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A54440 Propositions to the pope for the proving of 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. J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671? 1661 (1661) Wing P1628; ESTC R31790 2,577 1

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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 less 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 Righteousness knoweth and that of God in all mens Consciences in that City of Rome can bear me witness 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 Jesuites 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 daily tempted me unto Idolatry I say all which I suffered untill 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 Love unto me they were also Imprisoned by Thy power untill the Lord's Arme delivered us out of such Vnreasonable Hands 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 Righteousness 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 a moment dye to serve them all in the way wherein my Father leadeth me But O Pope for thy Souls sake and the peoples Soules sakes which have a dependance upon thy Power I am constrained 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 Judgments 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 propound 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 Profoundest 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 Counsel 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 coming 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 of Hell Secondly That the doctrine of teaching the people to call on more Advocates Mediators and Intercessors Than looking upon the One MEDIATOR JESUS is of the pit of darkness 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 worshiping in Idols Temples your divers Fryars Garments and Titled Orders your observations of Dayes and Meats your Pennance 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 Asunder 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 maiest 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 Who am called the English Quaker that was Prisoner in Bedlam of Rome and also outwardly named LONDON the 20th day of the 7th Mon. called September 1661. JOHN PERROT LONDON Printed for Robert Wilson in the 4th Month called June 1662.