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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

that men might have peace and joy in it and God glorified by it but in man the place which the Lord hath appointed for himself to dwell in for behold the Tabernacle of God is with men that he might be a Comforter to them to encrease amongst them righteousness peace and joy which is the Kingdom of the Lord and till we have it in our selves we have it not any where but if there then every where which is a new name written that no man knows but he that hath it and thus the Scripture declares unto us what and where heaven is and I know no other heaven as to me in which is mans salvation from sin death hell and the world but Christ in man and man in Christ and they that will have any other let them declare what and where that is as I have declared what and where this is which is according to the Scripture and my own experience Eighthly That he who thought there was a hell to him there was a hell but he that thought there was no hell to him there was no hell Answ My Lord I yet know no other hell as to me then what I have found in my own conscience though the time hath been that I have feared another as most men do and as all men else have done till their consciences were purged but this I have found in my self that when it pleased God to make know Christ to me to take away from me the fear of hell he also took away hell for fear hath torment therefore to me it appears that while we live in the fear of hell we have it are in it and so subject to the punishment of it being kept in bondage by it till Christ in us shall destroy that fear and so set our minds at liberry as is written That for as much as the children are partakers of flesh and blood Jesus Christ himself took part of the same that through death he might destroy him that had the power of death which is the Devil and so free them who all their life time were subject to bondage and now happy is that soul that sees himself so made free by Christ for he is free indeed and now sees an end of the Devil sin death and hell which he before lived in fear of and was in bondage to and therefore when the Lord Jesus is pleased to deliver us from the fear of it that it shall no more have power over us and thereby manifest in us perfect love wherein is no fear he then delivers us from hell it self from which every believer is freed Rev. 21. but the fearful and unbelieving and the abominable and murthehers and whoremongers and sorcerers and Idolaters and all lyars while they so remain are cast into it and so have their part in the Lake of fire burning with brimstone till the Lord Jesus by his mighty power shall quench the fire raise them up and overcome all their enemies for them and so restore peace to them in him that is their peace the Lord Jesus and then he that hath part in the first resurrection through Christ or is once made free by Christ of him the second death shall have no power but he is changed from death unto life by the spirit of the Lord and so sees an end of death and hell as to him All which I shall leave to your Lordships consideration and this honourable Court and do give you many thanks for that I have had liberty to speak for my self But my accusers were much troubled that I had so fair a hearing and began to urge many other things of their own inventions against me which was not in the Indictment First they said that I denyed the Law of Moses in saying there was no salvation by it which they affirmed it was if man would keep it That if it were possible for a man now to keep the Law in the letter of it which that it is impossible yet there would be no salvation by it for any man God having found out another way even by Jesus Christ without which no man could be saved 2. They said that I denyed the keeping of the Sabboth which they went to prove from the fourth Commandment Remember thou keep holy the Sabboth day To which I answered that the true Sabboth of a Christian was Christ and I knew no other as to me though that day which they now call a Sabboth day I keep it as exactly and as purely as any of them did in preaching to the people but not upon the account of a Sabboth day but as the first day of the week as the Apostles did being a day set apart for that use 3. They said that I spake in derision of heaven saying that if a Mill-stone were at heaven it would be hundreds of years a coming down To which I answered That I never said the words but one in my company did once say that they were spoken by a Minister in the Pulpit who there endeavouring to shew unto the people the vast distance between heaven and earth told them that if a Mill-stone were at heaven it would be many hundred years a coming down and that one of his hearers should make answer that if heaven were above the skies and a Mill-stone so long a coming down how long then should he be a going up And this my Lord was declared by one of their own tribe yet they would ascribe it to me though I never said the words 4. They said that I should deny the resurrection of the body and said there was no other but what was in flowers and grass also when the Corps laid in a grave were cast up again though turned to earth then was there a resurrection To which I answered that the resurrection of the dead I never denyed but do alwayes affirm it neither did I ever speak those words though they might be spoke in my company Yet it may be said that in this there is a resurrection though not denying any other for the vertue of every carkass laid in the earth doth ascend upwards with the earth and so come forth in flowers and grass also when a grave is digged and the body before laid in it though rotted to earth again cast up with the bones and all things thereto belonging then may it be said to be a resurrection of that body and the true resurrection not denyed but those things being thus answered and the malice of my accusers made manifest the Judge appeared more satisfied and my accusers more ashamed Then after the Judge had heard the whole business and declared the substance thereof to the Jury who understood it not they went forth to consult upon their Verdict whether all or any part of the charge were blasphemy by the Act or no who returned in their Verdict guilty being asked of what part they said of that concerning heaven and hell Then the Judge told them that unless it came

stood and measured the earth he beheld and drove asunder the Nations and the everlasting mountains were scattered the perpetual hills did bow that is the mountains of fear sin death the Devil and mens pretended holiness heaven and happiness which is filthiness when out of its place Psalm 64.6 this shall all be scattered and melt before the Lord as mountains standing between the Lord and us and as so many false gods in the way of the true God which hath been said to last for ever yet these shall pass away and be removed out of their places into no place but fly away from the face of him that sits upon the throne whose name is called Faithful and true and that reigns himself for ever and ever world without end And thus one life ends in another life the life of the old man in the life of the new man or we changed from life to life from glory to glory from one everlasting to another til we can change no more Rev 20.11 which shews that there are more changes then one and more everlastings then one as to men and so more lives then one which men are said to live and be changed from till they are changed from all things into God which is their last change A word of Conclusion to the Iudge AND now lastly I cannot but add a few words more and therein affirm both before God and men that ever since I knew any thing of God my whole design both in writing speaking and walking according to the utmost of my power received of God hath ever been and I hope ever shall be still to set forth the glory of God the advancement of Christs Kingdom peace and righteousness among men and the throwing down of Antichrist the Devil and his Kingdom with all deceivableness and unrighteousness of men and whatsoever else is and hath been contrary to the publike peace of this Nation under which we should be protected and no longer do I desire or shall endeavour to write or speak a word then that it should not tend to this even the advancement of the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ without partiality or aiming at any private or self-interest of my own or an● others distinct but for the publike good of all men whom I desire and do still endeavour in love to serve being made willing to spend and be spent for them notwithstanding the many reproaches revilings and persecutions I meet withal yet still that I would continue a faithful servant to the truth in all things by which I am made free to serve in love and for which I am not only ready to be bound but to suffer All which particulars according to your Lordships desire I do most humbly present you with before this honourable Court and so leave them to your consideration to do as the Lord of heaven and earth shall direct you who works all things according to the counsel of his own will and will glorifie himself in all things that himself doth And now what shall I say more why let the Lords will be done whether in life or death in freedom or imprisonment according to his own will and pleasure be it into whose blessed arms of mercy love joy and peace I do freely give up my self and shall for ever lodge in his bosom of life and salvation there to rest and abide for ever While I was making my answer my accusers with many others of their consorts did all the time of my pleading interrupt me urging many things to me to insnare me and to incense the Judge and Jury against me till the Judge reproved them for it who after he had heard my answer and understanding it knowing it also not to come within the compass of any late Act of Parliament and withal perceiving the malice of my enemies did as the Lord had directed him who before the petty Jury went forth to consult upon their verdict who understood it not themselves neither what they had to do in such a business being all ignorant men both of the Law and of such things acquainted them with the truth of the business that so Justice and Equity might take place whose directions were according to what follows Judge You of the Jury you have heard the evidence and you have heard the answer of his defence which if what he hath said to us be his meaning it is very good and what I believe my self to be truth and we are to take his sense and meaning upon the words and not anothers the words being his own but should we take the very express words of the Indictment without a qualification of them yet it comes not under the Law or Act of Parliament according to the rule of which Act we are to go as for the first thing that he should say Christ dyed for his own sins it comes not neer it though indeed the second concerning heaven and hell comes something neer it yet not so neer as to be found within the compass of it for the Act saith if a man avow and affirm that there is no heaven and hell but that he doth not and this also was by way of dispute or conference after Sermon as you see the witnesses to the Bill do confess and what is said in dispute cannot be said to be avowed and affirmed for it may fall in by way of an Argument c. And as to the last words that everlasting life should end in this life there is nothing mentioned in the Act against it therefore we are not to meddle with it and you are not to bring him in guilty for any thing he is here indicted it being not within the compass of the Act. And thus with other words to that purpose did the Judge speak to the Jury before they gave in their verdict which none that heard it but thought it had been sufficient to have satisfied any honest Jury in the world had they been but rational men yet it satisfied not these for they malitiously brought me in guilty who were prompt to it by my accusers and others that followed them forth of the Court contradicting the words of the Judge saying that they were not to take notice of what the Judge had said neither of my answer but the Bill Being asked the reason why they brought me in guilty they said they could do no less they were so followed by the Priests from place to place and importuned to it that they could be at no quiet for them unless they did it A wise Jury to be sworn and then swayed by other men but this they did to do the Priests a pleasure against me as Festus did to do the Jews a pleasure against Paul Acts 25.9 Then the Judge examined them what crime they found me guilty of they answered they could not tell what but according to the evidence then said the Iudge doth the thing evidenced come within the compass of the Act who again caused

did again and again say that Christ suffered not for them as acted by him but as imputed to him and so they became his which he proved from these Scriptures He was made 〈◊〉 for us and The Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all And Secondly That he should say There is no heaven and hell but what is in man He did not but did prove from Scripture that there was a heaven and a hell in man not denying any other which by others might be believed as to them And Thirdly That he should say That everlasting life should end in this life He did not but said That there was that written in Scripture which was said to be everlasting yet had an end as he proved from the ending of the first Covenant and Priest-hood under the Law with the conditions thereof which was said to be for ever And Fourthly as to his life and conversation it hath been so civil honest and respective towards all men for all that ever we saw or knew of him that none ever yet could accuse him and therefore we do believe that for the good that is in him and proceeds from him to the edifying of many people he is hated and persecuted To all which particulars we have here subscribed our names and shall be ready to take our Oaths A Copy of a Certificate presented to the Court by many of the godly and well-affected people of Oxford in the behalf of Richard Coppin WE the Inhabitants of the City of Oxford whose names are here underwritten do hereby certifie That Richard Coppin hath several times preached in Oxford and hath been heard by us who never heard any thing delivered by him to our knowledge but what hath been true and sound doctrine according to the Scripture and the manifestation of God to us And we do also certifie that his life and conversation hath ever been towards all sorts of men honest just and upright that ever we could see know or hear of him Concerning which we have here subscribed our names and shall be also ready to testifie upon Oath The first particular Charged in the Indictment FIrst That I should say That Christ Jesus the Son of God and Saviour of the world did suffer for his own sins as well as the Peoples Answ My Lord for answer to this I do affirm and ever did since I knew and declared any thing of God That Jesus Christ the Son of the living God and Saviour of the whole world as he lives in God never acted sin but imputatively all our sins became his were laid upon him John 3.17 1 John 2.2 Heb. 10.5 6.7 Rom. 8.3 Heb. 2.14 Luke 1.74 and reckoned to him by the Father and Jesus Christ as the Son in obedience to the Father freely took them upon himself clothed himself with our flesh sinful flesh and so suffered for sin overcame and condemned sin and all enemies in our nature wherein his appearance in us doth manifest to us that he satisfied the Fathers justice payed our score and set us at liberty though Christ himself which is Mat. 1.23 1 Pet. 2.22 2 Cor 5.21 Isa 53. Rom. 5.10 Iohn 14.19 Emmanuel God with us did no sin neither was guil found in his mouth as saith the Scripture yet he was made sin for us and The Lord hath laid upon him the iniquity of us all and by his stripes are we healed by his life are we saved and do live for saith Christ Because I live ye shall live also And now the head cannot be said to live without the body nor the body without the head 1 Cor 11.3 Ephes 5.23 29 30. Heb. 5.3 7.27 1 Cor. 12.12 13 27. so not Christ without us nor we without Christ he being our head and we members of his body of his flesh and of his bones and Christ suffering for the sin of us ●his members may also be said to suffer for the sin of his own body whose body we are for saith Paul Ye are the body of Christ and members in particular and in this sense he may be said to suffer for his own sins which is no blasphemy to say Secondly That there is no heaven and hell but what is in man Answ My Lord for answer to this I do affirm and ever did as aforesaid First That there is a God according to the Scriptures and that this God is the God of truth peace and love and the Father of it who is called a Spirit and whose throne is in heaven Isa 66.1 1 Tim 6.16 1 King 8.27 Jer. 23 23 24. Isa 6.3 and that dwelleth in light and which the heaven of heavens cannot contain and who is not limitted to any time place or person but heaven and earth is full of his glory And so much for God what and where he is Secondly That there is a Devil according to the Scripture and this Devil is the god of sin as of this world which darkens all appearances of good things 2 Cor. 4.4 Rev. 20.1 2 3. whose habitation is in hell and who is limitted to time place and person and cannot go beyond his bounds and is the Prince of darkness and of death the power of the ayr Ephes 2.20 John 8.44 Rev. 21.8 and 12.10 John 5.45 Iude ver 9. the spirit ruling in the children of disobedience which makes them so long to continue the children of the Devil who is a lyar and the father of them and all lyes and lyars are of and in him who shall together with him suffer in hell fire and who is also the accuser of the brethren from whom all accusations proceed with all hatred envy and malice and hath no part in Christ and that this Devil Iam. 3.14 15 Iohn 14.36 1 Pet. 5.8 Gen. 3.15 Psal 110.5 6 as a roaring lyon goes about from City to City from County to County or from Worcester to Oxford seeking whom he may devour till the Lyon of the Tribe of Judah meets with him breaks his head destroys his power frustrates his design and so ruines his Kingdom And Thirdly That there is also a heaven for the righteous in Christ to be saved and made happy in life and salvation with Christ in God and there is a hell also for the wicked in which they are and shall be tormented with the Devil and false Prophets but for the place what and where it is so far as the Scripture is silent in it we are to be silent in it and cannot determine of it any further then the Scripture doth But this we may say with the Scripture first concerning heaven that the Kingdom of God is righteousness peace and joy in the holy Ghost and Behold the Kingdom of God is within you yet on high with God Rom 14.1 Luke 17.20 21. above the earth or any creature And as concerning hell it is in Scripture compared to a grave and we read that Christ descended into it and David saith to