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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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use and imploy them though they earnestly did and doe desire to continue their paines in Gods Vineyard freely expecting their reward from the Lord of the Vineyard onely but it would not be granted 11 Keepe Schoole Nay when some of them resolving by Gods Assistance to obey God rather then men did hold forth the word of truth unto thousands of people who to this day endure a Famine thereof They were drawn by the neckes out of the Pulpits abused threatned and imprisoned and when others went about to keepe private Schooles for the support of themselves and Families they were straitly commanded to supersede from that imployment And we must tell you it was not safe to disobey such Ruling Masters 12 The Parishes not supplied Among all this their Complaintes wee may not forget those of their respective Congregations who are forced to pay their Tithes more exactly then ever they did before And yet have nothing in lieu thereof neither the comfort of Praying and Preaching nor Sacraments nor visiting the sick nor of any decency of Buriall for few or none are su●stituted to these Offices in the roomes of those that performed them And for the number of the Itinerants in each County whose Fathers had designed them to other vocations they do goe up and down the Countrey to preach where and when they please themselves so that men are glad to hear a Sermon in some places once in a twelve moneth and in most places once in a moneth That were wont to have one at least every Lords Day Ei succus pecori lac subducitur agnis The Children crie for Bread the Bread of life and there is none to give it them or else instead of Bread they have but a Scorpion and are fed with Poyson instead of Manna and wholesome food to wit the poyson of false Doctrine Heresie and Sedition being leavened with the sowrest Tenets of Anabaptisme and whose wayes as is now too apparent are destructive to Magistracy as well as Ministery which they boldly vent among their hearers And this is a plaine and briefe Account of the Prosecution and Managery of the Act for the better Propagation of the Gospell in Wales and let all Christian people judge What Propagation this was 13. Conclusion But if this Relation stagger any mans Faith or may seeme to him like those Marandae auditiones of Aristotle more like a fiction Sen. then reall truth Majora veris monstra vix capiunt fidem wee make bold to protest with the Apostle That wee take God to Record upon our Soules wee have delivered nothing but truth passing by many Indignities and Affronts with diverse Acts of cruelty unfit to be acted by any towards their fellow Creatures much more towards their fellow Christians And since they will not give them leave to Preach They will take leave to pray That since they have no part nor portion left them in the Land That God would be their Lot an their Portion and then they shall not want that he would grant them to runne with patience the Race that is set before them looking up to Jesus the author and finisher of their Faith 1● Tim. 1.13 Heb. 12.20 And that hee would blesse their Widowed Congregations and guide them with his Holy Spirit That they may hold fast the forme of Doctrine which was once delivered unto them And that the great Shepheard of the Sheepe would continually Leade and Governe them To whose Gratious care and Protection they doe heartily Recommend them in their Prayers 1. That the reverend Ministers of England would commiserate the Ministers And doe earnestly beseech you the Reverend Ministers of the Gospell of Jesus Christ in England to lay to heart and be grieved for the affliction of your poore Josephs the ejected Ministers of Wales And to be a meanes at least that their Wives and Children may enjoy a competency of liveli-hood and subsistence and that they may understand what hath beene laid to ch●ir Charge and be made capable without expence being wholy disabled to make their answer thereunto 2. And Churches of Wales O! mou●ne for the affliction of your disconsolate Sister Is it nothing to you that passe by Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto he sorrow All beauty is departed from her Sion Lam 1.12 the Lord hath taken away the Tabernacle destroyed his places of the Assembly and caused the solemne Fast and Sabbaths to be forgotten among them Lam. 2.6 Is this nothing to you O! Shee is your little Sister and shee hath now no Breasts Can. 8.8 What will ye do for your Sister in the day when she shall be spoken for O comfort her by the Comfort 2 Cor. 1.4 wherewith yee your selves have been Comforted of God Plead her cause as the Lord hath pleaded yours For if it had not been the Lord who was on your side may now the Ministers of England say if it had not been the Lord who was on your side Psal 124.1.2 when their Enemies rose up against you also Then they had swallowed you up and those proud Waters had overwhelmed and gone over your soules But praysed be God who hath raised you a Mighty deliverer in the Day of your tryall and praised by the God of your Salvation FINIS