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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A64225	A loving and friendly invitation to all sinners to repent and a warning to all backsliders to return unto the Lord, while they have time and space given them : with a brief account of the latter part of the life of John Perrot, and his end &c. : also a testimony against Robt. Rich and John Perrot their filthy books lately printed against God's people in scorn called Quakers : with a postscript by another hand.	Taylor, John, d. 1708.; Field, John, 1652-1723.	1683 (1683)	Wing T535; ESTC R24602	13,336	20

Rob. Rich and John Perrot gave forth in a time when great darkness was over them both for they went from the Light into darkness having been once convinced of the way of Life and Truth they like Hipocrites turned from the grace by which they were called into wantonness and so went out from us that it might be known they were not of us and turned again with the dog to his vomit joyning with the Rotten Principles of the Ranters And as for Iohn Perrot who had once tasted more then the other of the good work of God and of the Powers of the World to come Yet he with Corah and his Company gainsayd and withstood the Spiritual appearance of Christ among the Saints and people of God and with his strange Principles and whimsies as the keeping on his Hat in his Prayers to God and the like he grieved the People of God and prov'd a great trouble amongst the Faithfull because with his flattery faigned humility he deceived the hearts of the simple the which I can speak by experience So when he saw that he was seen through here in England then he would needs go over into Barbadoes contrary to the good Counsel and advice of Friends he having been a long time yea several years from his Wife and family before and then had but been a little time with her And not having sufficient of his own to maintain his Wife and Family and bear his own Charge great Expence in travelling some Moneys he borrowed here in England when come to Barbadoes he got into the affections of some Friends there who gave him very Liberally and bought him a Sloop which came down to Iamaica sull Fraighted with the Gifts of Friends from the Barbados for him and Robert Mailins who was too much tainted with the Rotten Principles of the Ranters and proved a Castaway as well as he and thus from time to time he was even Loaded with the Love and Kindness of Friends in hopes he would become a Reformed Man again but he like an unhappy and unworthy Man abused all the kindness of Friends and the very Mercies of God unto him for I was at Iamaica when he came there and while he lived and dyed there and when he came down thither first he made a great show of love to us and of Humillity and self-deniall and the like but it was soon manifest what his Heart run after for he loved and delighted in the Company of the Loose Debaucht Prophane People of the World more then ours Ah! many a night have I and others sate up with aking hearts waiting for him being desirous to a had his Company from amongst such a Lewd Crew which would be so loud with Singing Leaping and Danceing c. that we could hear them at a great distance off so then he having gotten several hundred pounds worth of goods that Friends from other parts had given him and trusted him with together Poor Man he Bragged and Swaggered too much what great matters he would do for the Island and Planters c. and went to them into the Fields of a Generall Muster day when that part of the Country was generally met together in arms and there at the Head of the regiment he made a Large Speech What he would do for the Country and withal gave them directions How they should Plant their Tobacco for him and he would take it off their Hands but alas alas all came to nothing or worse in the End although whilst he let them have Goods a Trust and to Receive pay for it when the Tobacco was Ripe and fit for Sale Oh! they Cryed him up for a Brave Man and none like him and he loved it as well but when the time of payment came then it proved quite another thing then their Tobacco was Bad and not done according to His order And their pay was bad and indeed the people were many of them bad too Insomuch that he Entred Sixty or Seventy Actions against them at one Court of which he was the Clerke it being a small petty Court for the business of that part of the Country but could determine nothing of above 20 l. value well but many of these Debts which he sued for were proved there in the Court to be paid so he was put by all the Rest for that time And then he that was so Brave a man before with them was now accounted as the very worst of men And so having this great occasion given them they Raild on him exceedingly and the whole Country Cryed out against him very much and so like an unstable man that had lost his guide and as it s said of the wicked grew worse and worse every way for one while he would have a Plantation and be a Planter Another while he would Build a house and talk as if he would have a Fish Pond a top on it although it was about three miles from any springs or wells of water and he would go and live there but that when it was almost built was all CONSUMED BY FIRE IN ONE NIGHT ALTHOUGH NO OTHER HOUSE WAS NEER IT OR ANY WAYS JOYNED TO IT And so the Hand of the Lord turned against him Every way in every thing he took in hand And then he went and got liberty of the Governour to turn Lawyer and plead in the Courts which he did and as a Justice told me If a man would go to the Devil my Friend John Perrot would send them headlong for he never saw one swear men so closely as he did in all his life but I answered he was not my Friend in that for we d●d disowne him and his practices And thus he Run into the Worlds ways of swearing men and Drinking and Riding about of any day without regard either to worship or fear either of the Form or Power of Godliness and so ended his unity and amity Many other strange Fancies and delusions which he Run into might be mentioned but I ●udge these may be sufficient to manifest and discover unto all what a fearfull thing it is for any to oppose the Lord God in the Order of his working in and among his people and break out from the unity of the Faith and bond of Peace who died as he lived without manifesting a return by repentance as this poor miserable man died for as he went from the Truth in himself and became a troubler and an opposer of them that lived in it so he going from the Light into the darkness proved a withered branch and so was cut off from the true Vine Christ Jesus and lost the unity of them that kept their first Love and of all Friends in General indeed who had done so much for him and not onely so but he lost his Credit and repute among men And the very world spewed him out and so he ended his dayes miserably for soon after he was dead and buried in an old Popish

Mass-house all that he had left which was not much was seized on for Debt yea the very Bed that was under his wife when she lay sick upon it and as this gain-sayer did so did Robert Rich before mentioned if not much worse as to his life and Conversation for he turned with the sow after she was washed to the wallowing in the mire again who Demus-like imbraced this present world and went out from us and so became a Man-pleaser and a time-server And these are Iohn Pennyman's Innocent men But these and he too Considering their ungodly Life and Death may be a warning to him and all back-sliders and gain-sayers to repent and return unto the Lord while they have a day and time afforded unto them lest they be cut off in their sins as these two men with R. Ma●lins were and their blood be upon them For I can say by the experience that I have had in my Travels that wo from the Lord is to them that do oppose the good Order that is settled and established by the Power of the Lord among Friends in several Countrys for my Soul well remembers how it was hurt and in some measure betrayed by this I. Perrot's spirit and writings But this was before I had any acquaintance with him but afterwards when I came to know him I soon see through the great love of God unto my Soul that he was not the man I took him for And then I sent a paper to Friends in England to testifie against his spirit and that he was not Really in that unity and true love that he had talkt so much off but was out of the possession of it as his fruits before mentioned did soon make it manifest And then I was moved of the Lord to bear my testimony against his Spirit Principle and Practices many times yea I have been made to go many miles to places where he was to reprove exhort and admonish him to repent and return to the Lord and to be reconciled to the Brethren but all would not prevail with him for he grew past feeling the Lord having Left him and he was past feeling even as Trees twice dead pluckt up by the Roots And thus like a withered branch he as well as R.M. and R.R. Ended their days Oh! That it may be a warning to all that are living who are Couvinced of the pure Truth and have any desires after the Lord that they may follow after Peace Love and unity therein which is very Comly amongst Brethren the God of Peace and Love Bless all such in all things that you take in hand Uprising and Downlying in your goings out and commings in in the Basket and in the store that so ye may be Holiness to the Lord is the hearty desire of your Real Friend and Brother in the Truth Iohn Taylor A Testimony against Robert Rich and Iohn Perrot and their filthy Books lately printed against God's People in Scorn called QUAKERS IS it not an Unworthy thing for R. Rich to publish in print the private Discourse that G.F. F.H. E.B. and others had with Iohn Perrot in which Friends did admonish him about his Extravagant Expences and Wearing of his Hat in time of Prayer and other private Discourses and he to publish the same many Years after And did not I.P. manifest in the End that he had great Need of such Admonition And as for I.P. and R.R. laying his and their Keeping on their Hats in Prayer Ranter-like upon the Lord in time of Prayer was it not known in Iamaica and Barbadoes how I.P. could afterwards follow the Complements of the World and put off his Hat as others did to Men and R. Rich also in Barbadoes Who made a great Pudder because we judged I.P. for not being Uncovered in time of Prayer to the Lord. And did not Iohn Perrot keep on his Hat in Prayer and then did not he turn again to the World and put off his Hat to the World And therefore such unstable Spirits we never could have Unity and Fellowship withal in the Light of Christ when they go from it And it is well known that it was not only the Paper concerning the Hat which Friends desired I. Perrot to call in but also another Paper which for Modesty's sake we cannot mention And whereas he sayes We denyed him a Meeting That 's False for we had a Meeting with him at Wm. Travers his House and other Places And a many Lyes hath I. Perrot uttered which are not worth speaking of And he said It was contrary to his Conscience to put off his Hat in the Sight of God and then presently after he alter'd his Conscience and could put it off to Men. And as for I. Perrot's Iustifying himself and Boasting of his Dispute with the Papists and Challenge to the Pope the End of that did manifest it self which was not for his Credit and he needed not to have boasted of it And did not I. Perrot undo himself his Wife and Children and run out so that Friends were fain to Keep his Children who boasted of Restoring Friends the Money laid out for him And Friends had more Compassion and Tenderness to his Wife and Children than he had who were fain to take Care for them because of his Extravagancy And did not the Prophecy become true upon him in the End For did not he turn like the Worst of Men And because we dealt Plainly Honestly and Truly with I.P. he falsly calls us Persecuting Spirits for he saith G.F. waited to see pure Fruit in the Life But what was his Fruit and his Life in the End And R. Rich publishes a Letter of I. Perrot's and sayes It was written a little before his Death And are not these horrid Lyes Was he not run into Drunkenness and Swearing of People long before he dyed And why could not I. Perrot send his Letter to G.F. and others as well as to R. Rich much of which were Discourses of Friends which they had in private with I. Perrot in London where he hath added many Perversions and Lyes to their Words and sent them to R.R. but never to them that were concerned which R.R. hath basely done to print and publish them for they never came to them that were concerned therein while I.P. was living Further R.R. sayes G.F. endeavours to Limit the Life of God in others Which is a Horrid Lye that we are sorry he should Dye unrepented of For G.F. would have all People come to the Light of God and Christ in their Hearts And many such Lyes are uttered in his Book which are not worth the taking notice of And People may see that I. Perrot was turned from the Truth the Quakers profess when he had got Gorgeous Apparel and a Velvet Coat a Staff tipt with Gold and a Carnal Sword and was shooting off Gunns on Ship-board and making of Feasts which R.R. seems to justifie And G. F. and others might very well send Papers after him to