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A64467 The reconciler of the Bible inlarged wherein above three thousand seeming contradictions throughout the Old and New Testament are fully and plainly reconciled ... / by J.T. and T.M. ... Thaddaeus, Joannes, fl. 1630.; T. M. 1662 (1662) Wing T831_VARIANT; ESTC R33916 334,239 278

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lose it 1416. 1 Tim. 2.4 God will have all men to be saved every one Acts 13.48 And as many as were ordained to eternal life believed All that believe in Christ God doth promote them to salvation and they by Gods Divine decree are pre-ordained to eternal life For Christ is the Saviour of all especially of those who believe * 1 Tim. 2.4 with Acts 13.48 All men Men of all sorts and Nations and conditions genera singularum not singula generum Secondly God by his will of Precept or signi would have all men to be saved not of purpose or bene placiti God by his will medii would have all men not by his will finis Remota hac dipretione quam divina scientia intra secretum justitia sua continet syncerissime credendum est c. August Setting apart the secret Will or Counsel of God it is sincerely to be believed that God would have all men to be saved That is offering to all the outward means of salvation as his Word and Sacraments 1417. 1 Tim. 2.5 There is one Mediator between God and man the man Christ Jesus Rom. 8.26 The spirit makes intercession for us with groans which cannot be uttered Christ is our only Mediator of Redemption and Intercession the Holy Ghost is said to pray for us when he stirreth up our hearts to prayer and causeth us to groan when we call upon God 1418. 1 Tim. 2.12 But I suffer not a woman to teach Tit. 2.3 Let the aged women be teachers of good things Women must not teach publickly in the Church lest they should thereby take occasion of usurping authority over the men but let them be in subjection let the aged women teach the younger women modesty and prudence at home for that they are commanded to do 1419. 1 Tim. 2.15 Women shall be saved in child-bearing Joh. 3.16 Whosoever believeth in Christ shall not perish but shall have everlasting life The first place is concerning the state of women and by for and in are set down for their consolation lest being married they should fall from the hope of salvation but they must continue in faith love holiness and sobriety * 1 Tim. 2.15 with Joh. 3.16 Though painful child-bearing were part of the punishment inflicted upon Eve and her Sex for her first transgression yet she and all faithful women shall he saved by Maries bearing the holy Child Jesus 2. Notwithstanding by child-bearing and subjection to Man God hath imprinted on women the mark of Eves punishment and all other women whence might be conjectured that in regard of this Curse there was no hope of salvation for the married women yet the Apostle teacheth that this shall not hinder their salvation if they abide in the faith now child-bearing and breeding is an ordinary way by which or through which women may go to heaven 1420. 1 Tim. 3.1 If a man desireth the office of a Bishop he desireth a good work 1 Cor. 7.20 Let every man abide in the same calling wherein he was called To desire a Bishops Office for that end that a man may serve God faithfully is not disallowed if a man have an honest vocation and continue in it he doth well 1521. 1 Tim. 3.15 The Church of the living God is the pillar and ground of Truth 1 Cor. 3.11 Other foundation can no man lay than that which is laid even Christ Jesus The pillar and ground he saith that the Church is but not the foundation it doth not primarily support the spiritual building but the Church it self is supported by the foundation * 1 Tim. 3.15 with 1 Cor. 3.11 It is called a pillar and ground of truth not absolutely or substantially as though the truth should be measured by the Church but the Church is a pillar demonstratively because it professeth the truth and as a golden Candlestick holdeth out the light in the world which is not elsewhere to be found but in the Church and it is the pillar of truth as it is the house of God suffering it self to be ruled and guided by the Word of God 1422. 1 Tim. 4.16 Thou shalt both save thy self and them that hear thee Luk. 2.11 Christ the Lord is our Saviour The first place speaks of the instrument of our salvation in the Ministry of the Word whereby the faithful attain salvation the latter speaks of the meritorious cause and that is Christ 1423. 1 Tim. 5.20 Them that sin rebuke before all Mat. 18.15 If thy brother trespass against thee tell him his fault between him and thee alone In the first place he saith what the duty of Pastors is in rebuking sins which are committed publickly to the common-scandal in the second he speaks of the sins of private men committed privately against private persons 1424. 1 Tim. 6.10 The love of money is the root of all evil Eccles 10.9 Pride Pride and covetousness are almost alwaies joyned together He is proud who desireth to exceed his condition he is covetous that would have more than enough neither of them can be contented with God himself these two were in the sin of the first man the chief ingredients 1425. 1 Tim. 6.16 God only hath immortality Mat. 10.28 The souls of men are immortal God of himself and in himself is immortal only but Angels and men by the grace of God 1426. 1 Tim. 6.16 No man hath seen God 1 Joh. 3.2 We shall see him as he is God being by nature invisible cannot be seen with bodily eyes The faithful either see God by faith in this life or after a special manner in the life to come we shall see him as he is by a more perfect way than we do here by the participation of his glory * 1427. 1 Tim. 6.19 with Eccles 10.9 Covetousness is said to be the root of all evil not as if all evil proceeded from it as it is a distinct species of sin though as Covetousness signifies any desire or longing after this or that so it may signifie the root But yet the Apostle intended not probably further than to shew that as from the root proceed infinite branches so from Covetousness proceeds many branches of sin as Hatred Fraud c. 1428. 2 Tim. 2.10 I endure all things for the Elect sake that they may also obtain salvation 1 Pet. 3.18 Christ hath once suffered for our sins The Apostle sustained all things for the Elect sake not by satisfying for them but by his example edifying and confirming them that they might not refuse to suffer something When he saith that they obtain salvation by Christ he shuts out his own sufferings that they may not be reckoned for satisfactory 1429. 2 Tim. 2.21 If any man purge himself from these he shall be a vessel unto honour 1 Joh 1.7 The bloud of Jesus Christ cleanseth us from all our sins Paul means purging from the corruptions of doctrine and manners Ver. 18. John shews a plenary redemption from our sins by Christ Jesus * 2