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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85695	Mercurius Cambro-Britannicus. Or, Nevvs from Wales, touching the glorious and miraculous propagation of the Gospel in those parts. Being a clear discovery & manifestation of the late invented trade of tith-gathering there, intended by some persons to be suddenly set on foot and established over all England. Well worthy of the serious and timely consideration of the Parliament, Army and nation, and every individual member thereof.	Griffith, Alexander, d. 1690.	1652 (1652)	Wing G1987; Thomason E674_25; ESTC R29650	19,846	29

act and demean my self towards the persons impowred who being many of them my friends and acquaintance from whom I received civil respects craved a silence from my pen. Other considerations I had that some prejudice might befall them by laying open these miscarriages which might have some reflexion on those that have been least culpable therein if at all And the regard I have of those amongst them who in the simplicity and integrity of their hearts acted clearly for those ends they were intrusted receiving no worldly benefit thereby hath much obstructed my purpose Especially least this Treatise might any wayes give offense to those who are no titular Saints but really godly who count godliness gain and not gain godliness But I do cordially profess I have no design of prejudice nor do I bear the least ill will to those who are truly such but wish their number may be daily increased That which most of all troubled me was the consideration I had of the use and advantage that the Malignants and Ill affected persons to the present Government would make of this discovery against those who attribute to themselves the names of Saints and people of God * Primam perpetuam esse constat historiae legem nihil falsi audere dicere nihil veri-non audere All which together with self interest and self preservation were no small motives to blast the good intentions of the Author Nevertheless finding no hopes of redress of the abuses herein complained of but on the contrary it being visible and apparent that their main design and purpose was to root out all the Ministers and Ministry not only in Wales but in England also to leave the Churches empty and with the fatness of the Tithes and the fruits of other mens hard labours to Propagate their Estates not stumbling at Sacriledge and Spirituall robbery mentioned in Malach. 3.7 8 9 10. verses And hating all persons with a perfect hatred who in the spirit of love and meekness have friendly rebuked them and minded them of these things It was more then time for some good man to arise and stand up in the gap who although Eliah may be mistaken in conceiving he only was left when the Lord had seven thousand that had not bowed their knee to Baal 1 King 19.14 18. He cannot as he hopes in these subsequent passages which are too well known to the inhabitants and all the Judges publique Officers of State and other unbiassed strangers who have travelled those parts And although this small Treatise may offend some yet since it is the cause of God who commands him to speak these things least his people die for want of spiritual bread whilest others surfet on the heavenly manna he cannot nor may not withstand the dictates of his conscience nor resist the motions of his holy Spirit chusing rather to obey God then man Act. 5.29 though to his own particular and private disadvantage counting worldly gain but losse in competition with the things of God who doth with all humility acquiesce in his righteous judgement hoping and waiting for a happy issue and successe according to his omnipotent 〈◊〉 pleasure not doubting but the Lord will in his due time answer our expectations in restoring the light of his Gospel to those that now sit in darknesse and in the shadow of death and will preserve and continue the candlestick where it is and refresh his distressed oppressed people with his spirituall joy and comfort Which is the hearty wishes prayers and endeavours and the main and only end of this Treatise and the Author thereof M.C.B. Some Errata's have escaped the Printer in this hastened Impression as Rogers for Roberts in many Copies at the end of the Marginall Notes pag. 15. for winde r. come pag. 16. l. 4. for expect r. exhibite pag. 18. l. 24. c. These and others may be easily corrected by the Pen of the candid Reader at his largest leasure Mercurius Cambro-Britannicus MR Cradock Mr Valvasor Powel and others of their Tribe having seriously considered of what great advantage it would prove unto them in case they could obtain a power in themselves and Colleagues for disposing of all Tythes Glea●s Impropriations and Ecclesiastical Revenues in the thirteen Counties of Wales conceived it the onely way to accomplish their desires 1. To make the Parliament believe that their Countrymen were Pagans and Infidels and a People that understood nothing of God or of the Power of Godliness and so had need to be converted to the faith 2. That in order to this Conversion they should perswade the Parliament to pass an Act called The Propagation of the Gospel in Wales And that for the better effecting and carrying on of those ends proposed by these Priests themselves and some others of their Nomination and Recommendation subject to their commands should be named with them in the said Act And that to carry a greater countenance of Authority to the intended executioners thereof several emminent and worthy Members of Parliament Lawyers and Commanders should be named in the Frontispiece thereof well knowing those Gentlemen could not disoblige their other great Trusts and publique Imployments to act with these Priests and their Confederates so that the whole game should be played by one intire party which being acted so far distant from the cognizance of the Parliament where the poor Inhabitants want Representatives to stand for them and represent their grievances to the Supreme Authority they doubted not but to manage their affairs in such a way as nothing should thereafter arise in judgement against them in this world And after serious debate and consideration had how inconvenient it was to continue the old Ministers in their respective benefices which if admitted would swallow up the Tythes and hinder the pretended Saints from propagating their Estates It was Resolved upon the question 1. That for the better Propagation of the Gospel in Wales all the Ministers should be ejected and silenced save only some of the most ignorant and illiterate of them that would comply and either farm their own Tythes and accept of good bargains or else accept of small inconsiderable stipends 2. And for the more formal ejection of the Ministers that certain blank Articles of course should be drawn and applyed as an Engine to remove them from their respective charges and benefices And for incouragement of Informers and Deponents that the Sequestrators should offer good bargains of the Tythes to any that would come in and help them to do the work of the Lord for so they call the ruine and desolation of the Ministers and Ministry and the extirpation of the Gospel And that certain Journey-men Pedlers or Itinerant Tobacco-mongers and others of like quality should perambulate several of the Counties at 18d per diem to make feigned discoveries of the pretended obliquities of the Ministers and return an accompt of their proceedings to the new Inquisitors otherwise called Sequestrators of the Tythes