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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

say that Paul speaks in that place of Authority c. Magistracy in its constitution not of a Person abusively exercising it to be Gods instrument of Good to every one and an incourager of good in every man and an envying to evill who will try your work or pollicy and search out your Counsel then Counsellours look to your selves you had need then to treble your guards about you Reason Because being Ministers of his Kingdom the Kingdome will be then found to be the Lords and not theirs who are now Usurpers both over it and the Lords Goverment which he hath appointed for it ye have not judged right wherein have they not judged right nor kept the Law What will become of those Magistrates then that have neither kept the Law i. e. that have not judged according to the Law of the alone Law giver neither have judged according to their own Laws surely the following judgment will fall with a Witnesse upon such Magistrates Nor walked after the Counsel of God no nor of good men neither but of a company of fawning Parrasites the Frogs Locusts Caterpillars and Cankerworms of Nations horribly and speedily will he come upon you For a sharp judgment shall be to them that are in high places for mercy will pardon the meanest such as may not properly be termed the makers and judges of Heathenish Laws i. e. the petty-foggers of the Laws and governments of man i. e. such as are not Commissionated to such purpose but mighty men shall be mightily tormented Reason For he that is Lord Oneral shall fear no mans person How not the person of O. P. c. Neither shall he stand in aw of any mans greatnesse but sure he dare not meddle with his Highnesse that is a degree above greatnesse for he hath made the small and great and earth for all a like how for all alike that 's a strange saying indeed surely the Lord will be a leveller with a witnesse But a sore tryall shall come upon the mighty Let her alone untill that day The Fox fares b●st when he is threatned most These are but Bug-bear-expressions to frighten children valiant Heroes fears them not me vive fiat saith Nero and his Comrades let this day of judgment come in their time so much do they fear it tush they are onely mock-beggers and scar-crows they see by reason and experience that all things continue as they were from the beginning of the Creation let a company of dreaming Prophets say what they will doth God take notice of idolatry or Tyranny as the simple vulgar term it Tush he seeth no such thing there is no such knowledge in the most high and if he do know yet doubtles he hideth away his face and will not see it For surely otherwise he would not have suffered it so long to have been practiced as he hath done away therefore with all such Fancies and let us look after our present work to suppresse such sawcy insolent fellows that dares to cite such Treasonable Texts to the ●nd they may affright us What! doth not our Prognosticatours tell us that our Government is permanent and will not admit of alteration for many hundreds of years what then ought we to give heed to such bablers Unto you O Kings saith Solomon do I speak that Ye may learn wisdome and not fall away How now Solomon do you give us this Counsel surely this book was made when you were in your doling condition when you began to have one leg in the grave it was not so with you when your Government lashed your brethren as with whips when your provision for one day was thirty measures of fine floure and threescore measures of meal ten fat oxen and twenty oxen out of the pasture besides Harts and Robucks and Fallow-deere and fatted fowl when you had forty thousand stalls of horses for your Chariots and twelve thousand horsemen when you had seven hundred wives and three hundred concubines No this was when you began to surfet of your pleasures and therefore to cry all is vanity and vexation of spirit well when we have taken our fill of pleasure as you did we shall peradventure take your advise in the mean time give us leave to satisfie the lusts of our own hearts and if not know we will take leave and so farewell Solomon Seeing that which is not of of faith or firm perswasion is sin Rom. 14. 23. and faith must be grounded upon the Word as being wrought by the Word Rom. 10. 16 17 18. The Magistrate cannot justifie his Acts of Justice in the sight of God unlesse he can warrant the same from the word of God and what word is there for taking away the life of a man for simple theft c. with several other things now acted by the present Magistrates of this Nation as I shall undertake to prove if ever providence call me thereunto 5. In as much as God hath created man in his own Image Gen. 1. 26. c. which Image is in Mans Soul animating his body This Image I say ought not to be defaced and dissolved but by warrant and direction from the word of God and consequently in all other Cases where the Great Law-giver hath as well prescribed the Punishment as the Offence i. e. the judgement or punishment as the Precept or Statute and that who so doth not so is a Rebell and Traitor to the alone Law-giver whose servant he ought to be in all faitfulnesse and not an Vsurper of his Masters Authority or Legislatorship as our present Magistrates are at this day Object Mordecay and Daniel having place of Government under the Babylonish and Persian Kings did no doubt administer Justice according to the Laws and Customes of that Country Therefore the Laws of the Heathens were assented unto by godly persons Resp The Case is now far different for those Emperours or Kings were Heathen but the present Magistrates of this Nation are at least in pretence Christians and therfore for them above all other to act by and according to those Heathenish Laws and Customes doth render them to be Worse than the very Heathen Reason For the Heathens did make and act by such Laws meere●y out of blind ignorance Acts 17. 30. and therefore God is said to wink thereat but since hath commanded All Men every * None then can plead excuse where to repent of such their wickednesse because he hath Appointed a day in which he will Iudge the World in Righteousnesse which can be done by no other than his own Holy Iust perfect and Righteous Laws by the Man whom he hath ordained c. but the present Magistrates of this Nation or Supreme power which I take with Mr. Feak to reside in the Army or Chief Officers thereof they do it Presumptuously witnesse their Declarations Remonstrances c. in which they have Notoriously proclaimed to All the World that they have fought to set up the Lord Iesus Christ to be

do them John 13. 17. as also the Apostle Peter If ye do these things ye shall never fall 2 Pet. 1. 10. Fourthly it sheweth what benefit we have received by Christ i. e. the renewing of that image wherein man was first created the Scriptures being a Lanthorn and a Light to that purpose as David h●th acknowledged Col. 3. 10. Having put on the new man which is created in knowledge after the image of him that created h●m In the state of Reformation of all things the Law shall have that use which it had before mans fall to shew the conformity of mankind in their holy obedience with the blessed will of their Glorious Creatour Lord and Master Jesus Christ blessed for ever Amen Of the Judiciall Law The Judicialll Law floweth from the Morall Law which is the Fountain and Foundation thereof and as the Morall Law is fixed in the Heart and Conscience of every man by nature Rom. 2. 14 15. so the Judicialls appertaining thereunto flow from the same Fountain and therefore seeing no Common-wealth can stand without a Civil and Judiciall Constitution the Lord therefore having provided the Law that binds in Conscience so here he sets forth the pena●ll lawes whereby the obstinacy of men may be restrained for if men were left to themselves there would be few that would not rather live as they list as the Ranters c. 1. Therefore because it might so fall out that all would not be Why the Judicial Law was given obedient to the Moral Precept it was necessary that the alone Law-giver Rom. 4. 12. who is onely able to save and to destroy to prescribe what Punishment every transgressour of the Law should be liable unto Of the word Judgement As touching the word Judgement in the Singular it doth not signifie as Judgements in the Plurall for Judgement in the Singular doth for the most part signifie condemnation but in the plurall it signifies as well the revenge and punishment of the guilty as the defence of the innocent 2. The word Judgement is taken three wayes as first it signifi●s the Act of Judgement and understanding which determineth what is meet and convenient to be done and so it is the fountain and beginning whence good Lawes do proceed Reason For the Law is made good out of Judgement So that the Judiciall Law is in effect as if the Lord had said unto Moses whereas I have already given the people Generall Rules of serving me as also how to dem●an themselves one towards another now upon a full and deliberate consultation and Iudgement given I shall deliver their particular demeanour touching the same as also the punishment that shall be inflicted upon the violatours thereof whether towards me or towards one another 2. The word Judg●ment is taken for the Administration of Iustice which is the executive part of the Law 3. It is taken for the Law it self according to which Iudgement i● given The Iudiciall Law of three sorts 1. They either were such as were annexed to the Moral Law as the statutes and Judgements touching the Contemners of the Moral Law in Generall or in particular as in Blasphemy Idolatry Murther Adultery c. 2. Or such as were appendent to the Ceremoniall Law as the Statutes and Iudgements touching any dead thing or that were prohibited and the like 3. Or such as appertained to the particular Policie and State of the Jews Common-wealth as concerning the year of Jubile raising ●● seed to the brother departed without issue by marrying his wife c. The two last of these are abolished one with the Ceremonies on which they attended the other as being onely peculiar to that Government is now decayed and determined with it The Great Controversie now to debate is whether the first of of these i. e. the Statutes and Judgements annexed to the Moral Law be as Binding to all Nations as the Moral Law it self In r●ference to which I take the Affirmative part and say That the Judicial Laws annexed to the Moral Law is as Binding as the Law and ought to be put in practise by the Magistrates of ALL the NATIONS in the whole world This great Argument controverted It is acknowledged that the Moral Law is obligatory universal The Adversaries confession and eternal for that it is agreeable to the Law of nature commanded by God to Moses revived and ratified by Jesus Christ in the Gospel and therefore may really and truly be termed the Law of Christ and the Royall Law of Jehovah binding ALL NATIONS But as for the judiciall Law it ended with the Jews Common Their Objection wealth for which it was intended and therefore untill it can be shewn when and where it was renued and imposed upon all Nations Mounseir Needham the Court Parrasite and Pensioner that scoffing Ishmaelite and blasphemous Rabshakah of the times saith he will not believe it Resp I am glad this Court Sycophant and Temporising Parasite hath so much grace as to acknowledge what he hath in reference to the Royal Law of Jehovah i. e. the Moral Law and as touching the other I answer and say That the Judiciall Law annexed to the Moral Law is no more ended or determined than the Moral Law it self Neither can be And that for these following Reasons i. e. 1. For they are as I have said conclusions and rules of justice Reason 13 grounded upon the Morall Law or Royal Law and were not appointed to prefigure any thing but meerly grounded upon the law of Equity and Justice and therefore can nor ought to be laid aside any more than those precepts of equity and justice to which they are so inseparably annexed as that the one cannot suffer detriment without the other and consequently neither the law statute or judgment but by an open and apparent contempt of Jehovah the Lord Christ the God of equity and justice who hath established and ratified them to be his laws to such purpose and so not judaicall or peculiar onely to the Jews but to all that are under the verge of the Moral Law 2. For that the breach of the Moral Precept or Law is the same before the alone Law-giver in one part of the world as in another as to kill a man wilfully or by Accident is now the same sin before the eyes of God in England as it was then in Canaan and consequently of any other transgression of the Moral Precept and therefore in such cases the great and singular Law-giver hath declared that one Law should be for the stranger i. e. the Gentile as for the home born or Jews themselves Exod. 12. 49. Lev. 24. 22. And therefore unlesse this Changeling will undertake to prove Iehovah the Lord Christ such an one as himself as to prefix one punishment in Canaan for the violation of a Moral Precept whether General or particular and another sort of punishment for the same Transgression in another Country as in England c. which blasphemous

Assertion he is as like to maintain as any I know for a Stipends sake he cannot avoid but must per Force subscribe that the said statutes and Judgements are of as large an extent as the Moral Law it self acknowledged by him i. e. Obligatory Universal and Eternal and Binding all Nations Object 2 All Nations have a latitude left them of making such Civil Laws as they shall think convenient for the better Government of themselves according to Prudence and Discretion provided they be not contrary to that Royal Law Respon Prag I here challenge thee and all thy Mast●●s which in Court City or Country Vniversities or Innes of Court by what names or titles so ever dignified or distinguished to shew me one Text of Scripture that granteth any such latitude to Magistrates by the alone Law-giver as they are or ought to be his Ministers or servants to put his Laws in execution but contrary-wise such Actions are so abominable in the eyes of Jehovah the Lord Christ as that he hath denoted a curse against those that do take upon them either to adde or detract that either swerve to the right hand or the left from those Laws Statutes and Iudgements prescribed by him for proof hereof see Deut. 27. 26. Gal. 3. 10. No Monsieur Prag those that are Dispensers of Iehovahs lawes must not make Laws for him whether in reference to Statute or Iudgement he is as able to prescribe his punishment as his Law without their help or assistance And therefore it was that our blessed Saviour so much inveighed against the Scribes Pharises hypocrites of his time of abode here on earth like unto Needhams forementioned Masters for that they had not onely transgressed the Commandements of God by their vain Traditions or Expositions but he had even made them thereby of none effect Mat. 13. 3 4 5 c. So that I affirm that Clause in Needhams Objection i. e. For the better Government c. to be absolute blasphemy for that by so saying in plain terms that his aforesaid Masters are Wiser than the Great God of Heaven and Earth in reference to the composing of all Government for the sonnes of men and therefore according to the Statute and Iudgement appropriated by Iehovah in such Cases he ought to be put to death vid. Lev. 24. 11. 15. 23. as also for his scurrilous expressions against Moses and the Laws given by God unto him to communicate to the people for he that despised Mose's Law was to dye without mercy under the testimony of two or three witnesses which Judgement will doubtlesse fall upon the heads of Needham c. In so saying he clearly giveth the Apostle Paul the lye who asserteth That the foolishnesse of God is wiser than the wisdome of men 1. Cor. 1. 25. The meanest of the Divine Orders being far beyond the wisest of his or his Masters vain imaginations so that by such their deceived foolish hearts they onely contract to themselves that Heathenish Character i. e. by professing themselves * Rom. 1. 2 2. wise to be Downright Foolish for in such Cases the Apostle doth positively affirm that the wisdome of the world viz. Athenian like Wisdome is foolishnesse to God for it is written I will destroy the wisdome of the wise whether in Civil or spirituall matters I will bring to nought the Councels of the prudent Where is the wise where is the Scribe where is the disputer or Needhams of this world hath not God made Foolish the Wisdome or politick carnal wisdome of this World and therefore he concludeth that not many after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called by God to be made Instruments in his work or service whether in Civils or Spiritualls but contrarywise hath made choice of that which is Foolish in the esteem of Needham and his Masters whether in reference to persons or things to confound that which they esteem wisdome that no flesh might glory in his presence vide Rev. 27 28 29. 1. I doe therefore hereby affirm that God that gave life and limbs unto men c. hath onely power to dispose of them and none else and that he that taketh away either the life or limb of any man other wise than God himself hath appointed or given direction in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament either by general rule or particular precept is a Murtherer and a Tyrant 2. I do also hereby affirm that whosoever doth not take away life or limb in such cases as the alone law-giver hath appointed is an unjust Judge And that he will be punished by Jehovah the Lord Christ for so doing Reason For he hath said Yee shall do no unrighteousnes in judgment thou shalt not respect the person of the poore nor honour the person of the mighty Levit. 19. 15. But in Righteousnesse shalt thou judge thy Neighbour A text that ere long may be urged against those that have urged it against others vid. Abridg. Remonst Albans pag. 10. with severall other scriptures to such purpose And hence it was that Moses charged the Judges of Israel saying Heare the cause between your brethren and judge Righteously between every man and his brother and the stranger that is with him and yee shall not respect persons in Judgment but yee shall heare the small as well as the great you shall not be afraid of the face of man Deut. 1. 15 16 17. Reason For the judgment is Gods 3. That in all other cases the Magistrate being the Minister or servant of God or at least ought so to be Rom. 13. 4. ought to execute justice as the alone Law-giver their Lord and Master hath prescribed which they cannot do otherwise than by putting his laws in execution according to those statutes and judgments established by God himself and not according to thei● own lusts and humours as our present Magistrates do at this day punishing severall things by death which the alon● Law-giver hath appointed other punishments and severall things with other punishments for which the alone Law-giver hath appointed death Reason For it is required in a disposer that he should be found faithfull 1 Cor. 4. 2. But Gods will otherwise appeareth not then in his word or law Therefore who so doth not accordingly doth not perform the will of the alone Law giver in his word or Law and consequently of the number of those Magistrates mentioned by Solomon in his book titled Wisdome cap. 6. 1. to whom he saith by way of rebuke and admonition Heare therefore O yee Kings and understand learn ye that be Judges of the ends of the earth give ear you that rule the people and glory in the multitude of Nations for power is given you of the Lord and soveraignty from the highest i. e. the Constitution of Authority or Magistracy Rom. 13. 3 4. and that according to the Armies own construction of that place in their Abridgment of the Remonstrant Albans wherein pag. 6. they

King or Legislator in this Common-wealth as also vowed obedience unto him upon his Own Terms and that they would admit Him Onely to the exercise of his Royall Authority ●and in order thereunto have affirmed that the Law that was put into the hands of * which was no other than the statutes and judgements depending ●pon the Moral Law Deut. 17 18 19. Ioash at his Coronation to be a Law from heaven as also a Rule for all Rulers and that whosoever is not under those Laws owns not his Subjection to God So that what the Apostle saith of the Heathen Rom. 1. 21. i. e. That when they knew God they did not worship him as God but became vain in their imaginations their foolish hearts being darkened and so professing themselves wise became fools and thereby left themselves without excuse I may fitly apply to the late actions of these Army men yea and that in a Greater measure in reference to the Law of God Reason For in this particular Iehovah hath not afforded many of the Heathen that priviledge as to have either the Letter or true sence of the Law Rom. 2 14. But these persons have both the Letter and true sence of the Law and yet wilfully refuse to put them in practice and consequently receive this great grace and favour of God in vain chusing rather with Turks and Infidels to be a Law unto themselves And what is this lesse in a Civil Sence than the Quakers and Ranters Tenent in a Spirituall Sence the one thinking they have No need of the Touchstone rule or Standard of the Scriptures of the New Testament to guide them in their Spiritual condition or Inward Man living meerely upon the dictates figments or Notions of the wild Fancies of their frisking brain The other that they have likewise Reason and light of nature enough within them to govern themselves and their Vassals in reference to the outward man and therefore like the other will not make use of the Old Testament for that purpose but esteem them as things base and despicable for such wise and Profound Persons as Mr. Needham and his Masters the now great Courtiers are And thus betwixt them do they compleat that Body of Iniquity and * And have filled up the measu●e of the wrath of their pred●c●ssours in iniquity and consequently ripe for judgement wh●ch sleepeth not Transgressions and therefore with the Heathen may properly be said to be without Law and without God in the World and consequently at the very threshold of entring into that unpardonable sin against the Holy Ghost which is defined to be a resisting of the known truth which can be no other than the Holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament not of infirmity or for fear or favour but of more Malice and Hatred against the written Word i. e. the LAW and the Gospel the one trampled under foot by the Ranters and Quakers and the other despised and contemned by Need●am and his Masters witnesse his scurrilous pamphlet tituled the Observator notwithstanding they are the very dictates of the Spirit of God to Moses the Prophets and Apostles as I have proved And therefore ought to be of as much value and esteem among the people of God as if the same words were now inspired into them by the same Spirit so that by having the benefit of the Holy Scriptures it is as much as if we had Moses and all the Prophets with Iesus Christ and his Apostles now Extant with us with all the Miracles which were wrought by them for the Confirmation thereof John 20. 31. and consequently do thereby injoy God Christ and the blessed spirits breathings as if the same were now breathed upon us in reference to our guidance and direction in the duties required of us by God either as to himself or our Neighbour so that where it is prophesied that in the latter dayes we shall be all taught of God I affi●m it is meant of no other teaching than that of the Old and New Testament which shall then be the Onely Rule and Square of our Actions whether in reference to things spirituall or Civil for it cannot be other than Blasphemy to assert that the blessed spirit should teach Contradictions to teach one Rule in Scripture and another Rule in Notion and if so then all Notions whatsoever these Ranters Quakers c. pretend unto which are not as agreeable with the Letter of the Scriptures as a pair of Indentures agreeth with one another and even as face answereth face in a glasse I say and do testifie that they are of their Father the Devil And therefore the words of the Apost●e may fitly be applyed to these men Heb. 4. where speaking of such as were once inlightned and have tasted of the good word of God and the power of the world to come saith that it is impossible for such if they shall fall away to be renewed again by Repentance seeing they have crucified to themselves the Son of God and have put him to an open shame as also those words in Cap. 10. 26 27 c. where he saith If we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth there remaineth no more sacrifice for sin but a fearfull loo●ing for of Iudgement and fiery Indignation which shall devour the Adversaries Again if he that despised Moses Law died without mercy under two or three witnesses of how much greater punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath troden under foot the Son of God and hath done despite to the spirit of grace such ●● now term the same spirit the spirit of the Devil which they have all along hitherto during the time of their Straits and Low Condition owned for the Spirit of God and the sole guider and director of their Actions * Simile Vid. Epist Jud. v. 10 11 12 13 c. much like the Apostate Sons of God in the old world who having once declared their holy profession through the lusts of the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life became the most desperate wretches that were in that world running themselves head-long like a horse into the battel into all manner of Excesse and Riot neither fearing God nor man which abominable wickednesse was the occasion of the destruction of that world And our Lord Jesus hath foretold that as it was in the dayes of Noah so shall it be at the coming of the Son of man Implying that a great Apostacy shall happen at that time among the Professours of the truth which this day is too evidently fulfilled both in the Eyes and Ears of all that truly fear God and keep his Commandements to do them but to the thing in question 2. If Mordecay and Daniel might have had their will they would doubtlesse have promoted the Royall Laws of their Jehovah with the Statutes and Judgements annexed thereunto as clearly appeareth by the practice of good Nehemiah Cap. 8. 1 2. who

Progenitors with the same implacable enmity to the power of the Gospel And is there not a cry for all this How long Lord holy and true dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell in the earth Rev. 6. 10. Doth not Sion cry the violence done unto me and my children be upon Babylon and my blood upon those heavens of the Nations and will not the Lord avenge his elect that cry unto him day and night will he not do it speedily will he not call the fowls of Heaven to eat the flesh of Kings and Captains and great men of the Earth Rev. 19. 18. Will he not make the Heavens like the wood of the Vine c. and what of all this Doctour The time shall come to discover her slain and not the simplest Hereticks as they were counted shall have his blood 〈…〉 enged Neither shall any attonement he made for this blood or expiation be allowed whilest a Toe of the image or a Bone of the Beast is left unbroken Again p. 13. No kind of government in Europe or line of Governors so ancient but that the Beast is as old as they and had a great influence into their constitution or establishment to provide that it might be for his own interest where the Pope hath not expressely bargained for his own interest and provided that he should have the chief place in all the Oaths and bonds that were betwixt Prince and People either by pretended collation of Right to pacifie the Consciences of blood-thirsty Potentates in the undertaking and pursuing their unjust Conquests or foolish Mitred confirmations of sword purchases he hath got them framed to his own end and purpose which was to bring in all these Nations into subjection to his Babylonish usurpations Which those Kings finding no way inconsistent with their own designes did willingly promote labouring to enforce all Consciences into subjection to the Romish Sea Hence it is that such an interposition was made of the rights of Holy Church That is Babylon the Mother of Harlots in all the Types Oathes and Bonds between Prince and People and for the advancement of the righteous judgements of God That the sons of men may learn to fear and tremble before him And it may be observed 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 that Papall Antichristian interest thrust into their Oathes and Obligations for no other end in the world but to keep the Lord Jesus out of his Throne And this is a reason why the Lord Jesus by his mighty power at the bringing in of his unmoveable Kingdom will shake the Heavens and Earth of the Nations Reas Even because in their present constitutions they are directly framed to the interest of Antichrist which by notable advantages at their first moulding and contrived insinuation ever since hath so rivited it self into the very fundamentals of them that no digging nor myneing with an earthquake will cast up the foundation stones thereof c. Because as is their Interest so is their Acting The present powers of the Nations stand in direct opposition to the bringing in of the Kingdome of Christ At which time saith the Doctor Two things there are that will be confessed incumbent on him in this day of his advancement 1. The bringing home of his antient people to be one fold with the fulnesse of the Gentiles raising up the Tabernacle of David and building it as in the dayes of old In the accomplishment of innumerable promises and answer to millions of prayers Doctor in this you and your brother yet hath not cut a thred but proceed Doctor Now there are two main hinderances of this work that must be removed the first whereof is 1. Real The great river Euphrates the strength and fulnesse of those streams do yet rage so high that there is no passage for the Kings of the East to come over wherefore this must also be dryed up as other waters were for their forefathers of old Rev. 16. 12. and doubtlesse this is spoken in allusion to Abrahams going over that River into Canaan when the Church of God in his family was there to be erected whence he was called the Hebrew that is the Passenger i. e. over that River Gen. 14. 13. And then it may well enough denote the Turkish power which proud as it is at this day possessing in peace all those Regions of the East yet God can quickly make it wither and be dryed up Or to the deliverance of the Jews in Babylon when it was taken and destroyed by the drying up of the streams of that river and so the yoke of her tyranny broken from the Churches neck Jer. 51. 31. c. And so it can be no other but the power of the Romish Babylon supporting the Kings of the Nations Which must therefore be shaken and dryed up 2. Moral Or the Idolatry of the Gentile worshippers The Jews stick hard as yet at this That God should abolish any kinde of worship which himself instituted But that he should ever accept any falsworship which he had once strictly prohibited and no where to this day appointed To this they will never be reconciled Now such is all the invented idolatrous worship which the Kings of the earth have sucked in from the Cup of Fornications held out unto them in the hand and by the Authority of the Roman Whore This still they cleave close unto and will not hearken to the Angel preaching the everlasting Gospel that men should worship him who made the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and the fountains of Water Rev. 13. 6 7. i. e. The God of Heaven in Jesus Christ according to his holy just and righteous laws statutes judgements and Ordinances as afore mentioned in opposition to all their Jeonolatry Artolatrys Hagiolatry Stanrolatry and Masse abomination This then must also be removed And because as it hath been said it is so rivited and cemented into and with all the Orbs of the Nations Heaven and Earth i. e. the politick or humane Frames of Government which they have made for * themselves and their interests they therefore must be shaken and brought to destruction before it can be effected The second thing he hath to accomplish is the Tremendous totall Destruction of the man of Sin and all his adherents that are not obedient to the Heavenly call Rev. 18. 4. c. Doct. Pray what is your meaning by the adherents of Babylon Resp Are not most Potentates tyed by Oath or other compact either to maintain the whole or some part of the old Tower under the name of Right of Holy Church Prelates and the like true Doctor they are Query It is clear then that you include all sorts of Governours and Governments to be adherents to the Papal power or mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abomination of the the earth who support Prelacy

But what is your meaning by those words or the like Resp He that thinketh Babylon to be confined to Rome and its open Idolatry knows nothing of Babylon nor of the New Jerusalem the depth of that subtill mystery Rev. 17. 5. doth not lye in grosse visible folly It hath been insinuating it self into all the Nations for 1600 years c. And is now become as the marrow in the bones which before it can be shaken out The Heaven must be dissolved and the Earth shaken Query It seems then Doctor you conclude that all Governours and Governments that do support the Prelatical part of the Papacie are adherents to Babylon and therefore must be destroyed with it Resp The late King had learned a saying from his Predecessors No Bishop No King Hence he supposes his main interest to lye in holding fast Prelacy What ever he seems to part with all that he will not let go that 's his main interest Query And what is this Prelacy Resp A meer Antichristian encroachment upon the inheritance of Christ Christ coming to take his own shakes the other in pieces Query Well said Doctor and so he hath done blessed be Jehovah for it But what think you of Presbytery Is not that it you meant where you said Prelacy or the like Pray Doctor tell me your minde freely what you think of the Presbyterian Gov●rnment and that Civil Political Power that doth supoort it Resp Those who would have been our oppressors 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 Procrustes 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 lie And in holding this fast are they after all their associations broken in pieces Query I plainly perceive that this Presbytery would have been a hellish Bondage to have been confined unto for you have painted it out in very notable significant characters but pray what was the designe of the Scots if they had prevailed Resp The corrupt design of these in Scotland was to have set up a Son of Tu●eal in England and themselves to be great under him that they and their partakers might impose upon the residue of the Nation 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 and shall be so Hence ambition to rule and to have all under their power Even in Conscience I● quickly mistaken for zeal to the Kingdome of Christ Re-inthroning of Tyranny is Royalty and all according to the Covenant c. Thus mens mindes and judgments are distempered by their Iust and interests which makes them frame a way for God to proceed in which when he doth not How are they surprised Thanks noble Doctour you are then clear of opinion that Presbytery and the Civil Magistrates and Governments that support it are also Adherents to the beast or Papacy and consequently that they also are to participate of that Tremendous Final destruction and totall amotion as you have declared to fall on Babylon But I pray is there no hopes of taking off the Civil Magistrate from joyning hands with the Horned and Hoofed Beasts of the Presbyterian judgement Resp Can any expect that such as these i. e. Civil Magistrates of Political Governments such as they have made for themselves and their interest as the Doctour hath formerly mentioned should take up the despised quarrel of Christ against that Flourishing Queen Doubtlesse no such fruit will grow on these trees c. 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 Birds all Fleshly Dominion therefore within doores and Civil Dominion that opposeth without doores shall be shaken Now these things are so glewed also to mens earthly Possessions the tallons of the birds of prey having firmly seased on them that ●hey also must be shaken with them and therefore from them also will be have us meaning the Saints and people of God to be loosed vid. 2 Pet. 3. v. 12 13. I Perceive Doctor there is then but one way to be taken with the Papal Prelatical and Presbyterian Magistrates and Ministers that will not be obedient to the Heavenly call as you have formerly hinted i. e. a final destruction and total amotion of them together and so Needhams Objection is answered with a witnesse and fully verified i. e. That the erecting or instituting of the Statutes and Judgements annexed to the Moral Precept● will and is appointed by God to be the overthrow of all the Political Gouernments in the world and so I shall proceed to the third particular But now it comes in my mind I shall before I enter thereupon desire to compare our present Government with your Text to the end we may see whether or no it be in the Black Bead-roll that is to receive the final destruction and total amotion you say must happen unto them And for better Order sake I shall once more recite the words of your Text Heb. 27. And this word once more signifies the removing of those things that are shaken us of things that are made that those things that cannot be shaken may remain Argum. Now in these words it is notoriously p●ident to every Rational Man that all such Heavens and Earths or Political Forms of Government which men have made for themselves as afore mentioned by you as are made by such means shall be be shaken and removed i. e. by a fi●al destruct●●n and total ●●●●tion as you have also affirmed But the present Government of this Nation was made his State-Policy or Humane Invention Ergo according to Mr. Owens Assertion and Attestation the present Government of this Nation is to receive a final destruction and total amotion Proof That the present Government of this Nation was made by State Policy or Humane Invention I appeal to every rational man sure I am it was neither made in Mount Sina nor ratified in mount Olivet unlesse the Learned Doctour can prove the Cock-pit to be the one and the Parliament-House to be the other which I believe will strain his Logick to the highest key Argument Again from this Text it is also undeniably evident that all such Governments as may be shaken must be also shaken and removed and that upon the Account of being made as aforesaid But the present Government of Nation is such a Government as may be shaken Therefore according to the Doctours Assertion the present Government of this Nation is to receive a final destruction and total amotion Proof That the present Government of this Nation is such as may be shaken I refer to the alterations which the late Parliament if they might have had their wills would have made therein and if it may be