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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

written and to which purpose he hath also commissionated them Rev. 18. 6 7 8. But before I speak to the Commission it is worthy of our best observation to take notice of the just and righteous dealings of God unto the inhabitants of Babylon for I say before he giveth out his Commission to his Saints who are to judge the world 1 Cor. 6. 2. and to be the rod of his strength Psal 110. 2. His battel-Axe weapon of war will break in pieces the horse and his rider c. Jer. 51. 20. 21 c. he doth in the first place send his Messengers from his Churches with great power to enlighten them with his Glory crying mightily with a strong voice saying Babylon is fallen is fallen and is become the habitation of Devils and the hold of every soul spirit and a cage of every unclean and hatefull bird Reas For all nations have drunk of the wrath of the wine of her fornication and the Kings of the earth have committed fornication with her and the Merchants of the earth are waxen rich through the abundance of her delicates and this I take to be by way of Aggravation to shew her abominations and how ripe she is for Judgement and executions as also to strike a terrour in the hearts of the people of God that are yet in her of what rank soever which having done in 4. and 5. v. he sendeth other Messengers to call the people of God out of her saying Come out of her my people God hath his people in Babylon Reason 1. That ye do not partake of her Sinnes 2. That ye receive not of her Plagues Those then that partake of her sins shall rrceive of her plagues Reason For her sins have reached unto heaven and God hath remembred her iniquity after which fair warning he forthwith giveth his Commission to his Saints in these words Reward The Saints Commission against Babylon and all her adherents her as she rewarded you and double unto her double according to her works in the cup which she hath filled fill to her double how much she hath glorified her self and lived delitiously so much Torment and Sorrow give her Reason For me saith in her heart I sit a Queen and am no widow and shall see no sorrow Therefore shall her Plagues come in one day viz. this day of vengeance Death and mourning and famine and she shall be utterly burnt with fire Reason For strong is the Lord God that judgeth her so that it is clear this Judgement and Vengeance is to be inflicted upon Babylon and her adherents by way of recompence for the further confirmation whereof see these following Scriptures id est Psalme 2. 4 5. He that sitteth in Heaven shall laugh the Lord shall have them in derision then shall he speak unto them viz. to the Kings of the earth and the Rulers v. 2. in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure Psal 139 8 9. O Daughter of Babylon who art to be destroyed happy shall he be that rewardeth thee as thou hast served us happy shall he be that taketh and dasheth thy little ones against the stones Isa 54. For my sword shall be bathed in heaven viz. in the Pagans and Antichristian heaven or Church Behold it shall come down upon Idumea and upon the people of my curse to Judgement The sword of the Lord is filled with blood it is made fat with fatnesse c. and the Vnicorns shall come down with them and the Bullocks with the Bulls and their Land shall be soaked with blood and their dust made fat with fatnesse Reason For it is the day of the Lords vengeance and the year of recompence for the Controversies of Sion c. the remainder of that cup Isa 47. 1 2 3. Come down and sit in the dust O Virgin daughter of Babylon sit on the ground there are no thrones O daughter of the Caldeans for thou shalt no more be called the tender and delicate take the Milstone and grind meal and cover thy locks c. Thy nakednesse shall be uncovered yea thy shame shall be seen I will take vengeance c. vid. cap. 49. 26 Jer. 50 35 36. A sword upon the Caldeans-saith the Lord and upon the Inhabitants of Babylon and upon her Princes and upon her wise men a sword is upon their lyers viz. her Astrologers c. they shall dote A sword upon her mighty men her Army-men and they shall be dismayed A sword upon their Horses and their Chariots and upon all the mingled people good and bad that shall be found in her Rev. 18. 4. and they shall become as women there will be no fear of Laodiceans the Merosh * As in the Epistle Churches that hath one word for God and another for Baal of those that halt between Christ and Antichrist that can swallow a Parsonage c. and yet be a Church-gatherer in the world and not of the world the Hocus Pocus Christians of the times A sword upon the Treasurers and they shall be robbed it will be an ill day with Treasurers it seems let them therefore look to it A drought upon her Waiters i. e. her Clergy men of all sorts and sises vid. Rev. 18. Reason For it is a Land of graven Images i. e. either of Idolatry or Tyranny and they are mad upon their Idols Jer. 5. 30. 31. Therefore the wild beast of the Desart with the wild beasts of the Island shall dwell there and the owls shall dwell therein and it shall be no more inhabited for ever neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrhah and the Neighbour Cities thereof saith the Lord so shall no man abide there neither shall any son of man dwell therein Again the Lord speaking of his people Jer. 51. c saith I will render unto Babylon and to all the inhabitants of Caldea all these evils they have done unto Sion in your sight saith the Lord Behold I am against thee O destroyinng Mountain saith the Lord which destroyest all the earth and I will stretch out my hand upon thee and roll thee down from the Rocks and will make thee a burnt mountain Note and they shall not take of thee a stone for a corner nor for a foundation not the least grain of humane invention either in things appertaining to Babylon whether in its Civill or Ecclesiasticall estate where the Lord hath given a c●ear and expresse command himself But thou shalt be desolate for ever saith the Lord. Zach. 12. 2. Behold I will make Jerusalem a cup of trembling unto all people round about it c. and in that day will I make Jerusalem a burdensome stone for all people that burden themselves with it shall be cut in pieces though all the people of the earth be gathered together against it in that day saith the Lord will I smite every * Mat. 18. 7. Luke 17. 1. 2. horse with

The Royall ADVOCATE OR An Introduction to the Magnificent and Honourable Laws of Jehovah the Lord Christ now contaminated and despis●d by the present Armym●n of this NATION Asserting and Controverting the Holinesse Righteousnes Perfectnesse and Vniversallity thereof of Divi●● Right In opposition to the Heathe●ish and Antic●ristian Laws Traditions and vaine imaginations of the past and present pretended Christian Magistrates of this Na●●●n which they yet so much dote upon and endeavour ●●●upport against the alone Law giver L●rd o● heaven and earth God of Gods King of Kings and Lord of Lords Published by John Spittle-house now a prisoner for his Testimony ag●i●st the Idolatry and Tyranny of the present Army men Priests L●wyers c. For the Information of the followers o● th● Lambe now appearing as the Lyon of the tribe of Judah Mat. 15. 7 8. Ye Hypocr●●es well did El●●●h prophesie of you saying This people draweth nigh unto m● wi●h their mouth and honoureth me with ●heir li●s but their heart is far from me But in vain do they worship me teaching for Doctrines the commandements of men whether in things Civill or Spirituall Mat. 23. 13 14. Wo unto you Scribes Pharisees Hypocrites for ye shut up ●he Kingdome of Heaven against men for ye neither go in your selves neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in Therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation LONDON Printed for the Authour and are to be sold at the Crown in Popes-Head-Alley 1655. To the now contaminated Saints and Servants of God and yet faithfull followers of the Lamb in this crooked and perverse generation under the notion of the fifth Monarchy-men and enemies of all Magistracy and Ministry with all others whom it may concern Dear Brethren and Friends THe Providence of God is not unaptly compared to the wheels of a Clock which albei● they run variously yet they agree harmoniously to the producing of that end to which they are appointed and therefore notwi●hstanding the affairs of this Nation have for some time had a contrary motion to the general expectation of the people of God which probably hath been the cause of all the flaggings and secret murmu●ings and repinings among them as though the Lord had forgotten to be gracious or to perform his peromises yet if we search narrowly into the mind and ●ill of Jehovah we shall prove no better by our incredulity than the Disciples of our blessed Saviour Luk. 24. 25. i. e. fools and and slow of heart to believe all that the Prophets and the Lord Jesus and his Apostles have spoken shall come to passe in the last dayes as for instance the present Apostacies of the Army and several of the foolish though virgin Churches in this Nation in point of external ordinances i. e. those that have lately subscribed their approbation of this present Government we now live under to be of God and such as ought to be complied with as the Saints have formerly done to the Governments of Heathen Potentates without the least consideration of the prohibition which the Lord Jesus hath made and appointed against the worship of the Beast and his Image o● that receiveth his mark in his forehead or in his hand or his Name or number of his name and that under the pain and penalty of drinking of the wine of the wrath of God powred out without mixture into the cup of his indignation and that they shall be tormented wi●h Fire and Brimstone in the presence of the holy Angels and in the presence of the Lamb and that the smoak of their torment shall ascend up for ever and ever and that they shall have no rest day nor night who worship the Beast and his Image c. Rev. 14 9 10 1● hath doubtlesse been a great stumbling block in the way of Gods people ●o what they are now in expectation of and therefore to the end that all men may see and know that the present Government runs paralel with the Beast and that the sa●●●●pro●●●● ●●●one presumptuously are guilty of the aforementio●●● punish●●●●s ●or so doing wil appear 1. From the ingagement of the Army against the late King and his Monarchy as one of the ten horns of the Beast guilty of the blood of the Saints 2. By the joynt con 〈…〉 of those very persons whom it is to be feared have now presumptuously worshipped the Image of the Beast c. witnesse their preaching praying fasting and fighting against that Government the image of which they now so much hug and imbrace and are now grown so shamefully impudent as to declare the same to be of God 3. By the Descent of the present Government from the fall of Adam i● having run through the veins of all the Idolaters and Tyrants that have been unto this day as in the ensuing Treati●e will appear and that by the Testimony of the Grand new ●●●at●● Doc●our of the times Mr. John Owen who hath been very much assisting unto me in the proof thereof as you will also find 4. By the clear Testimony of Mr. Tillinghast in his Epistle to his late Book titled the Knowle●● of the times so that the apostacies of the aforenamed person and persons if rightly used may rather conduce to the great advantage of Gods people and to the strengthening and confirming of the faith and confidence of those that hold fast their integrity i. e. that the Great day of the Lord is at hand and that judgement is now begun at the house of God that the Lords fire is now kindled in Sion and his furnace h●ating in Jerusalem that the Refiners fire is now melting away the tinne and drosse from 〈…〉 s jewels that the Fullers sope is now scowring up the garments of the Saints making them white and clean i. e. by a pure and unspotted life and conversation that they may now be as a City set upon the top of an hill or as a Candle put into a Candlestick to give a light to the inhabitants that they may approve themselves children of the light and of the day that their light may so shine before men that they may see their good actions and so be a means to stir them up to glorifie their Father which is in heaven for our blessed Saviour hath foretold that it shall be in the last dayes or time of his coming to judgement as it was in the dayes of Noah Mat. 24. 37. c. at which time it is clear from Gen. 6. that there hapned a very great apostacy in those persons who went under the Notion of the sons of God v. 2. by means of which the sins of that world became ripe for judgement every imagination of the thoughts of their hearts being then evil and that continually v. 5. and therefore seeing the said Proph●sie is now so evidently fulfilled before our eyes both in reference to the Army onely a few cordiall and thrice noble Commanders who rather than they would become a reproach and scandal to

Souldiers with your rhethorical Artillery But in the interim let us lay before them the following words of the Prophet v. 21. They shall not build and another inhabit they shall not plant and another eat for as is the dayes of a Tree are the dayes of my people And my elect shall long enjoy the works of their hands It appeareth then there must be Mechanical persons in this glorious state which the two learned Doctors assert is to be for the following words saith They shall not labour in vain nor bring forth trouble Reas For they are the seed of the blessed of the Lord and their off spring with them they are then to procreate children under this glorious estate and condition vid. cap. 66. 22. And it shall come to pass● that before they shall call saith the Lord I will Answer And whil●st they are yet spealing I will hear there is then to be the use of Ordinances under this glorious state and condition and pray c. The Wolf and the Lamb shall feed together and the Lyon shall eat straw with the Bullock and dust shall be the Serpents meat i. e. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain saith the Lord. They shall then beat their swords into plow-shares and their spears into pruning hooks Nation shall not lift up sword against Nation neither shall they learn war any more Gentlemen you will stand in need of all your Rhethorick when you go about to convince the Souldiery of putting this Doctrine in practice But if this scripture be fulfilled and this glorious time is now under this present Government Why do they not as it is here directed by the spirit of God to be done And now Doctor I shall proceed to your confirmation of this grand doctrine from the New Testament to which purpose I finde you to instance 2 Pet. 3. 13. Where the Apostle having before in that cap. put the people of God in minde by way of remembrance touching the glorious kingdom and state which you and your brother Doctor hath affirmed must be and which I am sure yet is 〈◊〉 Reas For the Soldiers swords are not yet 〈◊〉 to Plow-shares nor their Spears into Pruning-books c. witne●●● the intolerable taxes yet to support them The Apostle I say having put the people of God in remembrance of the words which are spoken by the Holy Prophets and likewise of the commandment of them the Apostles of the Lord Jesus to such purpose and that they should not be danted touching the accomplishment thereof notwithstanding scoffing and mocking and blasphemi●g of the scoffing Ishmalites and railing and blasphemous Rabshakahs that should happen to be neer the time of its approach Who walking after their own lusts will say where is the promise of his coming for since the fathers fell asleep all things have continued as they were from the beginning For this they are willingly ignorant of that by the word of God the Heavens were of old and the Earth standing out of the waters and in the water whereby the world that then was being overflowed with water perished But the heavens and earth which are now by the same word are kept in store reserved unto fire against the day of judgement and perdition of ungodly men but beloved faith the Apostle be not ignorant of this one thing that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years and a thousand years as one day for the Lord is not slack concerning his promise as some men count slacknesse but is long-suffering to us ward not wiling that any should perish but tha● all should come to repentance but the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the Heavens shall passe away with a great noise and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat and the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godlinesse looking for and hoping unto the coming of the day of God wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat Neverthelesse we according to his promise look for new heavens and a new earth wherein dwelleth Righteousnesse not Idolatry and Tyranny Now for the better understanding of the Rabbies meaning t●●ching the new Heaven and new Earth here mentioned I shall 〈◊〉 another passage of his in pag. 12. of that book where he having asserted that it is not to be meant of the material Heaven and Earth produceth this Scripture to prove the same i. e. Isa 51. 15 16. I am the Lord that divided the sea whose waves roared the Lord of Hosts is his name and I have put my words in thy mouth and have covered thee with the shadow of my hand that I might plant the heavens and lay the Foundations of the Earth and say unto Sion thou art my People In these words saith the Doctour by a Repetition of what he hath done he establisheth his people in expectation of what he will do And 1. He minds them of that wonderfull deliverance from an Army behind them from an ocean before them by his miraculous preparing dry paths for them in the deep I am the Lord who divided the sea whose waves roared 2. Of his greatnesse acquainting them with his mind i. e. his Laws and Ordinances at Horeb I have put saith he my words in thy mouth 3. Of that favourable and singular protection afforded them in the wildernesse when they they were encompassed with enemies round about I covered thee with the shadow of mine hand Query Now saith the singular Dean c. to what end was all this Resp Why saith he meaning the Lord by the Prophet that I might Plant the Heavens and Lay the Foundations of the Earth Query What of those material visible Heavens and Earth 2460 years before at least were they planted and established Resp It is all saith the Rabby but making of Sion a people which before was scattered in distinct Families Query And how was this done quoth the Doctour Resp Why the Heavens are planted or a glorious frame of Government and Policy is erected among them and the multitudes of their people are disposed into an orderly Common-wealth Note to be a firm Foundation and Bottome for the Government among them So that from what the Doctor hath here asserted it is as clear as the Sun in its brightest Lustre that the Frame of Government for the unmovable Kingdome or Jesus Christ or the fifth Monarchy Are those Laws Statutes and Judgements which were given by Jehovah at Horeb and revived and ratified by the Lord Jesus at Mount Olivet Mat. 5. For those are they the Doctour terms the firm Foundation a firm Foundation for an unmovable Kingdome And this Doctrine is also ratified by the Prophet Malachy c. 4. where speaking of the dissolution of those old Heavens and old

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

that ever was laid by the Judges of Israel 2. When violence shall be no more heard in the land nor wasting or destruction within our borders when the walls shall be called salvation and the Gates praise Isa 60. vers 18. when Jerusalem shall be a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down nor one of the Stakes thereof be removed neither any of the cords thereof broken when the glory of the Lord shall be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams wherein shall go no Gally with Ore neither gallant ship passe thereby no need then of the Romish Merchants or Factors for no m●n will then buy her Merchandise any more Rev. 18. 11. Reas For the Lord is our Judge The Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King He will save us 3. When our officers shall be peace and our exactors Righreousnes Isa 60. 18. when they shall be such as fear God and hate covetousnes men of truth that will not respect persons in judgment but shall hear the small as well as the great Deut. 1. 17. when the judgment shall not be mans but the Lords when the people shall say The Lord blesse thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holinesse i. e. the Civil and Church Government I say when the Nations who are now under the Dominions of the Antichristian Babylon shall once see and finde the difference betwixt this Governments I have here given a small glimps of and the present Idolatrous and tyrannical dominions they are now slaves and bondmen unto they shall then begin to hate the Whore and make her naked and desolate and shall eate her flesh and burn her with fire And note that is to be rationally conceived that the ten horns shall all at once stand looking upon the City of Rome lamenting over it to see it on fire and yet to have a bond in that her destruction which conflict betwixt the Lamb and the Beast I conceive doth take its rise at the Dominion of the little Horn Dan. 7. 8 c. and shall be determined at the Armageddon battel Rev. 16. 13 14 15 16. at which time we are to expect the coming of Christ as a thief in the night Again That the Instruments which the Lord Jesus will make use of in this great design shall be poore contemptible persons s●e Isa 41. 14 15 16. fear not thou worm Jacob c. I will help thee saith the Lord c. Behold I will make thee a new threshing instrument having teeth thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small thou shalt make the hits chaffe thou shalt fan them and the winde shall carry them away and the whirl-winde shall scatter them And that this hath an allusion to Giddeon the Thresher and his army Read Isa 10. Where the Lord speaking of the deliverance of his people from the Assyrians or Babylonish bondage or servitude saith v. 24. Thus saith the Lord God of Hoasts O my people that dwelleth in Sion be not affraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod and shall lift up his staffe against thee after the manner of Aegypt For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction And the Lord of hoast shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Median at the Rock Oreb c. And it shall come to passe In that day that his burthen shall be taken off from thy shoulders and his yoak from off thy neck and the yoak shall be destroyed because of the annointing Again Dan. 2. 34. Thou sawest till a stone was cut without hands or which was not in hands which smote the image upon his feet th●t were of Iron and clay and brake them in pieces Then was the Iron the clay the brasse the silver and the gold broken in pieces together and became like the chaffe of the summer threshing floor and the winde carried them away and the whirlewi●d scattered them c. Again that these despicable persons shall be the Saints of the most high vid Psal 149. Let the Saints be joyfull in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds Let the high praises of God be in their mouths and a two edged s●ord in their hands to execute vengeance upon the Heathen and punishments upon the people To binde their Kings in chains and heir Nobles with fetters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement written This honour have all his Saints praise ye the Lord Amen Again Dan. 7. 17 18. These great beasts which are four Kings which shall rise out of the earth but the Saints of the most high shall take the Kingdome and possesse the Kingdome for ever and ever Vers 21 22. I beheld and the same horn viz. the little-horn Dan. 7. 8. made the war with the Saints and prevailed against them untill the ancient of dayes and judgment was given to the Saints of the most high and the time come that the Saints possessed the Kingdom Vers 25. And he i. e. the little horn shall speak great words against the most High and shall wear out the Saints of the most High and shall think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hands untill a time and times and the dividing of time which I conceive to be 3 years and a half i. e. from the first entrance of his Dominion at which time Judgment shall sit i. e. at the end of the 3 years and a half And then they i. e. the Saints shall take away his dominion To consume and destroy it unto the end Vers 27. And the Kingdome and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heavens the Quakers will have a large Gut to hold this Kingdome and Dominion shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High whose kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and all dominions shall serve and obey him Isa 60. 12. That Nation and Kingdome which will not serve thee shall be broken in pieces that is saith the learned Doctor All the Nations of the earth not a known nation but the blood of the Saints of Christ is found in the skirt thereof and yet all this saith he shall be transacted with so much obscurity and darknesse Christ not openly appearing unto carnal eyes that though many shall be purified and made white yet the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 12. 10. There shall be no such demonstration of Christ presence as to open the eyes of hardned men but at length having suffered the poore deceived wretches to drink of the Cup prepared for them He appears himself gloriously cap. 19. 13. in a more e●inent manner than ever before to the totall destruction of the residue of opposers and this will be the utmost close of that dispensation which he now beginneth to stir up the hearts of his Saints unto i. e. to execute the vengeance