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lord_n	day_n	holy_a	spirit_n	11,233	5	4.9725	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80058	A whip of small cords, to scourge Antichrist (sitting in the temple of God, and exalting himself above, and opposing himself against all that is called God) out of the temple of God; and clearing up the way for the receiving in of the Lord Jesus Christ in his glorious power in and over the church; now exercised in the working of miracles, gifts of healings, and other extraordinary gifts. With the knot at the end of the whip. Whereunto is added, the sheerer sheer'd, and casheer'd; the shaver shav'd, & the grinder ground. By Matthew Coker, being apostolicus propheta, & propheticus apostolus; ut baptista severus, Christi præcursor; baptismate spiritûs baptizatus; Antichristi & antispiritûs antithetos oppositus; necnon angelus: non evanus, (qui vanus) sed evangelicus.	Coker, Matthew.	1654 (1654)	Wing C4990; Thomason E745_5; ESTC R207060	6,711	15

the scope and intention of God in sending to any person the power of working Miracles gifts of Healings and such-like extraordinary gifts of Gods Spirit in these later days Answ That in the Apostles days they were given for proofs of true Apostleship and of the Word delivered by Apostles as in the Prophets days such gifts though not so generally were given for vindicating and manifesting those persons God sent to be Prophets and for better proof of their word of prophecie And so as in the Apostles days they tended to the beginning of that Church which in Christs time the fulness of time was erected and confirmed by and under him the Great Prophet and Apostle so in these later days wherein the Church hath been so often lifted at and even shaken off the foundations it befits the goodness of God and the office of Christ to depute a person or persons unto the restoring and setling of his Church according to the true Apostolical Faith and Government Object 1 of this Age. These things done in our age are not the works of God Answ These works done by Christ in our age are not the works of Antichrist which denies our Lord Jesus and all his works nor are they the works of Satan the father of the son of perdition Object 2 But Sir these things cannot be done Answ They cannot be done unto or upon you that deny them by unbelief which obstructed our Saviour from doing many mighty works in his own country Object 3 There are many wise men and many grave Divines and why he and why not rather they Answ Why was Moses raised up a Deliverer David a King Daniel a Prophet Paul an Apostle Let God or his Word or manifested will declare that and the same God and his yet-secret will in time manifest the other To the Christian Reader I Trust thy judgement by committing it to the Spirit of God for directions to read both my words and meanings I pray God give thee charity to love the works and matters spoken of saith to believe them and then wisdom to apply them to their right use designed This short Narrative I have this afternoon at my leasure drawn up with little study and yet by good advice Those works of Miracles and Healing that are not onely talk'd of but really performed I will own and in brief that I have the power of working Miracles the gifts of Healing of Prophecie and the spirit of Discerning I will justifie if I am called to it not onely before God Men and Angels but before Satan Antichrist and all the powers of hell yea if I knew the way to enter the gates of hell by way of confirmation of these Gifts and of revenging the abuseful reproaches of them from the devils and their agents I would and through the power of God and his Christ make the devil and his Antichrist roar and howl their worst that they might be the sooner silent The 25 of May 1654. MATTHEW COKER the Apostolical Prophet and Prophetical Apostle The Knot at the end of the Whip Added this 25 of June 1654. being on the Lords day TO my unbelieving Opposers especially those who not onely maligned me but also at least ignorantly blasphemed the works and operations of Gods Spirit mightily shewn forth at the time of participation of the holy Mysteries of the Body and Blood of the Lord Jesus Christ at the Chappel of Lincolns Inne last Michaelmas-Term It is by reason of you hypocrites at best but half-converted Christians that the Name of God is blasphemed amongst the Gentiles Had you had the least measure of true grace amongst you that looked so high and so scornful at my devotion because surpassing yours you would rather with humble admiration have given thanks at such time then have been so unreasonably bold to have then and after judged the worse of me onely because of the different sound of my voice which I am sure was rather by a change through a more heavenly and melodious accent as the piously-devout could and will assert and not so strange and even barbarous as the hypocrites would then and still if they could make it But I wish them to confess their hypocrisie and rash judgement to the world forthwith yea though they suffer shame for their ill doing as well as I have far and neer suffered reproach for and through their foolish judgings censurings and unhandsome and uncharitable informations of and against me whereby I was so blemished and tainted by all sorts of men not excepting one as I knew to the contrary that even every one spent his verdict of me and he or they that would not so egregiously censute me in my Religion did at least hold and suppose I had been under some bodily distemper whereas for mine own part I still call God to witness I was onely weak in body as I had been many days before whereby my soul and spirit being more at liberty I was then in the Spirit on the Lords day and heard a Seraphical voice singing with me and my self in the mean time whether in the body or out of the body I say not was in a great ecstafie and perfect ravishment of soul and spirit And you who were of the more charitable sort and who together with the Spirit of Christ in you had also a conscience bearing witness within you at that very time of and concerning my unblameable deportment in every respect at the Sacrament insomuch that I hope even to this present you deem my actions no otherwise then onely obedient to the holy Spirit of God moving in and on my heart tongue and voice I have also against you a few words that is because notwithstanding the unreasonable strugling of all sorts even of men women and children censoriously in City and Country upbraiding me or rather the works of God by me That you then should be so timorously silent and so modestly wicked in that point as not to spend a little breath in a few words to have choak'd that stinking breath of Antichrist which cunningly did vent it self not onely in Sorcerers Magicians and such-like vile persons but also as much as it could in the children of God themselves to be even their instruments and trumpets to noise abroad disgracefully those works of our LORD JESUS which in themselves were right glorious and not a whit beneath those he hath since by a mighty power shewn by me in and neer this City of London And as for you Hypocrites of whose amendment there is small hopes you will without sound Repentance both you and your relations become a stink in the nostrils of all the generations to come And you poor faint-hearted ones though I confess many of you amongst the number of Gods dear children will never be thought worthy unless your own consciences being now pricked shall incite you to make amends for your former defaults by a greater future sincerity to the works you have childishly and yet stubbornly

opposed or at least not maintained as you ought you will otherwise through the just hand of God be restrained from entering into that good land in this our Nation ere long to be possessed by those true Israelites who become like those obedient ones under the Conduct of Moses their Deliverer so known to be notwithstanding his being despised by the signes and mighty wonders God wrought by him My Advice is to all Christians in general and even to all good Moral just honest men That they no longer stand in awe of Beelzebub a god of Flyes of a Devil the begetter of strange fancies and foolish fears and that they shew the like confidence when their time shall be as I my self intend in mine that is To go up to the face of Antichrist whom I shall know by this mark That he and his will riggle and struggle at the noise of my Whip of small Cords And if he and they will not hear and obey and permit the Gospel to have its free course as it ought to have with all Blasphemies Heresies and Oppositions taken out of the way then I will in the power of Christ come in that zeal as he entered the Temple to whip out all defilers thereof and with a real and not fictitious Whip of smarting though small Cords whip him and them out not onely out of the Temple and Temples but out of house and houses also which they say are Temples Wrote by MATTH COKER ut Baptista severus Christi praecursor Baptismate Spiritûs baptizatus in his fervour of spirit for Christs cause and the Gospel's The Sheerer sheer'd and casheer'd The Shaver shav'd AND The Grinder ground to powder As will be the end of those that puff with a weak breath of Antichrist against the Lord Christ who will destroy that wicked one with the spirit of his mouth and brightness of his coming June 26. 1654. I Understand this morning That a Sheer-grinder living neer the Palsgraves-head-Tavern without Temple-bar is with the rest of his faction of fools much troubled at those things done by me in the power of God which he cannot understand and that he doth not onely with this last Faction of the world speak evil with those foretold of things he understands not but also of the person he knows not For if he knew me as the Angels of God and all holy men inspired do he would not this morning have said That he hoped to see me hang'd one of the first But I advise him and them Antichrists and Antiworkers against the Lord Christ and the works done through his power by me That they bear in minde what they have heard and read of the great success Haman had by preparing the gallows for Mordecai whereby this benefit accrued That they were the better made ready to hand against Haman's time came I would desire this sort of people to make application onely I fear that some of them worse then Haman as bad as Judas or worse may do that office on themselves which Judas did who betray'd his Master on earth as these would the Messenger sent from him now our Lord and Master in heaven I see the sheep of Christ would be well sheer'd if they came under this Sheer-grinder who very likely for his Pension doth sharpen the sheer and put an edge to the instrument or cause in hand for others to proceed the better But if there are many more such Sheerers I fear they will prove but Shavers and that not of us but of their own scabbed flock who with their crooked Rams-horns and crookeder conditions will at last ere long butt at one another And my reason is this for that such are all of the houshold of Antichrist the old enemy of Christ come in the flesh however they pretend to confess him openly whiles in the mean time they deny his works or at least will not or dare not let them be vindicated or at least examined impartially and in a right way And whereas it is said That an house divided against it self cannot stand thence I infer That because this house of Satan cannot long stand therefore it will of necessity be divided against it self God send no worse divisions amongst us Christians and all good Moral peaceable honest men and we shall quickly outlive for ever the threats of Hanging Stabbing Pistoling and enjoy a continued Peace to us and ours for ever And this is next to the Gospel the greatest thing I aim at and which through the power of God I intend still to go on to accomplish till by death or violence I am taken out of the way which my faith will not easily admit of believing in this cause till I feel the last grasp of the fatal hand of death if so be I shall MATTH COKER the greatest Opposite of Antichrist in our Age. God deal by me as I intend by his Cause and the Gospel's for which he himself hath stirred me up and I must go on with though thorow a sea of blood His will be done on earth as it is in heaven MATTH COKER Angelus Evangelicus Fidelu Nuncius FINIS