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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A03253	A true discourse of the two infamous upstart prophets, Richard Farnham weaver of White-Chappell, and Iohn Bull weaver of Saint Butolphs Algate, now prisoners, the one in Newgate, and the other in Bridewell with their examinations and opinions taken from their owne mouthes April 16. anno 1636. As also of Margaret Tennis now prisoner in Old Bridewell, with the hereticall opinions held by her, at the same time examined. Written by T.H.; True discourse of the two infamous upstart prophets, Richard Farnham weaver of White-Chappell, and John Bull weaver of Saint Butolphs Algate, now prisoners, the one in Newgate, and the other in Bridewell.	Heywood, Thomas, d. 1641.	1636 (1636)	STC 13369; ESTC S104076	8,086	48

or other well-minded Scholler who come modestly to disswade him from these refractory absurdities he will say that his desire is nay rather his earnest request is that as the Prophet Daniel was cast into a Den of Lions so he may be also to prove himselfe to be a true Prophet and a chosen vessell of the Lord for as their mouthes were shut up against Daniel so likewise it shall happen to him for they shall neither have strength nor power to hurt or damage him They further hold themselves to have such power over the Elements that at their prayer they can command the clouds to showre downe raine upon the earth and at their prayer too they can restraine those timely and seasonable drops which refresh it Here too it is further to be observed that they are simple Tradesmen who never look't upon any University or scarcely have beene acquainted with a Grammar Schoole who onely can read English though yet know not how to speake it truely Yet these poore fellowes confidently beleeve that the Spirit of God shall so aboundantly fall upon them that like the Apostles they shall be able to speake all Tongues and Languages But especially when they shall come to Hierusalem they shall be inspired with the Holy Tongue the very same in which the Patriarchs and Prophets spake and prophesied Moreover in all their conference with such as sometimes for novelties sake come to visite them they constantly affirme and confidently beleeve that no mortall man of what estate or condition foever can have the least power to harme them Or if it please the Almighty to suffer them to discipline or chastise their bodies yet over their lives they shall have no power at all either to hazard them or take them away But whosoever shall intend or attempt any such violence against them their hate towards them shall be turned upon themselves so that they shall prove their owne executioners such as was Iudas who betrayed the life of his Lord and Maister But let the Reader here take notice in this how ignorantly and sottishly they contradict themselves affirming in this place that no man shall have the least power to insidiate their lives or bring them to any untimely and remarkable death When before in Farnhams examination by divers learned Commissioners appoynted to that purpose Hee with the other contested that he must be first slaine and after rise againe and be crowned King of Hierusalem And Bull in his examination attested That he should be also first slaine at Hierusalem where Christ suffered and after live againe and like Aaron and his sonne Eleazar reigne an High Priest there which something seemes to smell of the Sect of the Thraskites and Sabbat arians I might leave these and come to a third namely a woman now prisoner in Bridewell the weaknesse of whose Sexe can bee no excuse or priviledge for her horrible blasphemies which indeede almost want president and yet we may see how farre the Divell can worke with his owne servants I might set downe with her name Margret Tennis her examination the which for modesties sake I will forbeare to speake of it beeing such incredible and scarce heard-of Blasphemy able not onely to make the eares to tingle but the heart to tremble which as it horrors mee to write so I make no question but whosoever shall peruse it it will trouble him to read and therefore I forbeare to publish it in regard that 't is almost unbeleeveable that any such Monster should have being upon the face of the earth at least he may well and that justly too suspect that the words which she spake came from the mouth of a Iew but no Christian. But at this present she is either mad or counterfeits madnesse wishing with my heart that shee may both returne to her wits and to true repentance And as of her so also I speake of the other whom I could wish to have an inspection into their owne follies and having gone so far astray to retyre themselves into the true sheepfold Solomon the wisest of Kings saith Hee that keepeth his mouth and his tongue hee keepeth his soule from affliction and else where It is a mans honour to cease from strife but every foole will bee meddling There bee some that speake words like the pricking of a sword but the tongue of a wise-man is health The beginning of strife is as one that openeth the waters therefore ere the contention be meddled with leave off He loveth transgression that loveth strife and hee that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction The froward heart findeth no good and hee that hath a naughty tongue falleth into evill There is no question to be made but that he who is the Father of Lyes is also the founder of controversies who is the Divell neither is his inveterate malice against mankinde discovered in publicke hostility onely as when Armes are taken up for the differences of Religion as it hath often happened but in vaine and unnecessary questions whence truth in the disputing of them may be darkened In him is the spirit of contradiction or rather he may be c●●d the spirit it selfe nor breatheth hee onely almost upon all Academies Schooles Rectories and Families but even upon our mother Church it selfe by broaching Errors and Heresies and daily devising new fangle and trifling Innovations as having ever beene the incendiary to selfe-opinion and all refractory disobedience and these arise for the most part from ignorant peevish and selfe opiniond Separatists whose false Tenents the more they are urged upon them the more many times to the smal understanding of the simple the truth is intangled The apparent Syllogisme saith one ought to be contained in few words but if it be too farre prosecuted and unnecessarily continued the Syllogisme groweth into a Paralogisme which is no better than a perverse wrangling And therefore when one proposed to a grave Philosopher a needlesse and impertinent Aenigma of which he desired a short and speedy answer He thus replyed speaking to those that were there present This fellow desireth to milke a Goate and would have mee to hold a Collender full of holes to receive it Now Vtrum stultior saith Erasmus qui ●ulget Hireum quàm quì ●ribram Supponit To conclude I would wish all these stupid novellists for their better understanding since they are so obstinate to forsake Christs flock yet at last to looke into that which Pythagoras taught over whose doore it was thus written Hee that knoweth not what hee ought to know is a beast amongst men Hee that knoweth no more than hee must needes know is a man amongst Beasts But hee that knoweth all things which are fit to be knowne is a God amongst men After divers visitations by sundry Divines and men of quality this Richard Farnham understood by some of them that it was reported of him that hee was Christ for the better clearing of that Aspersion laid on him and some others in that kinde he hath given out these lines which you may read that hee writ very late himselfe in Prison THere bee many false reports that goe of mee in the City of London and I beleeve they are spread abroad in the Countrey First some report of me that I say I am Christ. Secondly some say that I am Elias Thirdly some report of me that I should say that it should not raine of 3 yeares and some say a longer time some say a shorter Fourthly some report of me that I should say when it raines againe it should raine blood and some say fire and brimstone which are false the Lord of Heaven and Earth knoweth that I have not uttered any of those words But these things you may report to be truths from my own hand-writing I say I am one of those two witnesses that are spoken of in the 11 of the Revelation and that the Lord hath given mee power for the opening and the shutting of the Heavens The Lord hath moved mee by prayer since I came into this Prison to bee earnest with him for the shutting of the Heavens and I am certaine that the Heavens are shut and that the earth shall not receive any benefit to speake of by the Raine that shall fall untill the Lord doth moove mee to pray for Raine and I doe steadfastly beleeve that in the day the Lord doth move me to pray for Raine it shall Raine but I say this if the Lord doth continue mee praying but 6 weekes longer as now he doth I beleeve there is a great deale of seede sowne in this land of England which wil never be reaped nor mowed I doe not meane the whole kingdome but of this part of the land where my dwelling is And this I know that there are iudgements a comming Pestilence Famine and sword and I know I shal live and see them fulfilled and be preserved Therefore it behoveth every one that hath not made his peace with God both high and low to repent and make his peace with God in a true and unfeigned repentance that it may goe well with the soule howsoever it goeth with the body As Solomon saith Riches profit not in the day of wrath but righteousnesse delivereth from death FINIS