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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

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

decayed condition of nature viz. evill and unregenerate men to look to the light of nature within them for their guidance and direction and not to the revealed will of God in his word or at least rather notwithstanding the Apostle doth positively declare all such light to be absolute darknesse even darkness in the Abstract As in Eph. 5. 8. where he telleth the Church at Ephesus that they had been sometimes darknesse and that at such time they walked according as other Gentiles walked in the vanity of their minds according to the course of this world according to the Prince of the power of the Aire the Spirit that worketh in the children of disobedience c. as also that they were by Nature i. e. since the fall for it cannot be meant of Nature in Adam before his fall for it was then good and so good as that it is termed the image of God as afore mentioned the children of wrath even as others Now I would gladly know what light of Nature these Ephesians had when they were even Darknesse it self c. and when they were without Christ and strangers from the Covenant of promise without hope and without God in the world If the Quakers reply that Christ is that Light which lighteneth every man that cometh into the world I answer and demand of them how he had inlightened these Gentiles which the Apostle compared the Ephesians unto as aforesaid Again if Christ hath inlightned every man that cometh into the world in their sense then the Apostle Paul was a vain-glorious person who termeth himself a spirituall father to the Corinthians 1 Cor. 4. 15. and that he had begotten them through the Gospel for if the Light of the Gospel had been naturally in them how could Paul be said to be Gods instrument of conveying that Gospel-Light unto them Again if so wherefore do these persons make use of Prayer and preaching if it be not advantageous to illuminate their Auditors and if they be illuminated thereby then those so illuminated cannot attribute the Light they so receive from others to themselves and say that they had not received the same instrumentally from their brother Quakers It will therefore unavoidably follow that the Quakers practice doth destroy and confound their accursed Principle of holding forth that dark Lanthorn of the depraved light of Nature to light men that are meerly Naturall into the wayes of truth and righteousnesse When one came to enquire of our blessed Saviour what he Jesus Christ was no Quaker should do to obtain eternall life he did not as these Quakers send him to the Light within him but asketh him saying what is written in the Law how readest thou Luke 10. 26 c. Again speaking to the Sadduces who say there is no Resurrection and so full Cousin germans to these Quakers saith that they erred in not knowing the Scriptures Mat. 2. 29. Mark 12. 24. clearly implying that the Contempt of the Sacred Scriptures is the Originall of Error as hath been too evidently made manifest by the Ranters who since they have despised the Scriptures have run themselves into the very height of wickednesse The Apostle Paul in such cases doth therefore exhort Timothy to beware of evil men and Seducers and to continue in the things that he had read and had been assured of knowing of whom he had learned them The Scripture more holy in Pauls esteem commanding him in that of a Child he had known the Holy Scripture which was able to make him wise unto salvation through the faith which is in Christ Jesus affirming that all Scripture is given by Inspiration of God The excellent use of holy Scripture and is profitable for Doctrine for Reproof for Correction for Instruction in Righteousnesse that the man of God may be perfect throughly furnished unto all good works 2 Tim. 3. 13 14 15 16 17. Thirdly in mans regenerate condition the Law or Scripture the gospel being onely the Spirit of the Law is a perfect Rule of righteousnesse witnesse the Prophet David who speaking of the Law of God saith it was A Lanthorn to his feet and a light unto his paths Psal 119. 105. and Psal 19. 7. he saith the Law of God is perfect converting the soul the testimony of the Lord is pure and enlightneth the eyes c. more to be desired than gold yea than much fine gold sweeter also than honey or the honey comb● moreover saith he ' by them is thy servant taught and in keeping of them there is great reward ' Again Psal 119. 24. Thy Testimonies also are my delight and my Counsellours by all which it is clear that godly David did not run to a Notion within him to be his counsellour but to the Law and to the Testimony knowing that whoso walketh not according to that Rule it is because they have no light in them Isa 8. 20. Again how it is the Lord threatneth his people for that they A lesson for the Ranters and Quakers had forsaken his Law which he had set before them and did not obey this voice neither walked therein but walked after the imagination of their own hearts Jer. 9. 13 14 15. Our blessed Saviour also telleth his Apostles saying By this ye shall know ye are my Disciples if ye observe whatsoever I Command you he doth not send them to the Dictates of their own phantasies but what he had commanded them The Apostle Paul also affirmeth that whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our Instruction that we through patience and comfort of the Scripture might have Hope Rom. 15. 4. The Apostle Peter also exhorteth the people of God to be These Commandments were not Notions mindfull of the words which were spoken before by the Holy Prophets and of the Commandements of them the Apostles of the Lord Jesus 2 Pet. 3. 2. as also that no Prophesie of Scripture is of any private interpretation and that Prophesie came not in old time by the will of man but that Holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost 2 Pet. 1. 20 21. We are not then to imitate these Quakers to leave a certainty for an incertainty the written word for a whimsie in the brain making their phansies their Scripture and rule to walk by no saith the Apostle speaking of the Holy Scripture as many as walk by this rule peace shall be upon them c. what will befall such then as walk not according to this Rule but tribulation and wrath c Secondly in mans regenerate condition the written Law teacheth the true knowledge of God and how it was that the Apostle Paul commanded the Bereans because they tryed his Doby the Touchstone of the Scriptures Acts 17. 11. Those of Berea were more noble than those of Thessalonica c. Thirdly it assureth a man that walketh therein of his Election and how our blessed Saviour saith If ye know these things happy are ye if ye