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Encouragements. For such as shall have intention to bee vnder-takers in the new plantation of Cape Briton, now New Galloway in America, by mee Lochinvar·
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Gordon, Robert, Sir, d. 1627?
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therefore heere let vs imitate the vertues and glories of our Predecessours that heereafter worthilie wee may bee remembred as their Successours FARE-WELL THE MOTIVES which hath induced mee and may happilie encourage such as haue intention to bee Vnder-takers with Mee in the plantation of New GALLOWAY in AMERICA MOTIVE I. motive 1 AS the chiefe and primarie end of mans creation is the Worshippe of GOD so shall the first and speciall motive of my proceeding be the advancement of his Glorie and that by the propagation of the Gospell of IESVS CHRIST amongst an Heathen people where Christianitie hath not beene knowne nor the worshippe of the true GOD. Where can bee selected a more excellent subject than to cast downe the Altars of Devills and to raise vp the Altar of CHRIST to forbidde the Sacrifice of men that they may offer vp the Sacrifices of contrite Spirites Is it not a determined Trueth that the Gospell of Iesus Christ should bee preached to all the Worlde Heaven and Earth shall passe away but GODS Worde shall not passe away And is it not as certaine a Conclusion amongst all the Divines that these are the latter Dayes wherein we live well knowne by the signes that were to come before sette downe by God himselfe in his sacred Worde and for the most part alreadie manifested And hath not Gods all-seeing Providence begunne as first by discoverie and next by plantation of so hudge and so waste a tract more commonlie than properlie called the New Worlde vnknowne but within this 60. yeeres except by a glimpse to make appeare the progresse of his divine Providence how hee will haue the seede of his worke to bee sowne amongst them Then doth it not belonge vnto vs to prosecute his worke and as by merchandizing and trade wee buy at them the pearles of the Earth wee ought to communicate vnto them the pearles of Heaven The time hath never beene so apparent as now vnder our most gratious and Soveraigne Lord King CHARLES whose generous and gratious goodwill by encouragement to the same hath manifested the same since hee receaved the Crowne to bee the selected instrument to atchieue it Then should not that Heroicke and illustrious disposition in Him whom wee see so prompt to bee still in action both incite and invite to so noble designes all such as would shunne the imputation of idlenesse to imitate His foot-steppes Is it vnlawfull for vs to come to them No it is the duetie of Christianitie in vs to behold the imprinted footsteppes of GODS glorie in everie Region vnder Heaven and to them against the Law of Nations to violate a peaceable Stranger or to deny vs harbour Is it vnlawfull for vs to trade with them No vnlesse Salomon should bee condemned of sending for Golde to Ophir Abraham for making a league with Abimelech and all Christendome for having commerce with Turkes and miscreants Nor neither is it vnlawfull that wee possesse part of their Lands and dwell with them and defend our selves from them because there is no other moderate and mixt course to bring them to conversion but by daylie conversation where wee may see the Life and learne the Languages each of others and because there is towne sufficient in the Land as Sichem said for them and vs the extent of an 100. myles beeing scarce peopled with 500 inhabitants and chieflie because as Pharaoh gaue Goshen to Israel ere Ephron sold his caue to Abraham they have solde to our people their Lands for copper which they more esteme of than money to inherite and inhabite as Paspehay and Powhatan two our there greatest Kinges to these our Colonies in Virginia and chieflie as it is written by Captaine Iohn Smith a worthie actour in the businesse when Captaine Newport was desired by Powhatan at Worowacomaco to come from Iames towne in Virginia where hee was as a place vnwholesome and to take possession of another whole Kingdome which hee gave vnto him If any scrupulous conscience will impute that yet wee can possesse no further limites than was alloted by composition and that fortitude without justice is but the firebrand of iniquitie Let him know that Plato defineth it to bee no injustice to take a sword out of the hand of a madde man And Saint Augustine hath allowed for a lawfull offensiue warre that revengeth injuries and wherein the whole Divines in Europe although contraverting farre in other things yet in this they all agree that it is lawfull That the Church of Rome allowe it The Spaniard and Portugalles large and ample territories and kingdomes in the 15. Provinces of Mexico Nueua Hispanna Nueua Gallicia c. beare witnesse And for the Church of England their Bermudes Virginian and New England conquesse and colonies affirme it And the Church of Geneva in the yeere 1555. determined in a Synode where Calvin was president to sende Peter Rochier and William Quadrigarius vnder a French Captaine to Brasilia althogh they were supplanted by the Cardinall of Loraine and the treacherie of their false Captaine When therefore it is so sweete a smelling Sacrifice to propagate the name of Iesus Christ if wee haue any graine of faith or zeale in Religion let vs seeke to convert these poore Savages to knowe Christ and humanitie Let Religion bee the first aime of our hopes and other thinges shall bee cast vnto vs. Our Names shall bee registred to posteritie with a glorious Title These are the men whom GOD hath raised to augment the state of their Countrie and to propagate the Gospell of Iesus Christ The same GOD that hath ordained three Kingdomes vnder the Scepter of our gratious King CHARLES will not bee wanting to adde a fourth if wee would dissolve that frostie ycienesse which chilleth our zeale and maketh vs cold in the action MOTIVE II. motive 2 AND next to the Worshippe of my GOD is the service of my Prince and native Countrie which is the second end that I haue propounded vnto my selfe by inlarging these Dominions whereof I am a Subject a duetie moste proper to all the true and loyall Lieges whensoever by so lawfull and easie meanes it may bee atchieved What is so truelie sutable with honour and honestie as to gaine to our native Mother-Countrie a Kingdome to attend her Wherein can the taste of true vertue and magnanimitie bee more sweete and pleasant than in planting and building a foundation for thy posteritie gotte from the rude earth by Gods blessing and thine owne industrie without prejudice to any What more conducing to that mysticall bodie politicke whereof thou art a member than for to finde imployment for those that are idle because they knowe not what to doe Posteritie shall remember thee for it and remembring ever honour that remembrance with praise Consider what was the beginninges and endinges of the Monarchies of the Chaldeans the Persians the Graecians and the Romans but this one rule what was it they would not doe for the Common-wealth or there mother Citie for