Selected quad for the lemma: land_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
land_n	abraham_n	canaan_n	egypt_n	1,319	5	8.3550	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B00963	An encouragement to colonies. By Sir William Alexander, knight..	Stirling, William Alexander, Earl of, 1567 or 8-1640.; Stansby, William, fl. 1597-1638, printer.	1625 (1625)	STC 341A; ESTC S125341	33,437	53

AN Encouragement TO COLONIES By Sir WILLIAM ALEXANDER KNIGHT Alter erit tum Tiphis altera quae vehat Argo delectos Heroas FOR THOV SHALT LABOR PEACE PLENTIE LONDON Printed by William Stansby 1625. TO THE MOST EXCELLENT PRINCE THough you haue graced the Labours of some as much admired for your courtesie as they for their indiscretion who might haue beene condemned for presuming to importune you for their Patron yet it would seeme a prophanation of greatnesse to place your name vpon the Frontispice of euery vulgar Paper but as no Worke hath more need of your countenance then Encouraging of Colonies So it would appeare to me I know not suspecting my owne partialitie whither seduced by Desire or warranted by Reason that there is no ground whereupon your countenance may shine with a more publike applause This is the way making the Gospell of Iesus Christ knowne in vnknowne parts by supplying the necessities of many with a lawfull increase of necessary commerce to procure glorie vnto God honour to your selfe and benefit to the World By this meanes you that are borne to rule Nations may bee the beginner of Nations enlarging this Monarchie without bloud and making a Conquest without wronging of others whereof in regard of your youth any good beginning in this like your vertue vpon which it doth depend boding a speedie Progresse Time in your own time doth promise a great perfection The glory of greatnes that it may haue a harmonie with goodnesse consisting more in raysing then in ruining of others it is a farre better course to purchase fame by the Plantation of a new World nor as many Princes haue done by the desolation of this And since your Royall Father during whose happie raigne these seeds of Scepters haue beene first from hence sowne in America by his gracious fauour farre aboue any merit of mine hath emboldened mee the meanest of many thousands of his subiects to attempt so great an Enterprize as to lay the foundation of a Worke that may so much import the good of that ancient Kingdome where so many of your Ancestors were buried and where your selues were borne I haue both by reading what doth rest vpon Record and by conferring with sundry that haue beene imbarked in such a businesse beene curious to remarke the managing thereof that the experience of times past might with the lesse danger at the charges of others improoue them that are to practize at this present And the fruits of my Labours I doe humbly offer heere vnto your Highnesse hoping by the commendable endeuours therein remembred though it selfe be but a triuiall Treatise not worthy your sight to conciliate your good opinion towards them that are to aduenture in this kind Amongst whom if euer my fortunes haue any conformitie with my mind I purpose to contribute as much as my weake abilities can bee able to affoord for accomplishing this braue Designe wherein my greatest Ambition shall be that both this Age and the Posteritie may know how much I desire by some obseruable effect to be remembred for being Your Highnesse most humble and affectionate Seruant W. A. AN ENCOVRAGEMENT TO COLONIES THe sending forth of Colonies seeming a nouelty is esteemed now to bee a strange thing as not onely being aboue the courage of common men but altogether alienated from their knowledge which is no wonder since that course though both ancient and vsuall hath beene by the intermission of so many ages discontinued yea was impossible to be practised so long as there was no vast ground howsoeuer men had beene willing whereupon Plantations might haue beene made yet there is none who will doubt but that the world in her infancy and innocency was first peopled after this manner The next generations succeeding Shem planted in Asia Chams in Africke and Iaphets in Europe Abraham and Lot were Captaines of Colonies the Land then being as free as the Seas are now since they parted them in euery part where they passed not taking notice of natiues without impediment That memorable troope of Iewes which Moses led from Aegypt to Canaan was a kind of Colonie though miraculously conducted by God who intended thereby to aduance his Church and to destroy the rejected Ethnikes Salmanezer King of Ashur was remarked for the first who did violate the naturall ingenuitie of this commendable kind of policy by too politike an intention for hauing transported the ten Tribes of Israel to the end that transplanting and dispersing them hee might either weaken their strength or abolish their memorie by incorporating of them with his other Subjects he to preuent the dangers incident amongst remote vassals did send a Colonie to inhabite Samaria of a purpose thereby to secure his late and questionable conquest Who can imagine by this industrious course of Plantations what an vnexpected progresse from a despised beginning hath beene suddenly made to the height of greatnesse The Phoenicians quickly founded Sidon and Tirus so much renowned both by sacred and humane writers and a few Tirians builded Carthage which had first no more ground allowed her than could be compassed by the extended dimensions of a Bulls hide which for acquiring of the more ground they diuided in as many sundrie parts as was possible yet in end that Town became the Mistresse of Afrike and the riuall of Rome and Rome it selfe that great Ladie of the World and terrour to all Nations ambitiously clayming for her first founders a few scandalized fugitiues that fled from the ruines of Troy did rise from small appearances to that exorbitancy of power which at this day is remembred with admiration Though the walls of it at that time were very lowe when the one brother did kill the other for jumping ouer them either jealousie already preuayling aboue naturall affection or else vnaduised anger constructing that which might haue been casually or carelesly done in a sinistrous sense to the hatefull behauiour of insolency or scorne Their number then was not only very small but they wanted women without which they could not encrease nor subsist till they rauished the daughters of the Sabins by a violent match at first portending their future rapins and what a furious off-spring they were likely to ingender And when that haughty Citie beganne to suffer the miseries which she had so long beene accustomed to inflict vpon others the venerable Citie of Venice keeping for so many ages a spotlesse reputation was first begunne by a few discouraged persons who fleeing from the furie of the barbarous Nations that then encroached vpon Italie were distracted with feare and seeking for their safety did stumble vpon a commodious dwelling The Graecians were the first at least of all the Gentiles who joyning learning with armes did both doe and write that which was worthie to be remembred and that small parcel of ground whose greatnesse was then only valued by the vertue of the inhabitants did plant Trapizonde in the East and many other Cities in Asia the lesse