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A63786	Truth's triumph over errour: or, The routing of the seven false prophets who have all lived in London in lesse then these 20. years: (viz.) Farnam, Bull, weavers, Robbins, Garment husbandmen. Smith, a shooe-maker. Muggleton and Reeve, taylors. Wherein is clearly discovered and confuted all their most blasphemous, damnable, false and rediculous tenents. Themselves and falshoods opened, anatomized, and dissected, and found to be no better then impostures, liers, deluders, and spirituall gypsies. Proved by time the mother of truth, reason, scripture, and their own contradictions. Written by Stephen Proud-love, a lover of the truth.		1653 (1653)	Wing T3172A; ESTC R219214	8,882	17

Truth 's Triumph over Errour OR The Routing of the Seven false PROPHETS Who have all lived in London in lesse then these 20. Years VIZ. Weavers Farnam Bull Husbandmen Robbins Garment Smith a Shooe-maker Taylors Muggleton and Reeve Wherein is clearly discovered and confuted all their most Blasphemous damnable false and rediculous Tenents Themselves and Falshoods opened Anatomized and dissected and found to be no better then Impostures Liers Deluders and Spirituall Gypsies Proved by Time the Mother of Truth Reason Scriptvre and their own Contradictions Matth. 7. 15. Beware of false Prophets which come to you in sheeps cloathing but inwardly are ravening Wolves Written by Stephen Proud-love a Lover of the Truth LONDON Printed by J. C. T. W. for Tho. Lambert 1653. THE EPISTLE TO The READER COurteous Reader I that am the least of the servants of Love yet through that little faith in the Love I have taken upon me to lay open the greatest and horriddest blasphemy against the God of Love that in my understanding ever was broached since man had a being the very thoughts whereof maketh my heart to tremble and my soule as it were to go backwards according to that speech in the 9th of Jer. verse 1. Oh that my head were a well of water and mine eyes a fountaine of tears c. Therefore I do desire loving Friends and Readers that yee would be pleased to judge so favourably of all things herein contained as it is declared in the simplicity and innocency of the Authours spirit and not out of any malice or envy for here I take the eternall God to witnesse that I am free from all manner of spleene against any party that is herein concerned only desiring in the love of God according to the small talent or gift given me from God to lay open to the world these Tenets which may be as dangers or stumbling blocks to the weak onely for that end they may shun them and seeke for a stability where it is to be found even in our God where all things and all security else is to be found and whatsoever I shall here insert I shall be able to make good from severall witnesses as from severall of their owne disciples as also some whom they have cursed and some whom they have neither blessed nor cursed And this I shall oblige my selfe to make good at the desire of any shall require it who shall at all times find me at my dwelling if they will be pleased to inquire for Stephen Proud love in French Alley in Golding-lane A TRUE RELATION AND Description of seven pretended Prophets and their false and Blasphemous Tenets which have lived and been in the City of London all of them within lesse then these twenty years THe first two that I have knowne in the abovesayd time were two Weavers by trade whose Names were the one Bull and the other Farnam who pretended and called themselves the last Prophets or the two witnesses of whom mention is made in Revel 11. who did declare That they had power to stop the heavens that it should not raine and likewise when it was their pleasure to pray againe the heavens should be opened and should send forth her raine Secondly that no Magistrate should have power over their bodies neither should any one kill them by violence Thirdly that they should live to see the sacking of Jerusalem Fourthly Farnam had a boy whom they affirmed should beat a Drumme at the sacking thereof Fiftly that Jesus Christ should have a temporall Monarchy here upon earth and both these held these hereticall Tenets and did firmely believe that it should be so but time that manifests all truthes hath clearly evidenced to the world their fallasies and therefore I need not to make any larger description of them seeing they are long since dead by the plague when they were both prisoners which was the just Judgment of God upon them for their base deceivable qualities And therefore I conclude these and so go on to the next The second two pretended Prophets is John Robbins and Joseph Garment who are both yet alive who did declare that they were God and had power to raise the dead and secondly by the clapping of their hands they were able to strike with death whomsoever they pleased and thirdly that they were to be the Jews deliverers fourthly that they were able to divide the waters fiftly that they should go to Jerusalem with above a hundred thousand people whom they should convoy thither with many other rediculous and hereticall tenets not worthy the mentioning and therefore I conclude and go on to the next The next pretended Prophet is one Smith by name and a shoemaker by trade who liveth in the County of Sussex at a town called Tillington and he doth declare first that he held the Lord Jesus Christ by the hand for the space ●f five houres together with whom he had several disco●…ses all that time secondly that he had received o●●… from the Lord Jesus Christ to make a new sort of Paper without any size whereupon he should cause the Bible to be reprinted for its preservation thirdly that upon New-yeares day last there should be a general resurrection of all the beasts and that they should come terribly upon the Earth to claim their skins of mankind and whomsoever they should finde their skins upon they would destroy with desperate violence with many other foolish absurdities not worth the relating A Description of the last two pretended Prophets and their Tenents THe first whereof is John Reve by name and a Taylour by trade the other Lodowick Muggleton a Tailour also both living neer unto the signe of the Owle in Trinity lane in London the first of these John Reve doth declare that in the beginning of February last was twelve moneth he received a commission from God by voice of words and that Lodowick Muggleton was given unto him to bee his mouth as Aaron was to Moyses and that they both together were commissionated to go forth and declare unto this bloudy world as they call it what every ones estate and condition was whosoever they should pronounce the sentence of damnation unto should be damned to all eternity and their estates blasted and whoever they should pronounce to be blessed or saved should be partakers of Salvation and that to all eternity by means wherof like crafty foulers they caught some few simple hearted ones into there snare and pronounced them blessed just as I have seene some do by little children giving them counters to play with and saying or making them believe it was gold so these pretended Prophets makes their disciples to believe that by their speaking of a few words unto them they do become the blessed of God for ever but on the contrary if that any should seem to neglect or slight their commission or should not approve of their interpretation of scriptures then they damne them to all eternity whereby they have

frighted and terrified the hearts and spirits of some other simple hearted people just as the Church of Rome doth by their excommunications The Author of this short Treatise hearing of these men who assumed unto themselves such power did desire to be acquainted with them and at the first meeting did aske them these three questions viz. 1. Whether God had the person of a man and whether he had an audible voice 2. Whether or no they could erre or were incident to failings as other men were 3. Whether or no they could write scriptures so good as those which are already written by Moyses the other Prophets the Evangelists and the Apostles To all which they thus or to the like effect answered To the first that God had an audible voice and that he was in the person of a man from al eternity and that there was not is not nor never shall be any other God but the same Lord Jesus Christ which was born of the Virgin Mary and suffered at Jerusalem and that the world and all things else was only and alonely made by him and that when this Lord Jesus Christ was incarnate and in his minority and at his sufferings and in the grave then there was no God in heaven nor in earth the government of all things for that time being committed to Moyses and Elias and whatsoever God should be professed by any they had power both to curse and to damne them and their professours To the second they plainly declared that they could not erre nor faile and were both alike minded for they had an infallible spirit by the which they were able to discern all things neither could any man deceive them neither could any sickness or any disease seize upon their bodies neither should they ever commit any sinne neither at their death should they have the like fear and trouble in the least as the Lord Jesus Christ had when he suffered To the third they answered that Moyses the other Prophets and Apostles had never the like light given them nor the like power in spirituall things as they had they being under the third and last dispensation as they terme it the dispensation of the spirit therefore able to write Scriptures more then they al and that there hath not been any man these fourteen hundred years past that ever hath spoken truth from or truely opened any text of scripture till they received their Comission To all which I thus reply I do believe and declare unto the whole world that that eternall everliving and all sufficient only wise God who had his being of himselfe and in himselfe sending forth all things as of so from himselfe and againe retracting or drawing all things into himselfe againe is not to be comprehended known or declared to be what he is in his Eternall or Essentiall being for how can the Mortall declare or make manifest the Immortall the Creature the Creator for the pot at furthest onely manifests that it is made but doth not know his Maker neither can it so much as know his voyce Then how can mortall man know the voyce of the Immortall God which makes the Rocks to rend in pieces Ye how terrible was the voyce of God to the Israelites at Mount Sinai that they never desired to hear it any more wherefore they desired that Moses might speak with them and not God any more And secondly whereas they do declare that they cannot sin at all nor erre at any time nor fail in their judgements I my self with many others can witnesse severall passages to the contrary and let all reasonable men judge if rash anger rash judgement censuring and back-biting be not sinne Again I with many others is able to testifie against them to their faces how they have failed and erred in judgement for whereas they both affirmed that they were both endued lighted and guided by one and the self-same infallible spirit that no man was able to deceive them or go about it but they should be able to descern their hypocrisie or deceit They having in my hearing and in the hearing of some others pronounced the sentence of Damnation upon a man I asked whether or no this sentence could not be revok'd upon the parties humiliation and acknowledgement of his Errour the one of them to wit Muggleton answered it might then I asked the other to wit Reeve the same question and he answered and said It could not by meanes whereof they did contend one against another which shews they were of a different judgement Again the said pretended Prophet Reeve having in my sight with a many others pronounced the sentence of blessedness and salvation to a Gunsmith in the Minories his fellow Prophet did within a quarter of an hour pronounce the sentence of damnation upon the same party and also the blasting of his Estate Again not long since being in company with the foresaid two pretended Prophets and some other company there came in a Gentleman whom they had damned three months before or thereabouts but the said Gentleman not taking notice that ever he had seen them before carrying himself very fairly and seemingly did approve of their judgements by which meanes he did obtain their good liking insomuch that they both declared they had nothing against him but that he might have the Blessing whereupon the Gentleman called them a couple of Loger-heads saying Are you the Prophets of the Lord doth not know that ye have already sentenced me to damnation by all which good people ye may see their gross failings and that they may be subject to sin errour and mistakes notwithstanding their great boasting that if any should come into their company whom before they had cursed they should discern and know him although he should never so much disguise himself And thirdly these two pretended Prophets do not only assume unto themselves a Prerogative and power above and beyond Moses the other Prophets and Apostles in the knowledge of the mind and wil of God in the Scriptures but also that they can both adde to these Scriptures and diminish from them saying Whatsoever they shall not approve of to be Scripture is no Scripture at all and so hath cut off all Salomons Writings and the Book of Job to be any part of the Scripture by means whereof there is a great stumbling block laid before the weak who in the sincerity of their hearts are seeking the Lord and hath ever had these Books in esteem as all other Scripture nay and some have said that they may as well question all the other Scriptures as these Now I would question whether or no these men that thus adde to and diminish at their pleasure from the word of God be not such as comes under that sentence mentioned in the 22. of the Revel Cursed is every one that addes or diminishes from the words which are written in this Book and so the plagues which are written therein to be justly due unto them