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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

be made manifest The LIGHT is all your Consciences is your Condemnation within who hate the Light and will no●… come to the Light by the Light which convinceth of sin to be led out of all sin Verily I say unto you neither Wit Craft no●… Guile the Horse nor his Rider Sword Bo●… nor Battle nor Angels nor any othe●… creatures but the Light which you hate and persecute the Witness of it shall deliver in the day of Wrath which is near you And this is the Word of the LORD GOD to you all Remember you are warned Therefore whilst you have time Repent and henceforth blot out the vain imaginations of your minds and let it be written upon the table of your hearts If God's Everlasting Covenant be changeable then may our cruelty change them from the Lord their God Given forth in fear and trembling before the God of all dreadful Power From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. THese are to this blind-hearted Generation which are smooth to the rough and rough to the smooth and cannot discern the rough from the smooth the crooked from the streight the right from the left Your love the love of the everlasting Father holdeth in an irreconcileable hatred for ye love the smooth words of the men of this world which stand in the rough places of the Earth Ye love their Titles Daubings Flatteries Dissimulations and Hypocrisies and your selves smooth in the same nature unto this their nature of roughness But ye are rough to the smooth which deal with you in honesty and plainess which are not smooth to your rough nature of dissimulations Wherefore you are rough in your consultations secret reports and actions and bend your selves in crookedness against the streightness of the smooth things of Gods Kingdom Your hatred the LORD despiseth even as your love he hateth For the thing which you hate is the seal of the love of the Father to be holden in love unto death as a testimony against the roughness and crookedness both of the love and hatred of your Life you love not to come unto the smooth stone of David which sank into the forehead of the Philistine The Philistine liveth in you and curseth the Dominion of the GOD of David he spake roughly to the smooth thing in the Stripling but the smooth did smite his roughness even so must it be by the Philistine in you ere the GOD of David be known to be God among you And this is to you all that the smooth which is rough to the smooth thing of God may dye in you that the Lord 's smooth thing may live in dominion over the rough things of the Earth Rome dispensed from the Inquisition-Prison J. P. To a Franciscan of the Irish Convent in Rome Irish Priest THou hast desired something from me that thou mayest answer it And I hereby proposing let thy own words stand thy own obligation to be as faithful in answering as thou wert forward in promising I have sometimes born witness unto divers of you Priests of the Roman Catholick Assemblies manifestly shewing unto you how that CHRIST is the LIGHT of the World which lighteth every man that cometh into the World and unto that LIGHT in all your Consciences approving my Message and the Testimony of the Faith of JESUS which I hold in a pure Conscience to be of GOD which in you all shall stand a Witness for me everlastingly unto Judgement though now you rise up as false witnesses against it and so bear false witness against me and will not come unto the Light that you may have Life but do chuse to your selves the antient path of the Serpent's way setling your selves in the inventions of your own hearts lurking in the secret dens of craft and subtilty stretching out your hands in the corrupted fallen apostatized Policy and so whatever is brought forth by you is but the birth or age of Iniquity Divers of you have confessed unto me and lastly as next unto this present time Thou didst acknowledge that there is not one of all your Catholick Church which is restored unto Innocency or redeemed from sin and the daily act of transgression and then I shewed thee if not one in Innocency then all in the contrary which is Iniquity If all in the daily act of transgression then all wallowing in the miry place in the apostatized ground fallen from the Life of the Lord Jesus who leads out of sin Now therefore understand you who are setled in the obstinacy and perversness and hardness of heart Read your unbelief and the desperate end thereof who will not that the Devil's kingdom should come to an end in you you may have all the words of Christ and the Apostles as the Jews had Moses and the Prophets and yet perish in the same desperation through refusing to come unto Him who is the Life You may say The Lord liveth and yet therein be false swearers as said Jeremiah You may have all tongues and many gifts you may give all your goods to the Poor and your bodies to be burnt and yet want the Charity saith Paul You may as the Magicians of Egypt shew many Signs yea and in the Name of CHRIST Preach in the Streets do many wonderful things and cast out Devils and at the last day say Lord these things have we done in thy Name But not coming unto the LIGHT and LIFE of CHRIST which leads out of Iniquity and to dwell in the LIGHT unto the End above Iniquity Unto such I will profess unto them I know you not depart from me ye cursed workers of Iniquity saith Christ What therefore availeth your Doctrine what also hath it profited any of you in confessing so much of Truth unto me saying that my words are true and just and are as Jewels and Diadems and Precious Stones and ought exceedingly to be owned and honoured Except you come to the Life and Truth of the Substance from which they were offered unto you not that you should catch at the shadow and shell as the Hypocrites in the whole Earth who are smooth in confessing and saying but cursed in doing for know ye that it is one thing to be enlightned and to walk contrary to the Light in such the Light is their condemnation and another thing to dwell and walk in the Light in which God dwelleth in such the Light is their justification You may read the declaration of another man's state without you but cannot read more than your own states with a true witness within you you may dream of sweet Wine but be awakened unto a potion of Wormwood There cannot be plainer proof than the Witness of your own Confessions to conclude your Professions of God vanity your wicked sinful life a scandal to Honesty and all Truth and of Christ but an occasion of the contempt of the reproachful shame and ignomy which sometime past I have in my understanding read among the Turks and Jews Ponder these things and be awakened

it under the Judgment of Penalty To be brief I would draw to the understanding of the Root of a Matter which ought in Wisdom principally to be known in you all that you may know your Root of which I have seen much as ye daily bring forth the fruit thereof Que. 24. Whether the spirit of Oaths Envy Lust and Lyes is not of the ground and original root of Heresie yea or nay Que. 25. Whether that Spirit hath not an absolute and instant Ground and Root universally according to Confession in your Body yea or nay Que. 26. Whether is not all things which are contrary to the Doctrine and Life of CHRIST and his Apostles absolutely and undeniably Heresie and that assuredly Opinion which is the lesser as practice which makes it greater and they both but one in the Ground and Nature yea or nay Que. 27. What Rule of Truth or Precept in the Scriptures of Truth have you to condemn any man as an Heretick which denieth your evil spirit and in the Life utterly abhorreth all your beastly works and wicked words brought forth by the spirit of Heresie And to what purpose think you standeth the judgment of your spirit Do thou mind thy blind-hearted brother Thomas Courtney of these things who told me that Heresie speaking of some Opinion was a worser sin than Murder which weighed in the deeps le ts to see that it breaks a gap for more evil than a thousand of the like his lines is able to reconcile the which was his ignorance as if Murder were not the most abominable desperate act of wilfulness against GOD and a man's Neighbour brought forth by the spirit of Heresie which spirit abounds in all your Coasts which is the real cause of all the Oaths Curses Lyes Dissimulations Hypocrisies Drunkenness Gluttony Adulteries Pride Covetousness Envy all Uncleaness and Murders brought forth innumerably in your Land For which cause if you had all Words and understood all Mysteries yet the Saints interested in the simplicity of Truth dwelling in GOD cannot joyn hands with you to partake of your spirit and so of your evil deeds and lastly of the Wrath to be revealed which the Lord God in his Counsel hath determined shall sweep a secure Land When lastly thou wert with me I saw that thy visage was none of thine own as always unto thy own I desire not to judge thee rashly but let me exhort thee saying Carry not a Bears Paw under thy long Gown nor a Lion's Tooth within thy mincing Lips thy words many of them were as smooth as sweet Butter and fresh Oyl but see thou that under thy tongue there be not hid the poyson of Asps in such things as in the rest of the dead works signs shews and noises as the Magicians of Egypt about the Walls of the Prison and elswhere you may as they themselves did deceive your selves also but by all these things neither in my self nor in you am I at all deceived Settle your selves in Council I am bound within Walls yet blessed be the LORD GOD I savour the deeds of darkness and many of them would not be of good report to be told among your selves You know that I bear all the folly as being 〈◊〉 your V●…ssal to that end but you know not how I trample upon the fruit and the spirit which yeelds it From the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. To the Inhabitants of the bloody City the Mother of Cruelties and Murder REad the Declaration of the Righteousness of this Cause let it be spread in an open Parchment upon the Standard of your Host and let it be marked in your Ensign as a perpetual shame in the face of your Camp There was a certain Message sent by the hand of a Servant by the LORD of a strong Army who treated for the Surrender of the City He came not as a Coward to hide in a hole nor as treacherous to slay in secret but to deliver his service to the Chief to depart with the Answer of the Head of the Land He was foolishly entreated by the hands of the jealous and il●… handled by the doubtful and timerous hearted they bound a Man of War in Chains and rejoyced often to smite him with rotten sticks they chused not to plead with him in open field nor to deal with him as do the Valiant and Honourable they bound him in their seat of contempt and sent Scorners to view him in secret he looked at the works of their hands and wrote them in the soals of his feet he setled his heart in the righteousness of the Message of his LORD and rather chose the Chain of his Enemies Yoak than to yeeld unto Cruelty and Flattery he was faithful to his Enemy in what he was sent as he was to his LORD that sent him he washed his hands of the Blood of the City and possessed the Peace of his LORD What will you say for your selves when this Servant's Cause shall be publickly pleaded to your faces I know your purpose concerning the Heir and the purpose also of the LORD of the Vineyard as the Reward of your wilful works You have been well warned but you have not well received but have ill rewarded and requited Yet in all I desire not that God may requite you as ye have requited me and therefore I have Consolation and you know not my Crown The putrified head of the corrupted body and rotten tayl yea the whole body even from head to tayl I tread upon for ever J. P. Rome from the Inquisition-Prison To the Priests appointed as Inquisitors and Keepers of the Inquisition-Prisons thereunto belonging A Visitation of the Lord God to you all is come ARise arise It is high time to Awake and Arise from the Seat of Blood For the LORD GOD is arisen to make Inquisition for the Blood of every Innocent Soul which hath been starved and slaughtered upon the face of the whole Earth Indignation flyeth with him as a pointed Arrow Vengeance is in his Right hand as a Spear for the Battel and Wrath as a Dart to pierce the Liver of the Wicked The LAMB is arisen for Slaughter as a Lion to devour the Prey a Burning fire proceedeth out of his mouth The Ungodly shall be consumed before him and because Iniquity is plentiful in the Land he hasteth the Iudgment of the Day neither Covering nor Cloud shall hide the Wicked nay nor the Clifts of the craggy Rocks from the fierceness of his provoked Fury He will smite suddenly even in a moment in the Land and bereave the habitation of the Dweller He will catch as a snare in the night and none shall deliver from his Wrath He will abide as burnings in the Earth Corruption shall not dwell in his Presence the Evil-doer is for the Wine-press of his Wrath but the Just shall dwell in his Pleasures It is at hand It is at hand the Day of Vengeance of the LORD according to the Prophecy The abundance of

preach it or if knowing what the Gospel is Is it any thing lesse than thy duty to go forth and preach it yea or nay Que. 2. What is that flaming Sword which is set at Edens Gate to keep the Way of the Tree of Life that not any in the state of Transgression and nature of Corruption may taste thereof which he that eateth not thereof in this Life shall perish unto everlasting Death at the end of his Life And declare whether there is no difference or what is the difference in the nature ground and substance between that Sword the Blood of the Lamb the Crosse of Christ Purgatory and the Fountain which is set open for Judah and Jerusalem to bath and to wash in Que. 3. Whether they who have bathed in the Fountain of God and washed in the Blood of the Lamb that have born the Cross of Christ unto the crucifying of the nature of the Corruptible and Mortal and that have passed thorow the flaming Sword shall enter into any other Purgatory And what did Enoch passe thorow to attain to the perfection of living and walking with God And whether was or is Salvation more than one since the Fall seeing the matter thereof is but one and God the All but one and his Promise one and unchangeable to save out of the Fall yea or nay Que. 4. Whether did Christ come to work Salvation for Souls through the imprisoning the Just or captivating Souls seeing the Scriptures say that he came to open the Prison doors and to bring forth the Prisoner How may it honestly be said that thou art Peter's Successor in the Truth or the Vicegerent of Christ who contrary to the end of the Coming of Christ the Life Practice and Example of Christ dost profess and practise that which brings dishonour to the Name of CHRIST And answer By what wouldst thou have me to know a Vine branch from a Thorn-tree Que. 5. VVhether is thy Nation grow●… in Righteousness unto the Age of the Beaut●… of Holiness or Are they even ripe unt●… Judgment in the multitude of their Oaths Curses and Blasphemies Pride Whoredoms and Adulteries Lyes Envy an●… Hypocrisies in the full growth of all manne●… of Abominations and Iniquity Canst tho●… shew me one Member of thy whole Bod●… which now is as Nehemiah the Captain of th●… Lord's People and as Nathaniel the tru●… Israelite was that I may have unity wit●… him else who what and where thinkest thou is the Church of Christ Que. 6. Whether and in what manne●… hast thou passed from under the Reign an●… Dominion of Death unto Moses's house And shew me the testimony of thy Stewardship in his house and the seal of thy passage thorow his house into the way of the Prophet●… life and the mark of the way and signet of the Prophets life leading to John Baptist's cry in the Wilderness and the Record of his Baptism to be of God in thee and how thou hast been emptied from Vessel to Vessel unto the perfect losse of the scent of the old lees which if thou canst not shew me the true effect of this work in thy life whether in thy best profession of all the writings of thy dead fathers and the confession of the Scriptures of the holy Prophets and Apostles Art thou any other than as Paul saith a boaster in another man's line made ready to thy hand yea or nay Que. 7. Whether hast thou the true Eye of discerning to trace the way of a Serpent over a Rock Dost thou know the course of a Dolphin in the Deeps or the path of a young Dolphin in the shallow Waters And by what line wouldst thou measure their way And with what Instrument canst thou measure the path of the first flight of a young Dove thorow the Air and shadow of the Heavens If thou knowest not this how knowest thou to take the Wings of the Morning to meet the Sun in the South to be at rest with the Children of the Day where the light of the Moon is as the light of the Sun and the light of the Sun as the light of seven dayes the everlasting Sabbath of God Answer these with the Life of Truth if thou wilt have me believe that thou art Peter's Successor in the true Faith But wherein thou art unable honestly confess it hear me and come out of Prison and I will instruct thee in the way of God more perfectly Let all thy men of Learning take heed of high obstinate perverse wills and froward hearts And take you all heed lest a root of bitterness and spirit of envy be in you and learn this Where-ever you see a persecuting spirit know alwayes that that spirit is not of God Rome given forth of the Inquisition-Prison J. P. TO all in ROME from the highest to the lowest that are setled in sin and will not hear to come out of the way and nature thereof who walk in the path of Iniquity in the love of Transgression and say in your hearts Who is of God that we should hear him whose liberty is in the lust and pleasure in persecuting the Just walking in the broad way which leads to endless destruction under the seal of everlasting wrath and will not hear to know and enter into the strait path of life in which the wayfaring men though fools cannot erre therein And in your hardness against GOD you think that you are above all men wise in your sinful wayes you are wise unto evil but not in the good which cometh from God who will not hear to be turned from all evil but shut your eyes and stop your ears and make Vows as sealed Bonds together crying Away with it Away with it We will have none of it not considering the dayes of old how the Messiah came according to the Prophets yet contrary to the Jews expectations and in cross to all their Lusts and Inquities Wherefore they took counsel of their own Wills and slew Him And now I do but in the Substance testifie unto you That CHRIST the Light of the World is come and coming according to the Apostles Testimony of Him the second time without sin unto Salvation which is contrary to your Expectations under the blackness and darkness of the clouds of your sins and transgressions under which you cry We will not We will not And every man in his hardness utters his sentence saying Persecute persecute Imprison imprison as it was in all Ages He that was born after the flesh persecuted him that wa●… born after the Spirit even so it is now and thus rendring evil for good you plat the Crown of the Thorns of the cruelty of you●… hearts upon the head of the Innocent an●… Just This therefore is your Condemnation LIGHT is come into the World but ye ha●… the Light and love Darkness rather tha●… Light because your deeds are evil For whosoever loves the LIGHT brings his deed to the LIGHT that by the LIGHT the may