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A34471	Crux Christi, and iudgement executed, or, Divine wisdom crucifying the humane, carnal, devillish, malicious, mad, raging wisdom of the world by His righteous judgements, drawing nearer to its full and perfect manifestation : them shall Josephs and Daniels afflictions end and their imprisonments be no more heard of ... / written and experienced by Richard Coppin.	Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.	1657 (1657)	Wing C6095; ESTC R23937	74,972	106

over them and they shall submit unto him and by him they shall be tryed judged and humbled and made to acknowledge their sins as Iosephs brethren was by him and with much joy and comfort will he make known himselfe unto them and they shall know him even that Iesus whom they persecuted and shall be humbled for him Zacha. 12.10 so he was their Saviour and reigned with them and that man which for the spirits sake in him they persecuted and sold him would God preserve and keep in all his afflictions as he did Ioseph and Christ and through afflictions will God bring him to honour with himselfe he will both humble him and save him And as the Father and Brethren of Joseph after he was made known unto them left their own Countrey to come and live with him in Aegypt which was the children of Israels first going into Aegypt to live in a strange Land which was not theirs so the Father Mother and all the Brethren of Christ after the flesh must with Abraham Isaac and Jacob leave their own countrey and fathers house and come to live with Christ in a strange Land which they know not Gen. 12.1 2 3. so did Joseph in his afflictions when he was sent away by his Brethren he nor they knew not of themselves whether they sent him Deut. 8.2 Neither did Israel when God led them forty yeers in the Wilderness and fed them with Manna from heaven which they knew not but thus did God for the good of all I rael that he might humble them and save them And therefore my Brethren Friends and Enemies so called may he with Joseph say to them by whom he hath suffered any of the afflictions of Joseph It was not you that did it but the Lord who doth all things according to the counsel of his own will and maketh all things work together for good to them that love God Rom. 8.28 Gen. 58.19 20 21. Acts 4.27 28. and will himself bring good out of the greatest evil as he did in this against Joseph and in that against Christ and so in all things that is done for to glorifie himself and thus will God make all things work together for the furtherance of truth the destruction of its Enemies the manifestation of his glory and the good of all people CHAP. IIII. How Pharoah and the Aegyptians and all that with them to this day do betray and persecute accuse judge and condemn any for conscience towards God are acted by the Devil hardened and commanded to it by God how with Cain Judas and the Devil they are all Gods servants doing their devillish dark and black work and whose spirit in them shall with the Devil Death Hell and false Prophet and the Beast which was and is not gone into perdition be damned and dye the second death when and how THE fall of Adam and slaying of Abel which was to this day in the persecution of any that do both persecute and are persecuted all is done by God and for God and God doth it to glorifie himselfe by it wherefore whatsoever God calls you unto go out unto it and not resist him in it for no one shall proceed farther in any thing then God will and therefore when Abraham went to slay his son Isaac it was by the command of God and God was with him in it and Abrahams faith the more strengthened by it and in time of persecution truth will the more increase and therefore men shall the more persecute it as the new Pharoah did the children when they began to multiply in Egypt and God hardned Pharoahs heart that he should not let Israel go Exod. 1.7 8 9 10. Exod. 7.3 4. but should afflict them so long in Egypt that they might the more increase and at last come out by great judgements and after he had let them go he hardned the hearts of the Egyptians to persist in persecution against them and to follow them through the red sea Exod. 14.4.30.30 that he might himselfe get honour upon Pharoah and all his host in their destruction and Israels deliverance and before any deliverance can be of any to any there must first be a bondage or else there can be no deliverance and no deliverance can be without judgement and therefore God sent them into Egypt to be affl cted and imbondaged by Pharoah and after that by his judgements brought them out with great substance so all that Pharoah did against Is●ael God made to be for their good and afterwards judged their enemies and he doth it that all men might fear before him So in like manner God to make his power known upon the enemies of his people to this day for his own honour his peoples good and the advancement of truth doth somtimes deliver them up into the hands of their enemies to be afflicted and imprisoned by them and doth harden their hearts against them as he did Pharoah against Israel● who will sometimes through policie to increase their bondage deceitfully promise them libertie yet are their hearts still hardned as Phaorahs was not to let them go but to lay more and more upon them by plotting new evils against them to more afflict them as Pharoah did and which by experience I my selfe have found from the like spirit of Pharoah in these dayes of persecution as that which God ever did and to this day doth to manifest his power the greater in delivering his people out of their enemies hands and so bring them through the wilderness to try them as the way of God unto salvation and in which way all men are to stand still and see the salvation of God Num. 22.5 6. And as did Pharoah to oppress Israel in Egypt when he feared they would grow to stronge for him so Balaack King of the Moabites when he saw Israel to multiply and be too many for him he sent messengers to Balaam to come and curse the children of Israel and God turned it all unto Israels good for in-stead of cursing them God made him all together to bless them then said Balam to Balaack shewing Gods work in all things how can I curse where God hath not cursed and how can I detest where God hath not detested thereore said he if Balaack would give me his house full of Gold and Silver I can not pass the commandment of the Lord to do either good or bad of my own mind Num. 24.12 13. but as the Lord hath said that shall I do and the Lord is not a man that he should lye nor the son of man that he should repent Num. 23.19 20 21. but he hath said it and he will do it and I have received a commandment to bless for he hath blessed and I cannot reverse it and he seeth no iniquity in Jacob nor transgression in Israel but the Lord their God is with them and the joyful shout of a King is among them and unless he

contented vvith in the Lord that I still am dear Friends and Brethren a very loving Friend and Brother in Christ to all men friends and enemies so called vvhile I am and the truth is in me Richard Coppin A TABLE of the Contents Chap. I. THe cross of Christ set up in men and their dyings upon it of the life which is lost and to be found the father mother and brethren husband wife and chidren house lands and all things therein to be forsaken for Christ what they are with the time when and the manner how Chap. II. How the cross of Christ is accompanied with the crosses of the world fiery tryals and persecutions for the truth the clouds of Christs coming and the way of his pe●ple in which he leads them and walks with them to save them how and from what Chap. III. Of the afflictions of Ioseph his being sold into Egypt by his brethren his being falsly accused and imprisoned how God thereby exalted him and Judged his brethren that sold him how the same was with Christ and is with us to this day Chap. IV. How Pharoah and the Aegyptians and all that with them to this day do betray and persecute accuse judge and condemn any for conscience towards God are acted by the Devil hardened and commanded to it by God how with Cain Judas and the Devil they are all Gods servants doing their devillish dark and black work and whose spirit in them shall with the Devil Death Hel and false Prophet and the Beast which was and is not gone into perdition be damned and dye the second death when and how Chap. V. A definition of the rightous 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 and their conditions in life and death and of the dog licking Lazarus soars Chap. VI. That the more purer innocent and faithful men are in the truth the more do men plot and devise evil of them to destroy them as against the Lords Prophets Christ and his Apostles how God by his presence with them delivers them as he did Israel the three Children Daniel Jonah ond Jeremiah and destroyed their enemies Ch. VII How by persecution truth is increased and the more advanced and they that suffer for it to the terror of them that persecute it that truth is rewarded and witnessed by sufferings how the reward of suffrings is a crown of glory manifest in men and when Chap. VIII How the way to find our life is to lose it that no man is to know any thing of himself but to be innocent in knowing his own innocency and righteousness also what the true knowkledge of God is who hath it and how it s obtained Chap. IX How all men are alike to God to whom light and darkness is all one that no man is better nor worse then another and how what it is to be b●th best and worst in one person to be punished and exalted and the way unto it how we are to serve one another and of the state of Christ as God and man and how with him we are to love all men Chap. X. Of Gods appearing in Judgment in man against all things of man and this world that all outward duties worship and obed●ence by men professed is a lye without the inward work of truth within how according to the inward work is the outward practice that the more by Christ any man is refined p●rged and saved within in his conscience the more by men is he falsly accused judged and condemned without in his practice Chap. XI Nothing which opposes God can stand against him how he will pull down and get above Towers Churches worships religions and all things of men that is not in Christ also to whom the Lords Judgements are a day of joy and delight and to whom they are a day of darksnes and trouble t trust in God under them is a sure refuge of the good that comes by them and when Chap XII Incouragem●nts to wait with patience under the Lords Judgments and not to opp●se them Of the works of the Lord Jesus what th●y are and how we bear them about in our bodies when 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 men as witnesses shall suff●r f●r the rest of one life how some professing the same life for fear of suffering will deny them that suffer for them rather then suffer with them as the Disciples of Christ did Chap. XIIII That the true sufferer w ll God inable with joy to bear his burthen to follow Christ and deny himself to trust in God and rejoyce in all things how with Christ he is humbled to the lowest with men and exalted to the highest with God as the fruit and effect of Gods Judgements the state of perfection ERRATA In the Title page line 23. read comparandis next read Epistle for Epitl● in p. 2. of the Epistle l. 34. r. the for ye p. 3 l. 19 r. with for which Book p. 5. l. 16. read Iohn for Rom. l. 18. r. to for so p. 6. l. 22. r. nurses for snuff● p. 7. l. 1. r. with for which p. 9 l. 17. r. whom for when l. 20. r. few for some p. 10. l. 1. r. follow for slow p. 12. l. 3. r. pleased p. 20. l. 24 25. r. he for the Devil p. ●4 l. 21. r. lofty p. 25. l. 9. r. purified p. 29. l. 27. r knawed l. 28. r. with p. 32. l. 1. r. know p. 35. l. 3. r. against p. 39. l. 32. r. see p. 41. l. 15. r. good l. 28. r. and l 31. r. every p. 42. l. 3. r. might l. 4 r. might l. 23. r. the p. 47. l 9 r. desired not l 16 r. of p 49. l. 13 r. good l 30 r. humbled himself p 52 l. 32 r made p 57 l. 2 dele that l 8 r. comfort p 58 l 19. r. set up p 59 l 17 r. which p. 62 l 27 r marks p 65 l 16 add are p 66 l 29 read knowing p 68 l 3 thy men p 69 l. 2 r. injoyed it l 30. r. they must continue maintaining p 70 l 24. r. with A new and spiritual Song of Sion and the Lamb Written by the Author in the Holy Land And also in his sufferings wherein God did him try And unto him revealed life light and liberty Psal 98. 1 Psal 101.1 O sing unto the Lord a new Song for he hath done marvelous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory I will sing unto the Lord of mercy and judgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 1. THE Lamb of God our King is come In righteousness to reign Ioh. 1.29 Isa 32.1 Heb. 2.9 Rev.

when my sufferings should end Which I shouldhere endure Exod 3 9 10 19 20 A Moses to me he would send My freedom to procure And those that should it then withstand His wrath he would make see And overthrow them by that hand Isa 41 10 11 Which gives me liberti. 24. But some like Pharoah still did plot My bodie to keep here Evod 8 28 32 Though they would say We hinder not But rather would him clear Yet God their hearts made hard again My freedom to denie Until that I Gods time had laine to have my liberty 25. Therefore in this I am content His time here for to stay Phil. 4.11 Heb 13 5 Psal 119.50 2 Cor 1 4 Psal 84 11. He having to me comforts lent The time to pass away He makes his sun on me to shine My soul to satisfie And promiseth in his due time To give me libertie Col. 3.16 17. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord and whatsoever ye do in word or deed do al● in the Name of the Lord Jesus giving thanks to God and the Father by him As is the Exhortation of Richard Coppin Return into thy rest O my soul for the Lord hath dealt bountifully with thee Christ Crucified AND Judgement Executed CHAP. I. The cross of Christ set up in men and their dyings upon it of the life which is lost and to be found the father mother ●nd brethren husband wife and children house lands and all things therein to be forsaken for Christ what they are with the time when and the manner how YOU that with Christ and with those that are Christs wil desire to live in the same spiritual freedom fellowship 1 Co● 1 1● and communion of Saints in light must by him be armed with the same spiritual mind of Christ and them to know Christ crucified in you and you to all things of flesh and this world besides God and so with him to have peace joy and comfort in all your desires wayes 1 Pet. 4.1 2. and actions and with patience and delight to follow him and to take up his cross daylie and carry it with you after him suffering it to be placed in you as the Lords standard lifted up against the enemy sin the devil and all iniquitie Rev. ●● 1● 1●●7 which is a flood out of the devils mouth rushing out upon you to devour you till Christ the wisdome and power of God as the cross be set up in you to overcome it for you and restore you into perfect health and safety in the Lord Jesus Heb. 〈…〉 through the manifestation of his second comming without sin unto salvation in the perfecting of which work by the same cross walking through the paths of the Lords judgements where the natural man is to give up the ghost with the loss of life you are to abide upon this cross not for a day a month not a year and in some things and not in others but in all things all wayes and continually ever bearing about in you bodies the dying of the Lord Jesus after the flesh that the life also of Jesus after the spirit may be made manifest in your mortal bodies and you in him to live without the knowled● of sin and of the fear of death hell and the devil therefore you which live in the body and would know Christ cru●ified in you 〈…〉 ●are alwayes to be delivered unto death for Jesus sake that the li●●●lso of Jesus may be made manifest in you m●t●● 〈…〉 and 〈…〉 sin ●eath hell and 〈◊〉 man with all his corrup● de●d● of the fles● wisedom interest and knowl●●g and to plan● in you the new 〈◊〉 which in Christ Jesus 〈…〉 ●ousness 〈…〉 holin●s● and so 〈…〉 that in dying you 〈…〉 that life which y● 〈…〉 before the ●a● of Adam so 〈…〉 ●●eth judgement to destroy in man the kn●● 〈…〉 by which came death and so by 〈…〉 again to a new life ●ith 〈…〉 which he shall know himself 〈◊〉 live 〈…〉 not unto himself 〈…〉 and in dying and l●●●g 〈…〉 from which he shall never dye so saith Christ he that believes in me Joh 5.15 16 though he were dead yet shall he live and whosoever liveth and believeth in ●●e shal ne●●● dy●● believe you this saith Christ as sufficient 〈…〉 eternal salvation And the way to this 〈…〉 dye dayly till you be dead to all things but Go● to 〈◊〉 only i● God for as you dye the d●●d of o●e life which you must dye and ●annot live to you liv● a●oth●r 〈◊〉 whi●h is for ever●a●●ing and can nev●● dye whereby C●●ist himself is mag●●fied 〈…〉 set up and ex●●●●d in your b●●●y to be you● and you his both in death in life 〈…〉 to you in both and you 〈◊〉 in you 〈…〉 d●ath that you might o● tru●t 〈…〉 ●●fore this dying 〈…〉 ●peaks of when he sa●t● ●I am 〈…〉 yet nevertheless I live ye● 〈◊〉 ●●ow 〈…〉 lives mine ●al 2 1● ●● and the life that 〈…〉 the faith of the son o● God 〈…〉 gave himself for me and no● only 〈…〉 ●u●●or a●● men whatsoever that 〈…〉 as he sh●l be manifest in them may b● 〈◊〉 with him 〈…〉 unto themselves 〈…〉 dyed for th●● and now lives in ●●●m 〈…〉 that w●ether they live o● dye 〈…〉 〈…〉 who ●●s that was dead i● alive 〈…〉 A●d 〈◊〉 Christ said unto you all tha● wo●●d 〈◊〉 any thing in your selves besides the ●ord of for any oth●● but th● 〈◊〉 that ●f you will come after 〈◊〉 you 〈◊〉 de●y your 〈◊〉 and take up ●●s cross ●ay●y and 〈…〉 that you may be noth ng 〈◊〉 your ●●l●●● know 〈…〉 any thing of 〈…〉 all by 〈…〉 joy 〈◊〉 things of the Lord who is made all things unto you that you haveing nothing yet injoying all things as injoying all things Luk. 9.23.24 yet having nothing for he that wil seek to save his life shall lose it and he that will lose his life for my sake shall find it And now my brethren that you may dye to live lose all to find all you are commanded by Christ to hang upon the cross of Christ till you are crucified with Christ and become dead to all things but Christ which is not an outward cross of any visible thing without you no nor altogether outward afflictions but it is Christ the wisdom of God and Christ the power of God within you and which you are to take up and hang upon to the slaying of all your own wisdome and strength righteousness and life and all things of man and the world and whatsoever is contrary to this cross even Christ in you which you are to take up and hang upon even you and all that is yours yea all of yours even all is to be fastned to him and slain by him in your

bearing of him for put you on the Lord Jesus C●rist and make no provision for the flesh to fulfil the lusts thereof 1 Cor. 1.23 24. and we preach saith Paul Christ crucified to the Jews even a stumbling block and unto the Grecians and them that perish in their own wisdom and strength foolishnes● but unto them which are called both of the Jews and Grecians we preach Christ the wisedom of God and Christ the power of God And upon this Cross of wisdom and power in God did Christ himself in his life-time hang to be crucified to all worldly wisdom and honour righteousness and glory which he found with men here below in the flesh as a pattern for all men in the flesh to follow in all self-denial leaving behind them all worldly honor righteousness and Religion 1 Cor. 2.6 which standeth onely in the wisdome and strength of men which cometh to nought and which is all but as the fashion of the world which passeth away and must all at last give up the ghost with Christ in the flesh on the cross and without all or any part of this you must come in Christ who is onely able to teach you all things and to make you and all things stand and be accepted with God And in this tryal in taking up of this cross How to forsake Father and mother c. and following Christ you forsake father and mother husband and wife children and brethren house and lands and all for Christ to live with him which is not meant carnally but spiritually and is not a forsaking your father and mother after the flesh as some may carnally believe but in this forsaking here meant your knowledge of them is renewed and your love towards them is encreased for your father whom you are to forsake is the devil that begets sin and wickedness in you Rom. 8.44 and made all your knowledge and love amongst men to be devillish so you and your mother is the whore of Babylon and lust of the flesh the mother of whoredoms Rev. 17.5 and abominations of the earth in which sin is conceived and brought forth and of whom you at first were begotten by the devil into the knowledge of good and evil And according to that knowledge you are to forsake all men and things whatsoever and to know no man after the flesh no 2 Cor. 5.16 though you have known Christ after the flesh yet henceforth after he is manifest in the spirit within you you are to know him no more so but to know him and all men in the spirit as in the Lord where your knowledge towards all men is renewed and you the more united to them do the more love them But while you or any of you have known or do still know your father the devil and your mother the whore of Babylon not to be desolate and forsaken by you so long you have bin still are by them matched and betrothed united and coupled marrying and giving in marriage with the daug●●ers of men your own inventions and imaginations which are as harlots and which as whores you make your spouses Hos●● 4.13 which appearing fair and beautiful ●o you you are in love with them and do go a whoreing a●ter t●em and of whom you have begotten and brough● fo●● strange children children of whoredomes and of fornications after the image of your father the devil and of d ● whore your mother yea many opp●e●sive children nourishe● up within you and without you 〈◊〉 5.7 which are 〈◊〉 miseries of all sorts as angels of dark●●●s by wh●●● you are fa●●en from God to idolatry and other chil●r●n you have which are seeming prof●ssed Religions and 〈◊〉 holyn●ss and opinions of all so●●● whi●h yo●●ave brought f●rth as Angels of lig●● 〈…〉 wh●●● you put the name of G●d and godlynes● upo● with your s●lves to make them and your s●lves accepted with men and appear love●y unto them ●●ough th●y are but the ●hildren of the devil and also ●arlots of ●●e who●e bringing forth for men to go● whoring af er a●d w●i●h the who●e and mother o● har●o●● spirits up and k●●●●p a●ive for and at the side of her ●●●band the devil 〈…〉 and which is the Scarlet-●ou●er●d beast the w●ore fit● upon to deceive the nations and to contrive for the devil a kingdom of pride and covetousnes● the 〈◊〉 and glory of 〈◊〉 w●rld which is all enmity wit● God and but vanity and vexation of spirit 〈…〉 and is all to perish in the ●●●ing ●nd in which you your selves therein living are 〈◊〉 of your fath●r the devil whose works you do 〈…〉 and whose kingdom and all thin●●●●●r●in you are to forsak●●●r Christ and his ki●gdom● and ●ll such mariages are all t● i● b●●●● lost 〈◊〉 f●●●●k●n a●d all the said chil●ren b●tween t●em 〈…〉 whether angels o● Light or angels of darkness good and bad all which men are to be slain with death Rev. 2.23 and all men are to know that the Lord i●●e which searcheth the reins and tryeth the hearts and giveth to every one of them according to ●●eir works And you are to marry and be married unto none but the Lord not live with any but him Hos●a 3.3 who himselfe loved you when you were in your sins 〈◊〉 16 6 7 8 Hos●● ●● 10 and be●●ro●hed you and married you to himselfe in righteousness and in Judgement in mercy and in loving kindness that you might know the Lord and be for no other but him but to forsake all and follow him whethersoever he shall lead you as you have him for an example who himselfe forsook his Father and his Fathers house his heaven and his glory to come after you into sin death and hell to seek and to save you w●en you were los● Rom. 10.20.21 and to m●nifest his unchangeable love ●o you when you rebelled ●gainst him and went a who●i●g from him after other lovers y●● then did he lov● you and therefore you are to forsake all oth●r lov●rs and follow him Cant. 14 who will lay his cross upon you and thereby draw you he will manifest himselfe u●to you and still remaine your husband as it is wri●ten ●●y 〈◊〉 ●s thy husband the Lord of hosts is his 〈…〉 the whole earth shall he be called I●● 5● and 〈…〉 besides the Lord or follow any but the Lo●● 〈…〉 thing you do you are guilty o● w●ore●●m 〈…〉 ●●ow not the Lord. 〈…〉 Of 〈…〉 you know not his dwel 〈…〉 r●●hes of his glory but you are building 〈…〉 your own to dwelin● 〈…〉 ●rom them which 〈…〉 and the Lords house and 〈…〉 wa st and is unknown to you which 〈…〉 and g●apes of l●fe and you say the time is not come that the Lords house should be built Hag. 1 2 3 4. or that his kingdom should be revealed or established among you till after a natural death and because you know it not you

resist the comming of it before and will still dwell in your owne ceiled houses your fet formes and opinions of religious wayes and worships and the Lords house way worship and religion even Christ which you should have possest injoy lyeth waste among you and is not inhabited by you but when the Lord by manifesting himself in you shal appear to build up the waste places and raise up the Tabernacle of David which is fallen down and close up the breaches thereof as in the dayes of old Amos 9. ii and so cause the desolate heritages even men and all things which hath been known of them to be without Christ Zacha. 6.12 13. to be inhabited by Christ and shall manifest himselfe in them to be unto them their house habitation and glory then will men forsake their own houses lands and purchased fields which they have builded and planted with all their houshold-stuff therein being and their goodly cedars therein growing and shall not returne to take any thing with them but shall leave all behind them and follow Christ yea and though you may be upon the top of your houses in the highest of your profession and godlyness reaching even to Heaven yet you must come down and shall not take any thing with you Luke 17.30 31. neither shall these in the field return back to reap any profit of all their own labours which they have labored under the Sun in performing of duties and ordinances of religion wherein they thought themselves rich without Christ this all must be left lost and forsaken and no more remembred in the knowledg of Christ and him crucified And would you now dye that you might live then this is the way to see your selves and all things of your selves crucified with Christ and to know him living in you to be unto you a father and mother and husband and wife and children and brother and sister and house and lands and life and death Rom. 8.32 and food and rayment and all things whatsoever else is in the world you and all is Christs and Christ and all is yours and you and Christ with all things else is Gods and you are not your own but as you are in him i Cor. 3 2i 22 23 for you are bought with a price to be the Lords and all that you are you are in the Lord 1 Cor. 6.20 therefore glorifie God in your bodies and in your spirits which is Gods and know nothing in you but Christ and him crucified and whatsoever else you have known to be any thing or any profit or advantage to you besides the Lord count it all lost for Christ and with Paul count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Jesus Christ our Lord for when you suffer the loss of all Phil. 3.7 8. and count them but dung that you may win Christ this is the fruits and effct of your hanging on the cross and this with men is hard to do the way is narrow and some there be that find it CHAP. II. How the cross ●f Christ is accompanied with the crosses of the world firey troyals and persecutions for the truth the clouds of Christs coming ●nd t●e way of his people in which he leads them and walks with them to save them how and from what AND wheresoever this way of Christ crucified shall be manifest and found with any that with Christ have been hanging upon the cross of divine wisdom and power to be thereby weaned from sin and the world with the loss of all their own wisedom righteousness and strength there do the crosses of the world flow and come together as fellow-helpers and companions in assistance with the cross of Christ 1 Pet. 2.21 for even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example to follow his steps And therefore you my brethren and fellow sufferers for the truth you that have in any measure learned to embrace this cross of Christ for the saving of your souls let it incourage you not to lay it down but with patience to lye down under it Gal. 6 17. and to bear it about in your bodies as the marks of the Lord Jesus till you be perfected in him and still to trust in God and wait upon him in whatsoever affliction he by men or any other means as a rod in his hand shall afflict upon you to humble you to walk with him and be not sorrowful nor troubled at any thing Eph 2.12 as those that are without hope but rejoyce alwayes and in all things still praysing the Lord for his goodness in laying his cross upon you to humble you and protect you in it and who without respect of persons hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light manifest by the Lord Jesus in the way of his judgements by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus ● Cor. 5.5 or God manifest in flesh Therefore my brethren think it not strange concerning fierie tryalls ● Pet. 1.12 persecutions tribulations and sufferings as if some strange thing happened unto you for they are companions with Christ on the cross and they are the clouds in which he comes to manifest his glory on earth and the way which he walked in himself before he entred into glory wherein the Father made known himselfe unto him and in which way he leads his dearest Saints that know him and are nearest in union with him for the tryal of their faith 1 Pet. 1.6 7. which being tryed by fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of the Lord Jesus as the Lords spirit with the Scriptures in all my sufferings for the truth to this day bears me witness that bands and afflictions Acts 14 22. persecutions and tryals through which a soule enters into the kingdom of God are very good and in which much of God hath been manifest unto me for that the Lord by the Angel of his presence was with me to sanctifie it to me and save me as he did his Prophets and people of old and as he will do all throughout all generations of the world for in all their afflictions he was afflicted Isa 63 9. and the Angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his mercy he redeemed them and he bear them and carried them alwayes continually which hath been witnessed by his Prophets of old from Adam unto this day as I shall more particularly hereafter mention that the coming of God to save his people from their enemies the world flesh sin and the devil and to draw them out of many waters death hell and damnation hath been in the way of his judgements in dark and thick clouds of the sky as all can witness that ever saw him and have known any