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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A80446	Saul smitten for not smiting Amalek according to the severity of the command: and the residue of the spoil sentenced to death, which Saul preserved and spared alive, (to wit) man, woman, infant, suckling, oxe, sheep, camel and ass. Being an allegorical allusion to the present passages of the times, delivered in a sermon at Somerset-House, May 1. upon the dissolution of the late Parliament. Also, a great and notable blow is given at the serpent, the ruine of the whore and her familie determined; wherein is discovered what she was, and is, and the several husbands that have married her, deceased from her, and been decieved by her; also the several children which by her have been brought forth and nursed up, with a dissolution of all unjust government, laws rules and worships exercised over mens lives, liberties and estates, and the restoring of all just government, the peoples rights and priviledges by the Lord Jesus, into its perfect state. As apprehended by Richard Coppin.	Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.	1653 (1653)	Wing C6104; Thomason E711_8; ESTC R207121	28,322	36

thou of the Lord 1 Sam. 15.13 14. I have performed his command then said Samuel what meaneth then the bleating of the sheep in my ears and the lowing of the oxen which I hear as if he might say me thinks I see something still reserved which should not have been then Saul to excuse himself said that the people which were with him spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen to sacrifice he did not so now in these times vers 15. if any man law act form way worship or opinion which was formerly made set up and maintained by any to keep the people in bondage be still preserved kept up and maintained to please any one sort of people which the Lord would have put down and then the Lord do acquaint any of his servants with this and they do acquaint him or them which should have put it down then may he or they excuse themselves and say as Saul did that the people or those that were with us spared it themselves or desired it of us and therefore was it spared supposing in it to have done well they who desired it appearing to us a people walking in the wayes of God c. But let me tell any that should so do that this were still but to act like Saul and to keep something of an old rotten interest and to advance the Kingdom of the World wherein is hypocrisie oppression and tribulation this kingdom being still kept up and exalted in form and formality where then is the exaltation of Christ and his kingdom in Spirit and Power in the hearts of his people which is the Kingdom that ought to be set up and will be set up by the Lord of Lords in opposition to all other and where is the work of righteousness peace joy and freedom among men while this work of oppression and cruelty is carried on therefore so long we may conclude that in them the work is not yet done to them the Kingdom of Christ is not yet come by them the voyce of the Lord is not yet obeyed and with them the Kingdom of Antichrist not yet destroyed But though Saul did thus neglect the command of the Lord and please the people and then to excuse himself lay it upon the people yet let it not be so with us let not us seek to please men who would desire to have any thing spared or reserved that should be destroyed but in all things let us seek to please the Lord and to obey his voice and what his word of commands bids us to do that let us do which is that no oppressor or tyrant be lest in the land that there may be no more complaining in our streets Isa 33.24 or that the Inhabitant there may not say he is sick Again Saul farther to excuse himself saith that what was kept 1 Sam. 15.21 22. it was to sacrifice to the Lord then said Samuel hath the Lord as great delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as in obeying his voyce behold to obey is better then sacrifice Isai 1. and to harken then the fat of Rams and who hath required this at your hands saith the Lord that you should reserve any thing for me who am full and need nothing Psal 50.9 10 11 12. and what should the Lord now require of us who he knows hath nothing but to offer unto him the sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving Isa 51.16 and that is not ours neither but his nor offered by us but by him 't is not we nor all our fasts prayers forms and worships that he accepts of but a sacrifice of righteousness the Lord Jesus who hath already offered up himself once for all Heb. 9.28 and all that he looks for from us and which he will make us to be is to be a still silent passive people Psal 46.10 and to know that he only is active who will do all things himself and cause us to be silent for a silent passive subjected condition to the Lord in all men is that which the Lord accepteth of and is the onely sacrifice that can be offered up unto him whose design now is to subject all men and things to himself and he only appear and be made manifest in all which is the Kingdom of the Lord where nothing of man is to be seen in any thing but all of the Lord and this is the pure and perfect obedience and only sacrifice the Lord cals for in us and which in his own time he by his mighty power will bring to pass with us CHAP. IX Of the Amalekites unjust possessing the Earth both of the Philistians and of Judah of their giving gifts one to another and of what WE read in the 30 chapter of this Book of Samuel vers 16. how the Amalekites had spread themselves over all the Earth eating drinking dancing sporting and delighting themselves because of the great spoil that they had taken from the people both out of the land of the Philistians and out of the land of Judah And were not the Governours of this land together with their authority and familie their infants and sucklings so spred over this land and Nation eating and devouring the fat of the land both of Cavaleers and Round-heads so called enemies and friends or all men of what judgement or opinion soever all were subjected to them and they had the spoil of all in their hands or at their command to dispose of as they pleased even their wealth riches honour peace freedom and all priviledges whatsoever they were Lords over it and could and did command it at their own will and pleasure And have we not seen for many ages how they of this and other lands have continued eating drinking dancing feasting feeding and refreshing themselves making themselves rich and fat and merry by the peoples rights sending and giving gifts one to another of that which they had taken from the people Rev. 11.10 rejoycing and delighting themselves in it that they had made all men subject to them and their ways and had the spoil and command of all in their hands to do with it as they would this was the merriment of the Amalakites in their cruelty towards the people of the Philistians and of Judah whose spoil they had got into their hands and which Saul was commanded to recover from them and restore to the people again but did not CHAP. X. How men intrusted with the Civil power of the Nation ought not to be proud and high-minded but humble and meek before God and man that honour is the ready way to dishonour and how NOw observe because Saul did not do the work he should 1 Sam. 15.18 19. but did evil in the sight of the Lord in that he spared any of that which he should have destroyed and recovered not the people but suffered this oppression still to abide upon the people therefore his kingdom was divided from him

we are one and all that is mine is theirs and they with all that they have are mine being members of my body of my flesh and of my bones Eph. 5.30 Rom. 8.17 bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh and so joynt-heirs with me in all things that I am heir to in the Father and then as Christ and we are fellow-heirs so in like manner let us be fellow-heirs one with another in all things that each other do possess and enjoy in the Lord being all brethren of one and the same family and members of one and the same body for we are members one of another Eph. 4.25 Christ saith that the Father hath given him power glory peace freedom liberty life light and salvation yea Rom. 8.29 John 17.21 22 23 24. all that the Father was is and had that he should give it all unto us his people and we come to enjoy it all in him as the same with him then when the Lord Jesus hath given unto us and to our knowledge all that the Father hath given him then as the Father was free to give unto Christ and as Christ was free to give unto us 1 Cor. 7.21 22. so shall we be then free to give one unto another being all the Lords Free-men And now hath the Lord Jesus made any of us free in this pure and perfect freedom of his love and freedom then let us not use it to the satisfying of the flesh as of our selves or any other in particular to the prejudice of others but for the good and safety the preservation and wel-being of our selves and all men whatsoever Let us in love serve one another and then it will appear to be perfect freedom 1 Cor. 7.22 the freedom of the Lord and we the Lords Freemen but if we should appear to act otherways then this we act not like Christ Iohn 8.36 or as such that are made free by Christ but still as bond-men and not free-men when we withhold from any people or thing any thing that is the Lords and given to us for them by the Lord. And now hath the Lord given into our hands the Liberty Peace Freedom and whole trust of the Nation at this time O then let us be just in our places to restore it to the rest of our fellow-brethren whose it is and unto whom it belongs and let us not so act as to keep it in our own hands or to lock it up in a chest or under a Law from them and they not to enjoy it but let them have it and be possest with it and in all things let us see the Lord acting by in and to himself in us for the good of all people CHAP. XV. Christ the true Restorer and Establisher of the Peoples Rights and not men God shaking overturning and destroying men and all things that are setling how men have not power to settle any thing and how we in all changes and turnings are to eye the Lord and rest only in him IEsus Christ is he that must recover again all that is lost Ezek. 34.16 and bring back all that is driven away and restore into our hands again all our Freedoms Liberties and Estates both temporal and spiritual all shall be brought home to us by the Captain of our salvation the Lord Jesus Christ and in whatsoever person or persons he may act in or by for the accomplishment of this work as also in all that is acted let us behold the Lord in it and say it is he who works all things according to the Counsel of his own Will whose Counsel shall stand and who will do all his pleasure Isa 46.10 Exod. 14.3 and let our eyes be upon the Lord continually to behold his salvation and then shall we appear to have all peace content and satisfaction in all things that are acted and done by the Lord and so see all things whatsoever freely to be bestowed upon us of the Lord and though there may be a people or party of any one Faction whatsoever that would indeavour to keep the rights of the people in their own hands Psal 18.46 yet let us wait upon the Lord trust onely in him who is the God of our salvation and though we may for a time see it to be withheld from us yet let us peaceably and quietly wait upon the Lord for the restoring of it to us Heb. 10.37 for certainly the time is at hand wherein he that shall come will come and restore the Kingdom to Israel and will not tarry or neglect the doing of it but a short and a quick work will he make upon the earth he will cut it short in righteousness and so take the Kingdom to himself and himself will rule and ragin in his own Kingdom which consists not in meats and drinks in observing times Rom. 14.17 18. places forms ordinances ways and worships but in righteousness joy and peace in the holy Spirit and this is the Kingdom of the Father which we all wait for expect and pray for when we say Thy Kingdom come Matth. 6.10 But if there be a time wherein men or the enemies of Christ must yet raign with their Kingdom in opposition to the Lord and his Kingdom let us be content with it and patiently undergo the suffering of it only let us tell them that it is no continuing city for them wherein they shall abide or raign ever for it is now even the last time and the higher we see them to be advanced in themselves the nearer is the time of their dissolution or coming down for a short and a quick work will the Lord now make with all flesh and every one that is appointed to have his time his turn and his overturn his beginning and his end shall have it which many we see have already had And no party that now appears to be set up and indued with power below God shall stand long no not long enough to settle or accomplish any thing but their own shame Phil. 3.19 Psal 83.16 17 18. Heb. 12.27 which shall befall all men that now go about to settle any thing when the Lord is shaking all things that may be shaken that those things which cannot be shaken may remain and all things besides himself are in a mutiny a movable and unsetled condition still rowling about like so many clouds from East to West or from one interest to another that it will settle no more till it settles and centers in the Lord where it can move no more And then shall we say Luke 1.68 Isai 3.12 13. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel who hath visited and redeemed his people from out of the hands of cruel men Children that have been their oppressors and women that have ruled over them and caused them to erre and so brings all men forth of captivity and bondage ignorance and darkness out of all mutable changeable and unsetled conditions that we have been in and under and so leads captivity captive for us Eph. 4.8 and gives gifts to us which is perfect freedom love joy peace satisfaction and content in all things with the Lord Jesus which is the Kingdom of the Lord and will be also our Kingdom when it is thus brought home to us and made manifest in us by the Lord. In the mean time it matters not much how variously soever we see men act in darkness seeing it is not long before the Lord will appear to act all things himself in light and we shall then appear to act all things with him in the same light and so have joy peace and comfort in all things with him till the accomplishment of which work John 15.1 let every one patiently sit down under his own Vine the Lord Jesus till the grapes be through ripe and then wait upon the Lord for the bringing in of his own Kingdom to restore to us the full fruition of those graces of righteousness Rom. 14. peace and joy in the holy Spirit which is the Kingdom of the Lord Jesus Thus I could not but declare my apprehensions in these words at this time to you as they are and were comprehended in me and made known to me for you FINIS