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heart_n	harden_v	moses_n	pharaoh_n	4,537	5	10.9869	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

Moses several times to Pharaoh commanding him to 〈◊〉 the People go yet at the same time he told Moses that he had hardned Pharaoh's Heart that he should not let the People go Many places of Scripture may be brought of the like nature But the Oppossers will not believe these things because they cannot comprehend them with their narrow and clouded Capacities But saith the Lord As the Heavens are higher than the Earth so are my Ways higher than your Ways and my Thoughts than your Thoughts Isa 55. 9. I would have thee to lay by all Rashness and seriously consider these things and the Lord enlighten thy Vnderstanding which is the Desire of thy Soul's Friend Thomas Moor. The Mystery of Iniquity laid open and the Doctrine of FREE-WILL fully refuted c. WHEN Almighty God made Man he gave him a Law which he had no sooner received but he broke and if Adam had had an equal power of Scanding or Falling he would have stood longer than he did but it pleased the Divine Wisdom to suffer him to fall that it might be made known by the Church the manifold Wisdom of God according to the eternal Purpose which he purposed in Christ Jesus our Lord Eph. 3. 11 And it hath pleased God to hide this mystery from Man that is from the generality of Men now almost six thousand years for Ignorance will not have Sin an Infirmity but must of necessity be wilful and that it must lye in the power of the Creature to avoid sin or it cannot be a sin and if there be a power of avoiding sin then there is a power in the Creature of doing good but St. Paul tells us positively Rom. 7. 21. I find then a Law in my members that when I would do good evil is present with me to will is present with me but how to perform that which is good I find not Rom. 7. 18. And St. Paul in Eph. 1. 11. We have obtained an Inheritance being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the Councel of his own will So that if God worketh all things in us as is evident Philip. 2. 13. then is Man wholly Passive and not able of himself to do good or evil and then consequently sin is an Infirmity Objection In Gen. 6. 56. It is said that when God saw the wickedness of Man It repented him that he made Man and it grieved him at the very heart Answer The Scripture tells us of false Teachers that should deny the Lord that bought them 2 Pet. 2. 1. What Murders and other horrid sins have been and now are daily committed none can be ignorant of And what was foretold by Christ and his Apostles we may by Reading observe as the Murder of the Apostles a falling away from the Faith and the latter days to be perilous times and Men to be lovers of themselves more than lovers of God Blasphemers c. 2 Tim. 3. And yet for all this God continues Man upon the Earth therefore it is not for want of foresight in God but his seeing sin committed and punished that grieves him This was said to them in the Old World when they lived many hundreds of years and the longer they lived the more sin they commited and the more punishment they endured which when God beheld it grieved him and our Saviour in Mark 13. 20. saith That for the Elects sake whom he hath chosen which are the Children of the Promise he hath shortned the days Now God having chosen a method undoubtedly the best to set forth his Attributes that Man thereby might the better know Godand himself and that Man through misery here might be the more perfectly happy hereafter ordained sin and punishment to be inseparable And Man being made Flesh and Blood is a sign that he was intended to be subjected to sin and so consequently to punishment so long as he is on this side the Grave now seeing such great sins are daily committed and yet God continues Man upon the Earth it argues that these things were predestinated at first Unbelief is so great a sin that Damnation in Scripture is made the punishment for it yet unbelief is an Infirmity which our Saviour testified while he was upon the Cross in saying Father forgive them they know not what they do and sure'y he that prayed for them was both able and willing to Pardon them and as St. Paul said had they known it They would not have Crucified the Lord of Glory 1 Cor. 2. 8. For Israel had a Zeal to God Rom. 10. 1. and therefore would have done any thing for the best Nature is for its Interest in all it is Interest that makes the Turks so Zealous for their Mahomet and from asking our selves the question we may judge of them did they think it more beneficial to believe in Christ than in Mahomet they would certainly do it and the same may be said of the Jews So that this unbelief that is compelted on the Posterity of Israel cannot be said to be a punishment for their Forefathers unavoidable unbelief but there is a Mystery in it hid from the World which Mystery I have already laid open before in the first Book of the Salvation of all Men. True Faith we know is the Fountain of good VVorks since it works by Love especially if such a Faith as the Apostles had could be obtained being accompanied with assurance of Salvation So Unbelief is the Fountain of evil Works it makes us depart from the Living God Take heed least there be in you a heart of Vnbelief in departing from the Living God Heb. 3. 12. Unbelief makes us set our Affections on Things Below as on Pride Covetousness Revenge Lust c. All Discourses concerning Freewill in matter of Works are not so material then since Works good and bad are but the Rivers that run from those Fountains of Unbelief and Faith and good VVorks are no farther meritorious than they are signs of true Faith except it can be proved that we can be saved by VVorks without Faith What doth it profit my brethren tho a Man say he hath Faith and hath not Works can Faith save him James 2. 14. Faith without Works is dead verse 20. I will shew thee my Faith by my Works verse 18. Therefore Freewill as touching true Faith which works by Love is chiefly to be discourst and that Faith being obtained good Works will follow And though we cannot perform in good Works the intent of our mind that we desire to do yet God accepts the VVill for the Deed as Paul saith Rom. 7. 16. If then I do that which I would not I consent into the Law that it is good now then it is no more I that do it but sin that dweleth in me c. That Unbelief is compelled on Man we have already proved now of Adam's fall it is plain from Eph. 3. That God created all things to manifest his manifold VVisdom

him that he should deny him thrice before the Cock crew which he did and then the Cock crew John 18. 27. The Scripture was fulfilled by the Murder of the Infants Matth. 2. Which therefore was fore-ordained by God in that this Murder was foreseen so long before even in the days of Jeremiah about the beginning of the 70 years Captivity Now according to Reason which ought to be our Rule for what we believe and so renders us excusable in Christ if Christ had not the Power of bringing this thing to pass of Peter's denying him exactly thrice and that a Cock should crow immediately upon it how came Christ to foresee this By this we may observe also that the Devil which compell'd Peter so exactly was only an Instrument commanded and limited by God to do it But many will say this was to set forth Peter's Weakness and Self-Confidence and that he ought to have relied on Christ for his Protection I answer To such kind of Ends as this was all Sin entailed or compelled on Man therefore Freewill is a dangerous Doctrine For by our discerning of Sin in our selves we see God's Holiness and not to depend on our Strength but by seeing the dreadful though temporal Punishment for Sin we see God's Terrors and Wonders whereby we learn to know him the more Death is made the Wages of Sin that God's Power over Death that astonishing Power might be experimentally and better discerned for as Light entring into a dark place destroys the Darkness of it so when we are dead and raised to Life again Death is destroyed So that Death is not destroyed by Death for then 't is still Death but when Life enters into Death as Life into a dead Man then Death is destroyed as Light destroys Darkness So that by this we shall experimentally know God to be the God of Light and Life by his Power over Death and Darkness By the Knowledg of Evil as well as by the Knowledg of Good we became as God in Knowledg in that Point behold the Man is become as one of us to know Good and Evil. There are many Scriptures that give light to this Doctrine I have hardned Pharaoh's Heart he shall not let them go Exod. 4. 21. and St. Paul draws a general Rule Rom. 9. from this particular Example Therefore he hath Mercy on whom he will and whom he will he hardneth And God says of Ahab Who will perswade Ahab to go and fall at Ramoth Gilead the lying Spirit said I will the Lord said Go thou shalt prosper 1 Kings 22. 22. Judas inevitably betrayed Christ and destroyed himself The Lord said unto Shimei Curse David 2 Sam. 16. 10. If the Prophet be deceived I the Lord have deceived that Prophet and I will destroy him Ezek. 14. 9. But I have proved that Men are predestinated and compelled to die in Unbelief before they were born which proves one of the chiefest Foundations of Sin it being also one of the greatest Sins in that Damnation is its Punishment to be an Infirmity Yet all Men in general not one left out whether good or evil Believer or Unbeliever but what shall be perfect in Faith and good VVorks after this Life and shall be saved which is proved in the first Book this second Book being chiefly to prove ●●●●n Infirmity and determined by God to set forth his Attributes I shall put an end to this with the words of the Prophet Comfort ye comfort ye my People saith your God speak comfortably to Jerusalem and cry unto her that her Warfare is accomplished that her Inquity is pardoned for she hath received of the Lord's hand double for all her Sins Isa 40. 1 2. FINIS