Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht

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Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht
Author
Spittlehouse, John.
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Printed at London :: by Thomas Paine, and are to be sold at his house in Goold [sic] Smiths Alley in Redcrosse Street,
1650. [i.e. 1649]
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Presbyterianism
Great Britain -- Church history
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature
Church of England -- Government -- Early works to 1800.
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"Rome ruin'd by VVhite Hall, or, The papall crown demolisht." In the digital collection Early English Books Online 2. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A93702.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 18, 2024.

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SECT. 1.

IT is reported that those under the notion of Antino∣mians, are such people as deny the use of the Morall Law, since the publishing of the Gospel.

To the clearing of which point, we are to consi∣der of the Law of Moses in generall, and of the differences of them.

1. The Law of Moses delivered unto the children of Israel,* 1.1 were of three sorts, viz. Morall, Judiciall, and Ceremoniall; the first doth prescribe a persect rule of righteousnesse, discer∣ning* 1.2 things that are right and just, from them that are contrary

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both towards God, and Man, in externall and internall duties, requiring obedience under paine of everlasting death.

2. The Ceremoniall Law concerned such rites, and services, as* 1.3 belonged to the externall worship of God, prescribed unto that people, both to distinguish them from other Nations of the world, and to be signes and simbals unto them of the Spirituall grace in the New Testament, to be fulfilled by the Messiah.

3. The Judiciall Lawes belonged to the Civill State, which* 1.4 were such ordinances as contained rules of equity, for the judge∣ing, and deciding of Civill controversies, and questions, and de∣creed punishments for the transgressions, against both the Mo∣rall, and Ceremoniall Lawes, and kept the people under obe∣dience.

As touching the difference of these Lawes, the Morall are* 1.5 generally grounded upon the Law of Nature, and so are not the other. 2. They are perpetuall to endure for ever, and so doe not the other. 3. The Morall requireth both externall, and internall obedience, the other only externall; the Morall Law was given as principall, and the other Lawes were to give place unto them, and were the end unto which the other tended; and yet these three sorts of Lawes are not severally, but joyntly handled by Moses, so that amongst the Moralls are found some Ceremonials, and amongst the Judicials, both Morall and Cere∣moniall Lawes; this being the difference betwixt the Morall Law contained in the Commandements, and the other, that the first was delivered by the Lords owne voyce to the people, and the other was received by Moses from God.

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