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A19313	Virginia's God be thanked, or A sermon of thanksgiving for the happie successe of the affayres in Virginia this last yeare. Preached by Patrick Copland at Bow-Church in Cheapside, before the Honorable Virginia Company, on Thursday, the 18. of Aprill 1622. And now published by the commandement of the said honorable Company. Hereunto are adjoyned some epistles, written first in Latine (and now Englished) in the East Indies by Peter Pope, an Indian youth, borne in the bay of Bengala, who was first taught and converted by the said P.C. And after baptized by Master Iohn Wood, Dr in Divinitie, in a famous assembly before the Right Worshipfull, the East India Company, at S. Denis in Fan-Church streete in London, December 22. 1616	Copland, Patrick, ca. 1570-ca. 1655.; Pope, Peter, fl. 1622.	1622 (1622)	STC 5727; ESTC S105066	22,424	48

and worthy Gouernour Sir Thomas Dale sent home vnto you samples of aboue a dossen severall good Commodities from thence Haue you not now great hopes of abundance of Corne Wine Oyle Lemmons Oranges Pomegranats and all maner of fruites pleasant to the eye and wholesome for the belly And of plentie of Silke Silke Grasse Cotton-wooll Flax Hempe c. for the backe Are not you already possessed with rich Mines of Copper and Yron and are not your hopes great of farre richer Minerals Haue you not read what of late your worthie Treasurer doth write vnto you If sayth hee wee ouercome this yeere the Yron-workes Glasse-workes Salt-works take order for the plentifull setting of Corne restraine the quantitie of Tobacco and mend it in the qualitie plant Vines Mulbery-trees Fig-trees Pomegranats Potatoes Cotton woolles and erect a faire Inne in Iames Citie to the setting vp of which I doubt not but wee shall raise fifteene hundred or two thousand pounds for every man giues willingly towards this and other publique workes you haue enough for this yeere And a little after in the same letter● Maister Pory deserues good incouragement for his paineful Discoveries to the South-ward as far as the Choanoack who although he hath trod on a litle good ground hath past through great forests of Pynes 15. or 16. myle broad and aboue 60. mile long which will serue well for Masts for Shipping and for pitch and ●arre when we shall come to extend our plantatiōs to those borders On the other side of the River there is a fruitfull Countrie blessed with aboundance of Corne reaped twise a yeere aboue which is the Copper Mines by all of all places generally affirmed Hee hath also met with a great deale of silke grasse which growes there monethly of which Maister Harriot hath affirmed in print many yeeres agoe that it will make silke Grow-graines● and of which and Cotten woll all the Cambaya and Bengala stuffes are made in the East Indies Heard you not with your owne eares what M. Iohn Martin an Armenian by birth that hath lived now 6. or 7. yeeres in Virginia and is but very lately come from thence and purposeth as all others that are lately come ouer who also farre preferre Virginia to England to returne thither againe with this resolution there to liue and die said in the audience of your whole Court the 8th of this Instant I haue travailed said he by Land over eighteene severall kingdomes and yet all of them in my minde come farre short of Virginia both for temperature of ayre and fertilitie of the soyle All this throughly considered O how great cause haue you to confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men And that all of vs here present may confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men Let vs take to heart our private our publique Dangers and deliverances from how many Dangers eminent and imminent hath the Lord delivered vs and our whole Land in eightie-eight and in the Gun powder-Treason Haue wee not then all of vs good cause to exalt the Lord in the Congregation of the people and to prayse him in the Assembly of the Elders Nay haue not Elders and Yongers and all good cause so to doe But alas I am afraid that we haue forgotten the louing kindnesse of the Lord and his wonderfull Deliverances bestowed vpon vs. Beneficij memoria est brevissima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 May not England justly be charged with Israels sinne whose Prayers and Prayses ended so soone as they passed the red Sea Amongst the Tribes there was one named Manasse which signifies Forgetfulnes I pray God the Tribes euen the heads of our people forget it not but that we and the whole Land may confesse before the Lord his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men and se●ke to exalt him in the Congregation of the people and to prayse him in the Assembly of the Elders Verse 28. Then they cryed vnto the Lord in their trouble c. THus having spoken of the Danger I come now to speake a word of the Deliverance and the meanes which these Sea-faring men vsed to be freed from their trouble which is faithfull fervent Prayer Then they cryed vnto the Lord c. Faithfull and fervent Prayer vnto God in the name of Iesus Christ is a sure meanes to procure helpe in trouble and to free vs from the greatest danger that is or at least from the evill thereof These Mariners going vnto God not with a cold and carelesse devotion nor with a dombe Spirit but with as earnest and impatient a voyce as the affection of their heart and affliction of their body could send forth they thus crying vnto the Lord in their trouble hee brought them out of their distresse he hushed the storme he brought them to the haven of their desire made them glad at the heart As David gaue charge to his Souldiers that they should not kill Absolom his Sonne though hee sent them against Absolom to stay his rebellion So God forbids his crosses to destroy his children though he send them against his children to purge out their corruptions As Iohn after the voyce of Thunder heard the voyce of Harpers so when the Saints haue heard the noyse of sorrow they shall heare the sound of ioy As the viper leapt vpon Paul and leapt off againe so troubles leape vpon the righteous and leape off againe as though they had mistaken the partie and rapt at the wrong doore One calleth Affliction the Trance of the righteous because they seeme dead for a while but they wake againe Now all this commeth to passe because the Lord sendeth the Spirit of Prayer into the hearts of his Children whereby they cry vnto him in the time of their trouble and therefore no marveile when they cry vnto the Lord in their trouble that he bringeth them out of their distresse The most ef●●ctuall spe●ch to the secret eares of God commeth not from wordes but from sighes and grones he that heareth without eares can interpret our prayers without our tongues● hee that saw and fancied Nathaniel vnder the fig-tree before he was called hee that saw and sanctified Iohn Bap●ist in his mothers wombe before hee came forth he s●eth and blesseth our praiers fervently conceived in the bosome of our Consciences before they be vttered But if they be faint and faithlesse they shall be answ●red of God as the Prayers of Baals Priests were who though they cried lowd ●rom morning to noone and to the offering vp of the euening Sacrifice and cut themselues till the bloud gushed out vpon them yet there was none to heare nor to regard their roarings Giue therefore but thy prayer a voyce to cry for it must not be dumbe nor tong-tied giue it an eye to seeke for it must not be wandring and carelesse and giue it an hand

we proue vnthankfull to the Lord of heauen shall wee not iustly deserue to lose our inheritance Wherefore let vs doe as men which are bound by bond to make tender of a sum of money vpon great penalty in a certaine place and at a certaine time named in the bond they will be sure to tender the paiment in the place and at the time appointed and specified in the bond lest they incurre the penaltie Euen so c. Let vs beware wee doe not forslow our thankfulnesse vpon light and slight excuses lest we forfeit Gods louing kindnes our owne saluation Let vs weigh what God hath done for vs lay all Gods benefits together thereby the be●ter to sti●re vs vp vnto thankfulnes Leah beareth one son calleth his name Reuben a second son called his name Simeon and a third and called him Leni but when aboue exspectation she conceiueth and beareth the fourth time she purposely cals his name Iudah expresly protests that she wil praise the Lord. If one benefit moue you not many should if many haue not done it yet this last late mercy passing all the former O call it Iudah now of set purpose praise the Lord confesse before him his louing kindnesse and his wonderfull workes before the sonnes of men Which that you may the better do giue me leaue I pray you to shew you how your thanksgiuing ought to be qualified that it may be a sweet sauour vnto God It must be accompanied 1. with confessi●● 2. with exalt●tion Confession againe is either of Gods louing kindnes or of his wonderfull workes There are two things in which Gods louing kindnesse is to be seene 1. In giuing 2. In forgiuing Gods louing kindnes in giuing is to be praised for is not God a great good benefactor or ours and do wee not greatly praise our benefactors O let vs confesse his louing kindnesse as he is our Benefactor Gods louing kindnesse in forgiuing our sinnes is also to be confessed I shewed you before the danger of your people sent to Virgini● the danger of your Colony planted there and the danger of your owne selues here at home And now if you looke to the Primitiue original cause of al these your great Dangers and many dis-asters that haue heretofore befalne to your plantation I suppose you shall soon find the cause to be sin The Marriners in the transportation of Ionah made no question hereof Let vs with these Marriners cast lots that wee may know for whose cause this euill came vpon your plantation in Virginia Was it for the sin of our land in generall either because as it is said of M●r●● it came not out to helpe forward this worke of the Lord with their Prayers and Purses or was it because as the Prophet speaketh The whole head is sicke and the whole heart is heauy from the sole of the foote to the crowne of the head there is nothing whole therein c. Surely surely the sinnes of our land are crying sinnes and is it any wonder if they doe awake the Iustice of God and turne the mercies of Heauen into roddes of Indignation Or was it for the sinne of your owne society at home because you haue eyther too much affected your gaine or too too seldome called vpon the name of God in prayer for giuing his blessing to your plantation or too faintly depended vpon God by faith and patience for the issue or too much neglected God in thankefulnesse for the successe I can not excuse nor accuse you you need not care to bee iudged by mans day your consciences can best tell you whether the lot fall vppon you or not Or was it for the sinne of such as you haue transported to your Plantation because most of them at the first beeing the very scumme of the Land and great pity it was that no better at that time could be had they neglected Gods worship liued in idlenesse plodded conspiracies resisted the gouernment of Superiours and caried themselues dissolutely amongst the heathens If in any of these they haue offended was not Gods rod of Mortalitie iustly vpon them for their sinnes But now beloued Almighty God hath graciously looked vpon you and your people in passing by their and your sins The Lord hath sayd to the destroying angel It is sufficient hold now ●hy hand the mortality of your people is ceased abroad and the hope of your good returnes is increased at home O ●herefore ought you not to confesse before the Lord his louing kindnes both in giuing of mercies and forgiuing of sinnes Another confession there must be of Gods wonderfull workes And both these confessions are againe and againe repeated in the amebe burden or foote of this psalme It is most true that all Gods workes are wonderfull for he hath made them all in wisedome in number weight and measure and that the Lord declareth himselfe to be great and wonderfull euen in the least of them amongest the sonnes of men This Pharaohs Inchanters did confesse This is the finger of God in the little lowse But vnthankfull man taketh no notice of ordinary fauours common protection health plenty rest pleasure which are vsuall with them and therefore Gods name is not praised for them for except Christ worke miracles they will not beleeue What signe sayd the fleshly hearers of Christs word shewest thou that we may see it and beleeue thee What dost ●hou worke No signe no faith yea except God do great things for them that they may be able to say that he hath not done so to any and we neuer saw such a thing they will not confesse his louing kindnesse but rather smother both it and his wonderfull workes Let vs therefore consider and weigh well the Wonderful workes of the Lord for is it not a work of wonder to command the creatures against the course of nature as to cause the winde to cease with a word and to quiet the Seas onely with a becke To stay the fire that it doe not burne and the hungry Lyons that they doe not deuoure to mollifie the hearts of Saluages and to make some of them voluntarily to remooue from their owne warme and well seated and peopled habitations to giue place to Strangers whom they had neuer before seene as P●whatan at the first plantation of the English to remoue from his owne station and now of late the Mattaw●mbs to depart from their cleared and rich grounds and to make others of them as Opachancano to sell to the English and their Gouernour sir George Yeardly the right and title they had to their possessions Yet all these hath the Lord done and are they not wonderfull works indeed O then let vs stir vp our selues and others and call vpon them saying Come and hearken all yee that feare God and I will tell you what the Lord hath done to my soule O let vs confesse before the Lord