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B05943	The royall advocate. Or, An introduction to the magnificent and honourable laws of Jehovah the Lord Christ, now contaminated and despised by the present army-men of this nation. Asserting and controverting the holinesse, righteousness, perfectnesse, and universallity thereof, of divine right: in opposition to the heathenish, and antichristian laws, traditions, and vaine imaginations of the past and present, pretended Christian magistrates of this nation which they yet so much dote upon and endeavour to support, against the alone law giver, lord of heaven and earth, god of gods, king of kings, and lord of lords. / Published by John Spittle-house, now a prisoner for his testimony against the idolatry and tryanny of the present army men, priests, lawyers &c ...	Spittlehouse, John.	1655 (1655)	Wing S5014; ESTC R184541	66,921	80

thereunto and have no dependance at all either upon the Ceremonial Law or their pollitick constitutions but are as I have said conclusions and rules of justice grounded meerly upon the Loyall Law and therefore Jesus Christ could not destroy the one without the other But Needham himself hath confessed that Jesus Christ did ratisie the Royal law Ergo those judiciall precepts afore mentioned Resp 2. That the Apostles of the Lord Jesus taught the use thereof appeareth from Pauls 1 Epist to Tim. 1. v. 9 10. where he saith the Law is made for unholy and prophane persons For murtherers of fathers and murtherers of mothers for manslayers for Whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankinde for men stealers for lyers for perjured persons and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine according to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God c. From which words it is clear that the Judiciall Law I stand for was to be in force under the Gospel Reason For severall things here numerated by the Apostle are not found in the Decalogue or Ten Commandements or Royal Law but are deductions there from i. e. part of those statutes which depend thereon as the Five Books of Moses will sufficiently testifi● For the Royal Law onely saith Thou shalt not kill It doth not particularise killing of fathers or mothers or manslayers c. Again it also saith in a g●neral expression Thou shalt not Commit Adultery It doth not particularise Whoremongers or such as defile themselves with mankinde Again in point of Theft it only saith in a general term Thou shalt not Steal It doth not particularise Man-stealers c. and so in the rest There can then be nothing more clear than that the Apostle doth here speak of the Judicial Law annexed to the Moral precept which he affirmeth to be good and lawfull to be practiced amongst Christians Therefore it may be safely concluded that the Judicial Law annexed to the Moral precepts is as well to be practiced by Christians under the Gospel as before among the Jews and that to all ends and purposes which I collect from these words if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine i. e. Loving God above all and our neighbour as our self that also saith the Apostle ought to be determined by those Statutes and Judgments 1. Because God hath given no other rule to govern the world by who are all under the Royal Law as hath been proved from Rom. 3. 9. 29. and consequently under the other i. e. the Statutes and judgments 2. In that Jesus Christ did not destroy the one more than the other 3. In that the Apostle ratifieth the one as well as the other As then it was Moses and Aron before Christ so now Moses and Christ in the Gospel State as Mr. Brain well observed God is said to judge the secrets of mens hearts i. e. the inward man by or according to the Gospel Rom. 2. 16. And the things done in the flesh i. e. the actions of the outward man by the Statutes and Judgments aforementioned as hath been shewed as also from 1 Tim. 5. 17. where the Apostle saith The sins of some are open before hand and go before to judgement i. e. before the Civill Magistrate Others follow after and so under the Judgment of Christ in the Church And this is further illustrated from Rom. 2. 2. we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that commit such things which things if you would know read cap. 1. and you will find them to be idolatry and false worship as in making images of men and birds and four footed beasts or creeping things as also in vile affections as of men and women changing their kinde fornication c. all which appertaining to the judiciall precepts Again 1 Cor. 5. the Apostle doth make a clear distinction betwixt them that are properly under the civil and spiritual government i. e. the external and internal of Moses and Christ as in vers 12 13. where he saith What have I to do to judge them that are without do not ye judge them that are within But them that are without God judgeth as if he had said Men are now to be judged in things civil by the civil law of God committed to the Magistrate and that not only by the men of the world but members of Churches also for the Apostle doth not blame the Corinthians cap. 6. of that Epistle for that they brought their civill controversies to be decided by the civill Magistrate Reason 1. But because those civil Magistrates did not judge by the law of God and therefore could not give a just judgment Reason 2. As also in that they were such Judges as were not rightly fixed or qualified for such a purpose the latter is evident by the title which the Holy Ghost putteth upon them vers 1. viz. unjust Judges the former is also evident by the place of their abode viz Corinth the Magistrates thereof being unbelievers v. 6. i. e. Heathen Judges judging by Heathenish Laws as are all that now Govern as they did And in things spiritual by the censures of the churches as the afore mentioned expressions do clearly evidence Again our blessed Saviour himself doth clearly manifest that judgement of external acts against the Law of Moses was left to Moses Luke 12 13 14. where the man coming to have the inheritance divided Christ gave him this Answer Man who made mee a judge and divider over you Again in the case of the woman taken in the Act of Adultery John 8. 3 4 5 6. Jesus Christ would neither accuse or condemn her so that the woman was dismissed not absolved Shiloh being now come the Scepter was now departed from Judah and a Law-giver from between his feet Gen. 49. 10. The Jews at this time being then under the dominion of the Romans had not power to put any to death by their Law as clearly appeareth by comparing the 7 v. of John 19. with v. 31. of cap. 18. where the Jews tell Pilate they have a law to punish blasphemers by death And yet the case was then such with them that they could not put any to death thereby And hence I conceive it was that the Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites brought the woman taken in the act of Adultery to our blessed Saviour to entrap him i. e. to see if he would take upon him to put their law in execution and that if he had then to have accused him for intermedling upon the priviledge of Caesar as is clear from John 19. 12. Where they tell Pilat that if he let Jesus go he was not Caesars friend Reason For say they who so maketh himself a King that is that taketh upon him to put our Laws in execution without the approbation of Cesar speaketh against Cesar Mat. 22. 15 16 17. c. All which temptations our Saviour then avoided because the time

earth formerly treated of i. e. the Political Frame of Government which men have made for themselves c. i. e. of those Heavens and Earth which the Apostle Peter saith are to be burned and consumed by fire as also of that new Heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth Righteousnesse I say the Prophet speaking of that Great and notable day of triall by fire telleth us by way of explanation what is intended by the Holy Ghost in such manner of expression saith Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven Note and all that are proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Proud and wicked persons must be this fire Lord and it shall leave them neither Root nor Branch but unto you that fear my name shall the Son of Righteousnesse appear with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow as calves of the stall and ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet Note In that day that I shall do this saith the Lord Remember what the Law of Moses my servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb with the Statutes and Judgements Ergo That Law Statutes and Judgments shall be put again in practise that day Again the Doctour doth further confirm this Doctrine from Rev. 21. 1. I saw a new heaven a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away And there was no more sea Here saith the Doctour the Heaven and earth is restored but the sea shall be no more Those gatherings together of many waters saith the Rabby Rivers from all places or Pretended Clergy men from all Nations into General Councels which were the sea or many waters on which the Whore sate shall have no * Note place at all in the Churches restored Conditions Reader you must understand the Rabby did not then dream of the Court of Tryers now at Whitehall or else you must if you can conceive them not to be pretended Clergy-men or a general Councel no you must take them to be only an image of such pretended Clergy men and general Councel and the like you know is not the same a pure Juggle But I conceive the Learned Doctor is out in the Exposition of that forenamed Text in Rev. for the holy Ghost doth not there speak of the Restauration of any of his Political Heavens and earth so much already treated of for the Text saith plainly they were passed away and the Prophet Isa saith cap. 65. 17. that they shall not be remembred nor come into the mind of God or his people therefore there can be no expectation of any restoring of them it must therefore be unavoidably meant of the aforesaid Laws Statutes and Judgements which the Doctour ●imself calls the firm foundation for the unmovable Kingdome of Jesus Christ and hence it is the Lord by Malachy puts his people in mind thereof at that notable day saying Remember ye the Law of Moses c. as aforesaid and therefore whereas it is said there shall be no more sea I do understand there shall be no more use of the Leviticall Priesthood that being now abolished by our blessed Saviour shall be no more No more use of the type when the antitype is come no more use of the shadow when we have the substance which myst●rie the Prophets saw but darkly as appears by their writings few of them seeing a Change of the Leviticall Priesthood which I conceive to be the great stumbling block to the Jews from Christs abode on earth to this present day But neverthelesse the Prophet David doth most excellently foretell the change thereof under the Gospel-dispensation as in Psal 40. where speaking in the person of Christ for it is impossible it should be understood of himself saith sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine ears hast thou opened burnt-offerings and sin-offerings hast thou not required Then said I Lo I come in the Volume of thy Book it is written of me that I should do thy Will O God which Text the Apostle Paul doth clearly expound of Christ Heb. 10. 8. saying above When he saith Sacrifice and offering and burnt-offering for sin thou wouldest not neither hast pleasure therein which are offended by the Law i. e. the ceremoniall Law Then said he Loe I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first that he may establish the second he taketh away the shadow that he may establish the substance Now where was it prophesied of David that he should have a body given him to do away Sacrifice or to put an end thereunto it must therefore be meant of some others and what other than he that hath born our transgressions and by whose stripes we are healed vid. Isa 54. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 c. and 52. 13 14. 15. in both which places also the Prophet speaketh of another person and not of himself i e. Jesus Christ the Righteous who is the pro 〈…〉 for our sinnes Rom. 3. 25. 1 John 2. 2. and 4. 10. The Learned Doctour having thus proved for me what is meant by the Old Heavens and the Old Earth as also the New Heavens and the New Earth i. e. by the Old Heaven and Old Earth all the Old Forms of Government since the Creation that have been made by Political or Humane invention as also the New Heavens and new Earth to be that Constitution or Government made by God himself and ratified and confirmed by Jesus Christ i. e. the two grand Principles of Nature afterward branched forth into the Deoalogue or ten Commandements with the Statutes and Judgements unneued thereunto and the Ordinances of Jesus Christ in the New Testament which is the Spiritual Ecclesiastical or Gospel-part thereof I shall in the next place bring the presen● powers and Constitutions of Government in the Nation to the test or touchstone of the Scriptures and in this particular also Mr. Owen shall say for me in the forementioned Sermon p. 21. i. e. That the Kings of the Earth have given their power to Antichrist indeavouring to the uttermost to keep the Kingdome of Christ out of the world or that we term the fifth Monarchy What I pray hath been their main businesse for 700 years and upward even almost ever since the Man of sin was inthroned The Doctors Queries to this purpose How have they earned the Titles of eldest son of the Church The Catholick and most Christian King Defender of the Faith and the like Hath it not been by the blood of Saints Is there not in every one of these Kingdomes the slain and the banished ones of Christ to answer for in particular c. Have not all the Kings round about washed their bands and Garments in the blood of a thousand of Protestants and do not the Kings of all these Nations as yet stand up in the room of their