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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

Yet still wee must remember that this speciall calling was subiect to the generall law of replenishing the earth For although God called him to one land yet to vpholde the generall rule God often laide a necessitie vpon him to spread further for in this Chapter by reason of a famine hee was constreined to soiourne Gen 12. 10. c in Egipt God did also tell him before hand that his seede should be a stranger in a land that is not Gen. 15. 13. theirs foure hundred yeares It is true that the Iewes did holde themselues so confined to their owne land that they were as loth to forgoe their inheritance as from the Sacrament of their saluation witnes ● King 21. 3. be Naboth that answered the King The Lord keepe me from giuing the inheritance of my fathers vnto thee And yet when God would haue it so as when there was famine Elimelech and his Familie R●th 1. 1. 2. goe to soiourne among the Gentiles In time of warre Dauid tooke his father and mother and carried 1. Sam. 2● 3. them to soiourne with the King of Moab And Act. ● 5. when as we reade that there were dwelling at Ierusalem Iewes of euery nation vnder heauen it is plaine that the Iewes did spread abroad not onely to soiourne for a time and then to come againe but to Act. 22. 3. inhabite and replenish the whole earth Paul was also a Iew borne in Cilicia euen in a Romane Colonie The reason why God will haue his to fill the 1. Reason To knowe Gods works earth is because the Lord would haue his workes to be knowne Now in diuers Countries God hath his diuers workes of hearbes and trees and beastes and fishes and fowles and serpents c. which if the people of God come not there cannot praise the Psal 145. 10. ●1 Creator When Dauid saith All thy workes praise thee O God and thy Saints blesse thee they shew the glory of thy kingdome and speake of thy power the implication is manifest that his Saints must be witnesses of all his workes in all Climates for else they cannot II. blesse him in all his workes Another reason is Spreading of knowledge that one that hath the knowledge of the feare of God should communicate it to others Hereupon Psal 67. 1. 2. is it that Dauid doeth teach vs to pray thus Haue mercie on vs Lord and blesse vs and cause thy face to shine among vs Selah Marke this that he biddeth vs pray God be mercifull vnto vs The meanes how is this That they may know thy way vpon earth and thy sauing health among all nations whereby he doth imply that God hath with-held some mercy from vs til all nations haue the meanes of saluation This was Exod 11. 9. a cause why God sent Abrahams posterity into Egipt that by their meanes Pharaoh whose heart was bigge and would not acknowledge God might be constrained to fall down and say I haue sinned against Exod. 10. 16. the Lord. The cause also of the captiuity of the Iewes in Babilon in the secrete prouidence of God was that the Monarkes of the world who thought Dan. 4. 20. 21. 17. 29. there was no God could come neere them in greatnes might be as beastes before God acknowledging that it is God that giueth Kingdomes to whom he will And when the Lord had caused his people to returne and to build their Citie and Temple yet would not God fore-slowe the inforcing of his precept Fill the earth For whereas by reason of his promise he could not send the people abroad till Christ came to make his glory knowne he brought vpon them Gog and Magog with their numbersome Ezek. 38. 16. 23 Armies The reason is that the Heathen may knowe the Lord I wil be magnified and sanctified and knowne in the eyes of many Nations Then here must wee know that what inducement Abraham had to goe VSE I. out of his Countrey by a generall calling the same doth binde all his sonnes according to the faith to goe likewise abroad when God doth not otherwise call them to some speciall affaires How euer still they must haue a longing and a liking to spread the Gospel abroad And that this point may be euidently conuicted vnto vs Christ our Sauiour hath according to his infinite wisedome reuiued the olde law of filling the earth in a most excellent manner Goe teach saith he all nations and baptize them in the Matth. 28. 19. name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Gaue hee this Commaundement to his Apostles onely haue not also the labours of godly Preachers which they haue spread ouer the face of the whole earth beene bestowed by the power of this Commandement And though the words as they lie doe binde the Ministers of the Word to endeuour the propagation of the Gospell with all their power yet not onely them For we reade that poore Tent-makers and others haue done much good in spreading the Acts 18. 3. 26. Gospell according to their vocations they also satisfying II. thus much of Christs precept Neither can there be any doubt but that the Lord that called Abraham into another Countrey doeth also by the same holy hand call you to goe and carry the Gospell to a Nation that neuer heard of Christ The Prophet Zachary speaking of the daies of the Gospell doth shew that it is a good Vocation for men to goe abroad when the number of the children of God doe exceede his wordes are these Thus saith the Lord of hostes my cities shall yet be broken with plenty the Lord shall yet comfort Zion Vnto Zach. 1. 17. whom agreeth the Prophet Isatah The children of Isa 49. 20. thy barrennesse shall say againe in thine eares the place is too strait for me giue me place that I may dwell Wherefore seeing that thankes be to God we are thronged with multitude the Lord of hostes himselfe hath giuen vs the calling of his children to Obiection Not to enter other Princes Territories seeke for roome and place to dwell in And heere might we haue proceeded to the next point were it not for one scruple which some that thinke themselues to be very wise do cast in our way which is this in effect The countrey they say is possessed by owners that rule and gouerne it in their owne right then with what conscience and equitie can we offer to thrust them by violence out of their inheritances 1. Answere Conquest lawfull For answere to this obiection first it is plaine that the obiecter supposeth it not lawfull to inuade the territories of other princes by force of sword This proposition I confesse I neuer was willing to examine considering my vocation is priuate And if Sigismund the Emperour said well CARION that he merueiled euery man auoided all labors and difficulties but onely to rule which is the most difficult of all

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

other labours then to giue sentence of that which in ruling is the most waightie namely warres which are done with the greatest counsell must needes bee a labour too heauie for a priuate mans shoulders And because my selfe am but weake eyed in so great a mysterie Come foorth ye great Princes and Monarkes of Assyria Persia Media Greece and Rome with your grauest counsellours and answere for your facts in conquering and subduing nations For your stories that were wont to be read with singular admiration of your fortitude your wisedome your magnificence and your great iustice are now araigned and must bee found guiltie that through your sides an action of truer honour then euer you attempted may bee wounded Your strong title of the sword heeretofore magnified by Historians Polititians and Ciuilians is to our obiecter but a spiders web or the hatching of a Cockatrice his egge But whatsoeuer the rest can say for their owne defence the Lord himselfe doth say thus much for Cyrus Thus saith Isay 45. 1. 2. 3. 4 the Lord vnto Cyrus his anointed whose right hand I haue holden to subdue nations before him therefore will I weaken the loynes of Kings and open the doores before him and the gates shall not be shut I will goe before thee and make the crooked straight I will breake the brasen doores and burst the yron barres And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse and the things hid in secret places that thou maist know that I am the Lord which call thee by thy name euen the God of Israell For Iacob my seruants sake and Iraell mine elect I will euen call thee by thy name and name thee though thou hast not knowen me Then who can blame Cyrus and keepe himselfe from blaspheming the almightie Nay that which is more to be trembled at we must also to summon vp and call to the barre the most holy worthies of the Scripture and see if man or God hath any thing to be said for them why they should not be condemned as iniust cruell and bloudy O Iacob thy blessed bow and sword with the fruit whereof thou blessedst thy sonne Ioseph the staffe of Gene. 48. 22. thy gray head and feeble knees must be broken and burnt and thou must bee condemned for thy vnlawfull conquest Worthy Ioshuah most worthy Dauid with thy cloud of worthies who hanged vp so many shields in the house of God and who sweetly singeth that God was his fortitude and buckler Psal 1● 2. Iosh 10. ●4 must incurre the note of iniustice Ioshuah where is thy vertue to set thy feete vpon the neckes of princes in their owne kingdomes and call of the meanest of the people to be thy partners in that indignitie Dauid how vvilt thou answere for the blood thy sword hath shed which thou vvast vvont to praise There is none to it Nay thou glory of men 1. Sam. ●1 9. and true type of Christ King Salomon whose wisedome vvas like vnto the vvisedome of God teach vs to say somevvhat in thy defence For one graine of thy wisedome is of more worth then a talent of their leaden wits that we are constrained to answere Giue an account of his innocencie that said vnto thee Girde thee vvith thy sworde vpon thy Psal 45. ● 4 5 thigh O thou most mightie Thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things The people shall fall vnder thee Thy father the sonne of Ishai made a sinfull prayer for thee as our obiecters blaspheme vvhen he said thou shouldest so enlarge thy borders that Thy dominion Psal 72. 8 should be from sea to sea and from the riuer to the end of the land He vvould haue thee too rigid when he saith That thine enemies should licke the dust Sure I am persvvaded that at the onely naming of so mightie Monarches and holy conquerors our obiecters out of their modestie vvill vvith some distinction qualifie their proposition and say that it is not lavvfull by force to inuade the Territories of other Princes that are in quiet possession in some sort and in some cases I know that the diuell himselfe vvith all his distinctions that euer he made vvhich are recorded in scripture or vvhich he left in hell in his cabinet of Abstruse Studies locked safe till hee found out the Iesuits his trustie secretaries to keepe them I say none of them all can arme a subiect against his prince vvithout sinne But he that will set open his schoole in the fantasticall shop of his addle imagination for he will be hissed out of the Vniuersities and take vpon him to nurture princes as petties telling them that they must not make offensiue warres if it were to gaine the whole world to Christ shall neuer be bidders of guests to the marriage Matth. 22. ● Luke 14. 23. of the kings sonne who are required to compell them to come in And if I might be so bold I would faine aske one question of these obiecters that come dropping out of some Anabaptists Spicery whether if it be vnlawfull to conquere the crowne sit well on the head of our most sacred soueraigne whose dayes be as the dayes of heauen O Lord For by this obiection they shew that had they power to vntwist that which in so many ages hath beene well spunne they would write him crownelesse as farre as hee hath his title from the conqueror 2. No wrong to bring in the Gospel Matth. 7. 5. O but God forbid saith the obiecter that wee should doe any wrong at all no not to the diuell The rule of Christ is excellent Cast out the beame of thine owne eye so shalt thou see clearely to cast the mote out of thy brothers eye If you will needs bee casting stones Let him beginne first that is without sinne But Iohn 8. 7. to the point our obiecter would not whip a child to teach him learning and vertue for feare of doing wrong What wrong I pray you did the Apostles in going about to alter the lawes of nations euen against the expresse commandement of the princes and to set vp the throne of Christ If your mouth be so foule to charge them with wrong as the Gentiles Tertu Apol. con●ra Gentes did we haue more neede to prouide you a medicine for a cankred mouth and a stincking breath then to make you any answere at all O but in entring of other countries there must 3. No blood ment to bee shed needes be much lamentable effusion of bloud Certainely our obiecter was hatched of some popish egge it may be in a IESVITS vault where they feede themselues fat with tormenting innocents Why is there no remedie but assoone as we come See-white The way to the Church on land like Wolues and Lyons and Tygres long famished we must teare in peeces murther and torment the naturall inhabitants with cruelties neuer read nor heard of before must we needs burne millions of them and cast

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