Morgan Llwyd 1619-1659 'Come Wisdom Sweet'

Come Wisdom Sweet'
by Morgan Llwyd 1619-1659
read by Sian Phillips

Morgan Llwyd (1619-1659) played an important role in the religious and political upheavals seen in Wales during the seventeenth century. His intricate, rhetorical prose marks him out as one of his age's foremost authors.

Morgan Llwyd was born in Cynfal-fawr, Maentwrog, Gwynedd in 1619. He went to Wrexham in 1629 to be a pupil in the grammar school. There in 1635 he had a religious conversion when listening to a sermon by Walter Cradock (1610?-59) the Puritanical theologian. He joined Cradock in Llanfair Waterdine, Shropshire, and later travelled with him to Llanfaches where the first Welsh Congregationalist church was established in 1639. When the Civil War started in 1642 Llwyd joined the Parliamentarian army as a chaplain.

In 1644 he was sent by Parliament as a travelling preacher to north Wales and he settled in Wrexham. From 1650 until 1653 he was a Tester under the Spreading the Gospel Act in Wales, and he was responsible for finding appropriate ministers to replace the ones who had been dismissed in the parishes. In 1659 he was made minister of Wrexham parish church but died later that year.


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