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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

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 Bapt sta severus Christi praecursor Bapt●smate Sp●r●tûs baptizatus Antichristi Antispiritûs ant●thetos oppositus necnon Angelus n●n Evanus qui vanus sed Evangel●cus Lonndon Printed by James Cottrel on Addle-hill 1654. WHereas some persons curiously wise have taken upon themselves to be the onely-best interpreters of those most sacred gifts of God's holy Spirit which none can so well judge of or understand as he or they that have received a greater measure of that same Spirit and been made thereby partakers in some sort of some Gifts at least likewise I therefore who as the works best testifie of me have received the power of working Miracles and the gifts of Healings have thought fit hoping to be soonest heard to speak both experimentally and knowingly And my Method shall be in resolution of Questions in this Age proposed or that haply may be proposed and answering Objections which have been or may be made unto or against the same Quest 1 Whether the Gifts in the Apostles times be in our times Answ The Gifts in the Apostles times being the gifts of Gods Spirit as recited in Chap. 12. of the first Epistle to the Corinthians have extremely abated since the division of us and Rome that is of us living in the Jurisdiction of the Church of England and them under the Papal power usurped over the Church of Rome and so the spirit of Unity having much ceased in that respect between Churches at home and abroad and the spirit of Division having advanced it self the faith of Christians through want of true Charity hath been much weakned to the great disabling of them in the receiving of those great Gifts which the Apostles inflamed in holy flames of Love and Zeal for the Truth even unto the death received in their time and men neerest approaching unto them in several Ages since have according to the great measure of God's Spirit imparted to them and their great care in not resisting the motions of that blessed Spirit received gifts measurably answering to the Grace given and received Quest 2 Then none can have those gifts but he or they that have such grace given Answ None can For it is not an injunction and command to men to believe so far as to the obtaining of those Gifts it is enough to believe to salvation Quest 3 How then is it that they can be received Answ As I said By grace given that is that God through his Son Head of the Church is pleased by his Son through the Spirit of him to convey when he pleaseth that faith in the ninth verse of the former Chapter which brings man within the capacity of receiving of those gifts and exercising the same by vertue of our Saviours affirmation But observe here is not his command If you beleive the things that I do you shall do also and greater things then these Quest 4 Are not miracles ceased according to the opinion of the Church of England Answ Yea according to the opinion of many they have ceased but according to the faith of the Church it cannot be presumed that any member will say Those gifts are ceased which are in Christ the head from that time especially that he ascended into heaven and so ever since Ceased indeed as to the great operation there was in the Apostles time as yet they have but ceased so as never to be again exercised in the Church of God will sure be maintained by none that believe That that same Spirit shall be given more and more in the later days till Time's last day after which in Eternity we shall live in and by the full measure of that Spirit for ever Quest 5 What hath the common received opinion been touching Miracles ceased Answ By wise men in this sense As when night comes we say day ceaseth till the Sun returns again to the East so in the night of Ignorance Schism and Division times of Error and black Darkness in the Church the Truth ceaseth to shine in its pure lustre and the Spirit of God hath not its perfect visible operation in and over the face of the Church till the Sun of righteousness which hath been long set in the firmament of the Church in respect of the great wane of light which the Apostles had shall arise oriently and purely to the bringing in at last of the perfect day But that being come or neer his full approach to the high noon-tide of Gospel-light Ignorance Schism c. are dispersed and vanish quite away into the bottomless pit back into the smoke again from whence they ascended up and then those gifts appear more and more as fast as the contrary flee away Quest 6 Whether it hath been held that gifts of Healings in the Church have ceased Answ That was never held but by those curiously-wise persons who have by Sophisms laboured to prove Miracles and Healings all one which is as accursed as the separating of that which God hath conjoyned And that Miracles that is as the text saith working of Miracles and Gifts of Healings are not all one appears first by the wisdom of God whose Word puts them distinctly which otherwise it would not it rather for the most part speaking with the greatest brevity so far as may be and yet avoid too great obscurity And here if Miracles and Healings be all one then Miracles are Healings and Healings Miracles But that cannot be for that act that makes the Lame to go immediately is much different from the laying on of hands which on a wound being placed conveys immediately vertue but heals not up under many days or weeks sometimes according to the quality of the wound So that that wound which by Plaister requires long time will also proportionably by that Gift take long time but yet ordinarily cures within half the time the other doth So that such healings though miraculous are not in themselves Miracles for that such healings may usually are effected by Physick and by Plaister But yet as to this they are Miracles in that touching the maner and way of cure they are healed without such means and that by laying on of hands the form and way in the Apostles days of conveying the holy Ghost on believers and the form and maner always of exercising the gifts of Healings proceeding by and from that self-same Spirit Quest 7 What is to be conceived