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A31280 An impartial examination and refutation of the erroneous tenents of Thomas Moor in his dangerous writings intituled Clavis Aurea &c. wherein he is not ashamed to insinuate his being the Elias mentioned in Malachi, denies an Hell, or future punishment, and boldly asserts the inevitable salvation of all men. T. C. 1698 (1698) Wing C135; ESTC R35832 20,498 25

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Hypothesis I shall in the first place endeavour to touch thereupon Therefore First The plain scope of the Apostle in those words seems to be For I dare not assume this bold Assertor's infallible strain than which no greater mark of a Satanical delusion That he would re-mind the converted Gentiles of their former miserable State whilst Strangers to the Gospel and fix on them the most humble sense of the greatness of their present Priviledges their own unworthiness and the danger of ingratitude carnal security and a careless using those inestimable Talents committed to their charge And he heightens this so necessary Momento from the tremendous Example of the obstinate Jews who by an exorbitant Zeal for and confidence in the Externals of their Religion were justly left to so great Blindness as to reject oppose and crucifie the true Messiah the End and Center of their Typical Worship whom they pretended to wait for Act 13. 27. Having a little before spent a whole Chapter in vindicating the Divine Justice in these great and arduous Points against the bold and groundless Cavils of such as would be ready to impeach it the better to confirm the believing Gentiles in their Title to the Priviledges of the New Covenant and well knowing the great propensity of Humane Nature to Pride Ostentation and Carnal Security he does by divers Metaphors and strong Arguments very pathetically endeavour to fortifie them against the same Stumbling-block which had been so fatal to the other For though these degenerate Branches of faithful Abraham had thus stubboruly and wilfully excluded themselves from the fulness of their Idoliz'd promises yet the Gentiles being ingraffed into the same Root or Principle of Faith with the Primitive Jewish Ancestors who liv'd and dy'd in the true Faith of the Messiah were not to insult over them but from their Fall should rather be excited to the greater caution humility and fruitfulness as before hinted and the rather because this rejection of the whole Unbelieving Race of literal Israel is not to be esteemed absolute it being very probable that God may hereafter in his due time 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24. ver and by some extraordinary Dispensation of his Providence powerfully convince and convert a remnant of them to the Christian Faith Nevertheless he will not thus own or respect them considered as literal Jews but as Gospel Believers in common with the Gentiles both together making up the spiritual Israel the true Universal Church peculiarly purchased by Christ justified solely by Faith in him and sanctified governed and preserved by the happy influence and conduct of the Holy Spirit For all i. e. both Jews and Gentiles which include the whole World having sinned verse 32. and being concluded by God in Unbelief as to their own natural or moral capacity are equally made partakers of the same rich Mercy and free Grace of God in the Gospel This seems to be the plain drift of this profound Apostle as well in the forementioned verses at in the two former chapters and divers other parallel places of his Epistles and particularly of this to the Romans One while he tells us Rom. 2. 28. He is now a Jew that is one outwardly ch 9. v. 6. that all not Israel that are of Israel at another place Gal. 6. 15. that Circumcision availeth nothing and ch 3. v. 28. that there is neither Jew nor Greek c. but all are one in Christ Jesus Secondly The best and safest way of expounding this part of St. Paul's Writings is to compare it with the general scope of other Scriptures and especially with the assertions of the same Apostle in his other Epistles who doubtless best knew his own meaning If in this or any other part of his Writings he ever intended to suggest the certain and inevitable Salvation of all men or that the Jews dying in Unbelief and Enmity to the Gospel are notwithstanding elected and saved we should not find him in the same Epistle so pathetically lamenting their dreadful condition as to wish himself accursed from Christ for their sakes Rom. 9. 2 3. nor giving such cautions not to treasure up Wrath against the day of Wrath and revelation of the righteous Judgment of God who will render to every one according to their deeds ch 2. v. 5 6. nor would he have used holy policy such condescension such unwearied pains undergone such trials and hardships in the service of his great Master much dearer to him than his life Act. 20. 24 viz. propagating the Gospel and establishing its Converts in their holy Faith becoming to the weak as weak c. 1 Cor. 9. 22. that by all means he might save some earnestly exhorting them so to run as that they might obtain the prize and for their greater vigilancy and circumspection enforcing on them the Example of his own Spiritual Warfare by which he kept under the relicts of corruption lest when he had preached the saving Gospel to others himself should be cast away 24 25 26 27. verses nor would he have spoken of the differing Effects of the same unchangeable Word of Life as being the savour of death unto death in them that perish and of life unto life in them that believe and embrace it 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. nor yet mentioned any thing of the Gospel being hid from such as are lost and judicially blinded by the God of this World 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. nor dehorted the backsliding Galatians from those works of the flesh particularly mentioned with a positive assertion that all those who commit such things with allowance and perseverance shall not inherit the Kingdom of God Gal. 5. 19 20 21. nor would he have exhorted the Church at Philippi not to be terrified by their Adversaries which was to them an evident token of perdition c. Phil. 1. 28 nor told them afterwards with weeping of some that walked contrary to the Gospel being Enemies to the Cross of Christ whose end is destruction Phil. 3. 18 19 nor would he have comforted the Thessalonians under their sore troubles and persecutions with a Memento of Christ's glorious Coming to give them perfect rest and an entrance into the heavenly Kingdom as also to take vengeance on them that know not God and obey not the Gospel c. who shall be punished with everlasting destruction c. 2. Thes 7. 8 9. 'T is needless to enumerate the many concurring Testimonies of the other Apostles and of our Saviour himself in the Records of the Evangelists lest I should seem too tedious in a point so clear that the contrary Assertion as T. M's must strike at the whole scope of Scripture and shew a degree of obduracy beyond comparison What is urged of Christ's giving himself a Ransom for all c. 1 Tim. 2. 6. and being the Saviour of all men but especially of them that