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A48398	The life and death of Mr. Vavasor Powell, that faithful minister and confessor of Jesus Christ wherein his eminient conversion, laborious successful ministry, excellent conversation, confession of faith, worthy sayings, choice experiences, various sufferings, and other remarkable passages in his life and at his death are faithfully recorded for publick benefit : with some elogies and epitaphs by his friends.	Bagshaw, Edward, 1629-1671.; Powell, Vavasor, 1617-1670.	1671 (1671)	Wing L2003; Wing B418_CANCELLED	114,187	204

Saints who in great sufferings are Or will pitty or justifie them though they harmless are Thy holy Laws and blessed Cause are like to suffer too The work thou didst once in the midst of us they would undoe After the 25. Psalm God is our hope and stay our refuge in our need He is our Shephard hee 'l preserve and his own Sheep wrll feed Hee 'l feed them with his VVord yea also with his Rod And he will manifest himself to be their mighty God If any do them hurt their Foes hee 'l surely slay And who they be that hinder them such hee 'l remove away He that doth touch them the Apple of his Eye Doth touch and he is sensible of all such injury VVo unto those that do his little ones offend T' wer better a Milstone were hanged on their Necks without end And they cast in the Sea that is quite bottomless Then to come under Gods sore Curse that punishment is less But happy are all such that follow their good Lord And patiently upon him wait hearing his holy VVord And in him do beleive and for their sins repent These shall not be ashamed at last nor for their sins be shent Upon the Saints suffering This is the Fire through which thou dost purge away Dross and ●in This is the VVater that doth wash in part the filth of sin This is the Wind that blows away our Chaff and which light is This is the School wherein we learn the best experiences This is the way wherein we do follow the Son and Saints This is the way to liberty with thee by our restraints This is the Food and Physick which thou givest to thy Children This is the means when they have sin'd to bring them back again This is that which tends to divorce thy People from this VVorld This is the Storm that tends to drive thyne into one accord This is the Hedge and Wall that keeps thy People from ranging This is the Chain that binds them up from the accursed thing This is the Fullers Sope that doth both whiten them and try This is the Fire in which they do their Lord most glorify VVith patience and contentedness therefore our sufferings we VVill indure without murmuring against men or 'gainst thee V. P. Some remarkable Passages in the Life and Ministry of this worthy Servant of Christ communicated by some faithful observing Christians and his antient intimate acquaintance MR. Vavasor Powel was born of honest and honourable Parentage his Father Mr. Richard Powel of a very antient Family in VVales living in the Burough of Knocklas in Radnorshire where his Ancestors had lived for some 100. years before him His Mother of the Vavasors a Family of great antiq●ity that came out of Yorkshire into VVales and so by both allyed to most of the best Families in North VVales though his best pedegree and highest discent was that which he derived from the most honourable Family of Abraham For the unworthiest persons many times p etend to the hi●hest worldly discents the newborn being only the best born He was brought up a S●holler taken by his Unkle Mr. Erasmus Powel to be Curate at Clun where he also kept Schooll in which time it pleased God in the midest of his vanity and enmity to Christ and his People to call and convert him especially by the minist y of that eminent Servant of Christ Mr. Walter Cradock which was attended with deep humility in sigh●●nd sence of sin and a lost estate by nature and led b● a Spirit or Bondage through legal Terrors to clear manifestations of the love of Christ in Go pel Life and L●b●●ty encountering with manifold temptations within and without not only by Satans assaults in the mind but by his visible appearances sometimes in one shape sometimes in another to terrifie and afright him especialy in Prayer and in his drawing nigh unto the Lord but by Faith he still got the victory over him He in a little time profited above many and being very zealous and full of Love to Christ did bestir himself exceedingly in preaching the Gospel labouring therein more abundantly then any we have known giving himself wholly to the work both in publick private God also accompanying him with his blessing and presence in great success the generallity of the Country being then as Feilds white unto the Harvest flock ardently to his Ministry and many by his Preaching were turned to the Lord so that Radnorshire that before was a dark Country came to have much light and in a short space many eminent Professors begotten in it at which Satan begun to rage exceedingly and stirred up some of his Instruments to persecute the truth laying wait for his life and liberty some by a judicial way some by violence till they drove him out of the Country from whence he went to London where in the time of the War he continued sometime he was called to Dartford in Kent where he was very succesfull in his Ministry to the gathering of a Church afterwards times growing more peaceable he was called into Wales again where he renewed his former labours preaching the Word in season and out of season so that by him Christ made manifest the savor of his knowledge and grace in every place throughout the Country insomuch that there was but few if any of the Churches Chappels Town halls in Wales wherein he did not preach Christ Yea very often upon Mountains and very frequent in Fairs and Markets it was admirable to consider how industrious he was by his often preaching in two or three places a day and seldome two dayes in a week throughout the year out of the Pulpit nay he would sometimes ride a hundred miles in a week and Prrach in every place where he might have admission both day and night if he passed through any Fair or Market or near any great concourse of People so great was his love to Souls he would take the oppertunity in his Journey to preach Christ yea his whole life was a continual preaching giving seasonable instruction to every body he met with being fruitful and exemplary in Word Doctrine Conversation Spirit it was his custome where ever he came to leave some spiritual instructions and gracious favour behind him He was indued with such courage of mind furnished with such ability of body that he went through his work with great delight many admiting how he was able to hold out he was an able Minister of the new Testament and always in readiness upon all occasions to fulfil his Ministry and like the good Housholder brought forth of his Treasury things new and old being very indefatigable in his work speaking and praying sometimes 3. 4. nay 6 and 7. hours together he was very faithful in delivering the word of truth and in explaining it to the meanest capacity and still endeavoured to suit his discourse to the occasion and condition of the Hearers he neither regarded nor feared the