in Prison in the Prison-house and sittest solitary in darkness in the shadow of death the bonds of death have bound thee and the Covenant with Hell hath captivated thee many do look at thee with the countenance of mirth and wag their heads at thy mourning thou art as a Lamb among Lions and as a prey to the devouring beasts thou art as a spoyl to the mouth of the Fox and as a destruction to the teeth of the Wolf the wild Asse is offended at thy moving and snuffeth up the wind in scorn of thy breathing the Bulls of Bashan do pursue thee with roaring and push with their horns at thy dwelling thou art cast in the side of the way and the Chariot wheels run over thee thou art placed as a But in the field for the Arrows and Darts to pierce thee thou art the despised in the Earth and mocked of men of the World thou art sold as a Slave into Egypt and counted the out-casts of Israel though I have heard thy cry in the Land and bear marks of the bleeding of thy grief in my bosome yet I want the greatness of the weight of Wisdom to measure the depths of thy misery thou mournest as a Dove in the Deserts which hath lost her only mate thou weepest as the wayling of a Widow and Mother bereaved of her Children thou cryest with the grief of the fatherless and comfortless Child without Mother thy mourning is as the cry of the Voice of the Orphan left without help in the Land thy groans are as the languishing of the Poor in the Earth which wanteth the daily bread thou lyest in the fields like a yeaned Lamb by the side of a dead Sheep sore are thy cryes as a strugling Babe at the breasts of a dead Mother Eye hath not seen neither hath ear heard neither hath it entred into the heart of vain man to conceive the weight of thy Wo and Passions in all the dayes of thy Wrestlings VVherefore O Seed because thou hast born the Indignation of the LORD for a season and waitest until it be over and past and hast not slipt thy shoulder in the heat of the day nor thy neck from the yoak in the stormy time Therefore hath thy GOD thy Creator determined the good of thy travel in the Earth He hath said Thou shalt not always be as barren in the Land but shalt yeeld thy increase in the Nations O thou afflicted with the troubles of the deeps which tempests have rouled to the bottoms lift up thy head in the Joy of the LORD and be strong in the Power of his Might for the Word of the LORD is come down in the Earth which was spoken by the Prophets of GOD the LORD of the Heavens hath restored thy Mother and pitched her as a Sanctuary in the Earth the Daughter of Sion is her Name the Glory of GOD is with her He hath given her a new threshing Instrument with Teeth to thresh the Mountains to dust and to beat the Hills to powder to seive the Vanity of the Nations and to fan the Earth with her strength to be as a wound to every Wild-beast and destruction to the life of the Destroyer to be a snare to the Fowls of the Air and a fire to devour the Devourer to find out the Dens of the Earth and to open the holes of thy hiding to break the bolts of the Prison-doors and the Chains of Death and Darkness to make thee as free-born in the Land of the Living to possess an Inheritance therein And it shall be no more with thee as in the dayes that all men sought after thee for evil and hunted thee for a purpose of mischief and cruel end for the LORD hath sworn thy Salvation and covenanted thy Peace for ever sighing and sorrow shall fly away from thee and thy tears shall be wiped from thine eyes and the LORD will possess thee with the Joy of Consolation and thou shalt reap Rejoycing as ripe Corn in the Harvest He will give thee Beauty for Ashes the Oyl of joy for mourning and the garments of praise for the spirit of heaviness he will stay thee with Flaggons and comfort thee with Wine and fill thee with the greatness oâ—… his Love thy habitation he wil compass with encrease thy basket and thy store shall abound thou shalt eat the food of the Angels of God and be reckoned as a Leader in the Land thou shalt spring up as a plant in a fruitful ground and thy branches shall over-spread the Nations thou shalt be at the calling of the Assemblies in the East and the gathering of the People in the West the Lord will enlarge thy borders and make thy dwellings as the fulness of the Cities in the Earth thou shalt be as the Lord of an Host and as the Captain of the Army of GOD Battels shall bend to thy Bow and Hosts shall tremble at the shout of thy Voice thou shalt stand as a dread in the Land and a sign of astonishment in the Earth Princes shall tremble in thy presence and the faces of Kings gather paleness the dread of thy Countenance shall fill all with fear the Heavens shall tremble before thee Arise Arise my Love why sittest thou as dead in the night of slumber And as asleep amongst the Monuments of the Earth Why shall Death be thy dwelling and the Night a Watch unto thee Why shall thy face be vailed and the Clouds thus cover thy Glory Though thou art but that small worm Jacob and the Voice cryeth Who shall raise him Yet Arise Arise my Love and being rais'd thou art stronger than Armies thou art more than the Camps of ten thousand Hosts prepared in order for the battel O arise and spread forth thy Comliness and ravish the Virgins with thy Beauty and fill their Lamps with the droppings of thy Locks which wait until the morning for thee thy Presence is an Odor of Perfumes thy Word as a stream of Honey O whereunto whereunto shall I liken thee thou fairest of ten thousands filled with the Glory of thy GOD thy Feet are the Foundations of the Earth and thy Legs the Pillars of the Heavens thy Bowels as a Cistern hold the Waters of the Earth and the Waters of the Heavens as a Well Thou sendest them forth as a running brook and as streams to refresh the Plant Thy Reins are as the Virtue of God which made man in the glory of his Image thy Belly is the Fountain of Judah to wash away Sin and Uncleanness thy Thighs are as the Bats of the Fountains and thine Arms as the strength of GOD thy Back is the Tower of Zion and thy Breasts the nourishment of her Children thy Body is the Temple of GOD and thine Head the Crown of his Saints thy Hairs are as the Stars of Heaven for glory and thy Beard as the bright Clouds thereof at thy neesing the Earth is in fire and the Heavens in a flame before thee thy Soul
Wo upon Wo in the Creature which knoweth not a stay to the heart nor a guide to the affection of the mind and then there is an out-cry according to the Writings in the Walls O Liberty Liberty without Liberty all is nothing yea the fulness of all without Liberty is but the Addition of Fuel to the Flame of the Misery Wherefore saith the Serpent Thou knowest the Redemption do this and thou reapest thy Freedom for it is better to passe under the Confession and Penance which is but as it were for a moment than to languish in this Gulph of Affliction for ever And then the Hypocrite ariseth in the heart and cometh to the Confession of deceit with watry eyes and wringing hands and strong supplications to the Priests and makes the moan of a burdened and troubled Conscience and wounded Spirit because of the Transgressions and then it saith Yea with all my heart Saint Mary St. Ioseph and St. Anthony St. Francis St. Dominick and the rest of the Saints which are written in the Prison-walls I will take for my Advocates and holy Purgatory and all the rest I believe as the Church believes and gladly will I bear my Penance that my Conscience may be eased Whilst all this is but the out-cry of the Devil even of that wicked one for the purchase of Liberty I say to purchase liberty for the full exercise of the Lust and when the Liberty is come and the Lust fulfilled therein in Meats and Musick and Wine and Women and Pride and Covetousness and Lyes and vain Jesting and Idle-talking and cheating and double-dealing and swearing and cursing and all manner of mischief and abominations then the pleasure is full and the peace is possessed the delights are fulfilled no sorrow remains no conscience laden nor spirit burdened with affliction because of transgression but all is accounted well and he reckoned a good Roman Catholick And then what commendations of the good of the Priests and what commendations do the Priests give of that Convert Thus all rottenness is daubed up with dirt and this is the sum and fruit of the whole work which things the LORD GOD will assuredly and that most strongly plead in the faces both of Priests and People unto the utter confusion of all hands and deceitfulness of all corrupt hearts who knoweth how to deal with his own and to deliver from the snare of the wicked whom you know not how to handle to bring under the bent of your Bow You are warned of Gods mighty day wherefore prize your time and repent I also propound a few Queries unto you to the end that you may give me some plain and distinct Answer to each of them particularly under your hand-writing Que. 1. Whether are there more grounds in the nature than two in the Earth that is to say the good and the evil the blessed and the cursed And whether the fruits of each ground according to their nature are not blessed or cursed in the sight of God yea or nay Que. 2. In what ground were your Inquisition Offices and Prisons and the Officers thereunto belonging brought forth and in which do they stand whether in the ground as the fruit of the ground of the many inventions which brought the flood of destruction in the dayes of the generation of Noah or absolutely in the righteousness of the ground of God's Law as given by the Lord from Heaven yea or nay Que. 3. In what ground is Persecution brought forth which any man suffereth for the real sake of a conscience of God Que. 4. Whether can any such Persecutor truly discern and consequently judge the real conscience of God which is in another yea or nay Que. 5. By what testimony of Truth can you shew me That your Penance or Prisons do mortifie the flesh without Murder or quicken the mind from every motion of corruption as freedom from the lusts of transgression Que. 6. Whether have you made inquisition after the Hypocrite and Heretick within you and shew me how you have laid his Life unto the suffering of the Penance of Christ's Cross with the testimony of the effects thereof Que. 7. What was the Inquisition which CHRIST made after the Offence of the accused Harlot and the Judgement of the Harlot's Transgression and whether do you judge with that or contrary to that Judgment in your Inquisitions Que. 8. With what confidence can you judg the pure conscience of another in the presence of the Lord yea or cast a stone at a transgressor whilst you your selves are found sinners Que. 9. What is that Vnjust in whose Eye is the Beam and what is the Beam in the Eye and whether is not the Beam in your Eye yea or nay Que. 10. What is the cause that a mote is judged by the Eye that is beamed And what is the ground root original and principal cause of mens calling good evil and evil good And whether is not your fruit in the general a testimony that you are in that ground and that root in you in the ground which yeelds the fruit of calling good evil and evil good in the particular yea or nay I love the Truth and Souls but do hate a Lye and Deceit with every evil way Rome dispensed from the Inquisition-Prison J. P. To the Seed which is yet unborn in Rome Salutation TO the Seed of that Woman which the Dragon drove into the Wilderness over whose sufferings many Generations have passed which viewed them with an eye of contempt O Seed I see thy travel of sorrows and the sighings that compass thee in the deeps thou art swadled in the womb of affliction and bound in the belly of trouble thou lyest in the deeps of the raging Seas the weeds are wrapt about thy head thou art as the blood-shed of Abel in the Earth and groanest in her bowels to the LORD thy Creator thou dwellest in the solitary places as hid in the hole of the Asp thou art constrained in the Den of the Dragon and forced in the Cockatrice's dwelling thou art as a Pelican in the Wilderness and an alone Sparrow sitting on the house top thou art as a Bee in the holes of the Rocks driven from the Hive of the Swarm thou lyest as a Lark in the heaths of the Mountains and as a Quail in the Stubble-fields thou art as a Wren in a Bush of Thorns the Vulture soars over thee to devour when thou liftest up thine head for a flight the Kite doth strike at thy life the Hawk doth watch for thy rising and the Gier-Eagle to devour the prey Wo wo wo is me for thee in this thy hour of Tribulation for I bear thy wound in my body my soul is pained with thy grief my belly is as a broâ—…k of bitterness thou art laden with the Hills of the Earth and pressed with the Mountains of the Wilderness heaps of stones are laid for thy weight and Rocks for the weight of thy burden thou art shut up
that City who sometime before that sent me up Prisoner to Dublin prosecuting my Life because I had written about three sheets of Paper that represented the sore Grievances and heavy Oppressions of all thy Children in that Land which none of them instigated me unto but was only carried forth thereunto in the Mercies Pities and Compassions that God had put into my soul beholding them a bleeding People With the said Governour I pleaded for the said persons first in his private house and next with him and all the Commissioners in the open Court of Justice and obtained a Warrant for the delivery of the said Prisoners which I went personally to see executed but the Marshal hoping to gain Moneys disobeyed it which made me go a second time to the Court and open the Cause afresh whereby I obtained my Desire as full as I could possibly expect for with a second Order I returned to the Prison not giving trust to any humane eye besides my own and saw them all delivered at which time many fell down upon their knees to me in the open street worshiping me as if I were a God and not a man which I then denied remembring the words of Christ and of the Angel that said thou shalt worship GOD and Him only shalt thou worship Besides other times I have appeared for some poor Widows being formerly of eminency and repute in the World and thy Children and many other Roman Catholicks in their distresses and GOD Almighty knows that the Pitties of my soul were such to them all that I was so far from expecting a Gift for all that I did for them that besides my Expences in several Journies to serve their needs my hand was open to all and not one of thy Children can say that he came to my Door for an Alms and went away empty-handed Besides all this the GOD of Knowledge remembers that I have stript off the Apparrel immediatly from my body to cloath thy Children that I saw in need and want Therefore consider thee this Case as thou wilt appear to be a natural Father And because I have not found Mercy in this City answerable to the least part of my Bowels to thy Children in their woful distresses yet shew me Justice but to plead my own Cause in a publick Court of Judicature as I have openly pleaded the Cause of thy Children in a publick Court of Judicature in time of their misery when they could not plead it themselves nor durst others do it for them and it shal satisfie my soul which spirituality nay nor humanity it self will deny me the which I seek in the Spirit of meekness as one that is delighted in the Order of Truth loving and praying for Enemies and watching to recompence good for evil that the Light of the Lamb in me may appear as a City set on a Hill Who am thy Prisoner in the Prison of Madmen called the English Quaker JOHN And though something was a long while before desired and earnestly besought by divers of the Pope's Priests and other Officers for me to write unto the Pope even in this wise yet after I had sent and heard of its delivery to the Pope at his Palace the Answer which I received was this viz. That I should have no hearing and withal I was stript of all my Writings which could be found together with Pen Ink and Paper and threatned to have my Door walled up and half or more of the Window also walled up and scarcely Water to be brought unto me for my necessary use Whereby the very worst of men may discern that the spirit which ruleth in Rome is not of Christ but of Antichrist A POST-SCRIPT to all the zealous Roman Catholicks which have sought God in their Imaginations but yet have not found him to possess him in the Substance that they may all come to find and enjoy Him in his Everlasting Life of Pleasure AFter all the former fruits of Righteousness shewn forth by Epistle Exhortation Admonition Reproof Questions and Righteous Reason none of which being at any time answered by any person or persons in ROME or elsewhere Now I am come to shew the weakness of all the Pope's Adherents in that City who when they saw that they could not answer the fore-going Queries unless it should be to their own Condemnation took occasion to censure me under the Judgment of being in the state of a Mad-man thinking that the Cruelties which were determined in their Council to be inflicted upon my Body might prove to be the means of turning my soul from the work of GOD's Righteousness effected in my heart to which end I was sent as precited from the Inquisition unto the Prison of Mad-people In which place I was first chained by the Neck to the wall in which Chain I had the exact liberty of standing upstreight of sitting or of lying down but after three nights had passed it was ordered that the Chain was to be taken from off my Neck and another Chain lock'd on my Leg which was about six foot long which gave me liberty to walk the length of three steps from the Wall whereunto it was fastened which abode upon me for the full time of fourteen weeks in which space of time it proving then to be Winter season and the Winter also proving very cold shrank up the Sinews of my Leg on which the chain was lock'd so that when at the expiration of the aforesaid fourteen weeks it was taken off I found my self a lame man but through sore suffering in twelve dayes following the Lord in whom I believed made me again a sound lim'd person whose Name my soul magnifieth praiseth blesseth and thanketh for his goodness and loving-kindness whose mercies endure for ever Moreover in the said time of my being chained I was divers times beaten tortured and sorely bruised and wounded in my body by persons appointed thereunto using for the most part a dryed Bulls Pizzle as the Instrument for punishing of me bruising and breaking my body with the same yea and after that I had the freedom of the Room in which I was kept which I judge could not exceed in latitude 9 and longitude 14 feet I was also several times beaten and exceedingly wronged in my body once especially my Torturers came into the Room by whom I was stript of all my Cloathes from top to toe and with the aforesaid Instrument fell upon me and did in such manner beat me with the same as I was stark naked that they left me from the very crown of the head unto the soals of my feet black and bloody having broken their Instrument about me I might speak and write that which would fill many Volumns of my Sufferings both in body and spirit which are well known unto God but in brief may sum up all in a short saying not mentioning the many Particulars which were day after day and night after night exercised upon me as revilings mockings infamous names
beatings by Mad-men with other abuses which in modesty I cannot well express by Pen but may say thus viz. even such as passeth the bounds of all humanity when I have been kneeling at Prayer and when I have been walking in Praises and Thanksgivings unto God Ah! can I number can I number again the many thousands of Temptations that attended me besides blows wounds mocks and such-like abuses tryed with Wine proved with Women tempted with Riches and Honour and all the Pleasures that ever my heart could desire after that I was threatned even day after day and night after night sometimes with Tortures and sometimes with Death by Gallows by Fire and sometimes subtilly by Poyson Well what shall I say I have read the Sufferings of Job and the Slaughters of many of the Martyrs but yet this can I say in God that such were my suffering-dayes in Rome as I have said in body and spirit that no soul that lived immediatly in his Grace ever suffered the like even since the day of Adam's being a man created of his Maker from the beginning which I made manifestly appear unto my Afflictors Torturers and Tormentors in ROME even unto their shame and confusion whilst in bonds I was so constrained unto sufferings in the state of my manifest and approved Innocency in the sight of GOD and themselves my utter Enemies All which was inflicted upon me to turn my heart from the Righteous Way of GOD which is manifest to you by their many Temptations for me to speak a Lye and often Provocations to break me from the Spirit of Patience and Content which I held in my God Now the aforesaid Punishments Cruelties having been laid upon me for the precited causes which all the foregoing Writings dispensed unto them forth of the Inquisition sheweth the unrighteousness of their Cause and the unreasonableness of their Weapons which fought and battelled against me whom I shewed in the time of my Sufferings That if they judged me to be a Mad-man they seemed to me to be nigh sensless to seek me by Temptations of Cruelties and Pleasures to turn unto them by sinning against the Lord of Righteousness And again I remonstrated to their understandings viz. That if the Pope Cardinals Doctors Jesuites Priests Fryars Lawyers Physicians and all the wise Councils and Counsellors in Rome were fallen so far from the knowledge of GOD and degenerated so much below humane Reason as not to judge of a humane state in a more rational sort than to conclude me to be a Mad-man that Soul was in a most miserable destroying state that should trust unto their Judgements concerning any thing which they should judge was spiritual tending to the Worship of GOD and Salvation For if all could not rightly judge of a Cause external in so low a degree it is impossible that they should judge of things spiritual which are matters of the highest concernments and therefore must needs conclude my self a wilful destroyer of mine own Soul if I should have adhered unto such spirits as were not able rightly to judge betwixt a state of true sence and madness From all which it is my desire that the poor simple hungry and thirsty Roman Catholicks whose souls are not satisfied without the enjoyment of the true God may know the real cause why they yet walk with heavy hearts and pressed-down minds not having the comfort of the assurance of Salvation in them though they have carefully sought many years to find it going unto many Masse-houses to communicate often and to pray frequently and to confesse several times in the year and to bear penance for their sins willingly and yet all hath been so short of making their perfect Peace with God that a thousand times more than all whatever they practised cannot take away from their hearts nor wash from their souls one of their least sins I say one cause is this as the Prophet Jeremiah saith The Leaders of this People cause them to err and they which are led of them are destroyed And the Priests whose lips should keep Knowledge have hid Knowledge from the eyes of the People and therefore hath the Lord complained saying For want of Knowledge my People perish which your Popes and Priests have really hid from your eyes having led you into the wayes of their own Inventions which they sought and found out in the Counsels of their own Wills whilst the immediate Word of the LORD was not instantly in and among them but absolutely wanting from them who therefore led you into those things which the LORD GOD never required from you and therefore in your daily sacrifices you cannot expect another Answer from GOD than this as the Prophet Malachi saith Who hath required these things at your hands For GOD never instituted Beads nor Images of Persons or Crosses neither ever said he That the invisible spiritual Worship of Him the Spiritual GOD stands in the visible and carnal appearances which cannot reach unto the soul to sprinkle wash and cleanse the soul from every evil and dead work word and thought Forasmuch as nothing but an invisible and an eternal Substance is able to reach unto to wash purge and cleanse your invisible and immortal souls from your sins which are the causes of your weights pressures and burdens which yet remain upon you not knowing your Deliverance from them Seeing therefore that you have long practised to find but have not partaked of the substance of the thing desired having sought ease but not found ease having sought it but in the way of your Leaders who cause you to erre and not having sought it in any other way but in that which your souls have experience through long practice brings you not unto the true End of your hope not having sought it as you ought to seek trying all things and holding fast that which is good Come ye therefore and try this Way of GOD and prove the LORD in his Way even the Merciful GOD who hath proved you in your wayes and alwayes found you defective in your wayes and mark Him in his Way and try and see if it shall be with you in the dayes to come as it hath been with you in the dayes that are past For now Reason may tell you that if your way was imperfect surely the Way of GOD must needs be perfect which leads unto a perfect end first to a perfect Life in Him that is the Beginning and consequently unto perfect Peace in the same who is without End Can you do lesse than to prove and see and seek in that wherein I know assuredly you shall find that you shall not always walk as in wearisomness faintness nor be in your hearts as parched heaths nor in your minds as barren mountains neither shall be as Bryars of the Woods and Thorns of the Forrests nay nor as pricking Thistles of the Stubble-fields neither shall you alwayes walk as afflicted tossed and tormented through the swellings of
may ye also say we have sought in the way of Light but our Creator cannot be found there But truly this is my Testimony of my heavenly Father unto whom there is none like in Goodness Mercy and Deliverance That if any one seeketh Him in his Way of Holiness in which sin cannot be committed he will satisfie the desires of that soul in due time and overspread it with his abundant Fulness And therefore to that of GOD in your selves I cannot but commend you which is more safe for you to mind obey and follow than the invented customs wayes and statutes ordained of men which never came to live in that Grace of GOD which was the Light in all their Consciences which could have led them out of all their sins into the true knowledge of the washing by the Blood of CHRIST which cleanseth from all sin which being taken away puts an end to the supposed Purgatory for if any thing purgeth from sin it is the Everlasting Blood of the Lamb of GOD which was slain since the foundations of the World was which washeth away all sin And this also puts an end to the vain thoughts of the Popes remission of sins which stands in opposition to his professed Purgatory after this life for if he forgives all sins excepting one sin how is it that after his forgiveness generally all souls of his Sect must enter into Purgatory to be cleansed from that which he hath formerly forgiven them so that you may see either his profession of forgiveness is deceit and vanity or else that his professed Purgatory is a deceit and vanity because to the one work of forgiveness and cleansing from sin there is not a need of any but one thing to effect it and because I know that the Blood of CHRIST and only the Blood of CHRIST which is his powerful Life doth it I am assured in the Spirit of the holy GOD and therefore do assert it That both the Pope and his Purgatory which stand crossing one the others virtue and authority are both but a deceit and witchery This therefore may awaken you from all slumber of supposed security concerning your way and induce to take heed unto the LIGHT of GOD in your selves that it may lead you out of your own thoughts words and wayes to walk with God in Righteousness all your dayes that of Him you may be made Partakers of his Endlesse Everlasting Kingdom of Life Peace and Joy which will swallow you up in his high Praises who is worthy of the Glory of his Works in the whole Earth even for ever and ever Amen A Concluding Word to those that falsly accuse me and my Brethren of being Papists FInally Whereas there are divers that have accused me and my Brethren as being persons which in the bottom of our hearts are Papists This may plainly serve as a Testimony very substantial that we are so judged upon none other than a wrong and false account as hath been demonstrated by Doctrine Life Example and large Suffering among such persons and in such places as are counted the most reputed Papists upon the face of the Earth Which is more than ever Luther Calvin or any Protestant or other Sect testified or witnessed viz. against the persons in the same place yea than any would be willing to do amongst all the Sects in England that cry against Pope and Popery here at home in their own Liberties or upon soft Cushions on Pulpits yea I can say that I have found many that have falsly accused me of Popery that would not for a King's Ransom go to Rome and cry against it as I have done and therefore their own Consciences may rather accuse themselves of Deceipt or at least-wise as Backbiters whilst they speak that against the Pope in England which they would not speak to the Pope himself at Rome as I sought to clear my Conscience to the Pope's face and therefore are but like the Papists that backbite and speak evil of English Sects in the Countries where their own is tolerated and approved of which is but of one unrighteous nature in them all of all Parties From all which the Accusations of my Accusers do turn upon their own heads as an undeniable Covering of shame who henceforth in prudence may rather choose the keeping of silence than utterance of slanders c. Yet after all the precited Passages I do hereby intimate a few of the Papists Principles which I together with the rest of the People of God called Quakers do utterly deny as not being of GOD'S holy Spirit of Truth but consequently of the spirit which produced all their other invented Traditions which suite not with the holy Nature of the holy Eternal GOD. 1. We deny the Pope and his Cardinals to be of the Election of GOD Angels or Saints and therefore in their Places and Offices not of GOD nor the Truth but contrary to God and the Truth 2. We deny the supposed place of Purgatory which the Papists professe to be after death we owning no Purgatory for the Soul after the Body is departed this life 3. We utterly deny all Images which the Papists worship and bow down before 4. We deny the Masse both matter and manner thereof 5. We deny Prayers to be made unto Saints or Angels which the Papists use seeing Christ saith Ye shall henceforth ask nothing of me but of the Father in my Name Many other things I could insert but at present forbear But whereas lastly that I have denyed the abovesaid five Particulars to be any thing of Truth it lyes upon the Papists to prove them according to the Spirit of Truth if they are able and not according to their own nor their father's inventions else all men may see that they live in Deceit Errour and Falshood of which let all men take heed lest they should be wilfully destroyed John Perrot THE END