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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

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

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

it under the Judgment of Penalty To be brief I would draw to the understanding of the Root of a Matter which ought in Wisdom principally to be known in you all that you may know your Root of which I have seen much as ye daily bring forth the fruit thereof Que. 24. Whether the spirit of Oaths Envy Lust and Lyes is not of the ground and original root of Heresie yea or nay Que. 25. Whether that Spirit hath not an absolute and instant Ground and Root universally according to Confession in your Body yea or nay Que. 26. Whether is not all things which are contrary to the Doctrine and Life of CHRIST and his Apostles absolutely and undeniably Heresie and that assuredly Opinion which is the lesser as practice which makes it greater and they both but one in the Ground and Nature yea or nay Que. 27. What Rule of Truth or Precept in the Scriptures of Truth have you to condemn any man as an Heretick which denieth your evil spirit and in the Life utterly abhorreth all your beastly works and wicked words brought forth by the spirit of Heresie And to what purpose think you standeth the judgment of your spirit Do thou mind thy blind-hearted brother Thomas Courtney of these things who told me that Heresie speaking of some Opinion was a worser sin than Murder which weighed in the deeps le ts to see that it breaks a gap for more evil than a thousand of the like his lines is able to reconcile the which was his ignorance as if Murder were not the most abominable desperate act of wilfulness against GOD and a man's Neighbour brought forth by the spirit of Heresie which spirit abounds in all your Coasts which is the real cause of all the Oaths Curses Lyes Dissimulations Hypocrisies Drunkenness Gluttony Adulteries Pride Covetousness Envy all Uncleaness and Murders brought forth innumerably in your Land For which cause if you had all Words and understood all Mysteries yet the Saints interested in the simplicity of Truth dwelling in GOD cannot joyn hands with you to partake of your spirit and so of your evil deeds and lastly of the Wrath to be revealed which the Lord God in his Counsel hath determined shall sweep a secure Land When lastly thou wert with me I saw that thy visage was none of thine own as always unto thy own I desire not to judge thee rashly but let me exhort thee saying Carry not a Bears Paw under thy long Gown nor a Lion's Tooth within thy mincing Lips thy words many of them were as smooth as sweet Butter and fresh Oyl but see thou that under thy tongue there be not hid the poyson of Asps in such things as in the rest of the dead works signs shews and noises as the Magicians of Egypt about the Walls of the Prison and elswhere you may as they themselves did deceive your selves also but by all these things neither in my self nor in you am I at all deceived Settle your selves in Council I am bound within Walls yet blessed be the LORD GOD I savour the deeds of darkness and many of them would not be of good report to be told among your selves You know that I bear all the folly as being 〈◊〉 your V●…ssal to that end but you know not how I trample upon the fruit and the spirit which yeelds it From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. To the Inhabitants of the bloody City the Mother of Cruelties and Murder REad the Declaration of the Righteousness of this Cause let it be spread in an open Parchment upon the Standard of your Host and let it be marked in your Ensign as a perpetual shame in the face of your Camp There was a certain Message sent by the hand of a Servant by the LORD of a strong Army who treated for the Surrender of the City He came not as a Coward to hide in a hole nor as treacherous to slay in secret but to deliver his service to the Chief to depart with the Answer of the Head of the Land He was foolishly entreated by the hands of the jealous and il●… handled by the doubtful and timerous hearted they bound a Man of War in Chains and rejoyced often to smite him with rotten sticks they chused not to plead with him in open field nor to deal with him as do the Valiant and Honourable they bound him in their seat of contempt and sent Scorners to view him in secret he looked at the works of their hands and wrote them in the soals of his feet he setled his heart in the righteousness of the Message of his LORD and rather chose the Chain of his Enemies Yoak than to yeeld unto Cruelty and Flattery he was faithful to his Enemy in what he was sent as he was to his LORD that sent him he washed his hands of the Blood of the City and possessed the Peace of his LORD What will you say for your selves when this Servant's Cause shall be publickly pleaded to your faces I know your purpose concerning the Heir and the purpose also of the LORD of the Vineyard as the Reward of your wilful works You have been well warned but you have not well received but have ill rewarded and requited Yet in all I desire not that God may requite you as ye have requited me and therefore I have Consolation and you know not my Crown The putrified head of the corrupted body and rotten tayl yea the whole body even from head to tayl I tread upon for ever J. P. Rome from the Inquisition-Prison To the Priests appointed as Inquisitors and Keepers of the Inquisition-Prisons thereunto belonging A Visitation of the Lord God to you all is come ARise arise It is high time to Awake and Arise from the Seat of Blood For the LORD GOD is arisen to make Inquisition for the Blood of every Innocent Soul which hath been starved and slaughtered upon the face of the whole Earth Indignation flyeth with him as a pointed Arrow Vengeance is in his Right hand as a Spear for the Battel and Wrath as a Dart to pierce the Liver of the Wicked The LAMB is arisen for Slaughter as a Lion to devour the Prey a Burning fire proceedeth out of his mouth The Ungodly shall be consumed before him and because Iniquity is plentiful in the Land he hasteth the Iudgment of the Day neither Covering nor Cloud shall hide the Wicked nay nor the Clifts of the craggy Rocks from the fierceness of his provoked Fury He will smite suddenly even in a moment in the Land and bereave the habitation of the Dweller He will catch as a snare in the night and none shall deliver from his Wrath He will abide as burnings in the Earth Corruption shall not dwell in his Presence the Evil-doer is for the Wine-press of his Wrath but the Just shall dwell in his Pleasures It is at hand It is at hand the Day of Vengeance of the LORD according to the Prophecy The abundance of

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