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A45096 The humble representation and address of severall churches and Christians in South VVales, and Munmouth-shire, &c. 1655 (1655) Wing H3629; ESTC R221340 6,075 27

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The Humble REPRESENTATION AND ADDRESS Of severall Churches and Christians in South VVALES and MUNMOUTH shire c. DVBLIN Printed by VVILLIAM BLADEN Anno Dom. 1655. To his Highness OLIVER LORD PROTECTOR Of the Common-wealth of England Scotland and Ireland and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging The humble Representation and address of severall Churches and Christians in South Wales and Monmouth-shire May it please your Highness VVE should yet longer have contented our selves with praying and praising God for you in secret and taken advantage from our distance as to publique affairs and from your Highnesses most Christian and favourable understanding of us to have still for born any address of this manner to You but that a late printed Paper Intituled A Word for God or a testimony c. from severall Churches and divers hundreds of Christians in Wales c. comming to our view the largeness of which title to those that did not compare it with the subscriptions nor know that Country might seem to involve under it the generallity of the good people there VVe therefore think our selves loudly called upon to assure your Highness that most of such as feare the Lord in that Country are not led aside with those temptations but continue still through grace such as you judged them once to be highly esteeming and honouring not onely your Person or being before them in Christ but also that Government and Magistracy which God by most eminent and signall providences hath called You to the exercise of over these Nations and cannot now but in the reare of some thousands of good people beare our testimony in this manner to it as that wherein at present we believe the cause and interest of God so long contended for the protection of the Saints the liberty of the Gospell the interests of all the people are under God imbarqued And we cannot see if some who are so earnestly set against this Government and for no other visibly had their wills how these mercies can be preserved to us And indeed my Lord it hath not a little affected us that while you are sitting at the Sterne and wrestling with difficulties for us any professing Christ and especially from among us should the while be doing the thing that tends evidently to sink the whole Vessell Nor can You easily judge how much we are grieved that your Highness should have any seeming occasion to think the generallity of the poor Saints of Wales who were once so much your joy should now so sadly degenerate as to have head heart or hand in this unseemly Paper And though we hope we should have hearts to blesse God for You exceedingly if we might but under You lead a quiet and peace●ble life in all godliness and honesty as who having a heart to it may not and be also greatly encouraged from the Authority which is a mercy would have been valued at an other rate by our Fore-fathers and such as no Nation in the world besides that we hear of do injoy Yet we cannot rest there but must acknowledge that which in private hath rejoyced our hearts we see other good things upon the wheele Endeavours and waies taken to remove all oppressions from the bodies of men also godly Governours appointed into all parts to protect the well affected and discountenance sin and wickedness Taxes lessened as far at least as the safety and preservation of the whole could give way Godly Protestants of Forreign parts owned and sympathized with in their distress Designes laid in the most probable way for the extirpation of Popery and making further passage for the Gospell and Kingdom of our Lord in the world which the hearts and spirits of the Saints for this many hundred years have been engaged on and yet we wonder Friends that seemed once to be of the same mind should take the advantage that was too sadly given the Enemy to pass so hard a sentence upon the works of God whole waies are in the deep not weighing aright what experience might have taught us all ere this that his usuall course is to pull down where he intends to build and to make instruments base and vile that his own arme may be considered when he shall appear with them And we humbly take notice that not onely in this case men that run before God in prescribing waies and times for the bringing forth the mercifull dispensations he hath pomised to these latter dayes seem to have a spirit to the work in their own time and way but none in Gods And for what remains undone of all that was declared prayed and sought for we and the rest of our Brethren of this Common-wealth may if we would deale faithfully with God and our selves justly acknowledge that our grievous sins and our sad unparralleld abuse of those manifold mercies already received together with the monstrous pettishness and too common indisposition in divers good men to follow God and to yeild cheerfull obedience to him in the Government which doubtless is of his own workmanship is the reall proper Cause why any good things hoped for by any man is so sadly retarded and indangered it is not our meaning to trace our Brethren in all the particulars instanced in that Paper as the imprisoning some Noblemen c. which VVe conceive to be the mildest course could be taken and keep them from ruining themselves and hazard the whole Nation with them and we wish in naming such with the respect they do though Cavileers and Enemies our Brethren to magnifie the opposition do not forget the spirit themselves were once of towards they and all their Party nor what they urge touching the continuing the Army together with the Taxes Customes Excise c. even as they say in the time of Peace without considering by what hands under God that Peace and all the Mercies with it as it was obtained is to this very hour and as yet cannot without a Mirracle be otherwise conceived to us onely we are so far from undervaluing that we must remember and own with them the noble Principles that were in some of our Patriots in the old Parliament and the frequent appearances of God for his Cause and People during their sitting and yet wonder our brethren should so soon forget their own sence of them in the latter end how weary they were grown of their Government and how far they were then from judging it to be a dishonour to God a scandall to Religion or grief to good men to have a period put to that authority But we greatly fear many of our dear Brethren take too too much liberty to censure the manifest revolutions and actions that the right hand of God hath brought forth amongst us and to ravell into and put contrary sences on those passages of Providence which themselves together with the Generation of Saints had once written EBENEZER upon which God in his own time will we hope mercifully convince them of in the mean space