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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

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

hath falsly judged the Quakers and so brought Iudgment upon himself Moreover he saith such things as are of a Spiritual Concernment which things alone do belong to the Light and Measure of the Spirit in every one 's own particular to judge of and it doth not belong to the Light in others to judge others in Matters of Conscience c. What! is the Light divided Is it not the same in one as in the other What a Contradiction and Confusion is this Did not the Apostle see such as made Shipwrack of Faith and a Good Conscience Were not They and the Children of Light able to judge who walk in the Light and who walk contrary to it And those Eleven Elders he speaks of that did give forth a Testimony if others did not own it and gave a Testimony against it what is that to the purpose And what can I. Bullock tell what those Eleven did say to them that did not own their Testimony They are not bound to give him an Account nor Print it to the World as he has foolishly done And I.B. sayes scoffingly We should first have drawn a Bill of Indictment against I.S. and I.W. before we had judged them But I.B. should have asked I.S. and I.W. in the North for those Articles that were given forth against them and what part of them they condemned But he goes over and over in his Book and tells of Orders and Decrees Imposed by G.F. and other Teachers as he calls them but what these Orders and Decrees were he hath not mention'd So these are but his Calumnies And Iohn Pennyman has published several Pamphlets with a Reviling Language against several of God's People as his Pamphlets declare his dark spirit and what it is though he doth pretend Love but One Fountain does not send forth Sweet Water and Bitter Neither does he shew that he is of a Lowly and Meek Spirit nor in the Love of God that he much talks of his Railing Language bewrays him And as for his words Hypocrisie Falshoods Temporizing Hypocrites Babylonish Worship Pride Envy and laying all his Railing Expressions upon God his spirit and work does manifest that they are not of God and these Revilings of his are like his own spirit And why is I.P. in such a Rage because we cannot receive his false words And he makes a great Noise against our Forms Prescriptions Laws Orders Moods Impositions c. but tells not what they are But all these he may apply at home who stigmatizes God's People with Black Names And whereas he saith G.F. betrayed his Trust concerning Abiah Trott That 's false and it s no great matter what he says And R. Cannon denyes thy false Charge thou bring'st against G.F. and says To his Knowledge he did not speak such words Witness Tho. Tanton And here thou art a Busie-body in other Peoples Matters and it seems thou wantedst something to Print against G.F. and others but thou hadst better study to be quiet and to mind thy own Condition And then I.P. sayes If the publishing thereof viz. of his Abusing Railing Pamphlet be not according to the Will of God c. then let his Grey Hairs not go down to the Grave in Peace Be sure the Lord will reward thee according to thy Works thy Lyes and thy Words though thou may'st cry Peace Peace but take heed lest sudden Destruction does not come upon thee unawares for the spreading of all thy Lying Scandalous Pamphlets both of thy own writing and of others against God's People for be sure what thou dost Sow thou must Reap and God will reward thee according to thy Works A Postscript by Another Hand I Having seen the aforegoing Account of I. Perrot Robt. Rich which is given by one that hath been conversant with them and well knew them the which I therefore Credit and by this Account its Evident that though they professed the Light of Christ the Word Spirit and Grace of God in the heart in words yet in their Life and Conversations walked contrary thereunto in a Spirit of LOOSNESS and RANTERISM even the very Spirit that T. Crisp. F. Bugg and them of that Company with them in this Day are found in and would bring into who Nickname Scoff at and Oppose Friends and those things and Practices that the Lord by his Eternall Spirit hath led them into the Practice of in which they have do find peace acceptance with the Lord in the Performance of Now observe T. Crisp as a busy agent and I. Pennyman have printed and reprinted R. Rich's rambling Testimony and something of others that opposed Friends T.C. calls them such weighty Truths Testimonys and sound Doctrins that being kept the Enemy had no opportunity to Enter by Divisions c. and the same 24. page of severall Testimonys he saith mind what is aforesaid by these Servant 's of God for they are such needfull things in this day that could not he let pass for it s believed many among them never read them therefore in love they are here Imparted to you and who Acts or Teaches contrary thereto may be said to bring in another Gospel and are going into the Seperation and gain saying Spirit having a form of Godliness but denying the Power thereof c. Now observe T. C's Directory who opposeth and vehemently crys out against for writing or giving out that he Scoffingly calls Orders Forms and Prescriptions and yet is crying up his own or R.R. I.S. and I. W's And the man that is against Judging at once passeth Sentence Judges and Condemns them who act or teach contrary to his Directory or R. R's Testimony c. as gone into Separation and Gain-saying Spirit and charges them with bringing in another Gospel and denying the Power of God Yet presently to manifest what he is viz a Ba. Builder He saith The Kingdom of Heaven is within and consists in Righteousness c. and not in speaking one sort of Speech or Language and conforming to Orders and Prescriptions from without And yet all must be judged iu Separation Gainsaying Spirit and Denying the Power of God that acts or teaches contrary to T. C's Directory or R. R's prescribed Form c. Oh! what an exquisite Babel-Builder is here and yet F. Bugg his Brother in that ungodly Work of Opposing Friends c. quotes him as if his Babels were to be taken notice of though the very Deeds and Works of Darkness Enmity and Folly but as the Proverb is it may be said Like to Like and Birds of a Feather Flock together But seeing T.C. so highly cryes up this Directory or R. R's Testimony or Prescription let him examin and search whether it be according to Scripture for I am of the mind that there is not any danger or fear of incurring those Sensures aforesaid if they be not complyed with except from such who call Evil Good and Good Evil but rather an incurring of them by acting or teaching according to it Now R. Rich pretends in his highly applauded little worth Testimony printed by T.C. to see that daily more and more will fall off from that Body viz Friends pag. 23. and that some that separate from them will with Daniel stand in their Lot And though T.C. calls R. Rs c. Testimony Weighty Truths Sound Doctrines and R.R. c. Servants of God and saith as afore that who acts or teaches contrary thereto may be said to bring in another Gospel and are going into a Gain-saying Spirit and denying the Power of God but notwithstanding all this T.C. saith pag. 26. in his Testimony following R. R's Take no Delight in the Greatness of your Number because the Body Grows Great and Number Increases So I shall leave the Candid and Christian Reader to consider whether T.C. hath not after his great Applaud of R.R. gain-sayed R. Rs Testimony and whether according unto his own Sentence he is not gone into the Separation Gain-saying Spirit Denying the Power of God c. So having thus in brief hinted at these things to shew the enquiring Reader that T.C. I. Pennyman W.R. F. Bugg have received the same spirit them poor miserable Men I. Perrot and R.R. were of notwithstanding their great Pretence and high Title they give themselves who would be accounted Christian-Quakers c. though as certainly departed from the Power of God and gone out of the Unity of Friends whose unity is in the Light Spirit and Power of God as the aforesaid J.P. R.R. c. And if they viz. T.C. J.P. W.R. F.B. c. do not return unto the Lord by unfeigned Repentance they will certainly end their dayes in Misery So heartily desiring the Lord by his Eternal Power may preserve all them that in any measure truly fear him from the Infectious Venom of that Spirit by which the aforesaid Persons have been acted to Oppose Truth the Friends in it and the Order it hath brought forth among the Lord's People I conclude 5 NO 58 JOHN FIELD jun. THE END Note The Tobacco of that Country was generally Bad and a great Drugg Note his place to give the Oath to men was as he was Clerks of the Court.

Reprove him who at last ran into Swearing and Drunkenness yet R.R. queries Whether those were not the Floods of the Dragon cast out of his Mouth to Devour the Manchild that must Rule We say Nay for he that ran into Swearing and Drunkenness vvas not like unto the Manchild that must Rule And R.R. has manifest a great deal of Maliciousness and Enmity in his Papers which is not according to the Government of Love as he speaks of And R.R. saith Why should G.F. be Angry at I. Perrot's Velvet Coat and wearing a Sword and for his Gunns and Carnal Weapons But I.P. pretended to go and preach the Gospel when he went to Barbadoes and Virginia not to get Gunns and Swords and a Velvet Coat and a Staff tipt with Gold c. and so he chang'd from his Gospel as he deceitfully pretended to And it is utterly false both in R.R. and I.P. that G. F's Name was to any Papers for naming of Sober Iustices in the other Powers dayes that would not Persecute us For G.F. was out of London when the Parliament desired such a thing of Friends and never was his Name to any such Papers These are Forgeries of R.R. and I. P's And those Ten Thousand and Fifteen Thousands Hands presented to the Parliament were the Sufferings of Friends which R.R. prints and makes an Ill Construction of And as for I. Harwood he hath manifested his End sufficiently who Opposed Friends with his Hat on in Prayer and manifested his Bad Life Ranter-like as I. Perrot did Again R.R. sayes Seven of G. F's Friends were chosen for a Committee c. G.F. knows nothing of that therefore he was not like to Exalt himself in that And G.F. does not meddle with the Carnal Sword of the Civil Magistrate In these things R.R. hath belied G.F. and Friends besides many other Scoffing and Reproachful Words which are not worth mentioning are in his Book And he sayes scoffingly What is the Name Quaker thou givest to thy self R. Rich knew it is a Scornful Nick-Name given unto us And Thee and Thou is the true Language which he makes a pudder about and he himself did once use it And Swearing I.P. I.H. and R.R. once denyed it but R.R. makes little of it now And also I.P. did not he Swear and tender the Oath to others at Iamaica which G.F. and other Quakers alwayes denyed And Christ and the Apostles forbid All Swearing But Verily Verily and Calling God to record as R.R. speaks of is no Swearing And the Quakers Sufferings are not as other Sects as R.R. scoffingly speaks And what have been the Forms and Figures of Good Things to come among the Quakers that thou speakest of And over and over R.R. sayes That G.F. exercised his Cruelty over J. Perrot and I. Nailor which is false the Lord knows for he had nothing in his Heart but for their Good and I.N. hath confest it and given forth a Recantation of all his Runnings out which R. Rich did feed upon And I.N. never bowed down to G.F. its a horrid Lye for R.R. to say he did p. 37. neither did he ever desire it So we are sorry that R.R. should dye before he had Repented of his Lyes So as for Arrogancy Pope Lucifer c. are these R. R's Words of Love as he calls it And these words he had better applyed to himself Further R.R. sayes The Lord found him in Innocency wherewith he had clothed him But his Fruits in his Book from his Lying Spirit have not manifested it neither are they the Fruits of a New Heart as he speaks of in his Epistle printed 1680. but the Fruits of a Railing Spirit against G.F. and others As for Enmity Self exaltation Division Rending Tearing and Bitter Wrathful Envious and Persecuting Spirits with such like words he rails against G.F. and others they were but the Fruits of his own Spirit which he casts upon G.F. and others And R.R. saith That J.N. was led into the Wilderness to be Tryed and Tempted by G.F. and others This was horrible Enmity and Malice in R.R. for 't is well known that G.F. was in Prison in Cornwall when I.N. run out And R.R. sayes Epist. pag. 4. The great Offence that G.F. takes at Iohn Perrot's Book is That I.P. own'd the Spirit of God's Grace and Light to be in the Presbyterians Independents Anabaptists Seekers and others and also that he hath Unity and Amity with all that walk therein We are sorry that R.R. should Belye G.F. and others for it is known that G.F. and others own the true Light and declare it which enlightens every man that cometh into the World and haeve Unity with them that walk in it yea have Unity with the Light in them that hate it But it s known that these before-mentioned have Printed against Friends and both Anabaptists Presbyterians and Independents have called the Light which enlightens every man that comes into the World a Natural Light And so its clear that R.R. Belyed G.F. and Friends And many other Books R.R. has given forth against the People of God called Quakers which are stufft with known Lyes Scoffs and Slanders which are not worth mentioning for he was well enough known what he vvas in his-Lifetime Another writes against the People called Quakers calling himself Phil. Ang. who sayes A man c. his Strength is to sit still deny himself and his own Life too or else he cannot be Christ's Disciple But he should have taken his Advice to himself then he would not have brought forth his Confused Work He makes a great pudder against Images Forms and Shadows which Delude men but has not told us what those Images Forms and Shadows are And he tells of Peoples pinning their Faith upon other mens Sleeves and boasting of things without their measure If he applies this to the Quakers he is deceived for Christ is the Author of our Faith for our Faith stands in God and Christ but he does not declare his own Faith nor what it is pinn'd upon And the Fruits of his Book are not the Fruits of the true Light nor doth he manifest that he stands in it or that he is one that feareth and trembleth at the Word of God For he saith Let Men and all the Womanly Weakness in Man Decrease c. If the Author of this Epistle had done so then his own Mouth would have been stopt if he had taken that Counsel to himself then he would not have manifest his Weakness Enmity and Folly to the World And there is another Book printed by Ieffery Bullock or some body for him with his Epistle to it wherein are published the Papers that some Friends writ to Iohn Wilkinson and Iohn Story with their Answers And I.B. writes a railing Epistle to those Friends wherein he justifies I.S. and I.W. Some of his Railing Words are viz. Antichrist's Teachers called Quakers c. and saith Iudge not and ye shall not be judged yet in Contradiction to himself he