The Humble REPRESENTATION AND ADDRESS TO His Highness OF SEVERAL CHURCHES & CHRISTIANS IN SOUTH— WALES, AND Monmouth-Shire. Presented Thursday January 31. LONDON, Printed by Henry Hills and John Field; Printers to His Highness, MDCLVI. To His Highness Oliver Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland, and Ireland, and the Dominions and Territories thereunto belonging. The humble Representation and Address of several Churches and Christians in south-wales and Monmouth-Shire. May it please your Highness, WE should yet longer have contented ourselves with praying and praising God for you in secret, and taken advantage from our distance, as to public affairs, and from your Highness most Christian and favourable understanding of us, to have still forborn any address of this manner to you, but that a late printed Paper, entitled, A word for God, or a Testimony, &c. from several Churches, and divers hundreds of Christians in Wales, &c. coming 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 generality of the good people there) We therefore think ourselves loudly called upon to assure your Highness, that most of such as fear the Lord in that Country are not lead aside with those temptations; but continue still, through grace, such as you judged them once to be, highly esteeming and honouring not only your person, as being before them in Christ; but also that Government and Magistracy, which God by most eminent and signal providences hath called you to the exercise of over these Nations, and cannot now but in the rear of some thousands of good people bear 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 Gospel, the just rights of all the people, are, under God, embarked; 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 affencted us, that while you are sitting at the Stern, 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 Vessel. Nor can you easily judge how much we are grieved, that your Highness should have any seeming occasion to think the generality 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 bless God for you exceedingly, if we might but under you led a quiet and peaceable 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 another rate by our Fore-fathers, and such as no Nation in the world besides, that we hear of, do enjoy; yet we cannot rest there, but must aclowledge that( which in private hath rejoiced our hearts) wee see other good things upon the wheel. Endeavours and ways taken to remove all oppression 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 Foreign parts owned and sympathized with in their Distress; Designs laid in the most probable way for the extirpation of Popery, and making further passage for the Gospel and kingdom of our Lord in the world, which the hearts and spirits of the Saints, for these 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, whose ways are in the deep, not weighing aright what experience might have taught us all ere this, that his usual course is to pull down where he intends to build, and to make instruments base and vile, that his own arm may be considered when he shall appear with them, and we humbly take notice, that not onely in this case, men run before God in prescribing ways and times for the bringing forth the merciful dispensations he hath promised to these latter daies, 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 fought for, we and the rest of our Brethren of this Commonwealth may, if we would deal faithfully with God and with ourselves, justly aclowledge that our grievous Sins and our sad and unparrallel'd abuse of those manifold mercies already received, together with that monstrous pettishness, and too common an indisposition in divers good men to follow God, and to yield cheerful obedience to him in your government( which doubtless is of his own workmanship) is the real proper cause why any good thing hoped for by any man is so sadly retarded and endangered. It is not our meaning to trace our Brethren in all the particulars mentioned in that Paper, as the imprisoning some Noblemen, &c. which we 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 that respect they do, though Cavaliers and Enemies, our Brethren to magnify the opposition, do not forget the Spirit themselves were once of towards them, and all their Party; Nor what they urge touching the continuing the Army, together with the Taxes, Customs, Excise, &c. even as they say in a 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 miracle be otherwise) conserved 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 sense 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 scandal 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 ravel into, and put contrary senses on those passages of providence, which themselves together with the generation of the Saints had once written Ebenezer upon; which God in his own time will( we hope) mercifully convince them of. In the mean space, as we have( through grace) some fellow-feeling with you in your burdens, so we rejoice in the goodness of God to you, that hath armed you with such a measure of strength, as in the midst of trouble enough from other hands to be able to bear with the numerous oppositions; contradictions and infirmities of the weak Saints, and while that Spirit that is in them( which perhaps they know not) carried them to be pulling down the Wall 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 evil of this late Paper( though it be very great) will not prevail over that glorious spirit in you, but that you will still in some likeness to your heavenly Father, be doing good for evil, and rendering love and compassion for perverseness, and so convince calumny itself. And God, even your God, will be with you in the rest of the works he hath given you to do; And( after we hope many years longer over us) reckon you amongst the Overcommers, and welcome you into his own eternal joy and glory, which is the prayers of Your Highness most humble Servants and Subjects in the Lord. Ralph Williams Edward Harry George Robinson Hugh Rogers John Nicholas William Blethin Edward Herbert Thomas Martin John Williams George Morgan Richard Williams Rice Jones Richard Parker Morgan Jones John Gregory Thomas calls Nicholas Peather William Arnold John Watkins, Lewes Rogers Robert Jones James Kemeys Alexander Jones Francis Watkins Walter William Harry John Wlliam John Robert Curnock Griffin Jenkin, William Pitcher Francis John Walter Howel Andrew Lewes Edward Lewis Lewis Richard George Edwards Morgan William Hopkin Rogers Morgan Rosser John began Rosser Edward Walter William Rich. Howel William Thomas Giles Morgan Rice Williams Rosser Thomas Harry Thomas Edw. 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