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enemy_n	king_n	lord_n	saul_n	1,310	5	9.7482	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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