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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
death_n	beast_n	dragon_n	zion_n	33	3	11.1993	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A93700	The first addresses to His Excellencie the Lord General, with the Assembly of elders elected by him and his Council for the management of the affairs of this Commonwealth; as also, to all the cordial officers and souldiers under his command. Containing certain rules & directions how to advance the kingdome of Jesus Christ over the face of the whole earth. By John Spittlehouse, a late member of the Army, and a servant to the saints of the most high God, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and whom all dominions shall serve and obey, Dan. 7.27.	Spittlehouse, John.	1653 (1653)	Wing S5008; Thomason E703_19; ESTC R203632	22,947	31

Law-giver and their King and their Saviour And if so then there ought not to be two Law-makers muchless a compound of the Law of God and the corrupt reason of William the Conqueror or any either before or after him who have dealt with the moral and judicial law of God even as Antichrist or that whore of Rome hath dealt with the injunctions of Jesus Christ in the Gospel scruing them to suite with their Dragon-like and whorish pleasures in all things the one setting up corrupt reason in stead of that reason which was incorrupt and the other an abolished Priesthood with the appendances thereunto belonging in stead of that which then was and is as permanent as Mount Sion which cannot be removed by which Tyrannical and subtil practice of the aforesaid Dragon or Beast on which the aforesaid whore is said to sit they have been the death of many millions of the Saints of the Most High Whereas I affirme that the life of no man ought to be taken away by any other Law then of the aforesaid Law-giver who alone is able to save and to destroy as in James 4. 12. as aforesaid Againe Reason it self teacheth that he that gave the life hath only the power to take it away by his own laws and if so then not by the laws of any the aforesaid persons whatsoever Consider then what judgement and punishment have our Judges incurred to themselves by taking away the lives of men for simple theft whereas according to the Laws of God they ought not to have dyed but to have made restitution and therefore without controversie a dreadful wo will light upon you if you repeal not that law before you send the otherwise merciless Judges to sit in judicature upon such persons no mans life being to be taken away otherwise then by the direct law of the aforesaid onely Law-giver and that by particular precept or General Rule For if you be Christians then are you no other then Gods Ministers and if so then are you bound in duty and conscience to execute justice only according to the will of God and not according to any different lawes made by the aforesaid persons that have onely usurped that Soveraign power unto themselves to take away the lives of men at their pleasure or lusts or malice of their own hearts or any private revenge of their own or others For as the Apostle saith in another case It is requisite in Stewards that they be found faithful 1 Cor. 4. 2. but the will of God in point of judicature appeareth not otherwise then in his word And therefore inasmuch as that which is not of Faith viz. firme perswasion is sin Rom. 14. 23. As also inasmuch as faith ought to be grounded upon the word of God as being wrought thereby Rom. 10. 17. how can such Acts of justice be either approved in the sight of God or good men as are not warranted by the said word And therefore by how much you permit any laws that differed from the aforesaid precepts or presidents in Scripture by so much you do absolutely declare your selves to be the brood of the aforesaid Pagan or tyrannical Dragon which is said to persecute the Church or people of God Rev. 12. and that as much as if you your selves had contrived the same Yea I appeal to impudence it self whether the aforesaid judicial laws of God be not the best expositors of the moral law And if so what is there wanting in the moral law that is requisite to a Commonwealth either in the Negative or Affirmative part thereof Again inasmuch as the said judicial Law is not in the least repealed why ought it not to be in the like repute with you as it was to the ancient people of God unto whom it was first delivered viz. the Jews seeing that it cannot be denyed that believing Gentiles are as well the seed of Abraham which the Apostle affirmeth Gal. 3. 9. 23. and so consequently Jews aswel as they yea and that in a far more transcendent relation by how much the unbelieving Jews are esteemed no Jews in comparison of the other as the same Apostle likewise affirmeth And therefore according to Captaine Norwoods rule though quite contrary to his opinion in that he claimeth the aforesaid laws of corrupt reason as his fathers patrimony and therefore setteth an invaluable esteem of them in his late book c. I say in the behalf of the aforesaid moral and judicial laws of God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ that we will have no other laws then them inasmuch as they are our birthright and patrimony as also in that it is our heavenly Fathers will that we should be obedient thereunto even as it was the will of Jonadab the son of Rechab ' that his sons should drink no wine as also in that they are as well now the mark of distinction betwixt the people of God and heathens as they were betwixt the Jews and the Gentiles at the time of the giving thereof and therefore you are bound in duty and service to propagate the same and annihilate the other which Captain Norwood would so gladly have preserved bidding defiance even to God himself to alter them in a most impious manner whereas there is not one text of Scripture that giveth liberty to any Magistrate whatsoever either to add or detract from the aforesaid Laws or anywise to alter them as to fit them with their humour either as to point of time or manner of the Country where they live And if not then doth it not argue a gross presumption in those that do so yea do they not by such means take upon them to be wiser then God himself by such their altering and leaving those directions and rules of justice which he hath set down as irrevocably unalterable in respect to man in the least Iota or tittle thereof Mat. 5. 17 18 19. and that upon pain of incurring the displeasure of the great God of heaven and earth As also inasmuch as the foolishness of God is wiser then the wisdom of men 1 Cor. 1. 25. yea surpassing the deepest subtilties or State-policies in the world Again Is it not the boasting of the supporters and practitioners of our present Heathenish Laws that they are founded upon the laws of God and if so I would gladly know of them what laws of God they mean if not the aforesaid lawes Yea certainly every of them will be ready to confess the same and think they much honor the present lawes by so saying And if so then how dare any of them to slight any one tittle of them Lawes which they have hitherto so much magnified for their own advantage Judge therefore I pray you wherefore it is that they have not made use of the Original it self from whence they say the present laws are derived viz. whether it be because the laws of God are less politick or less profitable less tedious or less chargable less inconsistent with