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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

what they had so publickly declared for or an occasion to the enemies of God and his Christ to blaspheme have disserted their imployment and commands in the Army as Major General Harrison Colonel Rich Colonel Okey c. and some like noble Heroes now prisoners for their disrellish of the present apostaci●s of the army as Major General Overton Cololonel Allured with several others upon the like account as also of the now worse than Merosh Churches afore mentioned who have been far from helping the Lord against the mighty as that quite contrary-wise they have helped the mighty against the Lord by their new strengthening the hands of the adversari●s of the truth to persecute the faithfull followers of the Lamb and therefore to the end that all that hear or shall hear of these their Diabolical actions may henceforth learn to take warning by them I have writ these lines as also th●t they may learn with the industrious B●e to gather hony from that gall of ●itternesse and bond of iniquity those poore souls have involved themselves in by such their con●ederacy against Christ and his Government as by this Treatise will appear as also that the faithful witnesses of the truth may be hereby incouraged to act for Christ as the other have done for Antichrist for God as the other have done for the Devil being such as are probably of that number that will erelong cry Lord Lord have we not fought in thy name and conquered in thy name and preached in thy name and baptised in thy name and yet shall receive for answer Depart from me I know you not c. Such whose damnation slumbereth not witnesse the present Hurlyburlies among them all their affairs lying as it were in a Chaos of confusion and doubtlesse will do every day more more untill his Government be set up whose right it is to govern the whole world by his Holy Just and Perfect Laws and Ordinances contained in the Scriptures of truth which if once imbraced by the people of this nation will I dare be bold to assert free the Inhabitants therof from these following burdens and oppressions they now Asse-like ly under Gen. 49. 14. 15. i. e. 1. Of the charge of a standing Army and so it may be at liberty to fight the Lords battels against his adversaries in forreign parts upon the Lords account and spoil of their enemies and not like Drones to live upon the labours of the industrious Be●● or High-way-men to rob one another which at the rate of 120000 pounds per mensem according to the Souldiers Moneth of 28 dayes will save 156000 pounds per annum or nere upon 2. From Excise and the vast charge thereof 3. From Customes especially of our own nation and the great charge thereof 4. From the vast charge of Lawsuits 5. From Tithes and several other things of like nature and therefore worthy to be seriously considered not onely b● those who do really and cordially desire the promotion of the Law of God as they do the good of their own souls as do the fifth Monarchy-men and not of any carnal designe as is falsely suggested of them by the enemies of the truth but also of the self-interested men Not that I urge this Royal Law or Government in the least upuon a carnal account but that carnal men may see what benefit there is to be had under the shadow of it of this nation who are in love with their money in that what one way what other it would in a short time double their present estates by saving th●se annual expences which are scrued from them lit wil also concern younger brethen to ruminate hereof for whereas it is the Custome of this Nation to make the elder son a Gentleman c. and the rest half beggers this Just and Righteous Law doth alot the eldest son a double portion and the rest to have all equal portions Deut. 21. 17. 6. By advancing this law we do thereby own Jehovah to be our God and Legislator which now we cannot but are such in a Civil sence as the Apostle saith are without God in the world 7. By promoting the law all the v●st civil breaches of this Nation would be made up for by covenanting to be conformable to this Government we shall the●eby be all made Brethren and so should forget all former injuries and also it would be a fair way to make us one in a spiritual Relation which otherwise will never be done 8. By exalting this law we shall be freed from the Curse which we now lye under For cursed is every one that continueth not in the words of the Law to do them Deut. 37. 26. and John 7. 49. This people that know not the Law are accursed 9. By magnifying of this Law we shall have Justice done speedily and upon all occasions as well upon small as great matters Judges being appointed in all the gates of the Cities in the Nation Deut. 16. 18. to do Justice and Judgement without wresting Exod. 23. 6. Deut. 24. 17. without unrighteousnesse Levit. 19. 15. Without respect of persons Deut. 1. 17. 10. By submitting to this Law men shall not be condemned to Prison c. before they be heard Deut. 9. 15. John 7. 51. as is the practice of the present Governours of this Nation and which I can speak by experience having been formerly kept by their means seventeen weeks a prisoner having not a word to say unto me either before or during my imprisonment being never called before any man or examined or charged by any during that time or at all but on●ly told me I might be gone and now again they have also kept me fi●teen weeks knowing not in the least wherefore not yet having been called or questioned before any so that they have been more cruel than the Pagan Romans for Festus thought it a thing unreasonable and consequently Brutish to send a prisoner and not withall to signifie the crime laid against him Acts 25. 27. 11. By exalting this Royall Law every knowing man may plead his own cause it will be laid down so plain and stated so clear in the words of the Text and therfore needs not to be seven years apprentice to Moses as that blasphemous Rabshakeh Needham hath scoffingly spoken of Moses and the Law Who then that is rational would not rather forsake those muddy streams of Justinian Gratian and other blind and ignorant men and such as the Prophet saith turneth the needy from Judg●ment and taketh away the right from the poore that maketh widows their prey and rob the Fa●herlesse 1 Sam. 10. 2. for those pure streams of Justice and Judgement that cometh out from God and riseth in him who would not that looks upon himself as a Christian rather submit to that judgement that is Jus Divinum than that which is a Traditional Jus Humanum from all the Idolatrous and Tyrannical Governours that have been in the world 12. What Liberty would this

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

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