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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

that City who sometime before that sent me up Prisoner to Dublin prosecuting my Life because I had written about three sheets of Paper that represented the sore Grievances and heavy Oppressions of all thy Children in that Land which none of them instigated me unto but was only carried forth thereunto in the Mercies Pities and Compassions that God had put into my soul beholding them a bleeding People With the said Governour I pleaded for the said persons first in his private house and next with him and all the Commissioners in the open Court of Justice and obtained a Warrant for the delivery of the said Prisoners which I went personally to see executed but the Marshal hoping to gain Moneys disobeyed it which made me go a second time to the Court and open the Cause afresh whereby I obtained my Desire as full as I could possibly expect for with a second Order I returned to the Prison not giving trust to any humane eye besides my own and saw them all delivered at which time many fell down upon their knees to me in the open street worshiping me as if I were a God and not a man which I then denied remembring the words of Christ and of the Angel that said thou shalt worship GOD and Him only shalt thou worship Besides other times I have appeared for some poor Widows being formerly of eminency and repute in the World and thy Children and many other Roman Catholicks in their distresses and GOD Almighty knows that the Pitties of my soul were such to them all that I was so far from expecting a Gift for all that I did for them that besides my Expences in several Journies to serve their needs my hand was open to all and not one of thy Children can say that he came to my Door for an Alms and went away empty-handed Besides all this the GOD of Knowledge remembers that I have stript off the Apparrel immediatly from my body to cloath thy Children that I saw in need and want Therefore consider thee this Case as thou wilt appear to be a natural Father And because I have not found Mercy in this City answerable to the least part of my Bowels to thy Children in their woful distresses yet shew me Justice but to plead my own Cause in a publick Court of Judicature as I have openly pleaded the Cause of thy Children in a publick Court of Judicature in time of their misery when they could not plead it themselves nor durst others do it for them and it shal satisfie my soul which spirituality nay nor humanity it self will deny me the which I seek in the Spirit of meekness as one that is delighted in the Order of Truth loving and praying for Enemies and watching to recompence good for evil that the Light of the Lamb in me may appear as a City set on a Hill Who am thy Prisoner in the Prison of Madmen called the English Quaker JOHN And though something was a long while before desired and earnestly besought by divers of the Pope's Priests and other Officers for me to write unto the Pope even in this wise yet after I had sent and heard of its delivery to the Pope at his Palace the Answer which I received was this viz. That I should have no hearing and withal I was stript of all my Writings which could be found together with Pen Ink and Paper and threatned to have my Door walled up and half or more of the Window also walled up and scarcely Water to be brought unto me for my necessary use Whereby the very worst of men may discern that the spirit which ruleth in Rome is not of Christ but of Antichrist A POST-SCRIPT to all the zealous Roman Catholicks which have sought God in their Imaginations but yet have not found him to possess him in the Substance that they may all come to find and enjoy Him in his Everlasting Life of Pleasure AFter all the former fruits of Righteousness shewn forth by Epistle Exhortation Admonition Reproof Questions and Righteous Reason none of which being at any time answered by any person or persons in ROME or elsewhere Now I am come to shew the weakness of all the Pope's Adherents in that City who when they saw that they could not answer the fore-going Queries unless it should be to their own Condemnation took occasion to censure me under the Judgment of being in the state of a Mad-man thinking that the Cruelties which were determined in their Council to be inflicted upon my Body might prove to be the means of turning my soul from the work of GOD's Righteousness effected in my heart to which end I was sent as precited from the Inquisition unto the Prison of Mad-people In which place I was first chained by the Neck to the wall in which Chain I had the exact liberty of standing upstreight of sitting or of lying down but after three nights had passed it was ordered that the Chain was to be taken from off my Neck and another Chain lock'd on my Leg which was about six foot long which gave me liberty to walk the length of three steps from the Wall whereunto it was fastened which abode upon me for the full time of fourteen weeks in which space of time it proving then to be Winter season and the Winter also proving very cold shrank up the Sinews of my Leg on which the chain was lock'd so that when at the expiration of the aforesaid fourteen weeks it was taken off I found my self a lame man but through sore suffering in twelve dayes following the Lord in whom I believed made me again a sound lim'd person whose Name my soul magnifieth praiseth blesseth and thanketh for his goodness and loving-kindness whose mercies endure for ever Moreover in the said time of my being chained I was divers times beaten tortured and sorely bruised and wounded in my body by persons appointed thereunto using for the most part a dryed Bulls Pizzle as the Instrument for punishing of me bruising and breaking my body with the same yea and after that I had the freedom of the Room in which I was kept which I judge could not exceed in latitude 9 and longitude 14 feet I was also several times beaten and exceedingly wronged in my body once especially my Torturers came into the Room by whom I was stript of all my Cloathes from top to toe and with the aforesaid Instrument fell upon me and did in such manner beat me with the same as I was stark naked that they left me from the very crown of the head unto the soals of my feet black and bloody having broken their Instrument about me I might speak and write that which would fill many Volumns of my Sufferings both in body and spirit which are well known unto God but in brief may sum up all in a short saying not mentioning the many Particulars which were day after day and night after night exercised upon me as revilings mockings infamous names

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

beatings by Mad-men with other abuses which in modesty I cannot well express by Pen but may say thus viz. even such as passeth the bounds of all humanity when I have been kneeling at Prayer and when I have been walking in Praises and Thanksgivings unto God Ah! can I number can I number again the many thousands of Temptations that attended me besides blows wounds mocks and such-like abuses tryed with Wine proved with Women tempted with Riches and Honour and all the Pleasures that ever my heart could desire after that I was threatned even day after day and night after night sometimes with Tortures and sometimes with Death by Gallows by Fire and sometimes subtilly by Poyson Well what shall I say I have read the Sufferings of Job and the Slaughters of many of the Martyrs but yet this can I say in God that such were my suffering-dayes in Rome as I have said in body and spirit that no soul that lived immediatly in his Grace ever suffered the like even since the day of Adam's being a man created of his Maker from the beginning which I made manifestly appear unto my Afflictors Torturers and Tormentors in ROME even unto their shame and confusion whilst in bonds I was so constrained unto sufferings in the state of my manifest and approved Innocency in the sight of GOD and themselves my utter Enemies All which was inflicted upon me to turn my heart from the Righteous Way of GOD which is manifest to you by their many Temptations for me to speak a Lye and often Provocations to break me from the Spirit of Patience and Content which I held in my God Now the aforesaid Punishments Cruelties having been laid upon me for the precited causes which all the foregoing Writings dispensed unto them forth of the Inquisition sheweth the unrighteousness of their Cause and the unreasonableness of their Weapons which fought and battelled against me whom I shewed in the time of my Sufferings That if they judged me to be a Mad-man they seemed to me to be nigh sensless to seek me by Temptations of Cruelties and Pleasures to turn unto them by sinning against the Lord of Righteousness And again I remonstrated to their understandings viz. That if the Pope Cardinals Doctors Jesuites Priests Fryars Lawyers Physicians and all the wise Councils and Counsellors in Rome were fallen so far from the knowledge of GOD and degenerated so much below humane Reason as not to judge of a humane state in a more rational sort than to conclude me to be a Mad-man that Soul was in a most miserable destroying state that should trust unto their Judgements concerning any thing which they should judge was spiritual tending to the Worship of GOD and Salvation For if all could not rightly judge of a Cause external in so low a degree it is impossible that they should judge of things spiritual which are matters of the highest concernments and therefore must needs conclude my self a wilful destroyer of mine own Soul if I should have adhered unto such spirits as were not able rightly to judge betwixt a state of true sence and madness From all which it is my desire that the poor simple hungry and thirsty Roman Catholicks whose souls are not satisfied without the enjoyment of the true God may know the real cause why they yet walk with heavy hearts and pressed-down minds not having the comfort of the assurance of Salvation in them though they have carefully sought many years to find it going unto many Masse-houses to communicate often and to pray frequently and to confesse several times in the year and to bear penance for their sins willingly and yet all hath been so short of making their perfect Peace with God that a thousand times more than all whatever they practised cannot take away from their hearts nor wash from their souls one of their least sins I say one cause is this as the Prophet Jeremiah saith The Leaders of this People cause them to err and they which are led of them are destroyed And the Priests whose lips should keep Knowledge have hid Knowledge from the eyes of the People and therefore hath the Lord complained saying For want of Knowledge my People perish which your Popes and Priests have really hid from your eyes having led you into the wayes of their own Inventions which they sought and found out in the Counsels of their own Wills whilst the immediate Word of the LORD was not instantly in and among them but absolutely wanting from them who therefore led you into those things which the LORD GOD never required from you and therefore in your daily sacrifices you cannot expect another Answer from GOD than this as the Prophet Malachi saith Who hath required these things at your hands For GOD never instituted Beads nor Images of Persons or Crosses neither ever said he That the invisible spiritual Worship of Him the Spiritual GOD stands in the visible and carnal appearances which cannot reach unto the soul to sprinkle wash and cleanse the soul from every evil and dead work word and thought Forasmuch as nothing but an invisible and an eternal Substance is able to reach unto to wash purge and cleanse your invisible and immortal souls from your sins which are the causes of your weights pressures and burdens which yet remain upon you not knowing your Deliverance from them Seeing therefore that you have long practised to find but have not partaked of the substance of the thing desired having sought ease but not found ease having sought it but in the way of your Leaders who cause you to erre and not having sought it in any other way but in that which your souls have experience through long practice brings you not unto the true End of your hope not having sought it as you ought to seek trying all things and holding fast that which is good Come ye therefore and try this Way of GOD and prove the LORD in his Way even the Merciful GOD who hath proved you in your wayes and alwayes found you defective in your wayes and mark Him in his Way and try and see if it shall be with you in the dayes to come as it hath been with you in the dayes that are past For now Reason may tell you that if your way was imperfect surely the Way of GOD must needs be perfect which leads unto a perfect end first to a perfect Life in Him that is the Beginning and consequently unto perfect Peace in the same who is without End Can you do lesse than to prove and see and seek in that wherein I know assuredly you shall find that you shall not always walk as in wearisomness faintness nor be in your hearts as parched heaths nor in your minds as barren mountains neither shall be as Bryars of the Woods and Thorns of the Forrests nay nor as pricking Thistles of the Stubble-fields neither shall you alwayes walk as afflicted tossed and tormented through the swellings of