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truth_n	believe_v	christian_a	faith_n	3,911	5	5.5853	4	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41851	Virginia's cure, or, An advisive narrative concerning Virginia discovering the true ground of that churches unhappiness, and the only true remedy : as it was presented to the Right Reverend Father in God Gvilbert Lord Bishop of London, September 2, 1661 : now publish'd to further the welfare of that and the like plantations / by R. G.	R. G.; Gray, Robert, 16th/17th cent.; Greene, Robert, 17th cent.	1662 (1662)	Wing G1624; ESTC R10987	16,780	29

then once repented it or whether they may best be promoted by some other way it being out of my Sphere I dare not presume to determine Your Lordship will best inform your self in th●s by Con●ulting with Virginia's presen ●onourable ●overnour Sir William B●rkly or their late Edward Diggs Esq What wa●●oeve they determine to be best I shall humbly in obedie●ce to your Lords●ips command endevour to contribut● towards the com●assing this Remedy by propounding 1. That your Lordship would be pleased to ac●uaint the King with the nece●sity of promoting the building Towns in each County of Virginia upon the consideration of the fore-mention●d sad Con●equent● of their present manner of living there 2. Th●t Your Lordship upon the fore-going consideration be plea●ed to move the pitiful and charitable heart of His ●r●cious Majesty considering the Poverty and need● of Virginia for a Coll●ction to be made in all the Churches of his three Kingdom●s there being considerable numbers of each Kingdome for the promoting a work of so great Ch●rity to the Souls of many thousands of his Loyal Subjects their Children and th● Generations after them and of numberlesse poor Heathen and that the Ministers of each Co●gregation be enjoyned with more then ordinary care and pains to stirre up the people to a free and liberal Contribution towards it or if this way be not thought sufficient that ●ome other way b● taken to do it 3. That the way of dispencing such collections for sending Work-men over for th● building Towns and Schooles and the assistance the persons that shall inhabit them shall contribute towards them may be determin'd here by the advice of Virginia's present or late Honourable Governours if in London and whom they shall make choice of for their assistants who have formerly lived in Virginia and that the King if he shall approve what is so determined may be humbly Petitioned to authorize it by his special command le●● what is duely ordered here be perverted there Fourthly That those Planters who have such a considerable number of Servants as may be judged may enable them for it if they not willing for I have heard some expresse their willingnesse and some their aver●nesse may by His Majesties Authority be enjoyned to contribute the Assistance that shall be thought meet for them to build themselves houses in the Towns-nearest to them and to inhabit them for they having horses enough in that ●ountry may be convenienc'd as their occasions require to visit their Plantations And the Masters who shall inh●bit the Towns having Families of Servants upon remote Plantations may be ordered to take care that upon Saturdays Afternoon when by the Custome of Virginia Servants are freed from their ordinary labour their Servants except one or two left by turns to secure their Plantations may repair to th●ir Houses in the Towns and there remain with their Masters until the publick Worship and Service of the Lor●s Day be ended Fifthl● That for a con●inual supply of able Minist●rs for their Churches after a ●et ter● of years Your Lordship would plea●e ●o en●evour the procuring an Act of Parliament whereby a c●●tain number of Fellowships as they happen to be next proportionably vacant in both the Universities may bear the name of Virginia Fellowships so long as the Needs of ●hat Church shall require it and none be admitted to th●m but su●h a● shall engage by promi●e to hold them seven years and no longer and at the expi●ation of tho●e seven years t●an●●ort thems●lv●s to Virginia and serve that Church in the Office of the Ministery seven ye●rs more the Church the●e p●oviding for them which being expir●d they shall be left to their own Liberty to return or not and if they p●r●●●m not the Condit●o●s of their Admittance then to be uncapable of any Prefe●me●t These things being procur●d I thi●k V●rginia will be in the most probable way that her pre●ent condit●on 〈◊〉 admit of being cured of the formentioned evils of her scatter'd Planting For hereby her Planters will be convenienced to give God the honour due unto his Name by attending constantly in full Congregations upon his publick Worship and Service they will enjoy the benefits of Christian Offices of frequent civil commerce and Society which begets mutual confidence trust and friendship the best ground-work for raising Companies of the best qualified and most able persons to combine in Designs most advantagious to their own and the publick Weal they will enjoy the benefits of vertuous Examples of publick Catechizing and instructing their Children and Servants in the Principles and Duties of the Christian Religion according to the Constitutions of the Church of England whereby not only Children and Servants but Parents and Masters who are ignorant may without being ashamed be enlightned with true saving knowledge and their Children in Schools of Learning may grow up to be serviceable both in Church and State And by good Discipline and careful tending in well order'd Societies under faithful Teachers and Magistrates both Parents and Children would by the grace of God grow into habits of Christian Living and the light of their Graces and good works shining before the Heathen would above all other Oratory prevail with them both to be desirous to learn themselves and to bring their Children to be taught in the Christians Schools how to glorifie the same God with them That the former benefits will accrue to themselves needs no Proof the experience of all united well order'd Christian Societies sufficiently confirms it That the latter viz. the gaining the Heathen to the Christian Faith will be the hopeful Consequ●nt of their habitual Christian living of the united l●ght of their graces and good works shining bef●re the Heathen I shall not presuming to inform Your Lordship but not knowing to whom this Paper may be communicated make bold to add a brief Confirmation of it First by the testimony of that vertuous Heathen Emperour Alexander Sev●rus who when he p●rceived two of his Servants to be per●waded to receive the ●hristian Faith by the Eloquent Orations Origen had made before him to prove the Truth of it I perceive saith he Ye do wonder at the Learning of Origen whereby ye are induced to embrace the Christian Profession But tru●y the Humility and Charity of the Christian People which ● do hear of and daily b●hold with my E●es do much more move me to believe that their Christ is God then all his ●loquent Perswasion● This Heathen Emperour understood the Language of Origen and as the History relates w●s much moved with the convincing perswasive Arguments Origen u●ed to prove the Truth of the Christian Faith yet he professeth he was much more p●rswaded to believe it by the Humility and Charity the graces and ve●tues which appeared in the Ch●istians lives which he heard of an● daily beheld But the Heathen in Virginia neither understand the Christians language no● the Christians theirs and although they did understand it I think it too