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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

we are one and all that is mine is theirs and they with all that they have are mine being members of my body of my flesh and of my bones Eph. 5.30 Rom. 8.17 bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and so joynt-heirs with me in all things that I am heir to in the Father and then as Christ and we are fellow-heirs so in like manner let us be fellow-heirs one with another in all things that each other do possess and enjoy in the Lord being all brethren of one and the same family and members of one and the same body for we are members one of another Eph. 4.25 Christ saith that the Father hath given him power glory peace freedom liberty life light and salvation yea Rom. 8.29 John 17.21 22 23 24. all that the Father was is and had that he should give it all unto us his people and we come to enjoy it all in him as the same with him then when the Lord Jesus hath given unto us and to our knowledge all that the Father hath given him then as the Father was free to give unto Christ and as Christ was free to give unto us 1 Cor. 7.21 22. so shall we be then free to give one unto another being all the Lords Free-men And now hath the Lord Jesus made any of us free in this pure and perfect freedom of his love and freedom then let us not use it to the satisfying of the flesh as of our selves or any other in particular to the prejudice of others but for the good and safety the preservation and wel-being of our selves and all men whatsoever Let us in love serve one another and then it will appear to be perfect freedom 1 Cor. 7.22 the freedom of the Lord and we the Lords Freemen but if we should appear to act otherways then this we act not like Christ Iohn 8.36 or as such that are made free by Christ but still as bond-men and not free-men when we withhold from any people or thing any thing that is the Lords and given to us for them by the Lord. And now hath the Lord given into our hands the Liberty Peace Freedom and whole trust of the Nation at this time O then let us be just in our places to restore it to the rest of our fellow-brethren whose it is and unto whom it belongs and let us not so act as to keep it in our own hands or to lock it up in a chest or under a Law from them and they not to enjoy it but let them have it and be possest with it and in all things let us see the Lord acting by in and to himself in us for the good of all people CHAP. XV. 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 IEsus Christ is he that must recover again all that is lost Ezek. 34.16 and bring back all that is driven away and restore into our hands again all our Freedoms Liberties and Estates both temporal and spiritual all shall be brought home to us by the Captain of our salvation the Lord Jesus Christ and in whatsoever person or persons he may act in or by for the accomplishment of this work as also in all that is acted let us behold the Lord in it and say it is he who works all things according to the Counsel of his own Will whose Counsel shall stand and who will do all his pleasure Isa 46.10 Exod. 14.3 and let our eyes be upon the Lord continually to behold his salvation and then shall we appear to have all peace content and satisfaction in all things that are acted and done by the Lord and so see all things whatsoever freely to be bestowed upon us of the Lord and though there may be a people or party of any one Faction whatsoever that would indeavour to keep the rights of the people in their own hands Psal 18.46 yet let us wait upon the Lord trust onely in him who is the God of our salvation and though we may for a time see it to be withheld from us yet let us peaceably and quietly wait upon the Lord for the restoring of it to us Heb. 10.37 for certainly the time is at hand wherein he that shall come will come and restore the Kingdom to Israel and will not tarry or neglect the doing of it but a short and a quick work will he make upon the earth he will cut it short in righteousness and so take the Kingdom to himself and himself will rule and ragin in his own Kingdom which consists not in meats and drinks in observing times Rom. 14.17 18. places forms ordinances ways and worships but in righteousness joy and peace in the holy Spirit and this is the Kingdom of the Father which we all wait for expect and pray for when we say Thy Kingdom come Matth. 6.10 But if there be a time wherein men or the enemies of Christ must yet raign with their Kingdom in opposition to the Lord and his Kingdom let us be content with it and patiently undergo the suffering of it only let us tell them that it is no continuing city for them wherein they shall abide or raign ever for it is now even the last time and the higher we see them to be advanced in themselves the nearer is the time of their dissolution or coming down for a short and a quick work will the Lord now make with all flesh and every one that is appointed to have his time his turn and his overturn his beginning and his end shall have it which many we see have already had And no party that now appears to be set up and indued with power below God shall stand long no not long enough to settle or accomplish any thing but their own shame Phil. 3.19 Psal 83.16 17 18. Heb. 12.27 which shall befall all men that now go about to settle any thing when the Lord is shaking all things that may be shaken that those things which cannot be shaken may remain and all things besides himself are in a mutiny a movable and unsetled condition still rowling about like so many clouds from East to West or from one interest to another that it will settle no more till it settles and centers in the Lord where it can move no more And then shall we say Luke 1.68 Isai 3.12 13. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath visited and redeemed his people from out of the hands of cruel men Children that have been their oppressors and women that have ruled over them and caused them to erre and so brings all men forth of captivity and bondage ignorance and darkness out of all mutable changeable and unsetled conditions that we have been in and under and so leads captivity captive for us Eph. 4.8 and gives gifts to us which is perfect freedom love joy peace satisfaction and content in all things with the Lord Jesus which is the Kingdom of the Lord and will be also our Kingdom when it is thus brought home to us and made manifest in us by the Lord. In the mean time it matters not much how variously soever we see men act in darkness seeing it is not long before the Lord will appear to act all things himself in light and we shall then appear to act all things with him in the same light and so have joy peace and comfort in all things with him till the accomplishment of which work John 15.1 let every one patiently sit down under his own Vine the Lord Jesus till the grapes be through ripe and then wait upon the Lord for the bringing in of his own Kingdom to restore to us the full fruition of those graces of righteousness Rom. 14. peace and joy in the holy Spirit which is the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Thus I could not but declare my apprehensions in these words at this time to you as they are and were comprehended in me and made known to me for you FINIS

unto you in Egypt and delivered you from thence so I remember also what the Amalekites have done unto you how they laid wait for you in the way as you came up out of Egypt therefore my design is to bring them down and lay them low even to the ground and so cause you peaceably and quietly to pass along through by and over all the wayes Isa 5.9 ch 24.10 Hag. 1.4 laws forms and religions of men and not suffer you to stay or rest in any thing to abide in any house or form till you are come to that which is your rest indeed even him who is the stay and staffe of all men where and at which time you shall rest in the Lord from all your labours sorrows troubles and fears and from all the hard bondage wherein you have been made to serve Isa 14 3. by the Egyptian task-masters and the oppressive Amalekites For no sooner are we brought out of Egypt as out of that dark carnal ignorant state which we are in while under the Law but we are ready to enter into the house of bondage as into some Church-fellowship or other where we are tyed up to Forms and Ordinances and are subject to the Amalekites till the Lord takes us by the hand leads us forth Psal 5.8 and carries us on Now that most men in their several wayes and forms say they are travelling passing and pressing forward toward something that is before pretending they aim at God and his glory Christ Heaven and happiness as that which is at a distance from them and shall one day be attained by them when they are gone out of this body and not before and cannot abide to hear of coming to it and living in it while they are in this body and many there are that endeavour to keep the people from the present enjoyment of this and cry out against it as blasphemy and count them blasphemers that shall decare it and all to keep up a kingdom of their own in the place of Jesus Christ and so to keep people still in Egypt as in a in a dark ignorant troubled oppressed burdned state and condition and not suffering them to goe on comfortably chearfully and peaceably towards their rest and peace out of Egypt into the land of Canaan as into a state of light life and holiness in the Lord Jesus a land flowing with milk and honey who would bring us into that holy and good land the land of rest which is himself and who would now bring us from off all our own wayes to the wayes of God from off all our own works to the works of God Psal 55.8 and so from off all our own thoughts and affections Ephes 3.1 2. and desires to the thoughts affections and desires of God to be taken with the delight and embraces of himself in his own spirit and no longer to be led by the spirit of the Devil and false Prophet into bondage and captivity but that we might be led by the Spirit and power of the Lord Jesus into peace and liberty which is the Kingdom of the Lord. Rom. 8.14 15 16. And now the Lord to make all this good in us and to us which is to bring ut into his kingdom he first makes it good in and to himself for us Rev. 15. Rom. 8.29 32. Ioh. 17.13 as the first begotten of the Father among many brethen and so we come to enjoy all in him to have it fulfilled in us and enjoyed by us at it is now fulfilled and injoyed in him by the Father to which he is now ascended Now wherefore did our head the Lord Jesus thus ascend and glorifie himself Isa 26.19 but that we as his body might also ascend and be glorified together with him and wherefore did he first descend into hell to us Ephes 2.6 but that he by his eternal power and strength might raise us up out of hell and so ascend into heaven with us and there lead Captivity captive for us and thus doth he work out mans redemption to bring managain to his Primitive rest wherein is mans salvation CHAP. II. Concerning Amalek and the many stumbling blocks that he lays in the way of the people how and what they are NOw concerning this oppressive Amalek which is here spoken of in the text that doth thus oppress the people and endevour to hinder their coming up to their rest and salvation in the Lord Jesus let us consider what and where he is and if we truly examine our selves we shall finde him to be within us as well as without us and we never come to have a true knowledge of him without us till we have first had the knowledge of him within us and those that have him inwardly do act with him outwardly but he first appears within us and there discovers himself what he is for as the spirit of a man is passing out of Egypt as out of bondage and captivity towards its rest and center in the Lord Jesus we see the devil in us sometimes let loose for a season carrying our spirits Rev. 22.7 our mindes wils and desires away captive at his will into some restless unsatisfied condition or other as from the Lord where he hath darkened all the appearances of good things to us 2 Cor. 4.4 blinded the mindes of them that beleive not that they might not see the glory of God and so layes many stumbling blocks in their way to cause them to fall but I remember it saith the Lord and my design shall be to take them out of the way Isa 40.4 and to slay the devil that laid them and all that belongs to him Now those several stumbling blocks which appear to be laid in the way of a soul which some stumble at What 's meant by stumbling blocks and others go over appears to be sin sorrows troubles the fear of the Devil death hell and damnation together with all unjust Laws and Acts made by men contrary to the Law of God which is perfect Freedom Psal 19.7 all and whatsoever else that may appear to be laid in the way of a souls peace and freedom are these stumbling blocks and he that lays them is the devil who is always seeking whom he may devour 1 Pet. 5.8 and still waiting whom he may betray or catch in and with the snares and baits that he hath laid and doth still lay to that purpose and though men may appear in practise to do this yet I know no other but the devil that is the chief Agent in this Work under God that lays them to hinder poor souls from coming up to live in the pure and perfect enjoyment of their peace rest and freedom in the Lord Jesus or Kingdom of Heaven and he that is appointed to encounter with him and that overcomes him is the great Captain of our Salvation Rev. 12.7 8. Zech. 9.8 the Lord of Hosts who

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

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