365 Quotations from Welsh Christians

But now by the exceeding goodness of Almighty God and your very kind interest (Elizabath I's) and the watchful solicitude of the Bishops and by the labours and industry of this your translator this (the translation of the Bible into Welsh) has been accomplished so that we may have both more numerous and better prepared preachers, and hearers more apt to learn. William Morgan 1545-1604

(While the Scriptures remain untranslated for Welsh speakers) ... how many examples, alas, lie concealed to them? how many promises lie hidden away? how many consolations are obscured? and finally how many admonitions, exhortations, warnings, and testimonies to the truth are missed unwillingly by our people whom Your Majesty (Elizabeth I) governs, cares for and loves, .... William Morgan 1545-1604

(Monoglot Welsh speakers of the time) ... they whose eternal salvation, hateful to Satan alone, and his satellites, has so far been grievously endangered, since everyone lives through faith, and faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God which hitherto lying hid in a foreign tongue had scarcely sounded into the ears of our countrymen. William Morgan 1545-1604