Abiezer Coppe - Selected Writings

'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 1649 the Government of the day responded by banning the book and arresting its author. Coppe's apocalpytic vision and egalitarian message, with its attacks on wealth, hypocrisy and oppression, is still as vital today as then.

A unique and extraordinary work, it is reproduced here in its entirety. This volume also
contains A Remonstrance of the Sincere and Zealous Protestation and Copp's Return to the Wayes of Truth, written while Coppe was a prisoner in Newgate. Two later works, Divine Fire-Works and A Character of a True Christian, are republished here for the first time. The introduction by Andrew Hopton provides a thorough survey of both Coppe's life and the interpretations brought to bear upon his work.

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