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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02059	A good speed to Virginia	Gray, Robert, 16th/17th cent.	1609 (1609)	STC 12204; ESTC S105839	15,771	30

future expectation In those dayes this Kingdome was not so populous as now it is Ciuell warres at home and forreine wars abroad did cut off the ouer-spreading branches of our people Our coūtry thē yéelded vnto all that were in it a surplussage of all necessities it yeelded preferment in due correspondencie for al degrees sorts of men The commons of our Country lay free and open for the poore Commons to inioy for there was roome enough in the land for euery man so that no mā néeded to encroch or inclose from another whereby it is manifest that in those dayes we had no great néed to follow strange reports or to seeke wilde aduentures for séeing we had not onely sufficiencie but an ouerflowing measure proportioned to euerie man Religion and pietie taught vs that séeing our lot was fallen vnto vs in a faire ground and that we had a goodly heritage rather to be content with our own then either politikèly or ambitiously to vndertake vncouth enterprises vnto which necessitie did no way vrge vs. But nowe God hath prospered vs with the blessings of the wombe with the blessings of the brests the sword deuoureth not abroad neither is there any feare in our streets at home so that we are now for multitude as the thousand of Manasses and as the ten thousads of Ephraim the Prince of peace hath ioyned the wood of Israel and Iudah in one troe And therefore we may iustly say as the children of Israel say here to Ioshua we are a great people and the lande is too narrow for vs so that whatsoeuer we haue béene now it behooues vs to be both prudent and politicke and not to deride and reiect good profers of profitable and gainefull expectation but rather to imbrace euery occasion which hath any probabilitie in it of future hopes And seeing there is neither preferment nor employment for all within the lists of our countrey we might iustly be accounted as in former times both imprudent and improuident if we will yet sit with our armes foulded in our bosomes and not rather séeke after such aduentures whereby the glory of God may be aduanced the territories of our kingdome inlarged our people both preferred and employed abroad our wants supplyed at home his Maiesties customes wonderfully augmented and the honour and renown of our Nation spred and propagated to the ends of the world Many examples might be produced to mooue vs hereunto but because they were the practises of rude and barharous people they are no exemplarie presidents for christians but forasmuch as euery example approued in the scripture is a precept I thought good to handle this conference betwéene the tribe of Ioseph a family in the Israel of God Ioshua a faithfull and godly Prince ouer the whole commonwealth of Gods Israel which to my séeming is much like that plot which we haue now in hand for Virginia for here the people of Ephraim and of the halfe tribe of Manasses are a great people and so are we and by reason of the multitude of their people the land is too narrow for them and so stands our case whereupon they repaire to 〈◊〉 to haue his warrant and direction to inlarge their ●●●oers and so haue many of our Noble men of honorable minds worthy knights rich marchants diuerse other of the best dispositiō solicited our Ioshua and mightie Monarch that most religious renowned King Iames that by his Maiesties leaue they might vndertake the plantation of Virginia Lastly as Ioshua not onely giues leaue but also a blessing to the childrē of Ioseph in their enterprises so hath our gratious Soueraigne granted his frée Charter to our people for the vndertaking of their intended enterprise and aduenture so that from this example there is both sufficient warrant for our King to graunt his chacter for the plantation of Virginia and sufficient warrant also for our people to vndertake the same And therefore for the better satisfying of some and for the encoraging of all fortes of people concerning this proiect for Virginia let vs more fully examine the particulars of this discourse betweene the children of Ioseph and Ioshua First we gather from the text that the cause why the children of Ioseph desired to inlarge their borders was the multitude and greatnesse whereunto they were growne God had blessed them according to the prophesie of Iacob Gen. 48. 19. So that the portion which was first thought to be roomie and large inough for them is now too narrowe and little for them What should they do in this case should they prouide and establish lawes to hinder the increase of their people as we reade of Hyppodamus sometimes a law-giuer among the Miles●ans whose example in gouernmēt Aristotle in his 7. booke of Politicks and 16. chapter and Plato in his ● booke Delegibus haue drawne into precept and rule of policie should they decree against building and execting houses luniting a certaine number and no more for euery familie in their tribe as P●●do amongst the Corinthians sometimes did and 〈◊〉 ●●ey of Paris of late enacted taking order that old an● anciēt houses should be repayred but no new edifices erected Anno. 1548 should they haue pestered themselues with Inmates and one houshold haue receiued into it two or three families They put none of these in practise but with one consent they repaire to the Magistrate they complaine that their lot is not large inough theyshew the reason because they are a great people There is nothing more daungerous for the estate of common-wealths then when the people do increase to a greater multitude and number then may instly paralell with the largenesse of the place and countrey for hereupon comes oppression and diuerse kinde of wrongs mutinies sedition commotion rebellion scarcitie dearth pouertie and sundrie sorts of calamities which either bréed the cōuersion or euersion of cities and common-wealths For euen as bloud though it be the best humour in the body yet if it abound in greater quantitie then the state of the body will beare doth indanger the bodie oftentimes destroyes it so although the honour of the king be in the multitude of people Pro. 14. 28. yet when this multitude of people increaseth to ouer great a number the common-wealth stands subiect to many perillous inconueniences for which cause many Natiōs perceyuing their people to increase aboue a due and proportionable number they haue sent their ouerflowing multitudes abroad into other countreyes and prouinces to the ends they might preserue their owne in greater peace and prosperitie so we see the husbandman deale with his groūds when they are ouercharged with cattell he remooues them from one ground to another and so he prouideth ●ell both for his cattel and for his ground and so doth the maister of the bée-garden when he soe 's a hiue pesteted with multitudes of bées he driues the hiue so reapeth ● greater gaine by his ware and honie And herupon many

straungers which trauell that way to take the gouernment of them and to impose lawes vnto them whereby they may be iustly and orderly gouerned and many Nations willingly submitted themselues to the subiection of the Romanes being allured thereunto by Iustice equitie clemencie and vpright dealing of the Romaine captaines for it is not the nature of men but the education of men which make them barbarous and vnciuill and therefore chaunge the education of men and you shall sée that their nature will be greatly rectified and corrected séeing therefore men by nature so easily yéelde to discipline and gouernment vpon any reasonable shewe of bettering their fortunes it is euerie mans dutie to trauell both by sea and land and to venture either with his person or with his purse to bring the barbarous and sauage people to a ciuill and Christian kinde of gouernment vnder which they may learne how to liue holily iustly and soberly in this world and to apprehend the meanes to saue their soules in the world to come rather then to destroy them or vtterly to roote them out for a wise man but much more a Chrtstian ought to trie all meanes before they vndertake warre di●astation and depopulation ought to be the last thing which Christians should put in practise yet forasmuch as euerie example in the scripture as I saide is a precept we are warranted by this direction of Ioshua to destroy wilfull and conuicted Idolaters rather then to let them liue if by no other meanes they can be reclaimed The report goeth that in Virginia the people are sauage and incredibly rude they worship the diuell offer their young children in sacrifice vnto him wander vp and downe like beasts and in manners and conditions differ very litle from beasts hauing no Art nor sciēce nor trade to imploy themselues or giue themselues vnto yet by nature louing and gentle and desirous to imbrace a better condition Oh how happy were that man which could reduce this people from brutishnes to ciuilitie to religion to Christianitie to the sauing of their soules happy is that man and blest of God whom God hath endued either with meanes or will to attempt this busines but farre be it from the nature of the English to exercise any bloudie crueltie amongst these people farre be it from the hearts of the English to giue them occasion that the holy name of God should be dishonoured among the Infidels or that in the plantation of that continent they should giue any cause to the world to say that they sought the wealth of that countrie aboue or before the glorie of God and the propagation of his kingdome I remember the practise of Christopher Collombus which he vsed amongst the west Indians to perswade them to receiue his Spaniardes to societie and commerce which was he obserued that they were superstitiously giuen to worship the Moone by the skill he had in Astronomie he foresaw that within thrée daies the Moone should be eclipsed wherupon he called them together and told them that he had often vsed his best meanes to bring them to a ciuill and friendly conuerse with strangers but they would not harken vnto him and therefore in the presence of them all he called vpon the Moone to reuenge such a ●acha●ous people which denied strāgers so conuerse and commerce with them within three dayes after the Moone was much darkened by reason of the Eclipse which when the Indians saw they thought the Moone to be angrie with them fearing some plague would proceede from her displeasure they were easily induced to doe whatsoeuer Columbus would haue them In like maner should all men vse their wits in the first place and weapons should alwayes be the last meanes in all our proiects And therefore although the children of Ioseph haue an expresse commaundement here in this place to destroy those Idolaters and possesse their land yet forasmuch as we haue no precept but by example we must first trie all means before weapons and when we take them into our hands necessitie of preseruing our owne liues must rather moue vs to destroy the enemyes of God then either ambition or gréedinesse of gaine or crueltie or anie priuate respect whatsoeuer Now the third thing which we are to obserue in this entercourse of wordes betweene the children of Ioseph and Iosua is the delayes which the people vse and the excuses which they feigne which seeme to import an impossibilitie in the vndertaking of Iosuas direction And their delayes are that the Chanaanites were strong and well prouided of warlike munition both for their owne defence and also for the defence of those which would vndertake to supplant or inuade them they had yron Charets such like muniments of warre so that it stoode not with wisedome to make an inuasion with likelihoode to make a conquest of them This is the nature of muddy and earthly spirits to find delayes and forge excuses in matters of least difficultie Man sayeth A Lion is without I shall be slaine in the streete Prou. 22. 13. What slanders did the ten spies bring vpon the land of Canaan which slāders the I sraelites made good groūds for their retiring back into Egypt thought them lawfull excuses for them to murmur against Moses Aaron Han●ba had much ado to bring his Carthagenians into Italy they alledged the tediousnesse of the voiage and the inaccessible passage of the Alpes We read of Caligula sometimes Emperor of Rome that he on a time condemned a certain Citizens son of Rome to be executed he sent for his father to see his sonnes execution The father to excuse his absence feined himselfe to be sick whervpon the Emperor sent him his horslitter by that meanes tooke away from him all colour of excuse This perplexed father had good cause to find delayes to keep him at home but they that forge cauils to withdraw themselues from such attempts whereby God may be honored the maiestie and royaltie of their King aduauced the common wealth enriched and postrecitie prouided for would not be drawne to these attempts in Caligulaes horslitter for that is too easie meanes to draw on such backward spirits neither would I haue them punished for their delayes as Tu●lus Hostilius sometimes punished Metius Sufferius for his delayes but I would some Diomedes would find out a meanes to drawe them on to this enterprise by discouering their driftes and excuses for all that they can alleags for their backewardnesse is most idle and friuolous The first obiection is by what right or warrant we can enter into the land of these Sauages take away their rightfull in hexitance from them and plant our selues in their places being vnwronged or vnprouoked by them Some affirme and it is likely to be true that these Sauages haue no particular proprietis in any part or parcell of that Countrey but only a generall recidencis there as wild beasts haue in the forrest for they range and wander vp