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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A14518	A true declaration of the estate of the colonie in Virginia vvith a confutation of such scandalous reports as haue tended to the disgrace of so worthy an enterprise. Published by aduise and direction of the Councell of Virginia.	Counseil for Virginia (England and Wales)	1610 (1610)	STC 24833; ESTC S122265	21,700	72

not their conuersion who cannot vnderstand vs nor our martyrdome when the people of Florida did deuoure the Preachers of the word without speaking any word Non quia Christiani sed quia homines not because they were christian men but because they were men wee cannot be said to be martyrs when wee are not killed because wee are christians And therefore the Iesuite Acosta confesseth notwithstanding Bellarmines relation of Indian miracles that they haue no tongues they haue no signes from heauen and they can haue no martyrdome and by consequent there is no meanes left of Apostolicall preaching For the second to preach the Gospell to a nation conquered and to set their soules at liberty when we haue brought their bodies to slauerie It may be a matter sacred in the Preachers but I know not how iustifiable in the rulers Who for their meere ambition doe set vpon it the glosse of religion Let the diuines of Salamanca discusse that question how the possessor of the west Indies first destroied and then instructed The third belongs to vs who by way of marchandizing and trade doe buy of them the pearles of earth and sell to them the pearles of heauen which action if it be vnlawfull it must proceede from one of these three grounds either because we come to them or trade with them or tarrie and dwell and possesse part of their country amongst them Is it vnlawfull because wee come to them why is it not a dutie of christianitie to behold the imprinted footsteps of Gods glorie in euery region vnder heauen Is it not against the lawe of nations to violate a peaceable stranger or to denie him harbour The Ethiopians Egyptians and men of China are branded with a foule marke of sanguinarie and barbarous inhumanity for blessing their Idols with the bloud of strangers It is not vnlawfull to trade with them except Salomon shall bee condemned for sending for gold to Ophir Abraham for making a league with Abimelech and all christendome shall bee traduced for hauing comerce with Turks and miscreants Finallie it is not vnlawfull that wee possesse part of their land and dwell with them and defend our selues from them Partlie because there is no other moderate and mixt course to bring them to conuersion but by dailie conuersation where they may see the life and learne the language each of other Partlie because there is no trust to the fidelitie of humane beasts except a man will make a league with Lions Beares and Crocodiles Partlie because there is roome sufficient in the land as Sichem sometime said for them and vs the extent of an hundred miles being scarce peopled with 2000. inhabitants Partlie because they haue violated the lawe of nations and vsed our Ambassadors as Ammon did the seruants of Dauid If in him it were a iust cause to warre against the Ammonites it is lawfull in vs to secure our selues against the infidels But chieflie because Paspehay one of their Kings sold vnto vs for copper land to inherit and inhabite Powhatan their chiefe King receiued voluntarilie a crowne and a scepter with a full acknowledgement of dutie and submission Principallie when Captaine Newport was with Powhatan at Warow a comaco hee desired him to come from Iames towne as a place vnholesome and to take possession of an other whole kingdome which he gaue vnto him If any man alleadge that this was done in subtlety not that they euer meant we should possesse them but that they might first gaine by vs and then destroy vs. This makes our cause much the iuster when God turned their subtletie to our vtilitie giuing vnto vs a lawfull possession as Pharaoe gaue Goshen to Israell or Ephron sold his caue to Abraham and freeing vs from all impious and sinister construction If anie man alleadge that yet wee can possesse no farther limits than was allotted by composition and that fortitudo sine iustitia est iniquitatis Materia fortitude without iustice is but the firebrand of iniquitie Let him know that Plato defineth it to bee no iniustice to take a sword out of the hand of a mad man That Austen hath allowed it for a lawfull offensiue warre quod vlciscitur iniurias that reuengeth bloudie iniuries So that if iust offences fhall arise it can bee no more iniustice to warre against infidells than it is when vpon iust occasions wee warre against Christians And therefore I cannot see but that these truths will fanne away all those chaffie imputations which anie Romish boasters that challenge a monopolie of all conuersions will cast vpon it or any scrupulous conscience can impute vnto it Certainlie the Church of Geneua in the yeere 1555. determined in a Synode whereof Caluine was president to send Peter Richier and William Quadrigarius vnder a French Captaine to Brasilia who although they were supplanted by the comming of the Cardinall of Loraine and the trecherie of their double hearted leader yet would not the Church of Geneua after a Synodicall consultation haue sent their ministers to such an aduenture had not all scruples in their iudgement beene cleared by the light of Scripture When therefore it is a sweete smelling sacrifice to propagate the name of Iesus Christ when the Babylonish Inchantresse if her owne Calenders are to bee credited hath compassed sea and land to make sixe eight or ten millions of Romish proselites When there is no other mixt moderate course to transport the Virginian soules to heauen When there hath beene a reall concession from their rurall Emperour that hath licensed vs to negotiate among them and to possesse their countrie with them When there is more vnpeopled continent of earth than wee and they before the dissolution of the pillars of heauen can ouerburden with multitude When we neuer intend to play the Rehoboams and to scourge them with scorpions It is not good to create more sinnes then God euer censured nor to brand that action with impietie which God hath begun for promulgating of his glorie Nunquid ideo deforme est quia figura mentitur is the action therefore deformed because a false glasse doth slaunder it Concerning the other braunch of this discourse wherein some slie whisperers would seeme to cast an aspersion of iniustice vpon the action supposing some forraine Prince to haue a former interest Certainlie hee is but a rotten subiect that quarells the actions of his countrie descrying a serpentine stinge vnder the faire leaues of pietie And though it bee not for a theoreticall Schollar to circumscribe the dominions of Princes yet a few proofes from antiquitie shall suffice to controwle ignorant or presumptuous follie In the yeere 1170. Madocke the sonne of Owen Guyneth Prince of north-Northwales leauing the land in contention betwixt his two brethren Howell and Dauid sailed into the West Indies and after a second and a third returne and supplie setled himselfe in those dominions In the yeere 1495. Iohn Cabot a Venetian but the indenized subiect of King Henrie the seauenth discouered the North