English poem
The Ninth MARK
by Benjamin Keach (1640–1704)
False Miracles and Lying Wonders too This grand Deceiver does pretend to do He fain would make th'abused World believe, That he with Ease can make a Dead Man live. They do such things, their Sottish Legend saith, As far exceeds all Truth or Humane Faith; Their Nature, Number, Circumstances all, Done by Atchievements Diabolical; Their senseless Fables, arrant Fopperies, Are meer Impostures and apparent lyes. This is an Engine which the Graceless Wretch Does spread abroad, the Sons of Men to catch: And God less such those horrid lies believe, Who Gospel-Truths would not in love receive, That they might perish and be damn'd thereby, The just desert of such Iniquity!