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His t >< K 5 k , of near 40 O pages 8 vo » was entitled ** Goleuhi wedi tori alian yn nghyrhrti ;* ' or , Light broken out in Wales / 1 The Baptists engaged in this warfare under no small disadvan - tage . From the eirctiiiistances above-noticed , they were obliged to have Mr . O / S book translated into English ^ that Mr . Keacft
might answer it ; and afterwards they were obliged to havfc Mr . Keach * s book again translated into Welsh , that it might appear in the language of- the country , in reply to Mr * O / A peribnttaiice , and in defence of their own principles This translation was not well executed , though tolerably intelligible . The baok , however , served to rn ^ ke their cause appear respectable j and they might be said to owe more to the goodness of
their c&use than to the skill or ability of their translator . I know not who he was , but suppose him to be Mr . Robert Morgan , of Swansea , who was an acquaintance and correspondent of Mr . Keach . I do not , howqver , know that they have among them , even at this time , any that could execute the work better ; for they have been always remarkably remiss in cultivating :
ah acciifate knowledge of their mother tongue . Though other seets have among them good Welsh writers , that is by nd rne&ns the case with them ; not one in ten of their ministers is capable of writing a page of common Welsh correctly j and as to being what may be called masters of a good Welsh style * it
is what none of them have any pretension to . I speak this to their sha « ie and have often thought of it with serious concern Sometime after Mr . Keach's book made its appearance ^ Mr , O * drew up and published a reply to it , in which he assumed rather a lofty tone , as one that was conscious of his superiority ; &nd there the dispute ended . . Mr . O . wrote several books , some in Welsh and others ih
English ^ beside those two just mentioned . His other Welsh books were , 1 . " Trugared d a Barn /* or , ' * Mercy and Judgment ; ' ? which is a collection of remarkable judgfcnents upon notorious sinners , with instances of signal mercies vouchsafed . to divefs good men . This book he recommends his native countrymen , to read , instead of monkish tales and romantic fables , with
\ vhieh the vulgar used to divert themselves in winter evenings and at other idle times . 2 . A Welsh Translation of the Assembly ' s Catechism , in which he reduced the questions to the number of weeks in the year , and added something relating to the nature and state of angels . 3 , A small tract on the thities and
^ f Ministers People to one another * — -Of his English puBlications the following were the chief ; i . * A PJea for Scripttire Ordination /* provirig the validity of ordiiiiittm by Plhesb ^ - * ers without diocesan Bishops , b ^ ten 4 rguittc * f S S tts ftbinii *? rlptuie and antiquity ; thte was printed m 16 ^ 4 . 2 . A Tftanksgrvtttfe
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Aug. 2, 1806, page 401, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1727/page/9/
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