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A93702	Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht: containing a confutation of the three degrees of popery, viz. papacy, prelacy, and presbitery; answerable to the triple crowne of the three-headed Cerberus the Pope, with his three fold hierarchies aforesaid. With a dispelling of all other dispersed clouds of errour, which doth interpose the clear sun-shine of the Gospel in our horrizon. Wherein the chiefe arguments each of them have, for the vindication of their erronious tenents are incerted, and refuted; with a description of such whem [sic] the true Church of Christ doth consist of: as also how, and by whom, they may be gathered, and governed, according to the will, and appointment of Jesus Christ, and his apostles, in the primative purity thereof. / By Iohn Spittlehouse, assistant to the Marshall Generall of the Army, under the command of his Excellency, the Lord Generall Fairfax. Imprimated by Theod. Jennings, and entred in the Stationers Hall.	Spittlehouse, John.	1649 (1649)	Wing S5013; Thomason E586_2; ESTC R203633	304,213	396

it were a large Volume of the Creation of God by his Word and that the same Word is his Son How then is it possible that men living in so shining a light as is now defused amongst us should espape the force wrath and vengeance of God for not imbrasing of the truth seeing that the other as it were through a mist did see a cleernesse of his brightnesse and that we whom he hath nourished in his owne bosome and comforted with the grapes of his owne vine-yard fed with the bread of his owne Flesh and bathed in the blood of his owne heart should refuse to give him that respect which was acknowledged by them Doubtlesse those whom I have named shall rise up in judgement against all the Arians Anti-trenitarians and what others who yet wilfully oppose the truth as it is in Jesus yea when the Scriptures doe so punctually declare Christ to be the Son of God as in these five respects which agree to no other but him As first in his Name for he is simply called God as Joh. 1. 1. Christ declared to be the Son of God in five respects the Word was God as also 1 Epist John 5. 20. where the Apostle speaking of Jesus Christ saith the same was very God 2. By his Nativity and Generation and so he is called the Son of God Rom. 1. 3. 3. By nature he is one with God as in Joh. 20. 30. I and the Father am one 4. In power as in Mat. 28. 18. all power is given me in heaven and earth 5. By his owne profession for he professed himselfe to be the Son of God and therefore th● Jewes went about to kill him because he said that God was his Father Joh. 5. 18. Which five places if there were no other expressions to make out the truth of it is sufficient to convince the worst of men and certainly such as refuse to subscribe to this truth may justly be termed worse then the Devill for he freely confessed that Jesus Christ was the Son of the most high God Mark 5. 7. and surely none will any longer persist in such blasphemies but such as dispaire of their salvation and therefore indeavoureth to intrap others in the same snare for if there be no God and Christ be an imposter what expectation of any good can be hoped from them CHAP. III. Antiscriptarists objections cited and answered SECT 1. THis Herisie hath been maintained of old by the Maniches who held that the Old Testament was contrary to the New and that in these respects 1. Object Because that in the Old Testament the Lord professeth enmity against the Cananites and chargeth the Israelites to kill and destroy them how then is this say they consonant and agreeable with the Gospel where Christ commandeth to love our enemies Mat. 5. 44. Ans 1. That discention and enmity was not in respect of the Persons but of the manners of the Gentiles the Israelites were not so much enemies unto them as they were enemies to the true religion of the Israelites in worshipping of God aright 2. The killing of the enemy did agree with that carnall people to whom the Law was given as a School-master Gal. 3. 24. Revenge may be taken of some people in charity 3. The Apostle when he delivered over the incestuous man unto Satan for the destruction of the flesh did sufficiently declare that revenge may be taken of some enemies in charity therefore there may be love in him that taketh revenge as we see in Fathers which correct their children whom they love and although Fathers kill not their children in correcting of them yet God that knoweth what is better for every one can correct with love not only by infirmity and sicknesse but also with temporall death as is evident in the Corinthians where the Apostle saith For this cause many are weake and sick amongst you and many sleep And that these corrections proceed of love he presently after sheweth as in these words But when we are judged we are chastened of the Lord because we should not be condemned with the world 1 Cor. 11. 30. 32. 4. Neither did they doe this without divine Authority which sometimes ●s manifested in Scripture and sometimes concealed lest any should think it was permitted them to kill whom they would at their pleasure 5. Albeit that in the Old Testament it be permitted to kill The Old Testament not contrary to the New the enemies of God yet is there also examples of loving our enemies as in David who when Saul was offered into his hands he chose rather to spare him then kill him where then there was neither difficulty nor feare of killing the enemy it was love that helped him and therefore in that respect the Old Testament is not contrary to the New SECT 2. Object THat precept of honouring Parents is contrary to that in the New Testament where our Saviour being asked leave by one to goe and bury his Father answered Let the dead bury their dead Luk. 9. 60. Ans If herein the Old Testament and the New doe vary VVhen God is in computition Parents ought to be contemned and contradict one another then the New Testament therein will be contrary to it selfe for the Apostle urgeth this Commandement Eph. 6. 2. 2. It is manifest that honour in a certaine degree is to be reserved unto Parents yet in comparison of the love of God there is no doubt but that they ought to be contemned Mat. 10. 37. He that loveth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me SECT 3. Object IN the Old Testament the Lord is said to harden mens hearts which is an evill worke and therefore it proceedeth from a God that is a worker of evill Ans God is said to harden the heart without any touch of God hardneth the heart without any breach of sin sinne 2. It was not any violence from God that hardned Pharoahs heart but his owne impiety and obstinacy that hardned him like as the water is frozen untill the Sun shine upon it and then it resolveth but when the Sun is departed it is bound with cold againe now the Sun is not the cause of the freezing of the water Simile but the coldnesse of the water bindeth it selfe So properly God causeth not the heart to be hardned but by the absence of his grace it is hardened As one speaking in the Person of God to Pharaoh saith When my grace is drawne from thee then thy owne wickednesse shall harden thy heart the cause then must needs be ascribed to their owne wickednesse which deserveth to be hardned or it must be referred to the just judgements of God which are often hid but never unjust it sufficeth us to know and beleeve as the Apostle saith Rom. 9. 15. Is there unrighteousnesse with God God forbid SECT 4. Object IN the Old Testament the Lord is said to dwell in houses made with hands Exod. 25. 8.

themselves Providence is wonderfully seene in that like the Assirians they helpe to ruine one another so that my chiefe worke is to subdue that Hierarchy of Presbitery who hath conquered the other two and now would reigne it selfe in their stead Againe I would have such Sir Johns to know that to fight a publick enemy requireth the publick Magazine both for offensive and defensive Weapons and seeing the Lord hath moved me to be his Churches Champion against that three-headed Monster of the Pope with his threefold Hierarchies of Papacy Prelacy and Presbitery certainly he will allow me as Saul did to David his owne Armour however that I may gather such materials as I shall thinke meet for the incounter in such common places as David did in the Brook which having gathered I therewith advance in the spirit of David towards that Zanzumim or Gyganticall Annakim hoping the Lord of Hosts the only giver of Battels will so prosper the event as that I shall as David did Goliah head him with his own● Weapon and bring them as Trophies to the Campe of our Israel Take notice Rome even in the same WHITE HALL Where here thou had'st thy rise thou hast thy fall A generall Preface to the Booke IN as much as the present designe of Christ by his Spirit which is now to reigne in the Saints is to destroy Antichrist Root a●● Branch and this Antichrist so to be destroyed consisting of the pollutions and delusions of the world the ●lesh and the Devill viz. in the now temporall powers of the world the now various formes of Church Government as also in many fundamentall points of Religion and it being the office of the aforesaid Spirit to convince the world of Sinne of Righteousnesse and of Judgement Joh. 16. 8. viz. Of Sinne in point of fundamentals of Righteousnesse in point of their Pharasaicall glosses by which they colour their Hipocrisie in matter of forme of Judgement in point of the Ti●anicall and Arbitrary powers of the world In reference to which I have suted my Discourse to them three particulars hoping the Reader will ●●ade that conviction as to be perswaded from any further contest with Christ in all or any one of the a●oresaid particulars resident in him in relation to which Christ hath in effect declared that whosoever is not against them or any one of them in any particular of them is assuredly against him The Method I shall observe in this Discourse is by making the first last and the last first viz. I have first endeavoured to convince Errours in fundamentall points of Religion as in relation to the Trinity c. secondly in the formes of it and lastly in the powers opposing Christ in or under them formes I have also used the Scripture method by reproofe and instruction where there is occasion I have also where need requireth composed this Booke by way of Dialogue it being as I conceived the chiefe meanes to convince errours This I presume is sufficient to illuminate your understandings in relation to the scope and intent of the Booke which is here presented unto you I shall only adde this that the Reader would p●ruse the 24. chap. of M●thewes Gospel and parallel it with this present time as also in particular to take notice of the 30. ver viz. Then shall appeare the SIGNE of the Son of Man in Heaven c. To the Assembly of Priests and Lay-Elders who were lately met together as a Provinciall Synod London Novemb. 2 1649. Being a lightning before the finall ruine of their present Hierarchy Gentlemen Presbyters THe reason why I have printed this sheet was because when my book was printed off I hapned to meet with a book published by you titled The Vindication of your Government and Ministry c. which in regard mine being to succeed and not positively intended as an answer to yours I thought it requisite to write some what whereby you may take notice that I have beene at the charge of one of them books so published by you to the end I might discover how farre providence had provided you of an answer to your thoughts before they were either published or penned As also to take notice what that Antichristian Spirit which is yet so predominant in you had dictated unto you as a preparative for its own Ruine and your perpetuall shame and disgrace To which purpose I have taken notice of some passages in your booke which clearely tend to that purpose As first in that great over-sight in not proving you had a Church Did you never heare that the Schismaticks and Hereticks you so much gape to devoure did as well oppose your Church as your Government and Minstry Could you thinke they were now satisfied in the lawfulnesse of it more then formerly viz. That the whole frame of it is Antichristian as also the appurtenances thereunto belonging Certainly you thought your book would have hapned in the hands of none but such silly people you dedicated it unto whom you have so long blinded by your Lucifer-like Lustre or Janes and Jambres-like delusions But if so providence hath otherwise disposed of it to the end you might deceive them no longer It appeares you would gladly now content your selves with them you have under your Churches in London but I hope they have ●ither more wit or grace then to be any longer deluded by you And for the other Sectaries c. they adjure you to beguile your auditors no longer with such vaine pretences and seeming shewes of the purity of your Church-government and Ministry but that you would prove them to be of such like mettall as you boast them to be And that not only as you have done from your infallible tongues pens sic volo sic jubeo or from your old Grandam at Rome but from the institution of Christ and his Apostles not legall or politick observations of the Jewes c. And untill you have so done whsch I am confident you will never doe they are all fooles or mad-men that will harbour a conceit that you have either a true Church-Government or Ministry And therefore in the name of all such as desire to practise Religion in the primitive puritie thereof I pronounce and declare whatsoever you have said in that booke to be of no more esteem than a Castle built in the Aire or a Babell of confusions For where doe you find in the New Testament a Church meerly composed of Officers or any part of the Church termed by the name of Laytie or Lay-Elders Lay-people c. Or where such sorts of people were admitted to Church-fellowship as there was a need to examine them touching their faith before the receipt of the Lords Supper Or where in any Act of Judicature or advice that the brethren were exempted from their vote and consent or had not a joynt interest and concurrence therein Or where read you there of A Classicall Provinciall or Nationall Synod or Nationall Church or of one

more potent in every respect he gave the cho●●e of the Country to Lot which president I hope will be imitated by our Brethren in any difference betwixt party and party as also concerning any criminall offence committed by any member of the Church I hope our Brethren will take notice of the event which hapned by the sins of David viz. his Murther and Adultery by which he gave occasion to the Philistines and other of the enemies of God to blaspheame and so avoyd all such occasions of evil but in case such differences and misdemeanours should be made and acted by the members of Christ which may happen seeing by the former examples that holy men may be at difference and also sinne in a high degree yet as I said before o●r Saviour in case of such difference hath left these two remedies in the 15. and 16. verses of that 18th Chapter of Matthews Gospel in these words SECT 5. IF thy brother trespasse against thee tell him his fault betwixt thee and him alone if he shall heare thee then thou hast gained thy brother but if he will not heare thee then take with thee one or two more that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established And if he shall neglect to hea●e them ●●ll it to the Church but if he shall neglect to heare the Church let him be to thee as an Hea●hen man and a Pu●lican In which words of our Saviour we may e●sily perceive the method and order that he would have used in such differences as doth arise amongst the members of the Church for otherwise the Church is not to meddle with them who are as Heathens and Publicans as may be gathered from them words of our Saviour formerly mentioned Then least the reall Church should be cumbred with every 1. Remedy small businesse the party offended is injoyned by our Saviour to goe to the party offending or who hath offended him as by occasion of trespasse or otherwise which is a thing I confesse quite contrary to flesh and blood as is also the like expressions of our Saviour viz. If thou bringest thy gift to the Altar and remember that thy brother hath offended thee leave thy gift at the Altar and goe and reconcile thy selfe to thy brother as also in praying for our enemies in blessing them that curse us to turne the other side to part not only with our coate but cloake also yet being the injunction of our Saviour they must be observed and so farre as any man is from yeelding obedience to them so farre is he from being a true Christian these being the simptomes to distinguish the Church of Christ from the world and therefore our Saviour in such cases commandeth to goe and tell him of his fault privately or betwixt thee and him alone SECT 6. AS if he should have said The eyes of the Heathen and Publicanes are set upon you and would much rejoyce to heare that you who are brethren in professing my name should differ And therefore in such a case goe first by thy selfe and doe it with all the privacy that may be for feare of the scandall which otherwise may arise by the difference betwixt you and when yee are so met use all the wholsome perswation thou c●ust according to the measure of the gift which is given thee to incite and stir up to give thee satisfaction and if thou canst perswade him thereunto thou hast then gained thy brother which shall be a glory unto thee so that thou shalt shine as the Starres in the firmament But if he yet remaine obstinate and will not give thee some 2. Remedy reasonable satisfaction for thy losse by him then take with thee one or two more of thy neighbours of which number may be thy Pastor or whom else thou shalt thinke meet And in so doing certainly they wil moderate the businesse betwixt you unlesse Law businesse may be decided in he Church ye be both Hipocrites so that no reason will perswade you yea certainly rather then you will make it any further trouble one of you wil put up with some losse least it beget a scandall to the Church but if it so be that thou shewest thy selfe before thy neighbours to be a reasonable man rather to put up with losse then to exact more then thy owne and yet he will not reconcile himselfe or give thee thy owne Then thou art of necessity to put him to a greater sh●me and disgrace being constrained to acquaint the Church with it which after notice given when so many of the members are met together as shall please to come thou shalt produce the Witnesse which thou tookest with thee and they shall declare the truth and equity of thy cause unto them as also the refractorinesse of the offender or trespasser which being so manifestly ●pparent to such members of the Church by thy credable Witnesses it will be quickly decided But if he shall yet refuse to be so ordered by the Assembly then gathered together as likely he will having had all the faire motions that might be before let him then be unto thee as an Heathen man and a Publican And thus have I set forth unto you a representation how our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ would have differences decided in his Church Militant which remedies afore mentioned considered there will seldome or never any small or triviall businesse trouble the Church in regard the party offended or injured is positively injoyned by our Saviour to use the remedies aforesaid which if he refuse to performe he ought not to be releeved by the Church SECT 7. Obj. BVt if the Defondant refuse to be ordered by them members so gathered in regard of the smalnesse of the quantity of them in comparison of the reall body of that Church may he not appeale to the reall body Ans The Church having had publick notice of it as also of the time and place when and where the difference is to be decided and not appearing at the time and place doubtless those Few triviall businesses trouble the Church few who doth appeare ought to end the businesse and being so determined it ought not to trouble the Church any further but I would have you know that such causes as come to such a triall ought to have a deliberate hearing both by Pastors c. for you may well imagine the two remedies considered there will seldome or never any triviall businesse trouble the reall Church Obj. Suppose the difference betwixt them be for title of Land or the like are such Churches able to decide such controversies What judgement doe you read them Corinthians had in La● having no judgements in the Lawes of the Land by which such differences are to be tryed Ans All Lawes are or ought to be grounded upon Scripture and reason and as to that of Scripture I suppose none wil deny but such as are of the Church have the best