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A13290	Virginia. A sermon preached at White-Chappel, in the presence of many, honourable and worshipfull, the aduenturers and planters for Virginia. 25. April. 1609 Published for the benefit and vse of the colony, planted, and to bee planted there, and for the aduancement of their Christian purpose. By William Symonds, preahcer at Saint Sauiors in Southwarke..	Symonds, William, 1556-1616?	1609 (1609)	STC 23594; ESTC S111329	35,995	64

one so that no other God shall bee Zach. 14. 19. named in all the worlde But lest any should vnderstand this point of the last iudgement and so place earth in heauen Daniell sheweth how the Lord shall be king his words are these The kingdome and dominion and greatnes of his kingdome vnder the whole Dan. 7. 27. heauen shall be giuen to the holy people of the most high whose kingdome is an euerlasting kingdome and alpowers shall serue and obey him But what shal he abolish kings and bring all to a Popularity no such matter God is the author of order and not of confusion The ● Cor. 14. 33 ●euel 1● 15. kingdomes of this world shall bee our Lords and his Christs and hee shall raigne for euermore by Kings conuerted to the Gospell For godly Kings doe si● 1 Chr● 30. 23 Psa ●3 97. 99. on the throne of the Lord and by them the Lord reigneth The beginning of this alteration Isaiah expresseth thus Kings shall be thy nursing Fathers and Queenes shall be thy nurses they shall worship thee with their faces Isa● 49. 23. towards the earth and licke vp the dust of thy feete But least any man should say it may bee some but what is that to the rest Dauid answereth thus The Kings of Tarshish and of the Iles shall bring presents The Psal 7● 10. 11. Kings of Sheba and Seba shall bring gifts yea All Psal 47. 6. Kings shall worship him All nations shall serue him And againe The Lord is high and terrible A great King ouer all the earth And again in the same Psalme God is King ouer all the earth sing praise● whosoeuer hath vnderstanding God reigneth ouer the heathen c. If any do yet think that they shall serue him as the Kings did Iosuah when he set his feet on their necks Iosh 10. 24. the blessed scripture saith no. For the Psalme hath it thus All Kings of the earth shall praise thee O Lord for Psal 138. 4. they haue heard the words of thy mouth A thing which they will not doe at the resurrection when going to hell thy shall say When saw we thee an hungred or a Mat. 25. 45. thirst or a stranger or naked or sicke or in prison c And as the scripture is very particular in setting down the state of the kings how they shall stand affected to the Gospell so doth it of the people First Psal 97. 6. Dauid saith All the people shall see thy glory But that is not sufficient wherefore S. Iohn in the Reuelation goeth farther thus All nations shall come and worship Reuel 15. 5. Isai 45. 23. before thee O Lord. Isaiah hath it thus I haue sworne by my selfe and the worde is gone out of my mouth in righteousnes and shall not returne that euery knee shall bow vnto mee and euery tongue shall sweare by mee Phil. 2. 9. 10. Which Saint Paul expresseth thus God hath exalted Christ Iesus and giuen him a name aboue all names that at the name of Iesus should euery knee bow and that euery tongue should confesse that Iesus is the Lord vnto the glory of God the Father Malachie yet goeth further Mala 1. 11. thus From the rising of the Sun to the going downe of the same My name is great among the Gentiles and in euery place incense shall be offred vnto thy name and Psal 17. 9. a pure offring The Psalme saith also The princes of the people are gathered vnto the people of the God of Abraham To conclude this point the Prophet Isaiah saith From moneth to moneth and from Saboth to Saboth Isai 66. 2● shall all flesh come to worship me saith the Lord. The summe is what blessing any Nation had by Christ must be Communicated to all Nations the office of his Prophecie to teach the ignorant the office of his Priesthood to giue remission of sinnes to the sinnefull the office of his kingdome by word and Sacraments and spirit to rule the inordinate that such as are dead in trespasses may be made to sit together Ephe. 2. 1. c. in heauenly places For there is no difference betweene the Iew and the Grecian For he that is Lord ouer Rom. 10. 12. all is rich vnto all that call vpon him For it well beseemeth the glory of God to triumph ouer his Reasons from Gods attributes enemies and the Wisdome of God after the world hath had plentifull experience of the craft of the diuell and wicked men of all sortes to exalte the Gospell the wisedome of God As also his Power to bee declared when all his enemies had shewed their force and his Mercy to his Saints after so great exercises of patience and his iustice to shewe his iudgements in condemning those that haue spoken proud words and done wicked deeds to his seruants But especially to his Glory in exalting his sonne and crowning him with Glory Worship that we may see that which yet we see not All ●hings be put in subiection vnto him It is true that many H●b 2. 8 obiections are made against this doctrine out of such places as this When the sonne of man commeth Luk. 18. 8. shall he finde faith on the earth And of Antichrist whom 2. Thes 2. 8. the Lord shall abolish by the brightnesse of his comming But partly for want of Grammer learning to know the meaning of the word Come and partly for want of Logick to lay out those places to their due times those Scriptures and many more are racked by such men out of their ioints which rightly vnderstood haue a cleane other sense then that for which they are alleadged which neither this time nor place will giue me leaue to dispute Wherefore standing to our owne first grounde learne first to bee sparing in VSE abridging the glory of God which made the world Be sparing in shor●ning the glory of God that his Sonne might rule ouer all For howsoeuer for some good causes God would not make himself glorious at the first but would seeme to hide the glory of God in the passion of his Sonne and affliction of his Saints and permitting Antichrist to clime to his height that those that are perfect may be knowne yet questionlesse Christ must sit at the Psal 110. ● 1. Cor. 15. right hand of his Father till all his enemies bee made his footestoole and then shall come from thence to iudge the quick and the dead Againe if it be Gods purpose that the Gospell II. shall be preached through the world for a witnesse then ought ministers to bee carefull and willing to spread it abroad in such good seruices as this that is intended Sure it is greate shame vnto vs of the ministery that can be better content to sit and rest vs heere idle then vndergoe so good a worke Our pretence of zeale is cleare discouered to be but hypocrisie when we rather choose to minde vnprofitable questions at home then gaining soules abroad It is a singular sin for men to be ouercome with euill it is a shame that the Iesuites and Friers that accompany euery ship should be so diligent to destroy souls and wee not seeke the tender lambes nor bind vp that which is broken But go on couragiously and notwithstanding the snorting idlenes of the ministery suspect not the 2 King 5. 2. blessing of God A captiue girle brought Naman to the Prophet A captiue woman was the meanes of conuerting Iberia now called Georgia Eedesius Ruffinus Eccle. Hist lib. 1. cap. 9. 10. 1. Cor. 1. Frumentius two captiue youthes were the meanes of bringing the gospell into India God makes the weake thinges of the worlde confound the mighty and getteth himselfe praise by the mouth of Babes and sucklings Be cheerfull then and the Lord of all glory glorifie his name by your happy spreading of the gospell to your commendation and his glory that is Lord of all things to whom be power and dominion for euer Hallelu-iah FINIS

whose right hand is a right hand of iniquitie Balaam that had a witches tongue Iosh ●3 2● Num. 22. 6. in his head was sent for to curse Israel by Balak that knew he had a pestilent tongue The seed of the diuel Gen 3. 15. will be spighting and biting doe what a man can This our Sauiour foretelleth to his holy Apostles Iohn 16. 33. In the world you shall haue trouble A thing which if the children of Israel had knowen as they ought they would neuer haue refused to enter the land which God commanded them to possesse because there were cursing and killing enemies no better then Canibals Bee not then discouraged though you light on enemies for that did God foretell vnto Abram that hee and his seed must find Rather bee strong and of good courage because the Lord is with you and with them but an arme of flesh Lastly our text doth tell vs that he will curse IIII. them that curse Abram This the witch Balaam knew Their enemies shall be cursed that if any would open his mouth to curse the people of God hee should bee cursed himselfe for the curse should returne vnto him as Water into his Psal 109. 17. bowels and oyle into his bones And generally they shall come vnto shame and confusion as many as haue euill will at Ziion Here then is a warrant that where godly men are constrained to encounter with cursers such as are the Priests of the Gentiles it is Gods ordinance to bring a curse vpon them and to kill them as the children of Israel did Balam Iosh 13. 22. Here is also a promise that if we keepe our selues to Abrams faith and obedience God will bring a curse vpon all our enemies The Prophet Zacharie hath many excellent speeches to expresse this by The Lord saith he will make Ierusalem a cup of poyson Zach. 12. ● c. vnto all the people in the siege of Ierusalem Ierusalem shall bee a heauie stone for all people all that lift at it shall be torne though all the earth be gathered together against it Againe the princes of Iuda shall bee as coles of fire among wood and like the firebrand in the sheafe and they shall deuoure all people round about on the right hand and on the left These things spake the Prophet of these victorious dayes of the Gospell I hope out of these words thus generally deliuered euery true hearted Protestant can frame out an answere vnto the obiection that is thought much to impeach this Plantation in VIRGINIA The perill say the obiecters is great by the Papists that shall come on the backe of vs. What Papists doe you feare the Princes Sure such as are in aliance with our Nation will thinke other thoughts and take better aduice But as for the popish Church an vnruly beast exempt from all good gouernment Ciuill and Diuine onely adoring him that hath exalted himselfe aboue all that is called God or that is worshipped it may be they like the daughters of Salomons horsleaches will cry Giue giue more blood and yet more bloo● Fro● 3● 14. 15. And yet a man would thinke they were glutted before this time of day For in her may be found the blood ●eue 1● 24 of the Prophets and of the Saints and of ALL that were sl●ine vpon the earth But you will say now they be so well fleshed they will haue more blood To this first our text answereth in general neuer feare them they come to curse with Bell Booke and Candle and the Diuell and all but remember this God will cu●se them that curse Abram But say you they are such terrible beasts as that the professors of the Gospell must needes be afraid of them Indeed their perill was great while their Inchauntments were in Reue. 18. 23. force Iannes and Iambres withstood Moyses till the Exod. 9. 11. Plague of the Scab fell vpon them and then they were able to stand before Moyses no longer So they Reue. 16. ● iuggled and did many strange tricks and much mischiefe till the Plague of the Scab light vpon them at Naples more then an hundred yeere agoe but since though their industrie hath bene nothing inferior to the diuels that came from compassing of the earth Iob 1. ● to and fro yet they may cast a wofull accompt For they find in the total● how many Kingdomes they haue lost and doe daily lose how many battailes they haue fought in all which to the Protestants as the Cananites would proue to the Isralites in Calebs Numb 1● 9. iudgement so haue they bene euen Bread for vs. Aske what is become of those imperiall armies that went into Boeme against the Hussites in the time of Sigismund the Emperour and know what is become of their Armour whether it armed not the Hussites that wanted Aske what is become of the many shippes that came into the Narrow seas in the yeere 1588 I am sure much of their Ordinance furnished the Netherlanders Will they come to you Sure GOD that made Israel rich of the spoiles of Egypt can by his prouidence make them furnish you with shippes with Munition with Victuall with money let this be your hope But feare not their feares Babilon saith the Angell is fallen Reue. 14. 18 neuer to rise againe sing Hallelu-iah and you shall see her smoake ascend for euermore No no they Reue. 19. 3. shall preuaile no more for their madnes is made euident 1. Tim. 3. 8. They haue another chare to doe I hope will make them scratch where it itcheth not Thinke ye that it is possible for Princes whose treasure is exhausted and honour impeached by their inchaunments not to require satisfaction for these wrongs and to that purpose pull all their Mammon from vnder their Altars I am perswaded the Armour they haue in the roufes of their Churches will one day helpe to arme a company of good fellowes that will come to Church it may bee vnder pretence of hearing a Masse but will depart with good luggage of siluer and gold and pearle and such like that is there ready gathered to their hands Wherefore feare God and of all others there lieth the least feare to be looked for from them The onely perill is in offending God and taking of Papists in to your company if once they come creeping into your houses then looke for mischiefe if treason or poyson bee of any force know them all to be very Assasines of all men to be abhorred But hope in God that hee that hath sent you abroad will also send you such gouernours as will cast out the leauen out of your houses to whom I need say little because I know they need not be nurtured by me IN Abram shall all the families of the earth bee blessed Vj● By Abram is ment as before Abraham as in his loynes are many nations For that which is heere spoken of Abram is also

spoken of Iacob in this manner In thee and in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed It is true that in Abraham and his Gen. 28. 14. Children were many men blessed as appeareth in the Scripture where they haue drawne many strangers to serue God Howbeit the principall blessing is ascribed to Christ who by excellencie is called Thy seede as S. Paule doth very notably obserue when he saith Hee saith not and to thy seedes as speaking Gal. 3. 16. of many but And to thy seed as of one which is Christ By the families of the earth are vnderstood all those nations which arose from the families of the sonnes of Noah after their generations among their Gen. ●● 3● people for out of these were the nations diuided in the earth after the flood and that which is heere rendred families afterward is called Nations in the speech of the Lord of Abraham All the nations of the earth shall be blessed in him S. Paul rendreth it thus in thee shall Gen. ●8 ●8 22. 18. all the Gentiles be blessed By blessing in this place seeing Gal. 3. 8. the seed is Christ and the word Thee did so far point out Abraham as it had relation to Christ in his loynes of force it must signifie that blessednesse which Christ doth bring vnto men Which the Angel and a multitude of heauenly souldiers do comprehend in their sweete song of praising God when they said Glorie be to God on high and Peace on earth Luk. 2. 14 and towards men good will Then the speech all put together is this that Abr●ham must get him out of his Countrie that he may begin that which God by him and his seed will accomplish in due time namely that all nations may embrace the gospel of Christ vnto their saluation An excellent argument and of singular force to perswade not only Abram but all his Children according to the faith to fly if it were possible ouer the mountaines about so greate an errand O with what Comfort may a man come before the Lord with this account of his talent Behold I am heere the childrē which God hath geuen me It would neuer grieue S Paule to go from Cilicia to present a Church at Corinth a pure Virgin to Christ 2. Cor 11 2 Obiection The last iudgment at hand But stay saith one you run too fast without good ground you seeme to encline to the Millenaries or such as looke for the gospell to be spread ouer all the world You must know that is done manie a faire yeare agoe that we need not looke for a new Reuolution of that It were safer to tremble at the last iudgement whose trumpet is euer sounding in our eares Arise from the dead and come to iudgement To this I answere that no preiudicate opinion is a iust Answere condemnation to the trueth nor any doctrine out of Bookes that are Apocripha can make a wise man depart from a doctrine of the Canonicall Scriptures It is true that Gregories credit was wont to bee great ●r●g lib. Dialo in the times that men knew no better who confidently affirmed the iudgement to bee at hand but besides the confutation of a thousand yeares which haue bin since hee so affirmed the pregnant cleere Scripture confoundeth the proud coniecture of him and his followers And this doth also appeare by the Apostasie of some Papists that in their bookes Maluenda de Antichristo lately Printed at Rome haue departed from the sentence of so great a Pope and graue Doctor of the Church telling vs plainely that the gospell must be preached vniuersally through the world before the last Iudgement But neither by their authority nor arguments but by the force of such Texts as cannot be deluded do I affirme That all the Nations of the world shall be blessed in Christ They that mince and pare this Text that they make it as sore as the Shechamits Gene. 34. 25. Psal 19. 3. Rom. 10. 18. were with their circumcision say that take away the ouerlashing hyperbole and Their sound is gone out into all the world will serue the turne A simple blessing God knoweth and little differeth from The sauor of death vnto death If they receaue you not ● Cor. 3. 16. saith Christ shake off the dust of your feete Truely I say vnto yon it shall be easier for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of Iudgement then for that Citie att● 10. 14. howsoeuer they heard the sound of the worde of God This stumbling blocke fewe wise men will say was this Blessednesse promised to Abram The Iewes hunt counter as fast on the other side For when as in the second Psalme they reade of their Messtas that he shall haue the heathen for his inheritance and the vtter most parts of the earth for his possession Psal 2. 8. 9. that he shall crush them with a scepter of yron and breake them in peeces like a potters vessel they affirme that all the world must bee subdued by force and violence vnto Messiah An opinion that preuailed much in the time of Christ as appeareth not onely by diuerse others but also by the Apostles who encountred our Sauior Christ thus before his ascension Lord wilt thou at this time restore the kingdome Acts 1. 6. to Israel But they also make but an vncomfortable blessing of this blessednes of Abraham The phrase is plaine that in Abraham all the families of the earth shall be blessed A blessednes then must the Gentiles trust to receiue from Abraham Particuly these things are deliuered in the Scripture which I thinke no distinctions of hyperbole nor spiritually nor at the last iudgement can delude which are the ordinary refuges of them that out of preiudice would faine put by the truth Daniell hath it thus A stone was cut without hands Dan. 2. 35. and smote the image vpon the feete and brake them in peeces Then was the yron the clay the brasse the siluer and gold broken together and became like chaffe of the summer flowers and the winde carried them away that no place was found for them and the stone that smot● the image became a greate mountaine and filled the whole earth Here first we plainly see that Christ must destroy the Monarches that they be not foūd And so much of this speech doth S. Paul interprete thus plainely That Christ shall put downe all rule and all authoritie ● G●r 15. 2● 25. 2● and power For he must reigne till hee ha●h put all his enemies vnder his seete the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death The other part of Daniels speech Dauid doth thus expresse in the Psalme Thou Lorde Psal 8● 6. shalt inherit all nations And this point the Prophet Zachary doth render thus The Lord sh●ll bee King ouer all the earth In that day there shall be one Lord and his name shall be