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A12466	A map of Virginia VVith a description of the countrey, the commodities, people, government and religion. VVritten by Captaine Smith, sometimes governour of the countrey. Whereunto is annexed the proceedings of those colonies, since their first departure from England, with the discourses, orations, and relations of the salvages, and the accidents that befell them in all their iournies and discoveries. Taken faithfully as they were written out of the writings of Doctor Russell. Tho. Studley. Anas Todkill. Ieffra Abot. Richard Wiefin. Will. Phettiplace. Nathaniel Povvell. Richard Pots. And the relations of divers other diligent observers there present then, and now many of them in England. By VV.S.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Symonds, William, 1556-1616?; Abbay, Thomas.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1612 (1612)	STC 22791; ESTC S121887	314,791	163

the first It is certaine that as the Father hath life in himselfe and light and wisedome and knowledge so he giueth his Son to haue the same in him nay he hath the same of himselfe as he is God No want in the God-head may be imagined nor degrees of hauing but all is perfit and at once yea and from the beginning He therefore being Iehouah and Shaddai all-being and euer-being all-sufficient and euer-sufficient may not be thought to haue asked this question to be better informed for his owne part for he knoweth all and needed not that any should testifie of man for hee knew what was in man Iohn 2. But as in the 12. of Iohn Christ saith This voyce came not for my sake but for yours So may we say of Christs words in my Text that they were not vttered for himselfe but for vs. It was good that the world should be satisfied concerning the resolution of the Apostles to follow Christ whatsoeuer came of it for their honour for our example for the glory of God in giuing such gifts vnto men Therefore doth the Lord bring forth their righteousnesse as the morning and causeth their faith to breake forth into confession They beleeued and therefore did they speake Wee also if we beleeue we will speake and will not be ashamed of him before men lest he also be ashamed of vs before his Father which is in heauen It is worth the remembring that Plutarch in his booke of Isis Osiris writeth of the Peach namely that the Egyptians of all fruit did make choise of that to consecrate it to their great Goddesse for this cause because the fruit thereof 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is like to ones heart 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the leafe to the tongue Indeed when the heart and the tongue goe together then the harmony is sweete and the seruice pleasing both to God and man Euen as Saint Paul setteth downe the perfitnesse of our duty and consequently of our happinesse With the heart man beleeueth vnto righteousnesse with the mouth he confesseth vnto saluation This therefore may seeme to be a speciall cause why Christ demandeth of the twelue whether they would play the Turne-coats as some others did namely to draw forth their confession and profession of their faith As for the other doubt Whether the Elect can fall away the same will easily be cleared if we agree vpon the termes of Elect and falling away namely if we vnderstand by Elect such as are chosen according to the purpose of grace vnto an inheritance immortall vndefiled that fadeth not away reserued in heauen for them and by falling away an vtter departing from the fellowship of the Saints and an vtter renouncing of the truth reuealed The truly Elect cannot so vtterly become cast-awayes If then man and the world and the Deuill were stronger then God then the gifts and calling of God had repentance then Christ should not loue to the end whom he loueth yea then some should be able to take them out of the Fathers hand All which points and twenty more to this purpose are directly contrary to Gods Word which cannot lye Therefore we conclude that a man truly Elect cannot throughly perish I grant Saul and Iudas were Elect or chosen but it was to an office not to the Kingdome of glory Peter and others fell away but it was for a time not finally they wauered and staggered and felt some eclipse in their faith but the same was neuer extinguished nor rooted vp Christ prayed for Peter and not for him onely but for as many as should beleeue in his Name Iohn 17. that their faith should not faile And can Satan or all the power of hell preuaile against Christs prayer Praedestinatorum nemo cum Diabolo peribit nemo vsque ad mortem sub Diaboli potestate remanebit None of the predestinate shall perish with the Deuill none of them shall remaine vnder the Deuils power euen vnto death as Saint Augustine speakes And in his booke De Catechizandis rudibus Cap. 11. ●erusalem shall be deliuered and none of her shall perish for he that perished was not a Citizen of her Thus he He learned it of Saint Iohn They went out from vs but were not of vs c. Let vs end this point with another testimony of Austin more pregnant and plaine then either of them Horum he speaketh of the Elect si quisquam perit fallitur Deus sed nemo eorum fuerit quia non fallitur Deus Horum si quisquam perit vitio humano vincitur Deus sed nemo eorum fuerit quia nulla re vincitur Deus that is if any of the Elect perish God is deceiued but none of them perisheth because God is not deceiued if any of them perish God is ouercome by mans fault or naughtinesse but none of them perisheth because God is ouercome of nothing Well hauing thus vntyed the two knots or doubts that might seeme to entangle the Text let vs returne to the same againe and see what further we may learne out of it Will ye also goe away Plutarch writeth of Brutus that this was a great content and comfort to him at his end that though he had Crebra transfugia of the common sort many of them forsooke him and turned to the enemy yet none of his friends or neere ones forsooke him On the other side it must needs be a great corrasiue to Caesars heart that Labienus that had done him so worthy seruice against the Galles nine or tenne yeeres together left him in the quarrell betweene him and Pompey took Pompeys part I haue nourished brought vp children they to rebell against me this cuts my gall saith God in effect in Esay What my son that came out of mine own bowels to miniken the matter against me nay to make head against me This is such a matter as would make a man exclaime Be astonied O heauens and blush O earth 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 What thou my sonne said one to his neere one He made resistance against others saith the story but when he saw his owne naturall to draw vpon him then he was weary of his life then he desired to liue no longer Therefore herein appeareth Christs magnanimity that he was not danted for the perfidiousnes of the run-awayes but all the while he had them that were of best note to sticke vnto him he reckoned not for the Apostasie of others Let vs be of the same minde Beloued Suppose all should cowre downe cowardly saue three hundred nay suppose that all should worship the Image that Nabuchadnezzar of Rome putteth vp saue three nay suppose that all should bowe their knees to Baal or worship the golden Calfe saue Elias and Moses should this make vs to goe away Nay greater is he that is in vs then he that is in the world saith our Sauiour And more there bee which be with vs then

nor yet for the Iustices to lay the fault vpon the twelue men for euery man shall beare his owne burden And as the righteous shall liue by his owne faith so the vnrighteous shall die for his owne faultinesse and a pillow of blood is a very hard pillow for a tender conscience to take rest vpon harder then the pillow of stones in Genesis for vpon that Iacob did sleep But that ought to be done in such weighty cases that concerne life which the Law of God requireth to be done in the case of Idolatry namely They should seeke and make search and inquire diligently and if it be true and the thing certaine c. then thou shalt not faile to slay them c. And as Iob professed that he did in these words The cause which I knew not I searched out Otherwise if the matter be not euident it is better to be slow then forward lest Cinna Cesars friend be slaine in place of Cesars enemy that had railed vpon him as in the Romane Story And lest Histiaeus make the shoo and Aristag●ras weare it as in the Greeke Story And lest that one sowe and another reape as in the Gospell I meane lest one commit the offence and another be punished If the least imputation of cruelty did sticke to your reputation Honorable men and brethren if it might be said of you with any probability which was said of Claudius the Emperour that his hands were otherwise weake and feeble but strong and sturdy to shead blood I could vse many reasons to moue and induce you to lenity and clemency so farre-forth as the state of the Common-weale would beare for that is alwayes to be vnder-stood Salus Reipublicae summa Lex but I perswade my selfe of you that you propend thereunto by nature and specially by grace and that you say many times to your selues when you are about to giue Sentence as the successor of Claudius did when a Bill was brought vnto him for the execution of a man condemned Quam vellem nescirem literas Oh that I could not write my name Oh that another had my roome And that it may be said of you as it was of that good Emperour Augustus Qui cum triste aliqui● statuit fit tristis ipse cuique fere poenam sumere poena sua est that si You are grieued your selues when you pronounce a grieuous Sentence and you thinke your selues are punished when you punish others I haue stood very long vpon the three first words of my Text I put on Righteousnesse Wherein I haue shewed First the meaning Fitnesse and vsualnesse of the Phrase secondly for the Vettue the bulke of the Phrase how necessary and goodly it is the goodliest Robe that a Magistrate can put on thirdly and lastly what be the hinderances and staines of it First Preiudice Secondly Partiality Thirdly Brib●ry and lastly Precipitancy Now Iob is not content to tell vs that he put on Iustice but addeth it clothed me Meaning that he did not cast it behind him like a cloake or throw it about him like a mantle to couer some p●rts and to leaue the others vncouered but that it couered him on all parts from top to toe like the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which was a long Garment downe to the feet mentioned in the Reuelation And like the same 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Garment wherein one might wrap and roll himselfe mentioned in the Booke of Ester Meteranus in his Belgicke Story writeth of a certaine old woman in the Low-Countries that she being neere her end required her Keeper of all loues and in any case to put vpon her the Cowle of a Fryer Minorite when shee should be ready to yeeld vp the ghost which she had prepared for the purpose And said she if death happen to come on so suddenly that thou canst not put the whole Cowle vpon me yet faile not at the least to put one of mine armes into it that by vertue thereof three parts of my sinnes may be forgiuen me and the fourth expiated in Purgatory Thus Meteranus of the old wiues perswasion touching the vertue of the Fryers Cowle which perswasion Superstition bred Couetousnesse tendered and folly entertained I cannot say so much of the vertue of the Robe of Iustice either commutatiue or distributiue either priuate or publicke though I thinke passing well of it that it should haue power to forgiue sinnes No The blood of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinnes And He hath washed vs in his blood And Wee must be found in him not hauing our owne righteousnesse which is of the Law but that which is by the faith of Iesus Christ euen the righteousnesse of God through faith But this I dare boldly say that it yeeldeth a pleasant sauour vnto the nostrils of our heauenly Father as Esaus garment vpon Iacobs backe did to Izack their father And of all the garments yee can put on after faith and loue there is none to be compared to it There is mention in Saint Mathew of soft clothing but it was onely for them that were in Kings Courts Also in the Psalme of a garment of needle-worke wrought about with diuers colours but it was onely for the Queene Also in the 2. Sam. of garments of many pieces or colours but they were for Kings daughters that were virgins Also of garments of Linnen and Woollen which were forbidden the Israelites who thereby as by an Allegery were forbidden all hypocrisie and insincerity not onely in matters of faith but also in conuersation Also in the booke of Ioshuah of a Babylonish garment which Achan purloyned to his destruction Further there is mention in Stories of garments of gold and of siluer at which Dionysius iested That they were too cold in the Winter and too heauy in the Summer but now they are in speciall request euery ordinary fellow weareth cloth of gold and of siluer nay he is not an ordinary fellow but a No-body that is not so attyred Also there is mention in Story of perfumed garments which were the vndoing of Muleasses King of Tunis for by the smell thereof he was hunted after taken and bereaued of his eyes and of his Kingdome as Iouius writeth Thus the outward garment or ornament is for some persons and purposes and not for others and for some certaine times and not for all But now Iustice is for all sorts of men and for all times of the yeere sweet without fulsomnesse precious without burdensomnesse safe without dangerousnesse indifferent to all degrees to all persons common equall glorious full of Maiestie and full of all good workes We haue not so great vse of fire and water as we haue of Iustice said one or one maysay The Morning-starre or the Euening-starre is not so faire as Iustice said another Faire as the Moone pure as the Sunne terrible as an Armie with Banners So haue