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A89274	Mercies for man. Prepared in, and by Christ, even for such as neither know them, nor him. Discovered, that they might know, and enjoy them. Or a discourse of the interest there is for all men in, and by Christ in the end, and usefulmesse of the beleevers peculiar priviledges and service. In which is also some information about that service to which the grace of God, that bringeth salvation to all men, instructeth, and obligeth the beleever for the good of them all, according to capacity, and opportunity given him. Likewise some directions for, and concerning Christian magistrates. In the opening some instructions arising from the Apostles exhortation to Timothy, 1 Tim. 2.1, 2. Delivered in November 1653. at the Munday meetings at Black-Friers: and because what then was spoken, met with some publick opposition, this is now published for further satisfaction. Written by Thomas Moor, Junior.	Moore, Thomas, Junior.	1654 (1654)	Wing M2605; Thomason E744_1; ESTC R207022	135,708	156

truth is not plainly manifested but one thing spoken and another meant or the meaning locked or sealed up from us under other expressions contrary to 2 Cor. 4. 1 4. when the pen of the Scribe especially in those things main and fundamenttal is rendered as vain and too empty to give his sence and meaning and yet men pretend wisdom and that they have the Law of the Lord with them Jer. 8. 8 9. This Vision of all being a sealed book upon this account it 's affirmed of such Their whole fear and worship though they honour him with their lips is taught by mens precepts and therefore not right worshipping The reason of such an Assertion concerning the whole worship meerly on this account is this The summe of the Gospel being hid they are lost or out of the way and cannot have any right understanding or usefulness of the instructions of the word of the Lord as to their worship of him having rejected the summe and fundamentals of it and that in which the fellowship of the Spirit is to be met with for opening the rest They have therein rejected the word of the Lord and what wisdom is in them Jer. 8. 8 9. 2 Cor. 4. 3 4. And this is the reason of their roeling and erring in all things hard to be understood they are unlearned and unstable 2 Pet. 3. 16. that is not having learned Christ aright and so all truth as it is in Jesus that Vision of all or not attending and waiting to learn and have the usefulness of all truth according to their needs and capacities through the knowledge and usefulness of that summe of the Gospel the testimony of God concerning him as Isa 28. 10 11 12 14 16. John 6. 45 46. Eph. 4. 21. They therefore presently pervert those things in the Scriptures hard to be understood and then also to frame their apprehensions in every thing to such pervertings of the Scriptures in things hard they pervert all other Scriptures to their own destruction These are such ungodly ones as yet have a form of godliness but deny the power resist and oppose the truth as it is in Jesus The Father is not rightly honoured or worshipped by them The true Worshippers worship the Father in Spirit and truth John 4. 23. The truth of all types promises and former revelations of God to men in and according to which the Father is to be worshipped is Christ Jesus Phil. 3. 3. The testimony of Jesus as now come forth is to us the Spirit of prophesie through and according to which the Father and Son God in Christ is to be acknowledged believed in and worshipped by us Rev. 19. 10. And thus our Saviour explicates that John 4. 23. according to these two Scriptures compared in John 5. 22 23 24. The Father judgeth no man that is otherwise then as follows but hath committed all judgement to the Son to this end that all men should honour the Son even as they honour the Father that now in honouring the Son as come forth and glorified in our nature through sufferings they may therein truely acceptably honour or worship the Father And for further opening how and wherein the Son is rightly honoured and so the Father in him he addes He that heareth my word that revelation of the Father that he was delivered to death for our offences raised for our justification as declared in the Gospel giveth and through and according to it beliveeth on him that sent me he hath ever lasting life c. Therefore believers are exhorted to hold fast the believing remembrance of the things heard from the beginning the word of the beginning of Christ and to have recourse thereto as to that Spirit or Unction it being the immediate birth or off-spring of the Spirit it self and so Spirit according to that rule John 3. 6. His name an oynment poured forth Cant. 1. 2. for understanding all things for preserving from every evil word and work for direction and furniture to all service and suffering 1 Cor. 15. 1 4. 2 Tim. 2. 7 8. 1 John 2. 20 24 27. And therein and so they shall be found exercising themselves to godliness Honesty signifies righteousness equity or justice in our demeanour towards all men and that such as in which there is chastity or sincerity to the main design for which we are set in the world purity of heart and cleanness of hands in prosecuting the good of all men working righteousness or walking righteously in all our conversation with and amongst them as Psal 15. and 24. Isa 33. 15. According to the teachings of that grace of God that bringeth salvation to all men and so in like expressions it is joyned with living godly in that Tit. 2. 11 12. and opposed to worldly lusts The grace of God that brings salvation to all men hath appeared teaching us That denying ungodliness and wordly lusts we should live righteously soberly and godly in this present world looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of the mighty God our Saviour who gave himsef for us to redeem us from all iniquity that he might purifie to himself a peculiar people zealous of good works So 1 Pet. 2. 11 12. it 's opposed to fleshly lusts which being heeded and listened to do hinder the Soul of so living honestly Therefore dearly beloved saith Peter I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims abstain from fleshly lusts that warre against the Soul having your conversation honest among the Gentiles that in the day of their visitation they may glorifie God Like that Phil. 2. 15 16. Do all things without murmurings and disputings that ye may be blameless harmless the Sons of God in the midst of a crooked generation amongst whom shine ye as lights in the world holding forth the word of life and that both in word and conversation The doing that which is just and equal between man and man and so unto all or that which is so in the sight of men this is certainly here meant by or contained in living honestly as Phil. 2. 16. Rom. 12. 17. 1 Pet. 2. 15. and 3. 16. But this alone is too scant a definition of the living honestly here meant yet all that is signified by it is no more but a walking righteously and doing that which is lawful right but that which is so in the sight of God and according to the teachings of that grace of God that brings salvation to all men goes further then that which is so in the sight of men and they are both together in this living honestly as may be seen in one instance 2 Cor. 8. 20 21. That no man might blame them in the abundance administred by them they did provide things honest not onely in the sight of God but also in the sight of men signifying that they did provide things honest or walk honestly in the sight of God in administring abundantly of whatever God had given them for the good

of godliness and honesty to get peace with any or live quietly with them that will be worthily reputed a loving the things of the world and the love and fellowships of or peace with men more then him or the praise of men more then the praise that comes of God alone and will render a man unworthy of him Mat. 10. 32 39. John 12. 42 43. Yet a man living in all godliness and honestly he may lead his life quietly and peaceably with and amongst those that are ungodly turbulent unjust and devising deceitful matters against him and that for Christs sake and the Gospels or at least he may endeavour it as much as is possible by being for peace even while they are for war Psal 35. 13 14 20. and 120. 6 7. and yet not joyne or comport with them in their ungodly principles or wayes nor allow or have fellowship with their unfruitful works of darkness but in a constant holding fast faith and a good conscience exercising himself in godliness and honesty be alwayes fleeing from and avoiding them departing from iniquity according to the teaching of that name and grace of Christ professed by him and so reproving them bearing witness and striving against their sin and that with meekness long-suffering and doctrine and yet with constancy Heb. 12. 3 4. 2 Tim. 2. 19 26. and 4. 1 5. However then this is first to be minded the Saints of God such as through grace believe they are to lead their lives and be continually exercised each according to their capacity in godliness and honesty Godliness is the true or right worshipping of God the honouring or glorifying of him and walking in a right acknowledgement of him in all things and so in service of him according to the teachings of that grace that brings salvation to all men which in that appearance of it by Christ teacheth that denying all ungodliness we should live godly See it explicated by this Apostle 1 Tim. 4. 8 10. Having exhorted Timothy to exercise himself to godliness on this account that it's profitable to all things he proves that thus verse 10. For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach because we trust in the living God who is the Saviour of all men especially of them that believe where comparing the verses it appears that the trusting in and so the whole worshipping of the living God in and according to that declaration of his name in his Son where he hath revealed himself to be the living God the Saviour of all men especially of them that believe This is godliness or right worshipping of God and so to be exercised herein and hereto was to exercise himself to godliness which he should finde profitable to all things even to his teaching and strengthening in this present day to all his service and suffering And so with this 1 Tim. 4. 7 8 10. agrees that description of a godly person Psal 1. He that walks not in the counsel of the ungodly nor stands in the way of sinners nor sitteth in the seat of the scornful he refuseth foolish and unlearned questions and positions of science falsely so called such teachings counsels and documents about the worship and acknowledgement of God or of Christ as in which God in Christ is not honoured according to his word But the great testimony of God concerning him which is the summe of all the matter of the Fathers teaching or learning Joh. 6. 45. Eph. 4. 20 22. and the key of knowledge for opening all things pertaining to the knowledg and worship of God is laid by And so the fear and worship taught by the precepts of men or after the wisdom of this world which is foolishness with God and teaches enmity to the truth and way of worshipping God as it is in Jesus he avoids refuseth and shuns such ungodliness and also flees youthful and fleshly or worldly lusts and exerciseth himself to godliness 1 Tim. 4. 7. and 6. 11. 2 Tim. 2. 22 23. that is as in the Psalm his delight and continual exercise is in the law or doctrine of the Lord the old Commandment preached from the beginning the testimony of God concerning Christ the law of liberty as explicated James 1. 25. he looketh into it and continueth therein his faith his fear his whole worship acknowledgement and service is taught by and according thereto he shall be stable successful and so blessed in his deed and accordingly we have a description of ungodly persons though having a form of godliness yet denying the power the root and life thereof And with it a declaration of the general reason they are so unstable and easily tossed to and fro with every wind of doctrine as Psal 1. 4. with Eph. 4. 14. and do so much miscarry in their apprehensions of all things pertaining to the knowledge and worship of God They erre in vision they stumble in judgement Isa 28. 7. and 29. 9. the description of them I say and the general reason of such their erring and instability we have Isa 29. 11. The vision of all was become unto them as the words of a book that is sealed c. and so rendered by them to others and this fundamental blindness it may seem God had now in part given them up unto but it was because they had first wilfully closed their own eyes and made it their own proper wilful iniquity against the light and reproof of grace as Isa 28. 10 11 12 13. with Mat. 13. 13 14 15. The Vision of all is Jesus Christ as declared in the Gospel in whose face now God hath manifested the light of his glory so as he that seeth him seeth him that sent him he that believeth on him believeth on him that sent him John 12. 44 46. 2 Cor. 4. 6. yea he is that true light that in revealing the Father doth manifest all things in their proper colours The Light of the world John 8. 12. and 12. 46. with Eph. 5. 13. That vision spoken of Hab. 2. 2 3. compare Heb. 10. 37. 'T is to us Jesus Christ as now declared in that preaching of the Cross who was before witnessed in the Law and Prophets compare Isa 29. 11 14. with 1 Cor. 1. 18 19. c. This therefore called the Vision of all because it 's the Vision of all Visions the foundation and key of knowledge for the opening of all doctrines the great things of Gods Law Hosea 8. 12. Mat. 23. 13 23. Luke 11. 52. and also because it 's the Vision of for and to all men the light of the world it holds forth tidings of great joy of greatest and most excellent concernment for them all and at all times Luke 1. 10 11 14. Prov. 8. 1 6 7. 1 Tim. 1. 15. This is rendered as a sealed book when the Gospel as preached by the Prophets and Apostles in and according to the import of its own expressions is looked upon and presented as a Riddle or hidden thing in which

yet there may be a prevention and the Decree is not gone forth against them or any of them you cannot but in the constraining operation of this love of Christ earnestly beseech and perswade them and lay down your selves to win them Let that therefore be considered by you 3 Minde also for your provocation hereto and direction herein the many examples of Christs servants before you See David evermore on the commemorating any enlargement in distresse love testified or mercy received from God he was led out and enlarged with more earnestness on such occasions to desire invite and endeavour that all others with him would acknowledge and blesse the name of God for his goodnesse that they would come to him trust in him poure out their hearts before him make proof of his graciousnesse and readinesse to do them good signifying That ●he bottome-matter of his glorying or rejoycing the ground and foundation whence such mercy issued to him and upon the account of which God was such a refuge for him was such and so really prepared with God and full of vertue for all others that any other might certainly expect the same or the like according to their needs and capacity from it that he had met with in looking to him according as his grace witnessed in that he hath already done for them leadeth them Ps 4. and 34. and 62. 5-8 66. 5-8 95. 96. 98 100 107. 1-8-15 16 c. So Paul mentions it as one great end of Gods shewing chief mercy to him a chiefe sinner for a pattern to others that should after believe yea for an encouragement to such as being obliged invited to believe the truth of Gods goodness and propitiousnes towards them by the grace manifested in what he hath done for them as all are might discourage themselves from the consideration of the greatness of their sins and so delay or defer to believe as some say and we have good reason to believe from the end and scope of the place the words may be read and in consideration hereof is enlarged in heart to commend that saying which he had proved so full of faithfulnesse as worthy of all acceptation by every one of them at all times and in all cases and needs while yet the day of grace is extended towards them God holding open the door and by any means calling them to beleeve That Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners c. 1 Tim. 1. 12-15 16. See also how he sets his example before us in this matter 1 Cor. 10. 31 32 33. Whether therefore you eat or drink or whatever else you doe even in things of that nature as buying selling wearing apparrel in words and gestures 1 Cor. 7. 30 31. and 6 7. 1 Tim. 2. 9 10. 1 Pet. 3. 1 2 3. and 1. 13-18 with 2. 11 12 c. and 4. 3-11 Eph. 4. 24 25. to the end and 5. Tit. 2. 1-10 11. Rom. 12 13. Do all to the glory of God And how that in all these things giving none offence no just occasion of scandal or stumble to the Jew nor to the Gentile nor to the Church of God even as I saith the Apostle please all men in all things that is not in having fellowship with their evill wayes and unfruitful works of darknesse Eph. 4. 11. 8-11 1 Pet. 4. 3 4. But so as may be for their good to edification and to the adorning the name and doctrine of God our Saviour before and among them in all goodnesse gentlenesse honesty moderation or sobriety quiet bearing reproach and evils from them c. as Rom. 15. 2. 3. not seeking mine own profit but the profit of many that they may be saved be ye herein followers of me saith he even as I also am of Christ Chap. 11. 1. with Rom. 15. 2. 3. 4 Forget not the recompense of the Reward both present and eternal you shall have in this life a hundred-fold more in things infinitly better then those you deny your selves in and forsake for Christs sake and the Gospels and in prosecuting this great design the good of all men better name better kindred better treasures c. though with persecution and in that world that is to come eternal life a full enjoyment and possession of it without persecution or molestation Mar. 10. 29 30. You shall herein now render your selves as children of your Father who causeth his Sun to shine and Rain to fall on the just and unjust and is kind to the unkind and evil Mat. 5. 44 45. Lu. 6. 35. 36. whose grace even in these things bringeth salvation to all men Tit. 2. 11. Rom. 2. 4. he having so loved them as to give his onely begotten Son for them the Saviour of the world Joh. 3. 16. with 1 Joh. 4. 14. which is both the fountain of and witnessed in all these mercies Psal 85. 10 11 12. Act. 14. 17. you shall herein render your selves one with your Lord Husband and Head in his main Design for the good of all yea hereby grow into more likenesse and onenesse with him even as he and his Father are one J●● 17. 21 22 23. yea herein is his Father and yours glorified in your bringing forth much fruit Joh. 15. 8. who also will honour you with his presence fellowship and approbation however men reproach you and cast out your name as evill under heaven and afford you room and entertainment where your Lord and Master is nor will suffer you to have worse use then your Lord and Master had and in his Gospel and spirituall presence in this world still hath which may administer to you joy and boldness in any day of trial here because as he is so are we in this world for it is enough for the Disciple to be as his Master c. Joh. 12. 26. and 14. 21 23. 1 Joh. 4. 17. with Matth. 10. 24 25 40. Yea in following his steps in the prosecution of this great Design you shall heap coals of fire on the heads of your enemies that shall either tend to the melting them now or if now they will not suffer the melting operation of them to their everlasting burning hereafter yee shall be a savor of life unto life or of death unto death unto them Rom. 12. 18. 20 31. with 2 Cor. 2. 15 16. And for the time to come he hath spoken of things yet infinitly greater Though now being sent into the field of the world you bear forth your precious seed in tears which are occasioned by the hardnesse of the work the little profit it seems to have with men in respect of the many whose good is aimed at in it the storms of opposition and tribulations of divers sorts you meet with yet doubtlesse you shall return again with rejoycing bringing your sheaves Psal 126. And for your shame you shall have double in your own land you shall possess it everlasting joy shall be upon you Isa 61. 4.