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spirit_n	abide_v	able_a	law_n	46	3	4.6744	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B20672	Truths testimony and a testimony of truths appearing in power, life, light & glory, creating, manifesting, increasing, and vindicating itself in the midst of persecution : wherein is discovered what truth is, and also a lye, who knows it and lives in it : with the authors call and conversion to the truth, his practice in it, his publishing of it, and his several tryals for the same ... : together with the particular accusations brought against him in each tryal and his answers to the same, and also the courts proceedings both by judges and juries : with an humble appeal to His Highness, Oliver, Lord Protector, as a general redress for all people / by Richard Coppin.	Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.	1655 (1655)	Wing C6105	74,193	93

the Lord would be with me Acts 18.9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 to support me to the end as he was with Paul at Corinth and by experience I have hitherto found him to be with me And thus was my Commission in from the School of Christ given by Christ at Sion house in heaven to do the work of Christ as a free workman loving all men though enemies and hating none and not from Oxford and Cambridge or the Schools of Antichrist by the laying on of the hands of the Bishops or Presbytery to do the work of Antichrist as an hireling loving those that would pay me or stand for me and hating those that would not as most of those have done that had their Call and Commission from thence Neither was I to confer with flesh and blood as to go to Oxford or Cambridge this Committee or that Committee to receive Orders from men or to know whether I should preach or no and so to be settled in some place by them receive some yearly maintenance from them as the Priests of England do and have done with all that serve in Antichrists Kingdom and receive his wages but without all this or any part of it I was immediately to go and publish him to the world and to sinners yea all men without respect of persons notwithstanding all the opposition that I might meet withal from all sorts of Religion and among all sorts of men living under any Dispensation or Administration whatsoever below this which I my self lived in and was to declare And the first day that I began to prosecute this my Commission as it was in me in the life and power of it which I received not of man nor by man but of and by the Lord and God the Father who raised him from the dead out of the grave and in me then was I persecuted hated and rejected of men that knew it not but were enemies to it yet did no more to me then what had been done to others that were before me and will be done to those that come after me which I also looked upon to be part of my portion which was to follow and I to go through and which I was yet to be possest withal while I was in this work of preaching but knowing this that still filling up the rest of the sufferings of Christ which supported me when I had finished my course I should receive my crown Having suffered with Christ I should also reign with him and so enduring to the end I should be saved Mar. 13.13 1 Cor. 9.17 18. 2 Cor. 10.16 17. and this was my portion also with the Lord and the reward I received of the Lord and is a living on the Gospel with me as it is written He that preaches the Gospel shall live on the Gospel and not on other mens labours nor walk by other mens lights but the light of Christ in the Gospel dispensation And now so far hitherto as I have fell short in any thing of this my Commission to the knowledge of any let me be blamed But to proceed I shall go on as brief as I can to shew you the manner of my proceedings and how I have been carried forth to this day as shall be readily witnessed by the people of those parts in which I have been and thus proceeded in the practice thereof as followeth CHAP. IV. The Authors first prosecution of his Commission and his being opposed for the same how by whom and after what manner who are the Ministers of Christ and of Antichrist with their different proceedings both in judgement doctrine practice manner time place freedom and reward FIrst Paul in his time speaking of himself and his own call said then That above fourteen years ago he knew a man in Christ 2 Cor. 12. whether in the body or out of the body he could not tell but such an one caught up into the third heaven or paradise and heard unspeakable words which were not lawful for man to utter And why unlawful In respect of the Lavv of God it could not be unlavvful for God reveals nothing that is contrary to himself or his ovvn lavv neither doth he make a lavv contrary to vvhat he reveals but it might be contrary to the lavvs of men vvhich they had made and do still make and so unlavvful and in this sense Paul might say it vvas unlavvful for man to utter though not unlavvful for God to utter and for these reasons first in respect of the company amongst whom Paul vvas then living vvhen those vvords vvere made knovvn to him they being not able to bear them And secondly it may be that the lavvs of the times vvere such that if it should have been spoken it vvould have been counted blasphemy and himself have been persecuted for it as it seems he vvas for many things that he then spoke And so in all ages since vvhatever of God hath by God been revealed to men contrary to the lavv of the times hath been by that lavv unlavvful to utter and so by men counted blasphemy and the authors thereof accused as blasphemers Was it not so vvith Christ and vvith Paul and the rest of the Apostles And hath it not been so since and is it not so novv I am sure my self with many others can by experience witness it and set our seals to it since we knew it and were assured of it And now from the time that these things were first made known to me and I commanded to declare it to the world it was with much opposition and with so little outward freedom that I was forced to appear in the clouds and speak something darkly and under parables I abiding at that time in Barkshire among a people whose spirits were not able to bear the sound of the truth they being ignorant of it and so enemies to it and which the laws of the times were then against and most mens judgements and opinions contrary to it and men more ready to persecute it then otherways as they have ever been And I having not my freedom to speak fell a writing which things were printed and brought forth to publique view in a Book entituled Divine Teachings which many Ministers and Pastors of Churches living thereabouts did streightway oppose being that which was contrary to their judgements doctrine and practise whose names are as follows Lancaster Powel Harrison Pendarvice Wells Hughes and Burgess who were then in Barkshire with Osburn Woolly Glin and many others in Oxfordshire who cryed down all for heresie and blasphemy therein contained without naming any particulars saying it was a dangerous principle which it all tended unto that if it were suffered it would overthrow all Mens Religion whereupon several disputes were occasioned between me and the said Ministers they all still endeavouring to confute me or bring me to a recantation of these things revealed in me and declared by me which they counted erroneous and blasphemous