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A85696	Strena Vavasoriensis, a Nevv-Years-gift for the Welch itinerants, or a hue and cry after Mr. Vavasor Powell, metropolitan of the itinerants, and one of the executioners of the Gospel, by colour of the late Act for the propagation thereof in Wales; as also a true relation of his birth, course of life, and doctrines; together with a vindication of several places of Scripture wrested and abused, against the present government, and all publick ministers of this nation. His hymn sung in Christ-Church London; with an antiphona there unto; and a lively description of his propagation.	Griffith, Alexander, d. 1690.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1988; Thomason E727_14; ESTC R19795	21,555	32

him to beseech a place at the Footstool of his Tribunal and in Charity to give some room for the poor despised Ministers to appear with him though here as yet they found neither Comfort nor mercy at Mr. Vavasors hands At Llandetty in Brecknock shire he preached That Christ was already come in the flesh the second time and that at London a Girl of twelve years old told her mother that she saw him in the Chamber and said that a Godly man related this unto him and knew it to be true and they that heard him that day should shortly see him too And one John Davies his Proselyle and Journey man in Mountgomery shire having received the same by Tradition from him told very lately to a justice of Peace of that Country That he had seen Christ and was to go the next morning to see him again And being demanded by the Justice what manner of man he was replyed that he was a little old man with a small grey beard And so Mr. Williams an Itinerant of Mr. Vavasors approbation preached in a Sermon in Monmouth-shire That Christ Iesus was such another man as old Rice Williams of Newport one of the Commissioners for the Propagation and that he had a large grey beard Thus it seems the Tithes are their God and the Propagators that pay them their salaries out of the Tithes are their Christs At the same Town of Pool Mr. Powel openly delivered before the Bailiff and the rest of that Corporation That let them Repent or not Repent both Priest and People were all damned And did then absolutely declare That Christ had no Church either in England or Wales but what he and his associats had gathered for him And in a disputation with Mr. A.G. in Keington in Herefordshire he was driven to that pinch as to maintain That the Nation of England was a Nation of Unbelievers And that the words of Christ in 13th Chap. of Matthew concerning the tares and drag-net were contrary to other Scriptures At Manavon in Mountgomery he taught That all our Fore-fathers were damned blasphemously abusing that place of Scripture to confirm his uncharitable opinion I Cor. 15.18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished A wretched and malicious Gloss to acknowledge our fore-fathers to die in the Faith of Christ Iesus and the glorious hope of his Resurrection and yet that they shall eternally perish Whereas the Apostle in that Chapter by convincing Arguments confirms the Doctrine of our Resurrection by the Resurrection of Christ which he had fully proved both by forcible Reasons and also by Signs and Wonders which if not true as he had preached then the Corinthians vainly believed Pauls Preaching and dying in the Faith of Christ would be ineffectual unto them If they who died therein Eternally perished At Baryw in the same Countie he taught That Baptism was never ordained for the remission of sins 1 Pet. 3 21. Tit. 3 5. Act 22 16. contrary to several places of Scripture which affirms that Baptism saves us that it is the Lavar or washing of Regeneration which though all this be Analogically spoken being the Obsignation of the thing signified by the sign yet in the true use thereof the Exhibition and Perception of the sign and thing is conjoyned But this Mr. Vavasors Ordinary use to vilisie that sacred Ordinance as he always doth by his Common recital of that place of Scripture Gal. 5.6 15. In Christ Iesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new Creature which he and all his followers scornfully apply to the Contempt of Baptism In which place is only meant That the Iewes called to the Faith of Christ after their Circumcision gain nothing by their former Circumcision nor the unbelieving Gentiles being called lose any thing by their uncircumsion for seeing in Christ the Circumcision is spiritual there is no need of carnal At Guilsfield in the same County he preached That Christ was not the Redeemer of the World and being reprehended for his blasphemie answerd that they should not always observe what he said for he that speaks much said he must speak some things amiss And how ridiculous and obseene diverse of his passages have been 13 His obscenity Trefeglwys Llanbryn-Main Machynleth we are very loath to deliver to chast Ears yet we must beseech your Patience to these true Relations In diverse parish Churches in Mountgomery shire he delivered in his Sermon this story That they were many in Company travelling towards London and one of them rid on an Ambling gray horse and meeting another Company where there was a Gentleman that rid on the like colour'd pacing horse when the one gray Horse met the other they stood still and made much the one of the other and would not part Company even so the Saints of God know one another by their paces and colours and will not part Company the one from the other And how modest the Gentleman is may appear by his Obscene expressions in a Sermon preached at Llunddynam in the same Country where being willing to justifie a Sister that had slipped becomes her Compurgator in these words That he called God to witnesse He never saw a Saint Occupie or F a Saint which he explained thus in the Welch tongue Yr ywf yn Galow Duw yn dîst ni welais i yr'ioed Sainct yn myned ar Sainctes And one Richard Powell Vicar of Llanigon in Brecknock shire one of the Approvers in the Act for the Propagation of the Gospel and Itinerant in that County receiving the same by tradition from Mr. Vavasor hath usually delivered in his Sermons both in Herefordshire and Brecknock shire Concerning the manner of Christ's Spirit entring into man that he could not use any sitter Comparison than as the seed of Man entred into the body of a Woman so the Spirit of Christ entred into his head And the same Richard Powell maintained That God was not Creator of the World as was proved against him by sufficient understanding Witnesses before a worthy and godly Justice of Peace of the County of Brecon And often delivered in his Sermons That the Lords Prayer is a rotten Prayer This man is a most scandalous ignorant covetous deboyst fellow and marched before his Parishoners and others against Sir William Waller's forces when they were at Abergavenny reading the Letany out of the Common-prayer which he carried in his hands and yet was made an Approver in the Act and receives Tith in kind from his three neighbouring Parishes Mr. Vavasor Powell to justifie another Sister of his own Congregation who had willfully drowned her self in Draw-well near the Welch Pool delivered publickly in his Sermon there That she was a Saint in Heaven and they who thought otherwise were wicked persons and accursed That she came to her end by the Motion of the Holy Spirit and that it hapned oftentimes when the Saints are filled with the Spirit they run into great Pools instead of

Strena Vavasoriensis A NEVV-YEARS-GIFT FOR THE WELCH ITINERANTS Or a HUE and CRY after Mr. VAVASOR POWELL Metropolitan of the Itinerants and one of the Executioners of the Gospel by colour of the late Act for the Propagation thereof in Wales AS ALSO A true Relation of his Birth Course of Life and Doctrines TOGETHER WITH A Vindication of several places of Scripture wrested and abused against the present Government and all publick Ministers of this Nation His Hymn Sung in Christ-Church London With an Antiphona thereunto and a lively Description of his Propagation Raro antecedentem Scelestum Sequitur pede Poena claudo Pro. 16.5 Answer a Fool according to his folly lest he be wise in his own conceit Gen. 4.14 I shall be a Fugitive and a Vagabond in the Earth and it shall come to pass that every one that findeth me shall slay me LONDON Printed by F.L. 1654. To the Reader Reader YOu must be pleased not to wonder that our Cry is so loud for we beat on a strong Quest and must hunt dry-foot after Mr. V.P. who is the Subject of this Discourse a man that hath passed by no Person or Profession but hath either vilified the one or traduced the other His Cruelties have been so immane and his Cheats so frequent and obvious that we should undertake too great a task to pursue them all having with his Errors and Blasphemies robbed God of his Glory Christ of his Honour the Scripture of her Truth the Church of her Ministery and the Christian People of our Nation of the Comfort of Christs blessed Ordinances every way endeavouring to undermine the very Fabrick both of this Church and State so that the Hue and Cry is great You must not expect any Curiousity in the stile being the Drolleries only of his own brain and the reiterating of the passages of his own obscean violent discourses which may not with verity be Metamorphosed from their first shape here is not a passage falsly related nor malitiously aggravated and though All that is here is True yet All that is true is not here told for we purposely pretermit many things that we may reserve more in store We found out the sent of some part of his Doctrin in Wales and here in London more bitterness of his Seditions for which he was 3 times committed to the custody of the Messengers attending His Higness Council and being thence with great clemency released he became as wild Actaeon transformed into the shape of a Deer and knew not where to betake himself lest he should be torn by his own dogs Ovid met lib. 3. Quid faciat Repetatne domum et Regalia tecta An lateat Sylvis timor hoc pudor impedit illud He was afraid to stay here and ashamed to return home but being gone he is much lamented by his brethren for betraying their trust and more condemned by all honest men for violating his promise in continuing as we understand as busie and violent in the Country as ever he was here against this present Government whosoever pleaseth to make search after him may soon know him by his Characteristical marks herein truly expressed I am sure you shall not find him idle Virg. Ecl. Nam si non aliquâ nocuisset mortuus esset Let us intreat your patience in tracing his footsteps and the Lord preserve you from his wayes A NEVV-YEARS-GIFT FOR The Welch Itinerants Or a HUE and CRY after Mr. VAVASOR POWELL IF you will have first his Pedigree blazed he was the 1 His Birth Grand-child of one William Vavasor of Newtown in Montgomeryshire a man fresh in our memory for his hyperbolical discourses so that by descent he hath not much degenerated from his Ancestors This old man had a Daughter named Penelope a Lady not altogether as Chast as Ulysses his Wife who gained more by the trade of Tipling than Spinning And this Gossip was the Mother of our young Donatus She was married to one Howel the poor Ale man of Knwcklas in Radnorshire and a badger of Oatmeal but Non genus aut proavos we like Mr. Vavasor never the worse for that They lived long in that house of no good report and the young Gentleman was no great probationer in Christs School by his own confession during his Minority being willing to approve of all games were they never so wanton or vile for his Mother or Sisters livelyhood But tired at length 2 Education with walking their Guests horses and finding no great gain at such a petty Ale-house he was elevated in his thoughts for higher preferment and so became an Hostler I would say Groom to Master Isaack Thomas an Inn-keeper and Mercer in Bishop-Castle in Shropshire Alas it was impossible that so high and generous a spirit should be captivated to horses heels The hopefull young man continued not long in rubbing on that Trade but began to be so eloquent with Welcome Gentlemen that at last together with the benefit of his Masters Notes he presumed to open Scriptures and being then taken up by a great Gamaliel he was for a good space you may think well Educated and Principled at his feet 3 Marriage This Gallant Spark lived a while though not purely chast yet a single life but at last the strength of his Flesh prevailed over the weaknesse of his Spirit being then Munkie proud he was so taken with sweet and dear Mistres Quarrel sometimes a walking Pedlar and seller of Hot-waters in Preisteign in Radnorshire wherewith he was often Comforted that his inflamed spirit did revive and her husband shortly deceasing though his dead Corps had not lain a fortnight in the Grave they being sweetly enamored the one with the other she proves to be his Consort and so he Carries her as a Dear Sister about though her little Child lately deprived of his Father and now robbed of his Mother raised the Hue and Cry after them but wantonnesse admits neither of delays nor intreaties Here is sweet Amity and Conjuntion a couple well met and joyned together a Walking Pedler and an Itinerary Preacher both very expert in their Trades 4 Course of life His Proficiency grew on and no sooner becomes he a Schoolmaster but takes upon him the habit of Sir John and lest without Ordination under the Episcopal Government he might incur the danger of suspension borroweth of an old decayed Minister his neer Kinsman his Letters of Orders razeth out the other and inserts his own name and under Colour of these Counterfeit Letters missive he goes unsent and begins to thunder out of the Pulpits as though he had been a fiery Spirit raised out of Hel but by reason of his inconformity and the many Errors which he broached his Calling was questioned and the Orders being well scanned were found Spurious and Counterfeit and he bound to appear at the next great Sessions to be held for that County of Radnor where appearing and indicated for non-Conformity forging of Orders