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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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