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of a Welsh translation of the < c Whole Duty of Man / ' These things deserve to be commemorated , and demand the gratitude of the present generation of Weishmen . After J ames Owen had been constrained to leave Soiith Wales , he removed to Bodwei in Caernarvonshire , but the prospect he had of a shelter there soon vanished . ; - for he had
not been long there before be felt the rigour of those penalties with which he had been threatened in the South . His ministry was vfery acceptable , and > vhert disengaged from the public work * he usuall y studied 16 out of the 24 hours . After having remained in that country as a prisoner for about nine months *
he was conveyed by night to Bronyciydwr in Merionethshire , the house of the eminently useful Hugh Owen , the subject of the preceding sketch- The great encouragement be had to fix in that country did but increase the persecuting flame , which obliged him to remove . Among others , a gentleman who had declared his resolution to banish all dissenters out of the country , was his virulent adversary . He however falling into a bad state of health soon after , went to Salop for the advice of able physicians , but ( as his biographer observes ) was stirprized with death where he hoped to have the lease of his life renewed . In November 1676 he had a call to Swiney , near Oswestree , in Shropshire , where he settled in quality of Chaplain to Mrs * Baker of that place , a lady of eminent piety ; and lie preached to a congregation of serious people in and about Oswestree , who
had for thirty years enjoyed the labours of that worthy minister Rowland Nevet , who died December 1675 . After he had preached for some time as a probationer with acceptance , he was solemnly set apart for the ministry in October 1677 , and had this honourable testimony given him by his ordainers- —• " That he was a young man well qualified for that great work ; and that they believed he would be an eminent instrument to
propagate the gospel , do good to souls , and advance the kingdom of our Lord Jesus" —all which was afterwards remarkably confirmed and verified ^ He now redoubled his diligence to propagate Christian knowledge in the dark parts of his native country , and took frequent journeys fpr " that purpose , but was soon opposed with greater
i in ry than ever . In one of his journeys , as he was going from Chester to preach at Treythyn in Flintshire , being a stranger in those parts , he inquired the way at a place which happened to be a public house , and where there was a company of genttleme ** then drinking . One of them , a bitter enemy to dissenters , overhearing what passed , stcpt out and asked him to whom he would be directed there ? When he had innocently told him , the gentleman said he knew the person well , and was his vfcry
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Biographical Sketches . ' 231
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1806, page 231, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1724/page/7/
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