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A12466	A map of Virginia VVith a description of the countrey, the commodities, people, government and religion. VVritten by Captaine Smith, sometimes governour of the countrey. Whereunto is annexed the proceedings of those colonies, since their first departure from England, with the discourses, orations, and relations of the salvages, and the accidents that befell them in all their iournies and discoveries. Taken faithfully as they were written out of the writings of Doctor Russell. Tho. Studley. Anas Todkill. Ieffra Abot. Richard Wiefin. Will. Phettiplace. Nathaniel Povvell. Richard Pots. And the relations of divers other diligent observers there present then, and now many of them in England. By VV.S.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Symonds, William, 1556-1616?; Abbay, Thomas.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1612 (1612)	STC 22791; ESTC S121887	314,791	163

Keyes of the Kingdome of heauen not of the earth not of any place vnder the earth They giue authority to their Pope to dispose of earthly Kingdomes at his pleasure and full Iurisdiction ouer Purgatory which they take to be vnder the earth Christ teacheth vs to pray vnto God for forgiuenesse of sinnes Forgiue vs our trespasses They fall downe before their ghostly Father and craue of him Absolution Against the iudgement of Cyprian Veniam peccatix quae i● D●minum commissa sunt solus potest ille largiri qui peccata nostra portauit c. He onely can grant pardon to our sinnes which wee haue committed against the Lord who onely bare our sinnes Against the iudgement of Hierome who plainely teacheth in Math. 16. That as the Priest in the old Law did not make any cleane or vncleane but onely shewed in what case they were So in the New the Bishop or Priest doth not bind such as are guilty nor loose such as be faultlesse but according to his duty he heareth the varieties of offences or offenders Peccatorum hee knoweth who is to be bound to wit of God and who to be loosed Thus Hieronym Briefely Christ said to the Thiefe vpon the Crosse and in him to all that are truely penitent This day shalt thou be with me in Paradise Thou shalt be translated from death to life and forthwith too without suffering any thing any where after this life They teach that though the sinne be forgiuen in the Sacrament of Penance yet that the punishment must be indured in Purgatory if there be not satisfaction made either here by giuing of Almes gadding in Pilgrimage c. or hence by the Priests Masses or by the Popes Pardons prouided that both be well paid for What is to make merchandize of the Word of God what to make merchandize of the soules of men if this be not Neither is their doctrine sounder touching the exercise of the Church Prayer and Inuocation Saint Paul saith that hee had rather speake in the Church fiue words with his vnderstanding that he might instruct others then a thousand with a strange tongue Yea Lyra himselfe though he liued in a most darke time yet saw thus much Si populus intelligat orationem Sacerdotis melius reducitur in Deum deuotius respondet Amen c. If the people doe vnderstand the prayer of the Priest he is better reduced vnto God and doth more deuoutely answer Amen What doe our Aduersaries Doe they that which is better and more deuout No they serue the people with Latin Seruice which they doe no more vnderstand then they doe the Turkish language and so whether they blesse them or curse them speake to them or speake to God they cannot tell Were it not all one for vnderstanding and edifying to be in Cyclops Caue where 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as in such a Church This for the manner of their prayer So for the obiect Saint Paul would haue vs to lift vp pure hands to God 1. Tim. 2. And our Sauiour whatsoeuer yee aske the Father in my Name hee will giue it to you And Augustine Quis andiuit aliquando fidelium stantem Sacerdotem ad Altare c. Who hath heard at any time a Christian Priest standing at the Altar c. and say in his prayer O Peter O Paul O Cyprian I offer vnto thee a Sacrifice whereas in the Oratories dedicated to their memories the offering is made to God who made them both men and Martyrs If no Sacrifice be to be offered then not the Sacrifice of prayer if an outward or visible Sacrifice be not to be offered to them much lesse then an inuisible and spirituall But now how is it with our Aduersaries As the Prophet vpbrayded the Iewes According to the number of thy Cities be thy gods O Israel So may wee say to them According to the number of thy Prouinces nay of thy Townes nay of thy Churches nay of thy Trades nay of thy persons be thy gods thy Saints thy Tutelares dij God the Father was shunned and abhorred as one that dwelled in the light that no man can haue accesse vnto nay as one that had Foenum in Cornu and with whom there was no dealing God the Sonne was forgotten as one that was gone into a farre Countrey or that was asleepe and needed to be awaked like Baal or that was wearyed with hearing suites himselfe and therefore for his ease had appointed certaine Deputies vnder him as Darius did or certaine Masters of Requests to report vnto him the seuerall suites of his subiects as many Christian Princes haue whereas for power He is God and can perfectly saue them that come to him themselues and for will He became man and weake and was tempted that Hee might be touched with a feeling of our infirmity And for credit with his Father you know what is written Math. 3. This is my beloued Son in whom I am well pleased Therefore as Saint Peter saith Lord to whom shall wee goe thou hast the words of euerlasting life This for the matter of Doctrine and instruction so for the matter of prayer and supplication we may and ought to be of Augustines resolution Tutius incundius loquor ad meum lesum quàm ad aliquem Sanctorum Spirituum Dei I find it more safe and sweet to speake vnto my God then to any of the Saints of God Now for the causes of our saluation and the meanes thereof doth the Scripture set downe any other meritorious cause then the Death and Passion of our Sauiour Christ or any other meane or instrument to take hold of the same then Faith God hath giuen vs eternall life in his Son Iohn 5. The blood of Iesus Christ cleanseth vs from all sinne Vnto men there is no name giuen by which they may be saued but onely the Name of Iesus Christ. The Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne that the promise by the faith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to them that beleeue Gal. 3. And to be short As many as receiued him to them he gaue power to be the sons of God euen them that beeleue in his Name Iohn 1. Thus Christ is made to be the meritorious cause to be the authour and finisher of our Iustification and Saluation and Faith is made the instrumentall Therefore if they like not of the Doctrine we may say to them as Constantine did to Acetius 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 That they were best to make a new Ladder to clime vpto heauen by since the Ladder of Iacob will not serue the turne Will you know how they shift off such a cloud of Testimonies and what is their doctrine When they are pressed with those places that doe plainely make Christ to be the Alpha and Omega the beginning and ending of our Saluation c. they grant he is so in this sense that he giueth grace to men to worke righteousnesse and to

yee owe Custome Now that he did not sinne therein may appeare not onely by the silence of the Prophet Esay who in all likely-hood would haue perswaded him to haue submitted himselfe to the King of Ashur as well as Ieremy afterward perswaded Sedechia to yeeld to the King of Babylon but also by the very order of the Text here in this 18. Chap. of the second of Kings For if you looke vpon the 7. verse of that Chap. there you shall see that it is reckoned amongst his 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 among his good deeds his worthy acts that he rebelled against the King of Ashur and serued him not Now that it is called rebellion let no man be offended thereat or thinke that hee hath warrant thereby to condemne Hezechiah For it is not called so because the Lord did so esteeme it but because Sennacherib would haue it so reputed As in the 43. of Gen. it is said The Egyptians might not eate bread wih the Hebrewes for that was an abomination to the Egyptians It was not so indeed it did not defile them at all but yet the Egyptians counted it so and therefore so it is called So then because Hezechiah will not fall downe before Sennacherib and suffer him to goe ouer him and tread vpon him because he will not enthrall his Land vnto him and lay vpon the neck of his subiects such a yoke as neither they nor their posterity should be able to beare Hinc illae lachrymae hereupon Hezechiah is a Rebell and deserueth to be persecuted with fire and sword And is not her Maiesties cause the like and the quarrell of her enemy the same What point of Tyranny because warres are commonly vndertaken by great Princes may she be charged with except this be Tyranny to cast downe Images which were perking in the Rood-lofts and to purge her Churches from Idolatry according to the Commandem%nt of God and the example of good Hezechiah And what point of wrong can shee be conuicted to haue done to the Spaniard except this be wrong to preuent his lying in wayte and to seeke to saue her owne life and the liberty of her subiects There was in Rome one called ●imbria a mad fellow and a violent if euer there were any The same man hauing a quarrell to one Scaeuola a worthy man and of speciall reckoning sought to murder him did indeed stab him into the body very dangerously Well the wound proued not to be deadly and Scaeuola escaped with his life now what doth Fimbria He maketh no more adoe but indicts Scaeuola and why Quòd totum telum corpore non exciperet Because he brayded aside and did not suffer himselfe to be slaine out-right So Caligula complained of the iniquity of the time that one doubting to be poysoned of him did take a counterpoyson or a remedy against it What sayes he Antidotum aduersus Caesarem That 's faire play indeed Except the great enemy of Spaine will lay such a thing to our charge namely that when he or his Councell had suborned desperate Ruffians to stabbe our Queene or to pistoll her she hauing intelligence thereof through Gods mercy hath auoyded the danger or when he had hyred her owne Physician to take away her life by poysoning she being warned thereof did not consent to take the fatall drugge Except I say this be her fault that she hath not yeelded wilfully to cast away her life for his pleasure I see no cause why he should complaine of wrong suffering from her But yet now I remember my selfe he hath another quarrell against her And what is that Mary the same that the Galles had to the men of Tuscan We want Land say they and you must spare vs some Againe your Land is a better Land then ours this is quarrell sufficient Howbeit as Herodotus writeth of the men of Andrus that when Themistocles would needs haue money of them and to that purpose said that he had brought two Goddesses with him Perswasion and Necessity The men of Andrus answered him that they all had two great Goddesses with them which did forbid them to giue him money and those were Pouerty and Impossibility So say we If they haue need of our Lands and of our commodities we cannot spare them and if they bring a sword against vs to enforce I hope we shall find a Buckler and a sword too to resist Well this is our comfort that Hezechiah is inuaded that is such a one as hath abolished false worshippings her Maiestie I meane for which cause the Lord seemeth to haue had a speciall care of her and so I hope He will haue vnto the end Againe this is our comfort that Ierusalem is inuaded England I meane wherin though otherwise abounding with sin yet God hath had his Sanctuary now a good while and will He now bring it that it should be destroyed and layd on ruinous heapes No surely if yet we shall repent and turne vnto him Lastly this is our comfort that Sennacherib is the Inuader that is such a one as doth not so much please himselfe in the multitude of his ships and in the expertnesse of his men and in the heapes of his treasures that is in his arme of flesh as he doth certainely offend God by his desire of ioyning Dominion to Dominion which is vnsatiable by his raising of tumults nourishing of broyles in all his neighbour Countreyes which is most malicious and specially through his wicked zeale to aduance Idolatry and to set vp the Kingdome of Antichrist which is abominable If any man thinke that I offer the Spaniard hard measure to match him with Sennacherib first one out of the Church then a Persecutor of the Church c. Let the same know that although superstition be not altogether so bad in it selfe as Atheisme albeit Nazianzene is bold and sayes that 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it were as good to worship no God as to haue many in Gods sight yet for all that to the Church commonly it is no lesse hurtfull or dangerous For did any godlesse Tyrant make more hauocke of the faithfull Seruants of God then did Idolatrous Iezabel This before Christs time And after Is not the second beast which came vp out of the earth Reuel 13. by which Antichrist is meant said to doe all the first beast could that is the Romane Tyrants and to be alike enraged vpon the Saints of God Therefore to the Church you see they be alike cruell therefore no great wrong done to our enemy in this respect But now for other respects his dealing hath beene lesse honourable For Sennacherib had some colour of a cause to make warre vpon Hezechiah for denying the pension which his father paid though indeed it dyed with his father but this man by no colour can demand any such thing Sennacherib was no way beholding to the Iewes for any merit or seruice they had done him This man got