A full and exact relation of two old men aged above a thousand years, coming invisibly into the great city of Tholouze ... preaching ... and exhorting : How several Jesuits disputed with them in prison. Also, how their irons dropt off ... With their infallible fortelling of the day of doom to be in ... 1690.

Date:
1680
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Credit: A full and exact relation of two old men aged above a thousand years, coming invisibly into the great city of Tholouze ... preaching ... and exhorting : How several Jesuits disputed with them in prison. Also, how their irons dropt off ... With their infallible fortelling of the day of doom to be in ... 1690. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    • [3] of this People is mounted up to Heaven, and that within Three Months, (if they R. epent not, and amend their Lives) this City fliall be deftroy’d by Fire as Sodom vvas. They have continued dill in this City PreaclUhg from day to day ; they go with their Feet bare, and their Hands and Eye? always lifted up to Heaven • They ;have nqt l?een known to fleep ever Once they came hither;; they have been often forbidden by the Magiftrates to Preach ; But they anfwer’d , they were fent on the behalf of Godj to move the People to Riepent and do Penance; whereupon they were caufed to be put into Prifon i where (evera\ feftdts\, and Learned Men went to vifit them, and Difputed with them in the Latin, lfebreyp^^/0^ah dean Languages. They certainly know cht#, that live a wicked life; and when any^fpchfomo-be-s fore ,them, they particularly exhprt-;thepi>t9!Rfl“ pent, and amend their Lives.. ’ thing but Bread and ;^Y^er :;^ they lift^up^^ei^ Hands and Eys continually towards Heaven, and are continually exhorting the People to Rgpgntr.^ ance; They precifely nominate the day Saviour (hall come to Judgement in •• And when they were asked how long time fhall yet pafs be¬ fore the general day of Judgment ;t f hey anfwer- ey, that the World (halt have an end in the year One Thotifand Six Hundred and Ninety; But about two or thFee years belore that time, all the Chriftian World fliould be troubled with Wars. They fay they are much above a 7 houfand 7ears