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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

state of the body will contayne and beare doeth indanger the body and oftentimes destroyes it so although the honour of a King be in the multitude of people as wise King Salomon speaketh yet when this multitude of people increaseth to ouer great a number the common wealth stands subiect to many perillous inconneniences as famine pouerty and sundry other sorts of calamities Thus hauing falne into this point of exalting God in the congregation of the people and the assembly of the Elders I haue here good occasion offered to mee to blesse God for the prudence and prouidence of this honourable citie the honourable Elders thereof the honourable Lord Maior and the right worshipfull the Aldermen his brethren who seeing this Cittie to be mightily increased and fearing lest the ouer-flowing multitude of inhabitants should like too much bloud in the body infect the whole Cittie with plague and pouertie haue therefore deuised in their great wisdomes a Remedy for this Malady to wit the transporting of their ouer-flowing multitude into Virginia which was first put in practise in the Maioralitie of that worthy famous Lord Maior Sir George B●wl●● who se●t ouer a hundred persons the halfe of their charge being borne by the Citie the other halfe by the Honourable Virginia Company which worthy course was afterwards followed by the right worshipfull Sir William Cockins in whose Maioraltie were sent ouer a hundred more in the like nature And now likewise the right Honourable the present Lord Maior with the right worshipfull the Aldermen his brethren intend to con●inue this course that they may ease the Citie of a many that are ready to starue and do starue dayly in our streetes to the great griefe of all tender-hearted and mercifull men for want of foode to put into their mouthes This course I say they haue taken already and meane to prosecute it as I am informed to the end they may preserue this famous Cittie in greater Peace and Prosperitie Herein wisely imitattng the prudent and prouident husbandman whom they see thus to deale with his grounds when they are ouercharged with cattle For as he by remouing thē from one ground to another prouideth well both for his cattle and for his ground so they in their wisedoms by remouing their super-increasing people from the Citty to Virginia haue prouided well both for this Cittie and their people for whereas many of those which were sent ouer were a burden to this Citty they are now through the good gouernment there and Gods blessing vpon the works their hands become men able to liue of themselues in good sort and fashion in Virginia being before their sending ouer like to vnconuerted Onesymus vnp●ofitable vnto all and now by their being there like vnto the same Onesymus but truely conuerted profitable to the Plantation and to the Cittie to the one by their paines to the other by their prayers blessing God from the bottome of their hearts that they were sent from London to Virginia yea blessing also the Lord Maiors in whose time they were sent ouer I may say of this singular prudence and prouidence of this honourable Cittie what our Sauiour sayd of the fact of Marie Magdalen in powring her costly oyntment on his sacred head howsoeuer some sonnes of Beliall maligne this worthy worke as Iudas the Traitor and some of hell maligned ●●at act of Ma●ies anoynting of Christ pretending ●●e good of the poore but intending it as much as his owne saluation which was little or nothing at all Verily I say vnto you wheresoeuer this Gospell shall bee preached throughought all the world there shall also this that she hath done be spoken of for a memoriall of her So verily I say of this honourable City and worthy Elders thereof that so long as there shall continue any English in Virginia and we hope their race shall continue there till the second comming of our blessed Sauiour transported from this Citie thither they shall not c●ase to pray for the prosperitie of this famous Citie and worthy gouernours thereof Wherefore let me beseech so many of the right Worshipfull and worthy Gouernours of this famous Cittie as are present and I humbly intreate them to stirre vppe all such as are absent to proceede as they haue begunne that their Way may shine as the light that shineth more and more vnto the perfect day that what was spoken of Ruth may bee verified in them Thou hast shewed more goodnesse in the latter end then at the beginning and that that may bee their praise which is recorded to be the commendation of the Church of Thy●tir● I know thy workes and thy loue and seruice and faith and patience and how thy workes are more at the last then as the first Right Worshipfull yee are plentifull in other good workes the maintaining of your Ho●pitals and other publike workes in this famous Cittie preach your munificence through all the world as the faith and obedience of the Romans was published abroad among all O be rich in well doing this way likewise that it may be sayd of you Many haue done worthily for the plantation in Virginia but the honourable Citty of London surmounteth them all Your Cittie as I sayd aboundeth in people and long may it doe so the Plantation in Virginia is capable enough to receiue them O take cour●e to ease your Cittie and to prouide well for your people by sending them ouer thither that both they of that Colony there and they of your owne Cittie here may liue to blesse your prudent and prouident gouernment ouer them For I haue heard many of the painfullest labourers of your Cittie euen with teares bemoane the desolate estate of their poore wiues and children who though they rise earely taw and teare their flesh all the day long with hard labour and goe late to bed and feede almost all the weeke long vpon browne bread and cheese yet are scarce able to put bread in their mouthes at the weekes end and cloathes on their backes at the yeares end and all because worke is so hard to be come by and there be so many of the same Trade that they can not thriue one for another Right Worshipfull I beseech you ponder as I know you doe the forlorne estate of many of the best members of your Citty and helpe them O helpe them out of their misery what you bestow vppon them in their transportation to VIRGINIA they will repay it at present with their Prayers and when they are able with their Purses and GOD in the meane while will plentifully reward your liberalitie this way with his blessing vpon your famous Citie vpon your selues vpon your posteritie For doth not your mercifull God the Lord of Hosts bid you proue him if hee will not open the windowes of heauen vnto you and powre you out a blessing without measure And that I may bend my speech vnto all seing so many of the Lords Worthies

haue done worthily in this noble Action yea and seing that some of them greatly rejoyce in this as I haue heard it from their owne mouthes that GOD hath inabled them to helpe forward this glorious Worke both with their Prayers and with their Purses let it be your griefe and sorrow to be exempted from the Company of so many honourable minded men and from this noble Plantation tending so highly to the advancement of the Gospell and to the honouring of our drad Soveraigne by inlarging of his Kingdomes and adding a fifth Crowne vnto his other foure for En dat Virginia quintam is the Motto of the Legal Seale of VIRGINIA And let mee in a word shut vp all vnto you all that hath beene spoken with that exhortation of the Apostle My beloved brethren be yee stedfast vnmoueable aboundant alwayes in the worke of the Lord for as much as you know that your labour is not in vaine in the LORD FINIS To the most Illustrious Knight Sir Thomas Smith the most prudent Gouernour of the East-Indy Company eternall felicity in the Lord. Right Worshipfull IN many respects to be reuerenced by me May it please your Worship to pardon my boldnesse in visiting you with this rude Epistle to the end that I may shew my thankefulnesse towards you for your great and many benefits bestowed vpon me As soone as God shal enable me to make a greater progresse in the Latine tongue you may expect a longer yea perhaps a more elegant and eloquent Letter In the interim I doubt not but your Worship in regard of your Clemencie towards me will accept in good part these witnesses of a thankefull mind The Almightie and all powerfull God preserue you long in health that you may be as you are a grace and ornament to the Companie of Marchants that you may attaine to high Honour here on earth and most ample glorie hereafter in Heauen Farewell From your Royall Iames this 24. of April 1620. A Fauorite of your Illustrious dignity Peter Pope To the VVorshipfull and worthy Captaine Martin Pring Commander of the Sea Nauy of the East-India Company in India I Shal peraduenture seeme bold most Illustrious Mecoenas daring to trouble your learned eares with this rude Epistle but your humanity towards all and beneuolent loue toward the learned incouraged me though the least of the learned yet most desirous of learning and a louer of learned men to present vnto you these first fruits of my wit and first tryall in the latine tongue to the end I may testifie how much I loue both you and the excellent gifts and graces of God bestowed vpon you Now if you will bee pleased to take in good part and haue respect to these vnpolished lines you may perhaps ore it bee long expect from the some more learned and better digested Letters Farewell Worshipfull Sir From the Iames Royall .22 Ianuary 1619. To the same Worshipfull Sir IN regard of late it was your pleasure to witnesse your loue to me by a gift to the end that hereafter I might account you not onely a speciall friend but also a worthy supporter of me in learning it was most acceptable vnto mee and as I embrace this pledge of your beneuolence so interchangeably I promise my selfe to be respectiue towards you according as your piety and liberality deserue Of both which towards all especially towards me this token is a sufficient witnesse For the present I haue but little which I may render for your great liberality towards mee and to returne nothing at all were altogether a signe of an vngrateful mind vnlesse it be this small Paper-gift Now if I may perceiue that any gift of this kind shall be acceptable to you I will satisfie you either with these or the like euen to the full Farewell Worshipfull and worthy Sir The Lord alwayes guid you with his Spirit and vphold you with his mighty power and euery day inrich you with the rich graces of his Spirit From the Iames Royall the 20. of May. 1620. Your Worships in all dutifull obedience Peter Pope Illustrissimo equiti aurato Domino Thomae Smit● societatis Mercatorum Indiae orientalis gubernatori prudentissimo aeternam in Domino felicitatem CLarissime Domine multis nominibus plurimùm mihi colende libet si licet epistolio te hoc rudi licet in●isere quò gratitudinem in te m●am ob magna multaque tua in me collata beneficia tester Vbi Deus maiores in lingua latina dederit progressus longiores fortassis etiam elegantiores a● magis disertas a me expectabis literulas Interea non dubito quin cels●●do vestra pro ea quae tua in me est ●lementia ha● grati animi testes aequi bonique consulat Deus opt Max. te longè multùmque incolumem seru●t ● quò illustri Mercatorum Societati sis decorì ac ornamento eximio atque ita hîc fauorem assequaris ampliorem in coelis amplissimum Vale ex Regali vestra Iacobo .24 Aprilis 1620. Illustrissima amplitudinis ●●a studio ●iss●●●s Petrus Papa Clarissimo Domino D. Martino Pringo Nauticae Classis societatis Mercatorum Indiae orientalis praefecto vigilantissimo Petrus Papa S. P. D. AVdax fortassis videbor Mecoen●s Illustrissime qui a●deam doctas ●uas aures r●d● hoc epistolio interturbare sod quae tua est in omnes bamani●●s in li●era●●● ben●●●l●us amor me literarurum licet minimum literarū tamen studio fissim●●● literatorum amantissimum induxit vt has ingenij mei primitias in lingua latina primum specimen tuo ●●mini inscriberem quò testatum faciam quami ●e eximias in te collatas Dei dotes colam Quòd si inexpolit●● has literalas aqu● bonique consulueris e●l●iores fort●ss● breui magis comptas a nobis expectabis Vale pl●rimùm mihi colende Ex Regati Iacobo 22. Ianuarij 1619 Eidem QVOD ●uper mihi per donum innotescere voluisti Domine plurimùm mihi colende vt posthacte non inter amicos solum sed inter beneficos Mecoenates cens●am gratum mihi fuit ac sicuti amplector hanc beneuolentiaetua tesseram ita viciss●● p●lliceor me beneuolo erga te fore animo prout tua pi●tas liberalitas merentur cuius vtriusque in omnes me preserti●● tantis tuis d●nis ill●st●● specimen apparet Inpresentiarum parum est quod protanta tua in ●e liberalitate referam nihil autem referre animi esset 〈◊〉 i●gratissimi praeter chartaceum hoc mun●scul●● Quòd fih●i●sce●odi mu●mosyna persp●xere tibi gr●ta ess● ●is a●t 〈◊〉 similib●s te ad satietatem 〈◊〉 ad fastidium vsque satiabo Vale Domine eximie plu●imùm mihi ex anim● colende Dominus Spiritu te suo semper gubernet sustineat inuicta virtute suis donis indies locupletet Ex Regali Iacobo May 20. 1620. Vestra celsitudinis studio fissi●●● Petrus Papa D. Great is the danger of Sea-faring men Pittacus Ionah 1. 1. verse 2. verse 3. verse 5. Iob 7.12 Iob 16.3.4 Summer Ilands Master George Thorpe in his Letter written from Iames Citie May 17. 1621. Master George Sandes in his Letter written from Iames Citie March 3. 1621. D. There is no daunger so great out of which faithful and fervent prayer will not helpe a man 1 King 18. 26● 27. c. Vmimmitskothebem Psal. 23.4 Esa. 43.4 Hab. 2.2 D. The more ●reater Gods blessings are vpō vs the larger heartier ought our prayses and thanksgiuings be vnto God for the same Gen. 29.32 33. c. Ionah● 1.7 Iudg. 5.23 Isay 1.5 1. Cor. 4 3● 2. Sam. 24.16 Ps●l 40.5 66.3 10 4. 24. Exod. 8.19 Iohn 6.30 Psal. 147.20 Marke 2.12 Psal. 66.16 Hosea 8.12 Psal. 122.8.9 Act● 26.18 1. Sam. 6.11 Deut. 28.5 Hag. 1.19.30 Peter Pope so named by his Maiestie Pro● 14.28 Philem. ver 1● Ioh. 12.3.4 ●c Mat. 26.13 Pro● 4.18 Ruth 3.10 Re● 2.19 R●●●● 8. 16.19 Mal. 3. ●0 1. Cor. 15 5●