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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

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