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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
as VVe have through Grace some fellow-feeling with you in your burthens so we rejoyce in the goodness of God to You that hath armed You with such a measure of strength as in the middest of trouble enough from other hands to be able to bear with the numerous oppositions contradictions and infirmicies of the weak Saints and while the spirit that is in them which perhaps they knew not carried them to be pulling down the VVall and Hedge God hath set about them That You should still continue a Protection and Defence to them and us and not to be discouraged in the work of God under Your hands and we trust that the provocations and evill of this late Paper though it be very great will not prevaile over that glorious Spirit in You but that You will still in some likeness to-Your Heavenly Father be doing good for evill and rendering love and compassion for perversness and so convince calumny it self And God even Your God will be with You in the rest of the VVorks he hath given You to do And after we hope many years longer over us reckon You amongst the Over-commers and welcome You into his own Eternall Ioy and Glory which is the Prayer of Your Highness most humble Servants and Subjects in the Lord c. FINIS The Names of the Subscribers RAl. Williams Edw Harry Geor. Robinson H●gh Rogers Io●n Nicholas William Blethy Edward Herbert Thomas Martin Iohn Williams George Morgan Rich. Williams Rice Iones Richard Parker Morgan Iones Iohn Gregory Thomas Calles Nichol. Peather William Arnold Iohn Watkins Lewes Rogers Robert Iones Iames Kemeyd Alexander Iones Francis Watkins Walter William Harry Iohn William Iohn Robert Curnock Griffin Ienkin William Pitcher Francis Iohn Walter Howel Andrew Lewes Edward Lewis Lewis Richard George Edwards Morgan William Hopkin Rogers Morgan Rosser Iohn Bygan Rosser Edward Walter William Rich. Howel William Thomas Giles Morgan Rice Williams Rosser Thomas Harry Thomas Edw. Iohn Tho. Williams Thomas Arney Robert Baker William Richard Lewis Evan Iohn Thomas Knewill Thomas Walt. Williams Charles Iones Thomas William Edw. Hutton Iohn Baker George Ambrose William Packer Edmond Iones of Itton Wil. Richard Iun. Thomas George Rice Williams Thomas Iones VValt Radock Rich. Charnock Hen. VValter VValt Ienkins Iohn Taylor Iohn Perin Iohn VValter Iohn Iones Iohn Morgan VVil. Philips Rosser VVilliams VVil. Potheras Richard Pen Rich. Namer David Iones Francis Sincus VVil. Bide VVroth Richard Rich. Buller Iohn VVilliams Thomas VVhite Iames Morris Roger VVilliams Thomas Evans Gresham Bray Charles Ienkins Philip VVilliams Iohn Davies Iohn Morgan David Morgan Thomas Caple VValt Richards George VVhite Lawr. Nonney VVil. Iones Iohn Iones VVil. Iones Iohn Evans Iohn Morris Iohn Powel R. Ouldaukine Iohn Bowens Iohn Daniel Tho. VVilliams Maur. Bedwill Iames Iones Iohn Roberts Tho. Philips Iohn Daniel Iun. Rowl Thomas Iohn VVhithear Thomas Daniel Hopk Thomas Iohn Morgan VVil. Price Frankl Mathews Lancl VVilliam Evan ab Owen Robert VVilliam VValt Iones Iohn Biyes Daniel Higgs VVil. Richard Iohn Thomas Ienkin Byvan M●rma Mathews VVil. Iones Griffin Bowen VVil. Prichard David Baily Ioh. Retherought Matthew Iones Edward Lewes Iames Philips Evan Griffiths Moor Py VVilliam Baily VVilliam Morris Iohn Ace Ienkin Tayler Richard Bevan Iohn Lucas Iohn Knaeth Iohn David VVilliam Rogers Iohn French Iohn Powel Edmund Ellis Edward Gamage Robert Puel Henry Nichols Iohn Gowler G●iffith Darild Robert Thomas Wil. Watkins Rice Davies Morgan Thomas Edward Barter Ienkin Edward Evan Lewelin Ienkin Elliot Ienkin Thomas Iohn Nichol Christo Ienkin George Mathew Edward Thomas Rice S●muel Iames Walker Edward Morse Edward Wrinch Wil. Wrinch Iohn Morgan Iohn Thomas Ienkin Lloid Matthew Cuffe William Cuffe Waking Nichols Waking Thomas Leyson Thomas Arnold Griffith Charles Robeot Tho. Williams Griffith Richards Ienkin Evan Thomas Davids Anthony Lutton Morgan Howel David Lewis William David Griffith Howel Rawleigh Fox Thomas Griffith Morgan Cook Thomas Nichol Richard Ienkin Iohn Harry Thomas Thomas David Lewelin Ienkin Griffith Howel Prichard Evan Howel Thomas Iohn Rees William Morgan David Richard Howel William Howel Morgan Griffith Morgan Thomas Edw. Matthew Edward Thomas Morgan Lewis Morgan Evan William Thomas Lewis Harry Watkin Robert Watkin Thomas Rice Iohn Iohn Moses Thomas Iohn Harry Philip Riche Ioh. William Edward Thomas Lewellin Iohn Andrew Rosser William Iohn Lewis Iohn Robert Philips Morgan William Rosser Thomas Iohn William Morgan Bruir Reinold Morgan William Thomas Warkin Iones Iohn Day VVil. Morgan Edw. Rowland Edward Lloid Henry Morgan Mo. Tho Gunter Evan Iones William Philip Edward Gabriel Miles Bruer William Ienkins Evan Rosser Tho. Lewis Morgan Iohn Barkley Tho. ap Thomas Howel Iohn Rosser Richard William Richard Walter Howel Knywilling Iohn Rob. Williams Henry Williams Wil. Williams Edmond Turban Evan Rosser Tho. Giles Lewis Rosser Thomas Lewelin David Philip William Edmond Harry Philip Thomas Rice Iohn David Mered. Thomas David Evan Philip Thomas Iohn William Morgan William Patrick Walter Gibbon William Iohn Howel Nathaniel Ripid Iohn Evans Samuel Lort Robert White Thomas Elliot Henry Garlake Edward Wills Richard Lort Giles Denham Abel Bishop Griffith Howel Rice Price Rober Tennant Thomas Warren Stephen Young Iohn Elliot jun. Thomas Howel William Hughs William Steward David Dyer Iames Picton Ieni in Iones William Moyl Thomas Wills Edward Morris From the Church of Christ at Langom in Penbrookshire the 11 month 17 day 1655. Edward Carver Iohn Sayes Christop Iackson Hump. Gunter Erasmus Hicks Anthonie Stocks Iohn Lewis Owen Young Thomas Melets Iohn Luntley Robert Peiest Richard Brown Stephen Love Peregrine Philips Thomas Smith Richard Rayler Edmond Thomas Walter William William Watkin Ros Tho. Griffith Evan Lewes Rice Harry Iames Richard Thomas William Philip Lewis Iames Lewis Morgan Rosser Thomas Evans Nicholas Watkin Lewis Rice William Evan Rice Iohn Lewis Iames Rosser Harry Llewellin Iohn Rees Wil. Iohn Rosser Harry L●wis Ros Th. William Th. Ed. Thomas Wil. Iohn Morg. Thom. Edwards Thomas Iones Iohn David Iohn Thomas Edward Morgan David Morgan Iohn Davies Rosser Watkin Iohn Lew●s VVatkin Harry Thomas Howel Lewis Llewelin Philip Rees Edmund Evan Iohn Iones Edmund Morgan Thomas William Elias Harry Evan VVilliam Thomas Morgan VVat. Ioh. Philip Harry Morgan VVilliam David Lewis David Thomas Evan Thomas David Ioh. Phil. VVilliā Thom. Rowland Rowland Robert VVill. Rithersh VValter George Henry Morgan Iohn Herbert Ioshua Miller Thomas William Watkin Benedict David Iohn Lawrence Reece Lew. Harr. VVat. Edward Lewis Harry Edmond Harry Iohn Reynald Morgan Rice Iohn Lewis Wil. Wat. Rosser Harry Evan Harry Th. Iohn Rosser Evan Rosser Gregory David Rice Philip Lew. Ross VVat. VVill. Benedict Thomas Reece VVilliam Green Iohn Myles David Davi●s William Thomas Morgan Iones Iohn Price Lewis Thomas Iohn Thomas Evan Bowen Howel Griffith Thomas Iones Iohn VVilliams Iohn Beaban David Thomas Thomas ab Evan David Hopkin Owen Llewelin David Hopkin Evan Thomas Edward Robert Thomas Hopkin VVill. Nicholas Iohn Morgan Sim Butler Philip Iohn VVil. Thomas David Thomas Robert Matthews Charls Morgan Philip Ienkin William Mathew