against the Holy Ghost shall never be forgiven No more it shall as touching the Body or state of Flesh and Blood it shall never be forgiven but as touching the Promise this and all others shall certainly be forgiven Some shall rise to everlasting Life and some shall rise to everlasting Damnation John 5. 29. and so do Israel that die in Unbelief We are all quick and all dead that are in the Graves So Christ said Those that are in the Grave shall hear his Voice The Time is coming and now is observe now is when the dead shall hear his Voice and they that hear shall live John 5. 25. We are all as touching the Flesh shut everlastingly from the presence of God and his Holy Angels so we all live and all die There are many other Scriptures that seem to threaten Eternal Punishment for Sin after this Life but all must be brought to the 9th and 11th of the Romans otherwise they contradict one another And whenever we read any such terrible place of Scripture that seems to threaten Hell-Fire for Unbelief and Evil Works then presently say such is the Condition of Israel that die in Unbelief and yet they are saved Which clears the Truth and makes dark and terrible places of Scripture pleasant and discovers God to be a God of Love and not a God of Wrath. We are saved by Faith and that not of our selves it is the Gift of God Not of Works lest any Man should boast Eph. 2. 8 9. Now compare this with the Salvation of Israel that die in Unbelief and we may easily see that the Salvation of Man is a Free Gift So that when we have good Thoughts 't is a Free Gift good Works 't is a Free Gift and if God doth reward Faith and good Works he doth but crown his own Gifts by Rewards And when God shall open our Graves observe Grr●●s and bring us to our own Land the Land of Israel ther shall we know the Lord Ezek. 37. 13 14 c It would be redious for me to bring all seeming dissenting places of Scripture to the 9th and 11th of the Romans for their union in Sense one with another but I have here laid a Foundation for others to do it who if they are not with Israel under Blindness of Heart must readily agree to what I have said That all the Punishment for Sin is to happen in this Life and the Valley of Jehosophat in Joel 3. figurates the Graze which is the Punishment of all Men for Sin And this may be plain that by a Valley is meant the Grave when we consider that the Valley of Achor is called the Door of Hope Hos 2. 15. that is by the Grave we enter into Glory We are sown a Natural Body we shall rise again a Spiritual Body So that if we consider that only Death was threatned before Adam's Fall for his disobeying God's Commands and that in the Sweat of his Face he should eat his Bread which signifies the continued Series of Punishment for continuing in unavoidable Sin so long as he is in the Flesh Hence put altogether and you can find no other Punishment than in this Life for Sin and that no more than we are able to bear For Christ bad all our Iniquities laid on him and by his Stripes we are healed Isa 53. Object But some enjoy much Pleasure here yet are great Sinners shall they all receive alike I answer It hath been proved that all Israel shall be saved And there is no question but amongst such Multitudes the grossest Sins have been committed From the Scepter to the Spade all receive some Distress or other as Sickness Trouble of Mind Crosses and all Disappointments whatsoever tho some more than others and those that know most Troubles here will the more esteem Happiness hereafter to all Eternity I have no more to say than this that this Doctrine enables us above all other Doctrines to perform the highest Duties of Christianity and what can we expect to do more than to love our God with all our Hearts and our Neighbour nay our Enemies as our selves This Doctrine leads us to the Angelical Frame of the Apostles who being despitefully used yet prayed for and blessed those that persecuted and hated them It likewise gives us a serene Frame of Spirit continual Joys and Comfort in Afflictions a fervent Love to God and a desire or rather a panting after a Dissolution that we may be embraced in the everlasting Arms of our Saviour where are Joys and Pleasures for evermore FINIS THE Mystery of Iniquity laid Open AND THE Doctrine of FREEWILL fully Refuted By proving That Sin is an Infirmity By THOMAS MOOR For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good Pleasure Philip. 2. 13. LONDON Printed in the Year 1695. THE PREFACE TO THE READER Friendly Reader IN the first Part I have plainly proved the Salvation of all Men and in this I shall as fully prove that Sin is an Infirmity and God designed it to enter into the World and Death by Sin that he might make known his manifold Wisdom in a Crucified Christ he being a Lamb slain from the Foundation of the World For we may observe that when God created Adam● be created him Male and Female Gen. 1. 27. and so long as Adam was in that State he did not fall neither was he in a Possibility to fall But God seeing it was sit Adam should have a Companion cast him into a deep Sleep and separated the Female Nature from him of which he formed Woman Now God could as well have made Woman of the same Matter that he made Man with But God made her out of Man that there might be a Magnetick Love between them Now seeing the Devil could not tempt Adam therefore he a●●ost Eve and perswades her so she being tempted then she tempts Adam and so God suffered his Command to be broken But some may say it is against the Justice of God to command and yet design it to be broken I answer that in Gen. 22. we read God tempted Abraham and commanded him to offer up his Son Isaac for a Burnt-offering and when Abraham was just going to execute the Command God would not suffer him to do it So that God commanded Adam not to do a thing yet suffered him to do it and he commanded Abraham to do a thing yet suffered him not to do it So likewise God sent