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A13290	Virginia. A sermon preached at White-Chappel, in the presence of many, honourable and worshipfull, the aduenturers and planters for Virginia. 25. April. 1609 Published for the benefit and vse of the colony, planted, and to bee planted there, and for the aduancement of their Christian purpose. By William Symonds, preahcer at Saint Sauiors in Southwarke..	Symonds, William, 1556-1616?	1609 (1609)	STC 23594; ESTC S111329	35,995	64

VIRGINIA A SERMON PREACHED AT WHITE-CHAPPEL IN THE presence of many Honourable and Worshipfull the Aduenturers and Planters for VIRGINIA 25. April 1609. PVBLISHED FOR THE BENEFIT AND VSE OF THE COLONY PLANTED And to bee Planted there and for the Aduancement of their CHRISTIAN Purpose By WILLIAM SYMONDS Preacher at Saint SAVIORS in Southwarke IVDE 22. 23. Haue compassion of some in putting of difference And other saue with feare pulling them out of the fire LONDON Printed by I. WINDET for ELEAZAR EDGAR and William Welby and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the Signe of the Windmill 1609. TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND WORTHIE ADVANCERS OF THE STANDART of CHRIST among the GENTILES the Aduenturers for the Plantation of VIRGINIA W. S. prayeth that Nations may blesse them and be blessed by them Right Noble and worthy SVCH as doe prayse the worthies do cloth them with the robes of others that haue gone before them in vertues of like nature A thing which I cannot doe of your Plantation seeing neither Testament that I can find dooth afford vs a Parallell in men of like qualitie That great and golden SENTENCE The seede of the woman shall Gene. 3. 15 breake the Serpents head the onely subiect of all ages with a part of the wisedome that is folded therin hitherto hath beautified the world with admirable and pleasant varieties more rich and delightfull then all the ornaments of Princes palaces or the Curtaines of Salomon Here may we see the Flood the burning of Sodom the drown●ng of Pharoh the subduing of the Cananites by Dauid and his sonnes the breaking of Monarchies into chaffe the Dan. 2. 35. surprising conquering of great Nations Ephe. 6. 17. by Fisher-men with the sword of the spirit the stamping of the Dragon the Heathen Empire into pee●es by Constantine Euseb de vita Constantini the desolation and nakednesse of Antichrist now readie to be cast into the fire Manifest demonstrations of the Serpents bruised head But here is not all These things were done in a corner in comparison of that which is in hand and remaineth to be accomplished at the last iudgement Long since the Gospell of Christ did ride forth conquering that hee might ouercome Reue. 6. 19. And NOW the hostes that are in heauen doe follow him on white horses Now the Isai 52. 10. Lord hath made bare his holy arme in the sight Reuel 19. 12. of ●ll the Gentiles and all the ends of the earth shall see the saluatiō of our God NOW many Mighty Kings haue set their Crownes vpon the head of Christ The valiant souldier saith The shields of the world belong to Psal 47. 9. God The true Nobilitie haue vpon their horse bridles Holinesse to the Lord. And Zach. 14. 20. now the wise and industrious Merchant doth hold the riches of the Gentiles too base a fraight for his shippes He tradeth Isai 60. 9. for his wisedome that said Surely the Isles wait for me saith the Lord and the shippes of the Ocean most especially namely to carry the Gospell abroad The people in multitudes like stronge thundrings doe say Hallelu-iah And who is wanting in this Reuel 19. 6. blessed expedition Surely not any tribe Prayse ye the Lord for the people that offered Iudg. 5. 2. themselues so willingly For who can withdraw himselfe from concurrence in so good an action especially when he shall but read or heare that one sentence which Deborah did sing Curse ye Meroz sayd the Angell of the Lord curse the inhabitants therof Iudg. 5. 23. because they came not forth to helpe the Lord. This land was of old time offered to our Kings Our late Soueraigne Q. Elizabeth whose storie hath no peere among Princes of her sexe being a pure Virgin found it set foot in it and called it Virginia Our most sacred Soueraigne in whom is the spirit of his great Ancestor ●onstantin t●e pacifier of the world and planter of the Gospell Euseb de vita Constantin in places most remote desireth to present this land a pure Virgine to Christ Such as doe mannage the expedition are carefull to carry thither no Traitors nor Papists that depend on the Great VVhore Lord finish this good worke thou hast begun and marry this land a pure Virgine to thy kingly sonne Christ Iesus so shall thy name bee magnified and we shall haue a Virgin or Maiden Britaine a comfortable addition to our Great Britaine And now Right Worthy if any aske an account of my vocation to write and Preach thus much I answere that although I could not satisfie their request that would haue me goe yet I could not omit to shewe my zeale to the glory of God If they aske account of my Dedication I answere your vertue hath exacted it If any man list to be curious or contentious wee haue no such custome nor the Churches of God Hold on your blessed course and you shall receiue blessings of Christ Blessed bee the Lord God euen the Psal 72. 18. 19. God of Israell which onely worketh great wonders and hath put these blessed thoughts into your Christian hearts And blessed be his glorious name for euer and let all the earth be filled with his glory Amen Amen Fours most heartily affected in the cause of Virginia WILLIAM SIMONDS VIRGINEA BRITANNIA A SERMON PREACHED AT WHITE CHAPPELL IN THE presence of many the Aduenturers and Planters for VIRGINIA GENESIS 12. 1. 2. 3. For the Lord had said vnto Abram Get thee out of thy Countrey and from thy kindred and from thy fathers house vnto the land that I will shew thee And I will make of thee a great nation and will blesse thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing I will blesse them also that blesse thee and curse them that curse thee and in thee shall all the families of the earth be blessed THis Booke of Genesis conteineth the story of the Creation and Plantation of heauen and earth with conuenient inhabitants The heauen hath Angels the skie starres the aire foules the water fishes the earth furnished with plants and hearbes and beasts was prouided for man a while to inhabite who after was to be receiued into glory like vnto the Angels Matth. 22. 30. Hereupon the Lord who by his great decree set downe by his whole Trinitie had determined that man should rule among the creatures did make man both male and female After his owne image 2. Cor. 4. 4. that is Iesus Christ and gaue them this blessing Bring forth fruit and multiplie and fill the earth and subdue Gen. 1. 26. ●7 28. it c. And howsoeuer this precept might seeme to finde interruption by the sinne of man that had incurred the curse to die the death yet we see that God Gen. 2. 17 3. 3. Isai 45. 23. Gen. 9. 1 2. would not for any thing alter his oath and word that was gone out

of his mouth for vnto Noah hee reuiued this precept after the flood But as all the commandements of God doe finde rebellion against them so hath this most specially insomuch that the whole earth conspired to make open insurrection against it by building of a Citie Gen. 11. 1. and Towne the better to continue together For the subduing of which rebellion The Lord came downe Gen. 11. 7 and confounded their languages and scattered them abroad Not onely to the ouerthrow of their ambition who sought a great name but also to depriue them of his spirituall grace of saluation one being not able to vnderstand the other And so of the sonnes of Noah were the Nations diuided after the Gen. ●0 32. flood Among whome the blessed line of Shem is not Gen 11. 10. onely plentifully remembred but also commended as obedient vnto that first and great Law of God For Terah the father of Abram with his family are reported to be found in a Land not theirs that they might fill the earth The reason why Terah and his family remoued The context is recorded in these three verses and in a word is the calling of Abram by the Lord to remooue In the storie whereof are these two points First the the vocation of Abram in these three verses and then his obedience vnto this heauenly calling in the fourth verse His vocation hath first the commandement of the Lord and then the reasons and arguments by which God doeth induce him thereunto The commandement is to take a iourney in which we must consider the places from whence and whither Goe out of he was to goe The place from whence is not described Cosmographically but Morally conteining three important reasons in all good sort to rest him where hee was The first is his Countrey Thy Country which was pleasant and fruitfull The second his kindred which was holy and blessed The third his fathers house which was louing and rich Hence must hee goe and leaue them all behind if they would not goe with him The place whither hee must goe is also very generally noted out Namely the place which God would shew him a place vtterly To the place which I shall shew thee vnknowen vnto him so that from thence he had no argument to quicken him to that voyage The arguments which the Lord doth vse to perswade Arguments from promises Abram to this iourney are all taken from the promises of God a stronger reason then the very sweetnesse of Paradise could be vnto a faithful man These promises doe partly concerne Abram himselfe partly those among whom he shall liue For himselfe the Lord doeth promise foure things First tha● whereas himselfe was childlesse He w●uld make 1. A great Nation of him a great nation A thing which the builders of Babel drifted but were disappointed of by the iudgement 2. Blesse thee of God The second promise is that God will blesse him by giuing him the good things of this present world and that which is to come A thing which the builders of Babel lost by transgressing Gods commandement of replenishing the earth 3. A great name The third thing is that the Lord will make him a great name with much honour and good report which the confounded builders of Babel sought and missed because of their sinne The fourth promise 4. A blessing is that he shall be a blessing That is such a one as men shall be the better where hee commeth and so thinke themselues seeing that through him as through a golden Pipe the Lord will bestow his blessings vpon his family and others among whom he liueth The arguments that concerne other men are of two sorts the one is their Temporall estate the other their Spirituall Concerning the Temporall estate of those amongst whom hee liueth God will dispose of as they dispose themselues towards Abram For the Lord will blesse them and cause them 1. Blesse them that blesse thee to prosper that seeke the blessing and prosperitie of Abram And againe if they stand otherwise affected towards Abram then will the Lord also set his face 2. Curse them that curse thee against them in these words And I will curse them that curse thee So that nothing they haue shall prosper vntill they be gracious and fauorable to Abram That which concerneth their Spirituall estate is indeede an argument to a faithfull man stronger then chaines of Adamant Namely that by this meanes the people all abroad shall receiue the grace of saluation 3. All Nations blessed The thing he promiseth is saluation by the Gospel in this word I will blesse The meanes is Abram and his seede IESVS CHRIST in these words in thee The persons to receiue benefit by him are infinite euen all the families of Noah by whom the nations of all the earth were diuided In these words And in thee shall all the families of the earth bee blessed This is the sense of these three verses In which are very many excellent things to bee obserued but we will onely insist vpon those which are proper to our occasion c. DOCTRINES jo Abraham called THE Lord called Abraham to goe into another Countrey There is no doubt but that there is a double manner of calling the one ordinary by some knowne precept of the word of God the other Mat 1. 20. Num. 12. 6. extraordinary when as by dreame or by vision God requireth any duetie to be done Now if it be demaunded how Abraham was called to goe into another Countrey the answere is both ordinarily and extraordinarily It was a knowne rule of the word of God concluded and pronounced before the Creation and often repeated afterwards that man should spread abroad c. and inhabite the earth and fill it Hitherto belongeth that which God said Let vs make man in our image and let them rule ouer the Fish of the Sea and ouer the Fowles of the Gen. 1. 26. Heauen and ouer the Beastes and ouer ALL the earth Then must he replenish the earth else can hee not rule ouer ALL. To the same effect is that spoken of Adam after his fall that God sent him forth of the Genes 3. 23. Garden of Eden to till the earth so that the fall of Adam did not in the least thing cause the Lord to alter his first decree So to Noah after the flood Gen. 9. 2 7. Bring forth fruite and multiply grow plentifully in the earth and encrease therein and replenish the earth By all this it doth appeare that God did call Abraham abroade by a general Vocation But when he is called to a certaine place and vnder certaine conditions it is also plaine that withall he had a special and extraordinary calling either by dreame or by vision or by some such extraordinary meane which til the Canon of the Scripture came fully in was to be obeyed as the written word of God

must follow where the Lord went before For Rom. 11. 34. God in his wayes can endure no counsellour Hee will be the shepheard we the sheepe of his pasture 1. Reason Contented to be Gods creatures He will be the potter wee must content our selues with the condition of the potters vessell wherefore we are bound if God commaund to follow him though blindfold Againe the Lord doth not tell II. him whither he shall goe to keepe him in suspense that the obedience of faith may the more effectually appeare For if the Lord had enticed him by arguments taken from the opportunitie and sweetnesse of the place how should it be knowen whether hee went by the power of the promise of God or by some carnall inducement We know the diuell saith to God of Iob Doth Iob feare God for nought hast Iob 1. 9. 10. thou not made a hedge about him about his house And we also know what Christ saith to them that followed Iob 6. 26. him Yee seeke me not because yee saw the miracle● that is for any respect they had to his Godhead but because ye ate of the loaues and were filled From which imputation the Lord would free his seruant Abraham whom hee purposed to make the Father of the faithfull and giue him for an example to all posteritie So dealt the Lord in the wildernesse with the children of Israel hee let them see no possibilitie to liue in the world but susteined them by extraordinary miracle giuing them Manna and Qua●les that they might follow the steps of their father Abraham and know that man liueth not by Deut. 8. 3. bread onely but by euery word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God doth man liue Then here we see where VSE God doth commaund he is to be obeyed without asking of any questions Abraham must goe to a land hee knoweth not whither because God will haue it so He must not say A Lyon may bee in the Prou. 26. 13. street lest he find A Serpent bite him at home as he leaneth on the wall How much more when the land is discouered to bee as much better then the place in which vve liue as the land of Canaan was better then the roaring wildernesse ought vve to be vvilling to goe vvhither God calleth The children of Numb 14. 7. 8. Israell had vvord by their spies The land which wee walked through to search it is a very good land If the Lord loue vs he will bring vs to this land and giue it vs which is a land that floweth with milke and ●oni● Thence they brought a bunch of grapes and loaded Numb 13. 24. Deut. ● 24 two men as they carried it on a barre vpon their shoulders Sure if such motiues as these could not make them readie to runne to the place it appeared that they had neither the feare of God that vvould not be perswaded by him nor the vvits of reasonable men that vvill not respect their owne benefit What shall vvee say then to our people vvhich haue in them so little edge to follovv their owne thrift The land by the constant report of all that haue seene it is a good land with the fruitfulnesse vvhereof and pleasure of the Climate the plentie of Fish and Fowle England our mistresse cannot compare no not vvhen she is in her greatest pride It is said of the land of Canaan that Isaack sowed in that land and Gene. 26. 12. found in the same yeere an hundred fold by estimation and the text addeth And so the Lord blessed him But here is greater matter then so For if I count aright this land giueth fiue hundred fold at one haruest For the eares of Wheate vvhich I haue seene are ten in square and fiftie long and yet they say that commonly this returne is little better then the third part euery stalke bearing ordinarily three such eares of Wheate As for the opportunitie of the place I leaue it to the graue Polititian and for the commodities let the industrious Merchant speake but for foode and raiment here is inough to be had for the labour of mastring and subduing the soile The children of Israell that were in the wildernesse readie to perish if God vvithdrew his miraculous hand like a stiffenec●ed people as they were refused to goe fell into a mutiny and made a commotion vpon the newes that the Land had fenced cities and Num. 13. 29. walled townes exceeding great And because there were the sonnes of Anak mightie ●●nts that were armed in Brasse their speare like a Weauers cloth beam For they forgat the God that brought them out of Egypt and that made the raging waues of the sea to stand in heapes and take the office of strong walles that they might easily march through vpon drie land They forgat that God was the creator of the mountaines whereof one of the least is stronger then all the sonnes of Anak They forgat that God putteth away all the vngodly of the earth like drosse But wee should be worse then mad to bee discouraged by any such imaginations of this place There are but poore Arbors for Castles base and homely sheds for vvalled townes A Mat is their strongest Portcullis a naked brest their Target of best proofe an arrow of reede on which is no iron their most fearefull vveapon of offence heere is no feare of nine hundreth iron charets Their God is the enemie Iudg. ● ●3 ● ●et ● 8. of mankind that seeketh whom hee may deuoure A murtherer from the beginning that lab●ureth o●n 8. 44. the destructiō of those that serue him most deuoutly Heere that Scripture hath a full accomplishment In that day shall the Lord defend the inhabitants 〈…〉 of Ierusalem and he that is feeble among them shall bee is Dauid that slew his ten thousand And the house 〈…〉 7. of Dauid as Gods as the Angel of the Lord before them that destroyed the most puissant Armie of the Assyrians that came against Ierusalem Wherefore ●●ay ●7 3● seeing we are contented when the King doth presse vs out to warre to go we know not whither nor vnder whom and can propose no thing vnto vs but to fight vvith a mightie enemie Let vs bee cheerefull to goe to the place that God will shew vs to possesse in peace and plentie a Land more like the garden of Eden vvhich the Lord planted then any part else of all the earth THE Lord doth promise to enrich him with many iiijo Deut. 281. Leuit. 26. 3. blessings if he be obedient to his calling An example of that sweete sanction of the law vvhen the Lord doth allure men to keepe it by the abundance of his blessings In this place the Lord doth promise vnto Abraham foure most excellent mercies of all men of vnderstanding most earnestly desired The first thing he promiseth vnto him is that The A great Nation Lord will make him a

Yet still wee must remember that this speciall calling was subiect to the generall law of replenishing the earth For although God called him to one land yet to vpholde the generall rule God often laide a necessitie vpon him to spread further for in this Chapter by reason of a famine hee was constreined to soiourne Gen 12. 10. c in Egipt God did also tell him before hand that his seede should be a stranger in a land that is not Gen. 15. 13. theirs foure hundred yeares It is true that the Iewes did holde themselues so confined to their owne land that they were as loth to forgoe their inheritance as from the Sacrament of their saluation witnes ● King 21. 3. be Naboth that answered the King The Lord keepe me from giuing the inheritance of my fathers vnto thee And yet when God would haue it so as when there was famine Elimelech and his Familie R●th 1. 1. 2. goe to soiourne among the Gentiles In time of warre Dauid tooke his father and mother and carried 1. Sam. 2● 3. them to soiourne with the King of Moab And Act. ● 5. when as we reade that there were dwelling at Ierusalem Iewes of euery nation vnder heauen it is plaine that the Iewes did spread abroad not onely to soiourne for a time and then to come againe but to Act. 22. 3. inhabite and replenish the whole earth Paul was also a Iew borne in Cilicia euen in a Romane Colonie The reason why God will haue his to fill the 1. Reason To knowe Gods works earth is because the Lord would haue his workes to be knowne Now in diuers Countries God hath his diuers workes of hearbes and trees and beastes and fishes and fowles and serpents c. which if the people of God come not there cannot praise the Psal 145. 10. ●1 Creator When Dauid saith All thy workes praise thee O God and thy Saints blesse thee they shew the glory of thy kingdome and speake of thy power the implication is manifest that his Saints must be witnesses of all his workes in all Climates for else they cannot II. blesse him in all his workes Another reason is Spreading of knowledge that one that hath the knowledge of the feare of God should communicate it to others Hereupon Psal 67. 1. 2. is it that Dauid doeth teach vs to pray thus Haue mercie on vs Lord and blesse vs and cause thy face to shine among vs Selah Marke this that he biddeth vs pray God be mercifull vnto vs The meanes how is this That they may know thy way vpon earth and thy sauing health among all nations whereby he doth imply that God hath with-held some mercy from vs til all nations haue the meanes of saluation This was Exod 11. 9. a cause why God sent Abrahams posterity into Egipt that by their meanes Pharaoh whose heart was bigge and would not acknowledge God might be constrained to fall down and say I haue sinned against Exod. 10. 16. the Lord. The cause also of the captiuity of the Iewes in Babilon in the secrete prouidence of God was that the Monarkes of the world who thought Dan. 4. 20. 21. 17. 29. there was no God could come neere them in greatnes might be as beastes before God acknowledging that it is God that giueth Kingdomes to whom he will And when the Lord had caused his people to returne and to build their Citie and Temple yet would not God fore-slowe the inforcing of his precept Fill the earth For whereas by reason of his promise he could not send the people abroad till Christ came to make his glory knowne he brought vpon them Gog and Magog with their numbersome Ezek. 38. 16. 23 Armies The reason is that the Heathen may knowe the Lord I wil be magnified and sanctified and knowne in the eyes of many Nations Then here must wee know that what inducement Abraham had to goe VSE I. out of his Countrey by a generall calling the same doth binde all his sonnes according to the faith to goe likewise abroad when God doth not otherwise call them to some speciall affaires How euer still they must haue a longing and a liking to spread the Gospel abroad And that this point may be euidently conuicted vnto vs Christ our Sauiour hath according to his infinite wisedome reuiued the olde law of filling the earth in a most excellent manner Goe teach saith he all nations and baptize them in the Matth. 28. 19. name of the Father the Sonne and the holy Ghost Gaue hee this Commaundement to his Apostles onely haue not also the labours of godly Preachers which they haue spread ouer the face of the whole earth beene bestowed by the power of this Commandement And though the words as they lie doe binde the Ministers of the Word to endeuour the propagation of the Gospell with all their power yet not onely them For we reade that poore Tent-makers and others haue done much good in spreading the Acts 18. 3. 26. Gospell according to their vocations they also satisfying II. thus much of Christs precept Neither can there be any doubt but that the Lord that called Abraham into another Countrey doeth also by the same holy hand call you to goe and carry the Gospell to a Nation that neuer heard of Christ The Prophet Zachary speaking of the daies of the Gospell doth shew that it is a good Vocation for men to goe abroad when the number of the children of God doe exceede his wordes are these Thus saith the Lord of hostes my cities shall yet be broken with plenty the Lord shall yet comfort Zion Vnto Zach. 1. 17. whom agreeth the Prophet Isatah The children of Isa 49. 20. thy barrennesse shall say againe in thine eares the place is too strait for me giue me place that I may dwell Wherefore seeing that thankes be to God we are thronged with multitude the Lord of hostes himselfe hath giuen vs the calling of his children to Obiection Not to enter other Princes Territories seeke for roome and place to dwell in And heere might we haue proceeded to the next point were it not for one scruple which some that thinke themselues to be very wise do cast in our way which is this in effect The countrey they say is possessed by owners that rule and gouerne it in their owne right then with what conscience and equitie can we offer to thrust them by violence out of their inheritances 1. Answere Conquest lawfull For answere to this obiection first it is plaine that the obiecter supposeth it not lawfull to inuade the territories of other princes by force of sword This proposition I confesse I neuer was willing to examine considering my vocation is priuate And if Sigismund the Emperour said well CARION that he merueiled euery man auoided all labors and difficulties but onely to rule which is the most difficult of all