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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00537	An exhortation vnto the gouernours, and people of Hir Maiesties countrie of Wales, to labour earnestly, to haue the preaching of the Gospell planted among them. There is in the ende something that was not in the former impression..	Penry, John, 1559-1593.; Waldegrave, Robert, 1554-1604, printer.	1588 (1588)	STC 19605.5; ESTC S94666	73,347	118

by reason of the character of sure destruction that hee will imprint on as manie as shall supplie your places And I trust in the Lord Iesus to see his church florish in wales when the memorie of Lord-Bishops are buried in hell whence they came Beare witnesse hereof you adges to come And giue you ouer your places or doutlesse the plague and cursse of God will eat you vppe You are vsurpers you tyrannize ouer the Lords people I haue other things to do then to be a contentious man one with whome the whole world should be at debate and I am guiltie vnto my selfe of sins which giue me iust cause to look vpon the ground I haue also a life whereof there is no cause I thanke God I should bee weary notwithstanding this I offer to loose the life of my body before man and the life of my soule before the Lord if I do not prooue that both you our non-residents and you our Lord Bishops of VVales in that you be non-residents and Lord-Bishops cannot be warranted by gods word yea or vtterly condemned by the same and that all magistrates who tollerate such as you are to be vnder their gouernment are guiltie of a fearefull sinne before the Lord. And that the Pope of Rome hath as good warrant yea the verie same warrant for his papall dignitie although I know three differences betweene you and him first hee is a professed Idolater secondlie claimeth authority ouer all pastors thirdly is subiect to no ciuill magistrat that you haue for the maintenance of your papall hierarchy ouer al the Pastors in your dioces which indeed is palpable Anarchie in Gods church If I proue not these things let me be burnt aliue cal me to mine answere when you wil thus I leaue you As for you our dumbe ministers I know you for the most part to be seelie men poore soules that made the ministery a meanes to liue in the world What should I say vnto you who maye say of your selues as did the foolishe Prophetes Though wee weare a surplice black garments to deceiue a Zach. 13.5 (42) 42 yet are we but plaine husbandmen c. Surelie the people may aske counsell as well of their thresh-houlds or desire their staffes to teach them knowledge as come vnto you for anie instruction You are no ministers as I haue and againe wil prooue you do most villanously prophane the sacraments and call for the wrath and vengeance of God to be powred vpon you (43) 43 Giue ouer your places or surely I do not see how it is possible you should be saued Better were it to liue poorelye heere for a time then to be damned for euer It is reason your outward estate should bee considered The Lorde will prouide for you your wiues and chidren if of conscience you leaue the ministery and the magistrate is bound not to see you want You liue nowe vppon stealth sacriledge and the spoile of soules The Lord open your eies my brethren the people of VVales to see these your plagues and to auoid them It is vnpossible you should be saued as long as you content your selues with these men their ministerie alone And the Lord open your Honors eies to reforme these confusions What the estate of my countrie is before the Lorde I haue hitherto shewed nowe in the face of the world how it standeth let vs consider That the most congregations in VVales haue wanted preaching these nine and twenty yeres I take it graunted Their case being thus I tremble to cal to mind what censure the holie ghost giueth of all them amongest whome the Gospell of saluation hath not bin preached These two places of scripture Ephes 1.13 2.11.17 conferred togither shew that they are without Christ aliants froÌ„ the common-welth of Israel haue no hope and are without God in the world for these be the verie wordes of the apostle who haue not heard of the word preached VVere the Prophet Ionas then now liuing among vs wold he not crie out O you people of Wales you are al reprobats and cast-aways O you people of Wales you are aliaunts from the communion of the true Churche O you people of Wales you are not so much as encluded within the couenaÌ„t of promise you are without al hope of heauenly blis O ye people of Wales whatsoeuer you pretend of the knowledge of the true God you are in very deede starke atheists without god as many of you as since the time you came out of the den of idolatrie and Poperie were not made pertakers of the power of God to saluation which is the gospell Of a truth my brethren there is no other true censure to bee giuen of you (44) 44 For it is impossible to make a true face of a Church appear among that nation which hath professed false religion as you haue done vnder poperie without the preaching of the woorde which you haue not enioyed In this place I am sorie I am sorie from my heart that the miserable estate of my poore countrey affoordeth the aduersarie such a demonstration to proue that we want the outwarde face of a church in the most assemblies in Wales as I know to be vnanswerable The marks of a true church a Mat. 28.18.19 out of our sauiour Christs owne wordes are gathered to be three the woord preached the right administration of the Sacramentes and the outwarde forme of gouernement Now if an Idolatrous dog of Rome should affirme that the most congregations in Wales since the time they were Romish sinagogues haue bin marked with neither of these three former markes and therefore must bee written in the blacke bill of insufficiencie to be churches of God hee were able to prooue both the one and the other and we with confusion of face should bee driuen with Hezekias seruants to answer this Rabshaketh not a word For b 2. King 18.36 alas what might be our answere c 1. Pet. 1.21 Begotten again out of the wombe of popery by the word preached most of our assemblies haue not beene As for Discipline our Prophets are not ashamed publikelie to professe that they will not bee reformed by it If we would flie vnto the testimonies that wee might haue from the Sacraments the Lord himselfe will denie it to be possible for them to haue bene rightlie vsed among vs. Which I wil proue by many reasons that my countrey-men may be driuen to seek the remedie if anye thing can driue them of such a pitifull condition as wherein they nowe are being without the woord without the true vse of the Sacraments without Christes holy gouernement by the knowlege of that righteous one who is said a Esay 53.11 thereby to iustifie many Let no man doe me the iniurie to report that I denie anye members of Christ to be in Wales I protest I haue no such meaning and would die vpon the perswasion that the lorde hath his chosen

no other saluation and no other Christ then of that Christ and that saluation whereof hee that administreth hath warraunt from the Lord to assure them off This warrant because meere readers haue not it followeth that in communicating with them men either profanelie consider not what they doe or make choyce of a false Christ and a deceiuable saluation Because they will haue no other Christ and no other saluation then that Christ and that saluation the seales whereof ignorant ministers haue commission from the Lord to deliuer which indeede is no Christ and no saluation 13 Lastly 13 where as by Baptisme I am iovned vnto the societie of Christians I declare thereby that if there bee no saluation to be hadde among them I will not be saued but am content to be a cast-away for euer Nowe alacke if he that administreth hath no warrant to receiue me into this company what comfort can I haue by that action Though the Lord in mercie make it an authenticall Sacrament I could be assured of no such thing My good brethren consider therefore what you doe in permitting your children to bee baptized by your dumbe ministers consider what you do in receiuing the Lords Supper at their handes Would you haue your children ingraffed into your selues assured of no other Christ then these your simple readers can laie open If you would aduenture no more to deal with them Of a truth my brethren your sinne hath bene alreadie vnmeasurably great Repent repent and that betimes Fall downe before the Lorde desire him to forgiue you And sinne no more in this execrable profanation of Gods holie misteries Labour to haue true Pastors placed ouer you and rest not vntill you haue broght this to passe In the mean time carrie your children a 1000. miles to a true minister of God to bee baptized rather then offer them vnto your hierlings Yea if you cannot when you haue done al you can get baptisme without the breach of Gods institution as God be thanked you may vnder her Maiestie leaue them vnbaptized An intollerable speach will some say in this age Impudent and vngodly age wherein to affirme that it is not lawfull to breake the lawe of the eternall is thought intollerable 1 Is it not prooued a 1 sinne to communicate with our wicked blind Pastours and hath this age 2 any dispensation to sinne Hhuzzah 2 should not haue offended for not vpholding the ark a Sam. 67.8 nb 4.15 although the same hadde beene broken in shiuers where as the verie touching of it contrarie to the commaundement of God euen to staye it from falling cost him his life And shall wee escape if wee breake Gods holy institution in the Baptisme of our children assuredlie no. To 3 omitte a sinne is no sinne and therefore to omitte baptisme if it cannot be gotten without sinne is lawfull It 4 is not the omission but the carelesse and negligent seeking offend not this way in anie case or the wilfull or vtter contempt of Baptisme that displeaseth the Lord. The Israelites 5 should haue sinned in offering a Deut. 12.5.4.1 king 8.29 sarifice out of Ierusalem and therefore all the time of their captiuitie in Babylon they would be with-but that comfort of their faith rather then offeÌ„d So ought we rather to want the sacraments then sinne by inioyning of them Your Honour is cited in this place my Lord before Gods tribunall seat and charged in the name of the etereall and almightie God as you shall answere at the dreadfull daie of iudgement that you suffer not his holie misteries any more to bee profaned where your authority may withstand the same A word of your mouth might restraine the flood of this pollution The Lorde giue you a feeling and an vnderstanding heart Remember the godlie rulers and noble men that haue beene before you Moses Iehoshuah Dauid Salomon Iehosaphat Hezekiah Ioshiah Hebedmelech Nehemiah with the rest who nowe rest with the Lord. b Exo. 32.31.32 Fall downe before your God with Moses and say O this people haue sinned a great sinne in liuing all this while without the word preached in suffering their children to be baptized of ignorant ministers therefore now wilt thou pardon their sinne c Nomb. 14.17 And now I beseech thee let the power of my Lord appeare as thou hast said Iehouah is slow to anger c. Be mercifull I beseech thee vnto this people c. and the Lorde I trust will answere your honour as he did Moses I haue pardoned them according vnto thy request Blessed yea ten thousand times blessed were your people if you made such a prayer for them and receiued such an answere Well the condicion of my deere countrie being thus fearefull before the Lorde and damnable in the sight of the world what is nowe to bee doone that it may bee bettered Verily this procure you the woorde preached for your selues and obay the same or els woe woorth you woe woorth you I say Magistrates Gentlemen Ministers and people for otherwise you reiect Iesus Christ and wil not haue him to raigne ouer you I haue set downe the onelie ordinarie waye to saluation the Lorde for the maintenaunce of the estate of any of you will not finde another though he may Therefore enter into this or be damned For shall the highest make newe decrees because the sonne of the clay dust and ashes base and contemptible man wyll not tread the olde and auncient pathes No. You must not onelie haue the worde but obey it in euerie point and shewe by your good workes that indeed it hath bene sowen among you Therefore if you meane to bee like the common professours of these daies who couenaunt before hande with the Lord that their pride and estate must bee maintained whatsoeuer he requireth who are more busie to woonder at other mens infirmities then to beate downe their owne sinnes who will not diminish one ior of their horrible couetousnesse and oppressing of their tenaunts loose one gry of their whoorish pompe and more than curtisanlike brauerie though the truth should in the meane time bee gored through with slaunders presume not once to open your mouthes for the woord preached vnlesse you woulde aggrauate your owne damnation For assure your selues heoreof that the popish Idolaters the atheists and swinish epicures of these daies who haue bidden battell vnto all religion and honestie shal feel of the fierce wrath of god in the life to com but as for the mocke-Gods I meane the common Protestants of this age who thinke they doe a meritorious worke because they intertaine the word in their families yea do not expell the same out of the places where they haue ought to doe woe bee vnto them a Math. 11.21 for they shall be like Corazin they shall bee like Bethsaida they shall bee like Capernaum The worde preached you see you must haue liue according vnto it you must serue the Lorde as hee willeth in euerie

works of a minister in deed may according to the ordinance of God be performed by those who both haue a function diuers from yea contrarie to these readers function as good is to euill vz. by preachers whose calling being a sanctified calling must needes be in nature not onely diuers from but contrarie to the caling of readers which is not warranted by the worde a calling warranted and a calling not warranted being contrarie and detest without offence vnto Gods children such a ministerie as dumb readers take vpon them Therefore our bare readers though they haue the name and supplie the place of ministers are not ministers in deed And not being in deed ministers it is not left vnto me as a thing indifferent by christian libertie whether I will communicate with theÌ„ or no Because that of necessity I am bound to com for the sacraments vnto the ordinaunce of a Math. 21.25 11.11 1. cor 12.4.11 God that is vnto a minister and not vnto the ordinance of the church neither haue I any liberty to attempt the contrarie And as before hath bene prooued euery minister is the ordinaunce of b 1. Cor. 12.5.28 ephes 4.7.11 God not the ordinance of the Church ordained when our sauiour Christe led captiuitie c Ephes 4.8 math 28.19 captiue and not since Nowe our readers being but the ordinance of the Church ordained since that time and the Church hauing no libertie to ordaine sacramentes I haue also no libertie no not in the time of necessitie to come vnto the ordinance of the Church for the sacramentes because there I can haue no more for any thing I know then the Church whence the ordinance is hath power to giue And I pray you what sacrament is that which the bare ordinance of the Church can deliuer These be some of the reasons and I take no delight in the nomber of them wherevpon as on the infallible trueth of Gods sacred word I dare boldly conclude the most within wales supplying the places of ministers to be no ministers in deed and to haue nothing in them that giueth life vnto a minister good or bad And therevpon I dare as boldly affirme the course to bee a wicked and sismatticall course which they take that seperate them selues from the publike assemblies where the word preached is truly taught in this land as from those who serue the true God after a false maner In the examination of whiche reasons I protest with a good conscience that I haue so laboured both at the first edition of the booke some reasons then moouing me to deale more timorouslie in the action since that time especialle as I haue not suffered my selfe to be deceiued by any sophisme or fallation And I prorest before the Lord that vpon these grounds I both assuredly know their course of whome I haue spoken to be dangerous and detestable and am also as surely perswaded that menne not ordained of God for the gathering of the saints are no ministers whatsoeuer calling they haue in the Church as I beleeue the blessed apostle Paule to haue beene an apostle sent from God And bicause I am one daye to bee reckonad with before the iudgement seat of Iesus Christe of my sinceare dealing in both those points and liue now in the church of God the least member whereof Woe be vnto me if I offende because also I liue vnder hir highnes a Christian Magistrate whose sacred ancthoritie I subiect my selfe vnto reuerence as the royall ordinance of gods owne maiestie and whose positiue lawes and proccdings as far as I may with a good conscience tollerate their imperfections I dare not gain-saye because likewise what I haue written shal be recorded and called in question in the church of God when I am gone the way of all flesh vnto whome I am afraide to commend my name as a brocher of newe doctrines therefore I haue beene carefull to sette down nothing but that which will abide the triall of all whosoeuer and abide firme against all If any of my godly teuereÌ„d lerned brethren of the church of Englande will doe me the fauour which thing I earnestly request at their hands in short syllogisms to communicate with mee in writing their reasons for the ministerie of these ignoraunt men I shall haue cause to praise the Lord and thanke them for their loue towards me in this point also and the easier satisfie whatsoeuer may be sayd on the behalf of this vnlearned I woulde vnknowen ministerie I greatlye reuerence many godlye and learned that are contrary minded vnto me in this cause I know my yeares to bee subiect vnto that bolde temerity hoat and heady rashnes which blessed Timothy in a 1. Tim. 2.22 consideration of his age was bidden by the Apostle to auoide notwithstanding in regarde of the cause in humilitie before the Lord his elect angels and children bee it spoken I may iustly for beit I should contemne and despise almost not vouchesafe to answer whatsoeuer man or angell can bring against it And I dare arest and attaint of high treason against the maiestie of the highest all those both men and aungels who either defend the communicating with them lawfull communicate with them or tollerate them as ministers vnder their gouernement TO THE LL. OF THE COVNSEL ANd for asmuch as both in this place for tollerating the dumb ministerie and in the book page 36 for suffering non-residents and the papall Lordships of our 4. L. Bb. in Wales I affirm our gouerriours to be guiltie of fearefull sinnes before the Maiestie of God I am with all the humilitie reuerence and submission my heart can conceiue to vse a speach vnto your HH my Lordes of her maiesties priuy CouÌ„sel The cause that moueth me heerevnto is the discharge of my dutie towards the Lorde my God towards his Church towardes my natiue Countrey and towardes your Honours which could not stand with my silence in this point concerning the Lord because I am a poore wretched sinner vppon whome he hath shewed great mercie in calling mee to the knowledge of his son and pardoning my dreadfull sinnes I haue taken a bond of my selfe by his grace to be come an enemy vnto sinne in my selfe especially and in all others as far as my calling will permitte without respect of persons time place estate or condicion of life whatsoeuer And therfore your Hh. are not to marueile if I seeke the ouerthrowe of these places callings and corruptions L. Bishops readers and non-residents I mean whose continuance standeth with the lords most notable dishonour and detest sinne euen in your Hh. whose aucthority good name credit estimation and high places next vnto her royall Maiesties I ought and by the grace of God will defende against all the detractours there of with the losse of my life when it shall be needfull As for the Church of God wherevnto I haue bene begotten through the word preached by means of my abode

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