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A54558 The Petition of the six countries of South-wales, and the County of Monmouth presented to the Parliament of the common-wealth of England, for a supply of ministers in lieu of those that have been ejected. Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.; England and Wales. Parliament. 1652 (1652) Wing P1836; ESTC R8119 13,309 33

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Quiver you please though you accounted your self a Triform'd Geryon in the Languages Commend not in your self what you use to condemn in others to wit learning Proprio Laus sordet in Ore Thus having for a long time patientlie born your severall reproaches and revilings still expecting the Lords good will and pleasure Wee are at last perswaded in our souls by his blessed spirit That his name must be glorified by us in earnestlie Contending with you for the Faith once delivered to the saints And so resolved with Gods help and blessing to vindicate our innocency and Calling with the spirit of Meeknesse and of Mildnesse as it becometh true Christians and the temper of Christs Gospell for wee cannot put up your affronts and slaunders any longer Nihil veritas crubescit nisi solummodò abscondi Truth never blusheth but when it is silenced Wee have in Modestie spared you too long Couching like Issachars Asse under our burthens Now expect us like the Iawrell bearing up the more the more weight you lay upon us And assure your self wee shall God willing display you in livelyer Colours than ever you have mishaped others Therefore trample no longer on those whom you have ruined as Diogenes did upon Plato's Cloathes with greater Pride than ever Plato wore them Trulie the Zeal of Gods Cause the Cause of Christs Gospell doth even Ravish and inflame mee Nam quis iniquae Tam patiens turbae tam ferreus ut teneat se Who can be silent to see a whole Nation a Nation Converted to Christianity assoon almost as our Saviour suffered so notoriouslie branded by their own Natives for Ignorance Heathenism and Profaness as you have done for your own ambition self-ends which the World hath now sufficientlie discovered As though Wales were still a land of Darkness the poor inhabitants as yet Continuing in the Region and shadow of Death Pudet patriae te patriamque tui You have had a prime hand in this Aspersion being not onely injurious to the Nation to the Apostolicall Martyrs and first Planters of Religion here among us but to divers most painfull and Reverend Ministers therein of later times And now do Arrogate to your self the Propagation of the Gospel therein with the utter Ruine and Abrogation thereof witnesse what Superstition and Popery is all ready Crept in among us since our Ejectment as is sensiblie discovered by three parishes in Brecknock-shire Such are the effects of this your Apostolicall Propagation And How can it be otherwise My heart bleeds to see so many hundred souls within this Parish I passe by greater parishes whereof I was late Vicar fainting and scattred abroad like sheep without a shepheard Math. 9.36 having neither the comfort of Preaching nor Praying nor Sacraments nor visiting of the sick nor of any Decency of Buriall your Preachers being so divided in their Opinions that the good people are at a stand being whollie dejected and as much as in you lieth Anathematized from the Communion of Saints and all Church-fellowships as men unchurched and unchristend and in your Repute meer Pagans and Heathens For you Account all fixed parochiall Congregations to be such uncalled and without the Pale of Christs Church but I must tell you they have learnt Christ far better being Constantlie taught to my knowledge these twelve years twice every Lords day for many of us have laboured more aboundantly than you all yet not wee 1 Cor. 15.16 And now you superstruct Hay and stubble upon our labours wee praise not our selves but these pretious souls are our Epistles written in our hearts for whose spirituall Condition at this present wee most heartily greive and lament What doth not your Conscience accuse you Is it seared up with a hot iron do not you hear the groans of many thousand Souls testifying against you Doth not the truth of that most Christian Charitable and Pious Petition of South-Wales startle you in your sleep and affrighten you in the Pulpit which in all your meetings you so much rayl against because it discovers your Hipocrisie Covetousnes and Self-ends to the World With what impudencie dare you Revile the same being so Graciously received by the Honorable House of Parliament And there upon solemn Debate Ordered and Committed to further examination Is this your Obedience to discountenance their Actions and to deter so many thousands from Petitioning those Wise and Grave Patriots of this Nation who are assembled for the hearing and redressing of the severall Abuses and Greivances of this Common wealth Nay with what Divinity or Morall honesty durst you with your Fanatick Raptures in your Sermon before the Judges the last Assises for this County of Radnor revile and Curse that most valiant and worthy Commander Collonel Freeman in his person and in his place for preferring the said Petition Doth this become the Minister of Christ the Propagator of the Gospell in Wales You forget our Saviours Rule Blesse them that persecute you blesse I say and curse not Surely this your storming and Indignation and great Industry in travayling from County to County and from Parish to Parish to threaten the Petitioners and Subscribers in your Sermons with Sequestration and Ruine and Stigmatizing them as prophane persons Malignants a Cavalliering party and meer Incendiaries of the State Is like Sanballat's the Horonite's dealings with good Nehemiah to terrifie him from Re-edifying Jerusalem and of the Inhabitants of Samaria in discouraging Zorobabel from Re-edifying the Temple Read Ezra 4.11 and Nehemiah the sixt where you have your Parallells This plainly argueth that you are not Parliament proof and that your Actions will not abide the Test and Examination of Publike light For if the Petition be false the blame and shame will recoyl upon the Contrivers and Presenters of the same But if it be true they have done the Parliament good service in giving them intelligence of your practices and proceedings in these Remoter parts of the Common-wealth far from their sight and cognizance and in giving them warning how far to trust such men as you again who under colour of Religion and Sanctity do drive on Politick and Worldly Interests For such Light Heads as you are unles timely discovered and prevented will become not only the Brand of the Church but also the Bane of this Common-wealth But I leave you to your circuits wishing you to search your heart which is not right in the sight of God for you are in the very Gall of bitterness of which Repent and Pray God if perhaps the Thoughts of your Heart and Words of your Mouth m y be forgiven you And I beseech God that he would be pleased in his mercy to unite all Differences and compose all Divisions within this Nation That we may all with one Heart and one Mind endeavour to preserve the unity of the Spirit in the bond of Peace Expecting your Answer for the place of meeting I must in Charity commend you to Gods Grace who in mine own opinion being