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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02059	A good speed to Virginia	Gray, Robert, 16th/17th cent.	1609 (1609)	STC 12204; ESTC S105839	15,771	30

states-men haue thought nothing more profitable for populous common-wealths then to haue forreigne and externe warres to the ende that thereby the superfluous braunches might be cut off This was the cause why Scipio when he had conquered Carthage would not haue it vtterly ruinated least saith he the Romains hauing no warres abroad mooue ciuill warres amongst themselues at home others séeing the multitude of their people increase haue planted Colonies with them others haue banished them into remote countries and the children of Ioseph here being pestered with multitude come to Ioshua to be directed and relieued This should teach vs of this kingdome and countrey prudence and prouidence the Lord hath blessed vs and we are growne to be a great people so that one lot is not sufficient for vs Our multitudes like too much bloud in the body infect our countrey with plague and pouertie our land hath brought foorth but it hath not milke sufficient in the breast thereof to nourish all those children which it hath brought forth it affordeth neither employment nor preferment for those that depend vpon it And hereupon it is that many seruiceable men giue themselues to lewd courses as to robbing by the high way theft cosoning sharking vpon the land piracie vpon the Sea and so are cut off by shamefull and vntimely death others liue prophanely riotously and idely to the great dishonour of Almightie God the detriment of the commonwealth Now our case standing thus it behooueth euerie one to deuise a remedie for this misery When there was no bread in Chanaā Iacob and his familie sought into Egypt for corne to relieue themselues And Iacob séeing his sonnes destitute of counsel in that extremity did sharply reprehēd them for the dissolute managing of their present state saying Why gaze ye one vpo another Behold I haue heard there is food in Egypt get ye down thither and buy vs food thence that we may liue Euen so may it be said to a companie of people in this land which doe nothing but gaze one vpon another destitute of counsell aduise and meanes how to prouide iustly and honestly for their maintenaunce They heare of honourable proiects abroade they heare of employment and preserment they heare of plentie and abundance of many good things of which a fruitful country largely makes offer vnto them they heare of gaine and profite both to them and their posteritie they heare many honourable men many worthie wise men many valiaunt and couragious men many rich and wealthie men aduenture their persons their mony their ships towards the accomplishing of so godly and memorable a dsigne and yet they sit still folowing their intemperauncie incontinencie and other their luxurious and riotous courses to the high dishonour of almightie God to the great hurt of the common-wealth and to their own euerlasting shame and ignomie If an honourable death were set before a vertuous minde it would chuse rather to die heroically then liue opprobriously What then shall we thinke of those persons who hauing an honourable life set before them doe yet chuse rather to liue in idlenesse dishonestie obscenitie surely they are of degenerate and dunghill minder neither are they worthy to be nourished in the bosome of a wel gouerned common-wealth It was for euer a blemish to the honour and credit of Vlisses because hée feigned himselfe mad and sowed salt in sreed of corne in his field onely that by such a shift he might kéepe himselfe at home and not go with the Grecians to the siege of Troy So let perpetuall shame and dishonour attend vpon all those which doting vpon their wealth or suffeting vpon their pleasures finde delaies and deuise shifts either to saue their purses or their persons from such honourable and profitable designments as offer probable likelyhoods of future good to this our countrey or common-wealth Thus we haue heard the dutie of the people which is prudently and prouidently to consult with the magistrates concerning the disburdening and discharging of such vnnecessarie multitudes as pester a commonwealth and also to further such enterprises either with their purses or their persons as make to the same ende Now that in next place we are to note the direction of Iosua vpon the aforesaide complaint of the children of Ioseph which is to enlarge their territories and dilate their borders by destroying Gods enemies the Perizzites and Giants which inhabited the valleyes bordering vpon mount Ephraim which were most abominable Idolaters and had no knowledge of the true and onely God from whence we may learne how odious those people are in the sight of God which hauing no knowledge of him and his worship giue that honour to the insensible and vnreasonable creature which is onely due to the omnipotent and almightie Creator For this cause hath almightie God ouerthrowne the mightiest Monarchies in the world for this cause did hée disperse his owne Israel among the Nations neuer vouchsafed them to returne againe into their owne land Dauid by way of prophecie doth promise a blessing to those that shall take the children of the Idolatrous Babilonians and dash them against the stones and they that haue taken armes against such people are said to fight the Lords battells Saul had his kingdome rent from him and his posteritie because he spared Agag that Idolatrous king of the Amalechites whom God would not haue spared so acceptable a seruice is it to destroy Idolaters whom God hateth but forasmuch as God doth not delight in bloud but rather that a sinner should conuert and liue agréeable vnto which is that speech of our Sauiour Christ in the Gospell There is ioy in heauen ouer one sinner that repenteth It is far more commendable and out of doubt more acceptable vnto God to reclaime an Idolater vnles we haue a speciall commaundement of God to the contrarie as Saul had then to destroy him to win him to the faith then to depriue him of life and to bring him to the knowledge of God whom he hath sent Christ Iesus rather then to kill them in their ignorance and so to bring them into daunger both of bodie and soule for they that turne many vnto righteousnesse shall shine as the starres for euermore Dan. 12. 3. Paul calls those whom he had won to the faith of Christ his crowne his ioy his glorie 1. Thessa 2. 19. 20. As though they were the matter of his ioy of his crowne and of his glorie Happie therefore is he that hath an hand in turning any vnto God And he that will finde delaie whereby so gratious a worke may be hindered is not with God but against God for asmuch as he hinders the building vp of the kingdome of God And surely so desirous is man of ciuill societie by nature that he easily yéelds to discipline and gouernment if he sée any reasonable motiue to induce him to the same For we reade of certaine people in Affrica inhabiting the mountaine Magnan which offentimes do constraine

A GOOD SPEED to Virginia ESAY 42. 4. He shall not faile nor be discouraged till he haue set iudgement in the earth and the Jles shall wait for his law LONDON Printed by FELIX KYNGSTON for VVilliam Welbie and are to be sold at his shop at the signe of the Greyhound in Pauls Church-yard 1609. TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND HONORABLE EARLES BARONS and Lords and to the Right Worshipfull Knights Merchants and Gentlemen Aduenturers for the plantation of Virginea all happie and prosperous successe which may either augment your glorie or increase your wealth or purchase your eternitie TIme the deuourer of his own brood consumes both man and his memorie It is not brasse nor marble that can perpetuate immortalitie of name vpon the earth Many in the world haue erected faire and goodly monuments whose memorie together with their monuments is long since defaced and perished The name memorie and actions of those men doe only liue in the records of eternitie which haue emploied their best endeuours in such vertuous and honourable enterprises as haue aduanced the glorie of God and inlarged the glorie and wealth of their countrie It is not the house of Salomon called the Forrest of Lebanon that continues his name and memorie vpon the earth at this day but his wisedome iustice magnificence and power yet doe and for euer shall eternize him A right sure foundation therefore haue you my Lords and the rest of the most worthie Aduenturers for Virginia laid for the immortalitie of your names and memory which for the aduancement of Gods glorie the renowne of his Maiestie and the good of your Countrie haue vndertaken so honorable a proiect as all posterities shal blesse you and vphold your names and memories so long as the Sunne and Moone endureth whereas they which preferre their money before vertue their pleasure before honour and their sensuall securitie before heroical aduentures shall perish with their money die with their pleasures and be buried in euerlasting forgetfulnes The disposer of al humane actions dispose your purposes blesse your Nauie as hee did the ships of Salomon which went to Ophie and brought him home in one yeere six hundred threescore and six talents of gold The preseruer of al men preserue your persons from all perils both by sea and land make your goings out like an host of men triumphing for the victorie and your commings in like an armie diuiding the spoile And as God hath made you instruments for the inlarging of his Church militant heere vpon earth so when the period of your life shall be finished the same God make you members of his Church triumphant in Heauen Amen From mine house at the Northend of Sithes lane London April 28. Anno 1609. Your Honours and Worships in all affectionate well wishing R. G. GOOD SPEEDE TO Virginia Iosuah 17. 14. Then the children of Ioseph spake vnto Ioshua saying why hast thou giuē me but one lot and one portion to inherite seeing I am a great people Ioshua then answered if thou beest much people get thee vp to the wood and cut trees for thy selfe in the land of the Perizzites of the Giants if mount Ephraim be too narrow for thee Then the children of Ioseph said the Mountaine will not be inough for vs and all the Canaanites that dwell in the low countrey haue Charcts of Iron as well as they in Bethshean and in the townes of the same as they in the valley of Israel And Ioshua spake vnto the house of Ioseph to Ephraim and Manasses saying Thou art a great people and hast great power and shalt not haue one lot Therefore the Mountain shal be thine for it is a wood and thou shalt cut it downe and the endes of it shall be thine thou shalt cast out the Canaanites thogh they haue Iron Charets and though they be strong THe heauens saith Dauid euen the heauens are the Lords so is the earth but he hath giuen it to the children of men Psa 113. 16. Yet notwithstāding the fatherly prouidēce large bountie of God towards man so improuident and irrespectiue is man that he had rather liue like a drone and féede vppon the fruites of other mens labors wherunto God hath not entituled him then looke out and flie abroad like the Bée to gather the pleasures and riches of the earth which God hath giuen him to enioy whece vpon it comes to passe that although the Lord hath giuen the earth to the children of men yet this earth which is mans fee-simple by deede of gift frō God is the greater part of it possessed wrongfully vsurped by wild beasts and vnreasonable creatures or by brutish sauages which by reason of their godles ignorance blasphemous Idolatrie are worse then those beasts which are of most wilde sauage nature As Ahab therfore sometimes said to his seruants 1. King 22. 13. Know ye not that Ramoth Gilead was ours and we stay take it not out of the hands of the King of Aram So may man say to himselfe The earth was mine God gaue it me and my posteritie by the name of the children of men and yet I stay take it not out of the hands of beasts and brutish sauages which haue no interest in it because they participate rather of the nature of beasts then men The Christian part of the world did plainly bewray this improuident and irrespectiue neglect of Gods prouidence and bountie When Christopher Columbus made proffer to the Kings of England Portugall and Spaine to inuest them with the most precious and richest veynes of the whole earth neuer knowne before but this offer was not onely reiected but the man himself who deserues euer to be renowned was of vs English especially scorned accoūted for an idle Nouellist Some thinke it was because of his poore apparell and simple lookes but surely it is rather to be imputed to the improuidency imprudencie of our Nation which hath alwayes bred such diffidence in vs that we cōceit no new report bee it neuer so likely nor beléeue any thing be it neuer so probable before we sée the effects This hath alwayes béene reported of the English by those that haue obserued the nature of nations Bodin lib. 5. de Repub. cap. 1. reporteth that the English were alwayes accounted more warlike valorous and couragious then the French but the French went alwayes beyond them in prudence and pollicie And to expresse the same he vseth the words of Ennius Bellipotentes sunt magis quam sapients potentes And it may be that this might be reported of vs English in those times when our Country was not pesteced with multitude nor ouercharged with swarmes of people for peace and plentie breed securitie in men neither is it necessarie for anie man to beléeue reports though probable nor to follow strange proiects be they neuer so likely so long as he hath home inbred hopes to relie vpon and assured certainties to satisfie his