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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.
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J. P. (John Perrot), d. 1671?
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knoweth and that I can at 〈…〉 to serve them all in the way wherein my Father leadeth me But O Pope for thy â—ouls sake and the peoples Souls sakes which have a dependance upon thy Power I am contrained 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 Judgements 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 proptmd 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 Propoundest 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 Councel 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 comming 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 Hell Secondly That the Doctrine of teaching of the people to call on more Advocates Mediators and Intercessors Than looking upon the One MEDIATOR JESUS is of the pit of 〈…〉 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 worshipping in Idols Temples your divers Fryars Garments and Titled Orders your observations of Dayes and Meats your Penance 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 a sunder 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 mayest 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 LONDON the 20th day of the 7th Month called September 1661. Who am called the English Quaker that was Prisoner in Bedlam of Rome and also outwardly named JOHN PERROT FABIUS GHISIUS POPE of ROME TO JOHN PERROT QUAKER of LONDON John Quaker THy Letter and Propositions bearing date the 20th day of the 7th month came not to my hands till the 10th day of this therefore I hope thou wilt not proscribe me for elapsing the time limited in thy Letter which was not through my fault And because I know thou hast a perverse unbelieving Spirit in thee I forbear in usual form to salute thee with Apostolical Benediction but without further Ceremony apply my self to answer thy Letter 1. 'T is true thou wast detained in the Pazzarella here a place most fit for thee and thy mad Brethren where had both thou and they been timely put as you might have been in Justice and should have been in Prudence all the late miseries and abominable wickednesses of England had in all likelyhood been prevented Nor was it without evident reason That my Officers shut thee up in Bedlam Thou cam'st out of a Rebellious Countrey where thou and thy Fanatick Brethren committed a Wonderful and Horrible thing Jer. 5.30 Ezek. 11.2 Murther'd your lawful King to devise mischief and give wicked Councel in this City Thou didst pretend a Spiritual Call and I know not what Revelation which prov'd a false vision and divination Jer. 14.14 a thing of naught and th deceit of thy heart far surpassing the frenzy of the more ancient Enthusiasts When thou wast soberly admonished to abandon that deluding Spirit which leads thee and thy Brethren into so many exorhitancies and set thy face toward London Ezek. 21.2 thou didst â—ost pertinaciously contemn that good Councel and persist in thy ways of Abomination refusing to depart out of my City Rome forgetting those words Rev. 18.4 thou hast so often misinterpreted Go out of her my people lest thou partake of her sins and receive of her punishments Why could'st thou not take heed and more warily understand a Text so plainly fore warning thee to flye from her Ezek 13.3 left she should punish thee Thus saith the Lord God woe unto the foolish Prophets that follow their own Spirit and have seen nothing While thou wert kept in the Roman Bedlam was not the Discipline of the place exactly observed to thee Jer. 4.18 Ezek. 14.10 aswell as to the rest of thy fellow Bedlams didst thou want any thing there but thine own wire Thus therefore it came to passe that thy way and thy doings procured these things unto thee it being just that thou shouldst bear the punishment of thine iniquity 2. Thou sayst my Priests did daily with all the pleasures thy heart could desire tempt thee to be as they were And were they not very courteous to make thee so kind an offer were they not very patient to treat with thee thus daily Ingrateful John why dost thou complain of those who us'd thee so civilly and all this only to make thee be as they were Verily verily John thou wert shrewdly hurt dost thou not usually though falsly charge them to lead lives of ease and honor and canst thou take it ill they should offer thee a share with themselves to be as they were Moreover I say unto thee thou dost me and my people very great wrong by affirming in thy Letter that my
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 râ—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