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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

resist the comming of it before and will still dwell in your owne ceiled houses your fet formes and opinions of religious wayes and worships and the Lords house way worship and religion even Christ which you should have possest injoy lyeth waste among you and is not inhabited by you but when the Lord by manifesting himself in you shal appear to build up the waste places and raise up the Tabernacle of David which is fallen down and close up the breaches thereof as in the dayes of old Amos 9. ii and so cause the desolate heritages even men and all things which hath been known of them to be without Christ Zacha. 6.12 13. to be inhabited by Christ and shall manifest himselfe in them to be unto them their house habitation and glory then will men forsake their own houses lands and purchased fields which they have builded and planted with all their houshold-stuff therein being and their goodly cedars therein growing and shall not returne to take any thing with them but shall leave all behind them and follow Christ yea and though you may be upon the top of your houses in the highest of your profession and godlyness reaching even to Heaven yet you must come down and shall not take any thing with you Luke 17.30 31. neither shall these in the field return back to reap any profit of all their own labours which they have labored under the Sun in performing of duties and ordinances of religion wherein they thought themselves rich without Christ this all must be left lost and forsaken and no more remembred in the knowledg of Christ and him crucified And would you now dye that you might live then this is the way to see your selves and all things of your selves crucified with Christ and to know him living in you to be unto you a father and mother and husband and wife and children and brother and sister and house and lands and life and death Rom. 8.32 and food and rayment and all things whatsoever else is in the world you and all is Christs and Christ and all is yours and you and Christ with all things else is Gods and you are not your own but as you are in him i Cor. 3 2i 22 23 for you are bought with a price to be the Lords and all that you are you are in the Lord 1 Cor. 6.20 therefore glorifie God in your bodies and in your spirits which is Gods and know nothing in you but Christ and him crucified and whatsoever else you have known to be any thing or any profit or advantage to you besides the Lord count it all lost for Christ and with Paul count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledg of Jesus Christ our Lord for when you suffer the loss of all Phil. 3.7 8. and count them but dung that you may win Christ this is the fruits and effct of your hanging on the cross and this with men is hard to do the way is narrow and some there be that find it CHAP. 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How the cross ●f Christ is accompanied with the crosses of the world firey troyals and persecutions for the truth the clouds of Christs coming ●nd t●e way of his people in which he leads them and walks with them to save them how and from what AND wheresoever this way of Christ crucified shall be manifest and found with any that with Christ have been hanging upon the cross of divine wisdom and power to be thereby weaned from sin and the world with the loss of all their own wisedom righteousness and strength there do the crosses of the world flow and come together as fellow-helpers and companions in assistance with the cross of Christ 1 Pet. 2.21 for even hereunto were ye called because Christ also suffered for us leaving us an example to follow his steps And therefore you my brethren and fellow sufferers for the truth you that have in any measure learned to embrace this cross of Christ for the saving of your souls let it incourage you not to lay it down but with patience to lye down under it Gal. 6 17. and to bear it about in your bodies as the marks of the Lord Jesus till you be perfected in him and still to trust in God and wait upon him in whatsoever affliction he by men or any other means as a rod in his hand shall afflict upon you to humble you to walk with him and be not sorrowful nor troubled at any thing Eph 2.12 as those that are without hope but rejoyce alwayes and in all things still praysing the Lord for his goodness in laying his cross upon you to humble you and protect you in it and who without respect of persons hath called you out of darkness into his marvelous light manifest by the Lord Jesus in the way of his judgements by the spirit of judgement and by the spirit of burning for the destruction of the flesh that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus ● Cor. 5.5 or God manifest in flesh Therefore my brethren think it not strange concerning fierie tryalls ● Pet. 1.12 persecutions tribulations and sufferings as if some strange thing happened unto you for they are companions with Christ on the cross and they are the clouds in which he comes to manifest his glory on earth and the way which he walked in himself before he entred into glory wherein the Father made known himselfe unto him and in which way he leads his dearest Saints that know him and are nearest in union with him for the tryal of their faith 1 Pet. 1.6 7. which being tryed by fire might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of the Lord Jesus as the Lords spirit with the Scriptures in all my sufferings for the truth to this day bears me witness that bands and afflictions Acts 14 22. persecutions and tryals through which a soule enters into the kingdom of God are very good and in which much of God hath been manifest unto me for that the Lord by the Angel of his presence was with me to sanctifie it to me and save me as he did his Prophets and people of old and as he will do all throughout all generations of the world for in all their afflictions he was afflicted Isa 63 9. and the Angel of his presence saved them in his love and in his mercy he redeemed them and he bear them and carried them alwayes continually which hath been witnessed by his Prophets of old from Adam unto this day as I shall more particularly hereafter mention that the coming of God to save his people from their enemies the world flesh sin and the devil and to draw them out of many waters death hell and damnation hath been in the way of his judgements in dark and thick clouds of the sky as all can witness that ever saw him and have known any

13 8. Hos 3. Mat. 7.12 Jam. 2.12 His glorious Kingdom is begun He for all men was slain And he himself all men do wooe To be for none but he And do as they 'd be done unto In perfect Libertie 2. His Wedding-day with men hee 'l keep The Law of Love fulfil Rev. 19.6 7 8 9. Rev. 4.4 With Garments white hee 'l clothe his sheep This is his Fathers will That they should all return to him In union for to be Jer. 3.14 And see themselves redeem'd from sin to perfect libertie Luk. 6.68 3. This news abroad I did proclaim As Christ gave me command Matth. 28 19 20. Jer. 4.12 23 14. Luk. 22.15 That men from sin he would reclaim To live i' th' Holie Land And those that did this Doctrine hate Me often they did try Matth. 10.16 17 18. My body for to captivate From outward liberty 4. Luk. 19.47 48. Acts 16.19 Mat. 26.34 Joh. 11.47 48 56 57 And as in Kent I this did preach Christs Kingdom to make known Some Ministers that there did teach This Doctrine would not own But straight unto the Magistrate And Souldiers they did flie To have them presently me take From outward liberty 5. Lu 20.20 Psal 35 11 Luk 14 55.56 57 Acts 5 17 Acts 6 9 And then against me they did plot And to my charge did lay Many things which I knew not To have me thence away And unto prison did me send Me for the truth to try Because with them I did contend For Gospel-liberty 6. Then that in Christ I might have rest P●al 37 7● Heb 49 10. He unto me did say Enter thou into my sweet breast That nothing thee annoy Until the wrath of men be past Isa 26 20 Rev 2 10 I 'le shut thee up in me Though into prison they thee cast I 'le be thy Liberty 7. A work I have for thee to do Which by thee I 'le maintain Acts 26 16 17 18. Eph. 1 13 〈◊〉 4 30 Psa 35 27 Psa 69 30 ●●a 51 1 My truth thou must bear witness to While life in thee remain I have upon thee set my seal My Name to magnifie And will unto thee there reveal True light and liberty 8. The Prisons were my Prophets Schools Where they were taught by me To learn my Statutes and my Rules Jer 32 11 Rev 1 9 10 Isa 26 9 Psal 119 54 55 J●● ●9 1 Eph 3 1 2 3 chap 4 ●2 And eke my Majesty And they from theene did send abroad News of Eternity That he who is the only Lord Will give men liberty 9. As I beheld his glory bright Shining in me so clear Col 1 26 27. Rev 14 12 13 Eph 5 14 Isa 26 19 Isa 14 5 I was thereby constrain'd to write His voice the dead to hear That they should all awake and sing that in the dust did lie By Christ their dew on them falling To give them liberty 10. In spirit this he will declare To all both great and small Isa 52 10 Psal 36 9 His holy Arm he will make bear before the Nations all And they that will his glory see Must have him for their eye For there is none but only he Can see true liberty 11. All eyes besides him are so blind That he an eye will be To enlighten all that are behind And see no liberty Psal 4● 89 Psal 146.7 8. Rom 6 4 Psal 119 45● That they might dye and rise with him From all that is a lye And be thereby brought out of sin To walk at Liberty 12. He that true liberty hath known Doth praises to Christ sing Psal 30 3● 4 That he from death will bring me home No more to live in sin And when this nevvs abroad is spread Lu 24 45 Jam ● 25 That all men may it see Those that vvith understanding read May find their liberty 13. And though I a prisoner be Yet am I free from care Luk 20 19 20 And men vvith feign'd vvords flattery Do seek me to ensnare They counsel me to change my mind And so my vvords deny And tells me I shall thereby find My outvvard liberty 14. False vvitnesse also did arise Psa 35.11 against me to betray My innocency by their lyes My life to take avvay Yet still the truth I 'le vvitness to Is● 14.8 Psal 118.6 Though for the same I dye And vvill not fear vvhat man can do Against my liberty 15. And that vvhich doth me still suppor● 2 Sam. 22 2. Exod. 15 2 Is Christ my Rock and Tovver Who is all strength joy and comfort To me in every hour Whose glory is still in my sight His presence stands me by Psal 16 8 9 10 11 To make himself my vvhole delight Peace rest and liberty 16. Isai 55.4 Rom. 1.9 Rev. 1 5 Christ is my witness and my guide My conscience pure and clear I know the Lord is on my side Therefore I need not fear I will not fear the stroke of death Nor Tirants crueltie So soon as Christ receives my breath My soul gains libertie 17. A vow to God I once did make Deut 23 21 22 Which vow to him is due That I for him will freelie speak That none but him is true And rather then from him I 'le turn Rom ● 4 Dan 3 17 18 Or should his truth denie I 'le yeild my bodie to be burnd This is my libertie 18. Patience puts balm unto my sores Love lives without controul Je● 8.22 They lock my bodie within the doors But cannot lock my soul Psal 97.11 2 Cor. 3.17 Life Light and Libertie so sweet Within my brest doth lie They that my bodie here do keep Know no such libertie 19. There 's neither pardon from the Pope Nor Prayers made to Saints That can enlarge my farther scope Or shorten my complaints T is Christ above Psal 146.7 Iob. 8.36 the Lord of love That for man-kind did die No one but he that pardon'd me Can work my libertie 20. There 's many men have treasure store Yet are so worldlie bent Having so much they scrape up more Eccles 4. ● And never a●● content But I that am the poor'st of all From worldlie cares am free Which makes me think they are in thrall And I at libertie 21. The man that bears a wavering mind Jam ● 6 7 8 P●ov 29 22. Is subject unto wo He that to anger is inclin'd Must sorrow undergo But he that bears a patient heart Though he a prisoner be Re● 13 10 Exceeds both nature skill and art In point of libertie 22. God did for me this place appoint Before that I came here P●●● 1.29 And he a spirit to me lent That I the same should bear He gave to me a willing mind Psal 110.3 Col 1 24 And did my soul make free To suffer that which was behind Before true libertie 23. And