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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15097	The planters plea· Or The grounds of plantations examined, and vsuall objections answered Together with a manifestation of the causes mooving such as have lately vndertaken a plantation in Nevv-England: for the satisfaction of those that question the lawfulnesse of the action.	White, John, 1575-1648.	1630 (1630)	STC 25399; ESTC S111722	31,962	71

before Christ the Decree of God that suffered all Nations to walke in their own waies Acts 14. 16. shut up the Church within the narrow bounds of the Promised Land and so excluded men from the propagation of Religion to other Countries And in the Apostles time God afforded an easier and more speedy course of converting men to the truth by the gift of tongues seconded by the power of Miracles to winne the greater credit to their doctrine which most especially and first prevailed upon Countries civilized as the History of the Apostles Acts makes manifest As for the rest I make no question but God used the same way to other barbarous Nations which hee held with us whom hee first Civilized by the Romane Conquests and mixture of their Colonies with us that hee might bring in Religion afterwards seeing no man can imagine how Religion should prevaile upon those who are not subdued to the rule of Nature and Reason Nay I conceive God especially directs this worke of erecting Colonies unto the planting and propagating of Religion in the West Indies although I will not confine it to those alone and that for divers Reasons which ought to be taken into serious consideration as affording the strongest Motives that can be proposed to draw on the hearts and affections of men to this worke now in hand for this purpose which gives occasion unto the publishing of this Treatise men in the times appointed by the Law of Moses counting them and all they touch uncleane during that time appointed by the Law whether upon any other ground or by a tradition received from the Iewes it is uncertaine Some conceive their Predecessors might have had some commerce with the Iewes in times past by what meanes I know not Howsoever it bee it fals out that the name of the place which our late Colony hath chosen for their seat prooves to bee perfect Hebrew being called Nahum Keike by interpretation The bosome of consolation which it were pitty that those which observed it not should change into the name of Salem though upon a faire ground in remembrance of a peace setled upon a conference at a generall meeting betweene them and their neighbours after expectance of some dangerous jarre Now then if all nations must have Christ tendred unto them and the Indies have never yet heard of his name it must follow that that worke of conveighing that knowledge to them remaines to bee undertaken and performed by this last age Againe what shall we conceive of that almost miraculous opening the passage unto and discovery of these formerly unknowne nations which must needs have proved impossible unto former ages for want of the knowledge of the use of the Loadstone as wounderfully found out as these unknowne Countries by it It were little lesse then impietie to conceive that GOD whose Will concurres with the lighting of a Sparrow upon the ground had no hand in directing one of the most difficult and observeable workes of this age and as great folly to imagine that hee who made all things and consequently orders and directs them to his owne glory had no other scope but the satisfying of mens greedy appetites that thirsted after the riches of that new found world and to tender unto them the objects of such barbarous cruelties as the world never heard of Wee cannot then probably conceive that GOD in that strange discovery aymed at any other thing but this that after hee had punished the Atheisme and Idolatry of those heathen and bruitish Nations by the Conquerors cruelty and acquainted them by mixture of some other people with civility to cause at length the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ to shine out unto them as it did to our forefathers after those sharpe times of the bitter desolations of our Nation betweene the Romanes and the Picts A fourth reason to prove that God hath left this great and glorious worke to this age of the world is the nearnesse of the Iewes conversion before which it is conceived by the most that the fulnesse of the Gentiles must come in according to the Apostles prophesie Rom. 11. 25. That this day cannot be farre off appeares by the fulfilling of the prophesies precedent to that great and glorious worke and the generall expectation thereof by all men such as was found among the Iewes both in Iudea and in some other parts of the world before the comming of Christ in the flesh now then let it bee granted that the Iewes conversion is neare and that the Gentiles and consequently the Indians must needs bee gathered in before that day and any man may make the conclusion that this is the houre for the worke and consequently of our duty to endeavour the effecting that which God hath determined the opening of the eyes of those poore ignorant soules and discovering unto them the glorious mystery of Iesus Christ. CHAP. III. The English Nation is fit to undertake this taske THat this Nation is able and fit to send out Colonies into Forraigne parts will evidently appeare by the consideration of of our overflowing multitudes this being admitted for a received principle that Countreyes superabound in people when they have more then they can well nourish or well employ seeing we know men are not ordained to live onely but withall and especially to serve one another through love in some profitable and usefull calling Granting therefore that this Land by Gods ordinary blessing yeelds sufficiency of corne and eattell for more then the present Inhabitants yet that wee have more people then wee doe or can profitably employ will I conceive appeare to any man of understanding willing to acknowledge the truth and to consider these foure particulars 1. Many among us live without employment either wholly or in the greatest part especially if there happen any interruption of trade as of late was manifested not onely in Essex but in most Now what a disease this must needes bee in a State where mens necessities inforce them to inventions of all wayes and meanes of expence upon the instruments of pride and wantonnesse and of as many subtilties and frauds in deceitfull handling all works that passe through their fingers that by the speedy wasting of what is made they may bee the sooner called upon for new I leave it to any wise man to judge It is a fearfull condition whereby men are in a sort enforced to perish or to become meanes and instruments of evill So that the conclusion must stand firme we have more men then wee can imploy to any profitable or usefull labour Objection But the idlenesse or unprofitable labours of our people arise not from our numbers but from our ill government inferiour Magistrates being too remisse in their offices and therefore may more easily be reformed by establishing better order or executing those good lawes already made at home then by transporting some of them into forraigne Countreyes Answer Good government though it doe reforme many yet