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A57377	Clavis Bibliorum The key of the Bible, unlocking the richest treasury of the Holy Scriptures : whereby the 1 order, 2 names, 3 times, 4 penmen, 5 occasion, 6 scope, and 7 principall parts, containing the subject-matter of every book of Old and New Testament, are familiarly and briefly opened : for the help of the weakest capacity in the understanding of the whole Bible / by Francis Roberts ...	Roberts, Francis, 1609-1675.; Calamy, Edmund, 1600-1666.	1648 (1648)	Wing R1583; ESTC R20707	139,238	403

notorious scandals amongst them As 1. Their suffering of the incestuous person among them who should have been delivered to Sathan by their Church-Governours c. 5. 2. Their covetous and quarrelsome law-suits even before Infidels c. 6 1. to 12. 3. Their fornications which they counted as indifferent things c. 6.12 to the end 3. He resolveth their doubts or questions propounded to him touching 1. Marriage and therein concerning 1. Conjugall benevolence c. 7.1 to 8. 2. The unmarried and widowes v. 8 9. 3. Divorce v. 10. to 25. 4. Virgins v 25. to the end 2. Idolothytes or things sacrificed to Idols shewing that they ought not under pretence of Christian liberty eat to the scandal of their brethren c. 8 as he preached without wages which yet were due to him that he might avoid the calumny of his Antagonists and became all things to all men to gaine them c. 9. By other arguments he condems eating things sacrificed to Idols as being idolatry or communion with devils and inconsistent with communion with Christ in his supper c. 10. c. 11.1 4. He directs and endeavours to reforme their practice in divers particulars 1. How men and women are to behave themselves in point of their outward Habits in publique Assemblies c. 11 2. to 17. 2. How the Lords Saints ought to be managed and received c. 11. v. 17. to the end 3. How all spirituall gifts are to be employed for promoting the Churches profit and preserving the unity of the mysticall body c. 12. beyond all which gifts grace as love c is much to be preferred yea gifts without grace are as nothing c. 13. 4. How they should prophecy the woman still keeping silence in their Churches c. 14. 5. He condemnes and confutes the prophane errour of them that denied the Resurrection c. 15. 6. He instructs them about the Collections for the Saints at Jerusalem ●c 16 1.2 3 4. III The Conclusion of the whole Epistle with certain advertisements about more private affairs exhortations to certain duties and salutations c. 16.5 to the end II Corinth THe II. Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the CORINTHIANS So called from Paul the Penman of it of whom see before in Epistle to the Romans and from the parties to whom he wrote viz. The Church at Corinth of which see in I. to Corinth and to all the Saints in all Achaia 2 Cor. 1.1 probably there being many Saints in that Province who could not so safely and conveniently meet in Church-Assemblyes but were dispersed up and down by reason of the turbulency of those times Calvin in loc When this Epistle was written see before in the Table Occasion of this Epistle seems to be those Calumnies and aspersions cast upon Pa●ls words and actions by false Apostles and other his adversaries after his former Epistle they charged him with l●vity that he came not to them according to his premise with pride and tyrannicall severity because of the incestuous person with less●ning the authority of the law and that however he was glorious in his letters yet in person he was but base c. Paul therefore wipes off these aspersions shows that he wrote not his former Epistle to them for any such ends but for promoting of their salvation So that this Epistle is for most part of it Apologeticall viz. Pauls Apology against his adversaries calumnies and this the end and Scope of it as also to testify his love to them and to prevent his having sorrow from them when he should come unto them 2 Cor. 2.3 4. Principall parts are I. An introduction or Exordium to his Epistle c. 1 1. to 8. II. The substance of his Epistle containing a Treatise Apologeticall and Hortatory 1. In the Apologeticall or excusatory part of he Epistle 1. He purgeth himselfe both from the charge of l●vity and temerity that he came not to them according to his promise 1 Cor. 16.2 to 8. And of severity in the case of the incestuous person showing them the true causes of his absence wherein to clear himself from severity c he inserts his exhortation to them touching the restoring and comforting of the incestuous person excommunicated according to his former Epistle but now repenting c. 1 8. to the end and c. 2. 2. He commends and magnifies his ministery to them 1 Partly from the effect it had on them Converting them c. 3 1. to 6. 2 Partly from the subject matter of his ministry viz. The Gospel farre surpassing the law in glory c. 3 6. to the end 3 Partly from his undaunted constancy in preaching the Gospel notwithstanding all afflictions thereupon incident unto him those afflictions working for him a far more exceeding and eternall weight of glory c. 4. His assurance of which glory he demonstrates upon divers grounds c. 5. 2. In the Hortatory part of the Epistle He exhorts the Corinthians and beseecheth them 1. To walke worthy of the Gospel and not to receive the grace of God in vaine and this is done more Generally c. 6 1 to 14. More specially by avoiding the fellowship of insidels and idolaters c. 6 14. to the end and c. 7 1. 2. To beare him like affection in receiving his doctrine and exhortations as he beares towards them for their repentance and kindnesse to Titus c. 7 2. to the end 3. To a liberall contribution to the poor Saints at Ierusalem and in Iudea and this by many emphaticall Arguments c. 8 and c. 9. 4. To behave themselves with such du●ifull obedience to his doctrine and ministry that he may have cause to use lenity and gentlenesse towards them and not be put to exercise that severity against them which he intended against some c 10. whereupon that he may vindicate himselfe and his Apostleship from contempt in their eyes who preferred the false Apostles before him he enters upon a necessitated and forced commendation of himselfe and his Apostleship by many considerations c. 11. and c. 12. III. The Conclusion of the whole Epistle 1. With Comminations of severity and sharpnesse which he will use towards them if they repent not c. 13 1. to 11. 2. With valedictory exhortations and salutations c. 13. v. 11 12 13 14. Galatians THe Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the GALATIANS So intituled from the Penman Paul who wrote it and from the Churches in Galatia to whom he wrote it Gal. 1.1 2. Galatia so called from Galli i. e. The French that came and inhabited there who called the countrey after their name That they were French all agree but from what part of France they came is lesse evident see Calvin's judgement herein Calv. in Argum. Epist. ad Galat. Galatia was an ample Province of Asia Minor neer to Phrygia into which anciently entred a people from Gallia of Europe and seated themselves betwixt Bithynia and Cappadocia as is testified by Strabo l. 12. Iustin. l. 25. ab initio Livi. l. 8. decad 4. Plin. Nat. Hist. l. 5. c. 32. The more principall cities