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A93694	An answer to one part of the Lord Protector's speech: or, A vindication of the fifth monarchy-men, in reference to an accusation of evil charged upon them in his speech to the Parliament in the Painted Chamber, the 4 of September, 1654. / Published by John Spittlehouse, to the end all men may see the strong endeavours that have been used to obstruct the kingly interest of Jehovah the Lord Christ in the world, by blowing the bellows of a persecution against those that desire he should reign over all nations of the earth, by his holy, just, and perfect laws and ordinances recorded in the sacred Scriptures to that very end and purpose.	Spittlehouse, John.	1654 (1654)	Wing S5003; Thomason E813_19; ESTC R211046	21,496	28

learned to cry up Oliver in stead of Charles The time was * Vide p. 23 of his speech July 4. 1653. when he said It was not in his heart to speak for a Ministery † And what are the present Clergie of this nation other deriving it self through the Papacie and pretending to that which is so much insisted upon as succession It was also thought at that time a fit Querie by him to the old Parliament Whether the next Parliament they intended were Page 15. of that Speech not like to consist of all Presbyters or whether those qualifications then making by them would hinder them or * Note Presbyters and neuters joyned together Neuters c. they having deserted this cause and interest upon the kings account and upon that closure with them and the neighbour-nation And thereupon professed that they had as good have delivered up their Cause into the hands of any as into the hands of interested and * It seems they are not so now byassed men for it is one thing to live friendly and brotherly to bear with and love a person of another judgement in Religion another thing to have any so far set in the saddle upon that account as that it should be in them to have all the rest of their brethren at * I think they have little le● now mercy But this by the way I shall now apply my self wholly to the peculiar Charge against the Fifth Monarchy-men In which I shall take notice 1. What they are not 2. What they are 3. Their notion 1. He saith They are not such as have been catched with the former mistakes viz. those before mentioned by him in his Speech 2. As to what they are he also saith 1. that they are people of integrity 2. Such as have not apostatized from their holy profession 3. Not such as have been corrupt in their consciences having been forsaken by God 〈◊〉 to noysome Opinions 4. Honest people 5. Such whose 〈…〉 e sincere 6. Such as belong unto God And is there any 〈…〉 ese particulars but what he himself might very well entertain without any disparagement to his Greatness Again being such persons by his own confession they may the more justly reprove him or any other that walk contrary hereunto and that according to the Apostles fore-mentioned instance 3. Whereas he termeth their principle the MISTAKEN NOTION of the FIFTH MONARCHY I shall speak thereunto when I come to his Reasons for so saying Speech A thing pretending to more spirituality then any thing else a notion I hope we all HONOR WAIT and HOPE for That Jesus Christ will have a time to set up his reign in our hearts by subduing those corruptions and lusts and evils that are there which reign now more in the world then I hope in due time they shall do And when more fulness of the Spirit is poured forth to subdue iniquity and bring in everlasting righteousness then will the approach of that glo●y be Resp Reader in this expression thou mayst observe these particulars 1. That our notion pretends to more spirituality then any other And in this particular we think he is not very much mistaken witness our Declaration which Sa●● Richardson one of the Elima●'s Act. 13. 8. of this Commonwealth hath scandalized as a Libel notwithstanding those mens names prefixed to it with thousands that approve thereof where we demonstrate to all the world our desires that God the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ would cast down all those earthly carnal cruel and political combinations of men of all sorts that would not have him to reign over us but set up themselves and their corrupt interests in the room of that scepter of righteousness which he hath given into the hands of his dear Son and that he would give us Magistrates as at the first and Rulers as at the beginning viz. Ministers of the Vnction and Magistrates of the Vnction such as fear God and hate covetousness And we hope there is no evil in all or any of these requests 2. He saith it is such a notion as he himself both honoreth waiteth and hopeth for viz. the subduing of corruptions and lusts and iniquity and to bring in everlasting righteousness And what is it more that we desire If therefore there be evil in such desires he hath hereby declared himself as guilty thereof as we Speech The carnal divisions and cont●ntions among Christians so common are not the symptomes of that kingdom Resp 1. If carnal divisions be not signes of the approach of that kingdom or Monarchy of our Lord Jesus upon earth then why was it that we levied war against our brethre 〈…〉 Scotland so called and that upon the account of the kingly 〈◊〉 of Jesus Christ upon earth as in the Declaration of the Army to Scotland p. 36 37 38 39. where they affirm they were stirred up by the Lord to assist the Parliament against the King for this end to bring about the destruction of Antichrist and the deliverance of his * What were the Scots then in the Armies esteem true Church and People And that upon this simple account it was they engaged in the wars of the three nations against all opposers of this work of Jesus Christ having these things singly in their eye viz. the destruction of Antichrist and the advancement of the kingdom of Jesus Christ and deliverance and reformation of his Church and the establishment of CHRISTS ORDINANCES ACCORDING TO HIS WORD c. All which they declare with the loss of many precious Saints p. 38. as also that they engaged against the late king and HIS MONARCHY as As well against his Monarchy 〈◊〉 himself one of the ten horns of the Beast guilty of the blood of the Saints which act they say they are confident God will own against all kingdoms and nations that will oppose them and that will not suffer Jesus Christ to be king as also that the Lord had made them instrumental to vex all in his sore displeasure that take counsel against Christ whom the Lord hath anointed and decreed king and that they were not meerly the servants of men and that they had not onely PROCLAIMED Jesus Christ king of Saints to be OVR KING but that they would submit to him alone upon his OWN TERMS and admit him onely to the exercise of his ROYAL AVTHORITY As also in p. 40. where they beseech the Scots to LOOK ABOUT THEM for that our Lord Jesus was coming 2. If this kingdom of Jesus Christ they so cried up and proclaimed did onely extend to a spiritual notion of Government WITHIN VS what necessity was there for him and the Army to have been so instrumental as they have to pluck up Kingly Government by the roots in this Commonwealth as also against all arbitrary or absolute power in any single person whatsoever as tyrannical and vassalizing the Saints and people of God in this Commonwealth and

PRESBYTERY is as neer of kin to Prelacy as Prelacy to Popery it ought as well to be abrogated root and branch as PRELACY being both DAUGHTERS to that MOTHER OF HARLOTS Rev. 17. 5. to that MYSTERY OF INIQUITY and ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH Yea doubtlesse it may confidently be affirmed that what Church soever doth yet retain the CONSTITUTION of the Church of Rome since its APOSTACY albeit never so much refined in other particulars as relinquishing its Ordination c. which the Presbyterians c. have not done is still to be esteemed as Babylonish and Antichristian And the like may also be said in point of Regulating the Civil Laws of Commonwealths derived from the Assirian or BABYLONISH MONARCHY erected by Nimrod Gen. 10. 9 10. which though the Magistrate should refine never so much yet it is but a REFINING OF BABEL for whilst there is any thing in them that may be termed HVMANE either in Civil or Ecclesiastical Laws that may be said to be added or detracted from the Law of God comprised in the Old and New Testament they by so doing bring themselves under the Curse of God Deut. 22. 26. Gal. 3. 10. Therefore we may safely assert that by how much the present Magistrates of this Commonwealth do judge themselves to be the members of the body of Christ or that the God of Heaven and Earth is their God or expect to have God dwell in them and walk in them or they to be his people they ought to come wholy out of the BABYLONISH and ANTICHRISTIAN ESTATE whether in reference to CIVIL or SPIRITVAL GOVERNMENT yea to bee such SEPARATISTS from them as not to touch them in the least but to pluck them up ROOT and BRANCH And so wholy conform themselves to the word of God for their SOLE RVLE and direction therein which if they will yet submit unto the Ap●stle averreth that the Lord Christ hath promised to receive them into his ●ingdom● and to be a Father unto them and that they shall be his children 2 Cor. 6. 27 28. But that this will not easily be assented unto by the present Powers of the world is cleerly made out unto us by another of his own created * Whose expressions will need no Interpreter Doctors viz. Mr. John Owen in his Sermon upon Heb. 12. 27. page 25. where he saith 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 the Papal Antichristian interests thrust into their Oaths and Obligations for I shall only propound some Queries no other end in the world BVT TO KEEP THE LORD JESVS OVT OF HIS THRONE And hereupon it was saith he in his Sermon upon Ezek. 17 24 page 12. that the late King had learned a saying from his Predecessors No Bishop no King supposing his MAIN INTEREST to lye in holding up PRELACY a mere INCROACACHMENT upon the INHERITANCE OF CHRIST Christ coming to take his OWN shakes the other in peeces Again saith he those who would have been our Oppressors Were not those the Presbyterian Priests c. in Scotland but that God hath crushed the Cockatrice in the shell and filled the pit with their dead bodies which they had digged for us they also had prepared a PROCRVSTES BED a heavy yoak a Beast that had it grown to perfection would have had HORNS and HOOFS And in maintaining this they think their GREAT INTEREST TO LYE And in holding this fast are they after all their Associations broken in peeces Again in page 21. of that Sermon What was the corrupted design of many in Scotland that they might set up a SON of Was it corrupt in them then not in your selves now TABEAL in England and THEMSELVES to be GREAT VNDER HIM and that they and their Partakers might IMPOSE on the residue of the Nations especially in the things of God Their great desire that things should be thus corrupts their minds to think that it ought to be so Hence AMBITION TO RVLE and to have all under their power even in conscience is quickly mistaken for zeal for the Kingdome of Christ inthroning of Tyranny is Loyalty and all according to Covenant As if men had sworn to be good to themselves and to be true to their own interest all their dayes which surely none need to be sworn to Thus mens minds and judgements are distempered by their lusts and interests which makes them frame a way for God to proceed in And this is the reason saith he page 25. of his Sermon Heb. 12. 27. that the Lord Jesus by his MIGHTY POWER at Wherein is it altered since that time his bringing in of his VNMOVABLE KINGDOM will shake the HEAVENS and the EARTH of the NATIONS even because in their * PRESENT CONSTITVTION they are DIRECTLY FRAMED to the INTEREST OF ANTICHRIST which by notable advantage at their FIRST MOVLDING and CONTRIVED INSINVATIONS ever since hath so riveted it self into the very FVNDAMENTALS of them that no digging or Mining without an EARTHQVAKE will cast up the FOVNDATION * What cal you them foundation stones stones thereof because as is their interest so is their acting the present powers of the Nations stands in DIRECT OPPOSITION to the bringing in of the KINGDOME OF CHRIST Again Page 27. of that Sermon Are not most Potentates tyed by OATH or OTHER COMPACT to maintain either the WHOLE or some part of the OLD TOWER under the Vid. Art 35. Government Reader compare these expressions with the late transactions name of RIGHT OF HOLY CHURCH Prelats and the like And can any expect that such as these should take up the DESPISED QUARREL OF THE SAINTS against that FLOURISHING QUEEN Doubtlesse NO SUCH FRUIT WILL GROW ON THESE TREES before they are THROUGHLY SHAKEN All carnal Interests will doubtlesse be shaken with that of Babylon Many of Gods people are not weaned from the things that are seen No sooner is one CARNAL FORM SHAKEN OUT but they are ready to CLEAVE TO ANOTHER Yea to warm themselves in the FEATHERED NESTS OF UNCLEAN * Is it not so at this day BIRDS All fl●shly Dominion within doors and all Civil Dominion that opposeth without doors shall be shaken Now these things are so glued also to mens earthly possessions the talons of the birds Who are those birds of prey unless the souldier pries● and lawyer of prey having firmly seized on them that THEY also must be shaken with them Reader consider these expressions of Mr. Owens seriously and then tell me whether he had not a good ghess of what we have seen since the preaching of these Sermons come to pass I presume Mr. Tho. Goodwin and himself c. little thought then that their own words should now have been brought in testimony against them But the heart of man is deceitful above all things Now that this shaking here spoken of is not to be taken in Mr. Owen's

upon jealousies and surmises or we know not what through subtilty and cunning suggestions which the Lord will one day call to an account Thus Reader hast thou seen the whole body of his Charge against the Fifth Monarchy-men vanish into nothing which doubtless will be the event of every weapon that is formed against Jesus Christ or those that are faithful to his interest Speech Thi● I say will be worthy of the Magistrates consideration Resp It will be so indeed and therefore it was worthy of a double remembrance For it is certain that all the present powers of the earth are now at the stake and therefore such of them as are self-ended men covetous proud c. had need to look about them for doubtless the STONE cut out without hands is growing into such a Mountain as will fill the whole earth and that even to the breaking in pieces and consuming all their Kingdoms whether they be Iron Clay Brass Silver or Gold yea so to break them in pieces as to make them like unto the chaff of the summer threshing-floor yea the winde of the wrath of the Almighty shall so carry them away as that there shall no place be found for them Dan. 2. Again the rest of the Magistrates that are not such if there be any ought also doubtless to consider seriously hereof as also to compare the present Laws of the Nation with the Laws of God For as Mr. Aspinwal saith If the laws of God contained in the holy Scriptures be well weighed in the balance of the Sanctuary it will appear to be the most safe and wholesome Government in the world For what can be imagined to be more safe then to have Saints and such as walk with God and God with them to administer judgement and justice according to those perfect laws And if the Laws be perfect and such as administer them be Saints by calling and have a promise of divine assistance how can it but be more safe then to embrace imperfect and undurable Laws such as some make and others null at pleasure according to the fancies and humours of those in present Power and Authority as daily experience teacheth as also to have such to execute those Laws as have not the like promise of divine assistance Besides the Experiences of many Ages do shew that the want of the laws of God and faithful Administrators hath hitherto been the ruine of all the States and Governments in those four Monarchies and will shortly be their eternal desolation Dan. 2. 44. and 7. 26. Again that saying of Moses Deut. 4. 5. is also well worthy their serious contemplation where speaking to the then-peculiar people of God touching the excellencie of the Law of God their King which he had received to administer unto them saith Behold I have taught you statutes and judgements even as the Lord my God commanded me that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it Keep therefore and do them for this is your w●●dom and your understanding in the sight of the Nations which shall hear those statutes and say Surely this great Nation is a wise and understanding people For what Nation is there so great that hath God so nigh unto them as the Lord our God is in all things that we call upon him for And what nation is there so great that hath statutes and judgements so righteous as all this Law which I set before you this day I shall now conclude with Mr. Owen's expressions in p. 39. of his Sermon upon H●b 12. 27. O that it were the will of God to put an end to all that pretended holiness hypocritical humiliation self-interested Religion that have been among us whereby we have slattered God with our lips whilst our hearts have been far from him O that it might suffice that we have had in our Parliament and among our Ministers so much of the form and so little of the power of Godliness that we have called world Christ and lust Christ and self Christ working indeed for them when we pretended all for Christ O that in you might appear the Reality of the kingdom of the Lord Jesus which hath been so long pretended by others that sound righteousness not a Pharisaical rigid superstitious affectation nor a careless belief and comportment the issue of novel fancies might be found upon your spirits that we may be thought meet to rejoyce with the Lord in his kingdom Psal 107. 43. Whoso is wise will ponder these things and they shall understand the loving kindness of the Lord. FINIS