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A42593 Gemitus ecclesiae Cambro-Britannicae, or, The candlesticks removed by the ejectment of the ministers of Wales under the power of the late act for the propagation of the Gospell there being a declaration to all Christian people and more especially the reverend ministers of England, expressing the sad condition of the severall parishes 2nd ejected ministers in that countrey. 1654 (1654) Wing G483; ESTC R25456 9,125 15

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had either lulled asleepe or seared up their own consciences But to make up the Sceane and solemnity of this Assize A Preacher * Va Powell preaches a railing Sermon must come in to Act a part and that trust be the D●vells part To be an Accuser of the Brethren Rev. 12.10 and to do that which Michael durst not do against the Accuser himselfe that is bring a rayling accusation against him And that in the Pulpit and in numerous Assemblies and concourse of people come together from severall Counties Jud. 9. Reviling them as the worst and vilest of men and condemning them for unsavory Salt Mat. 5.13 fit onely to be throwne into the Dunghill and to be troden upon When wee call to minde King Davids enemies whose Tongues were Speares and Arrowes and Razors and sharpe Swords as though their Mouthes had been an Armory or Magazine This man was not inferior to them for such Artillery and was as free of them as they were which he shot at all of the profession without any distinction There was not one Grape of the cluster good and sound O Modesty and Charity where are yee fled O the mercy and goodnesse of God and the cruelty of men His chiefe Aime and taske was to Murther their good names and to possesse the people how justly they were divested of all their fortunes putting them in all the deformed shapes he could invent to stirre up the people to a hatred of them and their calling accounting them as another of that ranke did To be men forsaken of God and man Thus as the Ancient Christian Martyrs they are transformed into other shapes and clad in the Skins of wild Beasts that they might be sooner fastned upon and torne in pieces But we will passe over this hired Balaam for which hee received the wages of unrighteousnesse And when you heare that he railed for that you may suppose he did it to some purpose though hee was a stranger in the Countrey where hee Preached and knew not one of the Ministers by face hee did so roundly raile against but we finde now it is his Pocket-Invective through which hee travaileth seeing his present Highnesse the Lord Protector his sage Councell the Commanders Officers and Souldiers have not escaped him what could the poore Ministers whose calling he accounteth uscles and Antichristian expect at his hands This was the course and Method of the Propagation of the Gospell in Wales 7. The Poverty of the ejected Ministers And now their Persons b●ing thus defamed and their Meanes S●questred they are exposed to Poverty and want in their old Age and are like to bring their gray haires with sorrow to the Grave most of them having not as much as a House to put their heads in but during pleasure which was but a sickle Tenure considering the affection and quality of their Landlords they could nor be Tenants to their meanes they were denyed not onely their Tithes but also their Gleabes and Houses upon Rent Nay a Command was given by the Commander in chiefe * Major Gen. Harrison then among them for the Tumbling of them out of their Houses to use his owne words of which command many felt the execution And so were unhoused as well at unchurched The Prophet Jeremy compained that his Countreymen Dranke their Water for money and their Wood was sould unto them that is Lam. 5.4 they were faine to pay for their owne But these found harder usage then they They could not have their owne for Money 8. The fift either denyed or undervalued And to compleat their M●series to the uttermost of their endeavours Though there was Provision made by the Act for Propagation for a Fift part towards the maintenance of their Wives Children and Families yet by the undervaluations made by the mercilesse Sequestrators and their Farmours and the tedious Petitioning to the Commissioners for the obtaining thereof which wearied them and their poore Wives with many hopelesse journeys and doubtfull Answers They brought it to nothing but labour and expence unto them so that their Condition herein being like those Inhabitants of a Towne in Holland who upon surrending were promised their lives by the D. of Alva but after delivery they were starved to Death they were R●solved having spent the Water in their Bottles to lay downe their Wives and Children before the Lord lifting up their voyces and weeping before him Gen. 21.15 c. hoping that the time of their Deliverance is at hand 9. The Appeal a remediles course But you will say they were justly and legally outed and ejected otherwise why did not they take the benefit of Appeale It was a remedy worse then the disease The manner of their proceeding according to the said Act being as followeth 1. Five Commissioners Examine and Eject 2. Twelve upon the Ejected's Complaints were to Review and Determine 3. The twelve Commissioners upon the Ejecteds Appeales were to transfer and Certifie the proceedings to the Committee for Plundred Ministers Now the Twelve did seldome meete living remote the one from the other and the time and place of their meeting was not usually published nor generally knowen And suppose that the twelve did meete was it probable That they who adjudged the Cause would transfer and certifie against their owne Judgements And there was no Provision in the Act to inforce them in case they refused But suppose they should transfer and certifie the Proceedings yet the Act disabled the Appellants to examine any more Witnesses whereas many of their depositions might be laid down contrary to the examinants intentions most of them being illiterate persons and ignorant of the English Tongue and were thereby made uncapable of their just defence so that being once ejected they receive small benefit by their Appeales Nay if any that conceived himselfe aggreived therein did seeke any Remedy in Law which is afforded to all others the free People of the Nation The Commissioners named in the said Act as they were Commissioners of Indemnity Had Power to inforce Obedience and Submission to their Orders stop all the proceedings of the ejected Ministers And Indemnifie themselves and their Agents for any thing done by colour of the said Act. Who can finde out a Clue in such a labyrinth to lead him forth This we may boldly say That the Profoundest subtilities of the ambiguous and intrapping Articles of some former projects which we leave to your thoughts cannot out-bid the Invention and Contrivement of this remediles Dilemm of Appeale 10. They are commanded not to preach But this is not all They are thought not to be sufficiently punished by being deprived of their meanes but they must be robbed of their calling also Being straightly threatned and commanded not to speake at all nor teach in the name of Jesus so that for their Talents what over they are They are charged to lay them up in their Napkins or bury them under ground for with their leaves they must not