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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

Law bring to this Nation what freedome from expence from unjust imprisonment of mens persons from being deceived in their causes and from being overborn in their Judg●ments by delay of Justice whereby potent adversaries have great advantage given them to corrupt Judges hinder Justice and get false witnesse many guilty persons by this means scaping unpunished and many innocent persons undone by imprisonments in their estates families and repute among men which would not be done had we but Judges as at the first and Rulers as at the beginning of the Common-wealth of Israel i. e. Men fearing God and hating covetousnesse and valiant for the truth to put this Holy Just and Perfect Law in execution not fearing the face of any knowing that the Judgement is the Lords the accomplishment whereof that the Lord would in much mercy hasten is the earnest desire of him who is now a prisoner at Lambeth for the Testimony of the truth as it is in Jesus which he is ready to vindicate with all that is near or dear unto him John Spittlehouse Errata REader the Authour not having had a sight of this printed Copy before it was wrought off throu●h the Correctours negligence these following Errors have hapned which are not onely very many but some also very grosse the matter being left out in some places so that without correcting thereof with thy pen before thou readest it will be troublesome to understand what is printed Page 3 line 15. read See and in the Margent r. be p. 8. l. 29. r. covet p. 10 l. 2. r. heard l. 4. r. commending and in marg r. were l. 26. r. hence p. 11. l. 11. r. hence p. 11. l 12. r. Restauration and for commanded r. commended l. 16. r. hence and in margent against l. 25. place figure 4. p. 12. l. 3. r. Jam. p. 14. l. 24. r. whether l. 31. r. denounced p. 15. l. 2. r. that they l. 5. betwixt saying and in r. he hath and betwixt term and that r. affirmed l 8. r. Civil l. 3. betwixt many and after r. wise p. 17. l. 5. r. enemy l. 27. r. over all 31. r. careth l 32. r. then p. 18. against l. 31. place figure 4 in marg p. 22. l. 1. r. declined p. 23. l. 20 r. those l. 28. r. their p. 24. l. 14. r. quiet p. 29. l. 36. dele● by p. 32. l. 14. r. it l. 27. betwixt at and bringing r. the p 39. l. 8. r. thence p. 40. l 35. r. contrivers p. 43. l 2. r. a●pectable l. 28. ●novel p 49. l. 29. r. intended p. 56. l. 1. r. such l. 15. betwixt of and Nation r. this l. 36. r judgeth and betwixt of and Antichrist r. the l. 37. r. his p. 58. l. 13. r. desired p. 62. and l. 31. r. and not that it is THE Royall Advocate c. Asserting Assert 1 I. That the Contents of the Royall Law of Jehovah the Lord Christ was planted in Mankinde by Nature Proof ALbeit our first Parents were created in the Image of God which consisteth in Righteousnes * Gen. 1. 26 27. Ephes 4. 24 and true holinesse yet were not they thereby made Lawlesse Persons as appeareth from the Testimony of the Apostle Paul Rom. 2. 14 15. where he saith The Gentiles which have not the Law do by Nature the things contained in the Law these having * viz. the written law not the Law are a Law unto themselves which shew the work * Or operation or effects of the law of the Law written in their Hearts their Conscience also bearing them witnesse and their thoughts in the mean while accusing or excusing one another And hence the Apostle saith I have lived in all good Conscience before God Act. 23. 1. vid. 24. 16. 2 Cor. 1. 12. 1 Tim. 1. 5. 19. 2. Tim. 1. 3. Heb. 13. 18. 1 Pet. 3. 16. 21. From which I Argue that seeing Mankinde in The conscience is as a thousand witnesses their adulterate and depraved estate had the operations of the Royall Law of Jehovah written in their hearts by Nature as also a Conscience accusing or excusing them in point of obedience or disobedience thereunto It must needs be that they had the same much more in their Virgin and pure estate when they were in their Innocency and Integrity before their fall And this doth clearly appear from Gen. 3. 6 7 8. Where no sooner had our first Parents violated the divine precept by means of the suggestions and delusions of Satan but immediately their eyes are said to be opened and that they saw their nakednesse and went and sowed fig-leaves together to make themselves Aprons As also in that assoon as they heard the voice of the Lord in the Garden they went to hide themselves among the Trees of the Garden All which doth clearly denote unto us that their Consciences had testified unto them their disobedience as also condemned them for what they had done and therefore they are said to be afraid as in v. 10. If our Conscience condemn us God is greater than our Conscience and he shall much more condemn us Vid. Heb. 9. 14. Assert 2 II. That this Royall Law so planted in mankind by Nature is comprehended in two grand Principles i. e. 1. To love God above all 2. To love our neighbour as our self Proof Deut. 6. 4 5. Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy might Deut. 10. 12. And now O Israel what doth the Lord thy God require of thee but to fear the Lord thy God to walk in all his wayes and to love him and to serve the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul c. Lev. 19. 17 18. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thy heart thou shalt in any wise rebuke thy neighbour and not suffer fin upon him Thou shalt not avenge or bear grudge against the children of thy people but Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self I am the Lord. Assert 3 III. That this Doctrine was ratified by Jesus Christ Proof Mark 12. 28. Then one of the Scribes that was a Lawyer Mat. 22. 35. coming unto him and asking him which was the first Commandement or great Commandement in the Law Mat. 22. 36. of all Jesus answered him The first of all the Commandements or the Great Commandement in the Law Mat. 22. 38 is Hear O Israel the Lord our God is one Lord and thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul and with all thy mind and with all thy strength This is the first and Great Comm●ndement And the second is like unto it namely this Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thy self There are no other Commandments that are greater than these Mat. 22. 40. On these Commandements hang all the Law and the Prophets Assert 4 IV. That this Doctrine was taught