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A12466	A map of Virginia VVith a description of the countrey, the commodities, people, government and religion. VVritten by Captaine Smith, sometimes governour of the countrey. Whereunto is annexed the proceedings of those colonies, since their first departure from England, with the discourses, orations, and relations of the salvages, and the accidents that befell them in all their iournies and discoveries. Taken faithfully as they were written out of the writings of Doctor Russell. Tho. Studley. Anas Todkill. Ieffra Abot. Richard Wiefin. Will. Phettiplace. Nathaniel Povvell. Richard Pots. And the relations of divers other diligent observers there present then, and now many of them in England. By VV.S.	Smith, John, 1580-1631.; Symonds, William, 1556-1616?; Abbay, Thomas.; Hole, William, d. 1624, engraver.	1612 (1612)	STC 22791; ESTC S121887	314,791	163

dealt so cruelly with vs But now when the Precept of humiliation is to the Creator of all things shall fl●sh and blood disdaine to submit it selfe to God weake flesh and blood to the mighty hand of God It was a reason that Iosephus vsed in his Oration to his Countrey-men to perswade them to submit their neckes to the yoke of the Romanes for as much as they had gotten the Dominion of the greates● part of the world The same reason vsed Rabshak●h to them that were besieged in Ierusalem that for as much as the King of Assyria had subdued many other Nations strong and mightie therefore they might with credit enough yeeld Dignitate Domini minùs turpis est conditio se●u● By the honor of the Master the base estate of the seruant becommeth more tolerable It was some comfort to Marcus Antonius hauing wounded himselfe to death in desperation that he was ouercome not by any base coward but by a valiant Roman AEnaeae magni dextrâ cadis So Aeneas bade one comfort himselfe Sal●em ne lixae manu cadam saith the valorous Admirall of France Slay me and spare not but yet not by the hand of a skullion Let not a boy slay vs said Zibah and Zalmumah Iudg. 8. but rise thou and fall vpon vs for as the man is so is his strength Therefore for as much as we are required to humble our selues vnder Almighty God who made the heauens and the earth by his great power and by his stretched-out Arme and nothing is hard vnto him Ieremy 32. Behold he will breake downe and it cannot be built he shutteth vp a man and he cannot be loosed Iob 12. He putteth his hand vpon the Rockes and ouerthroweth the mountaines by the roots Iob 28. For as much I say as he is the Creator of the Spirits of all flesh not onely of their bodits and doth what he will both in heauen and earth turning man to destruction and againe saying in mercy Turne againe ye children of men Shall we bridle it or bristle it against him shall we scorne to answer when he calleth obey when he commandeth sorrow and mourne when he chasticeth shall we receiue good of the Lord and then to be vnthankefull euill and then be impatient Nay rather let vs hearken to the Commandement in my Text Humble your selues vnder the mighty hand of God and to the promise annexed that he may exalt you Foelix Ecclesia saith Austin cuise Deus debitorem fecit non aliquid accipiendo sed omnia promittendo Happy is the Church to whom the Lord hath made himselfe a debtor not by receiuing any thing at her hands but by promising all things Surely though the Lord had onely commanded bade vs on our Alleageance to imbrace humility and to remoue arrogancy farre from vs we were bound euen for the Commandement sake to yeeld all obedience to it For doth not a sonne honor his Father and a seruant his Lord And are we not his workemanship created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes which he hath appointed that we should walke in them Againe if he had tendered the vertue humility vnto vs in it owne kind without any painting without any sauce as it were were it not worthy to be looked vpon nay to be tasted nay to be swallowed downe as most wholesome meate Whatsoeuer it seemeth to you of the wise it hath beene esteemed either the most excellent or the most necessary of all vertues Some call it the Rose of the Garden and the Lilly of the field Some the Queene of all vertues Some the mother Some the foundation and ground-worke Some the roote Certaine it is saith Bernard Nisi super humilitatis stabile fundamentum spiritale aedificium stare non potest A spirituall building cannot stand steady except it be placed vpon the sure foundation of humility Augustine goeth further and saith to Dioscorus that it is the first thing in Christianity and the second and the third and almost all in all for saith he except humility doe both goe before and accompany and follow after all whatsoeuer we doe well pride will wrest it out of our hands and marre all Therefore humility is to be thought vpon and by all meanes to be coueted after euen for the very worth of it though there were no promise annexed to it to drawe vs on But now when God is so good and gracious to vs as to promise vs promotion for the issue and cloze wee must needs shew our selues very dull and very vnhappy if we doe not striue for it as for siluer and digge for it as for treasure The Husband-man is content to goe forth weeping and to bestow his precious seed so that he may returne with ioy and bring his sheaues with him So euery one that proueth Masteries is content to abstaine from all things so that he may obtaine a Crowne though the same be a corruptible one So the Souldier to approue himselfe to him that hath chosen him to the Warfare The Captaine and specially the Generall to get glory what paine and hardnesse doe they sustaine or rather what doe they not sustaine It is written of Alexander I will trouble you but with one Story that being in the farther parts of Asia one while striuing against heat and thirst another while against cold and hunger another while against craggy Rockes another while against deepe and dangerous riuers c. he could not containe but burst forth in this exclamation O yee Athenians what difficulties and dangers doe I endure for your sakes to be praised and celebrated by ●our pennes and tongues Now if to be extolled by the pennes and tongues of vaine men could preuaile so much with a Prince tenderly bred and of great estate should not wee much rather submit our selues to Gods will and pleasure and prouidence and euen deny and defie whatsoeuer worth may seeme to be in vs that hee may aduance vs and bring vs to honour God surely vseth to make great ones small and smal or meane ones great as Xenophon speakes Nay the blessed Virgin being moued by the holy Ghost acknowledgeth as much He pulleth downe the mighty from their seat and exalteth the humble and meeke He maketh high and maketh low yea he maketh them high that before were low if in humility and meekenesse they possesse their soules Dauid kept his fathers sheepe and was not ashamed nay he braggeth of it in an holy kind of reioycing in the Psalme That the Lord tooke him as he followed the Ewes great with Lambe to be a Ruler in Iacob and a Gouernour in Israel So Agathocles so Willigis to trouble you with no more the one was exalted to bee King of Sicily being but a Potters sonne the other to be Archbishop of Mentz a Prince Elector in Germany being but a Wheelers sonne They acknowledged Gods prouidence and worke in their aduancement and were so farre from being ashamed of their base parentage that the one would not

and owners You know what Christ himselfe confesseth that his Kingdome is not of this world and that he came not to be ministred vnto but to minister and therefore if they will be heires vnto him they must be heires of his Crosse He that will be my Disciple must take vp his Crosse and follow me Christ was heire of all things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 for a spirituall vse not for a temporall In such a sense as Saint Paul speaketh All is ours we Christs and Christ Gods But the Romanists are they that we are more troubled with therefore a word or two to them Christ is made heire of all therefore his Vicar must be confessed so to be therefore he may plant and plucke vp build and destroy hee may doe what he will Why the Apostle saith plainely that we haue this power he speaketh of himselfe and other Apostles and consequently their Successors to build and not to destroy and how then can they take vpon them to destroy or demolish And the Law saith that benefits from the Crowne are strictae nay strictissimae interpretationis because in such grants so much is taken away from the publicke which is chiefely to be tendred as is imparted to the Priuate Therefore they must shewe expresse words in their Patent to carry it or else they doe but trifle I grant they doe pretend Texts for their claime as for example All Power is giuen to me both in heauen and earth Mathew 28. Also The Nation and Kingdome that will not seru● thee shall perish and those Nations shall be vtterly destroyed Also he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords But what of this These places shew that Christ is superexcellent and that his Dominion is ouer all and that they that rely not vpon him cannot be established But what maketh this for the man of Rome that he should be Paramount for authority that his doctrine should be held irrefragable his Commandements for little lesse than Diuine Truly no more then that reason of Peter Pinak Archbishop of Lions out of the sixt of Mathew was sound The Lilies of the field neither labour nor spinne therefore the Crowne of France that hath for her Armes the Lilies or Flowres de Luc● is not to descend to the Spinsters that is to the Female or that of Boniface out of Gen. 1. In the beginning God made heauen and earth In principio not in princi●ijs therefore there must be one vniuersall Head and all Soueraignty must be deriued from him or God made two great lights the greater light to rule the day the lesser to rule the night Therefore He of Rome is so many degrees greater and higher than the Emperour because the Sunne is so much and so much bigger than the Moone Or lastly for there must be an end of fooleries because God saith in the Psalme Thou hast put all things vnder his feet all sheepe and Oxen c. the fowles of the ayre the fish of the Sea Therefore he of Rome must weare a Triple Crowne one part in respect of his Dominion ouer Angels signified by the fowles of the ayre the second in respect of his Dominion ouer earthly creatures yea Princes signified by Sheepe and Oxen a very honest resemblance the third in respect of his Dominion ouer Purgatory which he may exhaust and cleane rid by his Bulls if they be well paid for them I will not stand to refute these not errors but fopperies Perfidiam eorum exposuisse superasse est Note and recite their errors and you confute them sufficiently Come we now to that which followeth By whom also he made the world The Apostle seemeth to speake thus Is not this a sufficient argument of the greatnesse of Christ that the Father made him heire of all things This then will satisfie you or choake you if you will not be satisfied that by him he made the world that they both concurred in the making of the world so saith Saint Iohn All things were made by him and with●ut him was nothing made that was made And Saint Paul By him the Sonne of God w●re all things created which are in heauen and which are in earth things visible and inuisible c. And Hebrewes 1. verse 10. Vnto the Sonne he saith O God thy Throne is for euer and euer and thou Lord in the beginning hast established the ea●th and the heauens are the workes of thy hands c. So then Christ made heauen and earth therefore God for it is aboue the power of a creature to make such Creatures yea to create any thing at all t●at is to produce a thing out of nothing for ex nihilo nihil fit of nothing comes nothing naturally as a Carpenter or Mason cannot make a house or wall vnlesse he hath timber and stone or the like So it is impossible for any creature be he man or Angell to forme any materiall thing otherwise than ex praeiacente materia Therefore the Prophet Ieremy giueth it for a rule and putteth it downe in Chaldee euen in the Hebrew Text he speaketh Chaldee to teach the Chaldeans among whom the Iewes were to liue in banishment or if they would not be taught to vpbraide them to their teeth in their mother-tongue at least if the Iewes should forget their Hebrew tongue yet they should not forget this Chaldee lesson Elahaija di shemija veark● la ignabadu ●ebaddu me argna vmin techosh shemaija elleh that is The gods that haue not made the heauens and the earth euen they shall perish from the earth and from vnder these heauens But now on the other side Christ made the world or worlds 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let me helpe the vnlearned and make them that are learned already more learned as the Hebrew word Cheleà in the old Testament that signifieth properly the lasting of the world is sometimes there taken for the fabricke of the world so is it with 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the Newe it surely signifieth properly the lasting or continuance of the world yet in this place as in some other it is taken for the very masse or frame of it therefore God without question and because God therefore to be feared for he that made vs of nothing can consume vs to nothing if he hold but vp his finger Then further we are to adore him and to worship him as it is written Let vs kneele before the Lord our maker for he is our God and we the people of his pasture c. And yet further then we must serue him in holinesse and righteousnesse as it is written We are his workemanship created Gr. formed 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Christ Iesus vnto good workes which God hath prepared that wee should walke in them Lastly then wee must loue the brethren and not be bitter

vp and talke of it at home and abroad but aboue all things let vs offer to God the Sacrifice of righteousnesse of repentance of ●●●nkefulnesse of new life that we neuer prouoke him to brin●●●on vs that which he doth so often threaten in his Word and wee haue so long deserued And so I proceed to that which followeth Surely the rage of man shall praise thee Which is not so meant as that the wicked in their rage should praise God No for then they allow their tongues and teach their tongues to speake all words that may offend Men boyled in great heat and blasphemed the Name of God Reuel 16. But that their rage should yeeld great store of matter for God to raise his praise and glory thereby I meane to make his Power his Prouidence his Wisedome and his noble Acts to be knowne to men Behold sath God by Esay I haue created the Smith that bloweth the coales in the fire and him that bri●geth forth an instrument for his worke and I haue created the destroyer to destroy but all the weapons that are made against thee shall not prosper and euery tongue that shall rise against thee in Iudgement thou shall condemne c. For this cause haue I stirred thee vp to get me honour vpon thee and vpon thy horsemen and vpon thy Chariots saith God to Pharaoh and God hath made all things for his glory euen the wicked against the day of wrath God at the first caused light to shine out of darkenesse and euer since there is no euill in a City but God doth it How by inspiring the euill into the heart of man God forbid No but by directing and ordering the same to the executing of his Iudgement vpon the children of disobedience yea and for the benefit of his children in the end howsoeuer they be in heauinesse for a time as need requireth Inimici ●mnes Ecclesiae saith Augustin quolibet errore ●aecentur vel malitia deprauentur c. All the enemies of the Church by whatsoeuer either error they are blinded or malice depraued if they receiue power to afflict her corporally they ex●rcise her patience if they crosse her by bad opinion heresies they exercise her wisedome her charity also whilest she is faine to loue them and her bounty also whilest she is faine to teach them and disciplinate them Thus Augustine And thus we see That as cut of the eater Samson gate meate and out of the strong sw●etnesse Iudges 14. And as of the Vipers flesh the A pothecaries m●ke their Treacle so out of the violentest and hardest courses that are taken against the godly God gathereth especiall occasions to illustrate his glory both for Wisedome Mercy and Iustice. What did Sennacherib get for aduancing his Banner against Gods City Saul by practising so as he did against Dauid Gods chosen Ieroboam for lifting vp his hand against the man of God that came from Iudah Nabuchadnezzar for casting Sedrach Mesach and Abednego into the fiery Furnace Herod for casting Peter into the prison and glorying to heare from the mouthes of his flatterers The voyce of God and not of man was he not smitten by an Angell and eaten vp of wormes Acts 12 Yea as Iosephus writeth he made a confession of his weakenesse before his end and ascribed to God the glory due to his Name So did Sennacherib preach by his Statue Hee that looketh vpon me let him learne to feare God So did Nebuchadnezzar confesse that the God of Sedrach Mesach and Abednego was the true God and to be worshipped Saul that Dauid was righteous and himselfe faulty Ieroboam could not haue his hand restored before he confessed he had offended 1. Kings 13. Thus the rage of man praised that is as Kimhi expoundeth it turned to Gods praise tashub hodeah lera in these men But did it in these men onely Truly as the Apostle to the Hebrewes saith The time will be too short for me to tell of Gedeon Barac c. So if I should goe about to relate vnto you what mine owne poore reading could afford out of the continued Story of the Church I should hold you too long The Prince of our Saluation was consecrated by affliction and in his weake manhood triumphed ouer the Prince of darkenesse and so did his poore seruants ouer worldly Gouernours What did Herod and Pontius Pilate and the high Priests and Rulers of the people and Saul also while hee was Saul get by banding themselues against our Sauiour did they not finde and feele that they kicked against the pricke and that they preuailed nothing for all their stirring So Iulian was faine to confesse in the end Vicisti Galilaee And before him Claudius H●●minianus being strangely visited by God and eaten vp of Li●e said N●mo sciat Christianus O let no Christian know of it In like manner about two hundred yeeres agon when Sigismund the Emper●ur and the Prelats of Germany had led so many Armies euen Army vpon Army against the poore Bohemians and thei● Captaine Zisca which had but one eye and were all defeated almost miraculously it is certaine that though they came forth one way they fled away tenne wayes and though they came sorth by thousands they went home by hundreds and th●s in sundry inuasions lest it should be thought to haue hapned by chance did they not cry out that God was become an Hussite To be short when in the yeere 1588. the great Armado was either sun●ke in the Seas or dashed vpon rockes or shattered in pieces by our Artillery or surprized by our Forces albeit let there be no mention made of our Forces in that fight but let God haue the whole glory did not the Spaniards sweare and curse and teare God and cry out that he was become a Lutheran Thus the rage of man turned to Gods praise and the more and the mightier and the fiercer they were the more was God honored in taking part with vs his weake ones This for defeating of Forces So for defeating of Policies we need not to goe farther for an example then to the Gun-powder Treason Was there euer any thing carried with greater secrecy They digged deepe euen to hell almost to hide their Counsell from God and said No eye shall see vs we will giue them a blow before they be aware that whosoeuer shall heare of it his eares shall tingle but whosoeuer shall heare it and feele it he shall be torne in pieces Thus as King Peter of Aragon when he resolued vpon the surprize of Sicily kept his plot so secret to himselfe that hee swore hee would teare his shirt from his backe if he thought it were priuy to it And as N●rses said that he was spinning such a pi●ce of cloth that it should be impossible for the Empresse with all her Councell to vndoe So our Traytors perswaded themselues that they had made all things so sure that their designe should take place maugre all