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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

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