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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

that ever was laid by the Judges of Israel 2. When violence shall be no more heard in the land nor wasting or destruction within our borders when the walls shall be called salvation and the Gates praise Isa 60. vers 18. when Jerusalem shall be a quiet habitation a Tabernacle that shall not be taken down nor one of the Stakes thereof be removed neither any of the cords thereof broken when the glory of the Lord shall be unto us a place of broad rivers and streams wherein shall go no Gally with Ore neither gallant ship passe thereby no need then of the Romish Merchants or Factors for no m●n will then buy her Merchandise any more Rev. 18. 11. Reas For the Lord is our Judge The Lord is our Law-giver the Lord is our King He will save us 3. When our officers shall be peace and our exactors Righreousnes Isa 60. 18. when they shall be such as fear God and hate covetousnes men of truth that will not respect persons in judgment but shall hear the small as well as the great Deut. 1. 17. when the judgment shall not be mans but the Lords when the people shall say The Lord blesse thee O habitation of justice and mountain of holinesse i. e. the Civil and Church Government I say when the Nations who are now under the Dominions of the Antichristian Babylon shall once see and finde the difference betwixt this Governments I have here given a small glimps of and the present Idolatrous and tyrannical dominions they are now slaves and bondmen unto they shall then begin to hate the Whore and make her naked and desolate and shall eate her flesh and burn her with fire And note that is to be rationally conceived that the ten horns shall all at once stand looking upon the City of Rome lamenting over it to see it on fire and yet to have a bond in that her destruction which conflict betwixt the Lamb and the Beast I conceive doth take its rise at the Dominion of the little Horn Dan. 7. 8 c. and shall be determined at the Armageddon battel Rev. 16. 13 14 15 16. at which time we are to expect the coming of Christ as a thief in the night Again That the Instruments which the Lord Jesus will make use of in this great design shall be poore contemptible persons s●e Isa 41. 14 15 16. fear not thou worm Jacob c. I will help thee saith the Lord c. Behold I will make thee a new threshing instrument having teeth thou shalt thresh the mountains and beat them small thou shalt make the hits chaffe thou shalt fan them and the winde shall carry them away and the whirl-winde shall scatter them And that this hath an allusion to Giddeon the Thresher and his army Read Isa 10. Where the Lord speaking of the deliverance of his people from the Assyrians or Babylonish bondage or servitude saith v. 24. Thus saith the Lord God of Hoasts O my people that dwelleth in Sion be not affraid of the Assyrian he shall smite thee with a rod and shall lift up his staffe against thee after the manner of Aegypt For yet a very little while and the indignation shall cease and mine anger in their destruction And the Lord of hoast shall stir up a scourge for him according to the slaughter of Median at the Rock Oreb c. And it shall come to passe In that day that his burthen shall be taken off from thy shoulders and his yoak from off thy neck and the yoak shall be destroyed because of the annointing Again Dan. 2. 34. Thou sawest till a stone was cut without hands or which was not in hands which smote the image upon his feet th●t were of Iron and clay and brake them in pieces Then was the Iron the clay the brasse the silver and the gold broken in pieces together and became like the chaffe of the summer threshing floor and the winde carried them away and the whirlewi●d scattered them c. Again that these despicable persons shall be the Saints of the most high vid Psal 149. Let the Saints be joyfull in glory let them sing aloud upon their beds Let the high praises of God be in their mouths and a two edged s●ord in their hands to execute vengeance upon the Heathen and punishments upon the people To binde their Kings in chains and heir Nobles with fetters of Iron to execute upon them the judgement written This honour have all his Saints praise ye the Lord Amen Again Dan. 7. 17 18. These great beasts which are four Kings which shall rise out of the earth but the Saints of the most high shall take the Kingdome and possesse the Kingdome for ever and ever Vers 21 22. I beheld and the same horn viz. the little-horn Dan. 7. 8. made the war with the Saints and prevailed against them untill the ancient of dayes and judgment was given to the Saints of the most high and the time come that the Saints possessed the Kingdom Vers 25. And he i. e. the little horn shall speak great words against the most High and shall wear out the Saints of the most High and shall think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hands untill a time and times and the dividing of time which I conceive to be 3 years and a half i. e. from the first entrance of his Dominion at which time Judgment shall sit i. e. at the end of the 3 years and a half And then they i. e. the Saints shall take away his dominion To consume and destroy it unto the end Vers 27. And the Kingdome and greatnesse of the Kingdome under the whole heavens the Quakers will have a large Gut to hold this Kingdome and Dominion shall be given to the people of the Saints of the most High whose kingdome is an everlasting kingdome and all dominions shall serve and obey him Isa 60. 12. That Nation and Kingdome which will not serve thee shall be broken in pieces that is saith the learned Doctor All the Nations of the earth not a known nation but the blood of the Saints of Christ is found in the skirt thereof and yet all this saith he shall be transacted with so much obscurity and darknesse Christ not openly appearing unto carnal eyes that though many shall be purified and made white yet the wicked shall do wickedly and none of the wicked shall understand but the wise shall understand Dan. 12. 10. There shall be no such demonstration of Christ presence as to open the eyes of hardned men but at length having suffered the poore deceived wretches to drink of the Cup prepared for them He appears himself gloriously cap. 19. 13. in a more e●inent manner than ever before to the totall destruction of the residue of opposers and this will be the utmost close of that dispensation which he now beginneth to stir up the hearts of his Saints unto i. e. to execute the vengeance

of Iron and Potters clay together in the images feet foretold by Daniel cap. 2. 33 41 42 43. which I●on and Potters clay I take to be the mixing of the Civil and Ecclesiastical powers together which from that time have been continued to this present day Having thus stated the Rise both of the Pagan and Antichristian Babylon I shall in the next place enlarge my self a little in reference to each of them to the end that by a better knowledge th●reof the people of God may be more induced to abominate and detest them as also to execute the Judgement upon them and their supporters and adherents as it is written Psal 149. with multitudes of other Scriptures to that purpose and first of the first A brief Narrative of Pagan Babylon viz. of Pagan Babylon with its Adherents As to what this Nimrod was Who Nimrod was some take him to be the same which Forreign stories call Belus and that he was the first founder of the Idols in the Eastern Countries who were derived from him as Belial Beelzebub Belphegor but it will appear by what follows that Nimrod was before Belus 2. Touching Babel the beginning of Nimrods Kingdome it Of Babel in general was so called not from Belus as some would have it but from the Confusion of Languages as the ancient Saxon word Babel doth seem to import which word was usually men●ioned by them to such persons as spake confusedly to whom they would say why Babel ye or why confuse ye the true etimology of the word being why Babel ye or why do ye imitate those persons at Babel who spake so confusedly as th●t they could not be understood by their Auditors but to put all out of doubt the Scripture doth clearly testifie as much Gen. 11. 9. in these words therefore is the name of it called Babel because there the Lord confounded the Languages of all the earth and from thence did the Lord scatter them abroad upon the face of the earth 3. Touching the building of the City of Babel or Babylon the Of the City and Tower of Babel first Metropolis of Idolatry and Tyranny Quintus Curtius ascribeth it to Belus lib. 4. Berosus cited by Josephus to Nebuchadnezzar lib. 1. cont Appian from Dan 4. 30. where Nebuchadnezzar is presented saying is not this great Babel which I have builded for the House of the Kingdome the might of my power and the honour of my Majesty Berosus Arrianus maketh all three builders of Babylon As 1. That Nimrod began the Tower anno 131. after the Flood 2. That Belus built the City who saith he reigned after Nimrod 65 years and that he himself i. e. Belus reigned 56 yeers 3. That Semyramis the wife of Ninus which reigned 24 yeers much inlarged the City and fortified it A●ter all this when the Assyrian Kings had made Niniveh the imperial seat so that Babylon was much neglected and decayed at last Nebuch●dnezzar having conquered the City of Niniveh re-●dified Babylon as before mentioned and hereto agreeth Iosephus O●osinus lib 6. and August lib. 16. de Civit. Dei cap. so that the beginning and Foundation was laid in Nimrod as in Gen. 10. 10. which saith That the beginning of his Kingdome was Babel 4. As touching the way and means this Nimrod took to set How Nimrod became a Monark up his Idolatrous and tyrannical government I shall likewise set forth to the end that the present Idolaters or false worshippers and Tyrants or civil oppressors of the times may compare their present conditions and actions with their predecessors at the erecting of their great grand-mother Babell Nimrod having by his craft and policy wound himself so into the affections of the people as to be made their Captain-General Or Ring-leader of that company and calling to mind how the old world was drowned and destroyed for Idolatry and Inhumanity which designe he had now in his heart to practice as his predecessors of the old world had done before him though covertly and therefore under a * Nimrods Policy pretence of making themselves famous in the earth to all posterity And thereupon stirred up the rude multitude under this plausible pretence to build him a City and a Tower that might not only free him from the danger of men but also from fear of any thing that God could do unto him as also that he might with more boldnesse effect his wicked and ungodly enterprises And this he did in * One tyrant taketh example by another imitation of the Tyrants of the old world i. e. the Gyants or Apostate sons of God of whom it is reported that they had a City called Enos in the Mountains of Libanus that ruled over the whole world But it is to be understood that this Nimrod could not fortifie his City Tower and Palace with Demy Cannon and such like Artillery for the use of such engines of cruelty were not then found out but since the Devil for the better encouragement of servants hath now supplied them with plentifull store thereof for such purpose c. I shall now in large something in reference to the Tower in the attempting and erecting whereof these following sins concurred with which I shall also mentioned to the end the present Nimrods or Idolatrous tyrannical Babel-builders of the times may ruminate thereon and consider how far short they now are if any of Nimrods then condition 1. In the building of this Tower his impiety appeared in attempting it in despite of God As the Prophet Isaiah according to The impiety of tyrants this pattern bringeth in the King of Babylon vanting himself saying I will ascend unto the clouds I will be like the Most High 2. His vanity appeared in seeking to be made famous on earth and not by good actions to be made glorious in heaven he thought to Their vanity exalt himself by building and not by loving God above all and his neighbour as himself 3. His disobedience appeared in that it was Gods ordinance Their disobedience that the earth should be replenished by them and yet they wilfully oppose the Counsel of God by resolving not to depart from them as in v. 6. where they say Let us build a City and Tower whose top may reach to heaven that we may get us a name least we be scattered 4. Herein his impudence was also discovered For whereas Their impudence pride and voluptuousnesse he should have been convicted in his conscience for his pride and arrogancy Rom. 2. 15. he openly proclaimed his ambition voluptuousnes c. to all posterity proceeding to such a violence therein that nothing could now restrain him as neither the fear of God nor the fearfull looking for of judgment and fiery indignation 2 Pet. 3. 10. to be poured out upon him as in Heb. 5. 26 27. But contrariwise whatsoever he had proudly devised he would as impudently practise The confusion of their language was therefore a

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

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

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

But what is your meaning by those words or the like Resp He that thinketh Babylon to be confined to Rome and its open Idolatry knows nothing of Babylon nor of the New Jerusalem the depth of that subtill mystery Rev. 17. 5. doth not lye in grosse visible folly It hath been insinuating it self into all the Nations for 1600 years c. And is now become as the marrow in the bones which before it can be shaken out The Heaven must be dissolved and the Earth shaken Query It seems then Doctor you conclude that all Governours and Governments that do support the Prelatical part of the Papacie are adherents to Babylon and therefore must be destroyed with it Resp The late King had learned a saying from his Predecessors No Bishop No King Hence he supposes his main interest to lye in holding fast Prelacy What ever he seems to part with all that he will not let go that 's his main interest Query And what is this Prelacy Resp A meer Antichristian encroachment upon the inheritance of Christ Christ coming to take his own shakes the other in pieces Query Well said Doctor and so he hath done blessed be Jehovah for it But what think you of Presbytery Is not that it you meant where you said Prelacy or the like Pray Doctor tell me your minde freely what you think of the Presbyterian Gov●rnment and that Civil Political Power that doth supoort it Resp Those who would have been our oppressors 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 Procrustes 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 lie And in holding this fast are they after all their associations broken in pieces Query I plainly perceive that this Presbytery would have been a hellish Bondage to have been confined unto for you have painted it out in very notable significant characters but pray what was the designe of the Scots if they had prevailed Resp The corrupt design of these in Scotland was to have set up a Son of Tu●eal in England and themselves to be great under him that they and their partakers might impose upon the residue of the Nation 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 and shall be so Hence ambition to rule and to have all under their power Even in Conscience I● quickly mistaken for zeal to the Kingdome of Christ Re-inthroning of Tyranny is Royalty and all according to the Covenant c. Thus mens mindes and judgments are distempered by their Iust and interests which makes them frame a way for God to proceed in which when he doth not How are they surprised Thanks noble Doctour you are then clear of opinion that Presbytery and the Civil Magistrates and Governments that support it are also Adherents to the beast or Papacy and consequently that they also are to participate of that Tremendous Final destruction and totall amotion as you have declared to fall on Babylon But I pray is there no hopes of taking off the Civil Magistrate from joyning hands with the Horned and Hoofed Beasts of the Presbyterian judgement Resp Can any expect that such as these i. e. Civil Magistrates of Political Governments such as they have made for themselves and their interest as the Doctour hath formerly mentioned should take up the despised quarrel of Christ against that Flourishing Queen Doubtlesse no such fruit will grow on these trees c. 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 Birds all Fleshly Dominion therefore within doores and Civil Dominion that opposeth without doores shall be shaken Now these things are so glewed also to mens earthly Possessions the tallons of the birds of prey having firmly seased on them that ●hey also must be shaken with them and therefore from them also will be have us meaning the Saints and people of God to be loosed vid. 2 Pet. 3. v. 12 13. I Perceive Doctor there is then but one way to be taken with the Papal Prelatical and Presbyterian Magistrates and Ministers that will not be obedient to the Heavenly call as you have formerly hinted i. e. a final destruction and total amotion of them together and so Needhams Objection is answered with a witnesse and fully verified i. e. That the erecting or instituting of the Statutes and Judgements annexed to the Moral Precept● will and is appointed by God to be the overthrow of all the Political Gouernments in the world and so I shall proceed to the third particular But now it comes in my mind I shall before I enter thereupon desire to compare our present Government with your Text to the end we may see whether or no it be in the Black Bead-roll that is to receive the final destruction and total amotion you say must happen unto them And for better Order sake I shall once more recite the words of your Text Heb. 27. And this word once more signifies the removing of those things that are shaken us of things that are made that those things that cannot be shaken may remain Argum. Now in these words it is notoriously p●ident to every Rational Man that all such Heavens and Earths or Political Forms of Government which men have made for themselves as afore mentioned by you as are made by such means shall be be shaken and removed i. e. by a fi●al destruct●●n and total ●●●●tion as you have also affirmed But the present Government of this Nation was made his State-Policy or Humane Invention Ergo according to Mr. Owens Assertion and Attestation the present Government of this Nation is to receive a final destruction and total amotion Proof That the present Government of this Nation was made by State Policy or Humane Invention I appeal to every rational man sure I am it was neither made in Mount Sina nor ratified in mount Olivet unlesse the Learned Doctour can prove the Cock-pit to be the one and the Parliament-House to be the other which I believe will strain his Logick to the highest key Argument Again from this Text it is also undeniably evident that all such Governments as may be shaken must be also shaken and removed and that upon the Account of being made as aforesaid But the present Government of Nation is such a Government as may be shaken Therefore according to the Doctours Assertion the present Government of this Nation is to receive a final destruction and total amotion Proof That the present Government of this Nation is such as may be shaken I refer to the alterations which the late Parliament if they might have had their wills would have made therein and if it may be