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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

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

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

fruit of their pride as in Pride bringeth confusion Prov. 16. 8. Zeph. 2. 10. so that whereas they looked to gain credit they found shame and confusion Like as when Saul had thought he had made a goodly place for Simile himself as triumphing for his late victory over Amaleck Even then he was rejected for being King 1 Sam. 15. 28 for his not obeying A warning for tyrants the command of the Lord against his professed enemies All which one would think to be fair warnings to the like disobedient Sauls of the times And in particular at Black-hall the Lord give them grace to consider thereof if they be not past repenting Again That the Kings of the earth were the original or root of Idolatry and Tyranny is also asserted and proved by King Solomon in his book titled Wisdome cap. 13. 14. where speaking of this Kings the Original of Idolatry Tyranny subject he saith That the devising of Idols were the beginning of spiritual fornication and the inventions of them the corruption of life for neither were they from the beginning neither shall they be for ever For by the vain-glory of men they entered into the world And therefore shall they come shortly to an end For a Father afflicted with untimely mourning when he had made an Image of his childe soon taken away Now honoured him as a God which was then a dead man And delivered to those that were under him Ceremonies and Sacrifices Thus saith Solomon in processe of time an ungodly custome grown strong was kept as a law And graven images were worshipped by the commandement of Kings or Tyrants whom men could not honour because they dwelt far off Therefore they took the counterfeit of his Visage from far and made an expresse Image of a King whom they honoured or worshipped to the end that by this their forwardnesse they might flatter him that was absent as if he were present Also the singular diligence of the Artificer did help to set forward the ignorant to more superstition Reason For he paradventure being willing to please one in Authority forced all his skill to make the resemblance of the best fashion and so the multitude being allured by the grace of the work took him now to be a God which a little before was but honored as a man And this saith he was an occasion to deceive the world Reason For men serving either Calamity or Tyranny did attribute to stocks and stones the incommunicable Name Moreover saith Solomon this was not enough for them that they erred in the knowledge of God but whereas they lived in the great war of Ignorance these so great plagues called they peace For whilest they slew their children in sacrifices and used secret ceremonies or made revilings of strange rites They kept neither lives nor mariages any longer undefiled Note The violation of the first principle of Nature leads to the breach of the second But either one slew another treacherously or griev●d him by Adultery So that there remained in all men without exception blood man-slaughter theft and dissimulation corruption unfaithfulnesse tumults perjury disquieting of good men forgetfulnesse of good turns defiling of souls changing of kinds disorder in marriages adultery and shamelesse uncleanenesse Argum. For the worshipping of Idols of what sort so ever not to be named is the beginning the cause and the end of all evill But the Kings of the earth were the Authors Cont●mners and promoters of Idols and Idol-worship as hath been shewed Therefore the Kings or Tyrants of the earth were the beginning the cause and the end of all evill And thus I have proved and that by the testimony of ● King that the Principles of the Kings or Tyrants of the earth are directly opposite to the two Grand Principles of Nature i. e. To love God above all and our Neighbours as our selves And this Doctrine is also plentifully confirmed by the Apostle Paul in Rom. 1. from v. 18. to ult which is well worthy also of perusal as to this particular and now I shall proceed to the Second particular in order i. e. Assert That Jehovah the Lord Christ is determined to have a generall reckoning day with those persons and things that have so confronted him and his Laws i. e. these two Principles of Nature with the Decalogue and Statutes and Judgements depending thereupon as hath been shewed And this is also proved by the testimony of King Solomon in the aforesaid book cap. 13. and cap 14. where having treated of the two sorts of Idolatry i. e. of worshipping of the creature and likewise of the Image of the creature he concludes That the ungodly and his ungodlinesse are both alike hatefull to God for that which is made shall be punished together with him that made it Look to it then Idol-makers for black will be your day when the onely wise Potentate King of Kings and Lord of Lords shall by his Saints bring your actions to the touchstone of the Scriptures But least they shall say this Testimony of Solomons which I have cited the rather because he is a bird of their own feather in point of Title is Apochrypha I shall commend unto them the testimony of that Grave Orthodox Divine new created Doctor and singular Dean in England for you must understand all the rest were Popish and superstitious which I have done the rather in regard of that great repute he hath for a learned Rabby to the end what is said by him may gain the more credence with his Masters and fraternity with the rest of the Rabble Rout of Locusts Caterpillers and Canckerworms of the Nation And for their better attention I do also hereby give them to understand and that the expressions I shall mention are extracted out of a Sermon preached by him before no lesse persons than the House of Parliament from Heb. 12 26 27. i. e. Whose voice then shook the earth but he hath promised saying yet once more and I shake not the earth but the heavens also and this word yet once more signifieth the removing of those things that are shaken as of things that are made that those things which cannot be shaken may remain In the Explanation of which words he useth these following expressions i. e. as the Apostle here applyes part of the Prophet Haggai so that Prophefie even in the next words gives light into the meaning of the Apostle look what Heavens and Earth the Prophet speaks of of this and no other speaks the Apostle The Spirit of the Lord in the Scriptures is his own best interpreter see then the order of the words as they lye in the Prophet Haggai cap. 6. 7. I will shake Heaven and Earth I will shake all Nations God then shakes Heaven and Earth when he shakes all Nations that is he shakes the Heaven and Earth of the Nations I will shake Heaven and Earth I will shake all Nations is a Pleonasme For I will