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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

one to another is but an Image of what it is in and from God to man so Christ himself in a humane appearance as he was man though he had in him the fulness of the Godhead yet was he but an Image of the invisible God Col. 1.15 or the Eternal Being of the Godhead in its Divine state And all Images are to pass away and be removed day by day 1 Cor. 7 31. For the fashion of this world passeth away and whatsoever passes away must in that state of mortality be a lye in opposition to that which is immortal and true because it abides not always the same but is changeable And as a thing made cannot know that which made it so a lye cannot know the truth nor speak the truth but as it is in the truth no longer known to be a lye but the truth it self 1 Cor. 2.11 As nothing therefore but God who is a Spirit knows God so nothing but the truth knows the truth nor can speak the truth and if any thing of truth be spoken between man and man Mat. 10.20 it is the truth it self that speaks it self through its own image for what one man speaks to another in words is but an Image of the same Being spoken to man by the truth in silence for the word in the sound is but an Image of what is before spoken in the mind all the writings of men in the letter is but an Image of the writings of God in the heart and Spirit So the Scripture called the Word of God which are but the writings of men in an outward testimony John 1.1 2. is but an Image of the true Word Christ that spoke before in them that writ it and witnessed to the word by that which is written 1 Iohn 2 3 4 for what the Word of God to wit Christ speaks in men that man speaks and writes again to men Rom. 1.20 For what we have seen and heard we declare unto you saith Paul and all things in the world visible is but an Image of God Psal 51.6 or the things invisible and so all things as made is but an Image of it self as unmade Adam was first formed then Eve 1 Tim. 2 13 14. and the woman taken out of man is but the Image and glory of the man and lives not but in the man therefore while she abides in the Image and is not the same with the thing imaged she abides in a lye and is in the transgression So in like manner all mankind with the whole creation as coming out of God is but an Image of God as the Son is of the Father and as the woman is of the man and lives not but in God the Father that sends them forth from himself as an Image of himself and as it abides in the Image 1 Iohn 2.27 28. and not in him that made it so it abides in the lye and in the transgression and if any would know the truth in the love of the truth to speak it and live in it they must wait to be taken up in the understanding into that which is the truth as Christ was and therein cease in themselves to stand any longer in the Image but in the substance as Christ did when he did ascend from the Son to the Father and so must become the same with the truth in the truth it self before they can know what the truth is in the understanding of it 2 Cor. 5 1● Isa 42.16 I n 2. Ephes 1.10 so in the chang of all things in man the woman becomes the man or weakness becomes strength darkness becomes light death becomes life and a lye the truth when the truth hath had its perfect work in making all things free in turning water into wine and bringing all things together in one for the truth is not without a lye 1 Cor. 11.11 12. the man is not without the woman nor the woman without the man in the Lord So not God without us nor we without him in the truth which truth comprehends Father Son and Spirit will wisdom and power variety in unity and unity in variety the Creator and the creature and so God himself who is the truth in Jesus who is one and all is himself the way in which all men should walk the truth which all men should practice Col. 2.6 and the life which all men should live with Christ in God manifest in flesh as he is God in union with man and man in union with God loving all men as himself doing for all men as for himself which should be the whole life of all men one to another Matth. 5 44 45. living in the truth as it is in Jesus even to walk in him as their path live in him as their life and so to follow his steps in the Lord Jesus Ephes 5.1 2. Acts 17.26 1 Ioh. 10.11 hating none speaking evil of none persecuting none but to be friendly loving kind and merciful to all as flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone being all of one blood and so to forgive one another as God in Christ hath forgiven them And he who goes any other way practises any other thing 2 Cor. 5.18 19. Iohn 14.8 1 Iohn 1.6 7 8. lives any other life then that which is God living in them and all men reconciling the whole world to himself by Jesus Christ the way the truth and the life is so far a lyar and the truth is not in him O how few are there that live this life of God in Christ to be reconciled to all men though enemies love all men though enemies be at peace with all men though enemies and to do for all men as they would do for themselves and as they would others should do unto them why very few yet live in the truth to practise it though most men profess it Therefore all men who live not in the truth are lyars and live in the filthy abomination of the lye as in sin death hell and damnation wrath envy hatred malice persecution revenge and all the works of iniquity and must be taken up into the truth and so cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone there to be purged from all their uncleanness and filthy abomination Rev. 21 8. that hath defaced the Image of God as to men before they can be lovers of God or the truth and cease from persecuting one another All things while it abides in the Image being there in a prison and in darkness is an enemy to the thing imaged because it represents it not perfectly or as it is in Jesus the thing made is an enemy to that which makes it the creature to the Creator Isa 5.9.4 5 6 c. man to God for all men as men and sinners so remaining are haters of God and do oppose the truth in the manifestation But the more truth is opposed

Matth. 5.10 11 12. the more will it increase in power and break forth in the light of its manifestation to those that are opposed and also for the good of those that do oppose though for a time it may be hid from their eyes Those that betrayed and murther'd Christ and his Apostles Iohn 16.2 3. thought they did God service and themselves good and so they did though they knew it not in persecuting reviling stoning and killing blasphemers as they said against God but they knew neither God them nor the blasphemy they charged them with for had they known Christ they would not have put him to death nor crucified the Lord of glory as they did Act. 3.17 18 yet this did bring glory to God and good to all his people for through death did he ascend into the glory of his Father Iohn 14.3 in which glory he returned again to his people to take them to himself that where he was they might be also Iohn 12.32 and saith he If I be lifted up I will draw all men unto me not onely Scribes and Pharisees but Publicans and sinners when the Scribes and Pharisees thought it had belong'd onely to themselves as righteous men and not unto sinners Mat. 11.19 and because he was a friend to all even sinners as well as them therefore sought they the more to kill him yet his love was still the same both to them and all others though enemies to him for saith he of those betrayed him and took his life from him 〈◊〉 ●3 34. Fa●ther forgive them they know not what they do and the more they sought to betray him the more did the people follow him and grew in love with him and men can never do any thing more to the loss of their own honour Religion and self-interests and more to advance the truth in the life and power of it then to oppose it and persecute it ● for then do men ●he more enquire after it and truth will have its perfect work and find out a way to advance it self in the greatest persecution though men never so much oppose it Therefore when men go to stop the current of truth and the mouthes of those that declare it by an outward Law they do but as those that go to make a dam to stop the current of a continual running stream which will suddenly make its way through it and carry all before it Or as those who go to throw oyl and brimstone to quench fire that is burning which the more they do the more it will flame and burn to the destruction of that which is thrown into it to quench it So is it with truth when it arises in life and power to manifest it self Isa 27.4 nothing is or shall be then able to stand against it to hinder the growth and increase of it but it will drive all before it that shall stand in the way of it and as fire among thorns so will it burn waste consume and bring to nothing all that which is abomination and a lye in the world that nothing hereafter shall be seen to stand in the high place of God but himself will there shew himself to be all in all as he is the One and the All the All and the One though not yet manifest unto all men Therefore O man thou that wouldst not have the truth to spread which thou knowest not cease any longer to oppose it if thou canst forbear for through much opposition is the truth made manifest and God would not be said to be a conqueror if there were not something of a lye in opposition to the truth to be conquered for were there no opposition known in men to oppose God there would be in men no need of the knowledge of the coming of God in Christ to men to oppose against that for his coming to manifest himself is to reconcile his enemies to himself and to destroy that which is enmity in them against him for for this purpose was the son of God manifest 1 Iohn 3. ●● to destroy the works of the devil and men in looking upon God to be at a distance from them through the temptations of Satan do thereby oppose his presence with them for God is nigh them Acts 17 2●● 28. with them and in them as one reconciled to them and all things in the world with them though they know it not and this is mans destruction not to know God as God knows man Hosea 4 6. but to live as one without God in the world always fearing of God as an angry God and so kept at a distance from God 2 Tim. 3.7 by being ignorant of God as always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth neither can till they are enlightned by the light of God in their own consciences to see God with them restoring rest and peace to them and himself to be in them the way the truth and the life for them unto the end of which way the knowledge of which truth and enjoyment of which life all men have a race to run and a way to come before they can sit down at the end of their journey and live in the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus CHAP. II. The Authors Life and Conversation before and after the day of his Conversion the manner of his converting and his zeal in searching trying and passing by all the Ways Worships and Opinions of men in their several Forms ●f Religion howmen appeared in it how it all vanished away and ceased as to him and when HEarken my beloved brethren come behold and see the race which you are to run the way which you are to come and the price that is to be wo● as I will here shew unto you by setting before you the race that I have run Phil 3. 1 Cor. 9.14 the way that I have gone and the price that I have won wherein if the Lord will you may behold the manner and course of my life and the dealings of God with me all along from the time he first created me and brought me forth of my mothers womb to this day and that you by comparing with it the manner and course of your life and the dealings of God with you may see how near a progress you have made to this price Job 42.5 the fathers Kingdom and end of your journey God himself attainable in this life after which there is no more travelling but you are set down and at rest with the son in the bos●m of the Father And● when once I came to this state of the measure of the gift of Christin me I then was in a state to see God as he is and the truth as it is in Jesus made manifest in my flesh and so was made to look back upon what I had seen and formerly been from the day of my creation to the day of my

it is in Jesus or God as he is in Christ reconciling the whole world to himself not imputing to any man sin and transgression and so the Lord Jesus who is God with us is to us the way to the truth the life living in the truth Matth. 1 23. John 14.6 and the truth lived in that in due time will make manifest the freedom of all men in the knowledge of the truth from that which is a lye 1 Tim. 2 3 4 5 6. and bring all men to that which is the truth in himself though in the time of mens falling away from the first Image to have an outward shew or form of godliness without the power they are not brought from the knowledge of a lye as it is in man to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus There is nothing more opposed less known and practised by men living in the knowledge of a lye yet professing truth and godliness Tit. 1.16 then the truth is For they profess that they know God but in works they deny him being abominable and disobedient and unto every good work a reprobate as the Scripture saith for all men knowing owning and living in any thing below God do so long know own and live in a lye and so are themselves a lye to themselves hating abominating and opposing the truth which they know not and no lye can know the truth but the truth knows a lye Mat. 11.27 not as a lye but as the truth So no man knows God but God knows man yet not as man but as himself who knows all things in truth and righteousness which truth is himself Isa 45.5 6. for he that is all things cannot know any thing besides himself there being not any thing but himself to be known else how is he all things except a lye and all the known gods of the Nations which men have worshipt and run a whoring after are false Gods and a lye and a lye is nothing in being therefore is one God the truth and all the good that is is him for truth and goodness live together in God who is good and beholds all things good yea very good because he can see nothing but what is himself for there is none good but one that is God Mat. 19.17 and yet the whole creation of God is said to be good by God Gen. 1 31. Chap. 2.1 2. for when he had made all things and finished his work he beheld it and saw it was very good Therefore is God in Christ said to see know understand and judge all things in truth and righteousness as being all in all things to himself 1 John 2.21 John 8.44 though the things in themselves and to men are lyes yet truth in him and to him who is all things and of whom and to whom nothing is a lye for no lye is of the truth but all lyes as lyes are onely of and known by the Devil the great lyar of the world the deceiver of mankind Isa 5 20. that turns the truth into a lye and light into darkness and good into evil ascribing that wisdom power will reason knowledge and understanding unto man which is due to God setting up man in the place of God 2 Thes 2.4 as knowing and being something else besides God out of God that so himself might have a Kingdom this is a lye and the lyar and the Kingdom of darkness unto which lye and lyar as unto the Devil and his Kingdom sin hell and damnation God will not give any place of being out of himself to remain but will turn it again from a lye to the truth from man to himself from Satan unto God for he onely is Acts 26.18 and there is none besides him so that he onely is true and all things in him are truth Therefore to understand the truth we must understand and know God that he onely is that which is to remain and so to understand the truth as it is in Jesus God in Christ manifest in flesh the Original Centre of all things that which makes forms Col. 1 16. Jer 23 24. creates and fills of its fulness all things that were are and ever shall be in the whole Creation world without end himself having neither beginning nor end but is the same yesterday Heb. 13 8. to day and for ever and changeth not Therefore is the truth as being the same still in God one unchangeable immortal incomprehensible unlimited 1 Tim. 6 16 1 Tim 1.17 individual divine being full of wisdom power life light and glory or the whole Godhead acting ruling and governing all things in the world and so the same still at all times in all places and things comprehending in it self all things that are in the world as its own and yet it self not comprehending not comprehended of or confined to any one thing time Psal 50.12 place or person but doth it self make create and bring forth from it self as comprehended in it self all things visible in the world Rom 1.20 as an Image of it self invisible And this is God who when he will can and doth both break in pieces and set together again empty and fill again wound and heal again Hosea 6.1 kill and make alive again all things that are in generation in the world evermore to be changeable in it self as made and unchangeable in himself as unmade and he evermore to do the same as being an unchangeable workman always making Eccle. 1 9. creating and filling all things that are changeable for that which hath been is that which shall be and that which is done is that which shall be done and there is no new thing under the Sun and the best of men and things so created or made in the most pure fine formalists outside appearance of them are but Images of the Image of God placed in man which men would set up to worship and adore as Nebuchadnezzar did his Image Daniel 3. and they that will not fall down before it and submit themselves to it as to men and their Images ways worships and opinions must by the decree of Nebuchadnezzar or the same spirit of him now appearing amongst men be cast into the hot fiery furnace made hot by men that is to say either silenced imprisoned banished or put to death Therefore what are the best of Images to the thing imaged but vanity and a lye being as it is changeable All is vanity and vexation of spirit Eccles 1.14 And so the best of things in its first created state is but an image of the most high God which he onely makes to serve its generation and to pass away as we see all things do for man in his upright state before his fall was but an Image of God Religion in the form is but an Image of Religion in the mind and will so Justice and Righteousness in and amongst men acted from

by Christ alone and this is my message which I have to all the world and which I am to deliver freely and for which those that have not the same message to deliver do hate me and persecute me but I passed them all by and would not be partaker of their sins and he that hath kept me hitherto keeps me still that I may not do Antichrists work neither receive Antichrists wages or live by the sins of the people as some others do But some may say Did you never receive any money for preaching I answer I never received any that ever I put in my own purse but where there was money appointed for preaching and no Priest there to challenge it as his propriety that either I must dispose of it or others whom it concerned not must put it in their own purses I gave order that the poor of each Parish might have it as will be witnessed in several places Acts 20.33 34 35. and therefore can say with Paul I have coveted no mans silver or gold or apparel yet of this will I not glory but I will glory in the Lord who hath so far kept me from being a hireling in Antichrists Kingdom that he will rather make all my ways appear more for the abominating and throwing down of all such Antichristian ways of maintenance then for the setting of it up for which the Priests and all Impropriators with all that live in that and the like maintenance that knew me or had heard of me could never abide me but always persecuted me sought for my imprisonment banishment or silencing and also my life While I was thus carried forth in contending for the truth yet was I still ready to spend and be spent for the good of all people even my enemies and was more ready to give then to receive according to my ability 2 Cor. 12.15 Acts 20.35 and so still at peace in my self through all things with Christ in God that ever I undertook and went through by him in all my proceedings to this day CHAP. V. The Authors further proceedings in his dealings with men in all conditions under their several Forms and Administrations That his Doctrine never tended to draw men to any Opinion under any one Form of Worship but to press forwards to the life of God in Christ above the Whorish Religion and Vanities of the World that to l●ve in Vnity Peace and Love with all men having peace with God is the pure Religion ANd now the manner of my farther dealings in Judgement and Doctrine with men in all conditions under their several Forms Administrations or Dispensations was still a pressing of them forwards after Christ to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus and not a staying of men any where or endeavouring to draw men to any Form Way Worship or Opinion from Christ neither to rail against any man of any opinion whatsoever but to speak the truth to all shewing what all those opinions of men are and what and where they themselves are while under them and how they are to forsake all and follow Christ be they Prelates Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists or whatsoever opinion else may be found out by man besides Christ all are to pass away and they are to pass them all by as by so many harlots houses Prov. 7. standing by the ways side by which poor souls are to pass before they come to their rest and into which as into so many Ale-houses or Taverns many thousand of poor souls are allured and drawn aside to eat and to drink and commit fornication with the Inhabitants thereof neglecting their journey to Canaan or Mount Sion and where for some time they take up their rest that many pass by them and get into heaven before them while they are feasting with harlots Rev. 17.14 15. the daughters of the great Whore that sits upon many waters and on the mountains of mens holiness eating bread and drinking wine until the Lord come to feast with them there and by a strong hand overcome them pull them down or bring them forth and so lead them on carrying them by all those opinions of men onely to knock at their doors as some have done before look in upon them and behold their devotion but not to go into them Prov. 7.27 lest they should be devoured by them For their house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death Therefore let not your hearts be inclined to their ways go not astray in their pathes lest you should stay or be seduced by them But say friends come away this is not your rest arise depart for it is polluted and if you stay it will destroy you with a sore destruction Micah 2.10 This say unto them but go not in for if you go in to them the Devil will come and take you make you drunk and there cause you to stay and so make you become Devils with him or them to accuse and persecute eat devour and condemn one another or all that come not in to you and be the same with you in your opinions Therefore I advise you not to stay any where Col. 3.1 2. nor to set your minds desires and affections upon any thing below Christ in the way you are to go to Christ but still in all this your worshipping of God as you call it to press forwards to the mark Phil. 3. for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus where you will then rest be at peace and be satisfied and where you will no more accuse persecute judge devour and condemn one another as you do but where you will be reconciled in love one to another and to all men though your greatest enemies And this is the advice that I give to all men in all that I say unto them to press forwards to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus and I do not go about to set up any thing below the Lord Jesus nor to draw men to any opinion of things besides him but to shew them the vanity and nothingness of all the ways and opinions of men below him declaring what they are in themselves and their places shewing that they are but notions and so mens inventions shadows dying vanities tormenting pleasures things that would perish and come to an end with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men Job 14.14 yet never declared against them so as to forbid any of them that saw their life in them but bid all men to wait till their change come and not to go forth by their own strength or awake their beloved before his time Cant. 2.7 till he shall come with a strong hand and lead them forth and so place them in their own land as in himself And now having shewed them the vanity of all those things I then set before them the love of God in Christ Jesus with exhortations to love

one another as a sure testimony of their love to God for the which I have been hated and persecuted by some men of all opinions and religions whatsoever in the world whether Papists Prelates Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Ranters Quakers and whatsoever opinion else below the truth though I love them all and am with them all and they all with me but a cloud is over them that they see me not neither know me that is they see not my life being not yet reconciled to it yet when this cloud shall be taken away from all and the Sun of Righteousness risen in all Matth 23. ● then shall they see both me and one another and have joy in each other and be at peace with all men as being all brethren of one family sons of one Father heirs of one Kingdom and so see themselves and all men dwelling together in one City or heaven God And this is pure Religion the new Jerusalem the Kingdom of the Lord and end of their journey where the wolf shall dwell with the lamb that is the wicked with the godly or men of all opinions meet and agree in one union and fellowship in the Lord Jesus And where the leopard shall lie down with the kid and the calf and the young lyon and the fatlings together and a little child to wit Christ shall lead them and the cow and the bear shall feed or all men who have been of different judgements shall be of one mind in the Lord their young ones shall lye down together all men shall bring forth their seed unto God and the lyon shall eat straw like the ox or God will tame the wildest of creatures the persecutingst and most devouringst of men or of things in men that all shall be alike in knowledge and the sucking childe shall play on the hole of the asp Isa 11. and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice den or he that is sucking at the breast and he that is weaned from the breast of his own Religion and shall not one envy another for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the sea that is God will so manifest himself that all men and creatures shall be in union together love one another and do unto others as they would others should do unto them this is the Law and the Prophets and this is the Kingdom of the Lord and high calling of God which all men are to press after and not to rest till they are come in to it and is no more nor no less then what I have always declared as that which I received of the Lord yet not that I Richard Coppin as a creature could at any time give to another what I my self have received or teach another what I am taught or do for another what the Lord hath done for me in that case but I onely declare what I have received of the Lord and am taught by the Lord and what the Lord may do for others when the time appointed of the Father shall come for he that gives to me as a creature must give to them as creatures Isa 2 22. and he that taught me must teach them if ever they be taught the truth therefore cease from man whose breath is in h● nostrils 1 John 2. for wherein is he to be accounted of and eye him the Lord Jesus or that anointing within you who is the salvation of all men and whom you are to hear in all things for all others besides him that go forth as Teachers of the people are but false Teachers and Seducers according to the Scripture but the Lord alone or this anointing in us is our onely Teacher and men in speaking one to another can do no more as they are men but tell one another what the Lord hath done for them as the Prophet David saith Come hear and I will tell thee what the Lord hath done for my soul and what we have seen and heard we declare unto you saith Paul which declarations of men may conform each other in something which they before have had some little experience of in themselves the Lord working with it though they did not so know it as to utter it which when it is declared to them they may then set their seals to it as truth to them there being in them the same spirit witnessing to the same things which makes them believe it For he that believes hath the witness in himself but if there be not the same spirit witnessing in him that hears as is in him that speaks they cannot believe or set seal to the truth of what is spoken any further then it agrees with their own spirits or opinions but will rather persecute it to the death and also them that shall declare it as they have done to Christ the Apostles and others since that from thence and from ●uch arises all persecutions And so having brought you thus far to shew unto you my proceedings hitherto both of my life and doctrine delivered to the world I shall go on and therein set before you a larger path of my persecution and tryals both at Worcester Oxford and at Glocester as of things considerable from the first beginning to the end as a further testimony to the truth And first of my tryal at Worcester and the proceedings thereunto CHAP. VI. The Ministers malicious proceedings against the Author in Worcestershire to bring him to a tryal His examination before several Justices and Ministers and his being bound over to Worcester Assizes how and for what THe first proceedings of the Ministers against me to bring me to a tryal at Worcester was from my preaching at Emload in Worcestershire where I was desired by some of the Eminentest men of that Parish to come and there to preach where I continued for the space of four days declaring the things which I had seen and heard of the Lord both in publique and private with the desire of the people and the consent of the said Minister of that place But the said Minister finding the people so much adhering to what I delivered and believing in it more then in what he himself usually delivered amongst them he began to be wrath and was troubled and fearing that he should lose his flock or at least the benefit he received of them he sent and caused a dispute or at least a vain jangling to be between some certain Ministers of that Countrey and my self while I was there some of whose names are as follows Eason of Batsford Collier of Blackly Nevil and others as Ministers to the people in their several Parishes but no grace could they minister to the hearers and therefore cannot be said in truth to be Ministers of Christ but of Antichrist as appeared by what they declared to the people as also by their practise for they endeavoured to prove the Law under that administration of Moses to be

Truths Testimony AND A Testimony of Truths Appearing IN Power Life Light Glory Creating Manifesting Increasing and Vindicating it self 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 Viz. 1. Before Baron Wilde at Worcester 2. Before Judge Nicholas at Worcester 3. Before Serjeant Green at Oxford 4. Before Serjeant Hutton at Oxford 5. Before Serjeant Glyn at Glocester Together with The part●cular Accusations brought against him in each Tryal and his answers to the same As 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 John 16.2 They shall put you out of the Synagogues yea the time cometh that whosoever killeth you will think that he doth God service Gal. 4.29 But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the Spirit even so it is now London printed and are to be sold at the black Spread Eagle at the West-end of Pauls the Blackmoores-head at Fleet bridge and at the Seven-stars in Pauls Church-yard 1655. Friends and Enemies THat the truth of those transactions that have past between me and my adversaries may appear it is through the desire of many people here published as a Narrative of what the Lord in these dividing times hath done and will do for the encrease of the manifestation of truth amongst men that through much opposition by men living in a lye against those who live in the truth is the truth made manifest concerning which I have not thought my life too dear to have parted with but with much zeal and love both to God and all people have I been carried on to vindicate the truth of what was manifested to me and declared by me who with much joy went through it I still knowing my self clear and justified in and by the Lord and my own conscience in all things that I have seen known and been made a partaker of in truth and righteousness And if any shall question the truth of what is here written in any part of it it is and will be ready to be proved not onely by my self but by several other persons that have been hearers of and eye-witnesses to the same and that had taken several Copies of what was done in the Courts at my tryals all which was still recorded and kept to this day and now published for the view of all that desire to look into it as an outward testimony bearing witness of the truth against all that is a lye in the world And I do further declare that in all my tryals and proceedings to this day I never feed or bribed any man whatsover to shew me any favour neither did any ever require it of me more then what was due by course of Law to the Clerks of Assizes for I was not to seek to men for any favour but to leave all to the Lord whose own the cause was and who is and will be made manifest in due time to all men as he is and hath been to him who is ready to serve all men in love while he is Richard Coppin SEveral books of the same Author now extant viz. one entituled Divine Teachings in which are three together a second Mans Righteousness examined a third Saul smitten a fourth A Man-child born and to be sold with this The Contents Chap. 1. WHat truth is and what it is not who knows it and lives in it c. page 1 Chap. 2. The Authors life and conversation before and after the day of his conversion c. page 9 Chap. 3. The Authors Call and Commission to preach what and from whence it was The Priests Call and Commission to preach page 15 Chap. 4. The Authors first prosecution of his Commission and his being opposed for the same c. page 17 Chap. 5. The Authors farther proceedings with men in all conditions under their several Forms and Administrations c. page 23 Chap. 6. The Ministers malicious proceeding against the Author in Worcestershire c. page 27 Chap. 7. Of his tryal at Worcester Assizes before Baron Wilde the particular accusations against him and his answers to them c. page 31 Chap. 8. The Authors speech made to the Judge after his tryal page 44 Chap. 9. The Authors second appearing at Worcester Assizes before Judge Nicholas page 48 Chap. 10. The Authors Tryal at Oxford Assizes before Serjeant Green The particular accusations against him and his answers to them c. page 50 Chap. 11. The Authors second appearing at Oxford before Judge Hutton c. page 70 Chap. 12. The Authors humble appeal to his Highness Oliver Lord Protector as a general redress for all people page 71 Chap. 13. The Sufferings of Christ his Prophets and Apostles with the Authors presented to his Highness c. page 75 Chap. 14. A further discovery to his Highness of the malicious practices ignorant censures and illegal proceedings of two Justices and certain Ministers at Stow c. page 79 Chap. 15. The Authors Tryal at Glocester Assizes before Serjeant Glyn. page 85 Truhts Testimony AND A Testimony of Truths appearing In Power Life Light and Glory creating manifesting increasing and vindicating of it self in the midst of Persecution CHAP. I. What Truth is and what it is not who knows it and lives in it that it is always persecuted and by whom that it most appears when it is most opposed and how GOd that made the world and all things therein whose goodness fills heaven and earth is holy Acts 17.24 25 26 27 28 just and good the pure perfect true God not confined to time place person nor thing but comprehends in himself all things that are and all things in him that is pure perfect true just and good so is to him Titus 1.15 and he cannot behold any thing any otherwise then as it is in himself who sees knows possesses and enjoys all things not as man who is a lyar but as God who is true and who is all 1 Cor. 15.28 and all in all in truth and righteousness and whatsoever besides a lye is or may be said by men not to be in God and God not to be in that is a lye and he that saith it is a lyar and no lyar can stand in the presence of God to know Gods presence with him till he be brought from the knowledge of a lye to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus by the appearing of God in Jesus Christ to him 2 Cor. 5.18 19. Therefore that which all men are to be to know to live in and to practice in truth and righteousness that they may no longer be shut out from the presence of God as lyars is the truth as