is set before them, looking up to Jesus the author and finisher of their Faith. And that hee would blesse their Widowed Congregati∣ons, and guide them with his Holy Spirit, That they may hold fast the forme of Doctrine, which was once delivered unto them; And that the great Shepheard of the Sheepe, would continu∣ally Leade and Governe them, To whose Gratious care and Protection, they doe heartily Recommend them in their Prayers.
And doe earnestly beseech you (the Reverend Ministers of the Gospell of Jesus Christ in England) to lay to heart, and be grieved for the affliction of your poore Josephs, the ejected Ministers of Wales. And to be a meanes (at least) that their Wives and Children may enjoy a competency of liveli-hood, and subsist∣ence, and that they may understand what hath beene laid to ch••ir Charge, and be made capable without expence (being wholy disabled) to make their answer thereunto.
O! mou••ne for the affliction of your disconsolate Sister: Is it nothing to you that passe by? Behold and see if there be any sorrow like unto he sorrow. All beauty is departed from her Sion, the Lord hath taken away the Tabernacle, destroyed his places of the Assembly, and caused the solemne Fast, and Sabbaths to be forgotten among them: Is this nothing to you?
O! Shee is your little Sister, and shee hath (now) no Breasts, What will ye do for your Sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
O comfort her by the Comfort, wherewith yee your selves have been Comforted of God; Plead her cause, as the Lord hath plea∣ded yours. For if it had not been the Lord, who was on your side (may now the Ministers of England say) if it had not been the Lord, who was on your side, when their Enemies rose up against you also; Then they had swallowed you up, and those proud Waters had overwhelmed, and gone over your soules.
But praysed be God, who hath raised you a Mighty deliver∣er in the Day of your tryall, and praised by the God of your Salvation.
FINIS.