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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42952	Trade preferr'd before religion and Christ made to give place to Mammon represented in a sermon relating to the plantations : first preached at Westminster-Abbey and afterwards in divers churches in London / by Morgan Godwyn ...	Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685.	1685 (1685)	Wing G974; ESTC R15652	53,257	54

Trade preferr'd before Religion AND Christ made to give place to Mammon Represented in a SERMON Relating to the PLANTATIONS First Preached at WESTMINSTER-ABBY And afterwards in divers Churches in London By MORGAN GODWYN sometime Student of Christ-Church in Oxford St. JOH 4. 35. Say not ye There are yet four Months and then cometh Harvest Behold I say unto you Lift up your Eyes and look on the Fields for they are white already to Harvest Equidem nescio utrum potius faciam querarne nostrorum temporum calamitatem charitatem refrigescentem fidemque raro in quoquam inventam juxta Domini Verbum tot animarum millia ut Christo lucrifiant non satis merces videri quae nostrorum animos excitent auri argentique cupiditatem longè plus valere apud nos ut ista si desint animarum salus pro nihilo fiat Acosta de procur Ind. Sal. l. 3. c. 18. London Printed for B. Took at the Ship in St. Paul's Church-yard and for Isaac Cleave at the Star in Chancery-Lane 1685. Taken out of one of the Homilies for Whitsunday Christ's Spirit it is that engendereth a burning zeal towards God's Word and giveth all Men a Tongue yea a fiery Tongue so that they may boldly and chearfully profess the Truth in the Face of the whole World The Mystery of the Tongues betokeneth the preaching of the Gospel and the open Confession of the Christian Faith in all those that are possessed with the Holy Ghost So that if any Man be a dumb Christian not professing his Faith openly but cloaking and Colouring himself for fear of danger he giveth Men occasion justly and with good conscience to doubt lest he have not the Grace of the Holy Ghost within him because he is Tongue-tyed and doth not speak To the King May it please Your Majesty THIS Discourse which first came to life in Your Royal Brother's his late Majesty's Reign of most happy memory to these Nations being now of Age to appear abroad doth humbly prostrate it self at Your Majesty's Feet not doubting Your most gracious Acceptance if but for the End and Design it proposes and carries with it Which is no other than to stir up and provoke Your Majesty's Subjects Abroad and even at Home also to use at least some endeavours for the propagation of Christianity among their domestick Slaves and Vassals together with the other numerous Heathen in Your Majesty's Colonies who for the general are most ambitious thereof were their Desires seconded by suitable Inclinations in their Owners so as to afford it to them A Duty most certainly so indispensibly necessary and absolutely incumbent upon all but especially the most reformed and refined Christians that it may justly seem a Matter of greatest admiration and astonishment to but observe that it has hitherto been so much neglected yea and not only neglected but I cannot express it without shame and horror even scoffe at and opposed by them An impiety which tho before not wholly unknown to Your Majesty as having been by a very reverend and worthy Person of near Relation to Your Majesty some time since represented to Your Majesty is yet but newly arrived within Your Power to remedy But for the which we have the greatest assurance to wit Your Majesty's Royal Word then passed upon that Your first notice thereof Your Majesty being thereupon pleased not only to testify Your highest resentment and abhorrence of so prophane an Abuse but withal giving most manifest Indications of Your Desires for its reformation and redress And like a most religious Assertor and zealous Patron of the Faith once delivered to the Saints Your Majesty declaring it most reasonable that all Men should be made to partake of the Grace of God so freely in Christ tendred unto them and that none should be debarred of the common Salvation especially such who do so much hunger and thirst after it And at the same instant no less admiring that any pretence of Reason should by Christians and those too of the best sort be offered to the contrary much less so resolutely and with so much pertinacy be defended and persisted in And when in refutation of that no less impudent than most impious Assertion of the Impracticableness thereof at least in those Parts it was answered and urged that it could not possibly be less practicable to us than to other Nations particularly to the French who in the Island of St. Christophers half whereof is peopled by that Nation but the rest possessed by your Majesty's Subjects without finding any either mischief or inconvenience consequent thereupon are known to confer Baptism upon all that sort of People Whilst the English upon the same Spot do most sacrilegiously reject and give it up for impossible Upon the hearing whereof Your Majesty being fully convinced and satisfied was pleased to allow the Argument for unanswerable and withal to add That if ever it should happen to fall in Your way Your Majesty would further it all you could The due performance whereof no one that understands Your Veracity and Zeal will in the least suspect As for this so absurd an Impiety their pretence is the advance of Trade and Commerce which they are not ashamed to set up in opposition to Christ and Religion But Your Majesty cannot but know how unworthy even at the best this Plea is of a Christian Nation and withal how incongruous and mean it is that for Trade even allowing the Pretence for good the Work of God should be destroyed and those Myriads of Souls be made to perish for whom Christ died no less than for the residue of Mankind It would be also considered as we doubt not but Your Majesty will what returns after so long possession we have made or rather what despite to the Spirit of Grace we have done in hindring those poor Heathens Salvation which we ought with our utmost Zeal and Industry to have promoted The very end as must be piously supposed for which it at first pleased Almighty God to discover to us and to possess us of those many large and fruitful Countries Whilst we prefer our Trade and our Mammon before it as of the greater value And when all other Religions even to the very Turks and New-England-men do compass Sea and Land to create Proselites we only do seem to fetch the same compass to continue them Heathens An abomination which both threatens and calls aloud for Vengeance from Heaven upon the most wicked Authors Unless Your Majesty's extraordinary Piety and Goodness shall suddenly interpose and so at once put a stop to the Sin and to the Judgment And who knows whether Your Majesty be not come to the Kingdom for such a Time as this I shall only be bold to detain Your Majesty with a short but pious Speech of a certain great Prince one of the late Kings of Spain uttered to Your Majesty's blessed Father of most glorious memory whilst residing in that Kingdom Who indiscourse taking

occasion to magnify that King 's spacious Dominions He in answer thereto was pleased to reply That 't was true God had entrusted him with divers Nations and Countries but that his Advantage thereby was to have opportunity to propagate Christian Religion It is to be presumed that as Your Majesty's Dominions in the Parts we speak of are in extent not much short of perhaps a great deal larger than that Princes So your Majesty's Piety will not suffer You to be wanting to Your Self and People in reaping the like blessed and glorious Advantage thereby So prayeth The most unworthy and meanest of Your Majesty's Subjects MORGAN GODWYN The PREFACE I Cannot but foresee that I shall fall under no small danger of Censure as well for my first preaching as now publishing this Discourse For besides the sinister Surmises of divers here at home such who like the Curr in the Manger will neither eat Oats themselves nor suffer those that would I must also look to undergo as far as is possible the utmost Effects of the Rage and Malice of those incensed MAMMONISTS from abroad who I am to expect will not fail by their Agents and Partizans to dispense to me the sharpest Revenge and Mischief that such Enemies of Christianity can contrive against a Promoter of it And when they thus see me upon taking away their Gods it will be but a very sensless and unreasonable Question to demand What aileth them But as there was no temptation from the thing it self as being likely to prove so invidious and costly an Undertaking what I have but too much already felt and it being on the behalf of such who are never like to make me any amends and I am sure that no body else will So I hope that others better disposed will in charity which thinketh not the worst rather believe that what I have herein attempted doth proceed from no worse Motive than from a sense of my Duty as not knowing otherwise what I yet knew was most necessary how to reprove the BARJESVITISM and base Mammonism so openly practised in our Plantations and even at Home too of which I shall presently give some Instances At least certainly I can deserve no blame for thus opening my Mouth for the Dumb and becoming their Advocate who are appointed to Eternal Destruction For that I have as it were put my Life in my hand to oppose those Elymas's who do not cease to pervert the right Ways of the Lord and to obstruct Christianity when no body else either durst or would And since the more Learned and Prudent who never use to lay out themselves but to some purpose and this 't is too well known known is but a barren Theme had hitherto been silent therein that I thought it no disparagement to become a Fool for Christ's sake and conceived that it might better be done by me than not at all These in truth were my Reasons in general for this Undertaking but there was withal a more particular And that was hereby if possible to put some stop to and to abate the arrogant and proud vauntings of that new Sect of American Anti-Religionists the Barjesuits and Elymases before mentioned for their Victory over Christianity by LVCYfer and his fellow Agents here sometime since obtain'd which very triumphantly like pure uncircumcised Pagans pardon the Expression for in this Case Difficile est Satyram non scribere and not to be angry had been to sin they have not forborn to publish in the Houses of their Idols if I may so speak and by insulting Letters to set forth in their Assemblies therein proclaiming how they have worsted Christianity and for ever quash'd all future hopes of advancing its Crest and of further entrance into those Parts A most glorious Victory doubtless it was and which none besides the Devil and themselves but would have been ashamed to have boasted of A Victory where there was no Adversary to contend with and of which as the case stood if they could but talk considently and affirm lustily without blushing they could not easily fail Upon this I could no longer be silent but as the Holy Psalmist expresseth himself My heart grew hot within me and the fire was kindled and at the last I spake with my Tongue declaring from the Pulpit as oft as I had opportunity what I have now delivered from the Press I considered the thing as a Duty indispensible and having before put my hand to the Plow I determined not to look back Yet I must confess I attended a while to see whether any abler Advocate would appear in the Cause and happily have saved me both the trouble and the envy of it But when I had thus waited and could see no appearance of any no not at the greatest distance for they were all amazed they answered no more they left off speaking or rather we may say did never begin it was not in my power to refrain but I resolved that I would answer for my part I would speak on God's behalf I would open my mouth and answer let come on it what would But he that ploweth should plow in hope as saith the Apostle Now to what purpose is it to speak further hereof since so slender Advances have been hitherto made therein by what has been before spoken will some be apt to demand And indeed it was the Advice of one when I first adventured upon this Work never to trouble my self about it for said he Tho your Design be never so Christian and good yet the least grain of Interest lying in the way shall quite ruin and overthrow it And I wish his words had proved less true But truly I am full of power by the Spirit of the Lord to tell Jacob of his Transgression and Israel of his Sin as saith the Prophet Micah And Isaiah tells us That the Watchmen upon the Walls of Jerusalem were not to hold their peace notwithstanding the greatest discouragements day nor night nor to give even the Almighty himself any rest until he had established and made Jerusalem a praise in the whole Earth Rather the deafer Men are the louder we are to cry For Truth however opprest will have some Followers The sturdy Youth in the Gospel that at first did so peremptorily refuse to go and work in his Father's Vineyard afterwards repented and went And even the unjust Judg by much importunity and for his own quiet was we read at length wrought upon to hearken to the Widow's complaint and to do her right And tho these we speak of have had this untoward Character viz. of being such who will do no right nor take any wrong fixed upon them yet who knows how far our Assiduity may in like manner prevail At least 't is certain we have no Dispensation for our silence For truly unto this most unchristian Silence must in a great measure be ascribed the large spreading of this Leprosy of