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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

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

did men that persecute others for their judgement and endeavours to destroy their knowledge know that it vvould be thereby the more encreased they would not do it for when they send them to Prison they do but send them as to a School vvhere they shal learn more of God and be the more confirmed in the truth they before knew for Christ wil never leave them that he hath once taught but wil be alwaies with them more to teach them that they may more knovv him and be setled and grounded in him And in all my sufferings and imprisonment for the truth to this day I have had with me the company of that one School-Master the Lord Jesus who at first taught me the knowledge of himself in the spiritual School of divine learning the Spirit of himself set up in my heart by vvhich I vvas made a Schollar fit to take my Degrees to bear the burden and undergo the reproaches by men laid upon me in the school of my imprisonment sufferings for the truths sake that I might not fear nor be discouraged by them as I have not bin hitherto praised be God but in six troubles the Lord delivered me and in the seventh which is this I am now under no evil is yet come unto me Job 5 17 18 19 which hath been seven trials and persecutions that I have had for the vvitness of Jesus and by vvhich the Lord hath also tryed and proved me vvhether the Lesson he at first taught me To trust in him and deny my self for him vvere stil ovvned and not forgotten nor denyed by me in which through him I have been hitherto faithful shall so continue unto death if the Lord wil and am not vvithout my revvard vvhich is a Crovvn of Life The fruit of which Life of God manifest in flesh as fast as it vvas ripened in me vvas by the Lord and keeper of the Vinyard in which it grew gathered and sent by me to be distributed among you Acts 20.20 of vvhich with Paul I kept nothing back from you that vvas profitable to you during the time I vvas vvith you nor from the rest of my Brethren in the flesh vvhere I have at any time been but vvith Paul I have taught publikely and from house to house vvhat the Lord hath taught me vvhich I did not do for price nor revvard of men as some Parish-Ministers do that as so many Merchant-men through covetousness make merchandise of the people and seek not the Lord Jesus Christ but themselves but what I do and have done as my conscience bears me vvitness hath been really with heart and soul according to my power for the glory of God and the comfort of his people in the Lord Jesus that as freely I have received so freely have I given for the Vinyard was the Lords and he himself as the Husbandman of the Vinyard did by his spirit in me plow it sow it plant and dress it and caused it to grow by the sweet and powerful dew of himself falling from heaven upon it as the former and later rain upon the earth and being ripe in me he gathered it and made it ready for me and through the power of his spirit working in me sent it abroad among you to be by me declared unto you for your souls comfort did himself whose Messenger I was reward me for it not onely with spiritual comforts to my soul and with food and raiment to my body but also vvith the reproaches of Christ vvhich I count greater riches then the pleasures of Aegypt or the riches and glory of this World in vvhich I also rejoyced as my portion vvith the Lord seeing the Lord in it and vvith Paul learned to be content in all things and vvith him returns you all thanks that have in any measure and freely participated vvith me and ministred to me in my sufferings And novv the same Lord vvhich caused to grovv in me that Gospel-fruit vvhich I declared to you must also cause it to grovv in you before it can bring forth fruit to you that you all vvith me and I vvith you and vve both vvith Ephraim may be like a green Firre-tree in vvhom fruit is found for you had it from me but in vvords vvho only can plant or speak to the ear but it is the Lord that must speak to the heart to teach plant and cause to grovv in you the great Mysterie of godliness for Paul may plant and Apollo may vvater but God must give the encrease vvhich as I have said unto you is That you should knovv God manifest in flesh Jesus Christ the same yesterday and today and for ever born crucified dead buryed risen and ascended and coming to you the second time in spirit and truth without sin unto salvation bringing all things of him unto your remembrance and by which spirit of him in me manifesting the same to me I have published it to you beseeching you all in Christ Jesus to be reconciled to God for that God in Christ from all eternity was himself reconciled to you and all mankind and that vvhile you and all men vvere yet sinners sent his Son to dye for us according to the Scriptures to reconcile you to himself and in mercy to you he pardoned you and by his spirit within you frees you and which Message of him for the reconciliation of all men to God so far as to me was made known by him I have been am and shall be through him ever faithful who through his mercy hath preserved me in it And now the increase of the Fruit of this Vinyard of Christ for the increase of his body taught me by him in the School of my imprisonment and sufferings for the truth and ripened and gathered by him in the Harvest thereof I shall present you with from the Lord and not as from my self without him who first vvrit in my heart and after by my hand in several Treatises of several subjects while I have been a prisoner among you to be in order presented to you shortly agreeable to what I have before in vvords declared amongst you and which if you have an ear to hear vvhat the spirit saith may be more opened in you by the Lord of that spirit in the reading thereof and in vvhich reading I desire you all to vvait upon the Lord to be taught by him vvho only can give you an appetite to it and make you detest it that can make you vvilling and able to receive it vvhich is the mysterie of Christ crucified and you that cannot receive all for the present vvhy rest your selves satisfied vvith what you can and judge nothing before the time until the Lord shall come and open it to you vvith an injoyment of it in you 1 Co● 4.5 as he hath done to me in the mean time take this herevvith sent you as a preparative to that vvhich is coming and he that can receive it let him receive

with Christ in God where every man that hath Christ doth behold himselfe and all things and possesse himself and all things even in God who is all and all in all And he that hath not Christ but doth still live in his own will doth not so behold it but still looketh upon it as himself is wicked abominable ful of all contradiction destruction Isa 57 20 2● so remains himself without peace in God for there is no peace to the wicked no nor to the righteous that are righteous and good in them selves and that have not the knowledge of God in Christ But to he that hath Christ and that with Christ his Prophets and Apostles hath thus suffered been thus humbled to be thus exalted may with them rejoyce that ever he saw the day wherein he drank the cup of affliction Col. 1.14 and eat the bread of adversitie to fill up the measure of Christs sufferings for which he now eats the bread of life and drinks the water of life and may with David say It was good for me that I was afflicted for thereby I was taught divine precepts and with Christ learned all obedience to submit to the wil of God in all things saying Thy will be done in earth as it is in heaven that let my condition be what it wil I wil learn therein to be content and alwayes rejoyce in the Lords Judgements that divides between flesh and spirit Isa 27.9 that saves man and destroys sin and all enmity against God and his peoples peace for this is the fruit of the Lords Judgments to take away sin And now with God in Christ I wil delight my self with the worst of men as wel as with the best and with him I will be merciful loving and pitiful unto them as the despised and rejected of men by men yea though he were a Prelate or Cavaliere so called Publican or sinner scorn'd and despis'd by the proud Pharisee that is wise and righteous in himself yet the other waiting for mercy he is rather justified and more easier saved then the Pharisee that seperates himself though he were a Presbyterian Independant Anabaptist c. that glories in his profession righteousness and religion ●sa 65 9. and wil say unto others Stand off come not neer to me I am more holier then thou and so cast them-out of their favour as reprobate ignorant persons why this proud boasting saith the Lord is a stink in my nostrils and a fire that burneth all the day which I cannot approve of but they must come to Judgement with it and lose it before they can be saved and they that have erred in Spirit shal come to understanding ●sa 29.24 1 Cor. i. 30 and they that murmure shal learn doctrine even to be wise and learned in Christ who is head unto them their wisdom and righteousness Justification Sanctification and Redemption for Christ is all and in all CHAP. X. Of Gods appearing in Judgment in man against all things of man and this world that all outward duties worship and obedience by men prosessed 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 purged and saved within in his conscience the more by men is he falsly accused judged and condemned without in his practice AND now against all knowledge wisdome and strength righteousness and glory of men that is not in Christ nor of Christ 1 Cor. 1.17 18. nor grounded upon Christ in spirit and truth wil God come forth unto to Judgment and wil destroy it by the foolish and base things of the world and he wil plead with men for his own wisdome and strength righteousness and glory which he wil not have given to any other god but to himself that none should have the glory of any thing but himselfe nor men to glory in any besides himselfe and he will make all men to know that by fire and by sword will he plead with all flesh good and bad Esa 66.16 and whatsoever is not found in him shal be slain by him even all the works and imaginations of men that men might know the Lord without knowing any thing else therefore will he come against all things of flesh form and formality your keeping of Sabboths and calling of Assemblies wherein you seek your selves and not the Lord which is all but the riches of Aegypt and shal with you come to Judgement as having no part in Christ nor being any thing of his Kingdome Iohn 18.36 for my kingdom saith he is not of this world nor of the things of this world which perish and come to nought it is not meat and drink killing of oxen and slaying of sheep nor the offering up of swines flesh for a sacrifice to the Lord that hee accepts of Isa 66 3 4. for the best of things which men offer up are no better when they are offered up by men and not by Christ and when Christ himselfe is not the offering but that which God accepts of is Christ the offerer and the offering Heb. 10.12 who is peace and reconciliation for all men whose Kingdom is righteousness 1 Cor 5 19. Rom. 14.17 Luk. 17.20 peace and joy in the Holy Ghost and which saith Christ is within you and stands not in outward observations of dayes times persons nor things in the Religions of men which shal all perish in the using Col. 2.22 and is nothing nor shal be nothing with God but Christ the first and the last is all and shal bee all For neither circumcision nor uncircumcision availeth any thing Gal. 6.15 but a new creature nothing outwardly but all inwardly in the spirit minde and heart even circumcision within baptisme within breaking bread and drinking wine within which is bread of life and water of life to every soul that knoweth it within even preaching praying reading hearing seeking the Lord and communion of Saints Esa 26.9 which are all works of grace are all within the keeping of Sabboths which is a Christians rest from the workes of the Law Esa 58.13 no more doing his own wayes nor seeking his own wil is Christ within who is himselfe all these and is the Teacher Keeper and Performer of them all within us Esa 54.13 that gives peace unto us for of our selves we can do nothing But thou O Lord wilt ordain peace Esa 26 12. for thou hast wrought all our works for us and with whomsoever all these things are not seen to be done and performed by Christ within in the heart there is not neither can bee any thing of good done by any Rom. 10.8 9 10 For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness and with the mouth of the heart confession is made unto salvation for from the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh and from the grace

23.13 14. all shall be abased and laid waste brought down and consumed Esa 24.10 yea every Church and house way and worship of mans building shall be broken down and shut up that no man may come in the Lord alone with his way church and worship shall be exalted in men in the day of the great slaughter when the towers shall fall Esa 30.15 16. or the highest part of any church or profession of church way and spirituall notionists and if the Towers fall then the church will be broken and the people therein will be scattared even the sheepheard and his sheep and their worship and service therein will be at an end and then will Christ himselfe appear in a greater glory to bind up the breach of his people and will himselfe come and gather them together to his fold wil teach them himself of his ways he wil be unto them their high Tower church worship and all things the rein for the glory of the former is passed away and they shal not need to teach one another nor assemble themselves to any but the Lord who himself wil gather them be exalted in the midst of them and wil● be righteousness unto them Esa 60.4.5 and then will all their own bravery and costlie apparels of outward rigteousness be all taken from them as t●r scripture expresses even their vailes and glasses their fine lenen and ●oods which the Preists have used to wear and all the righteousness of men as the fine lenen and fleshpots of Egypt with men perfumed and made sweet unto t●●m●●lv●s shall be as fi●thy rags and upon their fleshpots there shall be a stinke and instead of a girdle a rent instead of pride humilitie Esa 3.8 to the end and upon all outward comlyness and beauty shall become a baldness and mourning for the Lord will s●rip himselfe of all outward coverings that men have put upon him to appeare w th a fair outside unto men the vail spred over all nations shall cease and he will make bare his holy arme in the eyes of all nations and wil bring in his own everlasting righteousness which shall not cease and in which there shall be no outward form nor comlyness whereby men should desire it Esa 53.2 but rather hate and abhor it but within even to them that injoy it and have past through his Judgements for it shall it be all glorious pleasant and delightfull And therfore you people all rejoyce in that day of the L da Judgements when it comes upon you as it will perticulerly come to every one of you in hi order to manifes● in you the glory of God even Jesus Christ for the consumation of your own glory with the men of the world which no doubt som of you with Christ in the flesh have already found who had nothing of this worlds glory left him but was crucified to it all that the purpose of God in his day might be manifest upon all flesh to stain the pride of all Glory ●sa 23.9 to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth which is a work much manifested at this day by and upon the people called quakers even to be under the Lords Judgements striping of all worldly honour and glory waiting for Christ in the spirit and who will be unto you as a day of the Lords indignation against sin and enmitie all the works of the devil but with his love towards you to try you to humble you and to save you and it wil be to the rich mighty a day of wrath ●●ph 1.14 15. a day of trouble and heaviness a day of destruction and desolation a day of obscurity and darkness a day of clouds and blackness especialy to them J say that have made flesh their arme that are in their own eyes strong wise and learned in themselves righteous and holy in themselves and not in Christ I say to such it wil be a day of terror great tribulation and though they shal run to the rokes and to the mountaines and cry unto them saying fall on us and hide us from the wrath of the Lamb ●ev 4.15 16 17. and him that sits on the Throne for the great day of his wrath is come and who can stand yet those rocks and mountaines shall not save them nor hide them as the trees of the garden could not hide Adam when he fled to hide himselfe from God after he had sinned therfore should all men in al affliction and tribulation fly onely unto God and to nothing else of man nor the world for God onely is the refuge of his peoble and the rock that shall stand and it is not greatness and mightyness pride and loftiness righteousness nor holyness of men when you fly unto it that can save you from the fear of wrath for that is all below God and hath no part in him but rather fly to the valies even the things that are not and is counted the lowest with men 1 Cor. 1. that shall confound the things of men that are highest with men even to God himselfe which with men is humility meekness and lowlyness for there doth he dwel to give rest and peace in the day of trouble and there wil he hide them from the wrath of their enemies in the day of his Judgements Zeph 2.1 2 3. wherefore with Christ descend and sink ye down out of your selves into a nothingness of all creaturely glory even to the lowest of humanitie and your descension wil be with Christ your ascension into the highest of divinitie which will be unto you the last of Gods judgements and a day of joy and delight And then when the Lord shal have finished his Judgments upon you and perfected his work in you by taking 〈◊〉 your own things from you as doubtless with many hee hath already done who have denyed all for Christ then wil he return unto you a pure language even the language of Canaan and no longer of Aegypt and you shal cal only on the name of the Lord and rest only on him for salvation and not on your owne works wayes and worships any more and you shal all agree together in one minde to serve the Lord with one consent and in one Lord Iesus without any feare for God who is but one cannot be worshipped but by one and in one way even Christ who is the way the truth and the light and in him they that wait upon God shal renew their strength and they shal run and not be weary Iohn 14.6 Esa 40.31 they shal walk and not faint and shal do no iniquity nor speak any evil neither shal any deceitfulness bee found in their mouths nor yet in their hearts for they shal be purged of all uncleanness and bee fed with the Lord and shal lye down with the Lord in safety and none shal make them afraid that walk in Christ but