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A34471	Crux Christi, and iudgement executed, or, Divine wisdom crucifying the humane, carnal, devillish, malicious, mad, raging wisdom of the world by His righteous judgements, drawing nearer to its full and perfect manifestation : them shall Josephs and Daniels afflictions end and their imprisonments be no more heard of ... / written and experienced by Richard Coppin.	Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6095; ESTC R23937	74,972	106

when my sufferings should end Which I shouldhere endure Exod 3 9 10 19 20 A Moses to me he would send My freedom to procure And those that should it then withstand His wrath he would make see And overthrow them by that hand Isa 41 10 11 Which gives me liberti. 24. But some like Pharoah still did plot My bodie to keep here Evod 8 28 32 Though they would say We hinder not But rather would him clear Yet God their hearts made hard again My freedom to denie Until that I Gods time had laine to have my liberty 25. Therefore in this I am content His time here for to stay Phil. 4.11 Heb 13 5 Psal 119.50 2 Cor 1 4 Psal 84 11. He having to me comforts lent The time to pass away He makes his sun on me to shine My soul to satisfie And promiseth in his due time To give me libertie Col. 3.16 17. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord and whatsoever ye do in word or deed do al● in the Name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him As is the Exhortation of Richard Coppin Return into thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Christ Crucified AND Judgement Executed CHAP. I. The cross of Christ set up in men and their dyings upon it of the life which is lost and to be found the father mother ●nd brethren husband wife and children house lands and all things therein to be forsaken for Christ what they are with the time when and the manner how YOU that with Christ and with those that are Christs wil desire to live in the same spiritual freedom fellowship 1 Co● 1 1● and communion of Saints in light must by him be armed with the same spiritual mind of Christ and them to know Christ crucified in you and you to all things of flesh and this world besides God and so with him to have peace joy and comfort in all your desires wayes 1 Pet. 4.1 2. and actions and with patience and delight to follow him and to take up his cross daylie and carry it with you after him suffering it to be placed in you as the Lords standard lifted up against the enemy sin the devil and all iniquitie Rev. ●● 1● 1●●7 which is a flood out of the devils mouth rushing out upon you to devour you till Christ the wisdome and power of God as the cross be set up in you to overcome it for you and restore you into perfect health and safety in the Lord Jesus Heb. 〈…〉 through the manifestation of his second comming without sin unto salvation in the perfecting of which work by the same cross walking through the paths of the Lords judgements where the natural man is to give up the ghost with the loss of life you are to abide upon this cross not for a day a month not a year and in some things and not in others but in all things all wayes and continually ever bearing about in you bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus after the flesh that the life also of Jesus after the spirit may be made manifest in your mortal bodies and you in him to live without the knowled● of sin and of the fear of death hell and the devil therefore you which live in the body and would know Christ cru●ified in you 〈…〉 ●are alwayes to be delivered unto death for Jesus sake that the li●●●lso of Jesus may be made manifest in you m●t●● 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 sin ●eath hell and 〈◊〉 man with all his corrup● de●d● of the fles● wisedom interest and knowl●●g and to plan● in you the new 〈◊〉 which in Christ Jesus 〈…〉 ●ousness 〈…〉 holin●s● and so 〈…〉 that in dying you 〈…〉 that life which y● 〈…〉 before the ●a● of Adam so 〈…〉 ●●eth judgement to destroy in man the kn●● 〈…〉 by which came death and so by 〈…〉 again to a new life ●ith 〈…〉 which he shall know himself 〈◊〉 live 〈…〉 not unto himself 〈…〉 and in dying and l●●●g 〈…〉 from which he shall never dye so saith Christ he that believes in me Joh 5.15 16 though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in ●●e shal ne●●● dy●● believe you this saith Christ as sufficient 〈…〉 eternal salvation And the way to this 〈…〉 dye dayly till you be dead to all things but Go● to 〈◊〉 only i● God for as you dye the d●●d of o●e life which you must dye and ●annot live to you liv● a●oth●r 〈◊〉 whi●h is for ever●a●●ing and can nev●● dye whereby C●●ist himself is mag●●fied 〈…〉 set up and ex●●●●d in your b●●●y to be you● and you his both in death in life 〈…〉 to you in both and you 〈◊〉 in you 〈…〉 d●ath that you might o● tru●t 〈…〉 ●●fore this dying 〈…〉 ●peaks of when he sa●t● ●I am 〈…〉 yet nevertheless I live ye● 〈◊〉 ●●ow 〈…〉 lives mine ●al 2 1● ●● and the life that 〈…〉 the faith of the son o● God 〈…〉 gave himself for me and no● only 〈…〉 ●u●●or a●● men whatsoever that 〈…〉 as he sh●l be manifest in them may b● 〈◊〉 with him 〈…〉 unto themselves 〈…〉 dyed for th●● and now lives in ●●●m 〈…〉 that w●ether they live o● dye 〈…〉 〈…〉 who ●●s that was dead i● alive 〈…〉 A●d 〈◊〉 Christ said unto you all tha● wo●●d 〈◊〉 any thing in your selves besides the ●ord of for any oth●● but th● 〈◊〉 that ●f you will come after 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 de●y your 〈◊〉 and take up ●●s cross ●ay●y and 〈…〉 that you may be noth ng 〈◊〉 your ●●l●●● know 〈…〉 any thing of 〈…〉 all by 〈…〉 joy 〈◊〉 things of the Lord who is made all things unto you that you haveing nothing yet injoying all things as injoying all things Luk. 9.23.24 yet having nothing for he that wil seek to save his life shall lose it and he that will lose his life for my sake shall find it And now my brethren that you may dye to live lose all to find all you are commanded by Christ to hang upon the cross of Christ till you are crucified with Christ and become dead to all things but Christ which is not an outward cross of any visible thing without you no nor altogether outward afflictions but it is Christ the wisdom of God and Christ the power of God within you and which you are to take up and hang upon to the slaying of all your own wisdome and strength righteousness and life and all things of man and the world and whatsoever is contrary to this cross even Christ in you which you are to take up and hang upon even you and all that is yours yea all of yours even all is to be fastned to him and slain by him in your

the sons of God but the flames of a wounded conscience of the one who can indure the bitter burning of it so the joyes of a healed saved conscience in the other how sweet is it and both these manifest in flesh under the law and gospel-dispensation where the discontent and torment of one mans conscience wounded by the Law is manifest and the joy and comfort of anothers healed by the gospel and both living together on the earth in the body and having the glory of this world and the other the same but Dives dyed and was buried First his death was the coming of the Law to him to revive sin in him whereby sin was made exceeding sinful and thereby slew him as it did Paul and as is the death of all after which comes judgement before which Paul as Dives was rich and righteous in himself Rom. 7.9 10 11 12 13 14. till the Law was set home to him and revived sin in him and so slew him after which the gospel came and gave life unto him But Dives also was buried and in hell tormented hee was with David laid into the lowermost pit in darkness Psal 88.6 7. in the deep where the wrath of God lay hard upon him that he could not come forth where he was scorched with fire and burned his tongue for pain under the four and five vial and which David he cryed out Luk. 16.23 24. Father Abraham have mercy on me and send Lazarus that he may dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue for I am tormented in this flame as David said Wilt thou shew wonders in the grave where thy fierce wrath goeth over me Psa 88.12.16 Psa 43.2 3. and thy terrors have cut me off Why dost thou cut me off Why go I mourning because of the oppression and the enemy Psa 51.8.12 send Lazarus thy light and thy truth let them lead me let them bring me unto thy holy hill make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou hast broken may rejoyce restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit so is the cryings of a wounded soul that looketh up unto God for mercy as is said Dives did who was also a son of God as Lazarus was for he called Abraham father and Abraham called Dives his son and so is every unbeliever the son of God though so long he bringeth forth fruit to himself and not unto God and thereby destroys himself Rom. 11.32 yet in God is his help and the help of every unbeliever for he hath concluded all under sin and unbelief that he might have mercy upon all and therefore Dives said Father Abraham have mercy on me Now Lazarus he dyed that is he dyed unto sin and lived unto righteousness and was not buried as Dives was Rom. 6.11 but was carryed by the angels into Abrahams bosom he was dead in Christ as every believer is while he lives by whom he was crucified and slain to sin and the worlds glory 2 Cor. 1.9 10. having received in himself the sentence of death that he should not trust in himself but in God which raiseth the dead and delivered him from so great a death from which he had not delivered Dives and all thus dead in Christ riseth first with Christ into the life of Christ which is the first resurrection but the rest of the dead to wit they of Dives the righteous and the wicked that are so in themselves and do worship the Beast and his Image and follow the whore they rise not till they are so become dead in Christ from sin and the world which yet they live in are dead from Christ buryed in the grave of destruction ●ev 14.9 i0 11. where is weeping and gnashing of teeth and where the worm dyeth not and the fire is not quenched to all that are in it but blessed are ehe dead which dye in the Lord Rev. 14.15 from the whore and her worship from henceforth yea saith the spirit that they may rest from their labours and their works do follow them for dying and rising in Christ they do enter into rest with Christ resting from all their own works as God did from his who also have received in themselves the sentence of death that they should not trust in themselves but in God that raiseth the dead and delivered them from so great a death which others lye groaning under and so by the angels or ministring spirits of Christ in them are carryed out of themselves into Abrahams bosom swallowed up into the life of God free from the wrath and curse as believers still living in the body having Christ their life manifest in their mortal flesh 2 Cor. 4 11. Matt. 5.8 9. by which their consciences are at peace and rest with Christ in God as the pure in heart which is blessed with God receiving possessing and injoying the reward of their works of humility meekness and love which is rest for evermore and unto whom the impure and unbeliever cannot come nor be blessed with the same spiritual blessing of Christ in them but do with Dives the righteous and the wicked still hate and persecute them that are blessed above them and like roaring Lyons they will go about seeking to devour them till the Lyon of the tribe of Judah meets them as he did Paul and destroys in them the righteous and the wicked Acts 9.3 4 5. the Pharisee and all his works the good and the evil knowledge with men turning their evil into good their darkness into light their death into life and their hatred into love and so translate them out of the kingdome of the evil and of darkness into the Kingdom of light and the Lord Jesus And these two parts Righteousness and sin good and evil so known by men which is to be destroyed every man for a time while he believes not known to be more or less in him the one opposing the other which is the righteousness of man against the sin of man do both joyne together against the third part of man which is refined and draw out from the other to be pure in Christ and by the pure even Christ is the righteous and the wicked purged forth and destroyed together for works of gold and works of dross the best and worst of man is all but vanitie 1 Cor. 5.12 13. and must be destroyed for as the wicked part which is sin is compared to bryars and thorns wood hey and stubble so the other part which is the righteous so called is compared to gold and precious stone and all but as one Dives even the two parts of three righteousness and wickedness which must be burnt up man therein shall suffer loss Gen. 18.23 Job 9.22 Eccle. 3.16 17. for God will destroy both the righteous and the wicked which is of man but man himself or that third

bid I cannot curse them and the lying spirit could not go into the Prophets of Ahab king of Israel unless ●he Lord had sent him therefore when Shimei cursed David 2 Chron. 1● 20 21. he did it because the Lord had bidden him and David reproved those that gaine-said it saying he curseth even because God hath bid him curse David who dare then say wherefore hast thou done so behold saith he 2 Sam. 16.10 11 12. my Son which came out of my own bowels seeketh my life and why should not he that curseth be let alone for the Lord hath bidden him it may be the Lord will look on mine afflictions and do me good for his cursing me this day thus said David and thus may we say why should not these be let alone that revile persecute banish or imprison us or any seeing they do it by the Lords command which he lets alone for good to them that are persecuted for without him they can do nothing and David under judgement and the reproaches of men seeing all that men did unto him to be of God he said he was dumb and opened not his mouth because he knew the Lord did it Psa 39.9 and Christ as a lamb led to the slaughter and as a sheep dumb before the shearers so he opened not his mouth against them knowing it to be the Lord that did it therefore when he was reviled he reviled not againe but committed himselfe to God that judgeth righteously so neither Pharoah nor the Egyptians cauld do any thing against Israel except the Lord had hardnen their hearts to do it neither could the devil touch Job in his person nor estate to afflict and punnish him without God had bidden him and gave him commission Iob. 2.6 which God saw would be good unto Job and therefore Job in all his afflictions accuseth none neither devil nor witches nor any other in the loss of any thing Iob. 1.21 but ascribeth all unto God who giveth and taketh at his pleasure and did all that was done unto him to humble him and after what a strange manner doth God sometimes act his people to make them a reproach and scorne of men as he did David when he made him to uncover himselfe in the eyes of the hand maids of his servants 2 Sam. 6.20 21 22. and he said it was before the Lord and that he would be yet more vile and base in his own sight and the sight of his maid-servants of whom he said he should be had in honour Isa 20.2 3. and so did the Lord do by Isaiah when he made him to walk naked and barefoot three years for a signe Isa 20.2 3. Ezek. 4.12 chap. 5.1 and made Ezekiel to bake mens dung and eat it for a signe and to shave the hair from off his head and face and burn the third part for a signe which was all by the Lords command yet all such are counted as mad men by those that knew not the Lord though they did it by his command who saith it and men must do it Iob 1.21 Hose 6.1 who witholdeth giveth and taketh at his pleasure both men and things even poverty and riches health wealth and sickness prosperitie and adversitie life and death honour and shame all is of God and by God and not of any other but God who worketh and none shall hinder commanding all things even men and devils to serve him for good and therefore the devil walking to and fro in the earth seeking whom he may devour may be said to be the servant of God imployed about Gods work to try and prove his people by temptations and afflictions for good to them as he did Iob and so saith Christ of the devil when he was led by the spirit even God into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil he said unto him thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God Mat. 4.17 ●0 Acts 2.23 Acts 1.25 but thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve and Iudas when he betrayed Christ he did also the work of God which was before appointed to be done but the devil not knowing that what he did was of God did therefore accuse himselfe and after death went to his own place Eccles 12.7 the body to the earth from whence it came and the soul to God that gave it every thing to its place and center light unto light and darkness unto darkness earth to earth and the spirit to the spirit every thing to its like as it alwayes did and ever will do world withour end and that which is the dark and devilish part even the devil it selfe which entred into Judas whereby he became a devil tempting and betraying persecuting and accusing any is the same devil that enters into men at this day whereby they become as devils one to another and which remaineth still with men of the same nature doing the same devilish work of the devil in them to this day who are some times made use of by God as a rod and scourge in Gods hand to whip scourge others whom God loves and chastizes for good to them to humble them Psalm 17.9 10 11 12 13 14. which rod shall at last with the devil be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone to be burnt as the Aegyptians were into the sea to be drowned And therefore all men persecuting plotting and devising evil devices against others to accuse them are no better then the devil in that devilish nature which God sometimes sets a worke to do his dark and black work and to discover themselves in the tryal of others for their own shame and destruction in that state after convinced by God and so they are the servants of God as Judas and the devil was to do that worke of God as the devil and Judas did and who with the devil must at last come to judgement before Christ Rom 2.15 16. where their own consciences shall accuse them of the evil they have done against Christ and by him they shall be cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where all their abominations and devilish actings of one man against another and against God shall be destroyed and themselves saved yet as by fire and that in them which was devilish and made them so long to be devilish i Cor. 3.15 Jam. 3.15 16. is the devil in them that so long destroyed them and kept them from knowing their peace with God and this devil and sin the devouring lyon of man-kind is that which is onely for destruction in mens salvation and coming unto God and he is that beast which is the fourth and which was and is not and shall go into perdition and whose power or little horne that came up last rageing most haveing a mouth and eyes like a man is he that continued speaking and acting great things against the Saints of the most high in

their coming to their kingdom and with which beast or beastial power acting in men to take the kingdom from the saints the kings rulers of the earth as enemies to Christ and his kingdom Rev. 14.9 10 do receive power and authority with and from the beast to act one hour with the beast and by him they do reign over the people of all Nations Rev. 17.11 12 13 14. and with him they shall suffer and go into perdition together and they give their power and authority to the beast and prince of darkness that ru●e● in the children of disobedience yeelding themselves his servants and sons as the god and father which they worship and fall down before Rom. 6.16 For his servants ye are to whom ye obey whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto life and yeelding to the Beast they with him who with Gog and Magog do joyn in battle together to make war against the Saints of the Most High until Christ the Lamb of God and Prince of Light by his innocent life and light in the Saints shall overcome the Beast or beastial power by the bright fiery appearing of his presence amongst them in the Saints and shall give the victory to the Saints Rev. 15.2 3. and until Christ and the ancient of days shall sit in judgement upon the white throne of innocency Rev. 20.11 12 Deut. 7.9 10 11 19 20 21 22. light and life in God from whose face the heaven and the earth and all things therein of mans inventions shal flye away and before whom all books shal then be opened and every mans conscience shal bear witness either for or against himselfe and their thought the mean while accusing or else excusing one another Rom. 2.16 17. for then do God appear to judge the secrets of men by Jesus Christ according to his Gospel and then doth he give the Kingdom to the Saints of the Most High to possess it even to them that know themselves in him and he in them and then will the beast devil and sin even Gog and Magog warred against the Saints in the time of their deliverance from sin and resurrection from death by Christ as the Aegyptians did against Israel in Israels coming out of Aegypt be quickly slain and devoured with fire from Heaven as the Aegyptians were by water drowned in the red-sea and that body of sin and death the old man which is the body of the beast in which he appears to live and act shall be destroyed and given to the burning fire in the lake which quencheth not where the devil death hell Rev. 20.8 9 10 14. and the false Prophet is to be damned to a perpetual end for ever and ever which is the second death and these men with whom the beast and prince of darkness have so acted and ruled Rev. 12.12 shall themselves go in his destruction who will then be in great wrath in them because he knows his time is short with them be shut out from the injoyment of love and peace in God and have punnishment greater then they bear but the Heavens shall laugh and they that dwell in them shall rejoyce and be at peace and rest in the Lord. CHAP. V. A definition of the righteous and the wicked as two parts of three in man to be destroyed and how the third part neither righteous nor wicked is brought through the fire and saved with a distinction of Dives and Lazaras ●nd their conditions in life and death and of the dog licking Lazaras ●a●es ANd into this consumnig fire where Gog and Magog is destroyed for persecuting the Saints thither went Adam after he eat the forbidden fruit Gen. 4.13 and Cain after he had slew his brother Abel where Cain said my punishment is greater then I can bear and where rich Dives whose kingdom is of this world and that to this day despises Lazarus Iames 3.15 is tormented in the flame of a burning conscience being that dark black devilish part which is earthy sensual and devilish opposing hating and loathing that part which is light bright and Heavenly Gen. 18.23 Iob 9.22 Isa 64.6 and who is both the righteous and the wicked with men that must be destroyed for both the righteousness and wickedness of men is all as filthiness and so shall perish together for as they are one in pollution so they shall be one in destruction so was Dives with all his glory he and that destroyed together But to more explain this Dives is the pharisaical principle of righteousness under a law dispensation where sin is manifest representing of men in the state of unbelief and which so far as any man liveth in it he is as Dives was righteous and wicked for in opposition to his own wickedness he forms to himselfe a righteousness in which he is proud and lusty rich and mighty boasting himselfe in himselfe against the poor publican as Dives did against Lazarus yet this publican shall enter into Heaven before the proud Pharisee Matt. 21.31 so shall Lazarus without Dives even as humillity without pride and then Lazarus is the gospel principle of righteousness under a gospel dispensation representing all men in the state of believing which so far as any man liveth in it he is as Lazarus was poor and humble meek and lowly even as a poor despised publican having no righteousness of his own but is cloathed with poor beggerly rayment to the worlds view that wear it not and waiting to be cloathed with change of rayment from Heaven and justified only in the righteousness of Christ Againe this Dives the righteous and the wicked in a mistery is two parts of three in the whole creation with man that cannot stand in the presence of Gods consum●ng fire to be tryed and saved but is for destruction to be damned and cast into hell to be burned for two parts therein shall be cut off and dye but the third part shall remaine and be brought through the fire as refined silver and as tryed gold Zach. 13.9 this third part is poor Lazarus tryed and punished for salvation having all his own works good and bad burned but himselfe saved for none of the third part can be lost being of God having past the tryal through the fire and overcome the righteous and the wicked that warred against it and could not escape the fire for they that are both righteous and wicked seeing righteousness and sin of their own do persecute the innocent that sees and know nothing of their own which the righteous and the wicked even Gog and Magog incampeth about to destroy and thereby destroyeth it selfe yet is the inocent sanctified nature of men that is neither righteous nor wicked exalted with Christ into the throne of God into Abrahams bosom where no evil of sin nor sorrow can come neer it to hurt it and where there is no curse but the eternal blessedness of God And so

they shal rejoyce and be glad for it is the Lords day wherein he wil have taken away their Judgements and cast out their enemies Sin Death Hel and the Devil and all fe r and the King of Israe even the Lord of Hosts shal be in the midst of them and they shal not see evil any more Zeph. 3 13. to the end neither shal they any more live in fear of any thing nor yet sorrow any more but sorrow and sighing shal flie away and they sha● rejoy●e always with joy unspeakable and ful of glory Rev. 21.34 and the Lord himself wil be seen amongst them to dwel with them and delight in them and rejoyce ●ver them with Joy and wil turn back their captivity even before their own eyes and they shal see it and know that the Lord who hath done it is for ever with them in it For the tabernacle of God is with men and he wil dwel with them and they shal be his people and God himselfe shal be with them and be their God CHAP. XII Incouragements to wait with p tience under the Lords Judgements and not to oppose them Of the works of the Lord Jesus what they are and how we bear them about in our bodies and when ANd now seeing that so much good is wrought in men by the Lords judgments spiritual and temporal though acted unjustly by men as the rod that afflicts them outwardly yet let no man seek by any outward means or lawes of men to put them by for it is the Lords way though it is incident with all men so to do that know not the Lord with them in it who would seek to escape the Iudgment thereof to save their own honor and credit with men and to avoid the punishment of the flesh as did David Iob yea Christ and his Apostles who had the same infirmities of the flesh as we have when Christ said Lord if it be possible let this cup pass from me and sought means to avoid it for indeed no afflictions with any seems joyous for the present though afterwards it yeelds a peaceable reward of righteousness to all that are exercised therein as it did to Christ himself who after he had suffered entred into glory with his Father so shal all that with Christ overcome and indure to the end yet this glorious reward of righteousnesse with men may somtimes be hid under afflictions as the Sun when the clouds are before it that men may not for the present see the end of God in it nor the good that is to be brought unto them by it till the clouds are passed and their Judgments ended as before you have heard for clouds and darknesse is round about him Psa 18. as about the Sun when you see it not yet the darknesse of these clouds wil he expell by the brightnesse of his comming and by his light he wil shine gloriously through them even upon him who with the eye of faith shall see Christ comming to him and he will therein cheer and comfort him incourage and support him from the evil that men have invented against him as the spirit of the Lord with my spirit bear witness unto me which concerning my selfe in all my sufferings and persecutions for the truth to this day 1 Pet. 2 21. unto which I was cald by the Lord he hath done for me that bonds and afflictions through which a soul enters into the kingdome of God have been good unto mee Acts 14.22 it being sanctified unto me by his spirit by which I was comforted and the Angel of his presence with me in it by which I was saved concerning which I with Paul can speak the truth in Christ and lye not and which another for me cannot know but for themselves that hath seen it for to him that overcometh it is hidden Manna and a white stone and in it a new name written which no man knows but he that hath it Rev. 2.17 And now that you may with Christ indure to the end for this new name which is a pearl of great price and a name above every name that is named amongst men be you perswaded by the spirit of the Lord within you to watch for the comming of the Lord to give it to you and be ye armed with the same mind and patience in the Lord to suffer with Christ in the flesh 1 Pet. 1.4 for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin and so be ye ready prepared in all things to meet the Lord both in his birth death resurrection and ascension and to embrace him in the worst condition as well as in the best as well to suffer with him as to regin with him to dye with him as to live with him and to be reviled and reproached scoffed and mocked derided and falsly accused by men more vile then the earth Christ was and his prophets and Apostles were so were all his Saints and so must all that will live godly in Christ Jesus Isa 64 6. and not after the godliness of men which is filthyness with the Lord Ye filthy rags saith the Prophet and by the Lord shal be cast out therefore be ye armed with the saints patience in tribulations that vvith Christ you may beare his reproach without the campe of your own righteousness and religion Heb. 13.12.13 as he did without the gate of the honour and glory of the world and with him be willing to dye to all things of men and with him to live to all things of God Gal. 6.17 and so with Paul ever bear about in your body the marks of the Lord Iesus both in dying and in living in dying the unjust persecutions mockings revilings and scourgings of men groanings sighings and mournings in the suffering of the flesh as did Christ whose visage was more ma6rr'd then any mans Esa 52.14 and his person more desormed then the sons of men and who in his pangs cryed out My God my God why hast thou forsaken me These are the dying marks of Christ which you are to bear about in your body for the truths sake and the living marks is peace comfort and consolation joy of heart content of minde quietness of conscience and a soul at rest in the Lord full of all humility meekness and love these are the living marks of Iesus which you are to bear about in your bodies 1 Cor. 4.6 7 8 9 10.11 that while you live delivered unto death for Iesus sake so the life also of Iesus shal be manifest in your mortal flesh yea in these your mortal bodies when with Christ you have been crucified to see an end of sin CHAP. XIII How men of the greatest light witnessing to truth under Judgments do suffer most unjustly by false accusations with the loss of all things below God that not all but some m●n as witnesses shall suffer for the rest af one life how some professing the