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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

Ceremoniall Law concerned such Rites and sacrifices as belonged to the externall worship of God prescribed to the people of the ●ews in reference to the promised seed of the woman which was to bruise the Serpents head Gen. 3. 14 15. and to typifie his coming to this end as also to distinguish them from other Nations in the world and to be signes and Symbols unto them of the Spiri●uall graces of the New Testament to be fulfilled by the Messiah The Ceremoniall Law utterly abolished As touching the Ceremoniall Law it is utterly abolished so that there is no place for them under the Gospel Neither can they be revived without derogation to the Gospel of Christ as the Apostle saith if ye be circumcised Christ shall profit you nothing Gal. 5. 2. for when the body is come the shadow must be done away but the Cremonies were shadows the body is Christ Col. 2. 17. 1. Their Temple signified the body of Christ in his Church their Holy place HEAVEN or the bodies of the Saints 1 Cor. 6. 19. Know ye not that your bodies are the Temples of the Holy Ghost which is in you c. their sacrifices the passion of Christ Heb. 9. 26. 28. their expiation the Remission of sinnes Heb. 22. c. these things then being fully verified and fulfilled in Christ have no more place in the Church 2. These Ceremonies served onely for that carnall people which were as children kept in Bondage under the Elements and Rudiments of the world Gal. 4. 3. But now we are no longer under Tutours and Governours the time appointed of the father being expired but are set free and redeemed by Christ 3. A third Reason for the abolishing of them is in respect of that people to whom they were prescribed as a mark and Cognizance to discern them from all other nations But now this distinction also being taken away and the wall of partition being broken down Jew and Gentile being now made all one in Christ by faith that also is abolished which discerned them from other people Reason 4 For the Causes being changed for the which the Law was made there must needs be also an Alteration of the Law it self The Moral Law remaineth in full force in point of obedience The Moral Law remaineth yet in full force and is not abrogated in respect of obedience which thereunto is still required under the Gospel But in respect of the Curse * Christ hath onely taken away the Curse and malediction of the Morall Law and malediction which Christ hath taken away so that it is most true which our blessed Saviour Saith He came not to destroy the Law but to fulfill it Mat. 5. 17 18 19. he hath fulfilled it first in his own person in keeping it 2. in paying the punishment for us which was due by the Law to the transgressors thereof 3. inabling us by his grace to walke in obedience to his Law Why it pleased God to give his written Law into the World 1. God did not give the moral law in writing in that he was either mutable in changing his first determination or that in processe of time he had found out a more profitable way then he knew before as some have wickedly objected of old and now revived by the The Ranters and Quakers Tenent Ranters and Quakers of this Apostate Generation saying that by the light of Nature before the Flood Men discerned good from evill just from unjust so that the old world sinning against the law of Nature was justly punished it being imprinted in their hearts they shewing the effects of that Law written in their hearts their consciences also bearing them witnesse Answer 1. But because the law of Nature was now much obscured and almost quite obliterated by reason of the Idolatry and Tyranny that was then spread over the earth which flowed from the corruption of nature Therefore the Lord thought it needfull to give it forth by a Visible writing thereof in two Tables of Stone To his then onely peculiar people who from that very cause was selected out of the world Gen. 17. 1 2 4. Exod. 15. 26. and 20. 2 3. Deut. 5. 1 2 3. and 6. 12 c. 2. Least men should complain that somewhat was wanting in the heart therefore to take away all pretext of ignorance the Lord gave his written Law so that all men in generall are left without excuse 3. Because it was to prepare and make way for the Gospel to shew that we have not strength in our selves to fulfill the law in reference to the spirituall part thereof and so it was our Schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ Gal. 3. 24. 4. It was given as a supply of the weakness and ignorance of man that whereas there was no certain rule before to know what was good and what was evill but men according to their blinde phantasie and carnal imagination placed happinesse some in one thing and some in another the written law was to correct their erronious opinions to teach one constant certain rule of truth and virtue Reason For although in Civill and Politick matters the esteemed wise among the Heathen by their depraved light of nature and experience had attained to some degree of knowledge therein yet they were utterly ignorant of the true knowledge thereof and worship which God required therein all which is explained in the law with the statutes and judgments annexed thereunto So that in doing of this the Lord is said to commit the greatest treasure in the world to mankinde as Moses affirmeth Deut. 4. 8. What Nation is there so great that hath Statutes and judgments so righteous as all the Law that I set before you this day The fourfold use of the moral law in the fourfold State of man First As man was in his creation and state of Innocency he received two benefits by the knowledge of the law which was grafted in him by creation For 1. thereby he was made conformable to the image of God And so directed as that he should not have swerved from the will of his creator 2. He had assurance so long as he walked in obedience thereunto of certain eternity never to have tasted of Death Corruption or Mutability For he that keepeth the Law shall live thereby Secondly in Mans corrupt and decayed estate the law served to restrain the evill i. e. the written Law and therefore the Apostle saith that the Law is not given to a righteous man but to a lawless and disobedient 1 Tim. 1. 9. as also to discover unto them their sins and hence the same Apostle saith without the law sin is dead Rom. 7. 8. i. e. sin was not known to be sin for saith he I had not known Lust except the Law i. e. the written Law had said Thou shalt not commit vers 7. Here then that Soul-destroying notion of Quakisme is confuted The Quakers opinion confuted which alloreth men that are in this corrupt and

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

was not yet come that his Kingdome should be on the earth he being before that time to become a sufferer both in his own person and in his Members by that Roman power then in being at the end whereof i. e. at the expiration of the Little Horns Dominions Dan. 7. it shall arise out of the ruine thereof and so by gradation spread it self over the face of the whole earth as in v. 25 26 and 27 of that chapter Object The Severity of Mose's Judicials ought not to be practiced under the Gospel as the continuall practice of the Church sheweth as Paul willeth the incestuous person onely to be excommunicated 1 Cor. 5. there was then no Law in force to put such to death Resp This conceipt was the first ground of the Manichean Heresie for in making of difference in the proceedings of Justice under the Law and under the Gospel against one and the same Transgression they thereupon laid a foundation for the setting forth of two gods the one severe and the other mercifull whereas the Lord Jesus doth rather aggravate than mitigate the punishments of the Judiciall Laws as in the explication of that Precept Thou shalt not kill He to shew the latitude or complement or full extent of the mind of his Father therein saith that whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of Judgement and whosoever shall say to his brother Racha shall be in danger of the Councel but whosoever shall say thou fool shall be in danger of hell-fire hence John saith He that hateth his brother is a murtherer in Gods esteem Again v. 27. in his Exposition of that Precept Thou shalt not commit adultery He saith that Whosoever looketh after a woman to lust after her hath committed adultery with her already in his heart c. And hence the Apostle Peter speaking of lascivious persons saith They have eyes full of adultery 2 Pet. 2. 14. In which expressions Christ sheweth that the Moral Precept extendeth as well to the inward as outward man and that he will punish the transgressions of the one as of the other the one by the Civil magistrate and the other by his Church and not in the least mitigateth the punishments of the fruits of the flesh i. e. Theft Aultery Fornication Vncleannesse Lasciviousnesse Idolatry Withcraft c. And as touching the incestuous person I have laid down a sufficient Reason why the Church could not punish him with death they having not the power to put the Laws of God in execution as also in that their Civil Magistrate did not act by Gods Laws but were unjust Judges so that it may as well be argued and concluded from Pauls expression elsewhere i. e. Let him that stole steal no more but rather let him labour with his hands c. That Theft under the Gospel is to be no other wayes punished by the Civil Magistrate than by an admonition to steal no more therefore those that affirm that the punishments of the Judiciall Law is mitigated by Christ and his Apostles under the Gospel would do well from the mouth of God to shew in what it is mitigated or to whom and whether to all or to some sinnes onely and why not all as well as some and how it can be in some particulars and not in all or each of them or how it can be under the Gospel and not declared by Christ and if by him then how can he be said to establish the Law and yet destroy all in part and whether Idolatry Blasphemy Murther Adultery Theft c. be not the same in Gods esteem now as formerly in England as in Judea and if so then why not the same punishments here as there for the violation thereof with much more that might be urged to this purpose Object If those Statutes and Judgements annexed to the Moral Law for the breach of the Moral Precept were now to be instituted it would overthrow all the constitutions of Government in Christendome yea in the whole world and so bring all the Magistrates of the earth into a Chaos of confusion and destruction with all their adherents and that both in things Civil and Ecclesiasticall Resp That is no more than God hath appointed and determined shall come to passe at bringing in of the Kingdome of the Man-child who is to rule all Nations with a rod of iron Psal 2. 9. and 72. 8. Rev. 2. 27. and 19. 15. and therefore for the further clearing up of this Assertion I shall set before you 1. Who are the professed Ant●gonists of the Man-child with the matters or things whereby they have all along resisted and opposed his government and Subjects 2. The determinate purpose of the Man-child i. e. the Lord Jesus to subvert and destroy those persons and things which have and do so confront him and his Members i. e. his Church or people 3. The manner how he will effect it in all the Nations of the earth 4. The persons by whom he will effect it And first of the first in order to which I Assert Assert That the Kings or Tyrants of the earth have in all ages been the Grand Antagonists to the Kingdome and Government of the Lord Jesus and that both in things spirituall and Civil in the things appertaining to our duty towards God and our Neighbour comprised in the two Tables of the Moral Law But before I proceed to the proof of this Assertion I shall in the first place give you to understand that I take these two Tables of the Moral Law or ten Commandements with the Statutes and Judgements afore mentioned to be the Royal Law or Government of Jehovah the Lord Christ and that those Statutes and Judgements are that Civil Law by which he will rule the Nations with a rod of iron in that they produce the sword of Justice in the hands of the Civil Magistrate which sword of Iustice I say is that iron Rod formerly mentioned and no other thing and hence it is the Saints are said to have a two edged sword in their hand as well as the high prayses of God in their mouths Psal 149. the one edge offensive and the other defensive I also take the Gospel or New Testament to be the Spirit of the The Gospel the spirit of the Law Law and this Assertion our blessed Saviour himself confirms Joh. 6. 63. where he positively affirmeth that the Words which he spake they were Spirit and they were Life which is also confirmed by the Apostles in v. 68. where they say whither shall we go from thee for thou hast the words of eternal life c. But the Gospel or New Testament is the Counterpain of those words so spoken by him and his Apostles which they have left unto us ratified by signes and miracles to be a Lanthorn to our feet and a light unto ourpaths in the things that the Lord Christ expecteth to be done by his body the Church so that the

thereunto and have no dependance at all either upon the Ceremonial Law or their pollitick constitutions but are as I have said conclusions and rules of justice grounded meerly upon the Loyall Law and therefore Jesus Christ could not destroy the one without the other But Needham himself hath confessed that Jesus Christ did ratisie the Royal law Ergo those judiciall precepts afore mentioned Resp 2. That the Apostles of the Lord Jesus taught the use thereof appeareth from Pauls 1 Epist to Tim. 1. v. 9 10. where he saith the Law is made for unholy and prophane persons For murtherers of fathers and murtherers of mothers for manslayers for Whoremongers for them that defile themselves with mankinde for men stealers for lyers for perjured persons and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine according to the glorious Gospel of the blessed God c. From which words it is clear that the Judiciall Law I stand for was to be in force under the Gospel Reason For severall things here numerated by the Apostle are not found in the Decalogue or Ten Commandements or Royal Law but are deductions there from i. e. part of those statutes which depend thereon as the Five Books of Moses will sufficiently testifi● For the Royal Law onely saith Thou shalt not kill It doth not particularise killing of fathers or mothers or manslayers c. Again it also saith in a g●neral expression Thou shalt not Commit Adultery It doth not particularise Whoremongers or such as defile themselves with mankinde Again in point of Theft it only saith in a general term Thou shalt not Steal It doth not particularise Man-stealers c. and so in the rest There can then be nothing more clear than that the Apostle doth here speak of the Judicial Law annexed to the Moral precept which he affirmeth to be good and lawfull to be practiced amongst Christians Therefore it may be safely concluded that the Judicial Law annexed to the Moral precepts is as well to be practiced by Christians under the Gospel as before among the Jews and that to all ends and purposes which I collect from these words if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine i. e. Loving God above all and our neighbour as our self that also saith the Apostle ought to be determined by those Statutes and Judgments 1. Because God hath given no other rule to govern the world by who are all under the Royal Law as hath been proved from Rom. 3. 9. 29. and consequently under the other i. e. the Statutes and judgments 2. In that Jesus Christ did not destroy the one more than the other 3. In that the Apostle ratifieth the one as well as the other As then it was Moses and Aron before Christ so now Moses and Christ in the Gospel State as Mr. Brain well observed God is said to judge the secrets of mens hearts i. e. the inward man by or according to the Gospel Rom. 2. 16. And the things done in the flesh i. e. the actions of the outward man by the Statutes and Judgments aforementioned as hath been shewed as also from 1 Tim. 5. 17. where the Apostle saith The sins of some are open before hand and go before to judgement i. e. before the Civill Magistrate Others follow after and so under the Judgment of Christ in the Church And this is further illustrated from Rom. 2. 2. we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them that commit such things which things if you would know read cap. 1. and you will find them to be idolatry and false worship as in making images of men and birds and four footed beasts or creeping things as also in vile affections as of men and women changing their kinde fornication c. all which appertaining to the judiciall precepts Again 1 Cor. 5. the Apostle doth make a clear distinction betwixt them that are properly under the civil and spiritual government i. e. the external and internal of Moses and Christ as in vers 12 13. where he saith What have I to do to judge them that are without do not ye judge them that are within But them that are without God judgeth as if he had said Men are now to be judged in things civil by the civil law of God committed to the Magistrate and that not only by the men of the world but members of Churches also for the Apostle doth not blame the Corinthians cap. 6. of that Epistle for that they brought their civill controversies to be decided by the civill Magistrate Reason 1. But because those civil Magistrates did not judge by the law of God and therefore could not give a just judgment Reason 2. As also in that they were such Judges as were not rightly fixed or qualified for such a purpose the latter is evident by the title which the Holy Ghost putteth upon them vers 1. viz. unjust Judges the former is also evident by the place of their abode viz Corinth the Magistrates thereof being unbelievers v. 6. i. e. Heathen Judges judging by Heathenish Laws as are all that now Govern as they did And in things spiritual by the censures of the churches as the afore mentioned expressions do clearly evidence Again our blessed Saviour himself doth clearly manifest that judgement of external acts against the Law of Moses was left to Moses Luke 12 13 14. where the man coming to have the inheritance divided Christ gave him this Answer Man who made mee a judge and divider over you Again in the case of the woman taken in the Act of Adultery John 8. 3 4 5 6. Jesus Christ would neither accuse or condemn her so that the woman was dismissed not absolved Shiloh being now come the Scepter was now departed from Judah and a Law-giver from between his feet Gen. 49. 10. The Jews at this time being then under the dominion of the Romans had not power to put any to death by their Law as clearly appeareth by comparing the 7 v. of John 19. with v. 31. of cap. 18. where the Jews tell Pilate they have a law to punish blasphemers by death And yet the case was then such with them that they could not put any to death thereby And hence I conceive it was that the Scribes and Pharisees Hypocrites brought the woman taken in the act of Adultery to our blessed Saviour to entrap him i. e. to see if he would take upon him to put their law in execution and that if he had then to have accused him for intermedling upon the priviledge of Caesar as is clear from John 19. 12. Where they tell Pilat that if he let Jesus go he was not Caesars friend Reason For say they who so maketh himself a King that is that taketh upon him to put our Laws in execution without the approbation of Cesar speaketh against Cesar Mat. 22. 15 16 17. c. All which temptations our Saviour then avoided because the time

earth formerly treated of i. e. the Political Frame of Government which men have made for themselves c. i. e. of those Heavens and Earth which the Apostle Peter saith are to be burned and consumed by fire as also of that new Heaven and new earth wherein dwelleth Righteousnesse I say the Prophet speaking of that Great and notable day of triall by fire telleth us by way of explanation what is intended by the Holy Ghost in such manner of expression saith Behold the day cometh that shall burn as an oven Note and all that are proud and all that do wickedly shall be as stubble and the day that cometh shall burn them up saith the Proud and wicked persons must be this fire Lord and it shall leave them neither Root nor Branch but unto you that fear my name shall the Son of Righteousnesse appear with healing in his wings and ye shall go forth and grow as calves of the stall and ye shall tread down the wicked for they shall be as ashes under the soles of your feet Note In that day that I shall do this saith the Lord Remember what the Law of Moses my servant which I commanded unto him in Horeb with the Statutes and Judgements Ergo That Law Statutes and Judgments shall be put again in practise that day Again the Doctour doth further confirm this Doctrine from Rev. 21. 1. I saw a new heaven a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away And there was no more sea Here saith the Doctour the Heaven and earth is restored but the sea shall be no more Those gatherings together of many waters saith the Rabby Rivers from all places or Pretended Clergy men from all Nations into General Councels which were the sea or many waters on which the Whore sate shall have no * Note place at all in the Churches restored Conditions Reader you must understand the Rabby did not then dream of the Court of Tryers now at Whitehall or else you must if you can conceive them not to be pretended Clergy-men or a general Councel no you must take them to be only an image of such pretended Clergy men and general Councel and the like you know is not the same a pure Juggle But I conceive the Learned Doctor is out in the Exposition of that forenamed Text in Rev. for the holy Ghost doth not there speak of the Restauration of any of his Political Heavens and earth so much already treated of for the Text saith plainly they were passed away and the Prophet Isa saith cap. 65. 17. that they shall not be remembred nor come into the mind of God or his people therefore there can be no expectation of any restoring of them it must therefore be unavoidably meant of the aforesaid Laws Statutes and Judgements which the Doctour ●imself calls the firm foundation for the unmovable Kingdome of Jesus Christ and hence it is the Lord by Malachy puts his people in mind thereof at that notable day saying Remember ye the Law of Moses c. as aforesaid and therefore whereas it is said there shall be no more sea I do understand there shall be no more use of the Leviticall Priesthood that being now abolished by our blessed Saviour shall be no more No more use of the type when the antitype is come no more use of the shadow when we have the substance which myst●rie the Prophets saw but darkly as appears by their writings few of them seeing a Change of the Leviticall Priesthood which I conceive to be the great stumbling block to the Jews from Christs abode on earth to this present day But neverthelesse the Prophet David doth most excellently foretell the change thereof under the Gospel-dispensation as in Psal 40. where speaking in the person of Christ for it is impossible it should be understood of himself saith sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire mine ears hast thou opened burnt-offerings and sin-offerings hast thou not required Then said I Lo I come in the Volume of thy Book it is written of me that I should do thy Will O God which Text the Apostle Paul doth clearly expound of Christ Heb. 10. 8. saying above When he saith Sacrifice and offering and burnt-offering for sin thou wouldest not neither hast pleasure therein which are offended by the Law i. e. the ceremoniall Law Then said he Loe I come to do thy will O God He taketh away the first that he may establish the second he taketh away the shadow that he may establish the substance Now where was it prophesied of David that he should have a body given him to do away Sacrifice or to put an end thereunto it must therefore be meant of some others and what other than he that hath born our transgressions and by whose stripes we are healed vid. Isa 54. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 c. and 52. 13 14. 15. in both which places also the Prophet speaketh of another person and not of himself i e. Jesus Christ the Righteous who is the pro 〈…〉 for our sinnes Rom. 3. 25. 1 John 2. 2. and 4. 10. The Learned Doctour having thus proved for me what is meant by the Old Heavens and the Old Earth as also the New Heavens and the New Earth i. e. by the Old Heaven and Old Earth all the Old Forms of Government since the Creation that have been made by Political or Humane invention as also the New Heavens and new Earth to be that Constitution or Government made by God himself and ratified and confirmed by Jesus Christ i. e. the two grand Principles of Nature afterward branched forth into the Deoalogue or ten Commandements with the Statutes and Judgements unneued thereunto and the Ordinances of Jesus Christ in the New Testament which is the Spiritual Ecclesiastical or Gospel-part thereof I shall in the next place bring the presen● powers and Constitutions of Government in the Nation to the test or touchstone of the Scriptures and in this particular also Mr. Owen shall say for me in the forementioned Sermon p. 21. i. e. That the Kings of the Earth have given their power to Antichrist indeavouring to the uttermost to keep the Kingdome of Christ out of the world or that we term the fifth Monarchy What I pray hath been their main businesse for 700 years and upward even almost ever since the Man of sin was inthroned The Doctors Queries to this purpose How have they earned the Titles of eldest son of the Church The Catholick and most Christian King Defender of the Faith and the like Hath it not been by the blood of Saints Is there not in every one of these Kingdomes the slain and the banished ones of Christ to answer for in particular c. Have not all the Kings round about washed their bands and Garments in the blood of a thousand of Protestants and do not the Kings of all these Nations as yet stand up in the room of their