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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

shaken by them then consequently by others therefore a Government that may be shaken c. Argument A third Argument may be drawn from the Doctours own Assertions who saith that such Magistrates as are either tyed by Oath or other Compact to maintain either the whole or some part of the old Tower under the Right of Holy Church-Prelacy or the like by which word like he intendeth Presbytery as hath been shewed that such a Magistrate and Government is to be enumerated among Babylons Adherents and consequently to receive that final destruction and total amotion as afore mentioned But the present governors government of this nation doth provide for the maintenance of the Presbyterian Ministry of the nation which the Doctor looketh upon and judged as a part of Antichristian Hierarchy witnesse the terming them a Procrusts bed a heavy yoke c. Therefore the present Governours and Government of this Nation according to Mr. Owens Assertion is to be enumerated as aforesaid and likewise to suffer as aforesaid and thus I shall proceed to the third particular i. e. How or in what manner the Lord Christ will effect this final destruction and total amotion of all Politick or Humane Forms of Government and in this particular the Learned Rabby shall plead for me in that notable Simile which he hath culled out of the Scriptures to that very end and purpose i. e. Now as Sampson intending the Destruction Vide p. 27 upon Heb. 12. 17. of the Princes Lords and residue of the Philistines who were gathered together in their Idol-Temple he effected it by pulling away the Pillars whereby the building was supported whereupon the whole frame topled to the ground So the Lord intending the Ruine of that mighty Power whose top seems to reach Heaven will do it by pulling away the Pillars and Supporters of it after which it cannot stand one moment Sic transit gloria mundi Query Doctour this hath been a strange sort of Language and dangerous I will assure you I wish you be not called in question for it but what are the Pillars of that fatal building which must thus be ruinated with it Doct. Resp Are they not the Powers of the world as presently stated and framed implying they are Pull them away and alasse what is Antichrist It is the Glory of Kings put upon her that makes mens eyes dazle on that Roman Harlot otherwise she is but like the Egyptian Deities who silly worshippers through many glorious portlets and Frontispices were led to adore the Image of an ugly Ape Well Doct. Seeing you have in brief given me so full and ample satisfaction in this particular I shall proceed to the other i. e. The Persons by whom he will effect it To the knowledge of this particular the Holy Ghost doth plentifully inform us i. e. By the most despicable instrument as will appear by these following instances When the Israel of God must be delivered from the Egyptian bondage Moses must be preserved by an Ark of Bul-rushes and so bred up to that purpose Again when they were in great distresse by the Midianites the Lord made choyce of Gedeon a man of a poore Family in Manasseh and Gedeon the least or meanest of that Family Judg. 6. 15. c. After this David the son of Jesse must be brought from the flock to vanquish Goliah and the Army of the Philistines 1 Sam. 17. And thus the acting of Gods providence in carrying on of The Priestly interest of Chi●st how managed the interest of Christ as the Doctour saith will be exceedingly unsuited to the Reasonings and expectations of men in these dayes as it was in the laying of the foundations of the Gospel or Priestly Office of Christ where quite contrary to the expectations of the Jews who then expected outward Glory Beauty Deliverance Carnal Power and Dominion God inste●d thereof produceth a poore man that had not where to lay his head followed by a few Fishermen and simple women that had neither Form not Comelinesse that he should be deferred persecuted Mark 1. 16 19. and 2. 14. despised crucified from the beginning to the end quite another thing than they looked for and thus he laid the foundation of the Gospel in the person of his son by frustrating the expectations of the most of men The stone which the builders refused became the head of the corner Again seeing Salvation is of the Jews the rod of Christs strength to be out of Sion and that living waters were to flow The prophet 〈◊〉 inte●●st of Christ how ma●aged forth from Jerusalem the Gospel being from thence to be published through the world Who did the Lord chuse to do it Did he make use of the learned of the Nations the high Priests learned Scribes devout Pharises that might have won their Message some Repute and Credit in the World No but quite contrary John 14. 16. and 25. 26 27. Luk. 24. 48 49. Act. 1. 4 5. and 2. 1 2 3 4 c. to all the wisdome of the flesh he sendeth his Propheti●al Spirit upon a few ignorant weak unlearned Fishermen despisd upon all accounts and commits this great work to them and accordingly out they go friendlesse helplesse harbourlesse unto their imployments Acts 4. 13. 1 Cor. 1. 20. 26 27 28. The like instrument hath the Lord Christ also for the most part imployed in making an entrance upon the great work of casting down false worship and idolatry How the Kingly interest of Christ shall be brought into the world And now in reference to the bringing in of the Kingly interest of the Lord Jesus into the world which is to be accomplished in the ruine and destruction both of Pagan and Antichristian Babylon with all their adherents whether in reference to their Civil or Ecclesiastical governments as hath been plentifully treated of which must be done with might power and strength with Armies and Blood Rev. 19. 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18. where by the Iron Rod is meant the material sword yea even that material sword prophesied of Psal 2. 9. and 72. and 149. 6. Rev. 2. 27. who will now the Lord make use of will it be of Kings Potentates Nobles and Great ones of the earth no it is contrary even to common sence that he should for as the Doctor hath well observed it cannot be expected those men should take up the despised quarrel of the interest of Christ and that for these Reasons 1. Because they are such as have given their powers and states and strength unto the Beast or to maintain Idolatrous or false worship Rev 13. 1 2. and 17. 12 13 14 15 16 17. without which their Tyrannical Government cannot be keppt up 2. In that they have committed fornications with the Beast as also their Subjects Rev. 17. 1 2. 3. It is by them that she is supported at this day as hath been proved 4. For that it is declared by the Holy Ghost

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

by the Apostles of the Lord Jesus under the dispensation of the Gospel-state Proof The Characters of a right 5th monarchy man Gal. 5. 22. The fruits of the Spirit is Love Joy Peace long-suffering Gentlenesse Goodnesse faith Meeknesse Temperance Against which there is no Law And they that are Christs have crucified the flesh with the affections and lusts thereof if we live in the Spirit let us walk in the spirit Let us not be desirous of vain-glory provoking one another envying one another Jam. 2. 8. If ye fulfill the Royall Law according to the Scriptures Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self thou shalt do well But if ye have respect to persons ye commit sin and are convinced of the Law as transgressors for whosoever shall keep the whole Law and offend in one point He is guilty of all Reason For he which said Do not commit Adultery said also Do not kill Now if thou commit no Adultery yet if thou kill c. thou art become a transgressour of the Law 1. Pet. 1. 22 23. Seeing ye have purified your selves in obeying the tr●th through the Spirit unto unfained love of the brethren so that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently Cap. 3. 8. c. Be ye all of one mind having compassion one of another Love as brethren be pitifull be courteous not rendring railing for railing but contrary-wise blessing knowing that ye are thereunto called that ye should inherit a blessing For he that will love life and see good dayes let him refrain his tongue from evil and his lips that he speak no guile Let him eschew evil and do good let him seek peace and ensue it Read the following words 1 John 3. 14. We know we have passed from death to life because we love the Brethren v. 27. whoso hath this worlds goods and seeth his brother hath need and shutteth his bowels of compassion Bar Quakers in this particular towards him how dwelleth the love of God in him My little children let us not love in word neither in tongue but in deed and in truth c. v. 33. And this is his Commandement that we should believe on the name of his son Jesus Christ and love one another as he gave us commandement and he that keepeth his commandements dwelleth in him and he in him and hereby we know that he abideth in us by the Spirit which he hath given us Cap. 4. 17. Beloved let us love one another for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God and knoweth God he that loveth not knoweth not God For God is love c. Ecclesiastes 12. 13. Let us hear the con●lusion of the whole matter Fear God and keep his commandements For this is the whole duty of man c. Assert 5 V. That in processe of time these two generall Principles were branched by the alone Law-giver into ten Precepts or words commonly termed the Decalogue or Ten Commandements Exod. 20. 1. c. God spake all these words saying Proof I am the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt and out of the House of Bondage 1. Thou shalt have no other gods before me 2. Thou shalt not make to thee any graven Image or any likenesse of any thing that is in heaven above or that is in the earth beneath or that is in the water under the earth Thou shalt not bow thy self to them nor serve them For I the Lord thy God am a jealous Reason God visiting the iniquity of the Fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my Commandements 3. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain For the Lord will not hold him guiltlesse that taketh his name in Reason vain 4. Remember that thou keep holy the Sabbath day Six dayes shalt thou labour and do all thy work thou nor thy son northy daughter thy Man-servant nor thy maid-servant nor thy cattel nor thy strangers that are within thy ga●es For in six days the Lord made heaven Reason earth the sea all that in them is and rested the seventh day wherefore the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and hallowed it 5. Honour thy Father and Mother Reason That thy dayes may be long in the Land which the Lord thy God giveth thee 6. Thou shali not kil 7. Thou shalt not commit Adultery 8. Thou shalt not steal 9. Thou shalt not bear false witnesse against thy neighbour 10. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbours house thou shalt not covet thy neighbours wife nor his Man-servant nor his maid-servant nor his ox nor his Asse nor any thing that is thy neighbours Assert 6 VI. That the Lord Jesus came not to destroy this Law Proof Mat. 5. 17. Think not that I am come to destroy the Law or the Prophets I am not come to destroy but to fulfill for verily I say unto you till heaven and earth passe one jot or one tittle in no wise shall passe from the Law till all be fulfilled wherefore whosoever shall break one of these least Commandements and teach men so shall be called least in the Kingdome of heaven But whosoever shall do and teach them shall be also called great in the Kingdome of heaven Assert 7 VII That the Apostles of our blessed Saviour did establish this Law under the Gospel Proof Rom. 2. 11 12 c. For there is no respect of persons with All the world liable to be judged by Gods Law The Law not made void through faith God for as many as have sinned without Law shall perish without Law and as many as have sinned in the Law shall be judged by the Law Rom 3. 19. c. Is he the God of the Jews onely is he not also of the Gentiles yea of the Gentiles also seeing it is one God which shall justifie the Circumcision by faith and the uncircumcision through faith Do we then make void the Law through faith God forbid Yea we establish the Law Assert 8 VIII That the Law which God gave unto Moses in Mount Sina were of three sorts i. e. the Moral the Judiciall and the ceremoniall Law The Contents of the Morall Law The Morall Law prescribeth a perfect Rule of righteousnesse discerning things that are Right and Just from the contrary both towards God and man both in reference to externall and internall duties requiring obedience under pain of everlasting death The Contents of the Judiciall Law The Judiciall Law belonged to the Civil State and were such Ordinances The Judiciall consists of Rules of Equity and Justice as contained rules of equity for the judging and deciding of civil controversies and questions decreeing punishments for the transgressions of the Morall and Ceremonial Lawes and consequently the very Bond of them Laws keeping the people in order and Obedience The Contents of the Ceremoniall Law The

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

no sooner had the * Gal. 6. 10 As we have opportunity let us do good Opportunity put into his hand of magnifying the Law of God and making it Honorable but forthwith put it in practice which sad experience teacheth our Army-Men have not albeit all their opportunities vows and protestations to that purpose as before expressed whereas it is the mind of God that if a man vow or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond that he break not his word but do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth Numb 30. 2. Again Deut. 23. 21. When thou shalt vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it for the Lord thy God shall surely require it of thee and it will be sin to thee again Ecclesiast 5. 4 5 6. When thou vowest a vow unto God defer not to pay it for he hath no pleasure in Fools Pay that which thou hast vowed better it is thou shouldest not vow than that thou shouldest vow and not pay Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin neither say thou before the angel that it was an error wherefore should God be angry at thy voyce and destroy the work of thy hand All that your Swords have gotten you Godly David telleth God that he will pay the vows which he made to him when he was in trouble but it seems our Army-men are content with Nebuchadnezzar to proclaim the God of Daniel to be worshipped in their Dominions provided he will be content to have it done after the Baylonish fashion Otherwise they have no more to say unto him Again it is worthy our observation what notabe Jugglers Instance the Kings or Tyrants of the earth have ever been with God as for instance in Dan. 2. 47. we find Nebuchadnezzar having lately received a favour from Daniels God in reference to the knowledge of his dream openly declaring that of a truth Daniels God was a God of Gods and a Lord of Kings and a revealer of Secrets and yet notwithstanding all this in the third verse following we find the same Nebuchadnezzar er●cting an image of Gold and compelling the worship●ers of Daniels God to fall down and worship it An Act not much unsuitable to the present actions of our Army-men who having formerly proclaimed Jesus Christ as aforesaid Comparison by way of thankfulnesse for their wonderful preservations from so many eminent dangers and to exalt and magnifie him onely and that by his own Way or Rule of Worship in and by his own Laws and Ordinances contained in the holy Scriptures that they would suppresse whatsoever was contrary thereunto both in Church and State but the Nine Dayes Wonder being over forthwith cast all their Ingagements behind their backs and instead of performing thereof turn direct Antipodians or Retrogradians by setting up an image of some things that had been destroying and not onely so but also commanding obedience thereunto witnesse the late Gooernment they have erected 3. Albeit Mordecay and Daniel did act according to the Laws and Customes of that Country during their captivity in that place that doth not in the least argue or conclude that the Laws of the Babylonians and Persians should now be promoted among us Reason For what should we do with their Laws without their Idols for their Laws were their Religion by which they worship Flesh God or King or Tyrant at whose Lust and Pleasure the lives of men were sacrificed to appease his wrath or their graven and molten gods with the Rites and Ceremonies appertaining thereunto Therefore in as much as we do at least pretend that we do not worship their gods what use have we of their Laws or Religion whether in reference to their idolatries or Tyrannicall worship required by them So that the necessary Consequent of what hath been said will be that so many of this Nation as own that God which made his own Law in Mount Sina by which he will be worshipped as also how his Subjects shall demean themselves one towards another and which was established and ratified by his sonne and our Saviour in Mount Olivet and also by his Apostles as hath been proved That they henceforth indevour the promotion of those Holy Just and perfect Laws with all their might and power and contrary-wise to suppresse all such persons and things that are opposite thereunto whether in Church or State Object Our Saviour commandeth us to give tribute to Cesar and the Apostle injoyned obedience to the higher powers which doth bear the Sword and that for conscience sake Rom. 13. all which giveth Approbation to the Laws of Nations Resp The people of God were then as I have said under the power of Heathen Magistrates and therefore to the end they might procure unto themselves a great and peaceable life in all godlinesse and honesty 1 Tim. ●2 2. Our Lord Jesus and his Apostles admonished them in such cases not to oppose or resist them and indeed who would not feed a hungry and greedy Lion rather than to be torn in pieces and devoured by him But all this doth not in the least prove that the Laws of Cesar or the Image thereof are better than the Laws of God or that the people of God having now under God freed themselves from the Dominion of Cesar should now by force be brought back again to worship and adore the image and Superscription of Cesar under a Cesarian Habit that they should submit to the Laws Customes and Traditions of those false gods they have Conquered and Neglect the Laws Statutes and Judgements of that God by whose might and power they have conquered these false gods and their worshippers for if so what is it other than to imitate those disobedient Israelites who joyned in league with the Canaanites whom the Lord signed for destruction and with them to worship Baalim and the Groves Judges 3. 6 7. Therefore such whom the Lord hath made instrumentall either by word or sword to extirpate the name and person of Cesar out of this nation ought doubtles to persevere therein until they have as well extinguished and blotted out his Image and Superscription in whomsoever and whatsoever they see or find it to be fixed in and that to All Ends and purposes For without all Controversie the one is altogether as lawfull if not More than was the other yea doubtlesse it is a far lesse resisting of Magistracy to destroy the Image and Superscription of Cesar than it was to destroy His Name and Person but the Army affirmed it was no resisting of Magistracy to destroy the person and name of Cesar therefore it will be no resisting of Magistracy in the other to destroy the Image and Superscription in whomsoever and whatsoever they find it For in such Cases the Army hath concluded it as a Maxime that it is no resisting * Note to side with just Principles i. e. in such Cases whereupon the life and death of True

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

astonishment Note and his Rider with madnesse no great fear then of such Horses and Riders for it seems both Horse and Man will be confounded to move against the Holy just and perfect Laws of Jehovah the Lord Christ if they do woe and sadnesse will be unto them yea it had been better that a Milstone had been tyed about their neck and that they had been cast into the bottome of the sea than to offend one of those little ones that shall be made instrumentall for Babylons destruction Rev. 6. 12. c. And I beheld when he had opened the sixth Seal and loe there was a great earthquake and the Sun became black as sackcloth of hair and the Moon became as blood and the starres of heaven fell unto the earth even as a fig-tree casteth her untimely figges when she is shaken with a mighty wind and the heavens departed as a scroll that is rolled together and every mountain and Island were moved out of their places and the Kings of the earth and the greatmen and the rich men Weep and howl you rich men for the miseries that are now coming upon you for your riches are corrupted and your Garments moth-eaten your gold and silver is canckred and the rust of them shall be a witnesse against you and shall eat your flesh as it were with fine Jam. 5. 1 c. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last dayes c. and chief Captains i. e. Generals Lieutenant-Generals Commissary-Generals c. and Colonels of Armies and the mighty men whether in point of honour or estate hid themselves in the dennes and in the Rocks of the mountains and said unto the Mountains and Rocks fall on us and hide us from the wrath of the Lamb. Reason For the Greatest day of his wrath is come and who shall be able to stand Repent therefore that your sinnes may be blotted out at the day of refreshing of the Lords people from himself lest he tear you in pieces and there be none to deliver you and know it will be a fearfull thing to fall into the hands of the great God of heaven and earth the Lord in much mercy set these these things home upon your hearts and souls lest you be found fighters against the Lord of Hosts the God of Battel who is able to consume you with the blast of his nostrils Lastly as to the means whereby these great transactions shall be accomplished by the poore weak few and contemptible number of the Army of the Lamb the Learned Doctour Owen hath given us a brief and full answer i. e. Such as are the things shaken such must their shaking be i. e. Spiritual if Spiritual Natural if Naturall Civil if Civil hence it is that the great Champion of the truth is discovered unto us by these following characters i. e. And I saw saith John and behold a white Horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true note this fifth Monarchy-man and in Righteousnesse doth he judge and make war his eyes were as a Flame of Fire and on his Head were many Crowns and he had a Name written that no man knew but himself and he was clothed with a vesture dipt in blood and his Name is called the Word of God Note The Word of God must then be the Rule and Sinew of all the Actions of the fifth Monarchy men they must onely execute the Judgement written bringing all the actions of Babylon and her Adherents to the Touchstone of the Scriptures as for example in reference to the Political Government of the World they are to produce Jam. 4. 12. There is one Law-giver who is able to save and to destroy and from thence demand of the Civil Magistrate by what Rule or Authority he maketh his own Laws seeing he petends himself a Minister or Servant unto the alone Law-maker and consequently to put his Laws in-execution and thus they will be struck as dumb as doore nails for in this case they have nothing to plead but the authority and custome of their Ancestours and their Ancestors from Nimrod and Nimrod from the Apostate sons of God in the old world and they from the Corruption and vain imaginations of fall'n man and fall'n man from the suggestions and delusions of Satan and so primarily from the Devil Again in point of Ecclesiastical Government and Doctrine the fifth Monarchy-men are to produce Mat. 15. 8. In vain do ye worship me teaching for doctrine the Traditions or commandements of men and so keep them close to the word of God and not to suffer them to continue as they are i. e. partly Jure Divino and partly Jure Humano as the Presbyterians do acknowledge their Government to be and so down with it even to the ground for being found in Babylon they and their Government must be destroyed with Babylon as the learned Doctour hath asserted and clearly proved and so consequently to all other false worships or Governments whatsoever and hence it is that the Lambs followers are said to be clothed in white Linnen white and clean all their Acts will be done in truth and righteousnesse the white Linnen is the righteousnesse of the Saints Rev. 19. 8. 2. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword that with it he should smite the Nations and he shall rule them with a Rod of iron here we see the word maketh way for the material sword which the Rod of iron doth clearly import so that as the Doctour saith the Civil part of Antichrist must be conquered with the iron Rod and the Ecclesiastical part with the sword that proceedeth out of the Lambs mouth viz. the Holy Scriptures and this doth further appear from Psal 149. 6 7 8 9. as also from the following words of the afornamed chapter of Rev. 19. i. e. v. 17 18 19 20. which must unavoidably be applyed to the Conquest of the material sword in that the other i. e. the remnant are said to be slain with the sword of him that sate upon the Horse which sword proceedeth out of his mouth as in v. 13. as also in v. 16. And therefore O Babylon whether Pagan or Antichristian I do hereby in the name of the Lord Jesus bid defiance to thee in whomsoever thou refidest whether by Idolatry or false worship or whether by Tyranny or cruel Dominion being in opposition to the two grand Principles of nature i. e. of loving God above all and our neigbours as our selves and consequently to the bringing of the unmovable Laws and Ordinances of the unmovable Kingdome of the Lord Jesus upon earth and now in daily expectation by his Saints and therefore I advise thee as the Lord did Niniveh by the Prophet Nahum to consider Art thou better than Populus No-Ammon that was situate among the Rivers that had the waters round about it whose Rampart was the sea and her wall was from the sea Ethiopia and Egypt were her strength and it was infinite Put and Lubim were the helpers yet was she carried away she went ino captivity her young children were also dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets and they cast lots for their Honourable men and all her great men were bound in chains thou also shalt be drunken thou shalt be hid thou also shalt seek strength because of the enemy and all thy strong holds shall be like fig-trees with the first ripe figs if they be shaken they shall even fall into the mouth of the eater Behold thy people in the midst of thee are women the gates of thy Land shall be set wide open unto thine enemies the fire shall devour thy Bars Draw the Waters for the Siege fortifie thy strong holds with Demy Canon c. Go Into clay and tread morter make strong the Brick-kil there shall the fire devour thee it shall eat thee up as Canker-worm make thy self many as the Canker-worm make thy self many as the Locust yet for all this before two years be expired the Laws and ordinances of Jehovah the Lord Christ shall be magnified and made Honourable in this Nation and Idolatry and Tyrany shall be extinguished even so Amen FINIS Postscript I Am desired to give the people of God to understand that the last news-book published by one Walker an Ironmonger and a notorious lying Pamphleter and yet an approved Preacher by the High Court of Tyers i● lieu of his large obedience to the Beast now up comprehended seventeen or eighteen large Lyes in fourteen or fifteen Lines in his passages relating to Mr. Rogers and the Members of his Society which were lately sent for to O. C. and that Mr. Rogers was so far from being put to silence by O. C. as Walker doth impudently assert as that he gave a full undenyable and pregnant Testimony to the very faces of those that are got into power against the Apostacies of the Army their Breach of Declarations Blasphemy lying persecution ●●lf-see●ing and other crying sinnes proving that the now prisoners of the Lord suffer for an essential truth and fundamental point of faith which Mr. Rogers challenged to dispute with any man upon even ground● and that this lively testimony was continued in the strength of the anointing to the very last keeping and gaining C●ound upon the Antagonists Thus much is thought meet at present to undeceive the people of God in City and Countrey untill the truth hereof do more largely appear J. S.