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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

am informed little children whose usage must needs be cruel uncivil and dangerous so dangerous it seemeth to be that nothing but a Justice of the Peace could appease the wrath and fury of those children to whom some zealous persons repaired whose Residence was nigh for his Assistance But the Justice saith he being encouraged thereunto by the Lord of the Town differing from them in Judgement was so far from assisting them as that he rather spake hardly unto them by way of threatning Observe here the tender Consciences of these zealous persons who though they are over-grown with an Anti-Magistraticall Jaundice having envious and implacable eyes against Magistracy and are men of such high minds and heady passions giddy spirits and popular principles that they are impatient of any thing Authoritative yet will storm if the Justice deny to them his Assistance But who is this Justice that dare be so bold as to discountenance these Zealots and who is that Lord of a Town that will not vail Bonnet to these Pleberans Though they are both famously known in their County and else-where yet they are not here named and as I conceive out of malice That those Justa parentaliae praises which all that know them give as most due to their accomplished worth might not give check to their Demonial Malice and unjust Calumniations As for the Justice of Peace He is very well known to be a lover of Justice and of tender Conscience in the execution of his Office in the distribution of Justice And as concerning this particular his denying of Justice to these Zealots who made Application to him I know as he did not approve of their irregular meetings being done in opposition to our publick Assemblies so neither did he of the rudenesse of the children having no Law to countenance them Whose care for the administration of Justice was proportionable to the Offenders and offence and as for his speaking hardly to them I dare behold to say that he rather hardly spake to them that way As for the Lord of the Town though his obedience to the word of God Loyalty to Soveraign power and love to his Country would never admit him to countenance such Meetings yet I know such is his zeal to Justice and his inclination to peace that he will neither promote disturbances or by any encouragement give any stop to the execution of Justice knowing that Justice will in its due time find them out And this I am bold to certifie the world thereof being a man very well instructed in the knowledge of those Worthy Gentlemen as having spent since these late Revolutions of times some time in the execution of my Ministerial Office in that Town of Fairford so that the sting of those Calumniations that is thrust in their Reputations can never wound them who have in their Country ever lived live and no doubt so long as God permits life will live in their deserved Reputations for their Loyalty to their Soveraign zeal to Justice and goodnesse Silly therefore is the charge which this Phanatick have drawn up against these Worthy Gentlemen which though it be no wonder in him or any other of his Tribe yet I will assure thee Reader is one of his grosse lyes The other is worse concerning the Progs and Toads which he calleth the judgement of God shewed on unrighteousnesse and ungodlinesse Though there might have been a great number of small Frogs and Toads lie upon the ground and yet no wonder to see them or judgement on the Town by reason of them they having not a personal but equivocal Generation as fallen in Rain from the Clouds being before drawn up in Attomes and generated by the heat of the Sun and so no miracle being a work not surpassing the whole power of created nature * Miraculum proprie quod fit preter ordinem totius naturae Aquin Yet there was no such Spectacle The Informer might see at that time of year Frogs and Toads enough by reason of so many Ponds Ditches and Moorish places as be about Fairford and need not stand in any by-place to behold them but not such well Disciplined Frogs and Toads as can march in Rank and File turn to the right or left hand keep Court of Guards as the Informer telleth us they did about the house of the Lords of the Town and the house and person of the said Justice and make at last a sudden retreat that is from the house of the said Justice They may be till this time upon duty about and in the house of the Lords of the Town for any satisfaction that the Informer giveth us concerning their quitting his house Indeed for the great Army of Frogs and Toads for their orderly march for their strict observance of duty for the reproving of the said Justice by his Maid-servant for the impression that her expression left on her Master for the vanishing of the said Frogs and Toads upon his countenancing those Zealots and discouraging and punishing the rude multitude The world is extreamly beholding to the Authors invention being very glad that neither he or his brethren have any other materials left them then lyes to build their Babel Let this Relation travel whither it may as it may travel farre having a Pamphlet for its passe yet it carrieth enough with it as doth give all true Christian hearts occasion to suspect it and needed not be followed by the Hue and Cry of a loud and general voice of contradiction But though the Relator faineth an Army of Frogs which had received a Commission from the Allmighty to plunder the houses of the Lord of the Town and the said Justice or to bring them away Prisoners upon refusing of doing Justice upon the multitude that disturbed those Fanaticks at Fairford Yet I shall without hypocrisie certifie the world That the Town of Fairford though it hath been freed from the Aegyptian plague of Frogs yet it hath not been freed from the general plague of England Some spirits came often there in the likenesse of Frogs See in Rev 16.13 what St. John saw when the sixth Angel powred out his Vial on the great River Euphrates it was three unclean spirits like Frogs came out of the mouth of the Dragon out of the mouth of the Beast and out of the mouth of the false Prophet Where observe the principal Agents are the Dragon the Beast and the false Prophet By the Dragon is meant Satan himself the father of lyes By the Beast Antichrist with his whole body By the false Prophet any false Teachers belonging to the Kingdome of Antichrist The three unclean spirits that were belched out of their mouths were First The spirit of pride which came out of the mouth of the Devil the Dragon Secondly The spirit of blasphemy which came out of Antichrist the Beast Thirdly The spirit of a lye which came out of false Teachers which belongeth to the false Prophets The which unclean spirits are said to be