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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A09300	A viewe of some part of such publike wants & disorders as are in the seruice of God, within her Maiesties countrie of VVales togither vvith an humble petition, vnto this high Court of Parliament for their speedy redresse. Wherein is shevved, not only the necessitie of reforming the state of religion among that people, but also the onely way, in regarde of substaunce, to bring that reformation to passe.	Penry, John, 1559-1593.	1589 (1589)	STC 19613; ESTC S114394	56,807	98

honorable assembly let my counsell be acceptable vnto you breake of your sinnes by rooting out these plants which the Lorde neuer planted in his vineyarde and your iniquities by abandoning the same so much as in you lieth so there may be a healing of your former ouersight If not the Lords face will be against you yours and the wholland for euil not for good Oh my Lords is it not a miserable case that men should so liue vnder your gouerment in this life as they cannot possibly but liue in hel in the life to come Oh my Ll. heauen cannot be obtayned whē we are gon Oh my Ll. now is the time for the gospell to florish in Wales or neuer Oh my Ll. if her Maiestie and your honors whome from my verye heart I wish the Lorde to blesse should be gone the way of all the world for mine owne part the staffe of mine hope to see any good done amongst my brethren should be broken Blame me not therefore if I deale earnestly in a cause of so great a moment and so vnlikely to be obtayned of our wofull posterities whom my suit in a most neere sort concerneth Oh why should they haue cause to say the Lord be judge between vs and the gouernours which were vnder Queene Elizabeth in the dayes of our fathers for they might haue opened our eyes and healed our woundes which now alasse are desperat and past recouery It is now full 30. yeares and vpward since Babylon hath bin ouerthrowne in Wales rather by the voice of her maiesties good laws whom good Lord forget not for this worke then the sounde of any trumpet from the mouthes of the sonnes of Aaron among vs. But alasse what shall we and our posterities be the better for this if Sion bee not built And what comfort can Zerubbabel or Nehemiah haue to bring them out of Babylon if they meane but to reaedifie Shilo seeing it is the beautie of Sion wherein the Lorde delighteth We haue cause in deed to thanke God that this wicked citie hath beene by her Maiestie broken downe in some sort but are neuer the better seeing the walles of Sion lie euen with the grounde Nowe for the space of 28. yeares no man greatly laboured to her Majestie the parliament or the people themselues eyther by speaking or writing in the behalfe of eyther of these vnreconcilable cities Men belike thinking no more to be required at their hands then the razing of Babel and the diuel as yet contenting himselfe with Bethel The last parliament by al liklihod the very same week vpon a sodaine the interprises of the building of both in 2. seueral books issuing from 2. of the remotest corners in our lands Southwales and Northwales was taken in hand The one of the books pleading the cause of Sion cōminig forth by publike authority and alowance was directed vnto her Maiestie and the parliament requiring at their hands by vertue of the lords own mandatory letters the performance of this work shewing by euidence of greatest antiquitye this to be required of duty at their hands as a part of the homadge due vnto his highnes whose foedaries and vassales all the princes and states vnder heauen must acknowledg themselues to be and a portion of that inheritance being theirs by lineall dissent from their predecessors the godly kings and rulers who time out of minde alwaies laid their shoulders vnto this burthen y druch Christiano-gawl The other written in weltch printed in an obscure caue in Northwales published by an author vnknowne more vnlerned for I think he had neuer read any thing but the common published resolution of R. P. a booke contayning many substantiall errors Fryer Rush and other shamful fables stood to by non and hauing no reason to shew why his Babilon should be raedefied it contained it self within the hands of a fewe priuate men and neuer durst to this houre be made knowne vnto any of our magestrats Both the books in this thing had the same successe in that both together they fel into the hands of the prelats who as they pretend are enemies vnto both places but vndoubtedly vnto Sion especially as it apeared by their hard dealing with the patrone of that cause This is spoken in respect of the church gouernment whereas the fautors of the other being also in their handes were either not at al delt with or very curteously entertained of them The reason of their enemity vnto both but their hatred vnto Siō is that neuer I feare me meaning to go thether and constrained by lawe to be enemies vnto the other they haue of the gold of Caldea and the drosse of Ierusalem compacted them a citty wherewith they meane to content them selues vntil they returne to Babel again or the Lord be merciful vnto thē vnto a worse place Haue they not therfore good cause to be the more beholding to the on for the gold then the other for the drosse Wel be you asured hereof that they who stirred vp both these instruments both at one time will neuer suffer them to cease vntil in Wales either a church of Christ or a sinagogue of sathan be built Out of question the concurring of both causes sheweth that the lord hath som secret work in the matter Sathans instruments for their parts were neuer busier then they are at this houre and shal I be silent They trecherously against the lawes of God and this land seek to bring the people again vnto Egipt I according vnto both endeuour neuer to let them rest vntil it please the Lord by meanes of her Maiesty and the parlament to bring them within the land of promise no though they were vppon mount Nebo whence with their eies they might view the same They haue delt and deal secretly with poor soules in dark corners and dare not make knowne the fabulous cause I haue delt al this while in the face of the sun and nowe before the state of the land assembled together I-want not a good cause and by the grace of god it shal neuer want the poore defence which I cann yeld vnto it or hide the face as long as I liue whether you countenance it or no I know that on day it shal preuail when this wil be the Lord knoweth best but the matter is whether you wil embrace Christ in the building of his Church or Sathan in continuing the breaches thereof Therfore entertaine this cause you giue Sathan the foile reject this and you strengthen him And try if you deny it the hearing whether the very papists in this land wil not be thereby encoraged to supplicate vnto the parliament that you would graunt them the liberty of their seared consciences to commit publike idolatry Al that hitherto I haue spoken hath ben said either in the cause of Christ which is a good cause or in the behalfe of Sathan If I seeke the building of his sinagog wil you let me liue If of the