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A13290	Virginia. A sermon preached at White-Chappel, in the presence of many, honourable and worshipfull, the aduenturers and planters for Virginia. 25. April. 1609 Published for the benefit and vse of the colony, planted, and to bee planted there, and for the aduancement of their Christian purpose. By William Symonds, preahcer at Saint Sauiors in Southwarke..	Symonds, William, 1556-1616?	1609 (1609)	STC 23594; ESTC S111329	35,995	64

spoken of Iacob in this manner In thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed It is true that in Abraham and his Gen. 28. 14. Children were many men blessed as appeareth in the Scripture where they haue drawne many strangers to serue God Howbeit the principall blessing is ascribed to Christ who by excellencie is called Thy seede as S. Paule doth very notably obserue when he saith Hee saith not and to thy seedes as speaking Gal. 3. 16. of many but And to thy seed as of one which is Christ By the families of the earth are vnderstood all those nations which arose from the families of the sonnes of Noah after their generations among their Gen. ●● 3● people for out of these were the nations diuided in the earth after the flood and that which is heere rendred families afterward is called Nations in the speech of the Lord of Abraham All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him S. Paul rendreth it thus in thee shall Gen. ●8 ●8 22. 18. all the Gentiles be blessed By blessing in this place seeing Gal. 3. 8. the seed is Christ and the word Thee did so far point out Abraham as it had relation to Christ in his loynes of force it must signifie that blessednesse which Christ doth bring vnto men Which the Angel and a multitude of heauenly souldiers do comprehend in their sweete song of praising God when they said Glorie be to God on high and Peace on earth Luk. 2. 14 and towards men good will Then the speech all put together is this that Abr●ham must get him out of his Countrie that he may begin that which God by him and his seed will accomplish in due time namely that all nations may embrace the gospel of Christ vnto their saluation An excellent argument and of singular force to perswade not only Abram but all his Children according to the faith to fly if it were possible ouer the mountaines about so greate an errand O with what Comfort may a man come before the Lord with this account of his talent Behold I am heere the childrē which God hath geuen me It would neuer grieue S Paule to go from Cilicia to present a Church at Corinth a pure Virgin to Christ 2. Cor 11 2 Obiection The last iudgment at hand But stay saith one you run too fast without good ground you seeme to encline to the Millenaries or such as looke for the gospell to be spread ouer all the world You must know that is done manie a faire yeare agoe that we need not looke for a new Reuolution of that It were safer to tremble at the last iudgement whose trumpet is euer sounding in our eares Arise from the dead and come to iudgement To this I answere that no preiudicate opinion is a iust Answere condemnation to the trueth nor any doctrine out of Bookes that are Apocripha can make a wise man depart from a doctrine of the Canonicall Scriptures It is true that Gregories credit was wont to bee great ●r●g lib. Dialo in the times that men knew no better who confidently affirmed the iudgement to bee at hand but besides the confutation of a thousand yeares which haue bin since hee so affirmed the pregnant cleere Scripture confoundeth the proud coniecture of him and his followers And this doth also appeare by the Apostasie of some Papists that in their bookes Maluenda de Antichristo lately Printed at Rome haue departed from the sentence of so great a Pope and graue Doctor of the Church telling vs plainely that the gospell must be preached vniuersally through the world before the last Iudgement But neither by their authority nor arguments but by the force of such Texts as cannot be deluded do I affirme That all the Nations of the world shall be blessed in Christ They that mince and pare this Text that they make it as sore as the Shechamits Gene. 34. 25. Psal 19. 3. Rom. 10. 18. were with their circumcision say that take away the ouerlashing hyperbole and Their sound is gone out into all the world will serue the turne A simple blessing God knoweth and little differeth from The sauor of death vnto death If they receaue you not ● Cor. 3. 16. saith Christ shake off the dust of your feete Truely I say vnto yon it shall be easier for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Iudgement then for that Citie att● 10. 14. howsoeuer they heard the sound of the worde of God This stumbling blocke fewe wise men will say was this Blessednesse promised to Abram The Iewes hunt counter as fast on the other side For when as in the second Psalme they reade of their Messtas that he shall haue the heathen for his inheritance and the vtter most parts of the earth for his possession Psal 2. 8. 9. that he shall crush them with a scepter of yron and breake them in peeces like a potters vessel they affirme that all the world must bee subdued by force and violence vnto Messiah An opinion that preuailed much in the time of Christ as appeareth not onely by diuerse others but also by the Apostles who encountred our Sauior Christ thus before his ascension Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome Acts 1. 6. to Israel But they also make but an vncomfortable blessing of this blessednes of Abraham The phrase is plaine that in Abraham all the families of the earth shall be blessed A blessednes then must the Gentiles trust to receiue from Abraham Particuly these things are deliuered in the Scripture which I thinke no distinctions of hyperbole nor spiritually nor at the last iudgement can delude which are the ordinary refuges of them that out of preiudice would faine put by the truth Daniell hath it thus A stone was cut without hands Dan. 2. 35. and smote the image vpon the feete and brake them in peeces Then was the yron the clay the brasse the siluer and gold broken together and became like chaffe of the summer flowers and the winde carried them away that no place was found for them and the stone that smot● the image became a greate mountaine and filled the whole earth Here first we plainly see that Christ must destroy the Monarches that they be not foūd And so much of this speech doth S. Paul interprete thus plainely That Christ shall put downe all rule and all authoritie ● G●r 15. 2● 25. 2● and power For he must reigne till hee ha●h put all his enemies vnder his seete the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death The other part of Daniels speech Dauid doth thus expresse in the Psalme Thou Lorde Psal 8● 6. shalt inherit all nations And this point the Prophet Zachary doth render thus The Lord sh●ll bee King ouer all the earth In that day there shall be one Lord and his name shall be