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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

must follow where the Lord went before For Rom. 11. 34. God in his wayes can endure no counsellour Hee will be the shepheard we the sheepe of his pasture 1. Reason Contented to be Gods creatures He will be the potter wee must content our selues with the condition of the potters vessell wherefore we are bound if God commaund to follow him though blindfold Againe the Lord doth not tell II. him whither he shall goe to keepe him in suspense that the obedience of faith may the more effectually appeare For if the Lord had enticed him by arguments taken from the opportunitie and sweetnesse of the place how should it be knowen whether hee went by the power of the promise of God or by some carnall inducement We know the diuell saith to God of Iob Doth Iob feare God for nought hast Iob 1. 9. 10. thou not made a hedge about him about his house And we also know what Christ saith to them that followed Iob 6. 26. him Yee seeke me not because yee saw the miracle● that is for any respect they had to his Godhead but because ye ate of the loaues and were filled From which imputation the Lord would free his seruant Abraham whom hee purposed to make the Father of the faithfull and giue him for an example to all posteritie So dealt the Lord in the wildernesse with the children of Israel hee let them see no possibilitie to liue in the world but susteined them by extraordinary miracle giuing them Manna and Qua●les that they might follow the steps of their father Abraham and know that man liueth not by Deut. 8. 3. bread onely but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man liue Then here we see where VSE God doth commaund he is to be obeyed without asking of any questions Abraham must goe to a land hee knoweth not whither because God will haue it so He must not say A Lyon may bee in the Prou. 26. 13. street lest he find A Serpent bite him at home as he leaneth on the wall How much more when the land is discouered to bee as much better then the place in which vve liue as the land of Canaan was better then the roaring wildernesse ought vve to be vvilling to goe vvhither God calleth The children of Numb 14. 7. 8. Israell had vvord by their spies The land which wee walked through to search it is a very good land If the Lord loue vs he will bring vs to this land and giue it vs which is a land that floweth with milke and ●oni● Thence they brought a bunch of grapes and loaded Numb 13. 24. Deut. ● 24 two men as they carried it on a barre vpon their shoulders Sure if such motiues as these could not make them readie to runne to the place it appeared that they had neither the feare of God that vvould not be perswaded by him nor the vvits of reasonable men that vvill not respect their owne benefit What shall vvee say then to our people vvhich haue in them so little edge to follovv their owne thrift The land by the constant report of all that haue seene it is a good land with the fruitfulnesse vvhereof and pleasure of the Climate the plentie of Fish and Fowle England our mistresse cannot compare no not vvhen she is in her greatest pride It is said of the land of Canaan that Isaack sowed in that land and Gene. 26. 12. found in the same yeere an hundred fold by estimation and the text addeth And so the Lord blessed him But here is greater matter then so For if I count aright this land giueth fiue hundred fold at one haruest For the eares of Wheate vvhich I haue seene are ten in square and fiftie long and yet they say that commonly this returne is little better then the third part euery stalke bearing ordinarily three such eares of Wheate As for the opportunitie of the place I leaue it to the graue Polititian and for the commodities let the industrious Merchant speake but for foode and raiment here is inough to be had for the labour of mastring and subduing the soile The children of Israell that were in the wildernesse readie to perish if God vvithdrew his miraculous hand like a stiffenec●ed people as they were refused to goe fell into a mutiny and made a commotion vpon the newes that the Land had fenced cities and Num. 13. 29. walled townes exceeding great And because there were the sonnes of Anak mightie ●●nts that were armed in Brasse their speare like a Weauers cloth beam For they forgat the God that brought them out of Egypt and that made the raging waues of the sea to stand in heapes and take the office of strong walles that they might easily march through vpon drie land They forgat that God was the creator of the mountaines whereof one of the least is stronger then all the sonnes of Anak They forgat that God putteth away all the vngodly of the earth like drosse But wee should be worse then mad to bee discouraged by any such imaginations of this place There are but poore Arbors for Castles base and homely sheds for vvalled townes A Mat is their strongest Portcullis a naked brest their Target of best proofe an arrow of reede on which is no iron their most fearefull vveapon of offence heere is no feare of nine hundreth iron charets Their God is the enemie Iudg. ● ●3 ● ●et ● 8. of mankind that seeketh whom hee may deuoure A murtherer from the beginning that lab●ureth o●n 8. 44. the destructiō of those that serue him most deuoutly Heere that Scripture hath a full accomplishment In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants 〈…〉 of Ierusalem and he that is feeble among them shall bee is Dauid that slew his ten thousand And the house 〈…〉 7. of Dauid as Gods as the Angel of the Lord before them that destroyed the most puissant Armie of the Assyrians that came against Ierusalem Wherefore ●●ay ●7 3● seeing we are contented when the King doth presse vs out to warre to go we know not whither nor vnder whom and can propose no thing vnto vs but to fight vvith a mightie enemie Let vs bee cheerefull to goe to the place that God will shew vs to possesse in peace and plentie a Land more like the garden of Eden vvhich the Lord planted then any part else of all the earth THE Lord doth promise to enrich him with many iiijo Deut. 281. Leuit. 26. 3. blessings if he be obedient to his calling An example of that sweete sanction of the law vvhen the Lord doth allure men to keepe it by the abundance of his blessings In this place the Lord doth promise vnto Abraham foure most excellent mercies of all men of vnderstanding most earnestly desired The first thing he promiseth vnto him is that The A great Nation Lord will make him a

great Nation A thing which in the beginning of the Plantation of the vvorld by all men vvas principally desired vvith the greatest longing Out of this desire arose the taking of many Mal. 2. 15. vviues vvhereas God did make but one Hence also rose a reproch vnto the barren though the Lord had shut vp the wombe This appeareth by Leah who said when she bare a sonne Now therefore my Gene 29. 32. 1. ●●m 1. 6. husband will ●oue me And againe Now will my husband keepe me companie because I haue borne him three sonnes It appeareth also by the storie of Hannah of whom it is said her aduersary vexed her sore which was her husbands other wife for she vpbraided her because the Lord had made her barren It appeareth also that euen to the time of the Gospel it was a reproch to a woman if she were barren as Elizabeth said when shee conceiued with child Thus hath the Luke 1. 26. Lord dealt with me in the dayes when he looked on mee to take from me my rebuke among men Yea it was in those dayes a speech Cursed bee the barren that beareth not and the breasts that giue not sucke No maruaile then if it were an argument very powerfull to perswade Abraham to goe vnder this condition Especially when Abraham was full of yeeres elder Gene. 12. 4. then his father was when he begat him And also Gene. 18. 11. his wife was well stroken in yeeres in so much that it ceased to be with her after the manner of vvomen And to let it appeare that hee vvas exceedingly affected vvith a desire to multiplie and encrease when God came to him and comforted him Thus Feare Gene. 15. 1. 2. not Abraham I am thy buckler and thine exceeding great reward he maketh this answere to God What wilt thou giue me for the Text doth say hee was exceeding rich seeing I goe childlesse As if he had said that he preferred the blessing of multiplication before all the vvorld beside Now heere dooth God promise him vpon his obedience not only to giue Gene 17. ●0 him a child or that he shall beget twelue princes as it is said of Ismael but he will make him a great Nation a Nation that not man but God calleth Great that is exceeding great For imprinting of vvhich Gene 1● ●6 Gene. ●● 5. Heb. ●● 12. promise in the heart of Abraham he calleth him to see the innumerable starres of the skie the infinite sands by the sea and the motes of the dust of the earth which hee will make fit comparisons to expresse the greatnesse of this nation Then seeing Answere to the Obiection of being extinguished whatsoeuer was promised to Abraham is also promised to all that are of his faith and obedience here is an answere to such as obiect they are loth to goe from home because they know not what shall become of them For if they once get into an other Countrey they thinke there is an end of them and all theirs This the Lord answereth Not so but obey the commandement And God will open the barren wombe and make her to dwell with a family Psal 113. 9. and to be a ioyfull mother of children Prayse the Lord. Iacob thus prayseth God with my s●affe came I ouer Gene 32. 10. this Iorden and now haue I gotten two bands The second thing vvhich the Lord doth promise God will blesse him vnto Abram is that He will blesse him Him I say and the nation that shal come of him What is meant by this blessing the Patriarke Isake doth in part make plaine vvhen hee disposeth of this blessing to Iacob vvhich his Father Abram had of God and left to him His vvords are these God giue thee of the dew of heauen Gene. 27. 28. and the fatnes of the earth and plenty of wheat and wine Let people be thy seruants and nations bow vnto thee be thou Lord ouer thy brethren and let thy mothers children honor thee In summe he blesseth him vvith plenty and authoritie Hovvbeit these things vvere but a parte of the blessing the remainder of this blessing vvhich indeede is most excellent conteyneth the substance vvherof those temporall blessings vvere but the type and shadovv and as it vvere the Sacraments When Moses doth say My doctrine Deut. 32. 2. shall droppe as the raine and my speech shall still as the dew as the showers vpon the hearbs and as the greate raine vpon the grasse It is plaine that the devv is but the type of the vvorde of God and his gratious spirit that doth accompanye it as all the promises vvhich vvere deliuered in a temporall Phrase had a spirituall sence To vvhich purpose is that in the Epistle to the Hebrewes By faith Abraham abode in the Heb. 11. 9 10. 16 land of promise as in a strange countreye for hee looked for a City hauing a foundation whose builder and maker is God that is an heauenly one In this blessing then are there all good things hauing the promise of 1. Tim. 4. 8. the life present and of that which is to come for this is the profit is got by godlines So vvhen the children of Israell Exod. 12. 35. came out of Egypt they came forth riche vvith siluer and golde and vvith greate substance as the Gene. 15. 14. Lord had shevved vnto Abram before But that vvas Deut. 18. ● 5. not all for the Lord sent his angell to accompany them raysed them vp Prophets of their brethren erected Num. 11. 26 27 1. Cor. 10. 4. Answere to the Obiection of loosing the blessing of God his tabernacle among them yea saith saint Paule They dranke of the spirituall rocke that followed them and the rock was Christ And heere is an ansvver to a second obiecton of such as vvill not goe abroad for feare of loosing the blessing of God diuers are the difficulties into which a man is cast when hee liueth among barbarous people Sure hee cannot haue the blessing of God that is mingled among the heathen Hee must lose the preaching of the word of God and the purity of the Sacraments thus is he vndone in bodie soule To this the Lord replieth that to him that doth wilfully with the breach of Gods commandement run into tentation the Lord doth bring vpon him the curse that Dauid forewarneth his sonne of If thou 1. Chron. 28. 9. forsake him hee will cast thee off for euer But if a man leaue his Country at Gods commandment the blessing of the Lord shall euer waite vpon him to feede his body and sanctifie his soule The trueth is that none doe so shine in pietie as those that feare God are out of their Countrie We neuer read of such a blessing of men with constancie and deliuerance in their owne Countrie as we find of some abroad Where did Sidrach Misach and Abednago stand Dan. ●1 25. for their