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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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Priests did daily tempt thee to Idolatry yet I commend thee John for hating that which I abominate with all my Soul Do'st thou think I adore a carved stone as my God or a painted canvas as my Saviour or is any thing Idolatry but the adoring a Creature as our Creator and the making to our selves a God of a graven Image which if I did I were as mad as thou No John I worship only one God I acknowledge onely one Mediator betwixt God and Man the God-and-Man JESUS CHRIST though I believe it both lawful and profitable to desire the Prayers of his Holy Saints who raign with him and continually assist at his holy Throne and the Charity of his glorious Angels Heb. 1.14 who behold his face and are sent forth as ministring Spirits for the good of the Elect. As for Pictures I believe neither any Divinity nor Sanctity to be in them but I consider them as fit Instruments to help the memory to recollect the fancy and stir up the affection giving them such respect as thy soberer Neighbour Protestants do to their Communion Table whom I hope thou art not so bold to charge with Idolatry or if thou do'st convert them first and then come again to me Thou know'st 't is one of the great Commands Exod. 20. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy Neighbour Isay 5.23 And 't is written woe be to you that r●b the just man of his justice for as fire devoureth the stubble so shall the root of these men be ashes 3. For the power of remitting Sins which thy serpentine spirit so much stumbles at what more plain in Scripture where our Saviour sayes expresly to his disciples Whatever yee shall bind on Earth shall be bound in Heaven Mat. 16.19 John 20.23 and whatever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven And again Whose sins ye shall forgive they are forgiven and whose ye retain they are retained What can be said more clear and plain doest not thou thy self hold many doctrines lesse evidently in Scripture than this tell me thy thoughts of this point in thy next Letter But thou hast chosen three strange Mediums to disprove this Power 1. By the time of the coming in of Popes 2. By the manner of choosing Popes 3. By the matter of the Precepts of Popes Truly John thou deserv'st for these three lines of nonsence at least three moneths more of the Pazzarella Too little Learning I see hath made thee mad Acts 26.24 The other Points when thou and my Champion meet shall be at large discussed 4. Now to thy Challenge of mee to send a hundred of my profoundest Jesuites or Doctors to meet thee at any place of Christendom or Turky since thou art so civil to leave the nomination of the place to me I do for thy ease appoint AMSTERDAM an indifferent place to all Professions where thou shalt have as fair play as I and any body else as either of us And since thou hast presum'd thus proudly to defie the Armies of the living God and confiding in thy weavers beam provokest us to Battel I promise to send one onely Jesuit the youngest of my Children to meet thee there on the 20th day of the sixth moneth vulgarly called August 1 Sam. 17. Despise not his little stature for know he has slain the Lion and the Bear and the unbaptized Quaker shall be as one of them He shall come down to thee with the light armour of a sling and a few smooth stones and smite thee on thy forehead and thou shalt fall on thy face to the earth he shall be arm'd with the dreadful weapons of Excommunication and with Bell 1 Cor 5.5 Book and Candle deliver thee to the Devil for the destruction of thy fleshly body that thy Spirit may be sav'd in the day of the Lord JESUS The hearty wish of him Given under the Seal-ring of the Fisherman at our Palace of Monte Cavallo in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1662 1. Indiction the 15th March the 4th and in the seventh year of our Pontificat Who according to the Flesh is named FABIVS GHISIVS But in a Spiritual way Alexander the seventh POPE of ROME and Servant of the Servants of God FINIS