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.

Title

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.

Author

Coppin, Richard, fl. 1646-1659.

Publication

London :: Printed for William Larner,

1657.

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Theology, Doctrinal.

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Contents

• title page
• The AƲTHORS EPITLE. To all the beloved of the Lord, that love the appearing of Jesus Christ in spirit and truth, in and about the City of Rochester in Kent, aad whereever they may be scattered, to whom, Grace and Peace be multiplyed from God the Father, and Jesus Christ our Lord.
• A TABLE of the Contents.
• ERRATA.
• 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.
• Christ Crucified, AND Judgement Executed.
  • 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, nd bre∣thren, husband, wife, and children, 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 f Christ is accompanied with the crosses of the world, firey troyals and persecutions for the truth, the clouds of Christs coming, nd te way of his people in which he leads them, and walks with them to save them, how and from what.
  • CHAP. III. Of the afflictions of Joseph, his being sl it Egypt by his Bre∣thren, his being falsly accused and mprisoned; how G thereby exalted h m, and Judged is Brethen that sold him; how the same was with Christ and is with us to this day,
  • CHAP. IIII. 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, Hell, 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 righteous 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 nd their conditions in life and death, and of the dog licking Lazaras, aes.
  • 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 a∣gainst the Lord 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 ene∣mies.
  • CHAP. 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 a∣ny thing of himself, but to be innocent in knowing his own innocecy and righteousness: also what the true knowledge of God is: who hath it, and how its 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 both best and worst in one person, to be punished and exal∣ted, and the way unto it; how we are to serve one another, and of the stte 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 obedience by men prosessed, is a lye, without the inward work of truth within; how according to the inward work is the outward pra∣ctice, that the more by Christ any man is refined, purged and saved within in his conscience, the more by men is he falsly ac∣cused, 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 darkness and trouble, to trust in God under them is a sure re∣fuge of the good that comes by them, and when.
  • CHAP. XII. Incouragements to wait with p tience under the Lords Judgements, and not to oppose them; Of the works of the Lord Jesus what they are, and how we bear them about in our bodies, and 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 mn as witnesses shall suffer for the rest af 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 will God nable with joy to bear his burthen to follow Christ and deny himselfe, to trust in God and rejoyce in all things, how with Christ he is humbled to the lowest with men and ealted to the highest with od, as the fruit and effect of Gods Judgements, & the state of perfection.