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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

of his mouth for vnto Noah hee reuiued this precept after the flood But as all the commandements of God doe finde rebellion against them so hath this most specially insomuch that the whole earth conspired to make open insurrection against it by building of a Citie Gen. 11. 1. and Towne the better to continue together For the subduing of which rebellion The Lord came downe Gen. 11. 7 and confounded their languages and scattered them abroad Not onely to the ouerthrow of their ambition who sought a great name but also to depriue them of his spirituall grace of saluation one being not able to vnderstand the other And so of the sonnes of Noah were the Nations diuided after the Gen. ●0 32. flood Among whome the blessed line of Shem is not Gen 11. 10. onely plentifully remembred but also commended as obedient vnto that first and great Law of God For Terah the father of Abram with his family are reported to be found in a Land not theirs that they might fill the earth The reason why Terah and his family remoued The context is recorded in these three verses and in a word is the calling of Abram by the Lord to remooue In the storie whereof are these two points First the the vocation of Abram in these three verses and then his obedience vnto this heauenly calling in the fourth verse His vocation hath first the commandement of the Lord and then the reasons and arguments by which God doeth induce him thereunto The commandement is to take a iourney in which we must consider the places from whence and whither Goe out of he was to goe The place from whence is not described Cosmographically but Morally conteining three important reasons in all good sort to rest him where hee was The first is his Countrey Thy Country which was pleasant and fruitfull The second his kindred which was holy and blessed The third his fathers house which was louing and rich Hence must hee goe and leaue them all behind if they would not goe with him The place whither hee must goe is also very generally noted out Namely the place which God would shew him a place vtterly To the place which I shall shew thee vnknowen vnto him so that from thence he had no argument to quicken him to that voyage The arguments which the Lord doth vse to perswade Arguments from promises Abram to this iourney are all taken from the promises of God a stronger reason then the very sweetnesse of Paradise could be vnto a faithful man These promises doe partly concerne Abram himselfe partly those among whom he shall liue For himselfe the Lord doeth promise foure things First tha● whereas himselfe was childlesse He w●uld make 1. A great Nation of him a great nation A thing which the builders of Babel drifted but were disappointed of by the iudgement 2. Blesse thee of God The second promise is that God will blesse him by giuing him the good things of this present world and that which is to come A thing which the builders of Babel lost by transgressing Gods commandement of replenishing the earth 3. A great name The third thing is that the Lord will make him a great name with much honour and good report which the confounded builders of Babel sought and missed because of their sinne The fourth promise 4. A blessing is that he shall be a blessing That is such a one as men shall be the better where hee commeth and so thinke themselues seeing that through him as through a golden Pipe the Lord will bestow his blessings vpon his family and others among whom he liueth The arguments that concerne other men are of two sorts the one is their Temporall estate the other their Spirituall Concerning the Temporall estate of those amongst whom hee liueth God will dispose of as they dispose themselues towards Abram For the Lord will blesse them and cause them 1. Blesse them that blesse thee to prosper that seeke the blessing and prosperitie of Abram And againe if they stand otherwise affected towards Abram then will the Lord also set his face 2. Curse them that curse thee against them in these words And I will curse them that curse thee So that nothing they haue shall prosper vntill they be gracious and fauorable to Abram That which concerneth their Spirituall estate is indeede an argument to a faithfull man stronger then chaines of Adamant Namely that by this meanes the people all abroad shall receiue the grace of saluation 3. All Nations blessed The thing he promiseth is saluation by the Gospel in this word I will blesse The meanes is Abram and his seede IESVS CHRIST in these words in thee The persons to receiue benefit by him are infinite euen all the families of Noah by whom the nations of all the earth were diuided In these words And in thee shall all the families of the earth bee blessed This is the sense of these three verses In which are very many excellent things to bee obserued but we will onely insist vpon those which are proper to our occasion c. DOCTRINES jo Abraham called THE Lord called Abraham to goe into another Countrey There is no doubt but that there is a double manner of calling the one ordinary by some knowne precept of the word of God the other Mat 1. 20. Num. 12. 6. extraordinary when as by dreame or by vision God requireth any duetie to be done Now if it be demaunded how Abraham was called to goe into another Countrey the answere is both ordinarily and extraordinarily It was a knowne rule of the word of God concluded and pronounced before the Creation and often repeated afterwards that man should spread abroad c. and inhabite the earth and fill it Hitherto belongeth that which God said Let vs make man in our image and let them rule ouer the Fish of the Sea and ouer the Fowles of the Gen. 1. 26. Heauen and ouer the Beastes and ouer ALL the earth Then must he replenish the earth else can hee not rule ouer ALL. To the same effect is that spoken of Adam after his fall that God sent him forth of the Genes 3. 23. Garden of Eden to till the earth so that the fall of Adam did not in the least thing cause the Lord to alter his first decree So to Noah after the flood Gen. 9. 2 7. Bring forth fruite and multiply grow plentifully in the earth and encrease therein and replenish the earth By all this it doth appeare that God did call Abraham abroade by a general Vocation But when he is called to a certaine place and vnder certaine conditions it is also plaine that withall he had a special and extraordinary calling either by dreame or by vision or by some such extraordinary meane which til the Canon of the Scripture came fully in was to be obeyed as the written word of God

promised to al those ●om 4. 2● that are of the same faith and obedience with him Then this blessing of being a blessing belongeth vnthose which at Gods commandement doe Get them out of their Country When a man of worth is among many men of like worth he is accounted rather a curse then a blessing such is the corruption of flesh and bloud infected with enuy and with pride If any good come to any land by reason of any good man yet is there such wrestling for the garland that he that hath the most friends will set the better leg before and not onely get the thanks that is due to another but also as Iacob got the start of Esau in vertue so will Esau trip vp the heeles of Iacob by his power if God keepe him not Nay Esau must be acknowledged to haue an Angels face for winking at his brother that windeth himselfe out of his companie as cleanly as hee can But when a man commeth abroad where the word of God and his feare is precious then euery vertue of worth shall haue this Respond of the Idiots and Barbarians out of question 1. Cor. 14. 25. God is in these men Then can there no blessing fall extraordinarily but all men know for whose sake it is namely for such as God hath made a blessing Out of these arguments by which God inticed VSE I. Abram to goe out of his Country such as goe to a Christian Plantation may gather many blessed lessons Marrie not with Infidels God will make him a greate nation Then must Abrams posteritie keepe them to themselues They may not marry nor giue in marriage to the heathen that are vncircumcised And this is so plaine that out of this foundation arose the law of marriage a-among themselues The breaking of this rule may breake the neck of all good successe of this voyage whereas by keeping the feare of God the Planters in shorte time by the blessing of God may grow into a nation formidable to all the enemies of Christ and bee the praise of that part of the world for so strong a hand to bee ioyned with the people here that feare God Another thing also is to bee marked out of this II. A great Nation Gods blessing place mamelie that to grow into a great nation is a very great blessing of God Then are they but Atheists that hold a great family of children to bee a heauie and sore charge and they blaspheme they knovv not what that wish God had their children for they could spare them well enough But especially the sonne of perdition that body of Poperie is by this Text made abhominable that once wrote to the Lords of the Counsell of this Land that Poperie would much profit the Land because by the single life of Priests and Nunnes and Monkes and Friers the Common-wealth should not be so charged with multitude of children They fitly say not charged but they say not that lesse children shall be gotten For when as one fishponde a thousand Par. Vrsperg yeares agoe could affoorde more then sixe thousand infants heads so long before the abstruse studies came from hell into the hands of Iesuites what shall wee thinke of these latter daies But to rake no further into that stinking kennell I must tell them to their teeth that when they say the kingdome is better for the smallnes of the number of the subiects or is not the better for being a great nation that they doe like their father the diuell giue God the lie Whereas God doeth promise to blesse him in III. his Iourney as hee did indeede giuing him the gift Blesse his Iourney of a Prophet to teach of a Priest to pray of a King to rule of plentie in his Temporall estate and Ioye in seeing Christ the Sauiour of his soule here may Iohn 8. 56. such as transplant at Gods commandement bee assured of that promse of God I will not leaue thee nor forsake thee but as God saith to Ioshuah as I was with Moses so will I be with thee so God saith to Iosh 1. 5. them as I was with Abraham so will I be with you I will blesse you to wit with the blessings of this life and of the kingdome of heauen But further if you will haue Abrams blessing you IIII. must doe your diligence to walke in those wayes by which the Lord doeth giue his blessings You must not with Idlenesse inforce God to worke myracles of mercie on the wilfully sinfull You must bee diligent to heare the word of God reuerent in beleeuing and receiuing of it fruitfull in the Christian practise of it that the blessing of God may come vpon you God can raise children vnto Abraham of Matth. 3. 9. the very stones and cast you away if you cast him off In that the Lord doeth promise Abraham to make V. him a great Name know that it is a blessed thing to A good Name be well spoken of This will God bring vpon the obedient But if you disobey you will but make the eares of them to tingle that heare of you And as we are in continuall expectation of some honourable effect if you continue in the faith so will you bring a confusion vpon your selues and a shame vpon your Nation if you sticke not fast to God and his blessed commaundements And lastly whereas God doth promise that Abram VI. shall be a blessing you must know it your dutie Ephe. 5. 15. 16. to walke wisely towards those that are without redeeming the time because the dayes are euill The dayes are euill indeede in that continent Then how tender ought your care to be to gaine the reputation of a blessing among this people Let them see that he that came before was but Satan whom they themselues doe serue that had transformed 2. Cor 11. 13. 1● himselfe into an Angell of light and that they were Satans ministers that transformed themselues into the Apostles of Christ But walke you honestly as in the day Rom. 13. 11. atth 5. 16. Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good workes and glorifie you father which is in heauen While we haue time let v doe good to all men yet giue Gal 6. 10. ●phe 4. 27. no place to the diuell So the blessing of God shall be vpon vs and we shall be a blessing wheresoeuer we goe And still remember that as the diuels children will needs be a curse so the sonnes of Abraham will alwayes labour to be a sweete blessing where euer they come And these were the arguments that concerned Abraham and his people wee must novv proceed also to speake of such arguments that concerned others THE Lord doth deale wonderfully with him in respect Vo. of others When he is departed from his owne Countrie For first the Lord will blesse them that blesse him To blesse in this place is by