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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

returne by a Vote from Parliament against whom and his loyall Subjects and Ministers the said Mr. Helme had highly acted which made both their hearts sicke and suddenly to remove from Winchcomb contrary to his often Engagement in his Pulpit to his selected people to live and die with them notwithstanding the highest sufferings and to act the part now of a loyall subject upon some other Theater as it is not the first time he hath done it As true likewise Page 17. as those Souldiers some whereof were eminent Gentlemen of the County who did in pursuance of their order from the Commissioners upon that change of Government endeavour to disarme the Fanatickes did rudely ransacke any for Armes or act any way so barbarously as to be stiled The imbittered persecutors in the County when their civill demeanours to all places and persons were such as procured no other returnes but flouts and Jeeres for their civilities when they were just reproofes of the others vile carriages not long before when the power was in their hands The Rudenesse of whom Two Famous Families in our County of Glocester have cause to remember as Sir Henry Fredericke Thinne and his Lady who were plundered not onely in the grounds and stables of their and other mens Horses but in their closets of their sweet-meats so that it is no marvell that their Prophets have such sweet Tongues and Mr. John How and his Honourable Lady whose very persons endured a tedious restraint beside the losse of all his Horses and imprisonment of his servants and losse of his Estate too had not our Soveraigne Lord the King come in for his Freedome As true Page 2. as our former dayes under the usurped Government were times of Reformation Page 1. and that some in Oxford were cut off for reading the Booke of Common-prayer and that the Societies from whence those that are imprisoned at Redding Page 25. for Refusing the Oaths of Supremacy and Alleagiance are the more chearfull and the more increased As true Page 43. as the death of twenty or thirty Doggs at Graves-end on the Kings Proclamation day was a Judgement of God for proclaiming the King Lastly As true as Not Loyall Subjects and Orthodox Ministers but such as professe disloyaltie to Soveraignty Page 4. and seperation from the Church of England be the onely people of God For my own part I am glad That the Seducer hath no other foundation left him then lying wonders to build their Babel of Confusion on and that the Towne of Fairford have no more to render them odious to the world then A PECKE full of Lies Let the Seducer Boast of the hand of God apparently gone out for them and their wayes Not an established Christian that have read and studied the providences of God in these changes of Times and Affaires but may see the Hand of God apparently gone out against all wayes of Separation Their Counsells dissipated their Designes Blasted and those persons that have acted high against order and Government in Church and State Psal 9.16 snared in the workes of their owne hands so that notwithstanding the Crying up of the hand of God by way of execution of Judgement in their new coyned Lyes God is certainly knowne in the Judgement that he hath executed so that notwithstanding that passage in the Letter that was written of that Mr. Fletchers abuse by J.D. who was no Minister at Badgington but Cutler at Glocester Page 19. That Judgement is begun at the house of God we will leave it to be interpreted by the Tongue of Magistracy whose eye looketh over them and us who no doubt will tell us in some short Time what will be expected of them that neither owne or obey the Gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ Surely God hath mingled a perverse spirit in the middest of us Page 19. we have been sold for nought and they that have ruled over us have oppressed us very sore The Bowels of our God are at this Time moved his repentings are kindled together The Salvation of Israel is come we hope out of Sion For God hath so turned the Captivity of his poore afflicted Church that for the suddennesse and strangenesse thereof wee become like unto men that dreame Psal 126.2 filling our Mouthes with laughter and our tongue with Singing Psal 44.4 So that the Lord our King hath commanded deliverances for us his people Now we know that the Kingdome is the Lords and that he is Governour among the Nations Now we know that the Lord saveth his Anoynted having heard him from his Holy Heaven with the saving strength of his right hand Surely Salvation is nigh unto us his people that glory may again dwell in our Land Let the house of Israel the Common-wealth trust in the Lord and blesse the Lord who is our Help and our Shield Let the house of Aaron the Governours of the Common-wealth trust in the Lord and blesse the Lord who is their Help and their Shield Let the house of Levi the Ministers of the Lord trust in the Lord and blesse the Lord who is their Help and their Shield Let all them that fear the Lord trust in the Lord and blesse the Lord who is their Help and Shield The Lord make all Deluders to mark that doom which St. Peter tells them 2 Pet. 2.1 Who for bringing in privily damnable Heresies without repentance will bring upon themselves swift destruction The Lord open the eyes of all such as are deluded or subject to delusion that they may mark them which cause divisions and offences contrary to the Doctrine which they have received and to avoid them Rom. 16.17 The Lord so unite the hearts of His Majesties Loyal Subjects that differ not so much in Doctrine as in Discipline that by their unseasonable Differences they give not advantage to Deluders who daily wait for it threatning the better use of it then hath been made of former advantages who will then appear to the Kings Loyal Subjects and the true sons of the Church of England worse then the Frogs of Fairford that as they fained them troubled only the house of the Lords of the Town and the Justice adjacent like the Frogs of Aegypt that covered the Land sparing not the Kings chamber worse then those swarms of Flies that covered as they fained them though only seen in the Orchard the Garden of the Lords of the Town but like the swarms of Flies wherewith the Aegyptians were plagued which like the unmerciful Tyrants which God threatned to wicked men night nor day shall give any rest But the Lord we hope who hath a mighty arm a strong hand and high right hand which hath brought such mighty things to passe in giving great deliverance to our King by stilling of the tumults of the people and preserving him from the violence of those assemblies of wicked men and causing the captivity of his Loyal Subjects to return will so

of sound Christians Prayer which is Vis Deo grata Tertul is of great efficacy with God for the removal of this judgement and therefore let all Christians pray The voyce of the Gospel is likewise of great force to stop the mouths of these kind of Frogs though never so clamarous Veritas mendacio longè fortior Ministers must now if ever appear for the truths of God and be able to convince the Gain-sayer and the people must labor to be well grounded in the Scripture which is profitable for doctrine and reproof 2 Tim. 3.16 And both Ministers and People must be valiant for the truth and contend earnestly for the Faith which was once delivered to the Saints The Law of the Land is of no small force to stop the hoppings from place to place to silence the croakings of these Frogs Let but Magistrates which for their Office in Scripture are called masters of restraint but shew their zeal for God in the execution of Justice on such troublers of Israel and we shall find them soon to vanish The Informer faineth the vanishing of those Frogs and Toads which he fained likewise to be at Fairford to be upon the Justice of the Peace his countenancing the Zealots and discountenancing and punishing the Disturbers If our Magistrates would but countenance those that are Lovers of peace and truth and discountenance and punish those that are the Disturbers of peace and truth These hopping Frogs would quickly stop their journeys and these croaking Frogs soon change their notes That the eyes of the Inhabitants of Fairford and all other places which are visited with these impure spirits which cometh to them in the likeness of Frogs may behold no more such horrid Spectacles that their ears may be no more afflicted with their odious croakings that their conversations may not be disturbed with their hoppings and crawlings FIAT JVSTITIA II. Concerning the Authors Relation about the death of the Clarks daughter at Brokington COncerning the Meeting at Brokington I find by inquiry that at the time and place expressed there was such a meeting when and where was B. Collet and B. Collins and some from Stow and other places but John Belcher I find by the Authors relation was not there and that precious humble tender-hearted man Brother Collet was in exercise and that Sarah the daughter of Thomas Woodward Clark of Senington about 17 years of age was there with her mother and that the Maid did dye there suddenly is a truth which cannot be denyed But that the hand of the Lord of Hosts went out against that Daughter for her opposing and reviling them and uttering hard speeches against them their meetings and wayes is as far from truth as these troublers of Israel are from peace For both the Daughter and the Mother to whom the Relator attributeth opposition and reviling are known to be so far guiltlesse of it as that they are great Lovers of these persons great approvers of their meetings and wayes Nay the Parish Clark himselfe the Maids Father as I am informed is one of their Followers who performeth his Office at Church and when he cometh Home performeth his Devotion with them And as for the Demeanor of the Daughter at the present exercise she was observed to behave her self with great attention and devotion and solemn silence not a word she uttered nor gesture expressed she as could plead her guilty either of any dislike in her selfe or any disturbance of the Exercise so that I wonder at the grosse impudency of the Informer that dare excommunicate her out of the number of those chosen Ones and publish her to the world as a Reviler of those chosen people of God Now for the manner of her death it was thus The Clarks Daughter having some children to look unto which were without Doors was bidden by the wife of one Thomas Timbrill to go forth to look to the children she went forth and fetched them and came in and gave a sudden screek and fell down dead before them all whose Corpse after some rubbing and chafing there being no appearance of life was carried into the passage at what time as it is related came that Esquire Mr. Heiden that led that party of the Troop to disturb their meetings and the death of the Maid having dissolved them he without any injury done them forbad only their disorderly meetings for the time to come and departed This I find to be the truth and to this I have the attestation of some of those neighbours who were present and of many others who since the publishing of the death of this Maid as a wonderful example of Gods Justice by them have of the truth hereof been informed For my part I dare not say that she was in her sudden death made any example at all of Gods Justice no otherwise then as death is the wages of sin but an example of the frail and brittle condition of man whose breath is in his nostrils which may suddenly vanish and therefore Brother Collins answered well when Mr. Heiden charged them with the death of the Maid We have not said he killed her but the Lord hath done it in whose hands is your breath and ours wherein Brother Collins doth seem to differ much from the Relators censure who maketh her to us not an example of Gods Justice but a Spectacle of mortality to usher us in the School of death that we may allwayes be watchfull in an holy preparation for our change As for those that doth look upon her death as an example of Gods Justice on the Maid I think them to be of the safer judgment that conclude her to be an example of Gods Justice for frequenting the Meetings of such Impostors who under the colour of spreading the Gospel corrupt the pure Doctrine of the Gospel by their vile errors and base opinions and instead of spreading the light fight against it by their despisings of the Ministers of the Gospel the holy Ordinances of Christ and of all those that desireth to walk in the light thereof rather then an example of Gods Justice for revilings and hard speeches against them who was a zealous follower of them and out of whose mouth was heard no such reproofs And as for that wise and zealous Oration of the Clark her Father who after that time spake as he did before saying These are the People of God were the Clark so gifted a Brother as Brother Collins as precious humble tender-hearted man as Brother Collet as great an Oracle as John Belcher it would as little evidence his Daughters death to be an example of Gods Justice as canonize them for the people of God And as for their much peace and freedome from Molestations in their Meetings to heare John Belcher in Stow in the Market-place and other places which they have enjoyed as the Informer saith since this remarkable hand of God I beleeve that neither John Belcher nor that gifted man B