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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64225	A loving and friendly invitation to all sinners to repent and a warning to all backsliders to return unto the Lord, while they have time and space given them : with a brief account of the latter part of the life of John Perrot, and his end &c. : also a testimony against Robt. Rich and John Perrot their filthy books lately printed against God's people in scorn called Quakers : with a postscript by another hand.	Taylor, John, d. 1708.; Field, John, 1652-1723.	1683 (1683)	Wing T535; ESTC R24602	13,336	20

A Loving Friendly Invitation TO ALL SINNERS TO REPENT AND A WARNING to all Backsliders to Return unto the Lord while they have Time and Space given them With a brief Account of the Latter Part of the Life of Iohn Perrot And his END c. Also a Testimony against Robt. Rich and Iohn Perrot their filthy Books lately printed against God's People in Scorn called QUAKERS With a Postscript by Another Hand LONDON Printed by Iohn Bringhurst at the Sign of the Book in Grace-Church-street 1683. A Loving and Friendly Invitation to all Sinners to Repent And a warning to all Back-sliders to Return unto the Lord while they have time and space given them Lest they Persh from the Right way forever With a Brief account of the latter part of the Life of J. Perrot and his End c. WHEREAS it is very plain and evident unto all whose Eyes are clearly open that this is a day of great Brightness and Glory wherein the Great and Invisible God hath appeared in a most Glorious and Heavenly manner And the Light of Heaven hath so shined that it exceedeth the very Light of the Sun and all other natural lights whatever And great and Glorious Revelations from the Great and Almighty God is seen and witnessed through the Glorious appearance and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ Whose coming to as many as Faithfull are have experienced to be in Power and great Glory which gives us the true knowledge of God the Father whom to know is life eternal And thus we come to the true understanding of the great Mystery of Godliness Through the inspiration of the Almighty So that now we being as men awakened out of the great sleep of sin wherein we were in times past with many more held in great Captivity and darkness but being turned to the light in it we come to see our way to God And so come to wait upon him to be taught by him who is the best teacher that ever man had for by his teachings who is pure and holy we that were unlearned come truly to learn and know the great Mysteries of Godliness and such as were ignorant and knew not the things of God comes to be made wise unto Salvation and thus we come to have good and sound experience of the good work of God upon our Hearts and Soules for it 's the Lord alone that works the Change in us and that fits and prepars us for his own Service and for the performing that duty that he requires of us for the Lord God is the good Husband-man and we are of his Husbandry and he is the good and perfect workman and we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works So that here is the Effects of the Husbandry and workmanship of this good and perfect workman which is no other then the most Holy God working in us through his beloved Son Christ Jesus the works of Salvation Sanctification and Redemption all which are the good and perfect works of God in his Son Christ Jesus And all these good and perfect works they are wrought in the light where the Devil the imperfect worker cannot come nor his Ministers without tnrning from sin and by walking in the light as Christ our Lord is in the light we come to see more light by which the Thief this wicked one the Devil that would steal our Hearts minds away from the pure God who is light he comes to be seen over and to before he was and by Christ the Light the works of the Devil are destroyed and so he is discovered in all his wiles although he appears never so fairly and speciously in what disguise transforming or pretence soever yet in the light by which we see discover and distinguish all Colours and things whatever he is seen and discovered in all his Ministers and Messengers to be as he is Anti-christ against Christ Jesus opposing and gain-saying his coming appearance in all his Servants Ministers and Messengers for how hath he risen up in all sorts of Professors and people in whom he this wicked and imperfect worker had any power and rule against the Blessed appearance and second coming of our Lord Jesus whose coming is without sin unto Salvation And with what Bitterness Cruelty and Enmity hath all Nations Tongues and People who are crying out against perfection and who have not the mark of God in their fore-heads how have they been stirred up and inflamed with Rage and madness against the Saints of the most high and against the coming and Raign of the Lamb who takes away the sins of the World and whose Right it is to Raign And he must and will Raign until he hath put down all Rule and Authority under his feet and he alone must be Exalted who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and Head of his Church through all the World I say his coming hath been and is as with thunderings and lightenings and terible Earthquakes not onely to shake the Earth but the Heavens also and he caused the Firmament to melt before him and pass away as a scrole and so his coming is in Light in Power in great Glory by whom all the wicked the disobedient and Rebellious ones must be called to an account and must answer before him the great and Just Judge of all the Earth who will Judge both Quick Dead I say before his great Tribunal Seat of Judgment must all the scoffers and scorners with all the rest of the whole rable of the wicked the Rebellious and gain-sayers too to give an account for all the hard wicked and ungodly speeches that they have wickedly spoken and for all the cruel wicked and ungodly deeds that they have wickedly done against the Lamb and his followers and amongst the many opposers of the Gospel and gain-sayers of the Truth and Power of Godliness I find not one more ripe in envy and that wicked work of the Serpent then Iohn Pennyman who once was convinced in some measure of the pure Truth of God but finding the way too straight and not being willing to bear the yoke of Christ nor yet liked to retain God in his knowledge so he is given over to a Reprobate mind and is led away with many strange delusions that the Evil Spirit that went out of him and walked in dry places is returned to his house again and finding it swept and garnished hath taken with himself seven other Spirits worse than the former and the last Estate of that man is worse then the first and in this bad State and Condition he is fretting labouring and scribling against the pure and Blessed Truth speaking evil of things he knows not Revileing the Saints of the most high uttering many Blasphemies against them that dwell in Heaven and this doth not satisfie him neither but he must Rake into the Ashes of the dead and gather together the old Letters and papers of strife and contention which

Mass-house all that he had left which was not much was seized on for Debt yea the very Bed that was under his wife when she lay sick upon it and as this gain-sayer did so did Robert Rich before mentioned if not much worse as to his life and Conversation for he turned with the sow after she was washed to the wallowing in the mire again who Demus-like imbraced this present world and went out from us and so became a Man-pleaser and a time-server And these are Iohn Pennyman's Innocent men But these and he too Considering their ungodly Life and Death may be a warning to him and all back-sliders and gain-sayers to repent and return unto the Lord while they have a day and time afforded unto them lest they be cut off in their sins as these two men with R. Ma●lins were and their blood be upon them For I can say by the experience that I have had in my Travels that wo from the Lord is to them that do oppose the good Order that is settled and established by the Power of the Lord among Friends in several Countrys for my Soul well remembers how it was hurt and in some measure betrayed by this I. Perrot's spirit and writings But this was before I had any acquaintance with him but afterwards when I came to know him I soon see through the great love of God unto my Soul that he was not the man I took him for And then I sent a paper to Friends in England to testifie against his spirit and that he was not Really in that unity and true love that he had talkt so much off but was out of the possession of it as his fruits before mentioned did soon make it manifest And then I was moved of the Lord to bear my testimony against his Spirit Principle and Practices many times yea I have been made to go many miles to places where he was to reprove exhort and admonish him to repent and return to the Lord and to be reconciled to the Brethren but all would not prevail with him for he grew past feeling the Lord having Left him and he was past feeling even as Trees twice dead pluckt up by the Roots And thus like a withered branch he as well as R.M. and R.R. Ended their days Oh! That it may be a warning to all that are living who are Couvinced of the pure Truth and have any desires after the Lord that they may follow after Peace Love and unity therein which is very Comly amongst Brethren the God of Peace and Love Bless all such in all things that you take in hand Uprising and Downlying in your goings out and commings in in the Basket and in the store that so ye may be Holiness to the Lord is the hearty desire of your Real Friend and Brother in the Truth Iohn Taylor A Testimony against Robert Rich and Iohn Perrot and their filthy Books lately printed against God's People in Scorn called QUAKERS IS it not an Unworthy thing for R. Rich to publish in print the private Discourse that G.F. F.H. E.B. and others had with Iohn Perrot in which Friends did admonish him about his Extravagant Expences and Wearing of his Hat in time of Prayer and other private Discourses and he to publish the same many Years after And did not I.P. manifest in the End that he had great Need of such Admonition And as for I.P. and R.R. laying his and their Keeping on their Hats in Prayer Ranter-like upon the Lord in time of Prayer was it not known in Iamaica and Barbadoes how I.P. could afterwards follow the Complements of the World and put off his Hat as others did to Men and R. Rich also in Barbadoes Who made a great Pudder because we judged I.P. for not being Uncovered in time of Prayer to the Lord. And did not Iohn Perrot keep on his Hat in Prayer and then did not he turn again to the World and put off his Hat to the World And therefore such unstable Spirits we never could have Unity and Fellowship withal in the Light of Christ when they go from it And it is well known that it was not only the Paper concerning the Hat which Friends desired I. Perrot to call in but also another Paper which for Modesty's sake we cannot mention And whereas he sayes We denyed him a Meeting That 's False for we had a Meeting with him at Wm. Travers his House and other Places And a many Lyes hath I. Perrot uttered which are not worth speaking of And he said It was contrary to his Conscience to put off his Hat in the Sight of God and then presently after he alter'd his Conscience and could put it off to Men. And as for I. Perrot's Iustifying himself and Boasting of his Dispute with the Papists and Challenge to the Pope the End of that did manifest it self which was not for his Credit and he needed not to have boasted of it And did not I. Perrot undo himself his Wife and Children and run out so that Friends were fain to Keep his Children who boasted of Restoring Friends the Money laid out for him And Friends had more Compassion and Tenderness to his Wife and Children than he had who were fain to take Care for them because of his Extravagancy And did not the Prophecy become true upon him in the End For did not he turn like the Worst of Men And because we dealt Plainly Honestly and Truly with I.P. he falsly calls us Persecuting Spirits for he saith G.F. waited to see pure Fruit in the Life But what was his Fruit and his Life in the End And R. Rich publishes a Letter of I. Perrot's and sayes It was written a little before his Death And are not these horrid Lyes Was he not run into Drunkenness and Swearing of People long before he dyed And why could not I. Perrot send his Letter to G.F. and others as well as to R. Rich much of which were Discourses of Friends which they had in private with I. Perrot in London where he hath added many Perversions and Lyes to their Words and sent them to R.R. but never to them that were concerned which R.R. hath basely done to print and publish them for they never came to them that were concerned therein while I.P. was living Further R.R. sayes G.F. endeavours to Limit the Life of God in others Which is a Horrid Lye that we are sorry he should Dye unrepented of For G.F. would have all People come to the Light of God and Christ in their Hearts And many such Lyes are uttered in his Book which are not worth the taking notice of And People may see that I. Perrot was turned from the Truth the Quakers profess when he had got Gorgeous Apparel and a Velvet Coat a Staff tipt with Gold and a Carnal Sword and was shooting off Gunns on Ship-board and making of Feasts which R.R. seems to justifie And G. F. and others might very well send Papers after him to

Reprove him who at last ran into Swearing and Drunkenness yet R.R. queries Whether those were not the Floods of the Dragon cast out of his Mouth to Devour the Manchild that must Rule We say Nay for he that ran into Swearing and Drunkenness vvas not like unto the Manchild that must Rule And R.R. has manifest a great deal of Maliciousness and Enmity in his Papers which is not according to the Government of Love as he speaks of And R.R. saith Why should G.F. be Angry at I. Perrot's Velvet Coat and wearing a Sword and for his Gunns and Carnal Weapons But I.P. pretended to go and preach the Gospel when he went to Barbadoes and Virginia not to get Gunns and Swords and a Velvet Coat and a Staff tipt with Gold c. and so he chang'd from his Gospel as he deceitfully pretended to And it is utterly false both in R.R. and I.P. that G. F's Name was to any Papers for naming of Sober Iustices in the other Powers dayes that would not Persecute us For G.F. was out of London when the Parliament desired such a thing of Friends and never was his Name to any such Papers These are Forgeries of R.R. and I. P's And those Ten Thousand and Fifteen Thousands Hands presented to the Parliament were the Sufferings of Friends which R.R. prints and makes an Ill Construction of And as for I. Harwood he hath manifested his End sufficiently who Opposed Friends with his Hat on in Prayer and manifested his Bad Life Ranter-like as I. Perrot did Again R.R. sayes Seven of G. F's Friends were chosen for a Committee c. G.F. knows nothing of that therefore he was not like to Exalt himself in that And G.F. does not meddle with the Carnal Sword of the Civil Magistrate In these things R.R. hath belied G.F. and Friends besides many other Scoffing and Reproachful Words which are not worth mentioning are in his Book And he sayes scoffingly What is the Name Quaker thou givest to thy self R. Rich knew it is a Scornful Nick-Name given unto us And Thee and Thou is the true Language which he makes a pudder about and he himself did once use it And Swearing I.P. I.H. and R.R. once denyed it but R.R. makes little of it now And also I.P. did not he Swear and tender the Oath to others at Iamaica which G.F. and other Quakers alwayes denyed And Christ and the Apostles forbid All Swearing But Verily Verily and Calling God to record as R.R. speaks of is no Swearing And the Quakers Sufferings are not as other Sects as R.R. scoffingly speaks And what have been the Forms and Figures of Good Things to come among the Quakers that thou speakest of And over and over R.R. sayes That G.F. exercised his Cruelty over J. Perrot and I. Nailor which is false the Lord knows for he had nothing in his Heart but for their Good and I.N. hath confest it and given forth a Recantation of all his Runnings out which R. Rich did feed upon And I.N. never bowed down to G.F. its a horrid Lye for R.R. to say he did p. 37. neither did he ever desire it So we are sorry that R.R. should dye before he had Repented of his Lyes So as for Arrogancy Pope Lucifer c. are these R. R's Words of Love as he calls it And these words he had better applyed to himself Further R.R. sayes The Lord found him in Innocency wherewith he had clothed him But his Fruits in his Book from his Lying Spirit have not manifested it neither are they the Fruits of a New Heart as he speaks of in his Epistle printed 1680. but the Fruits of a Railing Spirit against G.F. and others As for Enmity Self exaltation Division Rending Tearing and Bitter Wrathful Envious and Persecuting Spirits with such like words he rails against G.F. and others they were but the Fruits of his own Spirit which he casts upon G.F. and others And R.R. saith That J.N. was led into the Wilderness to be Tryed and Tempted by G.F. and others This was horrible Enmity and Malice in R.R. for 't is well known that G.F. was in Prison in Cornwall when I.N. run out And R.R. sayes Epist. pag. 4. The great Offence that G.F. takes at Iohn Perrot's Book is That I.P. own'd the Spirit of God's Grace and Light to be in the Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Seekers and others and also that he hath Unity and Amity with all that walk therein We are sorry that R.R. should Belye G.F. and others for it is known that G.F. and others own the true Light and declare it which enlightens every man that cometh into the World and haeve Unity with them that walk in it yea have Unity with the Light in them that hate it But it s known that these before-mentioned have Printed against Friends and both Anabaptists Presbyterians and Independents have called the Light which enlightens every man that comes into the World a Natural Light And so its clear that R.R. Belyed G.F. and Friends And many other Books R.R. has given forth against the People of God called Quakers which are stufft with known Lyes Scoffs and Slanders which are not worth mentioning for he was well enough known what he vvas in his-Lifetime Another writes against the People called Quakers calling himself Phil. Ang. who sayes A man c. his Strength is to sit still deny himself and his own Life too or else he cannot be Christ's Disciple But he should have taken his Advice to himself then he would not have brought forth his Confused Work He makes a great pudder against Images Forms and Shadows which Delude men but has not told us what those Images Forms and Shadows are And he tells of Peoples pinning their Faith upon other mens Sleeves and boasting of things without their measure If he applies this to the Quakers he is deceived for Christ is the Author of our Faith for our Faith stands in God and Christ but he does not declare his own Faith nor what it is pinn'd upon And the Fruits of his Book are not the Fruits of the true Light nor doth he manifest that he stands in it or that he is one that feareth and trembleth at the Word of God For he saith Let Men and all the Womanly Weakness in Man Decrease c. If the Author of this Epistle had done so then his own Mouth would have been stopt if he had taken that Counsel to himself then he would not have manifest his Weakness Enmity and Folly to the World And there is another Book printed by Ieffery Bullock or some body for him with his Epistle to it wherein are published the Papers that some Friends writ to Iohn Wilkinson and Iohn Story with their Answers And I.B. writes a railing Epistle to those Friends wherein he justifies I.S. and I.W. Some of his Railing Words are viz. Antichrist's Teachers called Quakers c. and saith Iudge not and ye shall not be judged yet in Contradiction to himself he