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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

be said to be a man and a woman or the husband and the wise The man which is to be smitten may be said to be the Parliament in power ruling corruptly Rev. 2.20 Chap. 17. lately dissolved the woman may be said to be the woman Jezabel the mother of Harlots and Whore of Babylon that sits upon many Waters Gen. 6.11 12. to wit Peoples Multitudes Nations and Tongues and is the corrupt Law and lust that first grew up and appeared to live in the fleshly Gen. 6.4 dark earthly principle of mans faln nature out of which have sprung forth many children infants and sucklings said in Scripture to be the daughters of men also brought forth many Laws Acts and Statutes set up many particular interests of mens inventions as so many infants and sucklings Eccles 7.29 which may be known by the names of Priests Lawyers Sheriffs Bailisss Oppressive-Tythe-mongers Committee-men Excise-men Common-Councel-men and all sorts of Clerks Courts and Offices and whatsoever particulars else may appear to have been set up by men that have in any way been oppressive and in opposition to the true peace and Freedom of the Peoples Rights and Priviledges in the Lord Jesus together with all that have ever been hanging upon the breast of this woman before mentioned as the mother by which they were brought forth and at whose side they have been nursed up Isal 3.12 and so have oppressed and ruled over the people together but are now grown ancient and ready for the grave also fat and ready for the slaughter or in some measure to be slain to what they have been by another power their father in Law one of the insuing husbands of this woman their mother and so much for what is meant by man woman infant and suckling Next the store belonging to this house or family to wit What is meant by sheep and Oxen. sheep oxen camels and asses and this may be said to be the Peoples Priviledges Lives Liberties and Estates with all the wealth honour and riches of the Land which men by their power they had taken into their hands to make themselves fat and rich and which was carried captive by them from the right owners of it which Saul here in the Text was commanded to slay as to them and to restore again to the people though he did not even all and not to spare any but to recover it again out of the hands of the Amalekites and no more to be found with them as in the hands of the merchants of the earth So the like command might come from the Lord to our General to smite the late Parliament and to slay them to their oppressive power laws and actions rules and private interests and to spare none as to them that is leave no more in their hands but what is and was their own before and to recover all the rest to wit the peoples interests rights and priviledges which the late Parliament with others before them had taken away and withheld from them and to restore the same again into the hands of those who are the right owners of it wherein the voice of the Lord would appear to be obeyed and the actions of David manifest CHAP. IV. How though the man be smitten the woman and her children are living and she like to marry again of the several husbands she hath buried and the end of her life determined with a hint of the true woman and mother of us all succeeding WEll this man we see is smitten the Parliament is dissolved but where is the woman and her children with all their store and treasure why we see they with all they have are yet alive and remaining and like to continue for a time but I pray God another man or power as oppressive as the former do not now appear to marry this woman to live with her and get more children by her to be heirs with the rest or if they should dis-inherit some of the former begotten by the other man so called put down some men laws and particular interests and state others in their places as bad as them it were all one but sure some one or other will ere long be indued with power to marry this woman or obtain so much favour as to live and act with her for she hath many suiters which she hath drawn in and enticed who will not suffer her to abide long unmarried or single while she is living Prov. 7. for she would quickly die if she should abide long without a man of her own bringing forth but there will come one at last that must slay her Now observe the man might be slain and yet the woman preserved for another husband the Parliament may be dissolved A word of advice not to make choice of too many men for the government of this Nation and to be carefull what laws they set up Rev. 17.4 and yet the Government may be put into the hands of some other for a time but look to her you that have her and may marry her keep her in subjection suffer her not to play the Harlot with any nor ramble too far into the hands of too many men neither let them that marry her divide themselves into many bodies or parts also be you carefull what children she bringeth forth and maintain her not in such pomp and state as before but suffer her highness to be brought down and her scatlet coloured robes to be stripped off for they do but cause men to be in love with her and desire after her to marry her for gain or follow after for the loaves and why are her husbands so often slain and men so often marry her but that they are made rich by her and for a time come to great honour and preferment through her means but sure her house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death for all are dead that ever yet married her Rev. 7.26 27. Kings Queens and Parliaments have deceased from her and been deceived by her and those that marry her next may not live long with her nay she cannot be now long liv'd her self neither any of her children for dooms-day is at hand for them all and the hour of her Judgement is come Rev. 18.7 though she saith she sits a Queen is no widow and shall see no sorrow But he that sheds mans blood Gen. 9.6 Rev. 10.23 24. by man shall his blood be shed but in her was found the blood of Prophets and of Saints and of all that were slain upon the earth therefore shall she be slain also and her craftsmen with her and in her shall appear no more the light of a candle or of mans righteousness the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride none shall marry or trade with her and her merchants were the great men of the earth who shall wail weep and lament for her and well they may for no man buyeth

their merchandize any more Rev 18.9 10. and then will there be an end of the strange woman and all that belong to her and that woman which first brought us forth Rev. 21.2 3. and is the mother of us all will come down or appear among us as a bride adorned for her husband and we shal enjoy both her and her husband the Lord himself How we are to marry none but the Lord. therefore let us in all things and at all times wait for the appearing of this Couple the Lord and his Spouse and be willing to die to any other appearance whatsoever beside the Lord and to marry no other but the Lord neither to give suck preserve or keep alive any children but what the Lord himself doth beget by his own Wife and then shall we appear to live in and act by the life and power of the Lord Jesus which he hath begotten of his own will and brought forth by his Spirit to live in us and which makes us then appear to be the Wife of God and mother of Jesus CHAP. V. Of the fatness of the children sucked in from their Parents and they thereby made ready for the slaughter that men are not to be slain but to their power and corrupt interests with the manner how and the time when NOw these children infants sucklings that were before begotten upheld and maintained by the late deceased Parliament to wit Priests Lawyers Sheriffs Bailiffs Tythe-mongers Committee-men Excise-men Common-councel-men Rev. 18.3 and all Clerks whatsoever that have long time been nursed up at the side of this man and woman eating meat at their table fed upon their dainties hanged upon their breasts sucked so much sweetness riches honour and pleasure from them being authorized to live by the labor and oppression of other people that now they are become rich made fat and so both father mother and children are all made ready for the slaughter Rev 2.20 21 22 23. therefore now thus saith the Lord Go slay them all and spare none Slay both man woman infant and suckling or suffer them not to remain in that condition so to oppress my people and live upon them as formerly they have done but as to all unrighteousness smite them Isa 26.19 lay them low even to the ground Heb. 9.27 yet suffer them to rise again in a new life and resurrection with Christ for as all men have sinned so It is appointed unto all men once to die and so to be judged that is die to what they have been as living to any thing besides God or acting for any but God and so come to live up wholly in God in all their wayes and actions And now thus faith the Lord I remember how men have lived to themselves and not to me acted for themselves and not for me and how they have tyrannized over my people by their unlawful dealing exacting upon them their persons goods labors and purses by their unjust Laws and Statutes in their unlawfull Offices Courts and Councels making preys of them serving themselves by them and if any that are oppressed by them complain of their oppression they will plead the Authority of Parliament for what they do as that by which they were brought forth upheld and maintained and say they have a law for what they do and a power that maintains them in it but sure they abuse their law and also their power stretching it beyound its bounds for which it is just with God to take it from them who ere long will take all into his own hands and leave them nothing and so slay all both man and woman infant and suckling the great whore and her children Isa 3.12 which have been the oppressors of the people I need not stand to instance the names of all the children that belonged to this man and woman for you your selves know of them but this I will say that all whosoever or whatsoever hath at any time been brought forth upheld and maintained by late Kings and Parliaments may be said to be their children also that have had any relyance or dependence in and upon them and been supported by them in their oppressive wayes and actions are their children or being not lawfully begotten may be said to be bastards and ought all to be slain or taken out of the way and not any to be spared or left remaining as before to rule in any power or sit in the place of justice Deut. 23.2 for a bastard is not to enter into the Congregation of the Lord. But though they appear not as yet to be slain or ended which they do not so long as all laws and acts whatsoever formerly made and kept up are still to remain in force as they did while the late Parliament the last husband of this woman was living though I know not how soon the Lord may come and make good this word and command of his to the rulers of the people whom he may set up as instruments to do this work and cause them to whom he speaks to obey his voice in slaying all and sparing none but I do not speak of taking away mens lives as formerly they have done by their law How we are not to take away mens lives but of taking away that oppressive power law rule and authority out of the hands of cruel men by which they have lorded over mens lives liberties and estates and to have it to be reduced again into the hands of God whose right it is and not to mans and who is able to rule all men in righteousness joy and peace according to his mighty power whereby he is able to subdue all all things to himself 1 Cor. 15.28 that himself may be all in all Now for the time when this great work of Reformation shall be done it is known only to the Lord whose time is the best time and who will do all his pleasure and not all to all at once or in one age Ecles 3.1 but to every thing there is a season for all things under the Sun wherein all things shall be done that God in the end may appear to all to be al in all which he doth not so long as man appears to be any thing or that any thing of man remains therefore no particular private interest or opinion of man is to be kept up neither the good of some particular men only to be sought for but the good of all in general and all this being done it would appear to be according to the Word will and mind of God but if any should say they have no such command to do as is here spoken then answer they may that have it as to apprehend it in themselves yet it is a command of the Lord that this work of justice should be done and who should we expect to have it done by but by those that have the power in their hands and that

is Captain General of all the forces that go forth in battel against Antichrist the man of sin and all Armies whatsoever that come up against the Israel and People of God Now some all along in all Ages have still appeared to War against Israel in the way as they have come up from Egypt Luke 19.43 casting up trenches about them to keep them in on every side made Laws and Acts against them contrary to the appearances of God in them to subject their persons spirits and consciences to the Laws ways forms and limitations of men as we may see in the time of Christ and his Apostles how Herod and Pontius Pilate acted against him to destroy him for first of all as soon as Herod had heard that Christ was born then he to destroy him Mat. 2.7.8 16 privily pretended to go and worship him but being prevented of that he sent and slew all the children that were about his age in that Country where he heard Christ was that so he might slay him but the Lord caused his mother to escape away from thence with him into another country where he was preserved And how did the Jews the Scribes and Pharisees and all the chief of the people Luk. 19.47 48 Luk. 23.9 10. under pretence of coming to hear him seek to ensnare him in his own words wait to catch something from his mouth provoking him to speak of many things that they might have something to accuse him and was so it not with the Apostles and Saints afterwards for how were they persecuted from place to place and how are men still persecuted and have been to this day both by the Pope Papists Bishops Prelates and Presbyterians and now like to be by the Independents and Anabaptists all like those oppressive Amalekites still acting against the appearance of the Lord Jesus in his People for no sooner was there any appearance of Christ risen up in any age or generation but presently Herod as the wisdom of the flesh in some one or other was acting against it seeking to quench every spiritual appearance of Christ that was but like Christ thereby to prevent his appearing and would not suffer any thing to break forth but what did appear in their own way form or likeness and that they might still have something against those in whom Christ doth spiritually rise and appear they will under pretence of coming to hear them as Herod did to worship Christ and others to hear him wait to catch something from them that might come under their Law to accuse them yea Rev. 18.3 and all that God brings up into a higher and more spiritual discovery of himself to know the Lord are by such that know not the Lord and that serve the Whore and receive her wages cryed out against for hereticks seducers and blasphemers and thus we may see how they still lay wait for Christ and his People The enemies of Christ which formerly sate in Authority have made and kept up divers Laws and Acts of divers sorts against the People to keep them in bondage and in subjection to themselves and their Laws when they should be subject only to Christ and his Law whose Law is perfect Freedom Psal 19.7 and if any man act or speak any thing contrary to such a Law or Act made against such things called blasphemy by them they presently go to apprehend them as blasphemers accuse and condemn them seek their lives banishment or imprisonment as Herod and others have done who get their living by the Whore and all that thus act may be said to be Amalekites laying wait for the People as they come up out of Egypt or Spiritual darkness But I remember saith the Lord what you have done and I will assuredly reward you for it you and all that you have shall be smitten CHAP. III. Saul is commanded to smite Amalek and his whole houshold with all that belongs to him how he did it not but David what Amalek is how in him is man woman infant suckling ox sheep camel and ass and what they are ANd now thus saith the Lord Go and smite Amalek and utterly destroy all that they have and spare them not but slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass Here is the word of the Lord by Samuel to Saul King of Israel Go and smite Amalek c. and this might be the word of the Lord to our General Go smite the Parliament c. My beloved this Scripture which I am now speaking from is this day fulfilled to me and in my apprehension and I know not how soon it may be fulfilled to you even this day for ought I know therefore pray give me leave at this time to speak my minde freely and plainly to you as it is made known to me for you Those then who may sometime appear to have the power of the Nation in their hands may appear to act like Saul and to act like David who came in the room of Saul but I had rather they appeared to act as David for he obeyed the voice of the Lord in all that he was commanded and so enjoyed his Kingdom and then if they so act the power might the longer abide with them but if they should act like Saul then they may expect to have the power taken from them by the Lord as it was from Saul for the Lord is just and will revenge for his people Now Saul obeyed not the voice of the Lord which was that he should utterly destroy the Amalekites and all that they had but he did it not but fled upon the spoil for himself and so did evil in the sight of the Lord 1 Sam. 15.19.28 for which the Kingdom was rent from him and given to David Now David who reigned in Sauls stead obeyed the voice of the Lord and utterly destroyed and routed the Amalekites and recovered again the rights and priviledges the freedom and liberties of the People 1 Sam. 30.18 19. which the Amalekites had carried away from them and restored it equally into their hands again that there was no want of any thing to any among them wherein the voice of the Lord appeared to be obeyed by him and his kingdom to stand with him And now what saith the Lord Go and smite Amalek dissolve him take the power out of his hands unbottom him of all his Laws and interests Go slay both man and woman infant and suckling ox and sheep camel and ass Amalek here may be said to be a whole houshold or family with all that belongs to it What is meant by Amalek man and woman infant and suckling and may relate to Kings houses and houses of former Parliaments and appears to me at this time to have been that houshold of the late Parliament dissolved with all that was in their hands and belonging to them in which Parliament with others before them as in Amalek there may