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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

contented vvith in the Lord that I still am dear Friends and Brethren a very loving Friend and Brother in Christ to all men friends and enemies so called vvhile I am and the truth is in me Richard Coppin A TABLE of the Contents 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 and brethren husband wife and chidren house lands and all things therein to be forsaken for Christ what they are with the time when and the manner how Chap. II. How the cross of Christ is accompanied with the crosses of the world fiery tryals and persecutions for the truth the clouds of Christs coming and the way of his pe●ple in which he leads them and walks with them to save them how and from what Chap. III. Of the afflictions of Ioseph his being sold into Egypt by his brethren his being falsly accused and imprisoned how God thereby exalted him and Judged his brethren that sold him how the same was with Christ and is with us to this day Chap. IV. How Pharoah and the Aegyptians and all that with them to this day do betray and persecute accuse judge and condemn any for conscience towards God are acted by the Devil hardened and commanded to it by God how with Cain Judas and the Devil they are all Gods servants doing their devillish dark and black work and whose spirit in them shall with the Devil Death Hel and false Prophet and the Beast which was and is not gone into perdition be damned and dye the second death when and how Chap. V. A definition of the rightous and the wicked as two parts of three in man to be destroyed and how the third part neither righteous nor wicked is brought through the fire and saved with a distinction of Dives and Lazaras and their conditions in life and death and of the dog licking Lazarus soars Chap. VI. That the more purer innocent and faithful men are in the truth the more do men plot and devise evil of them to destroy them as against the Lords Prophets Christ and his Apostles how God by his presence with them delivers them as he did Israel the three Children Daniel Jonah ond Jeremiah and destroyed their enemies Ch. VII How by persecution truth is increased and the more advanced and they that suffer for it to the terror of them that persecute it that truth is rewarded and witnessed by sufferings how the reward of suffrings is a crown of glory manifest in men and when Chap. VIII How the way to find our life is to lose it that no man is to know any thing of himself but to be innocent in knowing his own innocency and righteousness also what the true knowkledge of God is who hath it and how it s obtained Chap. IX How all men are alike to God to whom light and darkness is all one that no man is better nor worse then another and how what it is to be b●th best and worst in one person to be punished and exalted and the way unto it how we are to serve one another and of the state of Christ as God and man and how with him we are to love all men Chap. X. Of Gods appearing in Judgment in man against all things of man and this world that all outward duties worship and obed●ence by men professed 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 p●rged and saved within in his conscience the more by men is he falsly accused judged and condemned without in his practice Chap. XI Nothing which opposes God can stand against him how he will pull down and get above Towers Churches worships religions and all things of men that is not in Christ also to whom the Lords Judgements are a day of joy and delight and to whom they are a day of darksnes and trouble t trust in God under them is a sure refuge of the good that comes by them and when Chap XII Incouragem●nts to wait with patience under the Lords Judgments and not to opp●se them Of the works of the Lord Jesus what th●y are and how we bear them about in our bodies when Chap. XIII How men of the greatest light witnessing to truth under Judgments do suffer most unjustly by false accusations with the loss of all things below God that not all but some men as witnesses shall suff●r f●r the rest of one life how some professing the same life for fear of suffering will deny them that suffer for them rather then suffer with them as the Disciples of Christ did Chap. XIIII That the true sufferer w ll God inable with joy to bear his burthen to follow Christ and deny himself to trust in God and rejoyce in all things how with Christ he is humbled to the lowest with men and exalted to the highest with God as the fruit and effect of Gods Judgements the state of perfection ERRATA In the Title page line 23. read comparandis next read Epistle for Epitl● in p. 2. of the Epistle l. 34. r. the for ye p. 3 l. 19 r. with for which Book p. 5. l. 16. read Iohn for Rom. l. 18. r. to for so p. 6. l. 22. r. nurses for snuff● p. 7. l. 1. r. with for which p. 9 l. 17. r. whom for when l. 20. r. few for some p. 10. l. 1. r. follow for slow p. 12. l. 3. r. pleased p. 20. l. 24 25. r. he for the Devil p. ●4 l. 21. r. lofty p. 25. l. 9. r. purified p. 29. l. 27. r knawed l. 28. r. with p. 32. l. 1. r. know p. 35. l. 3. r. against p. 39. l. 32. r. see p. 41. l. 15. r. good l. 28. r. and l 31. r. every p. 42. l. 3. r. might l. 4 r. might l. 23. r. the p. 47. l 9 r. desired not l 16 r. of p 49. l. 13 r. good l 30 r. humbled himself p 52 l. 32 r made p 57 l. 2 dele that l 8 r. comfort p 58 l 19. r. set up p 59 l 17 r. which p. 62 l 27 r marks p 65 l 16 add are p 66 l 29 read knowing p 68 l 3 thy men p 69 l. 2 r. injoyed it l 30. r. they must continue maintaining p 70 l 24. r. with A new and spiritual Song of Sion and the Lamb Written by the Author in the Holy Land And also in his sufferings wherein God did him try And unto him revealed life light and liberty Psal 98. 1 Psal 101.1 O sing unto the Lord a new Song for he hath done marvelous things his right hand and his holy arm hath gotten him the victory I will sing unto the Lord of mercy and judgement unto thee O Lord will I sing 1. THE Lamb of God our King is come In righteousness to reign Ioh. 1.29 Isa 32.1 Heb. 2.9 Rev.

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

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

of God within are the works of grace manifest without which grace within is to believe in God and see an end of sin and to have peace joy and comfort in God and with men here on earth doing to all men as they would that all men should do unto them forsaking swearing lying cheating cozening drunkenness murder and adultery and the abomination of pride and covetousness which is most frequently used with the greatest Professors of Religion who are the greatest persecutors of others and all for want of the inward teachings and workings of God within them for the inward sends forth the outward And therefore you that would be holy without and righteous without to do good outwardly must first be so within for till then you know not what the outward is nor how to discern what is good nor what is evil to doe the one and leave the other undone therefore saith the Prophets Apostles all Saints every one for himself Lord create in me a new heart and renew my spirit within me give unto me the mind of Christ within Psa 51.6 7 8 10. clense and purge me within of all my secret faults then shall I offer upon thy alter even Christ the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving and pay my vows where it is due then shal I sing halalujahs even the Lord Omnipotent reigneth and not as the righteous Scribes and Pharisees with all outward professors of our times that would reign themselves insteed of Christ and that stand to make cleane of themselves the out-side of the cup and pltatter but remain stil within ful of all extortion and excess and who like unto whited walls and painted Sepulchres would appear beautifull without Mat. 23.25 26 27 ●8 righteous unto men and who may have escaped some of the grosser pollution of the world but within full of uncleannesse and hyphocrisie and therefore as I know I shall declare that all outside religions only in the form and the knowledge of the Scripture only in the letter is but as an outside garment by most men put on to cover a rotten deceitfull inside and by which they would appear unto men to be more holyer then others but this is no holyness of God nor of Christ but the seed of the serpent which abideth in the lye and not in the truth therfore except your righteousness exceed this you can in no wise enter into Heaven nor learn how to act purely towards men without wherefore thou blind Pharisee saith Christ clense first that which is within the cup and the pltter that the outward may be cleane also And this clensing of men cannot be done but by Christ and not by him but by him in judgements manifest in men therefore in the way of thy Judgements have we waited for thee O Lord saith the prophet and the desire of our soul is only to thy name the remembrance of thee for when thy Judgements are in the earth then the inhabitants of the world shall learn righteousness Esa 26.7 8 9. and in this cleansing work of teaching man Christ sits upon his throne of Justice Judgment and Mercy in man to search and try man even as a refiner and purifier of gold and silver Mal 3.1.2 Esa 4 4 who by the spirit of Judgement and of burning do wash and purge away all mans filthiness and the more the judgements of Christ are manifest within the greater upon that person will the Judgements and afflictions of men be manifest without against him and against that way of God in him which is Christ the hope of glory because it calls him from the wayes of men without which is of Antichrist and men in their wayes do allwayes appose God in his way and when Christ by his Judgements shall undoe man within of all that is a mans own and make all these in him become Christs own then shall men by their Judgements undoe him without with men that and amongst men to render him odious to men and he shall not be against it nor resist it but the power of the inward shall make him willing and able t● beare and indure with cheerfulnesse the outward Psa 110.3 in which work of Judgement Christ will not leave him nor forsake him but will restore peace and comforth unto him to all which proceedings of Christ within men and of men without men from the time of Christ manifest in me to this day I bear witnesse that as God from the day of my first conversion to the truth hath increased the manifestation of his sonn in me so hath men in opposion to that increased their persecution against me CHAP. XI Nothing which opposes God can stand against him how he will pull down and get above Towers Churches worships religions and all things of men that is not in Christ also to whom the Lords Judgements are a day of joy and delight and to whom they are a day of darkness and trouble to trust in God under them is a sure refuge of the good that comes by them and when ANd now you all that would know the Lord your own salvation wait for this day of God wherein he comes to call you from your owne and for his owne from you and to destoy yours yea all of yours that you call your own without him receive him in it oppose it not nor think it strange but bid it welcom when it comes though it be to your outward sufferings and to the loss of your lives honor and credit goods and good names amongst men and all things on this side God even the perfection of all human excellencie wisdom righteousnesse religion nothing of which can stand with you nor is to be pleaded by you when God comes forth against it to Judgement but you are to see an end of all perfection of things below God and then are you most perfect and pure in God and Christ and have the greatest peace in your selves when with Christ you are become in your own eyes and before men most poor vile and imperfect and impure as man see nothing good of your own to defend you nor make you accepted with men for the best of man is not able to stand when God appeareth but best and worst all must go when God calls for it who will leave nothing but when God comes his work is before him and his reward is with him even to bring down man and exalt himselfe above and upon all the Hills and Mountains of men that are high and lifted up by men to save themselvs from his wrath Judgments which must come upon them and upon every high tower and strong walls of Churches and Church fellowship set by men to worship God in and by Esa 2.11 and upon all the sheeps of Tarshish all the pleasant pictures of outward reformed ordinances and observations of men in these Churches and Church wayes which appear outwardly beautyfull unto men Esa