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A21108	A plaine path-vvay to plantations that is, a discourse in generall, concerning the plantation of our English people in other countries. Wherein is declared, that the attempts or actions, in themselues are very good and laudable, necessary also for our country of England. Doubts thereabout are answered: and some meanes are shewed, by which the same may, in better sort then hitherto, be prosecuted and effected. Written for the perswading and stirring vp of the people of this land, chiefly the poorer and common sort to affect and effect these attempts better then yet they doe. With certaine motiues for a present plantation in New-found land aboue the rest. Made in the manner of a conference, and diuided into three parts, for the more plainnesse, ease, and delight to the reader. By Richard Eburne of Hengstridge in the countie of Somerset.	Eburne, Richard.	1624 (1624)	STC 7471; ESTC S105454	98,023	134

by him most affected all tending to this maine end To moue our people of England to plant themselues abroad and free themselues of that penurie and perill of want wherein they liue at home But none that I know hath handled the point in generall viz. to shew the benefit and the good the lawfulnesse and the ancient and frequent vse the facilitie and necessitie that is indeed if I may so speake the Doctrine of Plantations That taske therefore haue I vndertaken which how I haue performed I leaue to others to iudge requesting this at your hands beneuolent and curteous Readers that you obserue and consider First That I am the first that hath broken this Ice and searched out this way and that therefore it must needs be to me more rough and rude then if I had passed a smooth water and gone along in an vsuall and beaten path Secondly That my whole purpose and intent is principally and specially to doe some good this way for and with the meaner sort of our people to whose capacitie therefore it was fit and more then fit necessarie that I should fit and frame my speech That obserued I doubt not but you will not onely beare with but also approue of my plainnesse as best befitting my purpose to worke and my subiect to worke vpon the more learned and iudicious sort I freely and ingeniously acknowledge my selfe more desirous to haue my Teachers and directours in this kind of Learning then my Readers and Followers If any thinke it a point beyond my Compasse for a Diuine by Profession to deale with an argument of this Nature viz. to intreat of Plantations which are commonly taken to be a matter altogether of Temporall and Secular right Let him be pleased to know First That I am not alone nor the first in this attempt but haue for my president the precedent examples of some farre before me in Learning and Knowledge as Master Hackluit who long since wrote a great Volumne of English Voiages Master Crashaw in England and Master Whitaker in Virginia who haue both employed their Pens and paines for that Plantation Secondly That Plantations are Actions wherein we also of the Cleargie are as farre interessed as any other They are as free for vs as for others and if men will haue any hope that they shall prosper in their hands we must haue a distinct part a certaine share and Cleargie-like Portion in them as well as men of other places and qualities haue theirs And therefore to write and discourse of and for them it behoueth and becommeth vs of the Cleargie as well and as much as any other Thirdly That one proper and principall end of Plantations is or should be the enlargement of Christs Church on Earth and the publishing of his Gospell to the Sons of Men and therefore in that respect it cannot but properly and directly belong vnto them to whom Christ hath giuen commandement and authority aboue others to take care of his Flock to seeke the furtherance of the Gospel and to sound forth the glad tidings of Saluation to all Nations to be principall Agents therein and speciall furtherers thereof That my proofes and examples are most out of the Bible and Sacred Histories I haue done it of purpose not onely because they are with me most familiar and of best authoritie but because they should be so with all Christians euen the Lay sort likewise As I am not of the Papists opinion that is to care little for the Scripture so I like not to be of the Popish fashion which is to fill the peoples eares with sound of the Names of Fathers Councels and others-like which they nor are nor can be acquainted with but to let them heare little and see lesse the Word of God in which they easily might and certainly should be ripe and ready and well both seene and read Besides for this present argument it is so frequent in the Scriptures that there is not any substantiall point thereabout for or of the which because the practice thereof was verie much in those times there is not some either precept or president to be found If I haue any where dissented from the common practice and shewed some dislike of the ordinarie proceedings in these Proiects I desire but so farre to be borne with and accepted as I bring good reason for it and declare or intimate some iust and reasonable cause thereof Though I haue not presumed to set downe any certaine and regular platforme of a good and right Plantation which happely to haue done would haue seemed in me too much either boldnesse or rashnesse yet thus much I presume to affirme of that I haue written that if any will read and consider it well he may without any great labour collect and find out a true and good platforme of such an Action I haue so answered many and most of the common Obiections made against and about these attempts that out of and by the same an answer may likewise be shaped to any other obiection that lightly can be made there-against The whole I haue so drawne vnto certaine heads and s●…rted againe into seuerall parts as I thought might best accord with the matter haudled and be most likely to yeeld ease and delight to the Reader Wherein that I haue digested all into the forme of a Conference or Dialogue hauing so many examples for it and most of them from the best of all Ages I am so far from fearing lest thereby I should offend any that I presume rather that in that point and paines aboue the rest howsoeuer I be a little the larger because of the Interlocution I shall be the better accepted my meaning and drift the sooner perceiued and my Labours and Lines the oftner lookt vpon and perused And now that I may reuert my speech to you my countrimen and friends you I say of the meaner sort for whose sake chiefly out of the abundance of my ardent loue and feruent desire to doe you good I haue put my selfe to all this paines I haue vndertaken this worke Be pleased I pray you to peruse that is to reade and cause to be read to you ouer and ouer this booke which I haue written to you and for you The Argument whereof I intreat therein is of Plantations which howsoeuer attempted by many worthy great and honourable Personages yet seeme little to bee accepted and respected of you for whom of all other they are most necessary and to whom properly they are intended Looks vpon the miserie and want wherein you doe and abiding in England you cannot but liue Looke vpon the plentie and felicitie wherein going hence you may liue Preferre not pouertie before riches nor your perpetuall euill and wretchednesse before perpetuall good happines Now is a time wherein you may do you and yours nitie for euer if you will Now God doth offer you that Opportugood with choice of place to rid your selues from your present miserie and

those goodly Countreys which there God doth offer to giue vnto vs and to our seed Secondly Thereby I am inabled with Ioshua and Cal●…b Num. 14. to stop the mouthes and confute the malice of them that in my hearing like the ten vnfaithfull spies shall goe about to bring vp an euill report vpon those good lands and stay the murmurings of such foolish ignorant people as vpon euery idle hearesay or any lazie vagrants letter are ready to beleeue the worst withall thirdly I am the better prepared to informe them and others that are willing to know the truth and certaintie thereof Resp. I see there is good vse to be made of such bookes if a man will And therefore I shall from henceforth forbeare to thinke of them as I haue done and I shall desire you to lend me that booke of yours for a day or two that I may reade it ouer also Enr. I shall willingly lend you this and one after another two or three more that I haue of the like argument For I wish with all my heart that both you and all my friends were as well acquainted in them as I am Resp. I thanke you much for this courtesie But seeing you make such vse reckoning of those books it seemes that you make more account of the actions themselues that is of Plantations whereof they doe intreat which yet I euer held and so I know do many else that be men of good wit and vnderstanding to be but idle proiects and vaine attempts Enr. Without any dislike or disparagement to any other mens wits or vnderstandings be it spoken for mine own part I do professe I estimate account the Actions themselues to be very good and godly honourable commendable and necessary such as it were much to be wished might be and much to be lamented they be not in farre better sort then hitherto any of them are followed and furthered as which tend highly first to the honour and glory of Almightie God Secondly to the Dignitie and Renowne of the Kings most excellent Maiestie And thirdly to the infinite good and benefit of this our Commonwealth Three things then which none weightier or worthier can in any Designe or Proiect be leuelled or aimed at Resp. You make me euen amazed to heare of you that so great good may be effected or expected out of those Courses which of many are so much contemned and dispraised Wherefore for my better satisfaction therein I pray you let me heare of you in particular somewhat how these notable effects might be produced and namely first the Glory and Honour of God Enr. The Glory of God cannot but be much furthered thereby were it but onely that the Gospel of Christ should thereby be professed and published in such places and countries by those alone that shall remoue from hence to inhabite there where before since the beginning of the Gospel for ought we know or is likely it was neuer heard at least professed as it is now of late come to passe God be praised and we hope will be shortly in Newfound land Resp. Will be say you Me thinkes you should rather haue reckoned that among the first because that for fiftie or threescore yeeres before euer the Summer Ilands or Uirginia were heard of our people did yeerely goe thither a fishing and so the Name of Christ was there long since honoured among them Enr. But for all that till there be Christians inhabiting there wee cannot say properly that the Gospell of Christ is planted there or that it is any part of Christendome It must therefore in that respect giue place to the other before-named as which indeed were Christian before it Resp. I cannot dislike that you say And indeed any man may see that this must needs bee a great aduancement to the honour of God when as the Scepter of his Sonne is extended so much farther then it was as is from hence to those remote and vnknowne Regions Christendome will then be so much the larger And it seemes to me it will be in a goodly order seeing that as I vnderstand from England to Newfoundland and so to the Summer Ilands and thence to Virginia all is in one tract no Turkish no Heathen Countrie lying betweene But proceed I pray you Enr. This is as you see greatly to the honour of God but it will be much more if when and where our people doe plant themselues in such countries where already are an infinite number of other people all Sauages Heathens Infidels Idolaters c. this in the Plantation may principally and speedily be laboured and intended That by learning their languages and teaching them ours by training vp of their children and by continuall and familiar conuerse and commerce with them they may be drawne and induced perswaded and brought to relinquish and renounce their owne Heathenismes Idolatries Blasphemies and Deuill-worships And if for that I take it cannot be denied the Papists haue done much good that way by spreading the Name of Christ though but after their corrupt and superstitious manner into so many vnknowne Nations that liued before altogether in the seruice and captiuitie of the deuill for Better it is that God bee serued a bad way then no way at all How much more good must it needs be if the Name of the true God in a true and sound manner might there be published and spred abroad To which purpose I would to God there were among vs vs Protestants that professe and haue a better Religion then they the Papists one halfe of that zeale and desire to further and disperse our good and sound Religion as seemes to be among them for furthering and dispersing theirs Which not found for our zeale is coldnesse and our forwardnesse backwardnesse in that behalfe in respect of theirs I need not say we may feare but rather we may assure our selues that they shall rise against vs in the day of Iudgement and condemne vs. As they haue deserued so let them haue the Palme and Praise in this point For what other ends soeuer they proposed in their conquests and courses questionlesse Religion the Christian faith according to their knowledge was not the least nor the last since certaine it is They neuer set foote in any Country nor preuailed in any Coast wherein they did not forth-with endeuour to root out Paganisme and plant Christianisme or leaue behinde them at least some Monuments and signes thereof And who can tell I speake this to prouoke ours the more withall who can tell I say whether God hath euen therefore as to Iehu that rooted out B●…l himselfe continuing to worship Ieroboams Calues 2. Reg. 10. 30 31. bestowed on them a great part of that successe in warres increase in wealth and honour on earth which had we stood foorth in their stead and gone before them as we should and might haue done he would more admirably happily and abundantly haue conferred on vs

be further satisfied in Resp. The Enterprises themselues Plantations I meane you haue well shewed me to be in themselues very commendable and good and for our Land and Nation at this present exceeding necessarie yet as I suppose there cannot or there will not sufficient and conuenient means be had for the expedition and performance therof as is requisite as may appeare by the ●…ll successe the giuing ouer or slow proceeding of such Actions heretofore from time to time to the notable hinderance of the Gospel the great dishonour and reproach of our Nation and the extreme losse and disaduantage of the Vndertakers and Aduenturers and then to what end is it to take in hand impossibilities Enr. You say well and therefore for speedie and due remedie in this behalfe especially and aboue all other things as wherein alone the true and perfect cure of those euils doth consist it were to be wished that by Act of Parliament some good courses might speedily be taken throughout the Land by which it might effectually be accomplished For Plantations indeed are properly a matter of publique and generall and not as the practice is with vs of priuate and particular Action If it seeme to any a matter too meane and vnworthy a Parliamentarie consideration for my part I protest I can in no wise be of their opinion vnlesse I may plainly be taught and informed that it is no part of a Fathers care to place abroad his Children as they grow vp but to keepe them still vnder his owne Roofe till they eate him out of House and home or of an Housholders prouidence to foresee that his Meyny exceed not his meanes or of the Sheeph●…ards dutie when his Flocke is increased to prouide them larger pastures or of the Gardiners charge when his plants and sets are ouer thicke and doe incomber the ground to remoue disperse them into other plots where hauing more roome they may bigger grow and better prosper Resp. Till that may be obtained which all men know cannot possibly be on a suddaine and those attempts being now begun doe necessarily require speedie and much supply and continuall furtherance lest else besides all other euils that be ●…all on vs which is written in the Gospel Luk. 14. 29. viz hauing laid such foundations and being not able to performe them all that behold them mocke vs saying These men these Englishmen began Plantations here and there and now are not able to make an end of any one of them what courses might there be taken for the speedie effecting of them in some tolerable measure and commendable manner Enr. Till some good course that way a thing in mine opinion much to be desired may be obtained and prouided if I might be bold to speake my minde and toward a common good why should it not be free and without offence for any man as a well willer to so good a worke to speake since as it hath been well and of old obserued Aliquando est olitor opportuna locutus A meane man may sometime speake to the purpose I could be willing to acquaint you or any other with what inferiour courses I haue conceiued might the meane while be taken and followed for the bringing of the same to some tolerable estate and reasonable good effect Resp. I pray you let me heare them for I hope no man will dislike with any man to put to his helping hand to doe any good in this great worke which so much concerneth all specially when as you intend not to vrge or binde any man to your words but leaue it free to all men to accept or reiect as it pleaseth them Enr. Trusting then of fauourable acceptation I will speake what I thinke Two things there be aboue all other most materiall and necessarie for such a businesse to be prouided that is men and money People to goe to the Plantation and Prouision to set them forth Both which howsoeuer to some they may be thought impossible to be had I am perswaded if good courses for them might be vsed though not without some difficultie And what high and worthy enterprize is there that euer hath without some difficultie beene atchieued may sufficiently be obtained 1 For Money well knowne it is that many Honourable and other worthy Persons haue this way employed much and no doubt intend to proceed accordingly 2 It cannot be but that some of those that aduenture in person intending there to inhabit doe and will goe some of them sufficiently and many of them some-what prouided that way Few will goe with an emptie purse 3 For procuring what farther shall be needfull it seemeth vnto me it were verie requisite and a thing not verie hard to be obtained by some or other that some Letters Patent vnder the great Seale of England or other like course might be set forth for some g●…nerall and Yeerely Collection or contribution to that purpose and the Briefes Bookes rather for it to be directed either to the Lord Bishops of euerie Diocesse or to the Sherife of euerie Shire by them to be dispersed into euerie Parish For likely it is that many well-disposed able men would giue to this great and worthy worke more liberally then to others many of farre lesse importance and yet good summes of Money haue thus beene oft collected specially if men may perceiue by the remouing and departure of any it redounds indeed as is pretended to the common good 4 Probable also it is that the Iustices of euerie Shire vpon good intimation of the cause vnto them would be pleased to bestow some part of that Money which quarterly at their Sessions is receiued by the name of Hospitall Money toward the setting forth of some maimed Souldiers or some other poore of the said Countrey yeerely into some or other of those Plantations 5 Neither is it improbable that the Churchwardens and Ouerseers for the Poore that haue as in sundry Parishes within this Land they haue seuerall portions and summes of Money by well disposed people in their last Wils or otherwise giuen and bequeathed for and toward the reliefe of the Poore in their Parish committed to their charge and custodie may be perswaded and drawne or otherwise caused to conferre and lay out the said portions or summes of Money or the greatest part thereof in this sort to the setting forth of some of the Poore of their Parish Children or other that else must within the same continually be relieued and maintained Resp. That were very vnreasonable and euill too I thinke for what consci●…nce were this to sulsifie the trust reposed in them and to defraud their Poore of their reliefe Enr. No euill no wrong no defrauding at all howsoeuer you vpon the suddaine doe so take it but rather this were a readie way to employ it indeed to their vse to whom by the Donours it was properly intended whereas now for the most part you shall ●…ind if you

at this present are so ouergrowne as I may say with that pestiserous w●…d Idle●…esse and so giuen to immoderate ease and quietnesse that it is not possible almost to moue them to heare of any Plantation which they conceiue cannot be effected as indeed it cannot without much labour and paines taking without industrious endeuours and much diligence It is reported by Authors of good credit of Hannibal that Hammer as I may wel terme him of the Romans That his army and souldiers were more hurt and disabled to martiall affaires by his suffering of them to lie and liue in Capua a City of Italy but one halfe yeere in idlenesse and luxury then the whole Host of the Romans had done in some whole yeeres before We must not greatly maruell if our so long continued rest and peace from warres and warlike imployments our vnspeakable idlenesse and dissolute life haue so corrupted and in manner esseminated our people generally and for the most part that they cannot endure the hearing much lesse the doing of any laborious attempts of any thing that shall be troublous or any whit dangerous vnto them Resp. What remody may there be for this perillous disease Enr. None or at le●…st none better I thinke then a Plantation as I shewed you the first day at large Resp. H●…ue you any other cause to alleage for our backwardnesse this way Enr. Yes The immoderate loue of our owne Ceuntry Euery man almost is so as I may say 〈◊〉 therewith that it is almost impossible vpon any aduantage to get them out of it Resp. And blame them n●…t You know I am sure the old saying F●…mus 〈◊〉 alieno luc●…lentior The smoake of a mans owne Country is cleerer in his eies then the fire of another And you haue read bow the children of Israel hauing dw●…lt in the land of Aegypt some two or three hundred yeeres whereby it was to them their natiue Country that albeit they were therein most cruelly oppressed by the Aegyptians yet when Moses came to deliuer them they were not easily drawne to goe out of it and that to a good Land a Land that flowed with milke and hony and how once or twice being well on the way they were ready to make head to haue returned And therefore no great maruell if our English people bee so loth to goe out of a good land so good a land as England is a land to which scarce any in Christendome is comparable and to goe into they know not what wilde and desol●…te Countries Enr. That you say were somewhat to the purpose if it were purposed that they should remoue which doe enioy and eat the good and fat of the land But seeing they are either chiefly or onely intended to be remoued hence that haue nothing here but need and misery they that haue not a foot of ground to rest vpon nor a house to put their head in they which by the extreme dearth and want of necessaries for mans life are ready to pine and perish they haue little reason to be so in loue with that Country that is so much out of loue with them that shee seemes rather a stepdame then a mother vnto them and to refuse and forsake that Country which will bee to them a kinde and louing Mother indeed that Country that is ready to receiue them with both her armes that Country where they may if they will haue abundance of that which here they want that Country which will vouchsafe them such liuings and meanes to liue by as they are sure in England they shall neuer attaine vnto as if they had neuer heard that vbi●…nque benè ibi patria wheresoeuer a man is or may be best at ease it is best to account that for his Country and that it is but meere vanity for men to preferre the soile of any Region before themselues In a word all that you say or can say for this point is as farre out of the way as if you would say because children haue beene borne and bred vp in their fathers house therefore what need soeuer they haue and how bad maintenance and keeping soeuer they haue there yet they ought not nor haue they any reason to goe out of that their fathers house and to passe into other elsewhere tanquam in Colonias as into new Colonies or Habitations there to be prouided for and to liue in farre better sort Resp. I see mine ouersight and that all this hath formerly beene touched but that either ignorant corruption or partiall affection so blinded and ouer-ruled me that I could not so well perceiue it as now by this your Repetition and Recollection thereof I doe Enr. Of this matter then let this suffice And if you haue any thing else to enquire of proceed vnto it if you please Resp. I haue heard both you and others say there be diuers Plantations now either already in hand or to be taken in hand if we will and I pray you tell me by Name what and how many they be Enr. They are these as neere as I can remember New-found land Summer Ilands Virginia Guiana New England and as I heare of late New Scotland too Resp. What so many Then there cannot want opportunity of plantation for our people if we be not wanting to it And God forbid that so great an opportunity or rather so many and all so faire opportunities for that also you haue already shewed should bee ouerslipt and neglected It may bee feared if they should God would not be pleased therewith For what can be doe more for vs then to make vs so many and so faire offers for our good from time to time as one that loueth our Nation if we will see it and is willing by spreading of it into sundry parts of the world to make it famous and great vpon earth Enr. You say very well Happy therefore shall we be if wee make vse of it Resp. But now I pray you tell me what manner of countries those are Enr. I haue already done that also if you remember well our first daies labour by shewing what good is in them to be h●…d and by answering your Obiections pretended against them as if they were not worth the accepting Resp. I remember th●…t well But my desire is that you would relate vnto me the state of those Count●…ies particularly one by one Enr. That were an endlesse and a needlesse labour Endlesse for that it would require more then one or two daies time thereto and needlesse for that it is already done better then I can doe it againe in seuerall bookes or descriptions of those Countries set forth by other men such as haue either found out the Countries themselues or desire to farther our Plantations therein vnto the which let it suffice that I remit you as by which you may be satisfied for this point at full and that at your best leisure Resp. That is a matter of cost to buy such bookes Enr.

A little mony will doe it I doe not thinke but that you spend more a great deale in any one yeere in idle and vnnecessary expences which you may spare to lay out on these good vses The Bookes are delightfull of themselues as all historicall treatises commonly ar●… and so will be a good recreation when you haue beene wearied other waies Also they will often put you in minde of these things whereas my relation will be but once and when you haue read them ouer and ouer they will serue for your children and others to exercise them to the reading of English as well as any other bookes the sacred Histories and bookes diuine that season the soule as well as the vnderstanding with piety and godlinesse alwaies and only excepted Resp. The Countries being so many is it intended that there shall be Plantations in them all by the English Enr. What is intended I cannot tell But this I can tell somewhat to that purpose is or hath beene attempted in them all Resp. But it is not possible they should all be finished is it Enr. Whether it be possible God knowes but surely in mine opinion it is somewhat vnlikely It is not good to haue many works great workes in hand a●… once It were better haply that some of them were quite giuen ouer or at least deserred till some were either finished or brought to some perfection Vis vnita the old saying is fortior Forces vnited must needs bee the stronger and dispersed the weaker A time may come for the filling vp and full storing of them all For if God vouchsafe to continue our health and peace in this land as now of long time he hath done there is no question to be made of it but that were all presently remoued that our Land is able to spare which doubtlesse are many score thousands yet within few yeeres it will looke againe for a new remouing place for those which out of its yeerely increase will be sprun●… vp And therefore it were not amisse but a thing to be wished and endeuoured that though the full finishing of some one or two Plantations be chiefly for the present followed and intended yet vpon a prouident or if I may so speake a preuident consideration of our occasions and wants for time to come some both Possession and Plantation might be continued in all those Countries which by Gods speciall fauour to vs ward doe at this present rest and remaine as it were offered to and into our hands Resp. And which of all these seemeth to be most likely to be the best to be set forward before the rest Enr. Diuers men no doubt will thinke diuersly as either their affection carries or their reason perswades them Disliking therefore of and detracting from no mans but leauing euery man to his owne as I desire they will me to mine this is mine opinion that if the Plantation proceed by hundreds Guiana is the best if by thousands New foundland is best Resp. I conceiue not the reason of this difference which yet I perswade my selfe you doe make vpon good reason Enr. Any that vnderstands either the state of those Countries or the true nature of a Plantation would easily vnderstand me Resp. Helpe me to vnderstand it also Enr. It is this If we seeke for riches for good Merchandizes and goodly Commodities to be brought hither the richest Coun●…ry and the wealthiest for ●…he present that also whence with ●…ewest hand●… it may be returned is the best Such is Guian●… If we seeke for roome for our ouer swarming multitudes of people of many sorts to be placed in the most desolate and emptiest Country voidest of inhabitants and neerest and easiest for transportation is the best Such is New-found land And againe if we plant by Composition Guiana is fittest if by Preoccupation for a fitter English word on the sudden I finde not New-found land is best Resp. I pray you explaine your selfe againe a little better for what you meane by planting by Composition and Preoccupation I vnderstand not Enr. Then are you little acquainted with these courses The meaning is this We plant by Composition when seeking to gaine a Country already somewhat peopled and reasonably inhabited as is Guiana we doe vpon faire conditions as by profering them defence against their enemies supply of their wants namely Apparell Armour Edge-tooles and the like allure and winne them to enter league with vs to agree that we shall dwell among them and haue Lands and other Commodities of them to our content We plant by Preoccupation when finding a Country quite void of people as no doubt in America yet there are many as was the Barmudas now called Summer Ilands for few yeeres past and as is at this present for the most part New-found land we seize vpon it take it possesse it and as by the Lawes of God and Nations lawfully we may hold it as our owne and so fill and replenish it with our people In the first manner a few people may suffice but to the latter many very many are necessary Resp. This is very plaine But why speake you nothing of planting by Inuasion which some men thinke to be as it hath proued to them that haue vsed it the richest the readiest and the speediest course of the three Enr. First because wee need it not There are Countries cnow besides and such are all those now in hand in which we may safely plant either by our selues or with others without any Inuasion or warre at all Secondly if we needed it or any would goe that way to worke yet our people generally will not endure it Wee see they can hardly nay they cannot be gotten to goe and plant themselues where they may doe it with all ease and freedome that can be and therefore there is no probability they will once moue a foot to goe and seeke out a Country by the sword We reade Ex. 13. 17. that God when he brought the children of Israel out of Aegypt would not carry them into the land of Canaan by the way of the Philistines Countries though it were the neerer way a great deale lest the people should repent them when they see warre and turne backe into Aegypt but God made the people to goe about by the way of the Wildernesse of the red Sea Teaching vs therein how fearefull people naturally are of warre as willing rather to forgoe euen an exceeding good Land as Canaan was rather then to goe into it by the sword and that God himselfe dislikes not such a feare Thirdly that were a double charge For so our people must goe first they that are men onely as an Army of Souldiers to subdue the Inhabitants and take the Country and then after to goe men women and children to inhabit and keepe it if they can For many times in such cases the euent of warre proues vncertaine whereas going where needs no Inuasion they may make theirfull remoue