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A54458 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. J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671? 1662 (1662) Wing P1648; ESTC R40068 6,452 16

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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 blu●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