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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

Progenitors with the same implacable enmity to the power of the Gospel And is there not a cry for all this How long Lord holy and true dost thou not avenge our blood on them that dwell in the earth Rev. 6. 10. Doth not Sion cry the violence done unto me and my children be upon Babylon and my blood upon those heavens of the Nations and will not the Lord avenge his elect that cry unto him day and night will he not do it speedily will he not call the fowls of Heaven to eat the flesh of Kings and Captains and great men of the Earth Rev. 19. 18. Will he not make the Heavens like the wood of the Vine c. and what of all this Doctour The time shall come to discover her slain and not the simplest Hereticks as they were counted shall have his blood 〈…〉 enged Neither shall any attonement he made for this blood or expiation be allowed whilest a Toe of the image or a Bone of the Beast is left unbroken Again p. 13. No kind of government in Europe or line of Governors so ancient but that the Beast is as old as they and had a great influence into their constitution or establishment to provide that it might be for his own interest where the Pope hath not expressely bargained for his own interest and provided that he should have the chief place in all the Oaths and bonds that were betwixt Prince and People either by pretended collation of Right to pacifie the Consciences of blood-thirsty Potentates in the undertaking and pursuing their unjust Conquests or foolish Mitred confirmations of sword purchases he hath got them framed to his own end and purpose which was to bring in all these Nations into subjection to his Babylonish usurpations Which those Kings finding no way inconsistent with their own designes did willingly promote labouring to enforce all Consciences into subjection to the Romish Sea Hence it is that such an interposition was made of the rights of Holy Church That is Babylon the Mother of Harlots in all the Types Oathes and Bonds between Prince and People and for the advancement of the righteous judgements of God That the sons of men may learn to fear and tremble before him And it may be observed that that which doth and shall stick upon Potentates to their ruine is not so much their own or any other interest as the dregs of that Papall Antichristian interest thrust into their Oathes and Obligations for no other end in the world but to keep the Lord Jesus out of his Throne And this is a reason why the Lord Jesus by his mighty power at the bringing in of his unmoveable Kingdom will shake the Heavens and Earth of the Nations Reas Even because in their present constitutions they are directly framed to the interest of Antichrist which by notable advantages at their first moulding and contrived insinuation ever since hath so rivited it self into the very fundamentals of them that no digging nor myneing with an earthquake will cast up the foundation stones thereof c. Because as is their Interest so is their Acting The present powers of the Nations stand in direct opposition to the bringing in of the Kingdome of Christ At which time saith the Doctor Two things there are that will be confessed incumbent on him in this day of his advancement 1. The bringing home of his antient people to be one fold with the fulnesse of the Gentiles raising up the Tabernacle of David and building it as in the dayes of old In the accomplishment of innumerable promises and answer to millions of prayers Doctor in this you and your brother yet hath not cut a thred but proceed Doctor Now there are two main hinderances of this work that must be removed the first whereof is 1. Real The great river Euphrates the strength and fulnesse of those streams do yet rage so high that there is no passage for the Kings of the East to come over wherefore this must also be dryed up as other waters were for their forefathers of old Rev. 16. 12. and doubtlesse this is spoken in allusion to Abrahams going over that River into Canaan when the Church of God in his family was there to be erected whence he was called the Hebrew that is the Passenger i. e. over that River Gen. 14. 13. And then it may well enough denote the Turkish power which proud as it is at this day possessing in peace all those Regions of the East yet God can quickly make it wither and be dryed up Or to the deliverance of the Jews in Babylon when it was taken and destroyed by the drying up of the streams of that river and so the yoke of her tyranny broken from the Churches neck Jer. 51. 31. c. And so it can be no other but the power of the Romish Babylon supporting the Kings of the Nations Which must therefore be shaken and dryed up 2. Moral Or the Idolatry of the Gentile worshippers The Jews stick hard as yet at this That God should abolish any kinde of worship which himself instituted But that he should ever accept any falsworship which he had once strictly prohibited and no where to this day appointed To this they will never be reconciled Now such is all the invented idolatrous worship which the Kings of the earth have sucked in from the Cup of Fornications held out unto them in the hand and by the Authority of the Roman Whore This still they cleave close unto and will not hearken to the Angel preaching the everlasting Gospel that men should worship him who made the Heavens and the Earth and the Sea and the fountains of Water Rev. 13. 6 7. i. e. The God of Heaven in Jesus Christ according to his holy just and righteous laws statutes judgements and Ordinances as afore mentioned in opposition to all their Jeonolatry Artolatrys Hagiolatry Stanrolatry and Masse abomination This then must also be removed And because as it hath been said it is so rivited and cemented into and with all the Orbs of the Nations Heaven and Earth i. e. the politick or humane Frames of Government which they have made for * themselves and their interests they therefore must be shaken and brought to destruction before it can be effected The second thing he hath to accomplish is the Tremendous totall Destruction of the man of Sin and all his adherents that are not obedient to the Heavenly call Rev. 18. 4. c. Doct. Pray what is your meaning by the adherents of Babylon Resp Are not most Potentates tyed by Oath or other compact either to maintain the whole or some part of the old Tower under the name of Right of Holy Church Prelates and the like true Doctor they are Query It is clear then that you include all sorts of Governours and Governments to be adherents to the Papal power or mystery Babylon the great the Mother of Harlots and abomination of the the earth who support Prelacy

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