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A80437	A fiery flying roll: a word from the Lord to all the great ones of the Earth, whom this may concerne: being the last warning piece at the dreadfull day of judgement. For now the Lord is come to 1 Informe 2 Advise and warne 3 Charge 4 Judge and sentence the great ones. As also most compassionately informing, and most lovingly and pathetically advising and warning London. With a terrible word and fatall blow from the Lord, upon the gathered churches. And all by his Most Excellent Majesty, dwelling in, and shining through Auxilium Patris, vu alias, Coppe. With another flying roll ensuing (to all the inhabitants of the Earth.) The contents of both following.	Coppe, Abiezer, 1619-1672.	1650 (1650)	Wing C6087; Thomason E587_13; ESTC R206283	15,510	23

craft and cruelty of hell and earth this Levelling shall up Not by sword we holily scorne to fight for any thing we had as live be dead drunk every day of the weeke and lye with whores i' th market place and account these as good actions as taking the poore abused enslaved ploughmans money from him who is almost every where undone and squeezed to death and not so much as that plaguy unsupportable hellish burden and oppression of Tythes taken off his shoulders notwithstanding all his honesty fidelity Taxes Freequarter petitioning c. for the same we had rather starve I say then take away his money from him for killing of men Nay if we might have Captains pay and a good fat Parsonage or two besides we would scorne to be swordsmen or fight with those mostly carnall weapons for any thing or against any one or for our livings 16 No no wee 'l live in despite of our foes and this levelling to thy torment O mighty man shall up not by sword not by might c. but by my Spirit saith the Lord For I am risen for I am risen for I am risen to shake terribly the earth and not the earth onely but the heavens also c. But here I shall cease informing you You may for your further information if you please reade my Roule to all the rich Inhabitants of the earth Reade it if you be wise I shall now advice you CHAP. II. Containing severall new strange yet seasonable Admonitions and good advice as the last warning to the Great Ones of the Earth from the Lord 1 THus saith the Lord B * wise now therefore O ye Rulers c. Be instructed c. Kisse the Sunne c. Yea kisse Beggers Prisoners warme them feed them cloathe them money them relieve them release them take them into your houses don't serve them as dogs without doore c. Owne them they are flesh of your flesh your owne brothren your owne Sisters every whit as good and if I should stand in competition with you in some degrees better then your selves 2 Once more I say own them they are your self make them one with you or el●e go howling into hell bowle for the miseries that are comming upon you sowle The very shadow of levelling sword-levelling man-levelling frighted you and who li●e your selves can blame you because it shook your Kingdome but now the substantiality of levelling is coming The Eternall God the mighty Leveller is comming yea come even at the door and what will you do in that day Repent repent repent Bow down bow down bow or howle refigne or be damned Bow downe bow downe you stu●dy Oakes and Cedars bow downe Veile too and kisse the meaner shru●s Bow or else by my self saith the Lord I le breake you in pieces some of you others I will teare up by the roots I will suddenly deale with you all some in one way some in another Wherefore Each Begger that you meet Eall down before him kisse him in the street Once more he is thy brother thy fellow flesh of thy flesh Turne not away thi●e eyes from thine own FLESH least I pull out thine eyes and throw thee headlong into hell 3 Mine eares are fill●d brim full with cryes of poore prisoners Newgate Ludgate cryes of late are seldome out of mine eares Those dolefull cryes Bread bread bread for the Lords sake pierce mine eares and heart I can no longer for●eare Werefore high you apace to all prisons in the Kingdome 4 Bow before those poore nasty lousie ragged wretches say to them your humble servants Sirs without a complement we let you go free and serve you c. Do this or as I live saith the Lord thine eyes at least shall be boared out and thou carried captive into a strange Land 5 Give over give over thy od●ous nasty abominable fasting for strife and debate and to smite with the fist of wickednesse And instead thereof loose the bands of wickednesse undo the heavy burdens let the oppressed go free and breake every yoake Deale thy bread to the hungry and bring the poore that are cast out both of houses and Synagogues to thy house Cover the raked Hide not thy self from thine owne flesh from a creeple a rogue a begg●r he 's thine owne flesh From a Whoremong●r a thief c. he 's flesh of thy flesh and his theft and wheredome is flesh of thy flesh also thine owne flesh Thou maist have ten times more of each within thee then he that acts outwardly in either Remember turn not away thine eyes from thine OWN FLESH 6 Give over give over thy midnight mischief Let branding with the letter B alone Be no longer so horridly hellishly impudently arrogantly wicked as to judge what is sinne what not what evill and what not what bla●phemy and what not For thou and all thy reverend Divines so called who Divine for Tythes hire and money and serve the Lord Jesus Christ for their owne bellyes are ignorant of this one thing 7 That sinne and transgression is finisht it s a meere riddle that they with all their humane learning can never reade Neither can they understand what pure honour is wrapt up in the Kings Motto Honi Soit qui Mal. y. Pense Evill to him that evill thinks Some there are who are accounted the off scouring of all things who are Noble Knights of the Garter Since which they could see no evill thinke no evill doe no evill know no evill ALL is Religion that they speak and honour that they do But all you that eat of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evill and have not your Evill eye Pickt out you call Good Evill and Evill Good Light Darknesse and Darknesse Light Truth Blasphemy and Blasphemy Truth And you are at this time of your Father the Devill and of your brother the Pharisee who still say of Christ who is now alive say we not well that he hath a Devill 9 Take heed take heed take heed Filthy blinde Sodomites called Angels men they seeing no further then the formes of men 10 There are Angels now come downe from Heaven in the shapes and formes of men who are full of the vengeance of the Lord and are to poure out the plagues of God upon the Earth and to torment the Inhabitants thereof Some of these Angels I have been acquainted withall And I have looked upon them as Devils accounting them Devils incarnate and have run from place to place to hide my self from them shunning their company and have been utterly ashamed when I have been seen with them But for my labour I have been plagued and tormented beyond expression So that now I had rather behold one of these Angels * pouring out the plagues of God cursing and teaching others to curse bitterly And had rather heare a mighty Angell in man swearing a full-mouthd Oath and see the spirit of Nehemiah in any form of man or woman running upon an

this Roule hath reconciled ALL THINGS to himselfe yet this hand which now writes never drew sword or shed one drop of any mans blood I am free from the blood of all men though I say all things are reconciled to me the eternall God IN HIM yet sword levelling or digging-levelling are neither of them his principle Both are as farre from his principle as the East is from the West or the Heavens from the Earth though I say reconciled to both as to all things else and though he hath more justice righteousnesse truth and sincerity shining in those low dunghils as they are esteemed then in the Sunne Moone and all the Stars 3 I come not forth in him either with materiall sword or Mattock but now in this my day I make him my Sword-bearer to brandish the Sword of the Spirit as he hath done severall dayes and nights together thorow the streets of the great City 4 And now thus saith the Lord Though you can as little endure the word LEVELLING as could the lat-slaine or dead Charles your foretunner who is gone before you and had as live heare the Devill named as heare of the Levellers M●n-Levellers which is and who indeed are but shadowes of most terrible yet great and glorious good things to come 5 Behold behold behold I the eternall God the Lord of Hosts who am that mighty Leveller am comming yea even at the doores to Levell in good earnest to Levell to some purpose to Levell with a witnesse to Levell the Hills with the Valleyes and to lay the Mountaines low 6 High Mountaines lofty Cedars its high time for you to enter into the Rocks and to hide you in the dust for feare of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty For the lofty looks of man shall be humbled and the haughtinesse of men shall be bowed downe and the Lord ALONE shall be exalted in that day For the day of the Lord of Hoasts shall be upon every one that is proud and lofty and upon every one that is lifted up and he shall be brought low And upon all the Cedars of Lebanon that are high and lifted up and upon all the Oaks of Bashan and upon all the high Mountaines and upon all the Hils that are lifted up and upon every high Tower and upon every fenced Wall and upon all the Ships of Tarshish and upon all pleasant Pictures And the LOFTINESSE of man shall be bowed down and the haughtinesse of men shall be laid low And the Lord ALONE shall be exalted in that day and the Idols he shall utterly abolish And they shall go into the holes of the Rocks and into the Caves of the Earth for scare of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth In that day a man shall cast his Idols of Silver and Idols of Gold to the bats and to the Moles To go into the Clefts of the Rocks and into the tops of the ragged Rocks for feare of the Lord and for the glory of his Majesty For the Lord is now RISEN to shake terribly the Earth Isa. 2. 10. to the end of the Chapter 7 Hill Mountains Cedars Mighty men Your breath is in your nostrils Those that have admired adored idolized magnified set you up fought for you ven●ured goods and good name limbe and life for you shall cease from you You shall not at all be accounted of not one of you ye sturdy Oake who bowe not downe before eternall Majesty Vniversall Love whose service is perfect freedome and who hath put down the mighty remember remember your fore-runner and who is putting down the mighty from their seats and exalting them of low degree 8 Oh let not for your owne sakes let not the mother of Harlots in you who is very subtle of heart Nor the Beast without you what do you call 'em The Ministers fat parsons Vica●s Lecturers c. who for their owne base ends to maintaine their pride and pompe and to fill their owne paunche● and purses have been the chiefe instruments of all those horrid abominations hellish cruell devillish p●rsecutions in this Nation which cry for vengeance For your owne sakes I say let neither the one nor the other bewitch you or charme your eares to heare them say these things shall not befall you these Scriptures shall not be fulfilled upon you but upon the Pope Turke and Heathen Princes c. 9 Or if any of them should through subtilty for their owne base ends creep into the Mystery of that forementioned * Scripture And tell you Those words are to be taken in the Mystery only and they onely point out a spirituall inward levelling once more for your owne sakes I say believe them not 10 'T is true the History or Letter I speake comparatively is but as it were haire-cloth the Mystery is fine Flax. My flax saith the Lord and the Thief and the Robber will steale from me my flax to cover his nakednesse that his filthinesse may not appeare But behold I am now recovering my flax out of his hand and discovering his lewdnesse verbum sat 11 'T is true the Mystery is my joy my delight my life And the Prime levelling is laying low the Mountaines and levelling the Hils in man But this is not all For lo I come saith the Lord with a vengeance to levell also your Honour Riches c. to staine the pride of all your glory and to bring into contempt all the Honourable both persons and things upon the earth Isa. 23. 9. 12 For this Honour Nobility Gentility Propriety Superfluity c. hath without contradiction been the Father of hellish horrid pride arrogance haughtinesse loftinesse murder malice of all manner of wickednesse and implety yea the cause of all the blood that ever hath been shed from the blood of righteous Abell to the blood of the last-Levellers that were shot to death And now as I live saith the Lord I am come to make inquisition for blood for murder and pride c. 13 I see the root of it all The Axe is laid to the root of the Tree by the Eternall God My Self saith the Lord I will hew 〈◊〉 down And as I live I will plague your Honour Pompe Greatnesse Superfluity and confound it into parity equality community that the neck of horrid pride murder malice and tyranny c. may be chopt off at one blow And that my selfe the Eternall God who am Vniversall Love may fill the Earth with universall love universall peace and perfect freedome which can never be by humane sword or strength accomplished 14 Wherefore bow downe bow downe you sturdy Oakes and tall Cedars bow or by my self I le break you I le cause some of you on whom I have compassion to bow c. and will terribly plague the rest My little finger shall be heavier on them then my whole loynes were on Pharaoh of old 15 And maugre the subtilty and sedulity the