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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

our second life and resurrection from the dead And that you may see this death taking place upon all that which is enmitie with God Christ your selves and the truth and you thereby come to a resurrection of life in him let me encourage you to trust in God who only can save you and raise you to a newness of life Isa 26.4 for in the Lord Jehovah is everlasting stre●gth who wil bring down under foot Col. 2.14.15 and nayle to his cross all that which is against you and contrary to you therefore you that would see the one to enjoy the other wait upon him in the way which he doth it which is by the obedience of Christ to the cross for he is said to drink of the Brook in the way H●b 2.9 Psal 110.6 7. tasting death for every man by which he is in us and for us woundeth the head of the Dragon and thereby lifteth up his own head as you shall find more of hereafter in what I have written to you that the way of Gods justice judgement and mercy in which he destroyes all his our Enemies is that by which you shal receive comfort and consolation from the Lord as the way of God in which his Prophets Apostles and Saints all waited for him to be taught by him Isa 26 ● as hath been also manifest to be the way of God with me since I knew the Lord and was taught by him and by him made to bear witness of the truth which I received in judgement with him who my self hath been comforted refreshed and restored therewith in all my sufferings and undertakings for him unto this day and who wil also comfort you with the same consolation and restore you with the same restoration into safety with himself for he that hath kept you wil keep you stil and wil cast off none that wait upon him but saith the Prophet Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace and safety whose minde is stayed on thee Isa 26.3 because he trusteth in thee And as far as any of you shal with any in the sufferings of any that suffer for the truth be a sufferer with them who together suffer with Christ so know that as you are partakers with them in the same sufferings of Christ so you are partakers with them in the same glory of Christ though you may not all suffer the outward Bonds and afflictions of the body as others do and as Christ did for us all yet to be sensible of their sufferings as when one member suffers 1 Cor. 12.26 all suffer with it and if one rejoice all rejoice with it and so if we suffer with Christ we shall also reign with him in which the God of all grace who hath called us into his eternal glo y by Christ Jesus after that ye have suffered a while 1 Pet 5.6 7 8 9 11. make you perfect stablish strengthen settle you to whom and to none else be glory and dominion for ever and ever And now you my Brethren and partakers in the same So●-ship and spiritual union of Christ that which I desire and alwaies desired to know among you since I knew you and that I would you should also know among your selves to bear witness to the truth is 1 Cor. 2. ● Jesus Christ and him crucified by which the world is crucified unto you and you unto the world and that whether we are present one with another or absent one from another yet that the truth as it is in Jesus and which maketh you free may abide with you Gal. 6.14 Joh. 8 32 36. chap. 14.16 Phil. 2 5. Rom. 12.16 be perfected in you you thereby to know it by it may be united into one mind and one spirit with the Lord Jesus and one another walking together in one fellowship of the spirit and spiritual union in all humility meekness gentleness and long-suffering Eph. 4.1 2 3. forbearing and forgiving one another in love according to the example of Christ the first and true pattern of all our walkings sufferings undertakings and rejoicings in the Lord even then do you witness the true Christ and light of the World in whom is light and no darkness truth and no error good and no evil and that if you wal● in the light as he is in the light then you have fellowship one with another with those that have fellowship with Christ 1 Joh. 1.5 6. and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son which is his Life shed abroad in your hearts cleanseth you from all sin which fellowship those that are ignorant of God and of the pardon of their sins by Christ knoweth not but are in darkness and under the bondage of corruption until now and have not known Christ nor him crucified and so long cannot bear witness unto him Then that you may be tryed and proved to farther learn this Lesson of Christ and be made able and wiling to bear his cross and witness to it you are to mind God in his judgements the way in which you are called before him to learn all the obedience of Christ to the cross who after you have entered into spiritual judgement with the Lord do cause you to enter into temporal judgement with men as companions with his spiritual as he did Christ his Prophets Apostles and Saints who learned obedience by the things which they suffered and through sufferings they were made perfect Heb. 2.10 therefore are the prisons and sufferings of the Prophets and Apostles of the Lord Jesus into which they were cast by men for the truth said to be their Schools where they both learned and witnessed Christ and him crucified and which by experience I have found to be mine where I have learned and witnessed with them unto the same truth that against me false witnesses have risen up and laid to my charge things which I knew not as they did against them Psal 35. ● and all that witness the truth to this day in the time of their witnessing in which sufferings of the Prophets Apostles the truth was the more manifest both to them and the world as it was with Jeremiah vvho vvas taught in the Dungeon of the Prison Jer. 32.1 2. chap. 29● so●● and from thence sent forth Wr●tings of his Visions and Revelations of vvhat God had made knovvn unto him as also did the rest of the Prophets in their sufferings and as did the Apostles and John the Divine Rev. 1.9 Col. 4.18 Phil. 1.12 13 who wrote the Evangelist and the Epistles and when he was persecuted into the I le of Patmos for the testimony of Jesus then was the revelations of Jesus Christ revealed to him and written by him and Paul writ his Epistles in his times of suffering and saith he My Bonds proves all to the furtherance of the Gospel and times of persecution are the times of Gods farther teaching his people and

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

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. II. 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

reviling for though they may band themselvs together against you and the Lords anointed in you to break the cords and bands of love and unity amongst you yet their devices shall not prosper but the Lord will have them in derision Psa 2. and will break them in peices like a pottors vessel and will set his own anointed even Christ upon his Throne who shall be great amongst you and you with him shall rejoyce together for he that sits in the Heavens shall laugh and the Lord his King shall raine in the midst of you for evermore and the work began among you will he perfect Psa 35.1 8. and will turn all the evil devices of men that have invented evil against you without cause to devoure you upon their own heads and shame and confusion shall befall them in the end but the more is your glory as is their shame for they shall be the Lords displeasure against them and they shall be vexed for the evil that they have done against you and could not have their purposes fulfilled upon any of you and in the midst of all your peace and joy in the Lord shall be manifest in you For though in the world you have tribulation yet in Christ you shall have peace and be of good cheer Ioh. 16.33 for Christ hath overcome the world And if you will bee possessors of the truth you must bee armed with patience in the Lord to suffer reproach and tryalls for the truth 1 Pet. 4 1. and with all willingnesse and obedience of mind thereunto you must yeeld your selves as a living sacrifice ready to be offered up with Christ on the cross though the outward sufferings with many of you may not be afflicted upon you Rom. 12.1.2 but being made willing in the minde your willingnesse and free submission therunto shall be accepted even the will for the deed concerning which God will try you if you will deny him or no Heb. 11.17 Ge. 22.12.10.11.12 as he did Abraham when he made him offer up his onely son Isaac to be slaine but he did not slay him for being made willing it was accepted of God with him as if it had been done by him and the will for the deed with some shall suffice 1 Tim. 6.12 13. and they shall with others that do suffer reap the same fruit for some onely shall suffer outwardly as witnesses for the rest as did Christ for us who before Pontius Pilate witnessed a good profession yet with him we reap the same fruit 1 Pet. 2.21 witnessing with him the same profession and whose steps some in the outward sufferings must follow him as his apostle did even those whom the Lord shall chuse and whom he will make able with himselfe and the apostles to beare witnesse with him unto his suffrings for the true life we live as the same which he said should come to passe and doth and will come to pass till the man of sin in any shall be no more as in all ages some in whom the life hath been most manifest and most purely have lived it have suffered in bearing witness to the life of ●od according as it hath been manifest under any dispensation that truth is alwayes witnessed by sufferings going with it and following after it according to the Scriptures as a reward given to it 2 Thes 1.4 5. and a fellow helper and companion for it for he that will live godly in Christ Jesus must suffer persecution and persecutions and tribulations is a mainfestation of Gods righteous Judgements whereby a soul is counted worthy of the kingdom of God for which he also suffers And as sufferings is a reward of truth and godlyness and a companion for it joyned with it unto those that injoy it and know it to live in it so the reward of sufferings is a crown of glory all witnessing one another for ought not Christ who is the truth first to suffer and then to enter into his glory and saith Paul who sought with Beasts at Ephasus I have fought a good fight I have finished my course 1 Tim. 4.7 8. I have kept the faith Hence forth is laid up for me a Crown of Glory as the price of my race which I have won and which is brought unto me at the revelation of Jesus Christ and to all that love his appearing and he to comfort us in afflictions saith 2 Thess 1.7 you who are troubled rest with us in the same spirit waiting for the same crown as a recompence of reward for all your troubles when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty Angels powerfully appearing and manifesting himselfe for your good in the Lord but to take vengeance on all that that trouble you and that know not God and obey not the gospel of the Lord Jesus but do persecute it they shal suffer the vengeance of eternal fire God himselfe whose wrath is revealed from Heaven against all ungodlynesse and Unrighteousnesse of men that hold the TRUTH in unrighteousness Rom. 1.18 and shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and the glory of his power when he shall come to be gloryfied in his saints and admired in all that do believe 2 Thes 1. Heb. 12.2 and that have with patienec indured the cross and despised the shame these shall have joy and glory with God when these that trouble them shall have sorrow and anguish of spirit and so much the more for beholding the others joy and confidence in the Lord which they so much have persecuted For thinkest thou O man that Judgest another that thou shalt escape the Judgements of God Rom. 2.3 4 5 6. no thou that hardnest thy heart against another treasureth up wrath unto thy selfe against the day of wrath which must certainly come upon thee for God will reward every man according to his works for with what Judgement ye Judge Mat. 7.2 ye shall be Judged and with what measure ye meet it shall be measured to you againe wherefore howle and lament ●●e 3.1 c. ●oel 1.5 c. and be ashamed thou man of the Devil that persecutest and Judgest another for when the Lords Judgements are upon thee it will be a day of terror unto thee till by Judgement the enemy sin and the devil within thee shall be cast out from thee as from those whom thou persecutest And you that with Christ have been Judged by men and have been made partakers of Christs sufferings rejoyce ye that when his Glory shal appeare ye may be glad with exceeding joy and account that the long sufferings of God is salvation 1 Pet. 4.13.14 and that if ye be rayled against for the name of Christ happie are ye for the spirit of God and of glory resteth upon you and on their part that speak evil of you God is evil spoken of by them but on your