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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02606	A true discourse of the present estate of Virginia and the successe of the affaires there till the 18 of Iune. 1614. Together with a relation of the seuerall English townes and forts, the assured hopes of that countrie and the peace concluded with the Indians. The christening of Powhatans daughter and her mariage with an English-man. Written by Raphe Hamor the yonger, late secretarie in that colony.	Hamor, Ralph, d. 1626.	1615 (1615)	STC 12736; ESTC S105997	44,546	80

my p●es●nt estate Nor vvas I ignorant of the heauie displeasure which almightie God conceiued against the sonnes of Leuie and Israel for marrying strange vviues nor of the inconueniences vvhich may thereby arise with other the like good motions vvhich made me looke about warily and with good circumspection into the grounds and principall agitations which thus should prouoke me to be in loue with one whose education hath bin rude her manners barbarous her generation accursed and so discrepant in all nurtriture from my selfe that oftentimes with feare and trembling I haue ended my priuate controuersie with this surely these are vvicked instigations hatched by him who seeketh and delighteth in mans destruction and so with feruent praiers to ●e euer preserued from such diabolical assaults as I tooke those to be I haue taken some rest Thus when I had thought I had obtained my peace and quietnesse beholde another but more gracious tentation hath made breaches into my holiest and strongest meditations with which I haue bin put to a new triall in a straighter manner then the former for besides the many passions and sufferings vvhich I haue daily hourely yea and in my sleepe in●ured euen awaking mee to astonishment taxing me with remisnesse and carelesnesse refusing and neglecting to performe the duetie of a good Christian pulling me by the eare and crying why dost not thou indeuour to make her a Christian And these haue happened to my greater wonder euen when she hath bin furthest seperated from me which in common reason were it not an vndoubted worke of God might breede forgetfulnesse of a farre more worthie creature Besides I say the holy spirit of God hath often demaunded of me why I was created If not for transitory pleasures and worldly vanities but to labour in the Lords vineyard there to sow and plant to nourish and increase the fruites thereof daily adding with the good husband in the Gospell somewhat to the tallent that in the end the fruites may be reaped to the comfort of the laborer in this life and his saluation in the world to come And if this be as vndoubtedly this is the seruice Iesus Christ requireth of his best seruant w● vnto him that hath these instruments of pietie put into his ●ands and wilfully despiseth to worke with them Likewise adding hereunto her great apparance of loue to me her desire to be taught and instructed in the knowledge of God her capablenesse of vnderstanding her aptnesse and willingnesse to receiue anie good impression and a●so the spirituall besides her owne incitements stirring me vp hereunto What should I doe ●hall I be of so vntoward a disposition as to refuse to leade the blind into the right way Shall I be so vnnaturall as not to giue bread to the hungrie or vncharitable as not to couer the naked Shall I despise to actuate these pious dueties of a Christian Shall the base feare of displeasing the world ouerpower and with-holde mee from reucaling vnto man these spirituall workes of the Lord which in my meditations and praiers I haue daily made knowne vnto him God forbid I assuredly trust hee hath thus delt with me for my eternall felicitie and for his glorie and I hope so to be guided by his heauenly grace that in the end by my faithfull paines and christianlike labour I shall atteine to that blessed promise Pronounced by that holy Prophet Daniell vnto the righteous that bring many vnto the knowledge of God Namely that they shall shine like the starres foreuer and euer A sweeter comfort cannot be to a true Christian nor a greater incouragement for him to labour all the daies of his life in the performance thereof nor a greater game of consolation to be desired at the hower of death and in the day of iudgement Againe by my reading and conference vvith honest and religious persons haue I rec●iued no small encouragement besides s●rena mea conscientia the cleerenesse of my conscience clean from the fi●th of impurity quae est instar●nuri ahenei vvhich is vnto me as a brasen vvall If I should set down at large the perturbations godly motions which haue striuen vvithin mee I should but make a tedious vnnecessary volume But I doubt not these shall be sufficient both to certifie you of my tr●● intents in discharging of my dutie to God to your selfe to vvhose gracious prouidence I humbly submit my selfe for his glory your honour our Countreys good the benefit of this Plantation and for the conuerting of one vnregenerate to regeneration vvhich I beseech God to graunt for his deere Sonne Christ Iesus his sake Now if the vulgar sort who square all mens actions by the base rule of their own filthinesse shall taxe or taunt me in this my godly labour let them know it is not any hungry appetite to gorge my selfe vvith incontinency sure if I would and were so sensually incliued I might satisfie such desire though not vvithout a seared conscience yet vvith Christians more pleasing to the eie and lesse fearefull in the offence vnlawfully committed Nor am I in so desperate an estate that I regard not what becommeth of mee nor am I out of hope but one day to see my Country nor so void of friends nor mean in birth but there to obtain a mach to my great content nor haue I ignorantly passed ouer my hopes there or regardlesly seek to loose the loue of my friends by taking this course I know them all and haue not rashly ouerslipped any But shal it please God thus to dispose of me which I earnestly desire to fullfill my ends before sette down I vvill heartely accept of it as a goaly taxe appointed me and I will neuer cease God assisting me vntill I haue accomplished brought to perfection so holy a vvorke in which I vvill daily pray God to blesse me to mine and her eternall happines And thus desiring no longer to liue to en●oy the blessings of God then this my resolution doth tend to such godly ends as are by me before declared not doubting of your fauourable acceptance I take my leaue beseeching Almighty God to raine downe vpon you such plenitude of his heauenly graces as your heart can wish and desire and so I rest At your commaund most willing to be disposed off Iohn Rolfe VIrginia therefore standing now in such a goodly proportion and faire forwardnesse of thriuing as it was neuer yet hitherto seen in since it began to be first planted cannot but soone come to perfection to the exceeding great comfort of all well affected Christians and no small profit of the planters and aduenturers if it be well seconded and supplyed with a good number of able men Wherefore let none bee heerafter vnwilling all they may to further this most honourable Action and be forward to vphold and support it from falling by their speech and countenance and freely aduenturing thither both in their persons also by their purses as God hath inabled them To conclude as Azariah sayd once to King Azah Iuda and Beniamin so say I vnto all Bee yee strong threfore and let not your hands be weake for your worke shall haue a reward And as the holy Apostle said to the Corinthians Be ye therefore stedfast vnmoueable abundant alwaies in the vvorkes of the Lord for as much as ye know your labour is not in vaine in the Lord let vs not therefore bee vvearie of vvelldoing for in due season vvee shall reape if wee faint not as the Apostle tolde the Galatians Farewell FINIS Errata PAg● 5. inc 33. hir p. 10 l. 16. Op●●hanka●● p. 15. l. 14. Wer●ance p. 17. l. 22. manu●● p. 17. l. 34. next to vs. r●ad so as if p. 18. l. 4. halfe p. 18. l. 8. as p. 18. l. 12. purposed p. 21. l. 16. diuers p. 21. l. 27 Sai●e p. 22. l. 21. after do●● read not p. 2● l. 13. leaue out he p. 24. l. 16 cure p. 27. l. 24● bring p. 21. l. 2. read immediatlie after by name Coxendale and after the word called read Hope in faith p. 21. l. 25. Some● p. 42. l. 24. ●uring p. 45. l. ● read after discon●●●●ment wen● p. 46. l. 11. messengers p. 47. l. 11. personally Prince Henry