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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

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

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