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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51263	A disputation: whether Elijah, in Malachi 4. be any other prophet than what hath already been in the world? By Thomas Moor' author of the Clavis Aurea.	Moor, Thomas, fl. 1695-1697.	1695 (1695)	Wing M2608CA; ESTC R221899	7,046	16

A DISPUTATION Whether Elijah in Malachi 4. be any other Prophet than what hath already been in the World By THOMAS MOOR Author of the Clavis Aurea Blessed are you when Men shall hate you and when they shall separate you from their Company and shall reproach you and cast out your Name as Evil for the Son of Man's Sake Rejoice ye in that Day and leap for Joy For behold your Reward is great in Heaven for in the like manner did their Fathers unto the Prophets Luke vi 22 23. LONDON Printed in the Year 1695. THE PREFACE Reader IN my Clavis Aurea or Golden Key I thought I had done the World no small piece of Service by uniting the Scriptures in Sense one with another according to the proper Signification of Words not turning SHALL into the Word WILL and the like the first denying Free-Will which the last owns If I say Christ was kill'd according as God's Hand and Counsel determined before to be done as in Acts 4. 28 then it 's answered that it was foreseen which is true for what God in his Counsel determined before to be done must of necessity be foreseen But they would fain have here the Words thy Hand and thy Counsel determined before to be done to signify only foreseeing and that God had no Hand in it which is against the express Words of Scripture And if I say in the Words of Christ to Pilate You have no Power over me except it be given you from Heaven Above John 19. 11. this may as well be sai● to signify Foreseeing and so Pilate had n● Power given him from Above to Crucify him So that the Words WILL and FORESEEING bear all the Sway in their Expositions there being then no greater difference between such Words than between th● Words White and Black So that by changing the Words of a Text the Sense of th● Text is changed But where I pleased on I offended many and of those many I observed not one of them could understand m● Method though so clearly laid down o● proving the Salvation of unbelieving Israel which if understood would compel all terribl● Parabolical Places of Scripture to unite to it But now a little to open their Vnderstanding I send this small Treatise into the World as one Reason why I writ that of the Clav●● Aurea or Golden Key T. M A QUESTION WHether Elijah or Elias in the last Chapter of Malachi be any other Prophet than what hath already been in the World The Author's Opinion to his own Question IN the Old Testament the Word Elijah is the same as the Word Elias in the New Testament as appeareth in Luke 4. 25. compar'd with 1 Kings 17. where our Saviour calls that Elijah that was sent to the Widow of Serephath Elias Mal. 4. 5 6. Behold I will send you Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful Day of the Lord And he shall turn the Heart of the Fathers to the Children and the Heart of the Children to the Fathers lest I come and smite the Earth with a Curse Hence this mutual Love which Elijah shall cause between God and Man and Man and Man is to continue to the end of the World which Preparation therefore is still to be brought to pass For in 2 Tim. 3. it 's thus writ In the last Days the Text doth not say in the last Days of all perillous Times shall come and Men shall be covetous disobedient to Parents lovers of Pleasures more than lovers of God This is but a sad Preparation against the second Coming of Christ to turn him from bringing a Curse on the Earth but it promotes Elijah's Office or Business otherwise what occasion would there be of his turning Mens Hearts if they were already turn'd An ANSWER drawn from the Athenian Society in their Mercury of Numb 10. Vol. 2. Verbatim THE Gentleman who proposes the Question holds it in the Affirmative his Judgment is that Elias here prophesied of is yet to come the Reasons he brings to favour his Opinion is taken from the Text in the 4th of Malachi 5 6. I send Elijah the Prophet before the coming of the great and terrible Day of the LORD And he shall turn the Hearts of the Fathers to the Children c. lest I come and smite the Earth with a Curse Hence he argues If this mutual Love Elijah is to work is to continue to the end of the World then he is not yet come and accordingly interprets the great and terrible day of the Lord here spoken of by the day of Judgment and final Consumation of all Things And indeed it was the Opinion also of Tertullian and perhaps of most of the antient Christians as wel● as 't is of the Jews and Papists at present an● some of che Learned Protestants also tha● Elias shall come before the general day of Judgment On the whole we remark that supposing it true that Elias were then to come as Mr. Mede and others are of Opinion it doth not here follow that he is not come already for he may come twice in which Supposition we can discover no manner of Incongruity That he is come already once and that John the Baptist was he and the same prophesied of in Malachi we are more than once assured by the Infallible Oracles of Truth it self He was the Messenger that was to prepare the way of the Lord Mat. 3. 3. He was to go before the Lord in the Spirit and Power of Elias with his zeal and fervour of Life to turn the Heart of the Fathers to the Children and to make ready a People prepared Luke 17. Our Saviour spoke in such a manner that the Disciples understood he meant John and well they might for he tells them so positively Mat. 11 12. From the days of John the Baptist c. This is Elias which was for to come Again 17. 12. Elias is come already For that Argument brought to prove that he is not yet come because the Love he was to produce was to continue to the end of the World a little before which it 's thence concluded he was to appear in it is grounded on a false Supposition Namely that by the great and dreadful day of the Lord must be meant the general day of Judgment whereas that Phrase is not seldom taken for the particular Judgment of Jerusalem a Type indeed of the great day thus Acts 2. and in several places tho perhaps not so many as some great Men have thought For the Earth here mentioned all who are any ways vers'd in the Old Testament knows it signifies no more than Land that particular Land of Judea whenever 't is found without any thing else affix'd thereto Now the Inhabitants of this Land the Baptist did in great Numbers restore by preaching to 'em Repentance and thereby prepare the way of the Lord and had sav'd the Country from utter Destruction and that Curse which afterwards fell on them for