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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

fruit of their pride as in Pride bringeth confusion Prov. 16. 8. Zeph. 2. 10. so that whereas they looked to gain credit they found shame and confusion Like as when Saul had thought he had made a goodly place for Simile himself as triumphing for his late victory over Amaleck Even then he was rejected for being King 1 Sam. 15. 28 for his not obeying A warning for tyrants the command of the Lord against his professed enemies All which one would think to be fair warnings to the like disobedient Sauls of the times And in particular at Black-hall the Lord give them grace to consider thereof if they be not past repenting Again That the Kings of the earth were the original or root of Idolatry and Tyranny is also asserted and proved by King Solomon in his book titled Wisdome cap. 13. 14. where speaking of this Kings the Original of Idolatry Tyranny subject he saith That the devising of Idols were the beginning of spiritual fornication and the inventions of them the corruption of life for neither were they from the beginning neither shall they be for ever For by the vain-glory of men they entered into the world And therefore shall they come shortly to an end For a Father afflicted with untimely mourning when he had made an Image of his childe soon taken away Now honoured him as a God which was then a dead man And delivered to those that were under him Ceremonies and Sacrifices Thus saith Solomon in processe of time an ungodly custome grown strong was kept as a law And graven images were worshipped by the commandement of Kings or Tyrants whom men could not honour because they dwelt far off Therefore they took the counterfeit of his Visage from far and made an expresse Image of a King whom they honoured or worshipped to the end that by this their forwardnesse they might flatter him that was absent as if he were present Also the singular diligence of the Artificer did help to set forward the ignorant to more superstition Reason For he paradventure being willing to please one in Authority forced all his skill to make the resemblance of the best fashion and so the multitude being allured by the grace of the work took him now to be a God which a little before was but honored as a man And this saith he was an occasion to deceive the world Reason For men serving either Calamity or Tyranny did attribute to stocks and stones the incommunicable Name Moreover saith Solomon this was not enough for them that they erred in the knowledge of God but whereas they lived in the great war of Ignorance these so great plagues called they peace For whilest they slew their children in sacrifices and used secret ceremonies or made revilings of strange rites They kept neither lives nor mariages any longer undefiled Note The violation of the first principle of Nature leads to the breach of the second But either one slew another treacherously or griev●d him by Adultery So that there remained in all men without exception blood man-slaughter theft and dissimulation corruption unfaithfulnesse tumults perjury disquieting of good men forgetfulnesse of good turns defiling of souls changing of kinds disorder in marriages adultery and shamelesse uncleanenesse Argum. For the worshipping of Idols of what sort so ever not to be named is the beginning the cause and the end of all evill But the Kings of the earth were the Authors Cont●mners and promoters of Idols and Idol-worship as hath been shewed Therefore the Kings or Tyrants of the earth were the beginning the cause and the end of all evill And thus I have proved and that by the testimony of ● King that the Principles of the Kings or Tyrants of the earth are directly opposite to the two Grand Principles of Nature i. e. To love God above all and our Neighbours as our selves And this Doctrine is also plentifully confirmed by the Apostle Paul in Rom. 1. from v. 18. to ult which is well worthy also of perusal as to this particular and now I shall proceed to the Second particular in order i. e. Assert That Jehovah the Lord Christ is determined to have a generall reckoning day with those persons and things that have so confronted him and his Laws i. e. these two Principles of Nature with the Decalogue and Statutes and Judgements depending thereupon as hath been shewed And this is also proved by the testimony of King Solomon in the aforesaid book cap. 13. and cap 14. where having treated of the two sorts of Idolatry i. e. of worshipping of the creature and likewise of the Image of the creature he concludes That the ungodly and his ungodlinesse are both alike hatefull to God for that which is made shall be punished together with him that made it Look to it then Idol-makers for black will be your day when the onely wise Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords shall by his Saints bring your actions to the touchstone of the Scriptures But least they shall say this Testimony of Solomons which I have cited the rather because he is a bird of their own feather in point of Title is Apochrypha I shall commend unto them the testimony of that Grave Orthodox Divine new created Doctor and singular Dean in England for you must understand all the rest were Popish and superstitious which I have done the rather in regard of that great repute he hath for a learned Rabby to the end what is said by him may gain the more credence with his Masters and fraternity with the rest of the Rabble Rout of Locusts Caterpillers and Canckerworms of the Nation And for their better attention I do also hereby give them to understand and that the expressions I shall mention are extracted out of a Sermon preached by him before no lesse persons than the House of Parliament from Heb. 12 26 27. i. e. Whose voice then shook the earth but he hath promised saying yet once more and I shake not the earth but the heavens also and this word yet once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain In the Explanation of which words he useth these following expressions i. e. as the Apostle here applyes part of the Prophet Haggai so that Prophefie even in the next words gives light into the meaning of the Apostle look what Heavens and Earth the Prophet speaks of of this and no other speaks the Apostle The Spirit of the Lord in the Scriptures is his own best interpreter see then the order of the words as they lye in the Prophet Haggai cap. 6. 7. I will shake Heaven and Earth I will shake all Nations God then shakes Heaven and Earth when he shakes all Nations that is he shakes the Heaven and Earth of the Nations I will shake Heaven and Earth I will shake all Nations is a Pleonasme For I will