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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

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