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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A85696	Strena Vavasoriensis, a Nevv-Years-gift for the Welch itinerants, or a hue and cry after Mr. Vavasor Powell, metropolitan of the itinerants, and one of the executioners of the Gospel, by colour of the late Act for the propagation thereof in Wales; as also a true relation of his birth, course of life, and doctrines; together with a vindication of several places of Scripture wrested and abused, against the present government, and all publick ministers of this nation. His hymn sung in Christ-Church London; with an antiphona there unto; and a lively description of his propagation.	Griffith, Alexander, d. 1690.	1654 (1654)	Wing G1988; Thomason E727_14; ESTC R19795	21,555	32

5.25 26 27. You have applyed this part of Gods word as you did another place out of the prophecy of Isaiah as unhappily framed and fitted for your own throat as the other was Isa 14.12 How art thou fallen from heaven O Lucifer Son of the Morning c. for thou hast said in thine heart c. I will ascend above the height of the Clouds I will be like the most high c. We will be more modest than to apply the Scripture according to your exposition in the Pulpit But good Mr. Vavasor we shall apply the following verse to your self Thou shalt be brought down to the sides of the pit of your own mistakes The word Lucifer doth not as you suppose and as you explained to your Congregation there in Christ-Church signifie the Devill Though it be true of you according to the Proverb Thou art as proud as Lucifer Venus one of the Planets is called Lucifer or the Morning-star that brings on the daylight we beseech you to confer in the Original because you often boast of your several Languages the 13th of this Prophet v. 10 with Iob 31 26. And Christ our Saviour is also called the Morning-star the Day-spring Luc. 2.78 2 Pet. 1.19 Rev. 2.28 But we suppose scarce any of your Neoterick Expositors comment as you do and few of the Fathers unlesse by way of allusion The true meaning is to represent the Conspicuous estate of the Caldean King and Empire shining as bright as the day-star in the skie See Diodati and the late Engli●h observation of your reading But you said then you would confirm that place with the like in Timothy I must tell you the Hue and Cry is almost ceased and now we must take it up again You are caught you are caught Virus dum vomis ipse vores your place in Timothy is 1 Tim. 3.6 We must have the Patience to read the words as you delivered them with crying Victoria Not a Novice lest being lifted up with pride he fall into the condemnation of the Devill Your Comment was 1 Tim. 3.6 that lest he being lifted up with Pride fall into the condemnation of the Devil There you said the Effect is taken for the Cause Condemnation for Sin So a Novice and who is he 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 one newly come to the Faith not as yet well grounded perhaps one Newly Baptized or newly entred into the first Elements and Principles of Divinity What must such a one not do v. 1. He must not desire the Office of a Bishop Then your Application of Lucifer in the words of Isaiah must be this That you who appeared as Lucifers shining as bright as Day Stars in the Skies seeing you are but Novices not Milites Emeriti neither well grounded some of you not as yet Baptized nor going on to Perfection Heb. 6.1 having not as yet attained the Principles of the Doctrine of Christ being advanced to that high degree that you have waxed proud having obtained the office of Bishops and with Diotrephes treading under foot the Ministers of Jesus Christ and being fallen into the same Condemnation of the Devil whereinto he was fallen which was as one very well observes the Calumniating of his Brethren you and your Brethren worthily deserve the name of Lucifers in your own sense being such Novices by your own confirmation and fallen into your Customary sins the Calumniating and traducing of the true Ministers of Christ Jesus Esa 14.15 That there is no question but you shall be brought down to the side of the pit Gideon Your Example of Gideon for the discovery of Pride by the desire of Rule and Dominion over others Jud. 8.22 is altogether as impertinent as the former Texts were whether you aymed at Persons or Governments You said Gideon was a good man a great Commander and obtained many victories agaisnt the Enemies of God he had many brave Sons and much honored by the people but they came not to be Colonels in a year That the people of God would by all means make Gideon King Come rule thou over us both thou and thy Son and thy Sons Son also for thou hast delivered us from the hand of Midian But Gideon would not accept of the Government he would not v. 23 Rule over them neither should his Son Rule over them Your Example herein cannot hold because he would not Rule therefore others should not Gideon did not refuse the Government because they desired him but because their desire was not regulated by Gods Rule they preferred the Sword of Gideon before the Sword of the Lord but the Sword of the Lord and the Sword of Gideon delivered them from the hands of Midian Gideon refused their Election and Choice because it trenched upon the Prerogative Royall of the Lord and the Choice of Gideon in their sense was the Rejecting of the Lord. But Mr. Vavasor you must observe that Judges were then raised by God in Commiseration of the Affliction of his People in an Extraordinary way by the special motion of his Spirit fitting them for some Particular service and that immediately and in an instant to be put in Execution but not for any setled Course of Government to be continued by Succession but as the State and Condition of his people did require it still reserving the Prerogative in himself which was not to be intrenched upon untill according to his promises a Choise and Succession should be Revealed unto them which in its due time was accomplished The aim of your Example is That as Gideon refused to Rule so you would have none others but that All should Reign as Kings and Rule the Nation as Saints whose inheritance the Earth is but how far herein you dishonour God abuse the Saints debase and vilifie Christs Kingdom and adulterate his blessed truth God in his due time may reveal unto you and inlighten your perverse judgement We are assured the Lord hath and doubt not doth reign where Kings or Protectors do rule and govern the one being not inconsistent because subordinate to the other Nay we know the Lord did promise the Israelites a King Deut. 17 17 18 Gen. 17 6. Pro. 8.15 16. Rev. 6 15. And to Abraham that Kings should comes out of his loyns And it is his Ordinance that by him they shall reign and Princes decree Justice And his blessed Truth contrary to your vain thoughts confirms That Kings of the Earth and great men and rich men and chief Captains and mighty men and bondmen and freemen shall continue till the great day of the wrath of the Lord which is the end of the World Your Expressions concerning Gideons Sons savour more of your wonted virulency than of truth Gideons Son You said that he had many brave Sons and were much honoured by the People How brave they were the Scripture doth not relate but we read that he had seventie by divers wives and Abimelech who slew them all

him to beseech a place at the Footstool of his Tribunal and in Charity to give some room for the poor despised Ministers to appear with him though here as yet they found neither Comfort nor mercy at Mr. Vavasors hands At Llandetty in Brecknock shire he preached That Christ was already come in the flesh the second time and that at London a Girl of twelve years old told her mother that she saw him in the Chamber and said that a Godly man related this unto him and knew it to be true and they that heard him that day should shortly see him too And one John Davies his Proselyle and Journey man in Mountgomery shire having received the same by Tradition from him told very lately to a justice of Peace of that Country That he had seen Christ and was to go the next morning to see him again And being demanded by the Justice what manner of man he was replyed that he was a little old man with a small grey beard And so Mr. Williams an Itinerant of Mr. Vavasors approbation preached in a Sermon in Monmouth-shire That Christ Iesus was such another man as old Rice Williams of Newport one of the Commissioners for the Propagation and that he had a large grey beard Thus it seems the Tithes are their God and the Propagators that pay them their salaries out of the Tithes are their Christs At the same Town of Pool Mr. Powel openly delivered before the Bailiff and the rest of that Corporation That let them Repent or not Repent both Priest and People were all damned And did then absolutely declare That Christ had no Church either in England or Wales but what he and his associats had gathered for him And in a disputation with Mr. A.G. in Keington in Herefordshire he was driven to that pinch as to maintain That the Nation of England was a Nation of Unbelievers And that the words of Christ in 13th Chap. of Matthew concerning the tares and drag-net were contrary to other Scriptures At Manavon in Mountgomery he taught That all our Fore-fathers were damned blasphemously abusing that place of Scripture to confirm his uncharitable opinion I Cor. 15.18 Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished A wretched and malicious Gloss to acknowledge our fore-fathers to die in the Faith of Christ Iesus and the glorious hope of his Resurrection and yet that they shall eternally perish Whereas the Apostle in that Chapter by convincing Arguments confirms the Doctrine of our Resurrection by the Resurrection of Christ which he had fully proved both by forcible Reasons and also by Signs and Wonders which if not true as he had preached then the Corinthians vainly believed Pauls Preaching and dying in the Faith of Christ would be ineffectual unto them If they who died therein Eternally perished At Baryw in the same Countie he taught That Baptism was never ordained for the remission of sins 1 Pet. 3 21. Tit. 3 5. Act 22 16. contrary to several places of Scripture which affirms that Baptism saves us that it is the Lavar or washing of Regeneration which though all this be Analogically spoken being the Obsignation of the thing signified by the sign yet in the true use thereof the Exhibition and Perception of the sign and thing is conjoyned But this Mr. Vavasors Ordinary use to vilisie that sacred Ordinance as he always doth by his Common recital of that place of Scripture Gal. 5.6 15. In Christ Iesus neither Circumcision availeth any thing nor uncircumcision but a new Creature which he and all his followers scornfully apply to the Contempt of Baptism In which place is only meant That the Iewes called to the Faith of Christ after their Circumcision gain nothing by their former Circumcision nor the unbelieving Gentiles being called lose any thing by their uncircumsion for seeing in Christ the Circumcision is spiritual there is no need of carnal At Guilsfield in the same County he preached That Christ was not the Redeemer of the World and being reprehended for his blasphemie answerd that they should not always observe what he said for he that speaks much said he must speak some things amiss And how ridiculous and obseene diverse of his passages have been 13 His obscenity Trefeglwys Llanbryn-Main Machynleth we are very loath to deliver to chast Ears yet we must beseech your Patience to these true Relations In diverse parish Churches in Mountgomery shire he delivered in his Sermon this story That they were many in Company travelling towards London and one of them rid on an Ambling gray horse and meeting another Company where there was a Gentleman that rid on the like colour'd pacing horse when the one gray Horse met the other they stood still and made much the one of the other and would not part Company even so the Saints of God know one another by their paces and colours and will not part Company the one from the other And how modest the Gentleman is may appear by his Obscene expressions in a Sermon preached at Llunddynam in the same Country where being willing to justifie a Sister that had slipped becomes her Compurgator in these words That he called God to witnesse He never saw a Saint Occupie or F a Saint which he explained thus in the Welch tongue Yr ywf yn Galow Duw yn dîst ni welais i yr'ioed Sainct yn myned ar Sainctes And one Richard Powell Vicar of Llanigon in Brecknock shire one of the Approvers in the Act for the Propagation of the Gospel and Itinerant in that County receiving the same by tradition from Mr. Vavasor hath usually delivered in his Sermons both in Herefordshire and Brecknock shire Concerning the manner of Christ's Spirit entring into man that he could not use any sitter Comparison than as the seed of Man entred into the body of a Woman so the Spirit of Christ entred into his head And the same Richard Powell maintained That God was not Creator of the World as was proved against him by sufficient understanding Witnesses before a worthy and godly Justice of Peace of the County of Brecon And often delivered in his Sermons That the Lords Prayer is a rotten Prayer This man is a most scandalous ignorant covetous deboyst fellow and marched before his Parishoners and others against Sir William Waller's forces when they were at Abergavenny reading the Letany out of the Common-prayer which he carried in his hands and yet was made an Approver in the Act and receives Tith in kind from his three neighbouring Parishes Mr. Vavasor Powell to justifie another Sister of his own Congregation who had willfully drowned her self in Draw-well near the Welch Pool delivered publickly in his Sermon there That she was a Saint in Heaven and they who thought otherwise were wicked persons and accursed That she came to her end by the Motion of the Holy Spirit and that it hapned oftentimes when the Saints are filled with the Spirit they run into great Pools instead of