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A04691	A plaine description of the Barmudas, now called Sommer Ilands VVith the manner of their discouerie anno 1609. by the shipwrack and admirable deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates, and Sir George Sommers, wherein are truly set forth the commodities and profits of that rich, pleasant, and healthfull countrie. With an addition, or more ample relation of diuers other remarkeable matters concerning those ilands since then experienced, lately sent from thence by one of the colonie now there resident.; Discovery of the Barmudas, otherwise called the Ile of Divels	Jourdain, Silvester, d. 1650.	1613 (1613)	STC 14817; ESTC S109247	18,076	52

our of most mens companies And yet no more then He would haue beene who foure hundred yeares agoe should haue told the world that by the vse and helpe of a stone a man should more safely saile vpon the Ocean round about the earth then formerly in the narrow Seas Or then He who two hundred yeares agoe should haue said there was an Art by which all writing of bookes should bee saued and that two men should Print more in a day then two hundred can write Or then He who 100 t yeares agoe did tell vs there was another world as it were vnder our feete wherein men liued like vs and a richer part of the world then ours And yet all these are now proued true before our eyes and all the world can witnesse it and who is he that feeles not the benefit of these three blessings Now therefore let the iealous and suspitious world beare his due reproofe and let God haue his due glorie and praise who brings to light things that lie hidde in darkenesse and reueiles his meruailous works in his due time And let the Planters and Patrons of the Virginia Colonies take heart and comfort themselues for that God who by discouering these Ilands to them hath deliuered the world from that old inueterate errour and giuen them the rightfull possession vnder God and his Maiestie of so rich so wholesome and healthfull Ilands which may be as nurseries to Virginia hath hereby let the world see that he will vphold that Christian plantation if men should be so base and beastly to forsake it But worthy Sir if other men were like you I needed not to make that If if all as able as you were as willing and forward as you wee should soone see a flourishing Christian Church and Common-wealth in Virginia But let this be your comfort there is One that is more able is also more willing then you euen the God of heauen and earth it is his worke you manage and his cause you haue in hand he may worke with comfort that works with God and for God he that works with God is sure to preuaile he that works for God is sure to be rewarded You know good Sir and you better then many that He is well kept whom God keepes and know also that hee shall bee roially rewarded whom God rewards And know further for your comfort that though the burden lye vpon you and a few more yet are there many honorable worthy men of all sorts who will neuer shrinke from you Goe on therefore with courage and constancie and be assured that though by your Honorable Embassages and imploiments and by your charitable vertuous courses you haue gained a worthy reputation in the world yet nothing that you euer did or suffred more honours you in the eyes of all that are godly-wise then your faithfull and vnwearied prosecution your continuall and comfortable assistance of these foraine Plantations A worke so honorable to God our Religion our King and our Countrie so comfortable to the Soules of the poore Saluages and so profitable to the Aduenturers that of Virginia for our Posterities but this of the Barmudas for the present as the like for all these put together hath not beene attempted in the Christian world these many Ages And be cause it is the glorie of God to declare his works I cannot but commend your wisdomes in publishing those strange and welcome newes from the Barmudas the stile is base and broken I confesse but it better beseemes the bare and naked truth Now then let the Christian world reioyce to see that God is worshipped in the Deuills Ilands and that English men liue safelie and sweetly there where neuer any liued before them It is almost foure yeares agoe since our valorous Commanders Sir Thomas Gates and Sir George Sommers with a hundred and fiftie Persons more were in a terrible tempest cast away vpon these Ilands and so found it when they sought it not and though they suffered shipwrack vpon the Rocks that compasse these Ilands as all other did that euer pitcht vpon them yet were they preserued euery man which neuer befell any but themselues such was the fauour of God vnto them And there they liued in health and safetie almost a yeare when all the world held them dead and had liued there till this day and for ought we know for euer had they not made themselues two little ships of Cedar in which they went to Virginia yet leauing two men in the Ilands whom Sir George Sommers comming back againe from Virginia the same yeare and our Colonie sent thither the last yeare found in health and good liking Our Colonie consisting of some threescore men hath now beene there almost a yeare from whom we receiue this plaine and simple but comfortable Narration and to whom we now send a supply not of victualls or such prouisions for they neede none such but of men and vvomen for habitation and plantation which by the blessing of God now goes away this present moneth there to plant a Christian Church to endure to the worlds end where neuer man dwelt before since the worlds beginning Oh happie men who there find God his Angels where the world thought had beene nothing but the Deuill and his Swine into which he entered The God that led them to it saued them vpon it Math. 8.31 32. fed them in it and sends vs so comfortable newes from it still blesse it and defend it and all his children in it and all that now or hereafter goe to it and all that loue it and assist the plantation of Gods Church in it Peace bee vpon them and Mercie and vpon the Israel of God Amen And to you my Bretheren that be there and haue the honour to lay the first foundation of Gods Church there and to you much honored Knight and the rest who by your care and charge doe beare the burthen and maintaine the life of such glorious actions which lie neglected in this base and vnworthy world for this your holy and heroicall resolutions and your loue therein appearing to the Lord Iesus Christ and his holy Gospell to our King and Countrie I professe and deuote my selfe in all offices and duties of a Christian Your Seruant in Christ Iesus W. C. To the Reader Good Reader this is the first Booke published to the world touching Sommer Ilands but who shall liue to see the last A more full and exact description of the Countrie and Narration of the nature site and commodities together with a true Historie of the great deliuerance of Sir Thomas Gates and his Companie vpon them which was the first discouerie of them thou maiest surely expect if God will to come into thy hands This short Narration in the meane time shall rather prepare thee for it then preuent thee of it A DISCOVERY OF THE BARMVDAS NOW CALLED THE SOMMER Ilands I Being in ship called the sea-venture with Sir Thomas Gates