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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

will appear to be so small an allowance to maintain a family that it will not find them bread and water and yet this pittifull pittance cannot be received or obtained without many a tedious wearisome journey and much expence and hazard of mens lives As some have perished in the waters by going to Petition and seek relief for their perishing families And others being wearied out with fruitlesse journeys and dilatory answers have given over all Adresses to these Un-mercifull Sequestrators and other Officers to powre out their Complaints before the All-seeing God who graciously heard the groanes of his people in Egypt Exod. 2.13 and the voice of the poor ladd weeping under the tree Gen. 21.17 To gain beleef to what you have affirmed in your Epistle you close it up and seal it with a deep Asseveration and engagement Truely Protests and Asseverations weigh but litle with me since you have applied them to untruths heretofore and that in the pulpit you may remember where and when you protested to the congregation that you never received any recompence for your pains in preaching But there was one present that helped your memory to remember what a round summ you received at Brecon for one worm wood-Lecture which you made against al the Ministers of that county There are some also that can remember you how much of the Fee-farm Rents of the late king you have purchased in Radnor-shire and elsewhere and they are sure that it was not your fathers inheritance but some other wayes of gainefull goodliness that have enabled you to make these purchases Therefore Sir be more cautious hereafter how you make the like protestations but let them be according to the rule in justice judgement and truth Jer. 4.2 God give you grace to see and a heart to feel and grieve for the ruin that you have brought upon the Church of God in those parts and the contempt that you have brought upon his Ministers and Ordinances For though we stand in an indifferent good posture as yet in this County yet the fire being in our neighbours house we may justly fear our own and suspect the like Propagation of the Gospell here as we have seen there For though you have begun with the out-skirts and Suburbs as it were of this Nation yet we find now that the Design is generall as appeares by a Letter from Herefordshire inserted some weeks since in the weekly Diurnall and subscribed M. H. the Pen-man whereof was not a Mile from a Hill And also by the Proposalls sent in by some of your Party to the Committee for the propagation of the Gospell and printed in one of the late Diurnalls whereby any man that hath but half an eye may see that this Mystery that goes under the specious name and title of the Propagation of the Gospell begins to worke strongly in other parts of this Nation and to creep from the Circumference to the Center of the Common-wealth but let men look well about them and learn to be wise at other mens cost Let the present deplorable condition of Wales move men both to resent their neighbours miseries and to prevent their own Dated from my house neer Hereford the 26 of May in the Third year of the Abrogation of the Gospell in Wales For Mr. Valvasor Powel one of the Itineraries of Wales Sir YOU were soon induced upon other mens Relations to misinform your self of some Challenge tendred by me against you and your preachers But as your informers were Cretians in their suggestion so it is dangerous Cretizare cum Cretensibus you should rather have bin Cautelous in your Credulity Observing Pauls Command Tit. 1.13 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to Rebuke them sharplie for they deserved it accusing me unjustlie of what I was not then Guiltie If you would deign to be remembred in the Character of Christianity and the true Cognizance of Christs souldier The Apostle tells you 2. Tim. 2.24 The servant of the Lord must not strive but be Gentle to all men apt to Teach patient Being a servant he should imitate his Master and the Master is not the Author of Confusion but of Peace Qui litigat verbis pugnat a barking tongue is a striking hand How Cruellie the Ministers of Wales are and have bin used their good names murthered their very Calling accounted a Crime and Mission their Ruine exposed like those disguised Primitive Christians in Beares and Lions skins for the baiting and tearing of Dogs I am sure your unsavory Invectives against us being rather Satyres than Sermons are sufficient Testimonies thereof And now I find that Aspis à viperâ sumit venenum The minor Preachers if they may be called preachers borrow their language virulency from you As the minor greek Poets are said to lick up the vomit of blind Homer In respect of my self I shall passe by such Reproaches remembring therein the Result of the School-men That Abuses are to be Remitted that are injurious towards mens Persons not only quoad Rancorem in respect of the Malice but also quod Satisfactionem in respect of the Redresse But Abuses which Concern our Offices touch both the Author entrusting and the trust Committed to our Charge And wee have our Saviours direction in the eighth of John to maintain as there he did the Truth of our Profession Neglecting then That you fell upon my Person in my absence both at Glasebury and the Hay which was neither Candidelie nor Christianlie performed I shall as I promised you upon your own Challenge and wonted manner of Vanity and bragging together with one or two of my brethren be Readie with Gods assistance to meet you and the like number of yours any time after the end of Trinity term next either in the University of Oxford or in any place within ten Miles of my aboad Sooner I cannot because of many journeyes and Occasions which I am necessitated to perform And will then endeavour to Maintain these ensuing Positions 1. The Necessity of Baptism Necessitate praecepti and the lawfulnesse of Paedobaptism 2. That the Ministrie of England is according to Divine institution 3. That our Doctrine is Orthodoxe being willing to Hear what Errours we have broached Or what Truths have bin Revealed by you or unto you which we have not formerly taught and known 4. That your Separation was Causless and unwarrantable Which as farr as I can remember were the summ of those Questions proposed that I would maintain And though your defiance was as I partlie heard and more fullie understood by others very high against all the Ministers of this Nation the Fathers of Jsrael judging them as Zuinglius did Carolstadius Non satis humerorum habere too weak to undertake the defence of Truth yet I doubt not but having gathered our stones from the brook of Gods word we shall be Able with the sling of his Spirit to encounter the fiercenes of your haughtiness And resist all your shafts draw them foorth from what