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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

create himself as govern himself or have a Power given him so to do But God worketh in us both to will and to do Phil. 2. 3. It is not you that speak but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you Mat. 10. 20. In all Human Things it is so which are Examples of Things Divine we can reach no farther and therein we are safe teaching us to trust perfectly in God and throughout the Scriptures those that trusted in him God never failed them but relieved their Necessities and moved in them to walk in his Ways for an Effect moves directly as the Cause moves it as the Spring doth the Wheels of a VVatch as the Artist doth set the Spring and why it must not be so between God and Man the Reason is yet to be given by the Opposers That which is free is not bound if I had Freewill what occasion have I to require a farther assisting Grace I observe likwise that Hell-fire was not threatned to Adam nor to his Posterity after him in case he fell Which argues firmly that his Fall was ordained before or else no such Punishment intended for that was the only time to have it threatned if ever intended But I know no such reason for Man to be so sollicitous about Adam's fall since I am satisfied it is the same thing for me to be ordained or compelled to commit Sin as to be subjected to it through Adam's Ofsence for through all my Endeavour I cannot avoid my Nature falling in Adam or my Subjection to Sin by his Fall heither was I the cause of his Fall The Scripture is a Mystery and little Satisfaction as to Freewill can be drawn from it For though St. Paul said as before that he was carnal sold under Sin and the things he would he could not perform yet it is said James 1. 13. That God tempteth no Man to evil but every Man is drawn away by his own Lust Here we may be very well satisfied that Lust is termed our own though it cannot be avoided And this is plain since the Flesh lusteth against the Spirit and the Spirit against the Flesh and these are contrary one to the other that we cannot do the things we would Gal. 5. 17. And Christ commands us in the Lord's Prayer to pray to our Father in Heaven that he would not lead us into Temptation If God doth not lead us into Temptation or suffer it by his own Consent why doth he teach us to pray him not to lead us into Temptation Objection If Sin be an Infirmity why is it punished I answer To make Man more sensible of his Sins or Infirmities and in that we take the more notice of the Perfections of the Almighty as his Holiness and his Power in punishing Sin for we endeavouring to escape the Punishments of Sin we endeavour the more to avoid Sin whereby we take the greater notice of Sin or our Infirmities But I deny eternal Punishment for Sin after this Life its Punishment being here on Earth that we might become as God in Knowledg of Good and Evil and so learn to prize our future Happiness the more Sin and its temporal Punishment is then very necessary and both determined by God And there is no Justification in the Blood of Christ without a Commission of Sin for Christ came not to call the Righteous but Sinners to Repentance and so consequently no Glorification Objection We have Freewill to do Evil of our selves but not to do Good I answer The Evil or Sin is an Infirmity We must then do Evil because we have not Freewill to do Good seeing we must be doing either Good or Evil. Objection If Sin be an Infirmity and so unavoidable it is in it self pardonable what then did Christ die for and if no Hell-fire what did he save us from I answer It hath been proved that the Jews Unbelief is an unavoidable Sin therefore an Infirmity But that which Christ saved us from was an eternal reducing us into the same Nothing that we were before the Creation which Death if Adam had fallen wilfully must have been his Punishment and Satisfaction for Sin For Hell-fire was not threatned under the Name of Death for Death is without Sense or Feeling but an eternal Torment in Fire is a tormented Life in which is both Sense and Fee●●ng And this is easy to believe if we consider that there is a vast difference between Hell-fire and Death to be threatned to Adam Sin is the Breach of God's Commands though through Infirmity in the Creature yet determined by God and unpardonable in i● self but through the Blood of Christ and good Reason for it for God created all things to manifest his Wisdom in Christ Eph. 3. 9 10. He gave us the Law by Moses whereby we may discern the difference between Good and Evil Jus●●●● and Injustice and this Law being broken unavoidably by Man as God determined it was necessary to set forth his own Holiness to satisfy this Law so determined to be unavoidably broken by Man Hence he himself comes down from Heaven and fulfills this Law by his Death rendring Satisfaction for Sin From whence flows a Reconciliation between God and Man in Christ's Blood God not intending to be reconciled but by Justice satisfied deseribed in the Law of Moses And this stands to reason that the chief Cause of the Breach of Justice must render the Satisfaction to Justice he being made perfect by suffering which is an undoubted Proof that Adam's Fall was fore-ordained and he fell unavoidably Otherwise also for Sin the Death of Adam must as well render the Satisfaction as be a Punishment Objection Sins may be wilful and in that Sense they may be avoided yet the Death of Christ may satisfy for them he paid our Debt● I answer The Law of Moses in setting forth the Property of Justice or Equity commands Life for Life Eye for Eye of the Cause offending Goods nor Money in this Case will serve And he that determined this to set forth Equity or Justice must force one to be destroyed by another as the innocent Children in Matth. 2. 16. or otherwise he could not have rendred the Satisfaction since none but the Cause can do it So then I say if Freewill were in Man nothing but the eternal Death of Man could render Satisfaction to Justice or this Law of Moses which requires the Cause only to render Satisfaction And what hurt is this to us when the present Troubles are but the encreasing us in the Knowledg of God and his Terrors whereby we learn to prize our Happiness hereafter Now if Christ's Blood will satisfy for for all sorts of Sins all sorts of Sins must be Infirmities and not wilful by wilful I mean that it lies in the Power of the Creature either to commit Sin or avoid it at his pleasure But I have sufficiently proved Sin an Infirmity but however I will take notice of St. Peter Our Saviour told

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 I thank thee O Father Lord of Heaven and Earth because thou hast these things from the Wise and Prudent and hast revealed them to Babes Matth. 11. 25. LONDON Printed in the Year 1695. The Preface to the Reader Christian and Friendly Reader WHoever thou art that happens to meet with this little Treatise my earnest Desire to thee is that thou would'st suspend thy rash Censure of the Subject till thou hast throughly perused it over and over and begged the Assistance of God's Enlightning Spirit to understand aright and also consider the Concurrence of Scriptures and always be sure to magnify and not lessen the Infinite Love and Mercy of God who in all Ages even from the Creation of the World has kept this Mystery concealed only to some of his faithful Servants the Prophets and such as were endued with a large Portion of the Holy Spirit therefore St. Paul 1 Cor. 2. 14. saith The natural Man receiveth not the things of the Spirit of God for they are Foolishness to him neither can he know them because they are spiritually discerned So that for want of this Spiritual Guide these Mysteries have laid hid but God by the Prophet Malachi in the 4th Chapter says that Elijah shall come before the great and dreadful Day and shall turn the Heart of the Fathers to the Children and the Heart of the Children to the Fathers least the Earth should by him be smitten with a Curse But many will have this dreadful Day to be the Destruction of Jerusalem but that cannot be since a heavy Curse was there inflicted and therefore not turn'd away But when Elijah here spoken of comes he shall unite all in Love and join all Hearts into one all shall be in Harmony then shall the Prophecy be fulfilled that the Knowledg of the Lord shall cover the Earth as the Waters cover the Sea And they shall sing that angelical Song Rev. 15. 4. Who shall not fear thee O Lord and glorify thy Name for thou only art holy for all Nations shall come and worship before thee Then shall that part Rev. 14. 6. be fulfilled That the Angel shall preach the everlasting Gospel to every Nation and Kindred and Tongue and People These things I write not for to get my self a Name or to broach a new Opinion but after many Years of Discontent in Spirit and weary Travels to several Vniversities and conversing in my Travels in several Nations without Satisfaction at last it pleased the Divine Will by the Assistance of his Holy Spirit to assist me As to the Manner I shall pass by It may be some will say this will be an Encouragement to Sin I answer that Faith which works by Love is the most true And besides what Person soever there be that once comes to the Truth and to be perswaded in the Truth of this Doctrine but will always be offering up himself to his Creator so far as he is capable This Doctrine will most certainly be the best for uniting all into a firm Love and fit all to meet Christ at his Second Coming Which is the earnest Desire of thy hearty Friend Thomas Moor. CLAVIS AUREA or a Golden Key By which Hidden and Mystical Scriptures are opened and explained c. THE Holy Apostle St. Paul being converted and sent to preach to the Gentiles and many of the Gentiles receiving his Doctrine and they seeing the Jews would not receive it he being doubtful whether the Gentiles should not exalt themselves above measure and triumph over the Jews by thinking that now the Jews had rejected and they had received the Gospel that the Jews should be eternally damned and they to be the only Heirs of Salvation But Paul to remove this great Mistake comes and discovers the greatest of Mysteries to the Gentiles by telling them that altho the Jews were for a time excluded and they only to be of the Visible Church of Christ yet the Jews were not excluded Salvation and Paul says he hath declared all the Counsel of God Acts 20. 27. So that from Paul's Words I have deduced my Doctrine which I call a GOLDKN KEY and by which I prove the Salvation of all Men. And first I consider Romans 11. 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 and 33 verses The Words are these 25. For I would not Brethren that you should be ignorant of this Mystery lest you should be wise in your own conceit that Blindness in part is happened unto Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in 26. And so all Israel should be saved as 't is written there shall come out of Sion the Deliverer and shall turn away Vngodliness from Jacob. 27. For this is my Covenant unto them when I shall take away their Sins 28. As concerning the Gospel they are Enemies for your sakes but as touching the Election they are beloved for the Father's sake 29. For the Gifts and Callings of God are without Repentance 30. For as ye in Times past have not believed God yet have now obtained Mercy through their Vnbelief 31. Even so have these also now not believed that through yo●● Mercy they also may obtain Mercy 32. For God hath concluded them all in Vnbelief that ●● might have Mercy upon all 33. O the depth of the Riches both of the Wisdom and knowledg of God! how unsearchable are his Judgments and his Ways past finding out EXPOSITION The Words Blindness in part can signify no other than part of Israel are Unbelievers Since in the 28th verse ●●● apparent that their Unbelief is so great that it makes them Enemies to the Gospel Here we are to observe also that since the Jews unbelief is to continue till the fulness of the Gentiles be come in Let us see how St. Paul came to know that the Jews unbelief should continue so long which will explain the word happen Blindness in part hath happened unto Israel Certainly we must grant this that seeing St. Paul foretold so long before that this Blindness which was happened to Israel and should continue till the fulness of the Gentiles that is till the Jews are called this Unbelief was determined by God and revealed to Paul by the Holy Ghost And this is confirmed in the 32d Verse that God hath concluded them all in Vnbelief that he might have Mercy upon all But some may say When is the fulness of the Gentiles I answer When the Jews are called the fulness of the Gentiles are come in and not before as Paul notes in the 25th verse Blindness in part hath happened unto Israel until the fulness of the Gentiles be come in Again Jerusalem shall be trodden down of

interpreted from the Original Tongues because by understanding the Mysteries of them he is able to unite them in Sense one with another And when they will not unite their Interpretation is false All Scripture is true if rightly interpreted therefore in Disputations one Scripture cannot be brought to contradict another Therefore they must be united in Sense or no Satisfaction can be drawn from them Our Saviour spoke to the Jews in Parables that seeing they might not see Mat. 13. 13 14. And without a Parable he spake nothing unto them Mat. 13. 34. Now Parables are not Realities but Blinds to darken the Truth so that if plain places of Scripture be understood we have no occasion to mind Parables for they must agree to those plainer Texts I call those plain Scriptures that are not Parables So that all terrible Places of Scripture concerning Hell Fire must be brought to Rom. 9. and Rom. 11. or they will never be united in Sense one with another which is the reason of so many Religious in the World Now for Example I will unite some of them Let us observe the distinction between the Children of the Flesh which are all Men in the Flesh and the Children of the Promise which are the Souls of all Men or glorified Persons and then 't is easy to unite the Scriptures And this is that which St. Paul calls comparing Natural Things with Natural Things and Spiritual Things with Spiritual Things The Children of the Flesh these are not the Children of God but the Children of the Promise are accounted for the Seed Rom. 9. 8. And seeing 't is proved that notwithstanding Israel in part die in Unbelief yet they are saved then there must be two Everlastings the one as long as this Life endures the other Everlasting to all Eternity which is plain for the Troubles of the Body are everlasting or for ever to the Body that is so long as the Body remains under its present state of Flesh and Blood But the Everlasting of the Soul in Glory shall eternally abide without end And therefore Hell-Fire or Damnation which in Scripture is termed the Punishment for Unbelief can be nothing but the Sufferings of this Life and not an eternal tormenting in Hell-Fire after this Life So that the Goats are the Children of the Flesh and the Sheep the Children of the Promise and so are the five foolish Virgins the Children of the Flesh the five wise the Children of the Promise Mat 25. wherein observe there were just so many Foolish as Wise Understand the same as aforesaid of the Loaves and Wheat Mat. 13. 26 c. As for the Parable of the Rich Man and Lazarus it sets forth God's Power and Terror and shews the Inability of Abraham to bring the Rich Man to him Now Abraham was he whom the Jews depended on and Christ here insinuates himself as in other places to be of greater Power than Abraham to save them And so John the Baptist doth the like saying Think not within your selves to say ye have Abraham for your Father for God out of these Stones can raise Children to Abraham As in Adam all die in the Flesh so in Christ are all made alive by the Promise in the Spirit 1 Cor. 15. And so no Adulterer Fornicator or Vnbeliever as they are in the Flesh shall enter into the Kingdom of Heaven Thus Christ is the Saviour of all Men especially of those that believe 1 Tim. 4. 10. By a Figure we say in a Fever or by any thing else that is warm as hot as Fire And so in Rev. 14. 9 10. They that receive the Mark of the Beast shall be tormented with Fire and Brimstone and yet in the Chapter before no Man must buy or sell but what hath the Mark of the Beast And he shall cause all the Rich and Poor Small and Great Bond and Free to receive his Mark So then who shall escape Rev. 13. 16. But some will say this is meant all that buy and sell c. that do not believe shall be cast into the Lake So that Believers are not cast in such as had or have such Faith as the Apostles had We grant then that Unbelievers are cast in So are Israel in part they die in Unbelief yet are they saved as hath been proved So that by Fire Brimstone and Fire Everlasting Fire and such terrible Expressions figurates the Sorrows of this Life or some Finite Suffering and also that there are two Everlastings In the 20th Chapter of the Revelations is mention made of a first Resurrection and a second Death As for the first Resurrection 't is the first and last and but one and the same Since in the 4th verse the Souls of the Martyrs that had not worshipp'd and received the Mark of the Beast lived and reigned with Christ a thousand Years And the 6th verse they that have part in the first Resurrection the second Death hath no power on them for as Christ our Head arose from Death to Life and became the First Fruits of them that slept So shall all Mankind have but one Resurrection And our Blessed Saviour Mat. 22. 30. saith that in the Resurrection they shall be like the Angels of God in Heaven Neither doth he make any distinction between Believers and Unbelievers And in the 32d verse of the same Chapter saith God is not the God of the Dead that is of the Flesh but the God of the Living that is of all Souls These Souls shall live and reign with Christ not only a thousand Years but for ever Hence there can be but one Resurrection Again it is said in ver 7. the rest of the Dead lived not till the thousand Years were finished Hence those that live and reign with Christ till the thousand Years are finished and for ever are part of those that are dead in that the Text saith the rest of the Dead lived not till the thousand Years were finished So that those which are in Heaven as touching the Body are dead and the rest of the dead are Men living in the World in the Flesh and shall never live as Children of the Promise Now let us examine what this second Death is which so affrightens Men This is described in the 14th and 15th Verses And Death and Hell were cast into the Lake of Fire This is the second Death And whosoever was not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the Lake of Fire The first Death then is the Death of Man in the Body the second Death is the casting of Death and Hell into a Lake of Fire But who are those that are cast into this Lake Why all Men whose Names are not written in the Book of Life And who are those but Unbelievers c. and such are the Children of the Flesh as Israel that die in Unbelief yet as they are the Children of the Promise are they written in the Book of Life Thus the Exposition of this 20th of