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B09419	A despised virgin beautified, or, Virginia benefited. setting forth, though concisely, yet perspicuously, the state of that and the neighbouring plantations, both as they have their blemishes, with the causes thereof, and as they may be cured, with the consequences thereof / by O.Ll. Gent. Sometimes an inhabitant of Virginia.	O.LI., Gent. Sometimes and Inhabitant of Virginia.	1653 (1653)	Wing L2618A; ESTC R180038	13,011	20

exceeding great terrour of the Natives insomuch that they would run among the English when they were at their praiers for shelter and this continued constantly for manie daies while they were at praier in that time onelie and no more which wrought so effectuallie upon the old Emperour that he cried cut to the English when the fear was over Will none help us to know your and serve your God with manie other words to the like purpose he often used to them and if anie daie they did not keep the precise time of praier according to his observation he would send to the English to go to worship their God This report I had from Master Gill and I believe Captain West and the rest of the companie will affirm the same Oh then is there not great hope that a happie work might be wrought for God and for those poor souls if the new England men might come among you in Virginia who have been so happilie successefull in the conversion of so manie Indians in their own Countrie that they may do the like for the Natives in your parts Object You talk of remotenesse of place in the Colonie of Virginia for the doing and injoying justice and if this should be that all the Patents should be joined in one how should we come to the injoyment of the benefit of the Law the distance being so great from the South of Carolina to the Northeast at Cape Saint George Answ Gentlemen you know the situation of the coast all along from North to South how full of harbours it is all the coast along and how convenientlie men may passe from harbor to harbor And there is a convenient place about Hudsons Riter or De Laware-Bay whereat a convenient Site might be presentlie plated where a seat of residence for the principle Magistrate might abide and thither the Patriots of each Province or their deputies might meet once everie year or lesse if no occasion require to consult consider of and enact wholesom laws for the well being of the whole But if men will not go by sea it is easie to go in a small time by land there being horses enough in the Countrie from the utmost bounds of the South or North latitude And for matters of Meum and Tuum or for the trespasses they might be determined in each Province by depuries as before And I verily believ that if you would once admit of the Regiment of the Prince of Peace over you and his people cohabite with you there would be lesse of that litigious spirit that now is to be seen among you and a spirit of peace and love and joy in the Holy Ghost would be manifested to you and magnifyed by you Object But if all this were granted what could we do for this union seeing that so near the place you hold forth to be the center of the Countrie and a place meet for the people from all parts to meet for the making of laws is a place so near the Dutch Plantation and the Swedes that they would be goads in our sides and thorns in our eies Answ As for the Dutch Plantation if the war continue we have an opportunity to make it our own by the joint-forces of these Plantations by a course of war and if peace suddenly succeed these indeavours their ships will be as ours their people as ours in all Plantations and places we shall be united in a firm bond of amity and so theirs indeed will be ours in truth in the general accommodation though their particular interest may be preserved unto them And as for the Swedes Plantation it is a thing of so small a valew and they being friends with our Common-wealth it is an easie matter to find an accommodation so as that they may be satisfied and this Common-wealth served with their interest Object What say you to Nova Scotia and the Plantations to the eastward of Merimach that belong to the French that being sold to the French by the Kirks I believe it is not unknown upon what score after the English and Scotch Nations had so dearly purchased it how shall they be joined with this Patent Answ First for the French they desire and apply themselves onely to the trade of the River of Canada and not one ship in an age scarse commeth to the Southward of Cape Saint George to trade but admit it were their trade there is it not an easie hing for us to eject them out of that which they cheated us of by the late Queens means now in such a juncture of time as that we are going to differ nationally upon another score we having both men and shipping of our own enough in new England which would quickly cast them out upon a nationall account or quarrel By which means the Patent might be inlarged and the Gospel further propagated and a means in time through the blessing and providence of God found to transport the goods of the East India trade from Japan and from the Isles of Mare Delzur to some part about Corsina or some other part and so overland to the head of the River of Canada or some of the great Rivers in Virginia as formerly it was brought from the head of the red sea over land by Caravans to Alexandria in Egypt and so through the Mediterranean Sea all Europe over by the Venetian Argocies Would not this be a great inriching to our Commonwealth yea and it would be a great means to facilitate our voyages with speed and safety to Merchants and mariners who are subject to great hazard both of goods and lives in going twice under the Equinoctial line by the way of Cape de buona Esperanza both going and returning and here they have a more speedy and healthfull way of trading And not onely so but it would be a great assurance to our fishing trade upon the coast of Nova Scotia and new Found land whereby in America we might draw a great trade out of Spain and the Streights in a few years and he incouraged and enabled by the enjoyment of the commodity of those rich furs to a further work of exalting the glory and scepter of Christ in those Northern Countries of America as far as Fretum Davies for I believe the dwarfeish generation of those Northern Countries shall speak in time the high praises of our God And so I suppose I have answered all objections of my loving Countrey-men of Virginia for whose sakes principally as to men I was excited in my spirit to set upon this work I say now I have answered all objections that I conceive can rationally be made according to the small apprehension the Lord hath given me and the little experiences that I have of things I would now though before in an intermixed discourse offer to you a compendium of the profits and advantages both spiritual and temporall that might hereby acrew First as to the glorie of God the Gospell in her pristine puritie would shine so excellently among all the English Plantations that it would be a glorious thing to behold the change when we should see in each place and part of this great continent I mean from Cape Florida to Fretum Davies not onely all the English but the Dutch Swedes and the remainders of the French exalting the praises of God in their severall languages tongues and speeches yea the poor Indians much advantaged both those that are Southerly and Northerly of new England as well as those of Massachusets Bay Patent I put little difference between the Patent of the Buy and the Patent of new Plymouth they both I hope concurring to the main end as to God-ward and in their subjection to this Commonwealth but the beauty of the Gospell would shine among the Spaniards and the Indians that converse with them to the Southward and Westward of us who when they see the power of godlinesse the purity of religion and the manifestation of the Prince of peace love comming in the beauty of the glory of his grace to them and compare him with the former representation of him by the Spanish inquisition and tyrannie I am exceedingly filled in my spirit with the apprehension of what I see a farre off as it were of the sweet imbracings of Christ with acclamations of joy that the poor seduced Spanish souls with their abused slaves both Negroes and Indians will entertain Christ and the Gospell and how they will come flowingly in and submit to the scepter of Christ bemoaning his long absence would count him the chiefest of ten thousands to their souls and by this means the Gospell might be communicated to the nations of Mexico Brasil Peru and so over Fretum Magellanicum to the ends of the earth what joy what comfort what happines yea what a great glory would it be not only to our nation in general but to those that love Christ Jesus in sincerity in each of their particulars And what exceding honor would it be to him whose is the kingdom the power the glory which I wish may be ascribed to him in truth by all Nations now and for ever Amen Soli gloria Deo

A Despised Virgin Beautified OR VIRGINIA Benefited Setting forth though concisely yet perspicuously the State of that and the Neighbouring Plantations both as they have their Blemishes with the Causes thereof and as they may be cured with the Consequents thereof I am black but comely c. Cant. 1. 5. By O. Ll. Gent. sometimes an Inhabitant of Virginia London Printed by Henry Hills for Edward Dod and are to be sold at the Gun in Ivy Lane 1653. To the Christian and to the Judicious Reader that is wel-affected to the Common salvati on purchased by Christ or to the Common good of this Republique REader which of the two soever you are I have a double word to offer to your consideration First that the undertaking of this work to express this accomodation for the benefit of the American plantations in both Spirituals and Temporals is not a thing that I undertook in my own strength or for any base ends of my own But as the Lord can bear me witness that I ly not upon the hearing the minister in publique the last Lords day stir up every one to indeavor the exaltation of Christ in his proper place internally and externally I conceiv'd it a duty incumbent upon me to offer my two mites to the Lords treasury if it might be acceptable to him having nothing else wherewith to honour him at present or if it might be profitable for my longed-for friends in Virginia who have been often in my weak measure and manner though an unworthy wretch presented at the Throne of Grace by me That God of his infinite riches and glory by Christ would supply all their needs and being by so many years experience acquainted what was that necessary thing that conduceth to their eternal well-being and yet there wanting I have here presented you as the Lord inabled me with what I humbly conceive ever submitting to better Judgements may be the best expedient to accomplish the happiness of that place Secondly I must answer the unsatisfyed Reader who knew my former conversation both there and here and how unsuitable it hath been to what I here present That though he might say Physician heal thy self or Hypocrite first pull the beam out of thine own eye c. I confess what was my sin which as it hath been my shame so it is through grace and will be the subject of my sorrow that I have walked so disorderly But I hope through great grace by Christ Iesus I have and shall obtain mercy and enjoy favor with the Father and fellowship in the Spirit with the Son and Saints and that henceforth he will shew me for my self the comming in and the going out and fashion of his Temple that henceforth he will sanctifie me and preserve me blameless to the comming of his Son to the praise of the glory of his grace and therefore I beseech you my friends both of Virginia and of my Native Countrey who have seen my out-goings not to be grieved in spirit at my undertaking of this For as I conceive my self bound by duty to undertake this task so I conceived there was a great deal of equity in it both toward the Lord and towards you of Virginia and also you of my Native Countrey that as I have been notoriously evil to the dishonor of God and the discredit of the Gospel before you so I might be notably instrumental if the Lord please to promote his praises in Virginia in the first place and afterward it lyeth upon my thoughts and I do believe it will be accomplished that I shall do the like in my own Native Countrey so that both places shall see the glory of his free grace to me and learn to love and fear believe and close with the Lord of Love and Life I beseech you then without prejudice reeeive these weak exhibitions of my duty and love to my God my Countrey and my Friends and pardon what is amiss and pray for him that would fain be found walking in the truth whilest he is From my Chamber at the Flying-Post in White Fryers London this 6th of October 1653. O. Ll. A Despised VIRGIN beautified OR VIRGINIA benefited AS a skilfull Architector that would erect a lofty edifice and build beautifully for the benefit of the Owner digs deeply to lay the foundation of his Structure or as a wise Physician will not prescribe physick to his Patient till he have seen sure symptoms to know the disease by the first left his building fall and his labour and charge be lost the second left his Patient fail and his reputation be blemished So in this businesse that lierh so strongly upon my spirit to be doing service for the Publick that thereby my God may be honoured the Gospel propagated and the Kingdome of the Lords Christ enlarged I would willingly take the wisest the safest the profitablest and honourablest as to the Publick way the Lord shall lead me to do in doing this work and therefore as concisely as I can I shall endeavour to represent my experiences what I have though of weakest judgment observed to be the disease of that distressed member of this Common-wealth both as to Church Sate And that what are and have been the thoughts of my heart I hope suggested by the Spirit of God for the good of that Countrey for neer these fourteen years as concerning what expedient may be fourd to remedy the distresse of the disconsolate Virgin Countrey Virginia and render her sound and in perfect health therein shewing the beauty that may be expected to be seen in her when she is prepared for and presented a spotlesse Spouse to the Lord Jesus her husband and also the benefit of having such a member annexed to this Common-wealth In the discovery of her disease give me leave to remind you of her Primo-genitors or first Masters of Europoean extract and what have been the successours for the generality thereby we shall get a little light into the originals of her disease and be the better able to give judgement on her and so to prescribe the remedy as the Lord shall in able a poor creature Virginia so stiled and taking her name from the late Virgin Queen Queen Elizabeth of happy memcry as a glorious instrument in the hand of God for doing the work of the Lord in her time which title was given her by the first Adventurers as considered to landing and living there in Queen Elizabeths days But the Emergencies of the publick affairs of those times took up the spirits of men from thinking much of that Colony during the reign of the said Queen and the businesse lay dormant till about the years 1607 or 1608. when divers Noblemen Gentlemen and Citizens imbodied themselves in this City of London and made a Virginia Company under the specious pretences of propagating the Gospell and preparing a way to the setting up the Kingdom of Christ Jesus in those American parts and I believe many godly men really