False Prophets Discovered. Being a true story of the Lives and Deaths of two Weavers (late of Colche- ster) viz. Richard Farnham and Iohn Bull; who affir- med themselves the two great Prophets which should come in the end of the world, Mentioned Revel. 11. Also that the Plague should not come nigh their dwelling. Neverthe- lesse being Prisoners, the one in Old-Bridewell, the other in New-Bridewell, by a strange Providence of Almighty God, both the one and the other dyed of the Plague in a House where they usually met, in Rosemary-Lane, in Ianuary last, 1641. Here also is laid down their strange Pro- phecies, and the Scriptures which they most blasphemously wrested, to the seducing of divers Pro- selytes, who yet remaine obstinate, and confidently affirme that they are risen from the dead, and gone in vessels of Bullrushes to convert the tenne Tribes; the which they will also seeme to prove, as may be seene by this ensuing discourse. ... (2 lines)Richard Farnham · First published 1642NonfictionOpen the Tome
False Prophets Discovered. Being a true story of the Lives and Deaths of two Weavers (late of Colche- ster) viz. Richard Farnham and Iohn Bull; who affir- med themselves the two great Prophets which should come in the end of the world, Mentioned Revel. 11. Also that the Plague should not come nigh their dwelling. Neverthe- lesse being Prisoners, the one in Old-Bridewell, the other in New-Bridewell, by a strange Providence of Almighty God, both the one and the other dyed of the Plague in a House where they usually met, in Rosemary-Lane, in Ianuary last, 1641. Here also is laid down their strange Pro- phecies, and the Scriptures which they most blasphemously wrested, to the seducing of divers Pro- selytes, who yet remaine obstinate, and confidently affirme that they are risen from the dead, and gone in vessels of Bullrushes to convert the tenne Tribes; the which they will also seeme to prove, as may be seene by this ensuing discourse. ... (2 lines)McAlpin Collection of British History and Theology (Burke Library at Union Theological Seminary)NonfictionOpen the Tome