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Abiezer Coppe - Selected Writings

Sunday, August 27th, 2006
Abiezer Coppe - Selected Writings Abiezer Coppe - Selected Writings
Edited and introduced by Andrew Hopton
[Aporia Press 1987]

A strange, yet most true storie, under which is couched that lion, whose roaring shall make all the beasts of the field to tremble, and all the kingdomes of the world quake… Great ones must bow to the poorest peasants, or else they shall rue for it.

When Coppe's A Fiery Flying Roll was published in January 1650 the government of the day responded by banning the book and arresting its author. It also prompted an Act of Parliament against 'Atheisitical, Blasphemous and Execrable opinions'. Coppe's apocalyptic vision and egalitarian message, with its attacks on wealth, hypocrisy, and oppression, is still as vital today as then.

Contents
A Fiery Flying Roll [1650]
A Remonstrance of the sincere and zealous Protestation [1651]
Copp's Return to the wayes of Truth [1651]
Divine Fire-Works [1657]
A Character of a True Christian [1680]

 
Read it through, and laugh not at it; if thou dost I'll destroy thee, and laugh at thy destruction.
 

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