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A93694	An answer to one part of the Lord Protector's speech: or, A vindication of the fifth monarchy-men, in reference to an accusation of evil charged upon them in his speech to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber, the 4 of September, 1654. / Published by John Spittlehouse, to the end all men may see the strong endeavours that have been used to obstruct the kingly interest of Jehovah the Lord Christ in the world, by blowing the bellows of a persecution against those that desire he should reign over all nations of the earth, by his holy, just, and perfect laws and ordinances recorded in the sacred Scriptures to that very end and purpose.	Spittlehouse, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing S5003; Thomason E813_19; ESTC R211046	21,496	28

sense p. 14. of that Sermon where he saith It is not a destruction or total amotion of the great things of the Nations but a change translation or new molding of them that is here intimated they shall sai●h he be shuffled together * Not altogether it seems almost into their primitive confusion and come out new molded for the interest of the Lord Jesus Again all the present States of the world are cemented together by Antichristian lime c. that unless they be so shaken as to have every cranny searched and brushed they will be no quiet Note the Brush habitation for the Lord Christ and his People I thus answer 1. In that the holy Ghost speaking of the time wherein these things shall be accomplished as in Isa 65. 17. saith Behold I create new heavens and a new earth Mark and the former shall not be remembred nor come into mind And Rev. 21. 1. I saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away If then they are so to pass away as not to be remembred nor come into Gods nor his peoples mindes how are they in the least to be retai●ed Is it the intent of God in that text think you onely to pull down the Titles of Kings and to set up a Title of Protector in stead thereof or to pull down Bishops and set ●ehold Mr. Owen's new heaven and new earth up a Scoteh Synod or Court of Tryers in stead thereof Is that your brush whereby the Antichristian lime is to be taken away I am sure the holy Ghost speaking of the destruction of Babylon Isai 13. 19 c. saith that it shall be as when God over threw Sodom and Gom●rrha that it shall NEVER be inhabited nor dwelt in from generation to generation c. as also that he will not make use of one stone thereof either for a Foundation-stone or a Corner-stone but to be an everlasting desolation Jer. 51. 25 26. And yet it seems he would have the whole fabrick to stand onely the ●rannies thereof to be searched the lyme onely to be brushed off The old Tower he mentioned it seems is not Babylonish no it is onely the lime or mortar wherewith it is daubed together A very Scholastical Exposition And thus have I laid down some of the Grounds and Reasons why we desire the subversion of whatsoever is of Man either in our Civils or Spirituals unless in things circumstantial as dependencies upon the Statute● Judgments and Ordinances of Jehovah the Lord Christ and that from the testimony of the holy Scripture which we take to be sufficient to perswade all that are real Christians to own embrace and put in practice and consequently that whosoever pretendeth that they are Christians and yet refuse so to do do thereby clearly declare themselves notorious hypocrites as also professed ex●mies to Jehovah the Lord Christ and that by his own attestation Luke 19. 27. Speech And perhaps would bring in the Judaical Law in stead of our known laws and setled among us Resp I had thought the Laws of God had been as well known unto those that profess themselves Gods people as any other Laws whatsoever yea above all other Laws whatsoever and especially by such an one as accounteth himself to be a father to the family of Gods people I remember it was a duty incumbent upon fathers of particular families in the Israel of God to teach the Laws Sta●utes and Judg●●●ats of Jehovah diligently unto their children and to talk of them when they sate in their houses and when they walked by the way and when they lay down and when they rose up and to binde them for signes upon their hand and as frontlets between their eyes and to write them upon the posts of their houses and on their gates Deut. 6. 6 7 8 c. I read it was also the custom of their Magistrates to instruct the people in the said Laws as in Neb. 8. 1 2 3 c. It is also said of godly David that the Laws of God were his meditation day and night and that he desired them more then gold yea then much fine gold * Then the king of Spain's gold in the Indi●s yea that they were sweeter un●● him then honey or the honey-comb And therefore I admire to hear one so seemingly-eminent to plead a greater knowledge to the Laws of Heathens and Antichristians Yea I appeal to any Rational man whatsoever whether any man would be thought to be in his wits to give those Characters to the known Laws of England as he is pleased to term them though I think they were never yet defined as David hath done to the Laws of God And if not then I desire to know whether of the two ought to be best known unto us and put i● practice by us or why the Law of Nature ought not to be the Rule and Square of natural actions which that the Judicial Law is is clearly proved from Rom. 2. 14. For when the Gentiles that knew not the Law did by nature the things contained in the Law these having not the Law are a Law unto themselves which sh●w the works of the Law written in their hearts their consciences also bearing them witness and their thoughts in the mean time acc●sing or excusing one another And what other Law was this he speaketh of then the Law of God Again what other Law was the old world judged by then the aforesaid law of Nature Doubtless they were not condemned and executed by the righteous Judge of all the world Gen. 11. 25. without a Law and is it to be conceived that he would judge by any other Law then his own and was that Law as to the Civil part thereof ever yet repealed by God or Christ Nay doth not the Lord Christ tell us himself that he came not to destroy the Law Matth. 5. 17 18 19. Yea so far was he from so doing as that contrariwise he affirmeth that whosoever should break the least of them and teach men so shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven I would gladly know then by what authority from God any that account themselves Christians do make Laws for their fellow-servants and subjects yea is it not clearly evident that by so doing they usurp the Authority and Power of Christ the alone Law-giver And if but one then not two or more Yea do they not by so doing d●thro●e and degrade the Lord Jesus of his Legislatorship and Judicature which the Father hath given unto him Joh. 5. 22. Isa● 9. 6. Dan. 7. 13 34. 1 Tim. 6. 13 14 15. Rev. 11. 15. and 17. 14. and 19. 11 16. Indeed were I at Constantinople I should not much wonder if the Great ●urk and his Mahometan Clergie should question me for what I have said in reference to the law of God but to hear a Christian Magistrate c. contaminate the laws of God and

PRESBYTERY is as neer of kin to Prelacy as Prelacy to Popery it ought as well to be abrogated root and branch as PRELACY being both DAUGHTERS to that MOTHER OF HARLOTS Rev. 17. 5. to that MYSTERY OF INIQUITY and ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH Yea doubtlesse it may confidently be affirmed that what Church soever doth yet retain the CONSTITUTION of the Church of Rome since its APOSTACY albeit never so much refined in other particulars as relinquishing its Ordination c. which the Presbyterians c. have not done is still to be esteemed as Babylonish and Antichristian And the like may also be said in point of Regulating the Civil Laws of Commonwealths derived from the Assirian or BABYLONISH MONARCHY erected by Nimrod Gen. 10. 9 10. which though the Magistrate should refine never so much yet it is but a REFINING OF BABEL for whilst there is any thing in them that may be termed HVMANE either in Civil or Ecclesiastical Laws that may be said to be added or detracted from the Law of God comprised in the Old and New Testament they by so doing bring themselves under the Curse of God Deut. 22. 26. Gal. 3. 10. Therefore we may safely assert that by how much the present Magistrates of this Commonwealth do judge themselves to be the members of the body of Christ or that the God of Heaven and Earth is their God or expect to have God dwell in them and walk in them or they to be his people they ought to come wholy out of the BABYLONISH and ANTICHRISTIAN ESTATE whether in reference to CIVIL or SPIRITVAL GOVERNMENT yea to bee such SEPARATISTS from them as not to touch them in the least but to pluck them up ROOT and BRANCH And so wholy conform themselves to the word of God for their SOLE RVLE and direction therein which if they will yet submit unto the Ap●stle averreth that the Lord Christ hath promised to receive them into his ●ingdom● and to be a Father unto them and that they shall be his children 2 Cor. 6. 27 28. But that this will not easily be assented unto by the present Powers of the world is cleerly made out unto us by another of his own created * Whose expressions will need no Interpreter Doctors viz. Mr. John Owen in his Sermon upon Heb. 12. 27. page 25. where he saith That that which doth and shall stick upon Potentates to their ruine is not so much their own or any other interest as the Dregs of the Papal Antichristian interests thrust into their Oaths and Obligations for I shall only propound some Queries no other end in the world BVT TO KEEP THE LORD JESVS OVT OF HIS THRONE And hereupon it was saith he in his Sermon upon Ezek. 17 24 page 12. that the late King had learned a saying from his Predecessors No Bishop no King supposing his MAIN INTEREST to lye in holding up PRELACY a mere INCROACACHMENT upon the INHERITANCE OF CHRIST Christ coming to take his OWN shakes the other in peeces Again saith he those who would have been our Oppressors Were not those the Presbyterian Priests c. in Scotland but that God hath crushed the Cockatrice in the shell and filled the pit with their dead bodies which they had digged for us they also had prepared a PROCRVSTES BED a heavy yoak a Beast that had it grown to perfection would have had HORNS and HOOFS And in maintaining this they think their GREAT INTEREST TO LYE And in holding this fast are they after all their Associations broken in peeces Again in page 21. of that Sermon What was the corrupted design of many in Scotland that they might set up a SON of Was it corrupt in them then not in your selves now TABEAL in England and THEMSELVES to be GREAT VNDER HIM and that they and their Partakers might IMPOSE on the residue of the Nations especially in the things of God Their great desire that things should be thus corrupts their minds to think that it ought to be so Hence AMBITION TO RVLE and to have all under their power even in conscience is quickly mistaken for zeal for the Kingdome of Christ inthroning of Tyranny is Loyalty and all according to Covenant As if men had sworn to be good to themselves and to be true to their own interest all their dayes which surely none need to be sworn to Thus mens minds and judgements are distempered by their lusts and interests which makes them frame a way for God to proceed in And this is the reason saith he page 25. of his Sermon Heb. 12. 27. that the Lord Jesus by his MIGHTY POWER at Wherein is it altered since that time his bringing in of his VNMOVABLE KINGDOM will shake the HEAVENS and the EARTH of the NATIONS even because in their * PRESENT CONSTITVTION they are DIRECTLY FRAMED to the INTEREST OF ANTICHRIST which by notable advantage at their FIRST MOVLDING and CONTRIVED INSINVATIONS ever since hath so riveted it self into the very FVNDAMENTALS of them that no digging or Mining without an EARTHQVAKE will cast up the FOVNDATION * What cal you them foundation stones stones thereof because as is their interest so is their acting the present powers of the Nations stands in DIRECT OPPOSITION to the bringing in of the KINGDOME OF CHRIST Again Page 27. of that Sermon Are not most Potentates tyed by OATH or OTHER COMPACT to maintain either the WHOLE or some part of the OLD TOWER under the Vid. Art 35. Government Reader compare these expressions with the late transactions name of RIGHT OF HOLY CHURCH Prelats and the like And can any expect that such as these should take up the DESPISED QUARREL OF THE SAINTS against that FLOURISHING QUEEN Doubtlesse NO SUCH FRUIT WILL GROW ON THESE TREES before they are THROUGHLY SHAKEN All carnal Interests will doubtlesse be shaken with that of Babylon Many of Gods people are not weaned from the things that are seen No sooner is one CARNAL FORM SHAKEN OUT but they are ready to CLEAVE TO ANOTHER Yea to warm themselves in the FEATHERED NESTS OF UNCLEAN * Is it not so at this day BIRDS All fl●shly Dominion within doors and all Civil Dominion that opposeth without doors shall be shaken Now these things are so glued also to mens earthly possessions the talons of the birds Who are those birds of prey unless the souldier pries● and lawyer of prey having firmly seized on them that THEY also must be shaken with them Reader consider these expressions of Mr. Owens seriously and then tell me whether he had not a good ghess of what we have seen since the preaching of these Sermons come to pass I presume Mr. Tho. Goodwin and himself c. little thought then that their own words should now have been brought in testimony against them But the heart of man is deceitful above all things Now that this shaking here spoken of is not to be taken in Mr. Owen's