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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A79880	The lying-vvonders, or rather the vvonderful-lyes, which was lately published to the world, in a lying-pamphlet, (called Strange and true news from Gloucester) containing a relation of the wonderful power of God, shewed for injustice at Fairford, by frogs and toads; and in the sudden death of the Clarks daughter at Brokington in Gloucestershire. Presented to the view of the world, with some observations in the end on another such like pamphlet (The Lords loud call to England) I. That the subtilty of deluders may be discerned. II. That the simple may from their delusions be preserved. III. That the lovers of truth may be strengthned. IV. That all men about these wonders may be satisfied. By Robert Clark, minister of Gods Word in Norleach.	Clark, Robert, minister at Norleach.	1660 (1660)	Wing C4488; Thomason E1045_5; ESTC R207952	19,861	29

like unto Frogs Now what St. John saw come out of the mouth of the false Prophets we may ordinarily at Fairford as well as in other places of the County see also Namely the spirits of lyes and that in the likeness of Frogs the which unclean spirits resembleth Frogs in these particulars First Ranae ex limo natae Frogs have their beginning and life out of filthy Ponds and Pools and do most delight in filthy Ponds and Pools whence they had their beginning and life So doth these unclean spirits which are like Frogs fetch their life and beginning from the Ponds and Pools of filthy errors and stinking abominations of doctrine and do continually delight in those most filthy Ponds and Pools of corrupt doctrine out of which they fetch their beginning and life Secondly Called by the Poet Ranae Clamosae Frogs doth importunately croak and make a noise about the Ponds and moorish places where they are being called therefore Ranae from the Hebrew word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which is vehementer exclamare So doth these unclean spirits like Frogs croak in those places where they frequent by sounding out their errors and heresies with importunate clamors haunting the poor simple people with loud and incessant importunity Thirdly Limosoque novae saliant in Gurgite Ranae Ovid. Frogs do hop and skip from place to place And therefore a Frog is called in Saxon Hopper ab Huppen saltare to leap or skip because he doth hop and skip about with his four feet So do these unclean spirits skip and hop about the Countrey They are now here now there to day in this place to morrow in another Nay before their Kingdom shall be abolished they will hop far to propagate Fourthly Rana anima amphibium coaxans Varro Frogs are both for water and land Varro so describes a Frog to us to be an animal which croaketh on the water as well as on the land so do these unclean spirits being for water as well as land they live and croak in both places when their Proselites have any need of washing of their foul bodies then ye hear them croak on the waters when they are willing to eat their broken bread then they croak on the Land Fifthly Ranae apibus mimicae Plin Frogs are great enemies to the labouring Bees that gathereth Honey so are these impure spirits like Frogs sore enemies both to the true Preachers of the Gospel and established Christians the true lovers of the Gospel which like painful Bees yeeldeth and gathereth the Honey of the truth and by meditation and conferences franieth their Honey-Combes within their Hives Sixthly Ranae ictus apum non sentiunt Plin. Frogs have such skins as they feel not the stinging of Bees no more do these impure spirits so singular they are in their own opinions and so hardned in their Resolutions that the sharpest sting of reproof from those labouring Bees Gods Ministers cannot make them sensible of their errors Seventhly Ranae linguae mirus in Magicis usus Plin. The Inchanters and Witches maketh great use of the tongue of a Frog so these impure spirits which are belched out of the mouth like the tongues of Frogs are of wonderful use for the inchanting of the hearts of simple people for these being the Prophets that have sweet tongues mentioned Jer. 23.34 Who having taught their tongues to speak lyes with sweet words and fair speeches deceiveth the hearts of the simple So that knowing the Inchanters we need not ask our simple people as St. Paul did the Galatians O ye foolish Galatians who hath bewitched you from knowing the truth Eightly The use of Frogs is that they may be instruments which God useth sometimes for the punishment of wicked men so those Frogs which did cover the Land of Aegypt were sent to take revenge on the sins of the Aegyptians these impute spirits which resembleth Frogs is a greater punishment to the people of England in that they have the souls of people which God permitteth in his Church not only for the good of his Church they being like the Nations which God left to prove Israel Judg. 3.1 but for the just punishment of wicked men who will not obey and stick to the truth 2 Thess 2.11 Ninthly The plague of Frogs was the next punishment upon the Aegyptians to their waters which were turned into blood so these impure spirits which at this time like that Aegyptian plague of Frogs covereth the Land followed our bloody waters of affliction No sooner were our waters turned into blood but these impure spirits like Frogs sprang up and filled the Land nay we find them in our streets in our market-place in our very houses These not such Frogs as the Relator speaketh of are often seen at Fairford The which impure spirits in the likenesse of Frogs are often to be seen hopping and skipping about their streets nay they are known to creep into their houses often filling the same but not the houses of the Lord of the Town or of the Justice adjacent as the Relator expresseth their housen are better disciplined then to be harbor for such filthy vermine but the housen of some men of giddy and unstable brains whom these Inchanters have bewitched with their sweet tongues whose houses they make as filthy Ponds and Pools of stinking errors and vile abominations of doctrine wherein they do most delight and where they do importunately croak whose croaking noise did invite the children of the Town to enter into one house who became like a stone cast into a Ditch where multitude of Frogs are making them for that time cease their croakings The which judgment the Lord did not send upon Fairford for injustice as the Relator saith but for their not receiving the love of the truth Mark that place 2 Thess 2.11 For this cause God shall send them strong delusions that they should beleeve a lye For this cause what is that Mark the precedent words because they received not the love of the truth that they might be saved And this is not a peculiar judgement on Fairford alone We have such filthy Ponds and Pools of corrupt Doctrine at Norleach wherein are often to be heard the croakings of such Frogs but they are not so troublesome to the ears of many at Norleach as they are at Stow Burton on the water and other places adjacent But indeed not a rational man but may perceive this judgment to be a general judgement Men have so fallen away from truth that they are given up to strong delusions to believe lyes So that these impure spirits in the likeness of Frogs may be seen hopping and heard croaking in most places of the Land But my hope is That as the plague of Frogs on the Aegyptians was not an everlasting plague but removed by the prayer of Moses Exod. 8.12 So neither this punishment of Frogs on England but may in time be removed from the Nation by the endeavours and prayers