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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

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

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

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

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

same life for fear of suffering will deny them that suffer for them rather then suffer with them as the Disciples of Christ did CHrist and his Prophets and Apostles for conscience towards God suffered uniustly 1 Pet. 2.19 20 21. and dyed uniustly by the hands of men though it was just with God that they should suffer yea and to suffer by men unjustly as being not guilty of the crimes for which they were accused but false witnesses did arise Psa 31.11 and laid many things to their charge which they knew not as my self with many others at this day can witness hath been also laid against us by false witnesses since we with them have born witness to the Truth in which notwithstanding I abundantly rejoyce and my joy in this is fulfilled that the Lord Iesus for conscience towards God hath joyned me with himself in his worst condition to suffer with him and in his best condition to reign with him yea and to suffer unjustly by men as he hath done before me and now in this my sufferings to suffer with me els my peace in it would not have been so great nor I so cheerfully to have past it through that I cannot but rejoyce that he hath made me willing and able with cheerfulness to bear his cross after him and that in it he hath so far honoured me as to have all manner of evil said of me falsly for his Names sake as a blasphemer a seducer and what not by those that knew me not and which by the world and them that know not God may be counted a shame and dishonor yet to me and all that know the Lord it is a crown of honor rejoycing through him who hath been my example and pattern by whom I have been made to endure the cross and despise the shame who himself for the honor which is of God regarded not the honor of men but suffered it all to be laid in the dust and himself to be reckoned with the worst of men yea with Christ we have many more Examples to wit his Prophets and Apostles who counted it their greatest honor to suffer unjustly by men in the Lords cause 1 Cor. 4.9 12 13. and for his sake to be made as the Filth of the world and the off-scouring of all things know it to be their portion lot and inheritance with men which with Christ for Christ they must receive by the hands of men that know not the Lord nor the people the Lords inheritance for had they known Christ they would not ●ave crucified him nor a●y that lived his life but because they knovv not Christ nor the life of him vvhich any live therefore they rise up against it and condemn it And God wil have those that suffer for him and his cause to suffer unjustly by men that they may the more hate the ways of men to declare against them and know that there is nothing just amongst men nor none that is good no not one and so hee wil wean them from the milk and draw them from the brest of all fleshly confidence and human excellencies below himselfe that they may depart from all things but God Isa 28.9 and love none but him in the world whom they are to know above all things and no more to contend for the wisdom knowledge and excellency of men nor any thing of moral righteousness to glory in but though you may be as righteous as others and have as much as any to boast your selves in yet rather then you shall keep it to be thought the more righteous for it and exalted by it to glory in it God will take it from you though by false accusation for you shal be accused by men of the things you are not gulilty that you may bee tryed and brought to Iudgment and know that there is no respect of persons with God nor none that doth righteousness but him that no flesh might glory in his presence 1 Cor. i 2 ● and that he that standeth might not stand in the wisdome of men but of God and glory onely in the Lord. Now every single person of one and the same life may not all suffer alike in outward bonds and afflictions nor be alike accused but only that life they live with Christ in God for the same life which many men live and injoys may be but in some accused and suffer even in them where it is most manifest and injoyed and where it most appears in opposition to the world and he that is most perfect before God as Christ Job 2 3 4 ● Iob and David was even against it in them and in such as against Christ the manchilde Rev. 4.12 5. wil the Dragon most vomit up his malice and act it men with endeavours to devour it in all men that live it and that with Christ do inherit it of whom they said Come this is the heir let us kill him that the inheritance may be ours but shal not be able to overcome the life as they always sought to do against Christ but could not prevail to destroy the life though by Herod and the Iewes he was persecuted to death that they which lived the same life might deny it and fly from it as many in these times have done when some of their own judgment have suffred which they seemed to own before and as did some of Christs own Disciples they owned him followed him while he ●ad his liberty was in prosperity amongst them but it was for the loaves and the warm themselves at his Fire Iohn 6.65 66 67. Mark 14.67 68. but when he was accused and in custody likely to suffer being as he was betrayed by a Disciple that followed him then his Disciples denyed him saying I know not the man and because he in his preaching to them said that no man could come to him except it be given unto him of the Father they left him walked no more with him because with him they were unwilling to suffer yet he continued faithful unto death in maintaining his spiritual life which they could not prevaile against for though they destroyed his body yet his life they could not but it was the more manifest as it is to this Day And some one person or other in ●ll Ages under all Dispensations whom God shal most enlighten make able willing him shal suffer for the rest to try prove the rest of the same life to vindicate and maintain it And though Christ as a man in the flesh had temptations tribulations as wel as others yet they that truly loved him stil continued their love to him and hee gave unto them a Kingdome Luk. 22.28 29 so all of the same life of Christ that have truly injoyed beyond a bare profession shal participate with them that suffer for it as the Disciples of Christ did in the sufferings of him and as the Saints