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 â—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
CRUX CHRISTI AND Iudgement Executed OR DIVINE WISDOM CRUCIFYING The humane carnal devillish malicious mad raging Wlsdom of the World By his righteous Judgements drawing nearer to its full and perfect manifestation Then shall Josephs and Daniels afflictions end and their Imprisonments be no more heard of And also bondaged Israel reâ—urn be brought from their captivity both of men and from that malicious spirit of ignorance and darkness into perfect liberty peace and everlasting rest So shall poor Lazarus and the Publican be carryed into Abrahams bosom and rich Dives with all the traditions both of the righteous and wicked appear as a menstruous Clout or as filthy Rags that all cleansed ones shall loath to handle touch look on or come within the smell thereof Whereunto is added a Comparatis Compraudis of the Judgements of God with the unequal wayes and judgements of that malicious one in man Written and experienced by Richard Coppin in his sufferings for the Truth 1 Cor. 2.2 For I determined not to know any thing among you save Jesus Christ and him crucified by whom the world is crucified unto me and I unto the world Gal. 6.14 17. From henceforth let no man trouble me for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus LONDON Printed for VVilliam Larner and are to be sold at the Black-Moore neer Fleet-Bridge 1657. The AVTHORS EPITLE To all the beloved of the Lord that love the appearing of Jesus Christ in spirit and truth in and about the City of Rochester in Kent aad whereever they may be scattered to whom Grace and Peace be multiplyed from God the Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. FRiends and Brethren in the friendship and brother-hood of the Lord Jesus with whom and for whom we all in the spiritual union of Christ and him crucified have suffered together for the witness of Jesus and the truth of the Gospel which hath been taught us by him that our joy might be together in him Wherefore know ye 1 Cor. 8.6 that there is in you and ruleth over you one true and living God the Father of whom are all things and you in him and one Lord Jesus Christ by whom are all things and you by him Rom. â— 5 Ephes 4.6.7 and who is over all through all and in you all God blessed for ever and that hath given to every one of you that believeth Grace Câ—â— 2 9. according to the measure of the gift of Christ in whom dwells all the fulness of the God-head bodylie and of whose fulness all that believe and trust in the living God the Saviour of all men have received grace for grace 1 Tim. 4.9 10. the glory of whom with the eye of divine beauty you may behold as the glory of the onely begotten Son of the Father ful of grace and truth for you for the Law came by Moses but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ whose coming is to reveal in you Ioh. 1.14 Joh. 16.25 and shew unto you the Father plainly even the mysterie of the History which lieth hid in the Letter til Christ shall unfold it unto you in the spirit and therefore God hath given unto Christ all power in Heaven and on Earth Matth. 28.18 Col. 2.15 Col. 1.18 19. that he might overcome all Principalities and Powers for you that hindered the revelation of Christ to you and he in all things to have the preheminence with you for it pleased the Father that in him should â—ll fulness dwell that of his fulness he might fill all things both in heaven and earth of things high and low of what sort or degree soever they be and all being ful of him there is then no room in any thing to contain any thing but him nor to be contained besides him where himself containeth all things for he is all in all and this is he that wil in due time free me you and all men from all that doth oppress us and oppose us in the truth And when the Lord Jesus shall become your all in all places persons and things to fil all in your apprehensions then is hel as wel as heaven with you ful of him and he rules in them both so saith David who saw it and knew it If I ascend up into Heaven thou art there Psal â—39 8â— If I go down into Hell behold thou art there And if I dwell in the uttermost parts of the Earth thou art there also Heaven and Earth is ful of his glory Psal 103.19 and his Kâ—ngdom ruâ—eth over all and the presence of God in deaâ—h and hel with â—is people in which any thing of God hath been shut up or hid is that which makes death Rev. 20.13 Isa 26. and hel and the sea of sin and miseâ—y to give up the dead that is in them and no more to cover their slain and a new death and hel or eternal fire as wel as a new life and a new heaven and earth will God prepare to swallow up ye old where the old Name and Nature of Hel and Death and Heaven 〈◊〉 7.32 〈◊〉 21.4 5. and Earth even Tophet shall be changed and their place no more found after which there shall be no more death neither sorrow nor crying neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away Isa 6. and all things will God make new in the new Heaven and in the new Earth where all things that are is contained and in which change all the things of the first Creation as all old things are ended and made new in the second Creation yea even death and hel else how is it said Behold I make all things new if that be not Isa 62.22 And as the new Heaven wh ch the Lord shall make shall remain before him and have in it a new life and felicity which should end the old so the new Earth which he shall make shall also remain and have in it a new death and hel which changeth the old and into which hel or Lake of fire all things of the old which belongeth to the old man in us even that death and hel which swallowed us up Rev. 20.14 Isa 28 18. and tormented us shall be cast into it to be ended by it and the covenant agreement of men with death hel disannulled all the enemies of mankinde to be destroyed with it when Christ himself who makes all things new shall appear in hel to change the property of it Isa 63.1 2.3 Rev. 14.19 20. and thereby tread the Wine-press of the Wrath of â—od even Satan under foot for the redemption of his people and then shall all the Enemies of God and of them which all sin and transgression and all that is not found written in the Book of Life he cast into that Wine-press or Lake of Fire to be there killed and ended This is the second death Râ—v 20.14 15. and
it and judge not that you know not and despise not that you enjoy not lest you should speak evil of the truth unawares but vvait the Lords time vvith patience and confidence until he that shall come vvill come and make truth appear truth to you and then you vvil not judge at all Heb. 10.35 36 37. the vvhich I doubt not but vvith you that knovv the Lord truth as truth will be received by you as from the Lord who himself vvith all his own Messages cometh vvith the Messengers to open the understandings of them vvhich he hath appointed receivers and the rest must tarry till he come vvho vvas not only the Author of it in me for you but vvill also be the Finisher of it to you at his coming wherefore receive you it the Lord and me together in one Spirit else you vvill not receive it as truth nor to your souls comfort but as Paul saith It will be unto them that do not believe but are reprobated as the savour of death unto death 2 Cor. 2 15 16. and to them vvhich do believe and are saved as the savour of life unto life for some in love to the Message of Christ vvill rejoice in it and others in hatred to it will be terrified by it however the Will of God be done in it And as I have sometime said unto you vvhen I was at first forced to leave you to go to prison for the truth and your sakes that when I was absent from you my spirit should be present with you so in the absence of now my person you may in this my Writing read my spirit vvhich is alvvayes vvith you in the Lord and as you have said you vvere comforted with my presence be ye also comforted still in my absence of which I doubt not but through the Lord you are comforted yea and in the absence of any man that may have been as a Messenger of the Lord to you let your comfort be in the Lord who onely is able to make you stand And the God of all comfort and patience fill you with all joy and peace in believing and the God of peace be with you 2 Cor. 1.3 and the peace of God which passeth all understanding keep you and rule in you and thereby make you able and willing to follow peace with all men Phil. 4 7. in which rest ye all together with me where I also rest with you and seeing first our peace with God in Jesus Christ our Lord we are therefore at peace with men and do forgive them as God in Christ hath forgiven us and is at peace with us And as I have not been forgotten by you that know my spirit in the Lord so I forget not you in him but ever remain the Lords faithful steward and your faithful friend servant in the brotherly Message of the truth of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus for the glory of God and comfort of all those that shal love his appearing And lastly My friends and brethren who all know of the proceedings against me you have also known how my life and Doctrine hath been among you and how by false accusations I have suffered for the truth and a good conscience but I rejoyce in it and still say The Lords Will be done and his Kingdom come even to my Enemies and reconcile them and those present differences with men that having peace in themselves they may live in love and peace one with another and no longer seek the destruction one of another In the mean time with the Prophets and Apostles of the Lord Jesus I shall rest and say as David and Christ did Psal 35.11 That though false Witnesses have rose up and laid to my charge things which I knew not yet they could not prevail against me to hurt me nor prevent the truth revealed in me but the things that have happend to me have prov'd rather to the further encrease of it with me wherefore better is it if the Will of God be that we suffer for well doing rather then for evil Phil. 1.12 13. and wrongfully rather then justlie â— Pet. 2.19 for this is thank-worthy saith Peter if a man for conscience towards God endure grief wrongfully as my conscience bears me witness in the Holy Ghost I do and have done to this day endured cheerfully that which I have been wrongfully accused for owning the Name of Jesus yet they cannot pull me out of his hand nor blot my Name out of the Book of his Remembrance but though men interested in the World that are lifted up with worldly pride and honor Luke 6.22 â—â— may hate me and blot my name out of their Books and cast it out as evil for the Son of Mans sake yet the Lord who saith I am blessed therein owns me and doth still love me and never will nor can forsake me because in Christ the Book of Life I am alwayes in remembrance before him in whom my new Name is written and no man can take it from me â—sa 19.14 15. for can a Woman forget her sucking-child saith the Lord that she should not have compassion on the son of her Womb yea she may forget but I will never forget thee saith the Lord Such is my faith and confidence in the Lord who having loved his own will love them to the end and is tender of them as the Apple of his eye And that as he hath freed my soul from the snares of death sin and devils so he will in his time free my body from the snares of men that with hatred to the life of God in me lye in wait daylie to devour me and that when my liberty hath been several times like to come have suggested false things against me to prevent it and hinder the truth from appearing as the Princes Dan. 6. Jâ—r 38 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 37.7 8 9 10. 39. 11 12. Gen. 41.14 Dan 6.23 Priests and false Prophets of old did against the true Prophets to keep them in prison but the Lord hath his time for me as he had for them to free me and I shall with patience wait for it who works and none can let and who made Zedekiah free Jerâ—miah from the Dungeon of the Prison upon the request of Ebedmeleck one of the Kings House and who also made Pharoah King of Aegypt free Joseph from Prison upon the motion of Pharoahs chief Butler and did also make King Darius to command Daniel from the lyons Den without an hurt to him who no doubt in his due time will by what means he pleaseth free me and none shall hinder till when I shall rest in him with my prayers in the spirit for you all that God vvill keep you and me and also for my enemies that he vvill not lay to their charge the things they have acted against me vvhich he hath hitherto made me able to bear to rest
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 shaâ— rejoyâ—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 â—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 mâ—n as witnesses shall suffer for the rest af one life how some professing the
13 8. Hos 3. Mat. 7.12 Jam. 2.12 His glorious Kingdom is begun He for all men was slain And he himself all men do wooe To be for none but he And do as they 'd be done unto In perfect Libertie 2. His Wedding-day with men hee 'l keep The Law of Love fulfil Rev. 19.6 7 8 9. Rev. 4.4 With Garments white hee 'l clothe his sheep This is his Fathers will That they should all return to him In union for to be Jer. 3.14 And see themselves redeem'd from sin to perfect libertie Luk. 6.68 3. This news abroad I did proclaim As Christ gave me command Matth. 28 19 20. Jer. 4.12 23 14. Luk. 22.15 That men from sin he would reclaim To live i' th' Holie Land And those that did this Doctrine hate Me often they did try Matth. 10.16 17 18. My body for to captivate From outward liberty 4. Luk. 19.47 48. Acts 16.19 Mat. 26.34 Joh. 11.47 48 56 57 And as in Kent I this did preach Christs Kingdom to make known Some Ministers that there did teach This Doctrine would not own But straight unto the Magistrate And Souldiers they did flie To have them presently me take From outward liberty 5. Lu 20.20 Psal 35 11 Luk 14 55.56 57 Acts 5 17 Acts 6 9 And then against me they did plot And to my charge did lay Many things which I knew not To have me thence away And unto prison did me send Me for the truth to try Because with them I did contend For Gospel-liberty 6. Then that in Christ I might have rest Pâ—al 37 7â— Heb 49 10. He unto me did say Enter thou into my sweet breast That nothing thee annoy Until the wrath of men be past Isa 26 20 Rev 2 10 I 'le shut thee up in me Though into prison they thee cast I 'le be thy Liberty 7. A work I have for thee to do Which by thee I 'le maintain Acts 26 16 17 18. Eph. 1 13 〈◊〉 4 30 Psa 35 27 Psa 69 30 â—â—a 51 1 My truth thou must bear witness to While life in thee remain I have upon thee set my seal My Name to magnifie And will unto thee there reveal True light and liberty 8. The Prisons were my Prophets Schools Where they were taught by me To learn my Statutes and my Rules Jer 32 11 Rev 1 9 10 Isa 26 9 Psal 119 54 55 Jâ—â— â—9 1 Eph 3 1 2 3 chap 4 â—2 And eke my Majesty And they from theene did send abroad News of Eternity That he who is the only Lord Will give men liberty 9. As I beheld his glory bright Shining in me so clear Col 1 26 27. Rev 14 12 13 Eph 5 14 Isa 26 19 Isa 14 5 I was thereby constrain'd to write His voice the dead to hear That they should all awake and sing that in the dust did lie By Christ their dew on them falling To give them liberty 10. In spirit this he will declare To all both great and small Isa 52 10 Psal 36 9 His holy Arm he will make bear before the Nations all And they that will his glory see Must have him for their eye For there is none but only he Can see true liberty 11. All eyes besides him are so blind That he an eye will be To enlighten all that are behind And see no liberty Psal 4â— 89 Psal 146.7 8. Rom 6 4 Psal 119 45â— That they might dye and rise with him From all that is a lye And be thereby brought out of sin To walk at Liberty 12. He that true liberty hath known Doth praises to Christ sing Psal 30 3â— 4 That he from death will bring me home No more to live in sin And when this nevvs abroad is spread Lu 24 45 Jam â— 25 That all men may it see Those that vvith understanding read May find their liberty 13. And though I a prisoner be Yet am I free from care Luk 20 19 20 And men vvith feign'd vvords flattery Do seek me to ensnare They counsel me to change my mind And so my vvords deny And tells me I shall thereby find My outvvard liberty 14. False vvitnesse also did arise Psa 35.11 against me to betray My innocency by their lyes My life to take avvay Yet still the truth I 'le vvitness to Isâ— 14.8 Psal 118.6 Though for the same I dye And vvill not fear vvhat man can do Against my liberty 15. And that vvhich doth me still supporâ— 2 Sam. 22 2. Exod. 15 2 Is Christ my Rock and Tovver Who is all strength joy and comfort To me in every hour Whose glory is still in my sight His presence stands me by Psal 16 8 9 10 11 To make himself my vvhole delight Peace rest and liberty 16. Isai 55.4 Rom. 1.9 Rev. 1 5 Christ is my witness and my guide My conscience pure and clear I know the Lord is on my side Therefore I need not fear I will not fear the stroke of death Nor Tirants crueltie So soon as Christ receives my breath My soul gains libertie 17. A vow to God I once did make Deut 23 21 22 Which vow to him is due That I for him will freelie speak That none but him is true And rather then from him I 'le turn Rom â— 4 Dan 3 17 18 Or should his truth denie I 'le yeild my bodie to be burnd This is my libertie 18. Patience puts balm unto my sores Love lives without controul Jeâ— 8.22 They lock my bodie within the doors But cannot lock my soul Psal 97.11 2 Cor. 3.17 Life Light and Libertie so sweet Within my brest doth lie They that my bodie here do keep Know no such libertie 19. There 's neither pardon from the Pope Nor Prayers made to Saints That can enlarge my farther scope Or shorten my complaints T is Christ above Psal 146.7 Iob. 8.36 the Lord of love That for man-kind did die No one but he that pardon'd me Can work my libertie 20. There 's many men have treasure store Yet are so worldlie bent Having so much they scrape up more Eccles 4. â— And never aâ—â— content But I that am the poor'st of all From worldlie cares am free Which makes me think they are in thrall And I at libertie 21. The man that bears a wavering mind Jam â— 6 7 8 Pâ—ov 29 22. Is subject unto wo He that to anger is inclin'd Must sorrow undergo But he that bears a patient heart Though he a prisoner be Reâ— 13 10 Exceeds both nature skill and art In point of libertie 22. God did for me this place appoint Before that I came here Pâ—â—â— 1.29 And he a spirit to me lent That I the same should bear He gave to me a willing mind Psal 110.3 Col 1 24 And did my soul make free To suffer that which was behind Before true libertie 23. And
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 ruâ—eâ— 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 â—nd their conditions in life and death and of the dog licking Lazaras â—aâ—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 consumâ—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