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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

uncleane Jew a pretended Saint and tearing the haire of his head like a mad man cursing and making others fall a swearing then heare a zealous Presbyterian Independent or * spirituall Notionist pray preach or exercis● 11 Well To the pure all things are pure God hath so cleared cursing swearing in some that that which goes for swearing and cursing in them is more glorious then praying and preaching in others And what God hath cleansed call not thou uncleane And if Peter prove a great transgressor of the Law by doing that which was as odious as killing a man if he at length though he be loath at first eat that which was common and unclean c. I give but a hint blame him not much lesse lift up a finger against or plant a hellish Ordinance against him least thou be plagu●d and damned too for thy zeale blinde Religion and fleshly holinesse which now stinks above ground though formerly it had a good savour 12 But O thou holy zealous devout righteous religious on● whoever thou art that seest evill or any thing uncleane do thou sweare if thou darest if it be but l'faith I 'le throw thee to Hell for it saith the Lord and laugh at thy destruction While Angels in the forme of men shall sweare Heart Blood Wounds and by the Eternall God c. in profound purity and in high Honour and Majesty 13 Well! one hint more there 's swearing ignorantly i' th darke vainely and there 's swearing i' th light gloriously Well! man of the earth Lord Esau what hast thou to do with those who sweare upon the former account Vengeance is mine Judgement Hell Wrath c. all is mine saith the Lord dare not thou to set thy foot so impudently and arrogantly upon one step of my Throne I am Judge my self Be wise give over have done 14 And as for the latter sort of swearing thou knowest it not when thou hearest it It 's no new thing for thee to call Christ Beel-zebub and Beel-zebub Christ to call a holy Angell a Devill and a Devill an Angell 15 I charge thee in the name of the Eternall God meddle not with either let the Tares alone least thou pull up the Wheat also woe be to thee if thou dost Let both alone I say least thou shouldest happen of a holy swearing Angell and take a Lion by the paw to thine owne destruction Never was there such a time since the world stood as now is Thou knowest not the strange appearances of the Lord now a daies Take heed know thou hast been warned 16 And whatever thou dost dip not thy little finger in blood any more thou art up to the elbowes already Much sope yea much nitre cannot cleanse thee c. Much more have I to say to thee saith the Lord but I will do it secretly and dart a quiver full of arrowes into thy h●art and I will now charge thee CHAP. III. Containing severall dismall dolefull cryes and outcries which pierce the eares and heart of his Excellent Majesty the King of Kings And how the King of Heaven chargeth the Great Ones of the Earth 1 THus saith the Lord Be silent O all flesh before the Lord be silent O lofty haughty great ones of the Earth There are so many Bils of Indictment preferred against thee that both heaven and earth blush thereat How long shall I heare the sighs and groanes and see the teares of poore widowes and heare curses in every corner and all sorts of people crying out oppression oppression tyranny tyranny the worst of tyranny unheard of unna●urall tyranny O my back my shoulders O Tythes Excize Taxes Pollings c. O Lord O Lord God Almighty What a little finger heavier then former loynes What have I engaged my goods my life c. forsooke my dearest relations and all for liberty and true freedome for freedome from oppression and more laid on my back c. 2 Mine eares are filled brim full with confused noise cries and outcries O the innumerable complaints and groanes that pierce my heart thorow and thorow O astonishing complaints Was ever the like ingratitude heard of since the world stood what best friends surest friends slighted scorned and that which cometh from them in the basest manner contemned and some rewarded with prisons some with death O the abominable persidiousnesse falseheartednesse self-seeking self-inriching and Kingdome-depopulating and devastating c. These and divers of the same nature are the cries of England And can I any longer for beare I have heard I have heard the groaning of my people And now I come to deliver them saith the Lord Woe be to Pharaoh King of Egypt You Great Ones that are not tackt nor tainted you may laugh and sing whom this hitteth it hitteth And it shall hit home And this which followeth all whom it concerneth by what name or title soever dignified or distinguished 3 You mostly hate those called Levellers who for ought you know acted as they did out of the sincerity simplicity and fidelity of their hearts fearing least they should come under the notion of Covenant-breakers if they did not so act Which if so then were they most barbarously unnaturally bellishly murdered and they died Martyrs for God and their Countrey And their blood cries vengeance vengeance in mine ears saith the Lord 4 Well! let it be how it will these * Levellers so called you mostly hated though in outward declarations you owned their Tenents as your owne Principle So you mostly hate me saith the Lord though in outward declarations you professe me and seeme to owne me more then a thousand whom you despise and account worse than your selves who are neerer the Kingdome of Heaven then your selve You have killed Levellers so called you also with wicked hands have slain me the Lord of life who am now risen and risen indeed and you shall know and feele it with a witnesse to Levell you in good earnest And to lay low all high hils and every mountaine that is high and lifted up c. 5 Well! once more read Jam. 5 1. to 7 Ye have killed the just Ye have killed ye have killed ye have killed the just The blood cryeth in mine eares Vengeance vengeance vengeance vengeance is mine I will recompence Well! what will you do with Bray and the poore prisoners elsewhere You know not what you do You little know what will become of you One of you had best remember your dream about your Fathers Moule 6 Neither do I forget the one hundred spent in superfluous dishes at your late great London Feast for I know what when hundreds of poore wretches dyed with hunger I have heard a sound in mine eares that no lesse then a hundred died in one week pined and starved with hunger Howle you great ones for all that feast daies dole c. heare your doome CHAP. IV. How the Judge of Heaven and Earth who judgeth righteous judgement passeth sentence against all those

Great Ones who like Oakes and tall Cedars will not bow And how he intends to blow them up by the roots 1 THus saith the Lord All you tall Cedars and sturdy Oakes who bow not down who bow not down This sentence is gone out of my mouth against you MENE MENE TEKEL Thou art weighed in the ballances and art found wanting God hath numbred thy Kingdome and finished it And thou and all that joyne with thee or are in the least degree accessary to thy former or like intended pranks shall most terribly and most strangely be plagued 2 There is a little sparke lies under that huge heap of ashes all thine honour pomp pride wealth and riches which shall utterly consume all that is uppermost as it is written The Lord the Lord of Hosts shall send among his fat ones leanenesse and under his glory he shall kindle a burning like the burning of a fire and the light of Israel shall be for a fire and his holy one for a flame and it shall burne and devoure his thornes and his briers in one day And shall consume the glory of his Forrest and of his fruitfull field both soule and body i. e. this shall be done inwardly and outwardly and shall be fulfilled both in the history and mystery and the rest of the trees of his Forrest shall be few that a childe may write them And the Lord the Lord of Hoasts shall lop the bough with terror and the high ones of stature shall be hewen down and the haughty shall be humbled And he shall cut down the thickets of the Forrest with iron and Lebanon shall fall by a mighty one Isa. 10. 3 Behold behold I have told you Take it to heart else you 'l repent every veine of your heart For your own sakes take heed It s my last warning For the cryes of the poore for the oppression of the needy For the horrid insolency of proud man who will dare to sit in my throne and judge unrighteous judgement Who will dare to touch mine Annoynted and do my Prophets harme For these things sake now am I arrisen saith the Lord In Auxilium Patris ףכ CHAP. V. 1 O London London my bowels are rolled together in me for thee and my compassions within me are kindled towards thee And now I onely tell thee that it was not in vaine that this forme hath been brought so farre to thee to proclaime the day of the Lord throughout thy streets day and night for twelve or thirteen dayes together And that I have been made such a signe and a wonder before many of thine Inhabitants faces 2 Many of them among other strange exploits beholding me fall down flat at the feet of creeples beggers lazars kissing their feet and resigning up my money to them being severall times over-emptied of money that I have not had one penny left and yet have recruited againe 3 And now my hearts you have been forwardly in all the appearances of God There is a strange one now on foot judge it not least you be judged with a vengeance 4 Turne not away your eyes from it least you to your torment heare this voyce I was a Stranger and ye tooke me not in Well! bow down before Eternall Majesty who is universall love bow down to equality or free community that no more of your blood be split that pride arrogance covetuousnesse malice hypocrisie self seeking c. may live no longer Else I tremble at what 's comming upon you Remember you have been warned with a witnesse Deare hearts Farewell CHAP. VI A terrible word and fatall blow from the Lord upon the gathered Churches so called especially upon those that are stiled Anabaptists 1. HE that hath an eare to heare let him hear what the Spirit saith against the Churches Thus saith the Lord Woe be to thee * Bethaven who callest thy selfe by the name * Bethel it shall be more tollerable now in the day of judgement for Tyre and Sydon for those whom thou accountest and callest Heathens then for thee 2 And thou proud Lu●ifer who exaltest thy self above all the Stars of God in heaven shalt be brought down into hell it shall be more tollerable for Sodom and Gomorrah for drunkards and whoremongers then for thee Publicans and Harlots shall Publicans and Harlots do sooner enter into the Kingdome of heaven then you I 'le give thee this fatall blow and leave thee 3 Thou hast affronted and defied the Almighty more then the vilest of men upon the face of the earth and that so much the more by how much the more thou takest upon thee the name of Saint and assumest it to thy self onely damning all those that are not of thy S●ct 4 Wherefore be it knowne to all Tongues Kinreds Nations and languages upon earth That my most Excellent Majesty the King of glory the Eternall God who dwelleth in the forme of the Writer of this Roll among many other strange and great exploits hath i' th open streets with his hand fiercely stretcht out his hat cockt up his eyes set as if they would sparkle out and with a mighty loud voyce charged 100. of Coaches 100. of men and women of the greater ranke and many notorious deboist swearing roystering roaring Cavalliers so called and other wilde sparks of the Gentry And have proclaimed the notable day of the Lord to them and that through the streets of the great Citie and in Southwark Many times great multitudes following him up and down and this for the space of 12. or 13. dayes And yet all this while not one of them lifting up one finger not touching one haire of his head or laying one hand on his raiment But many yea many notorious vile ones in the esteeme of men yea of great quality among men trembling and bowing to the God of heaven c. But when I came to proclaim also the great day of the Lord among you O ye carnall Gospellers The Devill in you roared out who was tormented to some purpose though not before his time He there shewed both his phangs and pawes and would have torn me to pieces and have eaten me up Thy pride envy malice arrogance c. was powred out like a river of Brimstone crying out a Blasphemer a Blasphemer away with him At length threatning me and being at last raving mad some tooke hold of my Cloak on one side some on another endeavouring to throw me from the place where I stood to proclaime his Majesties message making a great uproar in a great congregation of people Till at length I wrapt up my self in silence for a season for the welfavour'd harlots confusion c. And to thine eternall shame and damnation O mother of witchcrafts who dwellest in gathered Churches let this be told abroad And let her FLESH be burnt with FIRE Amen Halelujah FINIS * It not being shewen to me what I should do more then preach and print something c. very little expecting I should be so strangely acted as to my exceeding joy and delight I have been though to the utter cracking of my credit and to the rotting of my old name which is damned and cast out as a toad to the dunghill that I might have a new name with me upon me within me which is Iam * An Apologeticall hint concerning the Authors Principle the re●ult is negative hee speaks little in the affirmative because not one in a hundred yea even of his former acqu●intance now know him neither must they yet * Isay 2 * Serò sapiunt P●ryges sed nunquam Sera est ad Bonos mores via 1 Admonition to great ones 2 Admonition to great ones 3 Admonition to great ones 4 Admonition to great ones * Rev. 15 Judges 5 Revel. 10 Neh. 13. 25 * This will come in request with you next you may remember that Independency which is now so hug'd was counted blasphemy and banishment was too good for it 5 Admonition to great ones * Once more know that Sword-leveling is not my principle I onely pronounce the righteous judgements of the Lord upon Earth as I durst * The house of vanity * The house of God