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Among all this their Complaintes, wee may not forget those of their respective Congregations, who are forced to pay their Tithes more exactly then ever they did before; And yet have nothing in lieu thereof, neither the comfort
of Praying, and Preaching, nor Sacraments, nor visiting the sick, nor of any decency of Buriall, for few or none are su••sti∣tuted to these Offices in the roomes of those that performed them: And for the number of the Itinerants in each County, (whose Fathers had designed them to other vocations,) they do goe up and down the Countrey to preach where, and when they please themselves: so that men are glad to hear a Sermon in some places once in a twelve moneth, and in most places once in a moneth; That were wont to have one at least, every Lords Day.—Ei succus pecori & lac subducitur agnis.
The Children crie for Bread (the Bread of life) and there is none to give it them, or else instead of Bread they have but a Scorpion, and are fed with Poyson instead of Manna, and wholesome food, to wit, the poyson of false Doctrine, Heresie and Sedition, being leavened with the sowrest Tenets of Ana∣baptisme, and whose wayes (as is now too apparent) are de∣structive to Magistracy, as well as Ministery, which they boldly vent among their hearers.
And this is a plaine and briefe Account of the Prosecution, and Managery of the Act for the better Propagation of the Gospell in Wales; and let all Christian people judge What Propagation this was.