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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

regulating of that gluttonous Lust of the spirit of Revenge and so where the Judgment of Truth is alwayes suspended there the wrongs and injuries heaped upon the Innocent never come by the Magistrate to be removed and ended Fifthly Because that in the Land where Judgment is not equally practised but unrighteously detarded and tediously suspended the fame thereof breaks an inlet in that Land unto all Assaults Deceits Wrongs Robberies Riots Rapes and Murders For there the Judge's Insolencies is made the president of the Subjects Villanies and there the two can sup of one cup in the communication saying Give me of thy Broth and lo thou shalt partake of my Bread And thus the Just is violently led to languish in the Land Sixthly Because through the suspense of the Just Judgment of the Law which was added because of Transgression and provided as God's Ordinance for the removal of Oppression as the Innocent is thereby on the one hand oppressed and his Yoak not broken but strengthened so by the same on the other hand the Transgressor also receives not his due but a wrong and so no man hath right by the Law which God hath appointed for every man's right either of Condemnation or Justification by due and open Tryal at Tribunal of Law but thus the Law which GOD hath ordained for the removal of Oppression from all through violation is converted and made as an Instrument of Oppression unto all Seventhly Because the suspense of Judgment is contrary to the good Examples practised of God's holy men of old Witness Moses and his true Successors in the same seat and Solomon the wise King who when the cause of contest between the two women concerning the living Child came before him delayed it not but instantly called for a Sword and thereby in the Righteousness finding the true Mother immediatly gave her her due Likewise CHRIST who suspended not the Judgment of the Cause of the Harlot but quickly judged Whosoever is free from sin let him cast the first stone Eighthly Because the righteous Son of GOD marked out that unjust Judge by the name of a man that feared not God nor regarded man who suspended the Cause of the oppressed and wronged Widow and judged it not for the sake of Justice and Equity but detarded it until he found himself wearied with the Widows importunity Ninthly Because the very Jews hard-heartedness suspended not the Tryal of the Just Man JESUS by keeping him Two years or more under the temptation of the severity of Bonds to make him deny his Calling and consequently the Father which sent him but quickly and publickly though unrighteously and against Law judging Him worthy of Death exposed him to the pangs of the same and because also the Jews in the same unbelief and hardness of heart and the Gentiles in the Heathenism and Paganism divers times gave Audience to the open Declaration of Paul the Apostle in defence of his Righteous Cause Moreover though it might have been apprehended as an Affront to his Country-men when he the said Apostle in the day of his Tryal in the Court of Judicature appealed from them unto Caesar yet because of the Law had his Appeal assented him Tenthly Because That Person whosoever that under pretence of a Law violates the Righteousness of the Law by perverting the Law as the Jews did in the Judgment of Jesus or by unequal suspending of the Law which is given into his hands as a Stewardship to handle in equal administration of just Judgment unto all without suspense or respect of persons thus wilfully acting in contrariety to all true humanity the pure practice of Christianity the holy Law of GOD and Prophets and nature of the true GOD appears manifestly in the Chrystal glass of the Law of Equity but as a beastly lustful lawless fighter with his horns of Superiority upon the high mountain of Arrogancy an Oppressor of the Poor and Simple in his Innocency and so warreth not only against Moses and the Prophets purity and Christ's sanctity but also against GOD Almighty his Creator's Divinity and thus renders himself but as one in the Paganism and cursed Atheism a subject of the Vengeance of GOD's Just Judgments in the actual work of despairation which shuts from the true hope of the least drop of the Mercy of the LORD GOD. These things I call Silver seven times refined Drops of the Representation of Righteous Reason which in the substantial practical and living chanels run down like streams from the top of the Mountain of Sion which stands in the midst of the holy City of GOD the which if no man can confidently stand to oppose openly to my face yet if any man will wilfully withstand in secret behind my back let him send me in writing the strength of his Opposition and with further priviledge I in the only strength of GOD may haply shew his confusion that so the work of Righteousness may prosper in the Land the which is sincerely desired But finally if approved and not opposed then in Justice without further suspense let them serve to the effect of one of the ensuing Propositions 1. Either for my fair open cleer publick and legal Tryal at Tribunal of Law if any man hath justly to charge me as a Transgressor 2. Or if not a Trnsgressor then to be righteously acquitted of these Bonds In a word Consider in soberness O ye Heads and Rulers of ROME that if by any man's means I stand wrongfully represented before you as a transgressor whether more than Two years Imprisonment doth not equivolently answer such a Law as counteth not the represented Fact to be so criminal as that it is worthy of the cognizance of Judgment at the Bar of Tribunal For my God weigheth all things in an equal ballance Summarily if the strong will of causless irrational Revenge hath not glutted her appetite on me I am still the same in the same Kingdom of the Content and Patience as yesterday so also to day even unto the last day until her greedy mouth hath sucked my last blood and breath and so this very Prison to be made the Ax of Execution of a Martyr of Jesus And know ye to the utmost that I am of the Spirit of Stephen and Life of the Lord which prayed and despited not JOHN the lowly Lamb in the Life of JESUS the Son of GOD To the Pope of Rome THis City hath ill requited the simplicity of my bowels of the Eternal Love as well towards her Inhabitants as they have been largely manifested to thy Children in Ireland in the time of their most grievous distress Once when about 120 persons were imprisoned in the City of Kilkenny to be sent as Captives to the Barbadoes but one man more besides me in all that Land either English or Irish that durst to appear in their behalfs to plead their cause for them which the God of Heaven knows that I did without an Earthly Reward with the then Governor of

or Are your Customs the Arm of GOD yea I say if that Conscience in whom GOD liveth and reigneth should ask of them all Are your Words or Customs or Forms of Worship the immediate Commandment of the LORD GOD from Heaven which shall endure for ever not one of a thousand either could or would give a ready Answer thereunto which if they would honestly answer negatively concluding their words not to be GOD nor their Customs the Arm of GOD why then do they set their Words above GOD as a limit and bound to the Spirit of GOD And why set they their Customs and Forms of Worship in the Seat of GOD to judge in more Power than the Arm of GOD To the sons of men it may be fully said To whom is the Living GOD known and the Arm of the LORD revealed For if GOD be a Spirit and is only known in Spirit to live in Spirit and to dwell with men in the Spirit How remaineth the knowledge of this true GOD among the sons of men who by the limitations of their Customs and Forms of Worship and Words in the Will out of the unlimited Spirit do thrust him the unlimited Spirit out of his true habitation To all the sons of men upon the face of the Earth who have reached as far as the Tradition but want the Life even unto all Sects and among you all I might largely and plentifully declare your Judgments of others and not with that of GOD in the Conscience answers not that of GOD in the Conscience of any man and GOD hath no Unity with your Judgment but his hand he turneth against it even as in all Generations past The Customs of your Worships and not in the Spirit the Spirit turneth against you and the Spirit will have glory over you for be you not ignorant how that the Spirit created the Times and in time Tradition and Custom came forth And the Spirit which changeth the Times will change the Customs and Forms and when GOD hath put all these things under foot he will be known to be All in All in the Conscience his own proper Seat and Dominion What art thou O corruptible man in whom God created a Conscience that sits above GOD in thy Will making a Law against GOD in the Conscience of another Knowst thou not that GOD hath the whole Dominion there Knowest thou not that GOD hath granted a Law against all Sin and written it in the Conscience his own seat where he cometh to Judgment of the whole World of Mankind as well in it the Heathen who have not the Letter of the Law by the same which he will judge both Jew and Gentile who have the Law and in the Life are found transgressors of the Law And makest thou a Law against the Light of the Throne of GOD against that which thou makest and settest a bound-mark limitation and Law which is in another in and by the self same thing in thy self shalt thou be judged of GOD because of thy Law and the LORD GOD will be known to be the Lord of Spirits and Father of Lights whose Spirit and Light by all the Customs Traditions Laws and Forms of Worship in the World is not in any measure comprehended to be equally judged or made in Righteousness subordinate unto in the Conscience of another and that of GOD in you all shall witness this for ever and bear its everlasting Testimony against your comprehensible corrupt wills which make Laws and constrain Customs and Traditions by Laws against the incomprehensible measure of GOD in another Wherefore a Warning from the LORD GOD the Father of Spirits and Lights to you all is come to give you to take heed in due season lest you be found fighters against GOD your Creator in the day that he calleth to Account and draweth near unto Judgment in the Land And lay it to heart with understanding that for this cause only that he was fought against in the Conscience by Customs by Laws by Judgment by Life by Traditions by Forms of Worship by Sinners by Rebellion against the Power in the Conscience by Jews and by Gentiles all the Overtures Desolations Confusions Destructions Captivities and Revelation of the Wrath Indignation and Vengeance of GOD from Age to Age reaching unto this present Age came to passe in the Earth Witness the Flood witness Sodom and Gomorrah witness the Red Sea witness the Walls of Iericho witness the Mulberry-trees witness the Battels of Israel and the Captivity of his Children witness the Worms that ate Herod witness the Destruction of Ierusalem and the scattering of the Iews in the Earth witness Greece Germany Scotland England and Ireland and yet the LORD will call the whole Earth to witness and bring heap upon heap and destruction upon destruction and desolation upon desolation by Fire and Sword in every Land that standeth against the Word of the LORD GOD. But blessed is he that cometh to know the ground and root of a matter in him to know the end of the Desolations determined to be in the Earth I might say unto you how that in the dayes of Luther GOD moved in the Darkness upon the face of the deeps thereof but they which made him their Rest are confounded and their head is broken as Clay He appeared brighter by Behman and Brown but they which built their Travels as Towers the LORD confounded with many Languages and even running up to the height Baptists Seekers and Ranters some made bounds for the pure and others in their lusts revolted wherefore GOD hath laid them one upon the other as a heap of confusion together And thus he hath begun the work of his hand decreed to perfect his purpose And the LORD GOD will make the Nations to know That he hath not sent down his Word in the Earth to be likened unto a breath of Vanity in the Air and that he caused not his Prophets to run in vain as him which comes short of the mark but that his Law which he wrote upon the Tables of Stone he writeth upon the Table of he Heart and both the Law and the Prohets no more as in the dayes of continual ransgression shall be told as a tale of tatlers and as a history of vain bablers pointed upon the tongue of a deceitful mouth but that they shal be fulfilled and witnessed yea and perfected in the Spirit in Life and in Power as by the Spirit in Life and in Power they were revealed and given forth to this only end of GOD in his Creature For which cause lastly JESUS the Saviour was revealed to perfect that which was lacking and to compleat the Redemption in fulness Therefore all you dwellers in the Monuments of the Earth Awake from the deadness of your Forms and Worships and draw near unto the quickning Power of the Righteousness of GOD which leads to Life in the Truth and Salvation from all Sin To which end GOD sent the Immanuel a LIGHT unto

Counsel if you resist and will not beware Beware lest in the time of distress you cry and gladly would and then he be not to answer From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. To Fabius Guisius Pope of Rome Friend MY Message is not unto any part of the natural either Wit Will or Wisdom it is neither meat for Serpents nor air for Camelions But the Word of the Lord God is to the Seed which shall be witnessed by the next Generation whether this which now is will hear or forbear This is the Message which I have heard and received and do declare unto thee GOD is Light and in him is no darkness at all who hath sent his Son a Light into the World that all that believe in him who is the Light of the World may have everlasting life unto which Light thou must bow and oughtest to lay down thy Crown at the feet of him who cometh in the Cloud●… thorow the thickness of the Night and breaking thorow the blackness and darkness of the black and gloomy day That which Daniel the greatly beloved of GOD saw afar off I see at hand the little stone is cut out of the Mountain without a hand and is already become a Mountain which the whole Earth is not able to remove and will become a Mountain which shall fill the whole Earth which shall throw down every Image before him as saith the Prophet GOD will confound the Image and the Image-maker and him which boweth before it Behold Overturn cometh and Overturn followeth until the last Overture be fulfilled and He come whose Right it is to Reign and his Government which is an Everlasting Government be set up and his Dominion unto the utmost Ends of the Earth of which there shall never be end GOD hath looked over the Government of the Land and hath heard the Blasphemies thereof They profess my Name saith the Lord of whom I am made but as a curse in their mouth And my Name is but made the grievous Oath of the Land saith the Jealous God And from the head to the tayl there is none amongst them that have made the Separation betwixt the Just and the Vile but as a Cage of unclean Birds they are all common as in Confession so also in their Iniquity and Transgression for which things I will visit saith the Lord of Hosts As David complained I am made the song of Drunkards Even so now is Mary the Mother of Jesus by every unclean tongue in the corners of the streets in the Temples and in the High-ways of this Land of Whoredoms Thus saith the Lord Pull down the High-way marks of Idolatry that the stranger may not stumble before me Exercise thy Power for me and not against me saith the Lord And throw down the great Image and Idol of the Land lest I quickly tumble down two at once saith the Lord of Hosts Plant not Bryars in the Way neither set Thorns in the Gap For lo I am arisen to smite the whole Earth and to make breaches in the fenced places thereof For now even now for mine holy Name sake and my Seeds sake I am jealous saith the Lord of Hosts Righteousness shall run down like a Stream and the Knowledge of the Lord shall cover the Earth as waters cover the Seas which is found scant in thy Land Be thou henceforth no more called POPE for that was never promised nor prophesied of by the Word of the Lord I am Peter's Successor who am of his Spirit whose Kingdom is not of this World and so are we all who are made partakers of the Divine Nature which was fully in Christ who when the Jews would take him by force and make him a King he departed into a Mountain alone and was hid from them all but thou maiest keep the name of one of the Princes of this World and in thy place as a Ruler rule with the Judgment of Truth and Righteousness not turning the stranger out of his way nor condemning the Just by a Law which David in his day complained of Rob not God of his Glory For he forgiveth Sin Repent for thy Sin is not yet forgiven Neither watch for any man's halting for that is Iniquity but cherish all that cry against Idolatry and lift thou up thy voice with them that are redeemed out of the nature of Transgression and Sin that bear witness and cry against all Sin and alwayes wash thy hands and keep thy heart clean from their blood and the innocency of their sufferings Say not that I came to deceive the People of thy Nation whose life is as a Sea of Sin and Transgression who have not anything to be deceived of in that nature but Prophaness Sin and Uncleanness I came to declare the Message of GOD unto thee and so to pass as a Pilgrim and a Stranger out of thy Land I came not with any thing in my Vessel unto thee or any of this City which is new save only as it is new unto the old nature of all Transgressors and seed of Corrupters which is the new Wine of the Kingdom of GOD. Do not ask how thou shalt know For in Judgment thou shalt know that this is the Message of the LORD GOD of Heaven and Earth unto thee I have born a burden for thee and now I bear thy yoak under thee Yet much more could I suffer in the exercise of the long patience of the LORD That this Nation might drink of the Cup of the Everlasting Blessing of the LORD and the Curse removed from their head to eat the bread of peace and gladness for ever So having thus far cleared my self unto thee did it stand in my own freedom I should depart thy Coasts but being not mine own but the LORD's Witness against all Ungodliness For this Testimony with gladness I wear the yoak of bonds and not only yet but what else may follow in his content and patience that hath called me Who by the sons of men am called JOHN PERROTT From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome To the Governour of Rome Friend COme to know the Higher Power the Power of GOD to be highest in thee and let that be the Judge of all matters and causes which shall come before thee Let the Sword of the Judgment of GOD be set up in thy house within that the Transgressor may be slain within then the Eye will be opened the Ear will be unstopt the grossness of the Heart will be taken away and thou wilt have the understanding of the root of a matter in thee and wilt alway judge for GOD and every end will be shaken off No man shall at any time see his end over thee by gifts or presents deceitful speeches or flattering titles of that honour which comes from man but so thou wilt stand in the state of Honour which comes from GOD only which is the believing state but the seeking of the other is the unbelieving saith Christ Wherefore come to