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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

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

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