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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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

Cains blood was not immediately shed because that he might propagate children to the replenishing of the world which then was unfurnished 35. Gen. 4.16 And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord. Psalm 139.7 Whither shall I go from thy Spirit or whither shall I flee from thy presence Cain being made a runnagate left his parents and their habitation and the place where they worshipped God In the Psalms Gods omnipresence is maintained * Gen. 4.15 with Psalm 139.7 The presence of God is either the presence of his essence and so he is in every place or the presence of his speciall face and manifestation and so he is present in and with his Saints especially in his Ordinances and Assemblies Some think the former words are fitted to Cains Atheisticall conceit which was that he could get out of the reach of Gods revenging hand but others more probably say is meant his going from the place where God gave evidence of his presence in his conference with him Or from his presence that is from that part or quarter of the world where God had his Church which is the place of his especial presence which he did as it were excommunicate himself from The other place shews no man can go be he where he will from the sight and presence of God which is in all places though even in these places they may go from the presence of his favour Cain was in the presence of his essence not of his favour 36. Gen. 5.24 And Enoch walked with God for God took him Rom. 8.8 They that are in the flesh cannot please God Enoch walking with God lived according to Gods will the Apostle by the flesh here understandeth men that walk after their carnall lusts * 37. Gen. 5.26 And Mathusalem The Doubt lies in this that by this account Mathusalem seemed to live to the end of the flood in the year 1656 and yet we read not of his entring into the Ark. But 't is answered from the birth of Lamech to the end of the flood is precisely reckoned 782 years and so many it was to that death of Mathusalem Seeing then he came not into the Ark we say the last year of his life was not compleat but onely inchoate the Hebrews and especially Rabbi Salomon that Mathusalem died seaven dayes before the beginning of the flood 38. Gen. 5.24 Enoch was not for God took him Heb. 9.27 It is appointed for all men once to dye Enochs translation was a work extraordinary 1 Cor. 15.53 1 Thes 4.17 it was to him in the place of death as the taking away of Elias and the translation of those who in the last day shall be saved alive But the Apostle sheweth what must ordinarily befall all men the consequence is not good from a singular priviledge to a generall rule 39. Gen. 6.3 His dayes shall be 120 years Chap. 11.13 Arphaxad and others after the flood lived above 400 years In the first place the space of time betwixt manifest impiety and the flood Aug. lib. 13. De Civ Dei 1 Sam. 15.11 and not the age of man is to be understood as if he had said unlesse the world repent they shall perish within 120 years * Gen. 6.3 with Gen. 11. Though some lived after the flood longer than 120 years yet this hinders not the agreement for the Text is not to be understood of mans life but of the time God would give them for repentance before the flood came on the world * Gen. 6.5 6 7. When the Lord saw that the wickednesse of man was great c. Gen. 8.21 I will henceforth curse the ground c. because the imaginations of his heart c. When the former place tells us because of the wickednesse of mens hearts and actions God sent the flood the latter place tells us that God decreed and resolved with himself that he will not again curse the ground not that by this he cancelled the generall curse inflicted for the sinne of man or give security against the future consuming the world by fire but that there should be no more such generall floods as this was This word Because in the second place may signifie Although as 1 Sam. 14.39 which reading reconciles the Texts in the first God threatens to destroy the world because the inhabitants were so bad In the other where he smelt the savour of his Sonnes righteousnesse in Noah's sacrifice He is resolved although the wickednesse of mens unclean hearts are so bad yet he will never take that course any more to drown the world 40. Gen. 6.6 It repented the Lord that he had made man 1 Sam. 15.29 God is not a man that he should repent Repentance as it is an argument of mans weaknesse so can it not fall upon God but the Scripture often speaks of God after the manner of men Aug. lib. 1. cap. 7. De Civ Dei Psal 131. and where it is said that it repented God there is meant the charge of things God still remaining unchangeable * Gen. 6.6 with 1 Sam. 15.29 Repentance is either properly or improperly taken properly taken for a passion of nature or change of the mind or improperly only for a change or alteration of actions God repents not the first way not so as to change his mind but he is said to repent when he doth as a man which repents change his actions in this or that particular according to the purpose of his own will 41. Gen. 6.9 Noah was a just man and perfect 2 Pet. 2.5 Psalm 13.3 There is none that doth good Rom. 3.12 Heb. 11. no not one Noah was just before God by faith and unblameable in the sight of men he is said to be perfect not as though he were without sinne but in comparison of others he had his conversation holy and without hypocrisie * 42. Gen. 6.9 with Rom. 3.10 Noah was two wayes just Imputatively Christs righteousnesse being reckoned to him by faith 2. Inherently and yet he was not simply just but in his generation or he was not absolutely just but comparatively in his generation compared with those of his time or he was inherently just that is sincerely just in his profession of Religion without hypocrisie but not perfect that is free from all sin There is a justice of parts and one of degrees No man is inherently in degrees fully compleatly and absolutely just though Gods children are just in parts and intentions to be so The second place is meant of man in his naturall estate no man is just so though by faith and Gods acception and their intention the children of God are just 43. Gen. 7.2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take Lev. 11.1 Moses divided the clean beasts from the unclean The Patriarchs before the flood had a distinction in their sacrifices between clean and unclean living creatures By the Mosaicall Law not only for sacrifices but for meat the use of the unclean wat forbidden 44 Gen. 7.6