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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95336	Truth vindicated. Or, An answer to a letter sent from John Perrot out of Jamaica into England, &c.	R. F. (Richard Farnworth), d. 1666.; Watkins, Morgan, fl. 1653-1670.; Eccles, Solomon, 1618-1683.; Loe, Thomas.; Crisp, Stephen, 1628-1692.; Elson, John.; Coale, Josiah, 1632?-1668.; Newton, Samuel.; Roberts, Gerrard.; Green, Thomas, 1639?-1699.; Stodart, Amos.; Latey, Gilbert, 1626-1705.	1665 (1665)	Wing T3165; ESTC R185760	12,541	16

to be evil spoken of and he might expect to bear the displeasure of the Lord for so doing and as for Iohn Swinton in what he hath written against Friends the Lord doth not own it for it did not proceed from his own power and spirit and therefore the witness of God in his People do deny it and it cannot be received into the spirit and power of Truth because it proceeded not from it so that he hath not the answer of God in the hearts of his People for its acceptation but is testified against because it is for condemnation therefore Iohn Swinton had better never have writen the same but it may be a warning to him for the time to come to take heed how he presumes to do any such thing And as for the ground and cause of Iohn Perrot forsaking his Ministry he said he had cause as well natural in Manhood and tender affection to his Wife and Children as spiritual in obedience to that life which drew him for example sake to labour in his proper station It seems his ground was first earthly and proceeded from a Natural cause that was the first motive to lay down his Ministry viz. in respect of his Wife and Children not considering that they who have received a Ministry from God are to continue faithful to the Lord in their Ministration and in preaching the Word to be instant in season and out of season notwithstanding Wife and Children for Christ hath said he that loves any thing more then me is not worthy of me and that which a man most loves that he is most constant unto and can do the most for and do it most freely And as for the second cause it was but a pretence and meer deceit as if God should give a Ministry to one and afterwards lead him from it again to be covered over with earth as an example to others which is contrary to the truth and to the command of the spirit of Christ in the true Gospel Ministers who said walk as ye have us for Examples And they did not do as Iohn Perrot did for if he should have been followed as an example then all the Ministers of the Gospel of Christ might forsake their Ministry according to John's account and turn into the Earthly Imployments and lie hid under the Earth and no more appear for the Lord and his Truth so that it appears his Ministry stood in his own will to dispense with and now he is laid aside as one useless And whereas he said he could not bear that the Gospel should be chargable on his part but was willing to lay forth his all for the glory of Gods sake that was concerned therein That 's but deceit that spoke in him for who hath been chargable like unto him upon that consideration and then he had forsaken that which he made so chargable to his shame and confusion and is turned into the Earth again which is his proper station or place according to his own saying And as for Iohn Harwood Iohn White-house and Dorothy White they are denyed disowned and judged by Robert Cobbet as he hath acknowledged to some of us and we do deny them to be of us and hereby declare that we do not own them but do testifie against them and all such factious spirits And whereas Iohn Perrot in that Letter from Iamaica said he was tossed on every hand yet not moved by any If he was not moved by any hath he not hereby contradicted them who say that Friends drove him from the Truth to drive a man from the Truth is to move him but Friends did not drive him from the Truth and Iohn in effect hath cleared them from such an aspersion saying though he was tossed on every hand yet not moved by any if not moved by any then not removed or driven from the Truth by Friends therefore Iohn in effect hath cleared them from the force of such an accusation or charge as aforesaid And whereas Iohn Perrot said in that Letter I am given to be this day the reproach of many Who hath given him to be so did he not give himself unto the delusions of Satan to be an occasion of the reproach of many and who are they that he was a reproach unto a reproach he was and one that was given to change both Ministry Doctrine and practise which God hath led his People into and enjoyned them to continue in and not do as Iohn did and those that followed him for their example have done therefore he hath been a reproach to the truth to them that keep their first love who abide in the Covenant of Grace and he might be ashamed of his doings and so may all they who joyned with him in that and those things that tends to devision and separation from God and his Truth and to bring a reproach upon them who continue and abide in the Principles Doctrines practice and power of God received And seeing that John Perrot by hearkning to Satan and in yielding unto him as the principal cause of his removal from truth who being thereby so removed was the instrumental cause or only man who made such dissention amongst Friends that were in so great love and unity before and hath led many into Markes of separation which God doth not lead his People into And seeing that John did become a reproach unto many as aforesaid this may teach all such as are preserved out of his spirit and the deceivable workings and ways of Satan to mind their stedfastness to and continuation with God his Truth and People in that and those things which makes for unity peace and reconciliation and they may for ever prise the love mercy and power of God which preserved them that they did not meddle with upholding and following the fantafies and imaginations of him the said J●hn or any of them that are given to change and do as he hath done and it may be a shame to them who either follow or plead for such an example so as to mind the light of Christ Jesus to move them to consider how they went out from unity with us and in obedience to the manifestation direction and calling of the Principle and Spirit of truth to return from whence they are fallen and from those markes of separation and from such things as John's impositions example and practice in his tossed estate and condition since he began to quarrel and wrangle with Friends they have been led into which we and the truth cannot own And to testifie our love to the Lord his Truth and People who continue and abide in unity and peace with God and one with another in the refressing life love virtue and power thereof and in that godly order and practise which the Lord hath led us into and by his own spirit enjoyned us therein to continue and abide and in testimony against all such spirits actions and things aforementioned meant intended as do devide and separate from the truth and turn to the reproach of our profession and to the dishonour of God whom we professe and to the turning of the weak out of the way of the Lord and to the reproach of his People We have hereunto subscribed whose Names are here under written Richard Farneworth Morgan Watkins Solomon Eccles Thomas Loe Stephen Crispe John Elson J●si●h Coale Samuel Newton Gerrard Roberts Thomas Green Am●r Stodard Gilbert Laty. THE END

endeavouring a Restoration if the love of the Lord thorough any desire it or if the Lord call thereunto And thirdly that in respect of judgment and fellowship he said he did walk and live void of the appearance of having it with any Creature and did stand still for a season as one dumb and mute looking round about him to see which way the world mans mind would roul which is not sound Doctrine for God is Light and they that walk in the Light as he is in the Light they have fellowship one with another who would therefore have depended upon John Perrot except such as declined in their hearts from the Lord and incline to the world and are seeking an occasion to forsake the truth and break off from the way of the Lord whose minds are preparing for Ranterisme and to walk in the way of separation from God and his People by following a spirit of delusion to turn unto any thing that suites with a fleshly communion according to the worldly imaginations under pretence of liberty in a mystery which is not bounded by the spirit of truth and holiness and let them take heed least the spirit of delusion which entred John do enter them so as to prepare them to center in Rantisme for he said Children be not offended if I ask something that the light in you may in due time answer you did God by his light in us draw us from any thing of appearance or the formal customes outward which are not of worship in themselves but through the cross which stood against our carnal affections in them things and now if we are naturalized to a custome which the natural affection taketh part of is not the cross to be to that and would it not be now a cross to us to do those things which were never sin simply in themselves which once through the cross we were led from consider all manner of gestures salutations and external formal appearances for the great mystery of the Gospel and Righteousness thereof is held in the cross which touching many things no man can measure in another What 's that to the purpose if no man can measure such things the spirit of God in man and the true measuring time can measure these things in all that appertain to the Gospel and the Righteousness thereof Therefore it was deceit in John that so spoke and made the aforesaid inquiry whereby they might if they were not blinded in their understandings see how the old ranting spirit was making way for its design and how the Serpent is ●…ing and twining to wind in his subtlety and thereby to turn their minds from the simplicity of the Truth for the fitting of them to conforme to any thing but truth in the life and power thereof as if God did by the light of his Son discover an evil and lead from the same and afterwards lead back from the good into the evil again It seems that the continuation in any practice doctrine or thing that God by the light of Christ Jesus doth lead men into and work them into love with the same was accounted by Iohn a forme and to be naturalized into the thing for which God may cross Men and lead them therefrom again because they are in love with the same which was but John's fancy and vain imagination and contrary to sound Doctrine for said the Apostle and Ambassador of our Lord Jesus Christ unto Timothy That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us This thou knowest that all they which are in Asia be turned away from me of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes 2 Tim. 1. 14 15. for some are already turned aside after Sathan 1 Tim. 5. 15. as John Perrot did and they that received his spirit have done who may take notice of their examples to be such as aforesaid who turned away from the Apostles of Christ and turned aside from the Truth after Satan But the Apostle exhorted Timothy to take heed to himself at such a time and unto his Doctrine to continue therein for in so doing he should both save himself and them that heard him 1 Tim. 4. 16. And they who have received a Ministry from God are to continue in the same and in preaching the Word to be instant both in season and out of season to reprove rebuke exhort with all long suffering and Doctrine 2 Tim. 4. 2. and not do as John Perrot did if the continuation in the Doctrines Principles and Practices which the light of God leads into became a custome in John's esteem and if because the outward man be naturalized into love with the Truth or made conformable to the inner Man and be affected with the same must be crost and broken off to go aside into Men's traditions and the worlds vanities again John therein was greatly mistaken for as God by his Light and Spirit of Grace within us hath led us from the Will-Worships by the same light he will never lead us into them again 2. As God by the Light of Christ in us hath led us in the Cross to our wills to keep on our Hats and not put them off in respect of honouring Mens persons he will not by the same light and spirit lead us to put them off again upon the same consideration 3. As God hath led us by the light of Christ in us to assemble and meet together to wait upon him in the way of his worship in the cross to our wills he will never by the same light and spirit of grace lead us from the continuation of that godly practice though we be affected with the same because of his presence with us who doth enjoyne his People to continue therein for it is the duty of the People of God to continue in the same because the Lord hath led into it and doth own them therein and it is a danger to be negligent in that respect through the workings of Satan for God will not lead us from the continuation in that godly practice though the Natural Man may partake of the knowledge and virtue of God with the Spiritual man for the Earth as well as Heaven shall be filled with the knowledge of God as it is written 4. The same light and spirit of Grace in us that hath led us into acquaintance with God and hath led us to put off our Hats in time of Prayer and owned us therein all along from the first to this day in such a practice in our supplications to the Lord in the Assemblies of his people from whose blessed and heavenly power we have received many refreshings and Testimonies for our confirmation satisfaction and consolation will never lead us to keep on our Hats in the time of Prayer in the Assemblies of the Saints in opposition to Gods present and former leadings did not John go about by his Imaginations to change the Truth of God into a lie if he could

John Perrots was which we have already denyed and by the truth it 's condemned for they who hide themselves under the Earth as John advised to do are covered with Earth and deceit and not with the spirit and power of truth and the woe against them is already pronounced for woe unto them that cover with a covering but not of my spirit saith the Lord And it 's very evident and plain unto us that John Perrot was as that branch he spoke of which hath striven to bud out of its natural season and that is the cause his blossomes did fall and its boughs wither according to his own reason And whereas John Perrot in that Letter said I was once a Minister of Truth and Righteousness amongst you and many others and was faithful in what I did though somethings of the Mystery of the Gospel could not be borne of my Elders Ans What is that to the purpose if he was once a Minister of Righteousness or numbred amongst them that are so seeing that by transgression he fell from it and turned down under the Earth to hide himself there and turned enemy to them who are Ministers of Righteousness and in preaching the Word are instant both in season and out of season according to the charge given before the Lord he is no more to be accounted of Judas was once numbred amongst the Apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ and had received part of the Ministry and Apostleship Act. 1. 16 17 20. but he afterwards by transgression fell from it and his end was miserable and he no more accounted of but Act 1. 23 24. 25. 26 as a Traytor and an Apostate however that part of the Ministry and Apostleship which he fell from was desirable and prayed for so that truth is truth though some may betray their trust and depart or fall from it and it will outlive all deceit and Apostates and as for those things of the Mystery of the Gospel he spoke of which he said could not be borne by his Elders what were they but such things as tended to faction as teaching people to be irreverent in keeping on their Hats at Prayer And forasmuch as he acknowledged Elders he should have kept in a place of subjection and not have presumed to impose things upon them for the Lord hath required that the Younger do submit to the Elder and what is it that maketh true Eldership but the eternal Spirit and power of Truth that doth open the mystery unto them to whom it s given to know the Mysteries of the Kingdom And how durst John rise up in false accusations and judgment against them as he hath done did not that bespeak great pride in his heart and that he aspired to be great in a self exaltation and now the Lord hath abased him for so doing And whereas he said I am not provoked unto hast seeing all times will have their Revolution and I wait untill a change cometh and a renewed commission is given from above that if I sound the Trump of the Lord it shall not be at uncertainty Ans It seems that what he said then and before was but at uncertainty and he was no Minister of Truth and Righteousness then in his own account nor in the account of Robert Cobbet who confessed that he had jealousies of John Perrot before us and greater jealousies then we had and said he was then no Minister for his commission was ended what change was it that John waited for to see come was it to see persecutions and afflictions over and be gone and what commission was it he waited for seeing that he hath formerly said that pleading the cause that is truly righteous and bearing his testimony of the power of love was finished and if that was finished as he said it was would he have had a commission to plead the cause that is unrighteous and to bear testimony against the power of love if so he might expect that from old Antichrist for the Lord would never grant him any such and because he hath rejected the Lord in rejecting his Councel he was rejected of God so as to be any Minister of his And whereas in the Letter aforesaid he said to Mary Booth In reading thy particular lines I find that thy love would have me become yet again very honourable in Israel Seeing he acknowledged Mary Booths love in wishing his Restoration from that which renders him dishonourable in Israel ought not he to have accepted her love so as to have sought to return to that which in her apprehension he was fallen from for it appeared that both in her and his own accompt he was degenerated and fallen from what he once either really was or at least was by them apprehended so to be for Robert Cobbet suspected John and had jealousies of him before he so fell And when that he was fallen the love of Mary Booth in wishing that he might become once again very honourable in Israel bespoke in her mind unto others that he was fallen from that which in her account once made him honourable in Israel and that he was then dishonourable therein or amongst them and her love desiring that he might become once again very honourable in Israel bespoke that he stood in need of a Restoration unto that which he had lost by degeneration which thing he told her he sought not having once seen the great evil and snare that hath attended such a condition both as touching what it might prove to others and to himself and for that cause he said it was best to him to be the most contemptible and it was with him at that present to walk and live both in respect of judgment and fellowship void of the appearance of having it with any Creature Ans Whereby it appeared that an honorable estate and condition in Israel was not in his account to be sought or desired after because it might be attended with danger thereby bespeaking distrust in his mind as if God could not preserve out of the snare 2. That it was better for him to be in that which made him contemptible then in that which makes honorable in Israel and Judas was contemptible enough when by transgression he was fallen from what he received as in respect of the Ministry the which if he had abode in might have made him honorable doth it therefore follow that because Judas might have been honorable if he had abode in the Ministry received but being attended with temptations departed from the Lord and by transgression fell from his Ministry and into compliance with the spirit of the World and so became contemptible and a stink to this day as such are and will be who depart from the truth and walk in Judas way of Apostacy that therefore the way of the Lord and the work of the Ministry is not to be desired and if any fall from it that its best for them to be contemptible in not seeking or