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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

come in Christs Vicars name so he calleth himselfe and would be called by others but indeed he is an Aduersary and you will receiue them and aduenture your neckes for them And wee come in Christs name with his message and reconcilement vnto God whom you haue offended without any working of you to offend the State and will you refuse vs Shall they be welcome with their Traditions that is with their Tales and we odious with the Gospell which was preached vnto you which ye also receiued and which you must returne to if you meane to be saued What is strong illusion what is the working of Satan what is the power of darkenesse if this be not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. You forsake the right and straight way and goe that which is full of thornes and stakes what arrogancy and phrensie are you possessed with saith Clemens Alexandrinus out of Sibylla So Cyprian Christ promiseth euerlasting life if we will follow him and he is forsaken The Deuill promiseth Gu-gawes and lyeth too in his promise and he is adored O foedam defectionem ô iniquam permutationem O filthy defection O absurd exchange saith Cyprian The like may we say to those bewitched Countrey-men of ours that preferre Rome before Sion and the doctrine thereof before the liuely Oracles of God that like children or women that haue the disease called Pica preferre Lime or dirt before white bread yea like vnwise Marchants glasse before pearle lead before gold cotton before silke that is error before truth Belial before Christ Baal before Iehouah more particularly ignorance before knowledge dumbe Images before effectuall Teachers Saints before Christ doubtfulnesse before Faith seruile feare before filiall loue horror of conscience before tranquillity of spirit There is no peace to the wicked saith the Lord. And truely there is no rest to the soule in Popery What rest can there be when they make Saints mediation the onely anker of their hope mens books the foundation of their faith mans Absolution the remission of their guilt here and mens pardons the relaxation of their punishment hence This they doe an hundred things as bad in Popery therefore it is impossible that they should be at peace with God or haue peace within themselues that thus make flesh their arme and in their heart depart from God And therfore if you desire to find rest for your soules or to haue your Election saluation made sure vnto you you must haue nothing to do with the vnfruitfull vncōfortable opinions of Popery but rather abhor them reproue them The Lord in mercy vouchsafe to bring them home that goe astray to confirme them that stand to grant vs true peace true rest through Iesus Christ our blessed Sauiour To whom with the Father the holy Ghost be praise thankesgiuing for euer and euer Amen Amen A SERMON VPON THE FIRST OF PETER THE NINTH SERMON 1. PETER 5. verse 6. Humble your selues therefore vnder the mighty hand of God that he may exalt you in due time THE word therefore hath reference to that which went before namely to the last words of the former verse God resisteth the proud and giueth grace to the humble and inferreth strongly vpon the force of them For if God resisteth the proud if contrariwise he giueth grace to the humble then there is no cause in the world why any man should be proud and there is great cause why euery one should be humble For doe wee prouoke the Lord are we stronger then he If we walke crosse against God or hardly stifly the Chaldee hath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 hardly he will walke so against vs. It is a fearefull thing to fall into the hands of the liuing God Iacob I grant wrastled with God preuailed but how he did not make head against God neither did he thinke himselfe an equall match for God by no meanes but God vouchsafing to take him vp in his armes and bearing him in his armes that he should not dash his foot against a stone he might doe all things by him that strengthned him he might swimme easily the Lord holding him vp by the chin he might fight valiantly the Lord teaching his hands to warre and his fingers to fight But tell me how they sped against whom God bent himselfe Pharaoh and his Hoast whom the Lord looked vpon out of the fiery and cloudy Pillar for euill and not for good were they not drowned in the red Sea Those stiffe-necked and rebellious Israelites which prouoked the Lord ten times that is many and many a time against whom the Lord swore in his wrath If they shall enter into my rest that is Neuer beleeue me if they enter did not their carkasses fall in the Wildernesse and were they not vtterly consumed there till not one of them was left This before they came into the Land of promise When they were there did not the Lord take the Kingdome from Saul and his Stocke because he was angry with him and gaue it to Dauid From Dauids sonne Salomon because of his Idolatry did he not rend the Kingdome and c●nferre tenne parts thereof vpon Ieroboam From Ieroboams Line yea from all the Kings of Israel succeeding him and caused them to be carryed away captiues into Assyria There remained the Tribes of Iudah and Beniamin for a while in honorable estate but when these also defied the Lord and prouoked the Holy one of Israel when they said that they should be deliuered because of the righteousnesse of their Fathers and the holinesse of the Temple though they hated to be reformed and had cast Gods Commandements behind them Then did the Lord cast Iudah out of his sight as he had done Israel he plowed Sion as a field as he had done Samaria he made Hierusalem the beloued City in former times which also hee called a greene Oliue-tree faire and of goodly fruite a breeding of Nettles and Salt pits and a perpetuall desolation For it is a righteous thing with God as to shew mercy to them that feare him and stoupe vnto him so also to render tribulation and anguish and shame and confusion to euery one that exalteth himselfe before him to the Iewe first and also to the Greeke Lysander a great man in Lacedemon and one that had deserued well of King Agesilaus being disgraced many wayes and suffering many indignities by the Kings conniuence falleth into expostulation with the King because he suffered him so to be contemned and abused To whom the King made answer So they deserue to be vsed that take so much vpon them as thou doest and will not reuerence and awe the King Precedent merits and good seruice will not tie Princes of a g●nerous spirit to such subiects of theirs as shew themselues ouer-lusty and crancke with them And can we thinke that God who is of pure eyes and incomprehensi●le Maiesty to whom the greatest men are as nothing and the

Saint Quintins by our meanes and when we lost Casis in his quarrell he left vs in the lash and gaue vs the slip Thirdly Sennacherib was not tyed to Hezechiah by any band of affinity or consanguinity This man besides the name of Brother and Sister which goeth betweene Christian Princes currant marryed her Maiesties owne sister and afterwards would haue marryed her and so should l●ue her euen naturally Lastly Sennacherib inuaded Hezekiah in his flourishing times surely in his best times He a woman I need not adde well stricken in yeeres whose very sex pleadeth weakenesse enough Yet well fare Iustinian the Emperour for he was so farre from setting vpon Amalosuntha that vertuous and wise learned Queene of the Gothes that dwelt in Italy though he might well haue pretended that Italy belonged to the Empire and therefore that she was after a sort an Vsurper that contrariwise as Procopius writeth he shewed himselfe to be very carefull of her safety and to be enemy to her enemies first and last But what speake I of Iustinian a Christian Emperour and a ciuill Cosroes himselfe that cruell King of Persia a Barbarian and for ought I reade a Pagan he though his fingers were itching to be medling with the Empire yet vpon the Empresse Sophia her letters as Euagrius writeth declaring that the gouernment was in her hands and that he should get no great hon●ur in conquering a woman c. he was perswaded to be quiet and to sit at home But this man had rather be like that dis-honourable miscreant Caesar Borgia his countrey-man by blood who would not suffer Catharine ●fortia a Lady of Italy to enioy her Signiories in quiet but would needs seeke a conquest and a triumph ouer her and like to his father and vncle who would needs haue warre with that Queene of Hungary King Iohns widdow though all Christend●me yea and Turky too did hisse at ●hem both for it Well God that taketh vpon him the protection of Widdowes and Orphans he also doth in a more neere respect tender the s●fety of his anoynted Queene and so I hope our enemies shall find and feele to their perpetuall shame if they shall be so hardy as to inuade vs the Lord that fought for Hezekiah and Ierusalem against Sennacherib will also fight for her Maiesty and this Realme against the Spaniard they shall not come forth against vs so proudly but they shall flee from vs as fearefully c. Which God for his mercy sake grant to whom be praise for euer Amen A SERMON VPON THE SEVENTY SIXTH PSALME THE SIXTH SERMON PSALME 76. verse 9 10. When God arose to Iudgement to saue all the meeke of the earth Selah 10. Surely the wrath of man shall prayse thee the remainder of wrath shalt thou restraine PRAISE is not comely in the mouth of the foolish saith the Wiseman but it becommeth well the iust to be thankefull sayes the Psalmist Thankefulnesse is a most necessary duty and a principall part of Iustice sayes the Philosopher therefore he that is vnthankefull is iustly odious both to God and man What a staine is that to Pharaoh his Butler that he forgat Ioseph To Ioas King of Iudah that he forgat the kindnesse of ●ehoiada by whose meanes he attained the Kingdome I will trouble you with no more such examples On the other side Iethroes gratitude towards Moses for helping his daughters to water their flockes Dauids towards Barzillai for furnishing him and his men with victuall I might recite diuers others out of the Scriptures is greatly renowned Now if we ought thus to be thankefull to men and to suffer no benefit to be spilt vpon the ground like water but to proclaime as Dauid did Who is left of the Linage of Ionathan that I may doe good vnto him for Ionathans sake who hath made me beholding to him that I may requite them If I say we are bound to be thankefull to men for small fauours then how much rather are we bound to God for giuing vs life and breath and all things to enioy and if we cannot be thankefull enough to God for ordinary blessings in that in him we liue moue and haue our being in that he causeth his Sun to shine vpon vs and his raine to fall downe vpon our Lands then what doe we owe him and how can we possibly be thankefull enough for deliuering our soules from death our eyes from teares and our feet from falling for catching the wicked in his owne snare and bringing the mischiefe that he imagined vpon his owne head The Israelites hauing escaped the hands of the Egyptians and the danger of the red Sea sung praises to God with ioyfull lippes So did Deborah and Barack for the victory which God gaue them against Iabin King of Canaan and his Captaine Sisera so the women came out of all the Cities of Israel singing and dancing to meet King Saul and Dauid after he had slaine the Philistine and which commeth neerest our purpose the Iewes in the Kingdome of Persia that had escaped the bloody practices of Haman were not content to reioyce for the present time for a day but ordained it for a Law that such two dayes should be kept festiuall euery yeere Now if we will cast our eyes abroad to other Countries we shall find the like custome to haue beene taken vp by Romanes Grecians Scythians Barbarians ancient modern A taste of them The Romanes counted it for an vnspeakeable blessing to be deliuered from the Tyranny of the Tarquins they celebrated the memoriall of it euery yeere called the feast Regis fugium The same Romanes were glad most glad to haue the turbulent popular Estate remoued and a Monarchy established among them and so glad they are of their Emperour Augustus for that cause that they honour the memory of his victory at Actium whereby the same was settled by an annuall festiuity So the Sicilians for escaping the danger of destruction threatned by the Athenians And to come to later times So they of Lubeck celebrate the first day of the moneth for their deliuerance from the Rugians as Helmoldus witnesseth The Venetians also the fifteenth day of Iune for the defeature of a most fearefull Conspiracy tending to the wracke of that Common-weale as Egnatius writeth And the Antwerpians such a day of the moneth for driuing the French out of the City that thought to haue sacked it and surprized it it was vnder the gouernment of such States as were Protestants when the City was deliuered but yet the Romanists after getting it kept the day holy still To be short The Lubecians that I spake of before celebrate such a day of the moneth euen Saint Lamberts day for escaping the like danger threatned by certaine Traitors of their owne City as Crantzius writeth And because that Conspiracy doth much pourtray forth and fore-describe that same hellish one that was lately vndertaken by our cruell vnnaturall ones for the confusion of whom we

of the Britans themselues The Soldan of Persia hyred the Turkes against the Caliph of Babylon what became of it Well by their meanes the Caliph is ouercome but is the Soldan euer a whit the neere No out of the frying-pan he fell into the fire and was ouercome by those Turks himselfe whom he had hyred So who made them Lords of Constantinople Did not the Emperour of Constantinople himselfe who hyred them against the Bulgarians Who of Hungary in our owne time Did not Iohn the Vayuod of Transiluania who laboured them against the Austrians Let vs passe to another Countrey It was thought high policy forsooth by certaine of the Romane Emperours to entertaine the Gothes in seruice that so they might be secured from other Barbarians but were the Gothes content to become stipendaries No they picked a quarrell to sacke Rome it selfe and ceased not till they became Lords of the greatest part of Italy Well the Gothes are insolent and cannot be endured therefore the Longobards must be sent for but did the Longobards remaine faithfull to them No after they had helped them to beate the Gothes they turned them also out of their possessions called the Land by their owne name So the Longobards also they became Tyrants as it was conceiued and therefore the French must be sent for but were they set at full liberty by them No they changed onely their Lord they were not deliuered from a Lord nay in stead of one Lord they had two the Emperour and the Pope the one ouer their heads the other at their elbowes Should I runne this course and tell you how the French were serued by the Normans the Spaniards by the Moores the Moores or Africans by the Arabians c. I might hold you too long In a word the danger of strangers is confessed by all whom folly or priuate respects hath not blinded For indeed if either of these be in a man then the case is altered He that is vnwise thinketh that he may stop a streame with his foot as well as h● may let it in and that cold water is good in the fit of an hot Ague because it easeth for the present time and that Vsury is a good thing because his turne is serued for the time by that which he tooke to interest But tell me how you will like of it when the day of paiment commeth then you will cry out vpon the Vsurer as fast and complaine that you were eaten vp of him So is euery Nation that seeketh not to God for helpe nor stirreth vp it selfe to valiantnesse nor is desirous to be trained in feates of warre but trust vnto strangers They that are gotten for money will also forsake you for money and when you shall haue most need of them then they will call for their pay or impudently bid you adieu I could tell you of diuers Princes that by these meanes haue beene deceiued and vndone euen at the instant when they were to ioyne battell with their enemies But let vs returne to the stranger Sennacherib and the Assyrians You heare how we may profit hereby that the Iewes were so plagued by them whom before I warrant you they honored as their best deseruing friends Let this be the first thing that we note in the person of Sennacherib The second thing shall be his ambitious couetousnesse My Text saith Sennacherib King of Ashur came vp against all the strong Cities of Iudah and tooke them Why might one say did his Ancestors leaue him nothing to doe at home that he must find himselfe some worke abroad As though it were not as busie a piece of worke yea and as honorable too to establish well that which was gotten to his hands as to get more or was that Kingdome that came to him by inheritance too straight and too little that he must seeke a larger to maintaine his estate as Philip said to his sonne Aliud tibi R●gnum quaerendum est Macedonia iam non capit Why the Kingdome of the Assyrians was in those dayes the mightiest Monarchy that was in the world and verily a great part of the East were tributary to them how then could they be destitute of possessions and rents We see ●herefore that it was neither want of worke nor want of wealth What was it then Mary this is that that the Prophet Hacacuk said Chapter 2. The proud man is as hee that transgresseth by wine hee enlargeth his desire as hell and is as death and cannot be satisfied What should you tell him how much he hath All the while there is any thing which hee hath not he thinketh himselfe a poore man Doth not the fire catch fagot vpon fagot nay whatsoeuer fewell it may reach vnto and is neuer weary Such is Ambition doth not the Wolfe as Plinie writeth forget the meat before him if hee doe but once looke backe and doth he not seeke for a new prey as though hee had had nothing This is Coue●ousnesse Indeed as He that desireth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer Eccles. 5. So he that desireth Dominion shall not be satisfied with Dominion Iulius Caesar got so many victories as none did before him or since and yet it is written of him that that which he had done he thought of as onely the foundation as it were and the beginning of the glorious frame that he would reare The Romanes could not indure to haue their desires bounded out by the Ocean but needs they would haue a sight of this Iland Nor Alexander coetent himselfe with the whole World but thought it was too little for him Aestuat infoelix angusto limite mundi What maruell then if the Assyrians and by name Sennacherib were not content with his hereditarie Kingdomes but would needs adde Iudah to them for you heare how this desire is vsuall and euen as it were naturall It is true that Henry the last French King hauing but a couple of Crownes of Polony and France the one in title the other in hand seemed to haue beene fully content with them and therefore he gaue for his Symboll of Posie Manet vltima coelo the last remaineth in heauen Howbeit if you marke the Posie a little better you will confesse that it containeth not that modesty or contentednesse indeed that it promiseth at the first sight or beareth shew of For he doth not say Manet altera coelo the other next Kingdome is in heauen but the last is in heauen not barring himselfe from the accepting of more if they should be offered or might be gotten But well fare the Spaniard for dealing plainely for he proclaimeth on the house-top nay in the eares of all the world his insatiable Ambition with his Plus vltra Howbeit He that setteth bounds to the Sea and saith Hitherto shalt thou goe and no further and Here shall it stay thy proud waues the same holdeth all the Tyrants of the earth in a chaine and will not suffer them to goe one