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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

except the Works be perfect yea or nay Que. 13. Whether had not the Jews all the words of the Prophets and yet when Christ came slew Him who was the Virtue Sum Substance the Beginning and End of the life of the Prophets And whether you being out of the Spirit of Christ are not under the judgement of Jeremiah's words viz Though they say the LORD liveth surely they swear falsly Que. 14. Whether did Adam lose mor●… in his life than CHRIST came to restor●… unto Man in this life Which is the greater the living soul or the quickning spirit And whether is any one or more of you Members restored unto either or not in the life of either of these two states yea or nay Que. 15. Whether is not all Sin of the Devil and he that commits Sin of the Devil yea or nay Concerning the true Church Query 16. Whether is not the Trut●… Church the Body of CHRIST which is in GOD And when Paul spake of Christ and the Church whether did he not speak of a Mystery yea or nay Que. 17. Whether are the Members of Christ's Body evil And if sinners be Members of Christs Body tell me if any other spirit be the sinnews of that body besides the spirit of the Devil which leads into sin and evil yea or nay Que. 18. Whether is not the perfection of the Glory of GOD in his Church And whether doth that remain among sinners yea or nay Que. 19. Whether hath not Christ said Without exception God heareth not sinners and therefore saith James You ask and have not And whether doth not God hear the Prayers of his Church yea or nay Que. 20. Whether doth not Paul say That Christ's Church is without spot or wrinkle to bring it into which state he purged every branch and the unfruitful he cut off And tell me since the last two hundred years whether your Members have encreased in more Sin or in more Holiness in outward shew and practice in their conversation Que. 21. Whether all that commit Sin are not in the Apostacy from the Spirit which is the life of the Church and leads out of all sin yea or nay Que. 22. Whether is not Christ the Promise of the Father The Seed of the Woman shall bruise the Serpent's head And did he come to do lesse than was promised Now search you the Prophets and see what was promised and also answer me When the Serpents head is bruised is not Man as he was in the day that he was created yea or nay Que. 23. What is Salvation and R●…demption and Restauration and from wh●… and unto what and when Que. 24. Whether the evil works all men is not Testimony of the false fa●… of all such men And if Adam for one 〈◊〉 lost so glorious an Estate How think you wi●● your so many sins shall you be made Inheritors of his first state Que. 25. Whether can any of you just say That Christ is the end of the Law f●● Righteousness unto you who never came 〈◊〉 the beginning of the Righteousness thereof Did Christ come to destroy the Law or 〈◊〉 fulfil the Law Do you believe Paul's Testimony of Christ in whom he was reveale●… who therefore testified That the Righteousness of the Law might be fulfilled in them that walk nor after the flesh but after the Spirit And whether is any one of you s●● entred into the Spirit yea or nay Que. 26. Is any one or more of you truly in the Faith to witness unto John's Testimony who said As Christ is so are we in this present world and whether were they the●… in sin yea or nay Que. 27. Whether did not Christ rebuke Hypocrites when he said Why call you me Lord and do not the things which I say And Did not Christ say unto his Disbiples Be ye perfect as your Father which is in Heaven is perfect And Whether do you think that he was an unequal Lord and his Commandments grievous which could not be born yea or nay Que. 28. What are the Clouds and the time of the Night and the cause of the Darkness Blindness and Ignorance And what are the Vails which cover the Heart and the understanding part And how is the World set in man's heart whereby man cannot find out the Work which GOD maketh from the beginning to the end thereof Que. 29. What is that which removes the Darkness breaks thorow the Clouds rents the Vails and drives back the mist and thickness of the Night And whether is not that which is the Cause and that which removes the Cause these two still the same since the Fall unto this day of man's remaining under the Curse in the Fall And whether any thing redeems out of the Curse but that which redeems out of the Fall and is not every sinner in the Fall yea or nay Que. 30. What is that which takes away the Original of Sin and if the Original which is the root and off-spring be take away the root not left in ground how ca●… a branch grow or fruit be brought forth GOD saith the soul that sinneth shall die And Whether do you otherwise believe Tha●… if you live in sin until death but you sha●… receive as Paul saith the wages of sin whic●… is death yea or nay These things are but that which ma●… lead unto an entrance of somewhat mor●… to follow which I offer as hereby directe●… in the Substance to all such as desire to know the new birth And when the Learne●… have answered them as the liberty of Pen Ink and Paper is afforded me I may explicate your Replications and shew the groun●… thereof and withall try if the key of the understanding all Mysteries is among you which is in the Church of Christ and any thing concerning the Kingdom of God Call your Councils together I am an alone Child propound your Queries and let me answer them for in GOD is my trust and not in self who am his Servant From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. THe Church of Christ this day stands in the Doctrine of Christ. They are in the Life which cannot recompence unto any man evil for evil but good for evil but you I find recompencing evil for good which is contrary to all good You are in the nature and practice of the Scribes Pharisees and Hypocrites which Christ cryed Wo against You call men Lords and Masters and are called of men Lords and Masters You love Greetings and Salutations in the Market-places and in these things love to be seen of men And you are in the delight of the uppermost Rooms and Places at Feasts and love the honour which comes from men All which is contrary to the Doctrine of Christ But the Church of Christ speaks not more of Christ than as they live and walk in the Doctrine of Christ Number over your Traditions and compare them with what Christ and his holy Apostles delivered that you may see in how much you are short

and in spirit be provoked unto Holiness which stands not in the wilful afflictions and penance heaped upon the vessel of the creature Man or by hanging down the head like a Bulrush for a day but by a due and diligent search of the hidden man coming unto the Judgment of Truth and revelation of the Indignation and Wrath of the Lamb which is slaughtered in the streets of Mystery Sodom That you may come to the Testimony of the DAY of Vengeance and the acceptable Year of the LORD until which the works of your wills in all your daily services are but as the offering of the sacrifice of Cain who killed the Just. And furthermore hereby I give you to understand That there are but two Seeds known unto all in the Substance two Wills two Natures two Spirits and each of them the ground and root which yeelds the fruit of good or evil in all whether Prayers Preaching Plowing or Planting even all which is brought forth within or without by either of them the one the Redemption out of the Fall and from the ground of the first Apostacy in lost Adam and the Restauration unto the first state of Innocency the other the Plant of Perdition which holds in the Captivity even all the Professors of the Name of Christ who are alienated from the Life of Christ in the ground of the second Apostacy under which you have concluded your selves as Christ said The Tree is known by the fruits which thing well understood by you in heart and faithfully owned in life would put a stop to all your vanity of enquiring after more things until first you have found and do come to live in the one thing which is only needful unto Salvation with which all things else come to be possessed Nevertheless to thee I query a little concerning your Doctrine Practice and Example to be plainly and particularly answered in writing by the words of the Declaration of the Doctrine Life and Example of Christ or any of his holy Apostles as written in the Record of their Scriptures of which some were given forth before the Apostacy came in and others before it fully entred and came in prophesying the full succession thereof What since them is brought forth among you thou mayest omit to mention in thy Replication for I know your spirit and do also know what you can and do live unto and this as the former to your Body for the Truth 's sake simply I give forth that if haply thou and the rest may come down from your Mountain into the Valley of Jehosaphat unto the Righteousness of the Judgments of the LORD of the whole Earth who else with Vengeance will dash you in pieces as a Potter's Vessel Remember you are warned to prize your time and Repent Query 1. Why call ye Christ LORD and do not the things which he saith Que. 2. Why delight ye Priests to wear long Robes like as the Scribes and Pharisees Que. 3. Why delight ye in Salutations and Greetings in the Market-places and love the Uppermost Rooms at Feasts Que. 4. Why love ye to be called of men Lords and Masters or to call men Lords and Masters Que. 5. How can ye believe in Christ who seek the honour which comes from man Que. 6. Why teach ye for Doctrine the Traditions of men Que. 7. What Precept of CHRIST or President of the Apostles have you to warrant your worshiping before graven Images or painted Figures Que. 8. What Precept of CHRIST or President of the Apostles have you to warrant the owning and conf●…ssing of more than ONE Intercessor Advocate and Mediator Que. 9. By whom was it prophesied or practised as in the Declaration of Truth and Record of the Scriptures That besides Prayers for all Saints in the Churches Prayers should be made unto any Saints in Heaven seeing CHSIST taught Not unto Himself henceforth but only to the Father in his Name Que. 10. VVhat Precept of CHRIST or President of the Apostles have you to warrant often Repetitions and vain Bablings and to yeeld unto God in your manner but one Prayer of eleven that is to say Ten Ave Maries and but One Pater Noster Que. 11. What Precept of CHRIST or President of the Apostles have you to keep count of the tale of your Prayers by Bracelets or Beads upon strings Que. 12. VVhat Word of the Record of Truth have you to warrant a place of Purgatory for Sin after this life under that cloak granting liberty to your selves to sin unto death Que. 13. VVhat Word of GOD or Precept of CHRIST have you to warrant unto any soul which requireth a reason of you to shew how possibly can any one of you sanctifie Bread and Wine to dispense it under the denomination of a Sacrament seeing you are all confessed to be of corrupt hearts and unclean hands which never could touch the holy thing Que. 14. VVhat Precept or President recorded in the Scriptures of Truth have you to warrant the Administration of Water sprinkled upon Infants with unclean hands in the corruption of your hearts to be the Baptism which taketh away the Original Sin How is the Original taken away from any one whilst the life of you all is a continual issue and open fountain of all sin Que. 15. How can an evil heart blesse any thing or the spirit of Satan make Holy Water Which of you being daily washed in that Water will it clense from the Corruption and rottenness of his heart Que. 16. VVhat Precept of CHRIST or Doctrine of the Apostles is your Warrant to deny the general use of the Scriptures of Truth among your Church-members and to allow Books of lying Stories and Tales and beastly Songs and bewitching Playes and Sports and such abominable beastly things openly in the Streets and in Houses as are not meet to be named Que. 17. What Precept of CHRIST have you to call men Fathers upon Earth Que. 18. What Prophecy is there recorded in the Scriptures of Truth for the succession of Popes Cardinals Chaplains White-Fryars Black-Fryars Gray-Fryars Iesuites Nuns and Queristers to come in the Truth Que. 19. What Precept or President have you in the Scriptures of Truth to worship in Idols Temples made with hands there seeking GOD where GOD dwelleth not Que. 20. What Scripture is it that warrants your going Processions Que. 21. What Scripture-Example have you for your Begging Brothers going about hood-wink'd and disguis'd with Money-Boxes and others with great Wallets and Wine-bottles from house to house a begging Que. 22. What Example in Scripture have you which sheweth that the Saints and Apostles in the Primitive times did live in the observation of the Dayes or Times of CHRIST's Conception and with his also of one another's Day yearly of Births or Deaths Que. 23. What Commandment of GOD have you for the time called Lent and in it the abstinence from flesh and so in like manner sixth and seventh dayes of the Week alwayes besides commanding

is the Substance of the Creation of GOD and thine Eyes the Light of the Day thy Teeth are as the Angels of GOD in the Heavens to fight thy Battel on Earth thy ●…outh is the Door of the Counsel of GOD and thy Tongue the Teacher thereof O! the Earth the Earth is confounded before thee I am as a Wren in the Earth lost under the stretching of thy Wing I began in the shallow places but am overwhelmed as a Worm in the deeps of GOD no man hath comprehended thy Glory wherefore let him bear his Judgement for ever that fashions thee like unto a graven thing or that makes an Image of thy CHRIST Let him bear the perpetual shame of his folly and the judgment of thy dreadful Word Let his own soul eat his confusion and drink up the dregs of his condemnation for Glory is thine in the highest who art only known to the pure in heart and remembred of the Upright in the Earth An Image is a mark of the unmindfulness of thy Name and a sign of the forgetfulness of thy Presence O Seed stand up as a Sign to the People and as an Ensign to the Nations of the Earth that they may be gathered to the Knowledge of the LORD thy GOD to remember Him as a God that is present even at hand for Iudgment to the Wicked and Salvation of his own Elect. Call call for thy Courage and cry aloud for thy Strength and cloath thy self therewith as in the dayes of old stretch forth thine Hand in thy Power and draw back the Clouds of the Night Appear thou Sun of the Morning as setled in the Heavens above that the Nations may flow to thy Light and Kings to the brightness of thy Rising that the Isles may be gathered in one to wait for the Law at thy Mouth that the tongue of the Egyptian Sea may be dryed up and but One pure Language remain in the Earth and that the Earth be filled with the Knowledge of GOD as Waters cover the Seas It was once said and the Voice answered Until how long And the Spirit said Until the determination of the time appointed even until the fulfilling of the Abomination of Desolation in the Earth and it seen to stand in the Holy Place Then said the Angel The mighty Dreadful Day of GOD is at hand Awake awake to the Judgment of the Terrible Day of the LORD Fear GOD and give Honour and Glory to his Name O that thine Innocency were known in the Land thy Love received in the Earth Thou art as the Innocent Lamb of the Flocks and as the New-born Babe at the Breast thou art as the Turtle which flyeth in fear and as her young in the Nest without guile thy Love is as the Mother to her comly Daughter and as the Father to his only Son thy Love is as the Spouse to her Welbeloved and as the Bridegroom wedded to his beautiful Virgin it passeth the love of Women thy Bonds are stronger than Death thou bearest the greif of thy Love for because of thy Love thou art hated I love the love of thy Love and do bear the burden thereof I love the bonds of thy Love for because of thy Love thou art bound O make thy Love thy Battel and the bent of thy Bow in the Earth that he which hath pierced thee may mourn and be broken in the bowels of Love that the Mountains may be melted before thee and the Hils drop down like Wax and gather to the Body of Love where neither Envy nor Lyes have life Spread forth thy Arms in love that thy measure be filled in the Earth For Scorners do hiss at the kindness of thine heart and mock at the meekness of thy mind thine Arrows of Love be their wound to pierce them to the heart in their seat Overcome with the Love which created and perfect the Glory of GOD Make known thy Self as thou art a Leader in the Righteousness of GOD Instruct the simple thy way and confound the Prudent thereby Thy Way is the path of the Just the sinner cannot walk therein it is a Guide to the Wayfaring-man the Fools cannot erre therein The Wise do stumble in their sight and the Subtil do fall before them which maketh the Heathen rage and all the Diviners mad Open open thy Bosom to thy lovers and thy Treasure to the soul which seeks thee which spareth not Life from the Crosse nor Lust from the flaming Sword but layeth the Neck at the Yoak to yeeld the First-born unto Death Thy Treasure is the body of Wisdom more pure than refined Gold Thy Wisdom is as the Oracles of GOD and Counsel of the Most High Thou feedest thy own with the Life with Wisdom the substance of Life The Swine feed on husks as a prey and run to a shadow for shelter In Winter they wander in the Woods and in Summer they wallow in the Mire The Serpent licks up the dust of the ground and hideth in a hole of the Earth But thou buildest a Nursery for Babes and a Dwelling for the Sons of God Thou makest a Bed for the Virgin and she is kept as a Bride for the Lamb Thou makest the simple as an Host to battle with the Armies of Gog thou givest thy Counsel in the Day and the weak is made strong for the War The Philistine flourisheth his Sword but it is kept for the wound of his body The weak turneth back the force of the Giant and slayeth him with his own Sword he takes not Glory to his hand but yeeldeth his heart to his GOD By Wisdom the Kingdom is created and folded in secret from the Wicked he which casteth his Crown at thy feet thy Glory shall cover his head This is without respect to any man's person whether Jew or Gentile in Rome A Visitation of the Love of GOD to the Seed And be it his Woe for ever and ever that keeps it back Dispensed from the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. Righteous REASON written as a REMONSTRANCE to Romes Rulers Touching the Imprisonment and Persecution of the Servant of JESUS ROME being called of her Inhabitants The Head of the World and Holy City and her Church the Mother of many Nations cryed up as the most famous in Faith Doctrine Life and practice of Righteousness of the Lord Jesus of all Peoples upon the face of the Earth To her Heads and Rulers therefore I am willing to offer this entrance of the Remonstrance of my Cause in a compendious Tract by the representation of Reason the Rule of the Law and Prophets the Judgment of wise and holy Judges the Commandments Doctrine and Example of the LORD JESUS with what else occasionally may be intervenially inserted in the same to be placed as a Looking-glasse of Equity in all the Courts of Judicatory in her City I John the Servant of JESUS in the holy and blessed Calling of the Quaking and Trembling at the Word of the LORD GOD