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A80446	Saul smitten for not smiting Amalek according to the severity of the command: and the residue of the spoil sentenced to death, which Saul preserved and spared alive, (to wit) man, woman, infant, suckling, oxe, sheep, camel and ass. Being an allegorical allusion to the present passages of the times, delivered in a sermon at Somerset-House, May 1. upon the dissolution of the late Parliament. Also, a great and notable blow is given at the serpent, the ruine of the whore and her familie determined; wherein is discovered what she was, and is, and the several husbands that have married her, deceased from her, and been decieved by her; also the several children which by her have been brought forth and nursed up, with a dissolution of all unjust government, laws rules and worships exercised over mens lives, liberties and estates, and the restoring of all just government, the peoples rights and priviledges by the Lord Jesus, into its perfect state. As apprehended by Richard Coppin.	Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.	1653 (1653)	Wing C6104; Thomason E711_8; ESTC R207121	28,322	36

is Captain General of all the forces that go forth in battel against Antichrist the man of sin and all Armies whatsoever that come up against the Israel and People of God Now some all along in all Ages have still appeared to War against Israel in the way as they have come up from Egypt Luke 19.43 casting up trenches about them to keep them in on every side made Laws and Acts against them contrary to the appearances of God in them to subject their persons spirits and consciences to the Laws ways forms and limitations of men as we may see in the time of Christ and his Apostles how Herod and Pontius Pilate acted against him to destroy him for first of all as soon as Herod had heard that Christ was born then he to destroy him Mat. 2.7.8 16 privily pretended to go and worship him but being prevented of that he sent and slew all the children that were about his age in that Country where he heard Christ was that so he might slay him but the Lord caused his mother to escape away from thence with him into another country where he was preserved And how did the Jews the Scribes and Pharisees and all the chief of the people Luk. 19.47 48 Luk. 23.9 10. under pretence of coming to hear him seek to ensnare him in his own words wait to catch something from his mouth provoking him to speak of many things that they might have something to accuse him and was so it not with the Apostles and Saints afterwards for how were they persecuted from place to place and how are men still persecuted and have been to this day both by the Pope Papists Bishops Prelates and Presbyterians and now like to be by the Independents and Anabaptists all like those oppressive Amalekites still acting against the appearance of the Lord Jesus in his People for no sooner was there any appearance of Christ risen up in any age or generation but presently Herod as the wisdom of the flesh in some one or other was acting against it seeking to quench every spiritual appearance of Christ that was but like Christ thereby to prevent his appearing and would not suffer any thing to break forth but what did appear in their own way form or likeness and that they might still have something against those in whom Christ doth spiritually rise and appear they will under pretence of coming to hear them as Herod did to worship Christ and others to hear him wait to catch something from them that might come under their Law to accuse them yea Rev. 18.3 and all that God brings up into a higher and more spiritual discovery of himself to know the Lord are by such that know not the Lord and that serve the Whore and receive her wages cryed out against for hereticks seducers and blasphemers and thus we may see how they still lay wait for Christ and his People The enemies of Christ which formerly sate in Authority have made and kept up divers Laws and Acts of divers sorts against the People to keep them in bondage and in subjection to themselves and their Laws when they should be subject only to Christ and his Law whose Law is perfect Freedom Psal 19.7 and if any man act or speak any thing contrary to such a Law or Act made against such things called blasphemy by them they presently go to apprehend them as blasphemers accuse and condemn them seek their lives banishment or imprisonment as Herod and others have done who get their living by the Whore and all that thus act may be said to be Amalekites laying wait for the People as they come up out of Egypt or Spiritual darkness But I remember saith the Lord what you have done and I will assuredly reward you for it you and all that you have shall be smitten CHAP. III. Saul is commanded to smite Amalek and his whole houshold with all that belongs to him how he did it not but David what Amalek is how in him is man woman infant suckling ox sheep camel and ass and what they are ANd now thus saith the Lord Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass Here is the word of the Lord by Samuel to Saul King of Israel Go and smite Amalek c. and this might be the word of the Lord to our General Go smite the Parliament c. My beloved this Scripture which I am now speaking from is this day fulfilled to me and in my apprehension and I know not how soon it may be fulfilled to you even this day for ought I know therefore pray give me leave at this time to speak my minde freely and plainly to you as it is made known to me for you Those then who may sometime appear to have the power of the Nation in their hands may appear to act like Saul and to act like David who came in the room of Saul but I had rather they appeared to act as David for he obeyed the voice of the Lord in all that he was commanded and so enjoyed his Kingdom and then if they so act the power might the longer abide with them but if they should act like Saul then they may expect to have the power taken from them by the Lord as it was from Saul for the Lord is just and will revenge for his people Now Saul obeyed not the voice of the Lord which was that he should utterly destroy the Amalekites and all that they had but he did it not but fled upon the spoil for himself and so did evil in the sight of the Lord 1 Sam. 15.19.28 for which the Kingdom was rent from him and given to David Now David who reigned in Sauls stead obeyed the voice of the Lord and utterly destroyed and routed the Amalekites and recovered again the rights and priviledges the freedom and liberties of the People 1 Sam. 30.18 19. which the Amalekites had carried away from them and restored it equally into their hands again that there was no want of any thing to any among them wherein the voice of the Lord appeared to be obeyed by him and his kingdom to stand with him And now what saith the Lord Go and smite Amalek dissolve him take the power out of his hands unbottom him of all his Laws and interests Go slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass Amalek here may be said to be a whole houshold or family with all that belongs to it What is meant by Amalek man and woman infant and suckling and may relate to Kings houses and houses of former Parliaments and appears to me at this time to have been that houshold of the late Parliament dissolved with all that was in their hands and belonging to them in which Parliament with others before them as in Amalek there may

vers 28. and given to another that was better then he A good caution for any who have the like power in their hands not to act like Saul for if they do they may expect the power to be again taken from them and given to another even to David as Sauls was While Saul was humble meek and lowly in his own sight and before all men he appeared to follow the Lords steps Mat 5.5.11.29 1 Sam. 15.17 and was blessed and then was this power given to him but when he began to exalt himself and to become great and high both in himself and before men that he was turned back from following the Lord to do as he commanded him then was his Kingdom rent from him And how should this teach Rulers and Governours now in these times who sit in Authority to be humble lowly and meek both in themselves and before men and not to Lord it over the rest of their fellow-Brethren farther then it shall be for their Brethrens liberty peace and freedom whom they are to protect in all good things but there is so much of man flesh and self remaining in all men that no sooner is any power put into their hands but they are presently puffed up filled with pride and haughtiness of spirit setting up themselves above their fellow-Creatures looking for honour from them which immediately proves their ruine downfal and destruction according as it is written Psal 49.12 Psal 37.11 Man being in honour abideth not he is like the beasts that perish but the meek shall inherit the Earth and delight themselves in the abundance of Peace Then O that the Lord would be pleased to give such a power of himself into our hearts and spirits that would make us to be silent humble and meek before him and towards all men that we might inherit this abundance of peace and not to exalt our selves above what we are or ought to be Psal 147.6 but to become one with all and to all in the Lord and then should we stand and not fall be most exalted when we are most huble yet we finde that the way which the Lord doth take to bring down the haughtiness of a Peoples power or interest Amos 9.2 is first to set it up or suffer it to be set up above what it ought to be and then bring it down with a vengeance as he will all men that are exalted in themselves and not in the Lord and there can be no greater exaltation in the Lord then for a man to be humble in himself When thou wast little in thine own eyes said Samuel to Saul 1 Sam. 15.17 wast thou not then made King over Israel But when thou begannest to be lifted up in thy self and to reject the word of the Lord Ver. 26 27 28 then the Lord rejected thee from being King rent thy kingdom from thee took the power out of thy hands and gave it to David CHAP. XI Of Davids possessing Sauls Kingdom his recovering the spoil which Saul did not and his equal dividing it among the people ANd now David comes takes the Kingdom possesses it and doth the work that God commanded he smites the Amalekites and recovers all the spoil the rights and priviledges of the people which they had carried away and restores it again into their hands That there was nothing wanting among them neither small nor great neither sons nor daughters 1 Sam. 30.18 19 20. goods nor any thing that they had taken away David recovered all both of the flocks herds lands goods and cattels it all became Davids spoil And now it may please the Lord to put it into the hearts of those who are to act for the Civil Right of the Nation to act like David in this thing to recover all that the People have lost and restore it again into their hands as David did that none might complain of any want or lie under any oppression any longer neither say One hath too much and another too little of any kinde whatsoever but that every one may have that which is convenient for him Prov. 30.8 9. to his own satisfaction and content which is the Kingdom of the Lord. And O what a pure joyfull peaceable Kingdom should we then have Isa 9.6 7. when Christ shall thus take the Kingdom to himself and raign in the place of man as David did in the place of Saul and so restore the people unto their rights again as in the beginning where all men shall have an equal proportion of satisfaction and where he that hath least shall know no want and he that hath much shall have nothing over but every one shall enjoy himself in all things that himself hath and doth possess in the Lord This will be the Kingdom that Christ Davids Lord will take to himself and for the People to establish them in and this will be a joyfull Kingdom it will be the Lords Kingdom And now if the Lord will yet be pleased in and by this power to work righteousness do Justice and to shew mercy he is to recover us all our rights priviledges from the hands of our enemies who have detained it from us he is to recover all that ever we have lost and which those that have been our Rulers have taken from us and restore it again unto us and not suffer them to go away with any thing but what is their own and was before given them by the Lord as to us nothing of what was the Peoples whose interest was as great as theirs in any thing that is the Lords are they to carry with them but to leave it behinde them and the people again to possess and enjoy it as their own right and priviledge CHAP. XII Of some that desire to have the greater part of the spoil to themselves and would not have it equally divided who and what they are with Davids answer to them and how it alludes to these times NOw when David had done this work upon the Amalekites and recovered the spoil of all into his hands then before such time that he had given it the people those that were with him at the doing of it 1 Sam. 30.22 wicked men of Belial desired the whole spoil to be divided among them and not that others who tarried at home by the stuff and went not to the battel should have any part save every man his wife and his children and so may some cald Independents and Anabaptists desire now who did most assist the General in the dissolution of this late Parliament they may like those wicked men of Belial desire to have the power the freedom and liberty of the Nation to themselves and not that others who assisted not and are not the same with them should have any part of it save only their wives and children which they indeed would not be troubled with though they would be content to keep that which should maintain them and the

SAVL SMITTEN FOR NOT SMITING AMALEK ACCORDING To the severity of the Command AND The Residue of the Spoil sentenced to Death which SAVL preserved and spared alive to wit Man Woman Infant Suckling Oxe Sheep Camel and Ass Being an Allegorical Allusion to the present passages of the Times Delivered in a Sermon at Somerset-House May 1. Upon the Dissolution of the late Parliament ALSO A great and notable blow is given at the Serpent the ruine of the Whore and her Familie determined wherein is discovered what she was and is and the several Husbands that have married her deceased from her and been deceived by her also the several Children which by her have been brought forth and nursed up with a dissolution of all unjust Government Laws Rules and Worships exercised over Mens Lives Liberties and Estates and the restoring of all Just Government the Peoples Rights and Priviledges by the Lord Jesus into its perfect State As apprehended by RICHARD COPPIN For the Lord God will help me therefore I shall not be confounded therefore have I set my Face like a Flint and I know that I shall not be ashamed Behold the Lord God wil help me who is he that shal condemn me They all shall wax old like a Garment the Moth shall eat them up LONDON Printed and are to be sold by William Larner at the Blackmores head at Fleet-bridge and by Richard Moon at the Seven Stars near the North door of Pauls 1653. The Contents CHAP. I. THe Peoples great and last Captivity in the way as they came from Egypt by the Amalekites and the Lord leading them forth and carrying them on to the Land of rest and how fol. 1. Chap. 2. Concerning Amalek and the many stumbling blocks that he lays in the way of the People how and what they are 4 Chap. 3. Saul is commanded to smite Amalek and his whole houshold with all that belongs to him how he did it not but David what Amalek is how in him is Man Woman Infant Suckling Ox Sheep Camel and Ass and what they are 7 Chap. 4. How though the man be smitten the woman and her children are living and she like to marry again of the several husbands she hath buried and the end of her life determined with a hint of the true woman and mother of us all succeeding 10 Chap. 5. Of the satness of the children sucked in from their Parents and they thereby made ready for the slaughter that men are not to be slain but to their power and corrupt interests with the manner how and the time when 12 Chap. 6. What is meant by the Kenites that were among the Amalekites how they are and ought to be spared 14 Chap. 7. What 's meant by Agag the King the best of the sheep and of the oxen which Saul spared alive and how they discovered themselves by Bleating and Lowing 15 Chap. 8. Samuel reproving Saul for not obeying the voice of the Lord who excuseth himself and lays it upon the people that were with him whom he obeyed more then God how to obey is better then Sacrifice what a true Sacrifice is best accepted and who offers it 17 Chap. 9 Of the Amalekites unjust possessing the Earth both of the Philistians and of Judah of their giving gifts one to another and of what 19 Chap. 10. How men intrusted with the Civil power of the Nation ought not to be proud and high-minded but humble and meek before God and man that honour is the ready way to dishonour and how 20 Chap. 11. Of Davids possessing Sauls Kingdom his recovering the spoil which Saul did not and his equal dividing it among the people 22 Chap. 12. Of some that desire to have the greater part of the spoil to themselves and would not have it equally divided who and what they are with Davids answer to them and how it alludes to these times 23 Chap. 13. A foresight of the Peoples oppression by the next power how none ought to be forced or compelled to any Form or way of worship but as they are perswaded in their own minds That all Forms shall cease and when 26 Chap. 14. How men in power are not to act only for the freedom of themselves or a few but for the freedom of all and to abase themselves to exalt others wherein is manifested Christ doing and receiving for us as for himself 27 Chap. 15. Christ the true Restorer and Establisher of the Peoples Rights and not men God shaking overturning and destroying men and all things that are setling how men have not power to settle any thing and how we in all changes and turnings are to eye the Lord and rest only in him 30 SAVL Smitten For not SMITING AMALEK ACCORDING To the severity of the Command 1 SAM 15.3 Now go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both Man and Woman Infant and Suckling Ox and Sheep Camel and Asse CHAP. I. The Peoples great and last Captivity io the way as they came from Egypt by the Amalekites and the Lord leading them forth and carrying them on to the land of Rest and how WE read in the first verse of this Chapter of Sauls being anointed King over Israel and how he was to go forth and fight against Amalek but in all things he was to harken to the voyce of the Lord and to obey it in all things that he was commanded Now in the 2 verse we read what Amalek did to Israel how he laid wait for him in the way as he came up out of Egypt and in the 3. verse we finde the Lord commanding Saul to smite Amalek for that which he had done against Israel Zech. 9.8 I have seen I have seen with mine eyes saith the Lord how the Egyptians have afflicted my people Israel in Egypt and I remember also what the Amalekites have done to them in the way as they came up out of Egypt but Pharaoh and all his host shall be plagued and Amalek and all his shall be smitten and I will execute my fierce wrath upon all the enemies of my people The Lord sees the many enemies that rise up against his people as they pass along out of Egypt and spiritual bondage through forms ordinances and outward observations towards their rest their heaven and happiness in the Lord Jesus as against those who are passed through all things already and come to their rest all have enemies and the Lord sees them and beholds the opposition that 's made against them Exod. 22.21 22 23. the oppression that 's laid upon them and hears the cries that come up to him from them even of all people that are Psal 12.5 and ever have been subjected to any power appearing besides himself that he is now rising and coming forth with deliverance for them 1 sal 41.10 11. and bids them not to fear or be discouraged for saith he as I beheld what the Egyptians did

thou of the Lord 1 Sam. 15.13 14. I have performed his command then said Samuel what meaneth then the bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear as if he might say me thinks I see something still reserved which should not have been then Saul to excuse himself said that the people which were with him spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice he did not so now in these times vers 15. if any man law act form way worship or opinion which was formerly made set up and maintained by any to keep the people in bondage be still preserved kept up and maintained to please any one sort of people which the Lord would have put down and then the Lord do acquaint any of his servants with this and they do acquaint him or them which should have put it down then may he or they excuse themselves and say as Saul did that the people or those that were with us spared it themselves or desired it of us and therefore was it spared supposing in it to have done well they who desired it appearing to us a people walking in the wayes of God c. But let me tell any that should so do that this were still but to act like Saul and to keep something of an old rotten interest and to advance the Kingdom of the World wherein is hypocrisie oppression and tribulation this kingdom being still kept up and exalted in form and formality where then is the exaltation of Christ and his kingdom in Spirit and Power in the hearts of his people which is the Kingdom that ought to be set up and will be set up by the Lord of Lords in opposition to all other and where is the work of righteousness peace joy and freedom among men while this work of oppression and cruelty is carried on therefore so long we may conclude that in them the work is not yet done to them the Kingdom of Christ is not yet come by them the voyce of the Lord is not yet obeyed and with them the Kingdom of Antichrist not yet destroyed But though Saul did thus neglect the command of the Lord and please the people and then to excuse himself lay it upon the people yet let it not be so with us let not us seek to please men who would desire to have any thing spared or reserved that should be destroyed but in all things let us seek to please the Lord and to obey his voice and what his word of commands bids us to do that let us do which is that no oppressor or tyrant be lest in the land that there may be no more complaining in our streets Isa 33.24 or that the Inhabitant there may not say he is sick Again Saul farther to excuse himself saith that what was kept 1 Sam. 15.21 22. it was to sacrifice to the Lord then said Samuel hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying his voyce behold to obey is better then sacrifice Isai 1. and to harken then the fat of Rams and who hath required this at your hands saith the Lord that you should reserve any thing for me who am full and need nothing Psal 50.9 10 11 12. and what should the Lord now require of us who he knows hath nothing but to offer unto him the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving Isa 51.16 and that is not ours neither but his nor offered by us but by him 't is not we nor all our fasts prayers forms and worships that he accepts of but a sacrifice of righteousness the Lord Jesus who hath already offered up himself once for all Heb. 9.28 and all that he looks for from us and which he will make us to be is to be a still silent passive people Psal 46.10 and to know that he only is active who will do all things himself and cause us to be silent for a silent passive subjected condition to the Lord in all men is that which the Lord accepteth of and is the onely sacrifice that can be offered up unto him whose design now is to subject all men and things to himself and he only appear and be made manifest in all which is the Kingdom of the Lord where nothing of man is to be seen in any thing but all of the Lord and this is the pure and perfect obedience and only sacrifice the Lord cals for in us and which in his own time he by his mighty power will bring to pass with us CHAP. IX Of the Amalekites unjust possessing the Earth both of the Philistians and of Judah of their giving gifts one to another and of what WE read in the 30 chapter of this Book of Samuel vers 16. how the Amalekites had spread themselves over all the Earth eating drinking dancing sporting and delighting themselves because of the great spoil that they had taken from the people both out of the land of the Philistians and out of the land of Judah And were not the Governours of this land together with their authority and familie their infants and sucklings so spred over this land and Nation eating and devouring the fat of the land both of Cavaleers and Round-heads so called enemies and friends or all men of what judgement or opinion soever all were subjected to them and they had the spoil of all in their hands or at their command to dispose of as they pleased even their wealth riches honour peace freedom and all priviledges whatsoever they were Lords over it and could and did command it at their own will and pleasure And have we not seen for many ages how they of this and other lands have continued eating drinking dancing feasting feeding and refreshing themselves making themselves rich and fat and merry by the peoples rights sending and giving gifts one to another of that which they had taken from the people Rev. 11.10 rejoycing and delighting themselves in it that they had made all men subject to them and their ways and had the spoil and command of all in their hands to do with it as they would this was the merriment of the Amalakites in their cruelty towards the people of the Philistians and of Judah whose spoil they had got into their hands and which Saul was commanded to recover from them and restore to the people again but did not CHAP. X. How men intrusted with the Civil power of the Nation ought not to be proud and high-minded but humble and meek before God and man that honour is the ready way to dishonour and how NOw observe because Saul did not do the work he should 1 Sam. 15.18 19. but did evil in the sight of the Lord in that he spared any of that which he should have destroyed and recovered not the people but suffered this oppression still to abide upon the people therefore his kingdom was divided from him