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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

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

order the affairs of this Nation by his providence for good that the enemy that is now enraged through Gods crosse dispensations to them breathing out such notorious lyes as thick mists to darken the way of his providence over his Church and People may no more magnifie himselfe but under the protection of the Allmighty who is our Rock our Shield and a wall of fire about his Church and under the shadow of our Most Gracious Soveraign who under God is the breath of our Nostrils the Light of his poor Israel the Repairer of our breaches the Restorer of our decayed pathes nay Pater patriae The Father of our Country may live happily Into the hands of the which Allmighty God the King of Kings who have the hearts of all men and the events of all things under his Rule and Governance and into the hands of our most Gracious Soveraign with those Renowned Worthies in Parliament who are but Gods instruments for the effecting of his designs I with all the Lords People do commend this poor dispised Church and distracted State waiting in hope for that time when through Gods providence and their prudence the Church of England which through lyes errors and divisions now seemeth to be disfigured like the Daughter of Antichrist shall through an established Government shine like the Spouse of Christ and this Common-wealth of England with all other of His Majesties Kingdomes and Dominions which have long lain among the Pots be brought forth at last with silver Wings and be made the glory of all Lands which is the desire as well as the hope of him who wisheth well not only to the peace of our Jerusalem both Church and State but to thy Soul The Lord establish thee according to his Gospel and keep thee from falling and present thee faultlesse before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy This is the desire of Thy Friend in the service of thy Faith R. C. THE LYING WONDERS Or rather THE WONDERFULL LIES of Glocester-shire discovered WHere Christ and his Gospel cannot prevaile there the Devill being armed with power and efficacie of Delusion commeth and prevaileth the Soule of man being such a Tenure as cannot want an Occupier No sooner Gods Spirit departed from Saul but presently the evill spirit commeth upon him so no sooner men cast out of their hearts the love of the truth but the beliefe of lyes will enter and take possession if they once depart from the Faith 1 Tim. 4.1 they will presently give heed to Seducing Spirits 1 Tim. 4.1 Our present Age is a Theater whereon with some Lyes are acted more then Truth which is a signe they Love Lyes more then Truth nay preferre lyes before it who employ their minds to devise Lyes their tongues to speake Lyes and their hands by writing to spread them as if they were the very children of the Devill given up to the Father of Lyes The Devill for craft and cunning is called the Serpent the old Serpent who deceiveth the whole world and his subtilty he sheweth by translating himselfe though he be a Devill of Darknesse into an Angel of Light and in the shape of a Serpent he beguiled Eve What a world of men have learned this Art from their Father the Devill who are as cunning growne as the Devill himselfe to deceive and may as well be called Serpents as the Devill and to this end Protheus and Camelion-like they can shift themselves into any shape where Lyons skins will not serve they can use the Foxes Taile We know that the best Drugs have their Adulterates The most current coines their clips Hypocrites can easily cloake their worst intentions with the best religion and therefore no wonder it is to see them put on the rare and excellent Jewel of Grace to Grace themselves withall that under the semblance of pietie they may bring about their horrid designes Oh the Hypocrisie of this age The Mystery of iniquity doth busily worke amongst us The Impostor bestirres himselfe being with his Father the Devill come downe with great wrath knowing that he hath but a short time Rev. 12.12 What a Great Mist of darknesse of blacke darknesse hath he raised and doth dayly raise to obscure the bright Sun of grace he knoweth he cannot now by open force destroy the Church and therefore striveth to cloud the beautie of the Church from the eyes of the world by damnable and hellish untruths That thereby he may beguile the simple into the wayes of Seperation from the Church of England that thereby they may be led into errour and held therein at his pleasure Oh what senslesse bottomlesse and Grosse Lyes are raised by Sectaries to keepe men from our publicke Assemblyes and to allure them to joyne with them in their private Conventicles and what a strange and incredible beliefe of them is there entertained in the world How this English Nation who have ever professed themselves to be the Defenders of the Truth is at this time deceived with a Cup of error we may plainly see by the entertainment that One Lying Pamphlet hath at this time in the ears and hearts of men that live at a distance which is lately thrust forth in Print by some deluder stiled Strange and True Newes from Glocester The which Pamphlet Christian Reader I doe here cry downe assuring thee That it is but the invention of some vile deluder who would wound thy Christian Faith under pretext of Christian Faith and under a profession of Friendship prove thy Great Adversary We all know that open Mischiefe is easier to be avoyded and prepared for then that which is more secret and undiscernable and the death of the Soule is a worser death then the death of the bodie Therefore as a True Minister of the Gospel that wisheth well to the soules of all men have I set up This my Light to keepe men out of those secret pits which are digged and those indiscernable snares that are layd for their soules Which though I know will be most unwelcome to the Seperatists being men of giddy spirits and impotent prejudices against any thing settled either by civill or Ecclesiasticall Constitutions and Customes in Church and State to whom I shall be as Michaiah to Ahab Yet I hope it will find Acceptance with thee and all such as professe themselves to be Lovers of Truth and haters of Lyes and love and desire the prosperity of this our Sion both Church and State And if you please to follow my Light it will direct Thee Reader unto 1. The Notorious Lyes that are in the Inscription of the Pamphlet 2. The Monstrous False Newes enclosed 3. The Grosse Hypocrisie of the Author in the Conclusion First Concerning the Inscription The Title of the Pamphlet is this Strange and True Newes from Glocester T is strange but not true and it would have been strange Newes indeed had it been true From Glocester I verily beleeve the Author doth highly Abuse that Famous City