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