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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

by Christ alone and this is my message which I have to all the world and which I am to deliver freely and for which those that have not the same message to deliver do hate me and persecute me but I passed them all by and would not be partaker of their sins and he that hath kept me hitherto keeps me still that I may not do Antichrists work neither receive Antichrists wages or live by the sins of the people as some others do But some may say Did you never receive any money for preaching I answer I never received any that ever I put in my own purse but where there was money appointed for preaching and no Priest there to challenge it as his propriety that either I must dispose of it or others whom it concerned not must put it in their own purses I gave order that the poor of each Parish might have it as will be witnessed in several places Acts 20.33 34 35. and therefore can say with Paul I have coveted no mans silver or gold or apparel yet of this will I not glory but I will glory in the Lord who hath so far kept me from being a hireling in Antichrists Kingdom that he will rather make all my ways appear more for the abominating and throwing down of all such Antichristian ways of maintenance then for the setting of it up for which the Priests and all Impropriators with all that live in that and the like maintenance that knew me or had heard of me could never abide me but always persecuted me sought for my imprisonment banishment or silencing and also my life While I was thus carried forth in contending for the truth yet was I still ready to spend and be spent for the good of all people even my enemies and was more ready to give then to receive according to my ability 2 Cor. 12.15 Acts 20.35 and so still at peace in my self through all things with Christ in God that ever I undertook and went through by him in all my proceedings to this day CHAP. V. The Authors further proceedings in his dealings with men in all conditions under their several Forms and Administrations That his Doctrine never tended to draw men to any Opinion under any one Form of Worship but to press forwards to the life of God in Christ above the Whorish Religion and Vanities of the World that to l●ve in Vnity Peace and Love with all men having peace with God is the pure Religion ANd now the manner of my farther dealings in Judgement and Doctrine with men in all conditions under their several Forms Administrations or Dispensations was still a pressing of them forwards after Christ to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus and not a staying of men any where or endeavouring to draw men to any Form Way Worship or Opinion from Christ neither to rail against any man of any opinion whatsoever but to speak the truth to all shewing what all those opinions of men are and what and where they themselves are while under them and how they are to forsake all and follow Christ be they Prelates Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists or whatsoever opinion else may be found out by man besides Christ all are to pass away and they are to pass them all by as by so many harlots houses Prov. 7. standing by the ways side by which poor souls are to pass before they come to their rest and into which as into so many Ale-houses or Taverns many thousand of poor souls are allured and drawn aside to eat and to drink and commit fornication with the Inhabitants thereof neglecting their journey to Canaan or Mount Sion and where for some time they take up their rest that many pass by them and get into heaven before them while they are feasting with harlots Rev. 17.14 15. the daughters of the great Whore that sits upon many waters and on the mountains of mens holiness eating bread and drinking wine until the Lord come to feast with them there and by a strong hand overcome them pull them down or bring them forth and so lead them on carrying them by all those opinions of men onely to knock at their doors as some have done before look in upon them and behold their devotion but not to go into them Prov. 7.27 lest they should be devoured by them For their house is the way to hell going down to the chambers of death Therefore let not your hearts be inclined to their ways go not astray in their pathes lest you should stay or be seduced by them But say friends come away this is not your rest arise depart for it is polluted and if you stay it will destroy you with a sore destruction Micah 2.10 This say unto them but go not in for if you go in to them the Devil will come and take you make you drunk and there cause you to stay and so make you become Devils with him or them to accuse and persecute eat devour and condemn one another or all that come not in to you and be the same with you in your opinions Therefore I advise you not to stay any where Col. 3.1 2. nor to set your minds desires and affections upon any thing below Christ in the way you are to go to Christ but still in all this your worshipping of God as you call it to press forwards to the mark Phil. 3. for the price of the high calling of God in Christ Jesus where you will then rest be at peace and be satisfied and where you will no more accuse persecute judge devour and condemn one another as you do but where you will be reconciled in love one to another and to all men though your greatest enemies And this is the advice that I give to all men in all that I say unto them to press forwards to the knowledge of the truth as it is in Jesus and I do not go about to set up any thing below the Lord Jesus nor to draw men to any opinion of things besides him but to shew them the vanity and nothingness of all the ways and opinions of men below him declaring what they are in themselves and their places shewing that they are but notions and so mens inventions shadows dying vanities tormenting pleasures things that would perish and come to an end with the using after the commandments and doctrines of men Job 14.14 yet never declared against them so as to forbid any of them that saw their life in them but bid all men to wait till their change come and not to go forth by their own strength or awake their beloved before his time Cant. 2.7 till he shall come with a strong hand and lead them forth and so place them in their own land as in himself And now having shewed them the vanity of all those things I then set before them the love of God in Christ Jesus with exhortations to love

one to another is but an Image of what it is in and from God to man so Christ himself in a humane appearance as he was man though he had in him the fulness of the Godhead yet was he but an Image of the invisible God Col. 1.15 or the Eternal Being of the Godhead in its Divine state And all Images are to pass away and be removed day by day 1 Cor. 7 31. For the fashion of this world passeth away and whatsoever passes away must in that state of mortality be a lye in opposition to that which is immortal and true because it abides not always the same but is changeable And as a thing made cannot know that which made it so a lye cannot know the truth nor speak the truth but as it is in the truth no longer known to be a lye but the truth it self 1 Cor. 2.11 As nothing therefore but God who is a Spirit knows God so nothing but the truth knows the truth nor can speak the truth and if any thing of truth be spoken between man and man Mat. 10.20 it is the truth it self that speaks it self through its own image for what one man speaks to another in words is but an Image of the same Being spoken to man by the truth in silence for the word in the sound is but an Image of what is before spoken in the mind all the writings of men in the letter is but an Image of the writings of God in the heart and Spirit So the Scripture called the Word of God which are but the writings of men in an outward testimony John 1.1 2. is but an Image of the true Word Christ that spoke before in them that writ it and witnessed to the word by that which is written 1 Iohn 2 3 4 for what the Word of God to wit Christ speaks in men that man speaks and writes again to men Rom. 1.20 For what we have seen and heard we declare unto you saith Paul and all things in the world visible is but an Image of God Psal 51.6 or the things invisible and so all things as made is but an Image of it self as unmade Adam was first formed then Eve 1 Tim. 2 13 14. and the woman taken out of man is but the Image and glory of the man and lives not but in the man therefore while she abides in the Image and is not the same with the thing imaged she abides in a lye and is in the transgression So in like manner all mankind with the whole creation as coming out of God is but an Image of God as the Son is of the Father and as the woman is of the man and lives not but in God the Father that sends them forth from himself as an Image of himself and as it abides in the Image 1 Iohn 2.27 28. and not in him that made it so it abides in the lye and in the transgression and if any would know the truth in the love of the truth to speak it and live in it they must wait to be taken up in the understanding into that which is the truth as Christ was and therein cease in themselves to stand any longer in the Image but in the substance as Christ did when he did ascend from the Son to the Father and so must become the same with the truth in the truth it self before they can know what the truth is in the understanding of it 2 Cor. 5 1● Isa 42.16 I n 2. Ephes 1.10 so in the chang of all things in man the woman becomes the man or weakness becomes strength darkness becomes light death becomes life and a lye the truth when the truth hath had its perfect work in making all things free in turning water into wine and bringing all things together in one for the truth is not without a lye 1 Cor. 11.11 12. the man is not without the woman nor the woman without the man in the Lord So not God without us nor we without him in the truth which truth comprehends Father Son and Spirit will wisdom and power variety in unity and unity in variety the Creator and the creature and so God himself who is the truth in Jesus who is one and all is himself the way in which all men should walk the truth which all men should practice Col. 2.6 and the life which all men should live with Christ in God manifest in flesh as he is God in union with man and man in union with God loving all men as himself doing for all men as for himself which should be the whole life of all men one to another Matth. 5 44 45. living in the truth as it is in Jesus even to walk in him as their path live in him as their life and so to follow his steps in the Lord Jesus Ephes 5.1 2. Acts 17.26 1 Ioh. 10.11 hating none speaking evil of none persecuting none but to be friendly loving kind and merciful to all as flesh of their flesh and bone of their bone being all of one blood and so to forgive one another as God in Christ hath forgiven them And he who goes any other way practises any other thing 2 Cor. 5.18 19. Iohn 14.8 1 Iohn 1.6 7 8. lives any other life then that which is God living in them and all men reconciling the whole world to himself by Jesus Christ the way the truth and the life is so far a lyar and the truth is not in him O how few are there that live this life of God in Christ to be reconciled to all men though enemies love all men though enemies be at peace with all men though enemies and to do for all men as they would do for themselves and as they would others should do unto them why very few yet live in the truth to practise it though most men profess it Therefore all men who live not in the truth are lyars and live in the filthy abomination of the lye as in sin death hell and damnation wrath envy hatred malice persecution revenge and all the works of iniquity and must be taken up into the truth and so cast into the lake of fire burning with brimstone there to be purged from all their uncleanness and filthy abomination Rev. 21 8. that hath defaced the Image of God as to men before they can be lovers of God or the truth and cease from persecuting one another All things while it abides in the Image being there in a prison and in darkness is an enemy to the thing imaged because it represents it not perfectly or as it is in Jesus the thing made is an enemy to that which makes it the creature to the Creator Isa 5.9.4 5 6 c. man to God for all men as men and sinners so remaining are haters of God and do oppose the truth in the manifestation But the more truth is opposed