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B00537	An exhortation vnto the gouernours, and people of Hir Maiesties countrie of Wales, to labour earnestly, to haue the preaching of the Gospell planted among them. There is in the ende something that was not in the former impression..	Penry, John, 1559-1593.; Waldegrave, Robert, 1554-1604, printer.	1588 (1588)	STC 19605.5; ESTC S94666	73,347	118

by reason of the character of sure destruction that hee will imprint on as manie as shall supplie your places And I trust in the Lord Iesus to see his church florish in wales when the memorie of Lord-Bishops are buried in hell whence they came Beare witnesse hereof you adges to come And giue you ouer your places or doutlesse the plague and cursse of God will eat you vppe You are vsurpers you tyrannize ouer the Lords people I haue other things to do then to be a contentious man one with whome the whole world should be at debate and I am guiltie vnto my selfe of sins which giue me iust cause to look vpon the ground I haue also a life whereof there is no cause I thanke God I should bee weary notwithstanding this I offer to loose the life of my body before man and the life of my soule before the Lord if I do not prooue that both you our non-residents and you our Lord Bishops of VVales in that you be non-residents and Lord-Bishops cannot be warranted by gods word yea or vtterly condemned by the same and that all magistrates who tollerate such as you are to be vnder their gouernment are guiltie of a fearefull sinne before the Lord. And that the Pope of Rome hath as good warrant yea the verie same warrant for his papall dignitie although I know three differences betweene you and him first hee is a professed Idolater secondlie claimeth authority ouer all pastors thirdly is subiect to no ciuill magistrat that you haue for the maintenance of your papall hierarchy ouer al the Pastors in your dioces which indeed is palpable Anarchie in Gods church If I proue not these things let me be burnt aliue cal me to mine answere when you wil thus I leaue you As for you our dumbe ministers I know you for the most part to be seelie men poore soules that made the ministery a meanes to liue in the world What should I say vnto you who maye say of your selues as did the foolishe Prophetes Though wee weare a surplice black garments to deceiue a Zach. 13.5 (42) 42 yet are we but plaine husbandmen c. Surelie the people may aske counsell as well of their thresh-houlds or desire their staffes to teach them knowledge as come vnto you for anie instruction You are no ministers as I haue and againe wil prooue you do most villanously prophane the sacraments and call for the wrath and vengeance of God to be powred vpon you (43) 43 Giue ouer your places or surely I do not see how it is possible you should be saued Better were it to liue poorelye heere for a time then to be damned for euer It is reason your outward estate should bee considered The Lorde will prouide for you your wiues and chidren if of conscience you leaue the ministery and the magistrate is bound not to see you want You liue nowe vppon stealth sacriledge and the spoile of soules The Lord open your eies my brethren the people of VVales to see these your plagues and to auoid them It is vnpossible you should be saued as long as you content your selues with these men their ministerie alone And the Lord open your Honors eies to reforme these confusions What the estate of my countrie is before the Lorde I haue hitherto shewed nowe in the face of the world how it standeth let vs consider That the most congregations in VVales haue wanted preaching these nine and twenty yeres I take it graunted Their case being thus I tremble to cal to mind what censure the holie ghost giueth of all them amongest whome the Gospell of saluation hath not bin preached These two places of scripture Ephes 1.13 2.11.17 conferred togither shew that they are without Christ aliants frō the common-welth of Israel haue no hope and are without God in the world for these be the verie wordes of the apostle who haue not heard of the word preached VVere the Prophet Ionas then now liuing among vs wold he not crie out O you people of Wales you are al reprobats and cast-aways O you people of Wales you are aliaunts from the communion of the true Churche O you people of Wales you are not so much as encluded within the couenāt of promise you are without al hope of heauenly blis O ye people of Wales whatsoeuer you pretend of the knowledge of the true God you are in very deede starke atheists without god as many of you as since the time you came out of the den of idolatrie and Poperie were not made pertakers of the power of God to saluation which is the gospell Of a truth my brethren there is no other true censure to bee giuen of you (44) 44 For it is impossible to make a true face of a Church appear among that nation which hath professed false religion as you haue done vnder poperie without the preaching of the woorde which you haue not enioyed In this place I am sorie I am sorie from my heart that the miserable estate of my poore countrey affoordeth the aduersarie such a demonstration to proue that we want the outwarde face of a church in the most assemblies in Wales as I know to be vnanswerable The marks of a true church a Mat. 28.18.19 out of our sauiour Christs owne wordes are gathered to be three the woord preached the right administration of the Sacramentes and the outwarde forme of gouernement Now if an Idolatrous dog of Rome should affirme that the most congregations in Wales since the time they were Romish sinagogues haue bin marked with neither of these three former markes and therefore must bee written in the blacke bill of insufficiencie to be churches of God hee were able to prooue both the one and the other and we with confusion of face should bee driuen with Hezekias seruants to answer this Rabshaketh not a word For b 2. King 18.36 alas what might be our answere c 1. Pet. 1.21 Begotten again out of the wombe of popery by the word preached most of our assemblies haue not beene As for Discipline our Prophets are not ashamed publikelie to professe that they will not bee reformed by it If we would flie vnto the testimonies that wee might haue from the Sacraments the Lord himselfe will denie it to be possible for them to haue bene rightlie vsed among vs. Which I wil proue by many reasons that my countrey-men may be driuen to seek the remedie if anye thing can driue them of such a pitifull condition as wherein they nowe are being without the woord without the true vse of the Sacraments without Christes holy gouernement by the knowlege of that righteous one who is said a Esay 53.11 thereby to iustifie many Let no man doe me the iniurie to report that I denie anye members of Christ to be in Wales I protest I haue no such meaning and would die vpon the perswasion that the lorde hath his chosen

in Englande in these peaceable dayes of her highnes I haue wholye dedicated my selfe to seeke the flowrishing estate thereof By labouring to beautifie the same both in the plucking vp of those filthie Italian weeds wherewith now it is miserablie deformed and planting therein whatsoeuer may bee to the cōlines of gods orchard For my pore country because it hath pleased the Lord of life that therein I first saw the light of the son and haue beene by my parents there liuing brought vp in both the vniuersities of this land I haue vowed my selfe dutifully to benefite the same whether by my life or by my death I do not greatly weye And wherein shall I stand my deare countrimen in any stead if not by speakinge in their cause that are not able to make knowne their owne wantes If not in blessing the deafe eares in remouing the stumblingblock from before the eyes of the blind if not in labouring to bring them to heauen who of their owne natures should liue eternally in a worse place to their own wo. The aforenamed callings and corruptions standing as enemies in the way to hinder my brethren from eternall life I professe my selfe to seeke their ouerthrowe and confusion And by the Lordes assistance as longe as I liue I will neuer leaue them vnles they leaue the massakring of the soules of my brethren In respect of your HH seinge I receiued the former blessings throgh your hands by meanes of the outward peace whereof her right excellent Maiestie hath made the whole kingdome partaker from the Lord I canot of conscience but in most submiss reuerend and humble sort put you in minde of the estate wherein you stand before the Lord at this day I affirme therefore and I would to God I coulde tell howe more dutifully to expresse in wordes that whiche in heart I haue most dutifully conceiued that all of you are in a feareful manner both in this life and in that to come subiect to the intollerable masle of Gods wrath the execution whereof shall vndoubtedly come vpon you and your houses vnles you preuent the fiercenes of his indignation And that for these 2. causes First inasmuch as the whole countrie of Wales for the most part all this time of the Gospell in England hath bene without the publike seruice of God in the publike meetings of your people in such sort as most parrishes within Wales haue wanted the means of saluation all this time of your gouernement The trueth of this assertion is manifested in this little booke because they haue wanted a Ia. 2.21 1. pet 1.25 Iob. 33.23 1. cor 1.21 rom 10.14 eph 1.13 2.17 act 20.32 prou 8.34.35 isai 53.11 preaching and I haue elswher to my power laboured to make it known vnto her Maiestie the parliament Consider my Lordes what care you haue had of the soules of men and howe in the day of account these things will be answered Consider how lamentable a case it is that in the flowrishingst gouernment for outwarde peace that is againe vnder the coape of heauen where publicke idolatrie hath bene bannished not one familie or one tribe but a whole nation should perish and be destroyed for want of knowledge And see whether I haue not sufficient cause to deale with you in the behalfe of my countrimen My crie my crie is not the crie of guiltles and innocent a blood b Deut. 21.8 which were verie wofull but of lost and damned soules which is most lamentable giue eare vnto it my LL. lest the blood of soules be laid to your charge required at your hands If I be thoght to report an vntruth in regard of the estate of the Church in my countrie let me bee brought face to face for the triall hereof with those vnto whom the care I should say the spoile of the Church there is committed and being conuinced to haue vttered an vntrueth let me haue no fauor but die the death before your Honours and my blood bee vppon mine owne head for impeaching the credit of the princes of my people vndutifullie by publike writing whose estimation I know it to be vnlawfull for mee euen in thought once to violate I do here therefore before your HH offer to proue that the most congregations in Wales want the verie essential outward marks of a true church and so the meanes of saluation and the comfort of faith by the right administration of the sacraments I also offer to proue that you shal be reckoned with without your speedie repentaunce because that in this point you haue plowed but iniquitie and sowed wickednesse and so as Iob saith you shall reape the same Belieue them not that tell you all is well Iob. 4.8 vnder your gouernment in Wales and that they are a sort of clamorous and vndiscreet men that affirme the contrarie Beleeue them not that tell you that it belongeth not vnto your dutie to be careful of the estate of the Church that the Lord requireth no more at your hands but to maintain outward peace As though men committed to your gouernement were but droues of bruit beastes onely to be foddered and kept from externall inuasions and inrodes giue care rather vnto the woordes of the prophet who with a loude voice crieth vnto you why will you die you your families Ierem. 27.23.14 and your people by the sword by the famine and by the pestilence and why wil you be damned as the Lord hath spoken against I may allude without iniurie to the word all those gouernours that will not a Ezra 7.17.23 psal 2.10 101 2. chro 29.10 30.9 34.27 exod 20.10 gen 18.19.2 chron 15.12.13 17.7 see their people prouided of the meanes of saluation Therfore heare not the wordes of the Prophetes that tell you you shall neither see sworde or famine though you be still as careles of your people as you hytherto haue bene looke the punishement both of the flatteringe prophets and of those that are deceiued by their flatterie Ierem. 14.16 Heare them not I say but obey the Lorde in the execution of that dutie which he efflagitateth at your handes by calling of your people vnto the knowledge of his sonne that you may liue for why should this land bee made desolate for this your carelesnes Ier. 27.17 They prophesie vanity a lie vnto your HH that saie peace peace vnto you while in this point you despise the Lorde and walke still in this secure course or else a Iere. 23.16.17 Ieremie is deceiued if they be prophets And if the word of the lord be in their mouthes b Ierem. 27.18 let them intreat the Lorde her Maiestie and your HH and stirre you vp to see that the miserie of helplesse Wales may be considered off You are in a miserable taking my LL that either you haue none about you to tell you of these things or that men dare not tel you of thē you are more

speaking or writing in the behalfe of either of these vnreconcilable eities Men belike thinking no more to bee required at their hands then the razng of Babell the deuil as yet contenting himself with Bethel The last yeare as I am almost pesuaded the verye same day or by all likly-hood the very same week vpon a suddain the enterprises of the building of both in 2. seueral books issuing from two of the remotest corners in our lande South-wales and North-wales was taken in hand The one of the bookes pleading the cause of Sion cōming forch priuiledged by publike authority alowāce was directed vnto hir maiesty the Parliament requiring at their hands by vertue of the lords own mandatory letters the performance of this work shewing by euidence of gretest antiquity this to bee required of duety at their handes as a part of the homage due vnto his highnes whose feudaries and vassalles all the princes states vnder heauen must acknowledge themselues to be a portion of that inheritance beeing theirs by liniall discent from their predecessors the godly kings and rulers who time out of mind alwaies laied their shulders vnto this burthen The other written in Welch printed in an obscure caue in Northwales published by an author vnknown Y druch Christ anogaw more vn learned for I thinke hee had neuer read any thing but the common published resolution of R. P. a book containing many substantiall errors frier Rush and other shamefull fables stood to by none hauinge no reasons to shew why his Babilon should be reaedified it contained it selfe within the handes of a few simple priuate men and neuer durst vnto thys hour be made known vnto your Hh. Both the books in this thing had the same successe in that both togither they fel into the hands of the prelats who as they pretend are enemies vnto both places but vndoubtedly vnto Syon especially as it appeared by their harde dealing with the pation of that cause whereas the fautors of the other were either not at all dealt with or very curteously entertained of thē The reason of their enmitie vnto both but their hatred vnto Syon is that neuer I feare me meaning to go thither This is spoken in regard of the Church-gouermen and constrained by law to be enemies vnto the other they haue of the golde of Caldea the drosse of Ierusalem compacted thē a citie wherwith they meane to content themselues vntill they returne vnto Babel againe or the Lord be merciful vnto them vnto a worse place Haue they not therfore good cause to be the more beholding vnto the one for the golde then to the other for the drosse Well my Ll. bee you assured hereof that they who stirred vp both these instruments both at one time wil neuer suffer them to cease vntil in Wales either a church of Christ or a synagogue of satan be built Out of question the concurring of both causes sheweth that the Lorde hath some secreat worke in the matter Satans instruments for their parts were neuer busier since hir Maiesties raigne then they are at this hower and shall be stil they trecherously against the lawes of God and this land seek to bring the people again vnto AEgypt I acording vnto both dutifully endeuour neuer to let them rest vntill it please God by hir Maiestie and your Hh. to bring them within the lande of promise no though they were vppon mounte Nebo whence with their eies they might view the same They haue dealt deale secretly with poore soules in darke corners dare not make known their fabulous cause I haue dealt all this while in the face of the sun and now before your Hh. I want not a good cause and by the grace of God it shall not want a defender or hide the face as long as I liue Whether you countenaunce it or no I know it shal one day preuaile when this wil be the Lord knoweth best but the matter is whether you wil imbrace christ in the building of his church or sathan in continuing the breaches thereof Therfore my Ll. entertaine THIS CAVSE and you giue satan the foile reiect this and you streng then him And trie if you denye it the hearing whether the very papists in this land will not be thereby encouraged to supplicate vnto your Hh. that you woulde grant them the liberty of their seared consciences to commit publike idolatrie Al that hitherto I haue spoken I haue spoken either in the cause of christ which is a good cause or in the cause of sathā If I seek the building of his synagog wil you let me liue if of the church of christ wil you denie me your helpe which yet againe and againe in the name of the eternall God I require for the pretious death passions sake of Iesus christ I earnestly desire at your hands My Ll. as you wold haue the Lorde to entertaine your soules in the life to come as you would haue him shew you any mercie as you loue her Maiestie hir life as you would haue the continuance of her raigne ouer vs which the lord vndoubtedly thretneth to shorten because he would bring ruine vpon you vs all for the contempt of his trueth as you woulde not haue your names razed from vnder heauen as you would not haue the Lord to bring vpon vs the Spanish Italian Romish or Guisian forces as you woulde not haue those who shall liue to see the desolation and desperate sorrowe which the Lorde is to bring vpon this lande not abide to see you and your children ryde or go in the streets as you would not haue the most contemptible to stretche forth his hande vpon the dearest things you possesse offer violence before your eies vnto the fruit of your bodies so entertain this cause graunt this suite and haue a care of the Lords true seruice in Wales etherwise I feare me the vengeance of God will neuer leaue you your posterities as long as there is a man of your houses vnder heauen And notwithstanding the case of the Earle of Pembroke is neuer the better if he stil presume to beare rule within these gates where the Lords Sabboths are not sanctified Ezekiel in deede is not now liuing to put you in minde of the necessitie of redressing of thinges amisse by laying open the corruptions of all estates vnder your gouernement as he doeth cap. 22 of his prophesie His words I will set downe that your Hh. may waye our estate with the time wherin the prophet liued and see whether the Lord will spare you and vs if we still prouoke him to smite There is a conspiracie of her prophets in the middest thereof Ezek. 22.25.26.27.28.29 faith the prophet like a roaring lyon rauening the pray they haue deuoured foules they haue taken the riches and precious things they haue made hir manie widowes in the midst therof hir priests haue broken my law and haue defiled