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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54424	Battering rams against Rome; or, The battel of John the follower of the lamb, fought with the pope and his priests, whilst he was a prisoner in the inquisition-prison of Rome. Also, a certain remonstrance of righteous reason, written in Rome-prison of mad-men, unto all Rome's rulers. Together with a post-script, to all tender-hearted Roman Catholicks.; Battering rams against Rome.	J. P. ((John Perrot)), d. 1671?.	1661 (1661)	Wing P1612; ESTC R217527	61,566	173

the Light and dwell in the Light with thy mind and heart stablished and fixed in it which shews thy own transgression within to have feeling of the Judgment of GOD upon the transgressor in thee And come to the love of the Light and follow the Light by it to be led out of sin and transgression and then with the Light by which all things are made manifest in all matters of Judgment thou wilt reach that of GOD in all which in all will justifie thee in the sight of GOD and so thou wilt stand girded with Justice in the seat of Equity and Truth a terror to evil-doers and a praise to them that do well GOD is coming to search the whole Earth who looketh for the fruit of Judgement from all that sit in the seat thereof Mercy to the Poor Relief of the Oppressed The Poor hath cryed and the Oppressed hath groaned and GOD hath heard it and he who heareth will answer Answer thou alwayes in thy place for the LORD lest the LORD GOD make thee to answer for thy self before Him Though I am but as a suckling of the Lords Flock nevertheless in the simplicity and tenderness of my life as one that hath received Mercy at the Judgment seat of God according to the lowliness of my measure I counsel thee in his pure fear That thou dost look over the Books of the Registers of the Law of thy Nation and see if any one Statute be there written which may stand as a Law to condemn the Just David complained of that in his day for he saw the issue of what came to passe though it was afar off from his dayes We have a Law said the Jews and by our Law he ought to dye by which they in their wilfulness put the LORD CHRIST to death And so it was in all Ages that transgressors for whom saith Paul the Law was made did make such to suffer under the Law and put them to death by a Law in whose mouth guile was not found which was the unrighteous Judgment Friend Draw thou thy hand from that And though the people do cry even as it was complained of in Judah concerning the Prophet The Land is not able to bear all his words yet of a truth the Word of the LORD will come to passe and be fulfilled And truly I say unto thee as Jeremy said unto the Elders of Israel with the life of that Prophet Do with me as seemeth good in thy sight but assuredly know I am of God And I also desire that the LORD GOD in Mercy may not lay this thing to your charge in the day of his Judgments forasmuch as you do you know not what I sit not in the seat of the unrighteous in any measure apt to judge any thing before the true time wherefore unless the fruit in this matter did shew the Tree I shall not at the present accuse the Romans with our detainment under their Yoak of Captivity to provoke words from us whereby the Prophet's words might become fulfilled upon your heads in this your Age in making a man an offender for a word but I am rather in expectation of the Appearance of the Nobility of that which hath been reported and written concerning the Romans If we have transgressed the Law of GOD Try us by the Law and give us our punishment according to the Law For the LORD GOD knows I delight in Righteous Judgment If we are not found transgressors why are we innocent strangers and pilgrims stopped of our Voyage if our Bonds hold us by you onely upon the account of suspition we blame you not but prove us and satisfie your selves concerning us only if we have found the favour of Justice before you which the living God requires of you shew us the Cause in truth why we are detained that according to Law and Equity before your seat 〈◊〉 Judgment we may make our open Defence I am a Friend of thy soul J. P. From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome To all in the Colledges of Rome that have any zeal or desire to answer Truth for the Lord and Truths sake MEn fearing GOD are not rash nor heady neither will they judge a matter before the time Wherefore for the better information of your selves concerning the Truth and Life the Way of GOD and Church of CHRIST I have in plain-heartedness queried for you in the honesty of sober minds to give me your Answer in writing plainly and pertinently to each of them without renting any part of my words For which in expectation I shall wait in Rome whilst these Bonds hold me until it come to my hands which you ought to answer as you profess the name of Christianity among the sons of men for the sake of souls Query 1. What is that one thing needful unto Salvation which with the possession thereof a man possesseth all things And whether can a man possess it and not know it yea or nay Que. 2. What is that by which Paul exhorted the Brethren to to try the spirits whether they were of God yea or nay Que. 3. Whether are any of you now called by CHRIST to a further estate of Knowledge than the Disciples were then when Christ said unto them You know not of what spirits you are yea or nay Que. 4. If by Christ you are called further shew me how And whether you have really heard the Voice of Christ but if not called unto or beyond that estate which they were then in not knowing your own spirits by what spirit would you truly judge of my Spirit who am of God Concerning the Way of God Que. 5. Whether are you in the way of God which is but one and How was that one unto Enoch and now but one and the same unto you Que. 6. Whether is not CHRIST the Light of the World that one way yea or nay Que. 7. Whether are sinners in CHRIST who is the narrow way or are they under the power of Satan in the broad way yea or nay Que. 8. Whether are you in that way which was prophefied of and is now manifest which the way-faring men though fools cannot erre therein yea or nay Que. 9. Whether are you in any other way but in that in which an Hypocrite can walk and whether can an Hypocrite walk in CHRIST yea or nay Que. 10. Whether are not all that are in the Church of Christ in the true way of God where the way-faring men though fools cannot erre therein Que. 11. Whether is the Spirit of Truth come unto you which leadeth the Members of Christ's Church into all Truth But if you have not a Member that in life is led out of all Error into all Truth How can you say that you have the Spirit of Truth Que. 12. If all be in Sin and Error in the Life How shall I conclude any one to be of the true Faith seeing the Apostle saith Shew me thy Faith by thy Works Can the Faith be perfect

the World that all men through belief in the LIGHT might have Everlasting Life You that are in the Profession and Confession of a dead hope in a Saviour without you and are not in the Life of the Faith of the Substance CHRIST the living hope in you which clenseth the Soul from Sin and washeth the Heart from Iniquity Wait in the Silence for the Revelation of the LORD from Heaven who unto us is come that in you also he may be known and witnessed and testified to be come according to the Promise the second time without sin unto Salvation Wait for his Appearance in the Clouds to come breaking thorow the thickness of the blackness of the long night to come down in the Earth as a burning fire and to darken the Air with the smoak to set the Heavens in fire and to melt the Earth before him that you may come to know the Wonders of GOD fulfilled the Sun to be darkned and to become black as sackcloath of hair the Moon turned into blood and the Stars to fall from Heaven in the same substance to see and know these things come to passe and with the same eye by which the Glories of the Heavens were created and saw that it was good I say with the same Spirit and Life which spake forth the Prophecy which unto learned and unlearned is become as a Book that is sealed and hid from the Vultrous eye to witness the Prophesie fulfilled Wait for the Revelation of GOD's Plough in the Earth for the tearing up of the Ground and breaking the Clods thereof for a due preparation to receive the Seed of the Kingdom that you may become as GOD's Husbandry in the Earth and no longer remain as the barren Mountains thereof which never bear Plough thereon nor yeelded increase of good nor as the Woods of the Forrests whose Trees were never pruned which spread their unfruitful branches as thickets that cumber the ground Settle not your selves in the sluggards Rest nor as a wounded Fool with his putrified flesh who is rather willing to perish in death than to cut off his Corruption for life Be ye not alwayes as Moab setled upon the scent of the old lees for it stinks in the nostrils of GOD but wait for the Remove of the Ground and yeeld unto the hewings of GOD the Ax to be laid to the Root of the Tree and the Sword to the Soul that sinneth to know Judgment begin at the House of the LORD to cut off the Wicked in the Land And seek not to escape the day of GOD's Wrath but bear his Indignation within you as the just Reward of your sins which are called up unto Judgment against you And wait in patience until it be over and past that you may know his acceptable year to be come And when these things you know and witness fulfilled within you even as they are known and testified in the Life of GOD's Heritage you shall bear me Testimony in the Holy Ghost That although the Judgement be weighty the Ax burthensom and the flaming Sword of the LORD a most grievous thing all the burden the weight the grief and the travel is but of the carnal and sinful part And to it only is the irkesomness thereof until it be utterly cut off and slain upon the Crosse even of that part which is this day the cause of the cry of the Just in the Land and then you shall be one with the Judgement one with the Sword one with the Ax one with the Everlasting Burning of GOD to dwell in its glory for ever Here the true Purgatory is come and the sin is washed away thorow which the entrance is made into the habitation of the Peace of GOD and there is no true Rest without it Then there is no more sin no more transgression in the Land the cursed Earth is consumed with all her encrease the evil Ground and the Works which were wrought therein are burnt up together the New-Creation is come Jerusalem is created anew the old Heavens and the old Earth is passed away there is no more remembrance of them and Jerusalem is created an habitation of Peace the Glory of the LORD is in her and this is the holy City into which the Hebrews were entered which John prophesied should in these latter dayes come down from Heaven without whose gates are the Dogs Sorcerers Witches Whoremongers Murderers and whatsoever loveth or maketh a Lye into which we in the Kingdom are entered whose Kingdom is not of this World and you coming hither will enter into the way of the Wisdom and Counsel of the Most High to see all things purposes Statutes and Judgments by that of GOD ordered and brought forth in the Wisdom and Counsel of GOD and your own cast under foot as a corruptible thing for ever Then the whole Creation of GOD which travelleth in pain until the Redemption cometh will joy in the approach of Wisdom for then shal you use the Creatures singly to the proper end in the same Wisdom by the which they were created The burning desire of Lust shall dye and the evil appetite be taken away Increase shall fill the house and Blessing overflow the heart the Land shall be preserved in Peace and the City become a Sanctuary of safety Invasion shall never prosper For Wisdom shall confound the work of the Wicked and bring to nought the counsel of the Ungodly The eye of GOD is his Wisdom which pierceth the Depths of the Earth to be in his Wisdom is safety true safety sure preservation from all Snares Plots Conspiracies Designs and Intentions of the VVorld Hell and the Devil For by the Wisdom all flesh was made and that which warreth agains●… its Maker by the Wisdom it shall be confounded Wherefore all for everlasting safety draw near unto Wisdom's gates and wait for the Counsel and Wisdom of GOD to receive VVisdom in the Counsel of GOD and growing in the Wisdom and dwelling in the Wisdom and Counsel of GOD his eye comes to be with you as manifestly revealed in you which searcheth and seeth into the depths of a matter This is that Spirit of a man that knoweth the mind of a man and by the same the way of the wicked comes to be manifest and is a true defence against a thousand Armies Remember the poor man which was in the City who by Wisdom delivered it from the Destruction of the Enemy And make not the seat of Treachery your Trust nor pollished subtilty upon the head of Iniquity your Fort of Refuge for safety For it shall be as a rotten string in your right hand which shall break with the bent of the Bow For deliverance is only of GOD And the purpose of the perverse shall perish These things I have written if haply you may get hear to be led unto the entrance of the Knowledge of GOD to partake of his Treasure of Wisdom and whilst the poor man moves you to listen unto

on the one hand and in how much you have spun a thrid beyond the staple on the other that you may see how you have lost the end your line not leading to Perfection nor your life out of sin and corruption Preach write and speak to the end of your dayes and time you shall never beget but by your own seed none other likeness but of your own nature You may come as far as the shadow shell and husk You may have the words but your nature cannot receive the Life and Power the Crosse of Christ which is the Power of GOD to Salvation is too hard a thing for you to bear You have the Image which is the loss of the Substance for where CHRIST who is the Substance is come there the end is come unto all Shadows Types and Figures which shadowed and figured out the Substance before it came Concerning Opinions I blow over them all as Chaff in as many as are in dissembling lyes hypocrisie swearing or cursed speaking Repent God's day is at hand Rome dispensed from the Inquisition-Prison J. P. I Could say many things unto you but you are not able to bear a little as the Priest concerning the Prophet complained saying The Land is not able to bear all his words you being not yet come unto the Charity which is in the Church of Christ which can bear all things and endure all things Wherefore at present I query a little further expecting first an Answer of the former and after that of these Concerning the Kingdom Query 1. What is the lost groat and the sweeping of the house to find it And whether have you found it yea or nay Que. 2. What is a Virgin's-state and are you in it and In which of the two the wise or the foolish What is the Lamp and the Oyl in the Lamp and do you possess it yea or nay Que. 3. Whether is not the Kingdom of Heaven as really in you as it was in the Scribes and Pharisees And whether are you in the Kingdom yea or nay Que. 4. Whether is any one of you a greater Prophet than John Baptist who was the greatest Prophet born of Women which went before him seeing he that is least in the Kingdom is greater than he Que. 5. If not one of you be in the Kingdom of God Are not all in the kingdom of Satan which are not in the Kingdom of God yea or nay Que. 6. What is the first Principle which leads to the understanding and knowledge of the Oracles of GOD And whether are you in it and doth your life answer it yea or nay Que. 7. What is the Key of David an●… who keeps it and whether is any thing opened or shut in Heaven or in Earth without it yea or nay Que. 8. What is the Book which is sealed with seven Seals and what are th●… Seals thereon which John said no man i●… Heaven nor in Earth was found worth●… to open Whether was Peter then in Heaven or in Earth or neither in Heaven nor i●… Earth And whether any now in your day is found worthy in Earth to do that which John in the Lord's day saw no man in Heaven or Earth was found worthy to do ye●… or nay Que. 9. VVhether is not the Prison an●… the Prison-house the seat of Sin and habitation of Corruption Or Is darkness an●… the shadow of death the Purgation from Sin for the Redemption out of Death Do you not know that the Seed is in Prison under the Clouds of darkness through Sin and Corruption in each one of you yea or nay Que. 10. VVhether have you Salt and Savour in your selves If you know not that it is in you are you otherwise fit but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men Que. 11. VVhat are the two Witnesses of whom it was said That they should again prophesie Whether are they not yet come or how know you but they be come Que. 12. VVhether is the Creation of Jerusalem anew unto you in Rome in the old Age of your sins which the Hebrews shall enter into according to Isaiah's Prophecy and which the Saints of the Most High are now entred into according to John's Prophecy where nothing that defiles can enter And whether is this any other than that which the Apostle said the Hebrews were entred into who were come unto the spirits of just men made perfect yea or nay The Prophecy is become unto all saith Isaiah as a Book that is sealed Friends spur up your Colledges to answer me For if once your Chariot wheels are clogged in the sand and your Host troubled know that Judgment is nigh and the Floods will soon close and joyn hands over your heads Dispensed from the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. THat which is done in secret shall be preached upon the house top For the Bed is too short the Covering is too narrow the Nakedness is seen strip off the Fig-leaves they hide not the Line is stretched but yet the Stone is sealed Nevertheless if you will come forth come forth if you will enter enter come and be as a Roe and Hart upon the Mountains to run and read me to grow to the understanding of a Proverb and the Interpretation thereof the words of the Wise and their dark sayings For behold there cometh a Nation of a deeper speech than ye can perceive of a stammering tongue that you cannot understand they shall break over Walls and climb upon the tops of Houses and enter in at the Windows of the Closets A fiercer People hath not been saith the Spirit of the Prophet The Trumpet of the Lord of Hosts is sounding the Alarm his dreadful day is at hand the dead in Christ have heard and are partakers of the first Resurrection He that hath an Ear to hear let him hear and Repent Rome dispensed from the Inquisition-Prison J. P. To the Pope and Governour and the rest ruling in the City of Rome Friends IN your places it is necessary that you consider that which is indeed above all things honourable I crave not the breaking off the yoke of my bonds at your hands as being assured that your hands were bound of the Lord thus far unto my Imprisonment that you by the means thereof might have knowledge how you are bound with the Chain of Satan under the Curse through Sin and Transgression the LIGHT being come declared and testified unto you henceforth you have no more cloak for your sin This I desire not of you but concerning you of Him which openeth and no man shutteth that the Prisoner in you in the Prison-house within which sits in darkness under the shadow of death may be set at liberty and come forth with the high praise of GOD in his mouth This I offer unto you that I migh●… know either by your willing or nilling whether you exceed or fall short of the Nobility of the Bereans who searched the Scriptures to know the truth of the matter