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Perrot against the pope, or, A true copy of John Perrot the Quakers letter and challenge to the pope with His Holiness's answer thereto : and an account of the Quakers proceedings and entertainment at Rome.
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J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?
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1662
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PERROT AGAINST THE POPE OR A true Copy of John Perrot the Quakers Letter and Challenge to the Pope With his Holiness's Answer thereto And an Account of the Quakers Proceedings and entertainment at Rome Jer. 46.3 Order ye the Buckler and the Shield and draw near to Battel LONDON Printed the 9th day of the 4th moneth called June 1662. THE PUBLISHER TO THE READER SOme Sober persons will not easily believe though it be most true that the phanatick Spirit of Enthusiasm had in the year 1658. so far possessed John Perrot an English Quaker that whilst to use his own phrase he stood in the gap for Rome he must needs go thither in person to convert the Pope And being arriv'd at the wished end of his long journey he made great meanes to have audience of his Holinesse But it being pleasantly objected that a disputation with the Pope would prove ineffectual in regard the one understood no English and the other nothing but English Perrot answered If the Pope have the Spirit of God in him he will understand what I shall deliver Thereupon the Pope being mov'd was content to admit him to his presence Ecclus. 4.7 John forgetting that Scripture which bids him bow his head to a great man came stifly in with his Hat on and began presently without other ceremony in this bluâ—t English Pope of Rome c. Others say he condescended so far against his Principles as to call him Mr. Pope and went on in his spiritual canting of which the Pope understood not a word but by interpretation at length when he had seen the sad effects of this Quakerism his Holiness said costui è veramente Fanatico this man is a Fanatick indeed and gave order he should be sent to the Pazzarella which is of the same nature with our Bedlam but with directions that if the Fanatick would peaceably depart thence to his own Country he should have the permission The Quaker would by no perswasions leave Rome till he had effected the great work for which the Lord had sent him that is converted the Pope so he was detained in the Pazzarella for a long time and from thence found meanes to send a Letter to the Pope with this superscription John Perrot the Lamb of Christ to Fabius Ghisius vulgarly called Pope of Rome the effect of it you may imagin Perrot had a Doxy with him of his own Tribe called Jane Stoakes who being asked by an English Gentleman there in what part of England shee was born answered at Oxford near the nest of unclean birds called Johns Another of his Companions for they were four in all who went in this mission or pilgrimage to Rome voluntarily fasted himself to death in the Pazzarella as James Parnell a brother had done before him in Colchester Goale May 1656. After above two yeares spent by this zealous Quaker in bondage at Rome at last his heat began to cool so that upon his promise to return peaceably to his own Country he was released And being arriv'd at London in the year 1661. the Spirit again moov'd him to have another bout with Mr. Pope and to that purpose he finds meanes to convey the following Propositions by way of Challenge in a Letter to Rome which with the Popes Answer faithfully translated out of the Original Latin I here present the Reader verbatim as they came to my hands from a Virtuoso at Rome and leave it to Discretion to judge whether is like to carry the victory Fabius Ghisius or John Perrot the Pope of Rome or Quaker of London PROPOSITIONS TO THE POPE FOR THE Proving his Power of Remitting Sins and other Doctrines of his Church as Principles destroying Souls in Darkness and undeterminable Death To Fabius Guisius Pope at his Pallace in Monte Cavallo in Roma POPE of ROME It is not unknown that for the space of three years wanting lesse than seven dayes I was held in most cruel Bonds under thy Hands where by the mighty power of God I was borne and carried through ignominious and opprobrious scoffs and mocks threats of Death divers wayes and of perpetual Slavery oftentimes Besides other times most cruelly and inhumanely tortured bruised and exceedingly wounded in my fleshly Body for none other cause the God of Righteousnesse knoweth and that of God in all mens Consciences in that City of Rome can bear me witnesse which saw my Conversation from the first to the last of my imprisonment but honestly simply and purely for Righteousness sake viz. because I Exhorted All men to Repentance and warned them in Season to take heed to their wayes lest a sore Evil should come upon them I say for this love of my tender Soul towards Thine and their Souls and Bodies was I so inhumanely requited both by Thee and Them which the Righteous LORD of Heaven knoweth and Thou in thy Conscience knowest it as many others of the Heads Rulers Priests Doctors Fryars Jesuits and People of Rome do know the same thing and after many Wrongs which I bare and bruises and wounds that I suffered shut up in a Room where there was scarce a Breathing place chained in Irons mocked of the Wicked because my natural eyes could see neither visible Sun nor Moon where moreover I was tempted with the World and proffered all the Pleasures which ever my Heart could desire so that I would be but as thy Priests were which dayly tempted me unto Idolatry I say all which I suffered until at length my Innocent patient Soul had worn out and overcome all the Cruelty towards me which was Exercised upon me by the Vnreasonable Hands of Sinners and that the Lord arose to plead my Cause for me and stirred up such as I neither desired nay nor in the least outwardly knew to appear in my Behalf and made some of his Servants to offer up their lives for my Redemption which were known to be freely sacrificed in Rome for whose Live unto me they were also Imprisoned by Thy power who below the Law of Heathens stood not openly to shew us any cause of our Sufferings Yet after all this though I am a man wholly given unto my God having given all things else unto Him who made them if it were the will of my Father commanding me unto Silence and to sit down as him that is Dumb and never to open my mouth nor lead on my Pen on Paper to Remonstrate the things that are past concerning my Suffering dayes verily I should Obey and say Good is the Will of my God who teacheth me Subjection But being commanded unto this thing I can of a pure heart in the sight of my Almighty God say that I write not to take a Revenge of my Cause having committed Vengeance unto him that repayeth in Righteousnesse Whom I pray for mercy to be manifested unto you All having a long time stood in the Gap for Rome with many Tears offering my Life for the Inhabitants of that City which the God of Heaven
knoweth and that I can at 〈…〉 to serve them all in the way wherein my Father leadeth me But O Pope for thy â—ouls sake and the peoples Souls sakes which have a dependance upon thy Power I am contrained to write this time unto thee in this manner shewing that in the Name and holy Fear of the Lord God of Heaven and Earth who hath led me in my Pilgrimage by his Right Hand of Power and pleaded my Cause with my Enemies by reigning down fire from Heaven upon them and by diverse Judgements in Rome whilest there the people oppressed my Innocent Soul with Cruelty which may as is needful hereafter be more at large spoken of I proptmd it unto Thee as being the HEAD of that people which are called the Roman Catholick Church to Constitute Order and appoint one hundred of thy Chiefest and Propoundest Iesuits or Doctors of Divinity so called by thee to give me a fair open and publick Meeting in England Germany France Italy or Turkey viz. in the most expedient place for the advantage of the Glory of God who Created the whole earth for that end as a way may be made to attain a Licence from the Powers of the said Nations to effect the said Meeting I say chuse thee thy hundred or more persons for thy defence and in the Name of the Lord God and in his Councel I shall stand in the face of a Nation or many Nations to prove to that of God in every Conscience upon the face of the Earth That thy pretended power of Remission of Sins is of the old Serpent the Devil drowning Souls in the Lake of Hell and Perdition 1st By the time of the comming in of Popes 2dly By the manner of chusing Popes 3dly By the matter of the precepts of Popes viz. First That the Doctrine of teaching people to pray unto the Virgin Mary is damnable drowning the Soul in the pit Hell Secondly That the Doctrine of teaching of the people to call on more Advocates Mediators and Intercessors Than looking upon the One MEDIATOR JESUS is of the pit of 〈…〉 blinding and binding souls in the blackness of the night of death Thirdly That the Invention of Pictures and Images in your Worships is of the destroying Spirit of the power of Darkness chaining Souls in the Pit Fourthly That your manner of Consecrating Waffers Wine and Water praying upon Beads worshipping in Idols Temples your divers Fryars Garments and Titled Orders your observations of Dayes and Meats your Penance and Processions are not of God but contrariwise of the Spirit of Delusion Heresie Deceit and Iniquity which drowneth Souls in perdition For which Cause if thou lovest the Salvation of Souls more than their Damnation through a Covetous end of an Earthly Kingdom in thy Heart then I am sure Thou wilt not scruple to send such persons as Thou mayest appoint to Meet me according to this Proposal which else All Nations will see thy Cloak to be Rent a sunder and no longer able to cover and hide the Abominations which are concealed under Thy Skirts for except Thou sendest me an Answer or causest an Answer to be sent unto me in the space of Four Months after the Date of this then must I Manifest it unto All Nations as far as it can be conveniently Spread even unto the ends of the Earth which until then I may not do that Thou mayest Know that my End is not to Infamize Thee and Thy Authority but Righteously to Glorifie the Lord God Almighty my Holy Father of Life LONDON the 20th day of the 7th Month called September 1661. Who am called the English Quaker that was Prisoner in Bedlam of Rome and also outwardly named JOHN PERROT FABIUS GHISIUS POPE of ROME TO JOHN PERROT QUAKER of LONDON John Quaker THy Letter and Propositions bearing date the 20th day of the 7th month came not to my hands till the 10th day of this therefore I hope thou wilt not proscribe me for elapsing the time limited in thy Letter which was not through my fault And because I know thou hast a perverse unbelieving Spirit in thee I forbear in usual form to salute thee with Apostolical Benediction but without further Ceremony apply my self to answer thy Letter 1. 'T is true thou wast detained in the Pazzarella here a place most fit for thee and thy mad Brethren where had both thou and they been timely put as you might have been in Justice and should have been in Prudence all the late miseries and abominable wickednesses of England had in all likelyhood been prevented Nor was it without evident reason That my Officers shut thee up in Bedlam Thou cam'st out of a Rebellious Countrey where thou and thy Fanatick Brethren committed a Wonderful and Horrible thing Jer. 5.30 Ezek. 11.2 Murther'd your lawful King to devise mischief and give wicked Councel in this City Thou didst pretend a Spiritual Call and I know not what Revelation which prov'd a false vision and divination Jer. 14.14 a thing of naught and th deceit of thy heart far surpassing the frenzy of the more ancient Enthusiasts When thou wast soberly admonished to abandon that deluding Spirit which leads thee and thy Brethren into so many exorhitancies and set thy face toward London Ezek. 21.2 thou didst â—ost pertinaciously contemn that good Councel and persist in thy ways of Abomination refusing to depart out of my City Rome forgetting those words Rev. 18.4 thou hast so often misinterpreted Go out of her my people lest thou partake of her sins and receive of her punishments Why could'st thou not take heed and more warily understand a Text so plainly fore warning thee to flye from her Ezek 13.3 left she should punish thee Thus saith the Lord God woe unto the foolish Prophets that follow their own Spirit and have seen nothing While thou wert kept in the Roman Bedlam was not the Discipline of the place exactly observed to thee Jer. 4.18 Ezek. 14.10 aswell as to the rest of thy fellow Bedlams didst thou want any thing there but thine own wire Thus therefore it came to passe that thy way and thy doings procured these things unto thee it being just that thou shouldst bear the punishment of thine iniquity 2. Thou sayst my Priests did daily with all the pleasures thy heart could desire tempt thee to be as they were And were they not very courteous to make thee so kind an offer were they not very patient to treat with thee thus daily Ingrateful John why dost thou complain of those who us'd thee so civilly and all this only to make thee be as they were Verily verily John thou wert shrewdly hurt dost thou not usually though falsly charge them to lead lives of ease and honor and canst thou take it ill they should offer thee a share with themselves to be as they were Moreover I say unto thee thou dost me and my people very great wrong by affirming in thy Letter that my