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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

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 London Printed for Robert Wilson at the sign of the Black-Spread-Eagle and Wind-mil in Martins Le Grand 1661. To the tender moderate Roman-Catholick Reader Friend THe following Writings being such as have been dispensed in the City of Rome unto which Answers were expected by me from them whom it chiefly concerned but not receiving any unto any of my Queries propounded to Pope Priests c. in Rome even unto this day and being now returned unto this Land of England may expect something of Answer from thee unto the said Interrogations which are of general concernment unto all Roman Catholicks or else I may conclude that Truth is in no wise on your side but absolutely and undeniably against you which I therefore leave unto thy consideration and if from that which followeth thou shalt be perswaded of the Truth which is held forth therein confessing it in singlenesse and simplicity of heart and mind if afterwards thou desirest to be further satisfied touching any thing of our Doctrine or Practices ask it in the Spirit of Moderation either by Word or Writing of me and according to the Light of the Knowledge of GOD given unto me I may meekly answer thee in the tendernesse of my Soul Who am a real faithful and true lover of all Souls Called John Perrott To the READER Reader I Have found it expedient for the satisfaction of many tender Desirers to intimate these few preceding Words to the following Tract shewing the certainty of the thing which many have enquired after yet not as if the relation thereof were able to enduce any Souls to believe in the True GOD forasmuch as Christ said If they will not believe Moses and the Prophets neither would they believe if one should come from the dead Yet every Work of the Lord God to me is of exceeding weight especially such wherein the life and safety of my outward man was very much concerned in the time of my Pilgrimage in Forreign Parts and Countries In brief I give this Relation to wit When I was in Legorn in my Travel onwards to Turky on a certain night an Angel of the LORD awakened me out of my sleep saying Arise and go to the Window the which I did in very much dread and trembling where standing I suddenly heard certain English-men in another Room at a Neighbour's house wickedly conspiring my hurt but blessed be God who sent his Messenger to warn me by the Power of his own Life delivered and saved me from the Evil of the said Conspiracy Moreover In Greece I met with divers difficulties being in my Pilgrimage led through many Tryals and Tentations by being brought before Rulers and Magistrates and sometimes destitute of any thing to purchase natural food yet still the presence of the Lord was with me both by Sea and Land and in the greatest straits he alwayes appeared in the greatest power of Love caring and providing for me even beyond all that my heart could ever think which things to mention at large would fill up much Paper And therefore in this compendious Preface may only hint one passage more of the powerful Arm of God battelling for mine Innocent Soul in a Righteous Cause which the Romans were well informed of before I arrived at Rome and that by divers hands from Venice by which they might at least-wise understand That God was my God and that I was his faithfull Servant in the Work that he had called me unto It came to pass in proceed of my Pilgrimage as I was returning by Sea from Smyrna to Venice that upon the way near unto Corfu the Sea-men and Captain of the Ship took a wrongful occasion of Anger and Wrath against me at which time I offered my self in much meeknesse and moderation to reason the matter with the said Commander of the Ship but in brief he threatned to cast me on shore on a certain barren Island on which there was no Inhabitant who when he saw that I was in that contented being wholly offered unto God in all place and time desisted that Attempt but forthwith bound himself under an Oath and Curse that when I came to Venice he would have me burnt to death by fire To whom I replyed saying I fear not man whose breath is in his nostrils but the God of life who was my Leader in all that he had called me unto This being at evening suddenly after these passages there was a cessation of many of his words of bitterness though some there were that grinned their teeth upon me and could even have found in their hearts to have bitten off my flesh from my bones which kindled the Anger of the LORD GOD Almighty against them for all that Night his sore Indignation and Vengeance did burn as a flame in his bosom so that it came to pass at the dawning of the next day that he cast down a ball of Fire betwixt the Decks amongst divers Passengers which brake as into the roaring of a Cannon amongst them and slew two persons and wounded one more and besides that the Lord caused Fire to Rain down from Heaven in coals upon them which burned some in their bodies others it smote and wounded and others it slew in the Ship And this is the Account of the slain viz. An English-man the Gunner a Dutch-man the Carpenter and an Italian a Marriner an Armenian Merchant and a Turk a Servant which were five of five several Nations and five others wounded which the Lord God Almighty gave as Examples of his Wrath that the rest that lived might fear his dreadful and terrible Name Moreover the said coals of Fire burned many holes through their Sails and split their Main-Top-Mast in the Puttox and then grievous was the cry of all Flesh amongst them And from thence their perverse Spirits were much more moderated to hear me in causes of Equity and Truth Many things more I might mention of the wonderful Works of my God whom my simple soul serves even in the integrity and uprightness of my whole Heart But in these things I cease at this instant having hinted some things of other Passages in other Writings and therefore at the present do draw to the putting in order the following Writings which were dispensed by me in the Inquisition-Prison at Rome J. P. An Epistle general to the Romans GOD who at sundry times and in divers manners in the dayes of old spake by the mouth of his holy Prophets hath now in these latter dayes spoken unto us by the Revelation of his Son the LORD from Heaven who in the fulness of the dispensation of time came a Light into the world to be

is the Substance of the Creation of GOD and thine Eyes the Light of the Day thy Teeth are as the Angels of GOD in the Heavens to fight thy Battel on Earth thy ●…outh is the Door of the Counsel of GOD and thy Tongue the Teacher thereof O! the Earth the Earth is confounded before thee I am as a Wren in the Earth lost under the stretching of thy Wing I began in the shallow places but am overwhelmed as a Worm in the deeps of GOD no man hath comprehended thy Glory wherefore let him bear his Judgement for ever that fashions thee like unto a graven thing or that makes an Image of thy CHRIST Let him bear the perpetual shame of his folly and the judgment of thy dreadful Word Let his own soul eat his confusion and drink up the dregs of his condemnation for Glory is thine in the highest who art only known to the pure in heart and remembred of the Upright in the Earth An Image is a mark of the unmindfulness of thy Name and a sign of the forgetfulness of thy Presence O Seed stand up as a Sign to the People and as an Ensign to the Nations of the Earth that they may be gathered to the Knowledge of the LORD thy GOD to remember Him as a God that is present even at hand for Iudgment to the Wicked and Salvation of his own Elect. Call call for thy Courage and cry aloud for thy Strength and cloath thy self therewith as in the dayes of old stretch forth thine Hand in thy Power and draw back the Clouds of the Night Appear thou Sun of the Morning as setled in the Heavens above that the Nations may flow to thy Light and Kings to the brightness of thy Rising that the Isles may be gathered in one to wait for the Law at thy Mouth that the tongue of the Egyptian Sea may be dryed up and but One pure Language remain in the Earth and that the Earth be filled with the Knowledge of GOD as Waters cover the Seas It was once said and the Voice answered Until how long And the Spirit said Until the determination of the time appointed even until the fulfilling of the Abomination of Desolation in the Earth and it seen to stand in the Holy Place Then said the Angel The mighty Dreadful Day of GOD is at hand Awake awake to the Judgment of the Terrible Day of the LORD Fear GOD and give Honour and Glory to his Name O that thine Innocency were known in the Land thy Love received in the Earth Thou art as the Innocent Lamb of the Flocks and as the New-born Babe at the Breast thou art as the Turtle which flyeth in fear and as her young in the Nest without guile thy Love is as the Mother to her comly Daughter and as the Father to his only Son thy Love is as the Spouse to her Welbeloved and as the Bridegroom wedded to his beautiful Virgin it passeth the love of Women thy Bonds are stronger than Death thou bearest the greif of thy Love for because of thy Love thou art hated I love the love of thy Love and do bear the burden thereof I love the bonds of thy Love for because of thy Love thou art bound O make thy Love thy Battel and the bent of thy Bow in the Earth that he which hath pierced thee may mourn and be broken in the bowels of Love that the Mountains may be melted before thee and the Hils drop down like Wax and gather to the Body of Love where neither Envy nor Lyes have life Spread forth thy Arms in love that thy measure be filled in the Earth For Scorners do hiss at the kindness of thine heart and mock at the meekness of thy mind thine Arrows of Love be their wound to pierce them to the heart in their seat Overcome with the Love which created and perfect the Glory of GOD Make known thy Self as thou art a Leader in the Righteousness of GOD Instruct the simple thy way and confound the Prudent thereby Thy Way is the path of the Just the sinner cannot walk therein it is a Guide to the Wayfaring-man the Fools cannot erre therein The Wise do stumble in their sight and the Subtil do fall before them which maketh the Heathen rage and all the Diviners mad Open open thy Bosom to thy lovers and thy Treasure to the soul which seeks thee which spareth not Life from the Crosse nor Lust from the flaming Sword but layeth the Neck at the Yoak to yeeld the First-born unto Death Thy Treasure is the body of Wisdom more pure than refined Gold Thy Wisdom is as the Oracles of GOD and Counsel of the Most High Thou feedest thy own with the Life with Wisdom the substance of Life The Swine feed on husks as a prey and run to a shadow for shelter In Winter they wander in the Woods and in Summer they wallow in the Mire The Serpent licks up the dust of the ground and hideth in a hole of the Earth But thou buildest a Nursery for Babes and a Dwelling for the Sons of God Thou makest a Bed for the Virgin and she is kept as a Bride for the Lamb Thou makest the simple as an Host to battle with the Armies of Gog thou givest thy Counsel in the Day and the weak is made strong for the War The Philistine flourisheth his Sword but it is kept for the wound of his body The weak turneth back the force of the Giant and slayeth him with his own Sword he takes not Glory to his hand but yeeldeth his heart to his GOD By Wisdom the Kingdom is created and folded in secret from the Wicked he which casteth his Crown at thy feet thy Glory shall cover his head This is without respect to any man's person whether Jew or Gentile in Rome A Visitation of the Love of GOD to the Seed And be it his Woe for ever and ever that keeps it back Dispensed from the Inquisition-Prison in Rome J. P. Righteous REASON written as a REMONSTRANCE to Romes Rulers Touching the Imprisonment and Persecution of the Servant of JESUS ROME being called of her Inhabitants The Head of the World and Holy City and her Church the Mother of many Nations cryed up as the most famous in Faith Doctrine Life and practice of Righteousness of the Lord Jesus of all Peoples upon the face of the Earth To her Heads and Rulers therefore I am willing to offer this entrance of the Remonstrance of my Cause in a compendious Tract by the representation of Reason the Rule of the Law and Prophets the Judgment of wise and holy Judges the Commandments Doctrine and Example of the LORD JESUS with what else occasionally may be intervenially inserted in the same to be placed as a Looking-glasse of Equity in all the Courts of Judicatory in her City I John the Servant of JESUS in the holy and blessed Calling of the Quaking and Trembling at the Word of the LORD GOD

the waves of temptations passing over your weary minds you shal not always mourn like doves for a mate nor grieve like Widows for the losse of their Beloveds neither shall your dayes be alwayes Tribulations nor the continuance of your time as surpassing pangs of pains But surely you shall draw into a good time wherein Beauty shall be given into your souls for Ashes the Oyl of Joy for Mourning and the Garments of Praise for the spirit of heaviness in which time the strength of the LORD your Maker shall be the Pavillion of you Peace and you shall rest in his Joys for ever Well therefore O ye tender Friends whom my soul is seeking in the Love of my Father to be united unto Him in his Holiness Come and experience this Doctrine and prove this new and living Way of the LORD though not another than that which from the beginning was but only new unto the old nature of all flesh which corrupteth its way in the sight of the Lord God which is the Way wherein the holy Apostles and suffering Servants of JESUS lived and walked and being but one as the Apostle saith There is one Way one Truth and one Life as ye believe and confess there is but one True GOD and therefore as ye find in your way coruption abounding ye have cause also to confess that the Way of God being but one cannot be the Way in which you walk Forasmuch as GOD hath said by the mouth of his holy Prophet speaking of the Messiah I will give him for a Way and for an high way which the wayfaring-men though fools shall not erre therein Who also spake by the same Prophet saying I will give Him for a Covenant to the People for a Light to the Gentiles that He may be my Salvation unto the ends of the Earth of whom also in the fulness of the dispensation of time John the Baptist bore Witness testifying Him to be the True LIGHT that lighteth all mankind coming into the World as Christ himself said I am the LIGHT of the World he thot believeth in me shall not abide in Darkness but shall have the Light of Life This is the Way even the true Way of the LORD GOD which I desire through proof your souls may experience And to the end that you may have the true Witness within you of the Power of Holiness which leads into perfect Unity with the Perfect GOD in the Innocent Life of the Lamb of GOD that taketh away the sin of the World I tenderly exhort counsel and advise you to turn your minds unto that Light of the Lamb of GOD which shineth into all your Souls convincing you in all your Consciences of all your sins and joyning your minds unto it in perfect Love of it because it is of the pure Nature of your pure Creator you shal come in due time to find and see assuredly that as that same Light which shineth in all your Consciences is of such a powerful and virtuous Nature as that it not onely searcheth your hearts and tryeth your reins and finds out your most secret sins but also convinceth you as well of the least as of the greatest of your sins so it will likewise free deliver and ease you from the burden of your sins which is the cause of your dissatisfaction and many sorrows because that as it is of GOD pure perfect and altogether virtuous in its nature cannot change from its property nature and vertue but as it convinceth of the least sin being loved and lived in must also deliver from the least sin and being still of the same vertue and nature of GOD convincing your souls of your greatest sins being loved and lived in must also free and deliver you from your greatest sins and being found of so pure and powerful a nature and vertue to free and deliver your souls from your least and from your greatest sins must also of necessity in the same love deliver you from all your sins The which all must confess excepting some in Atheism might say That the perfect Grace and Light of the Alsufficient GOD is an Insufficient Medicine to heal the soul perfectly of all its maladies and infirmities But I am better perswaded of all you that desire the true Knowledge of the true and living God having a sensible Understanding in you that there is such a Light shining into your souls that sheweth you all your sins the which ye may remember you have had from your Childhood because you cannot otherwise say but that from your Childhood it accused you of all your sins in the secrets of your Consciences which no one else could accuse you of but yet ye were not then directed unto it as you are now counselled and therefore could not know the power and virtue because you never proved its force strength and virtue through a perfect love yeelding in obedience unto its motions and often checks of your minds Wherefore this is the happy day of your Visitation wherein it is told you that if you love that LIGHT which shews you the nature of all Temptation unto Evil and joyn unto the LIGHT so as to be guided by the LIGHT which is contrary to all Evil it will deliver you from the end of the Tempter which presents the Temptation by saving you from the Evil which Light you will then know in the invisible power of the holy God which is given you for the perfecting of his Praise in your hearts through the forming and new-creating your hearts into the mind of his own Righteous Spirit which thing you cannot know but through the experience and tryal which in the tryal I am sure as God is holy and that measure of Light in your Consciences is of GOD which is holy vertuous and powerful will purifie you from sin and perfectly save and deliver you from all evil And therefore I must needs conclude that he is most extreamly sinful and desperatly evil that saith he desireth to be delivered from all sin and evil which will not try to experience such a power and virtue of the Grace of GOD given into his soul which is able to save and deliver him from all evil Be ye therefore wise O People unto your own Salvation having had experience of the vanity of your own way and wayes try ye now the Righteous Way of GOD in which you cannot transgress and that because in your wayes you have not found rest to your desirous and thirsty souls which of all things would choose rather to be cloathed with the Righteousness of the living GOD and after tryal by pure obedience in pure and undefiled love if ye find not deliverance from your sins which is the cause of your pressures and burdens and afterwards the peace of your poor souls and satisfaction of your simple tender minds even in fulness of Content and Joy in the Pleasures of Immortal Life which is the end of all your Desires Requests and earnest seekings Then