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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

A Loving 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 Iohn Perrot And his END c. Also a Testimony against Robt. Rich and Iohn Perrot their filthy Books lately printed against God's People in Scorn called QUAKERS With a Postscript by Another Hand LONDON Printed by Iohn Bringhurst at the Sign of the Book in Grace-Church-street 1683. A Loving and Friendly Invitation to all Sinners to Repent And a warning to all Back-sliders to Return unto the Lord while they have time and space given them Lest they Persh from the Right way forever With a Brief account of the latter part of the Life of J. Perrot and his End c. WHEREAS it is very plain and evident unto all whose Eyes are clearly open that this is a day of great Brightness and Glory wherein the Great and Invisible God hath appeared in a most Glorious and Heavenly manner And the Light of Heaven hath so shined that it exceedeth the very Light of the Sun and all other natural lights whatever And great and Glorious Revelations from the Great and Almighty God is seen and witnessed through the Glorious appearance and coming of our Lord Jesus Christ Whose coming to as many as Faithfull are have experienced to be in Power and great Glory which gives us the true knowledge of God the Father whom to know is life eternal And thus we come to the true understanding of the great Mystery of Godliness Through the inspiration of the Almighty So that now we being as men awakened out of the great sleep of sin wherein we were in times past with many more held in great Captivity and darkness but being turned to the light in it we come to see our way to God And so come to wait upon him to be taught by him who is the best teacher that ever man had for by his teachings who is pure and holy we that were unlearned come truly to learn and know the great Mysteries of Godliness and such as were ignorant and knew not the things of God comes to be made wise unto Salvation and thus we come to have good and sound experience of the good work of God upon our Hearts and Soules for it 's the Lord alone that works the Change in us and that fits and prepars us for his own Service and for the performing that duty that he requires of us for the Lord God is the good Husband-man and we are of his Husbandry and he is the good and perfect workman and we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works So that here is the Effects of the Husbandry and workmanship of this good and perfect workman which is no other then the most Holy God working in us through his beloved Son Christ Jesus the works of Salvation Sanctification and Redemption all which are the good and perfect works of God in his Son Christ Jesus And all these good and perfect works they are wrought in the light where the Devil the imperfect worker cannot come nor his Ministers without tnrning from sin and by walking in the light as Christ our Lord is in the light we come to see more light by which the Thief this wicked one the Devil that would steal our Hearts minds away from the pure God who is light he comes to be seen over and to before he was and by Christ the Light the works of the Devil are destroyed and so he is discovered in all his wiles although he appears never so fairly and speciously in what disguise transforming or pretence soever yet in the light by which we see discover and distinguish all Colours and things whatever he is seen and discovered in all his Ministers and Messengers to be as he is Anti-christ against Christ Jesus opposing and gain-saying his coming appearance in all his Servants Ministers and Messengers for how hath he risen up in all sorts of Professors and people in whom he this wicked and imperfect worker had any power and rule against the Blessed appearance and second coming of our Lord Jesus whose coming is without sin unto Salvation And with what Bitterness Cruelty and Enmity hath all Nations Tongues and People who are crying out against perfection and who have not the mark of God in their fore-heads how have they been stirred up and inflamed with Rage and madness against the Saints of the most high and against the coming and Raign of the Lamb who takes away the sins of the World and whose Right it is to Raign And he must and will Raign until he hath put down all Rule and Authority under his feet and he alone must be Exalted who is King of Kings and Lord of Lords and Head of his Church through all the World I say his coming hath been and is as with thunderings and lightenings and terible Earthquakes not onely to shake the Earth but the Heavens also and he caused the Firmament to melt before him and pass away as a scrole and so his coming is in Light in Power in great Glory by whom all the wicked the disobedient and Rebellious ones must be called to an account and must answer before him the great and Just Judge of all the Earth who will Judge both Quick Dead I say before his great Tribunal Seat of Judgment must all the scoffers and scorners with all the rest of the whole rable of the wicked the Rebellious and gain-sayers too to give an account for all the hard wicked and ungodly speeches that they have wickedly spoken and for all the cruel wicked and ungodly deeds that they have wickedly done against the Lamb and his followers and amongst the many opposers of the Gospel and gain-sayers of the Truth and Power of Godliness I find not one more ripe in envy and that wicked work of the Serpent then Iohn Pennyman who once was convinced in some measure of the pure Truth of God but finding the way too straight and not being willing to bear the yoke of Christ nor yet liked to retain God in his knowledge so he is given over to a Reprobate mind and is led away with many strange delusions that the Evil Spirit that went out of him and walked in dry places is returned to his house again and finding it swept and garnished hath taken with himself seven other Spirits worse than the former and the last Estate of that man is worse then the first and in this bad State and Condition he is fretting labouring and scribling against the pure and Blessed Truth speaking evil of things he knows not Revileing the Saints of the most high uttering many Blasphemies against them that dwell in Heaven and this doth not satisfie him neither but he must Rake into the Ashes of the dead and gather together the old Letters and papers of strife and contention which

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