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A21108	A plaine path-vvay to plantations that is, a discourse in generall, concerning the plantation of our English people in other countries. Wherein is declared, that the attempts or actions, in themselues are very good and laudable, necessary also for our country of England. Doubts thereabout are answered: and some meanes are shewed, by which the same may, in better sort then hitherto, be prosecuted and effected. Written for the perswading and stirring vp of the people of this land, chiefly the poorer and common sort to affect and effect these attempts better then yet they doe. With certaine motiues for a present plantation in New-found land aboue the rest. Made in the manner of a conference, and diuided into three parts, for the more plainnesse, ease, and delight to the reader. By Richard Eburne of Hengstridge in the countie of Somerset.	Eburne, Richard.	1624 (1624)	STC 7471; ESTC S105454	98,023	134

For he that is so kinde to his enemies what would he haue beene to his friends Resp. I easily perceiue that this might redound not a little to the glorie of God if the Conuersion of such People and Nations might be accomplished Lord How many thousands and millions of soules might so be saued which now run headlong into hell It were a glorious worke imitating notably that of the blessed Apostles which conuerted the world so long agoe from dead Idols to serue the liuing God And in so holy and religious a labour I am sorry to heare that we should not be as forward as Papists but that to be verified twixt vs and them also in this case which our Sauior said in another The children of this world are in their generation wiser then the children of light But as I must needes confesse that the worke were a worthy piece of worke if it might be wrought and that happy were our Land if the children thereof might be made of God Agents therein So me thinkes we had need to haue some assurance of the will of God that it should be done For as you know better then I can tell you If the time of their Conuersion be not come or if God as he hath wrapped them hitherto in vnbeliefe so he be not pleased nor determined to release them to call them to the knowledge of his truth and to manifest his Son vnto them at all our labour then will be but in vaine and our attempt not pleasing but displeasing in his sight Enr. That God desireth and willeth his Name his truth and Gospell by vs to be published in those Heathen and barren lands the inclination and readinesse alone of those people and Nations may sufficiently assure vs who as it were prepared of God to receiue the Gospell from our mouthes if it might be but sounded vnto them doe euen of their owne accord offer themselues to be taught suffer their children to bee baptized and instructed by vs and as weary of and halfe seeing the grossenesse of their own abominations and the goodnes of our obseruations doe make no great difficultie to peferre our Religion before theirs and to confesse that it is God that we and the deuill that they doe worship For my owne part I am perswaded that God will instantly haue them either by vs or by others if we will not called to the knowledge of his Truth turned from darknes to light from the power of Satan vnto God that so the words of our Sauiour may be fully fulfilled who Math. 24. 14. hath foretold vs That the Gospell before the end shall come must be preached throughout the whole world and Mark 13. 10. be published among all Nations which howsoeuer most hold is long since accomplished in that it either now is or heretofore hath beene preached to all or neere all Nations of this vpper Continent yet I am now resolued let it bee my priuate errour if I doe erre that they will not bee fulfilled indeed according to our Sauiours intent vntill that vnto them also that inhabit that other the vnder Continent it be made manifest which it seemeth vnto me God doth now hasten to accomplish in that within our Age alone a great part thereof hath had the same though corruptly though imperfectly brought vnto them Resp. You doe well to say that this is your owne priuate Opinion for no man else I thinke is of that minde Enr. Not many it may be but yet I assure you I am not alone For there was but few yeeres past a Preacher in Dorsetshire of some note and name that in a Sermon of his intituled The Magold and the Sun now extant in Print page 40. vpon these words of his Text Luk. 1. 79. To giue light to them that sit in darkenesse c. saith thus This light rising first from the Iewes as from his East or Orient is carried ouer all the world and hath giuen light to vs English that sate in darkenesse Of his first rising reade Luke 24 47. beginning saith our Sauiour there from Ierusalem Hence sprung this blessed light first and thence besides his dispersion into other parts of the world was carried ouer all Greece Italy Germany France and rose to vs also and is now making day to the Indians and Antipodes For the world shall not end till he haue finished his Course I meane till as the Euangelist Math. 24. 14. saith The Gospell be preached in all the world and be a testimony to all nations and then shal the end come Thus he D. Keckerman likewise that famous professor of Arts and Learning diuine and humane in his Manuduction to Theologie of late translated into English by my worthy friend Master T. Uicars Batchelour in Diuinitie pag. 94. writes of this matter in this manner And doubtlesse towards the end of the world the true Religion shall be in America as God is now preparing way for it by the English and Low-Country Merchants that that of Christ may be fulfilled Math. 24. 14. This Gospell of the Kingdome shall be preached through the whole world for a witnesse vnto all Nations and then shall the end come For God in all his works is wont to effect a thing successiuely and therefore first he sends to those Nations some light of his Essence and Truth by the Papists and afterward will make these things shine more clearely vnto them by the true and faithfull Ministers of the Gospell Thus farre he So that in their opinion as well as mine this is a worke that must be done before the end can be Wherefore since it is a worke and a most holy and necessary worke which must be done before the day the great day of the Lord can come I see not how we can without sinne hauing any thing to doe in those parts withdraw our shoulder from this burthen or with-hold our hand from this plough And so much the more will the sinne be by how much it is farre more easie for vs this to hold and vndergoe then it was for those that did vndertake the like taske for vs I meane the Conuersion of our Ancestors and predecessors in this land a people as rude and vntractable at the least that way as these now in as much as they were to preach and not to subdue but wee may plant as well as preach and may subdue as well as teach whereby the Teachers shall need to feare no losse of goods or life no prison nor sword no famine or other persecuting distresse for the Gospels sake Whose steps if our Nation now if our Countrimen in their intended Plantations among those Infidels would in any measure follow how many soules might they saue aliue How many sinners might they conuert from going astray How much might they ampliate the Kingdome of Christ in earth aduance the name glory and worship of our the onely true and euerlasting God and prepare for themselues an abundant or rather

A PLAINE PATH-VVAY TO PLANTATIONS That is A Discourse in generall concerning the Plantation of our English people in other Countrie●… Wherein Is declared That the Attempts or Actions in themselues are very good and laudable necessary also for our Country of England Doubts thereabout are answered and some meanes are shewed by which the same may in better sort then hitherto be prosecuted and effected Written For the perswading and stirring vp of the people of this Land chiefly the poorer and common sort to affect and effect these Attempts better then yet they doe With certaine Motiues for a present Plantation in New-found land aboue the rest Made in the manner of a Conference and diuided into three Parts for the more plainnesse ease and delight to the Reader By RICHARD EBVRNE of Hengstridge in the Countie of Somerset Printed by G. P. for Iohn Marriot 1624. TO THE RIGHT REVEREND FATHERS IN GOD AND HONOVRABLE LORDS ARTHVR LORD BISHOP OF Bathe and Wells and ROBERT Lord Bishop of Bristol RICHARD EBVRNE wisheth all health and happinesse externall internall and eternall COnsidering Right Honourable and not without griefe of mind sorrow of heart viewing the great miserie encombrance of this our goodly countrie the Countrie of England which heretofore admirably flourished in plentie prosperitie by reason of the excessiue multitude of people which therein at this present doe swarme and superabound the many faire Opportunities which God in his gracious Prouidence often hath and at this instant doth offer vnto it for a present a speedie and an infallible remedie thereof and yet the notorious neglect and wayward vnwillingnes of the people of this Land our English Nation to regard and accept such Offers and to seeke and take their own good I thought I might doe a worke worth the labour and in all likely hood gratefull and vsefull to my Country and Countrimen to write something and the rather for that none that I know hath yet trauelled this way that might stirre and encourage them specially the common and meaner sort of them as whom chiefly and most of all it doth concerne to make better vse of these faire worthy and necessary opportunities Whereupon I haue in a plaine and familiar manner as one that intended to submit himselfe to the capacitie and vnderstanding euen of the meanest for whom specially this my labour I intended First declared and iustified these kinde of Attempts Plantations to tend notably to the glory of Almightie God the enlargement of the Kings Maiesties Dominions and the manifold and inestimable benefit of this whole Land the Realme of England and to bee in their owne nature lawfull and iust ancient and vsuall Secondly I haue shewed some particular meanes or inferiour courses how and whereby both men and money the two principall things that must plentifully be had for Plantations may easily and speedily be raised and procured in and out of our Land for this purpose And thirdly I haue giuen and set downe some particular Instructions and obseruations touching these Actions not vnworthy happely the Notion and Consideration of many such as yet are little acquainted with them and added some speciall Motiues for a present Plantation in New-found-Land before and aboue any other place of Plantation yet attempted Withal in euery of these passages I haue answered all such either reall or rather Regionall or personall Obiections as commonly are made against the enterprizes themselues why they should not be regarded or by persons that should employ themselues in the enterprizes why they should not aduenture therein These plaine but I hope plausible and profitable Labours of mine I am bold and humbly desire your Lordships both that I may be bold to present to the open view and consideration of this Land vnder the Patronage protection of your Honourable Names The one of you being my much worthily honoured Diocesan the other my worthy and fauourable Patron both speciall Fautours of all good Learning and furtherers of all goodly Indeuours and therefore such as I hope and presume will vouchsafe these Labours of mine and these worthy pious and religious if they be worthily piously religiously handled these notable Attempts and for our Land at this present most necessarie and expedient your best furtherance and countenance not doubting but that thereby both my Indeuours shall the better be respected and receiued and the Actions themselues the more aduanced and followed I shall be shielded from the malicious enuie of the carping Cauiller that takes more delight and can be content to bestow more labor and time in deprauing what others haue done then in setting forth and publishing I say not any better but any like and as good of his owne and they the Actions shall be shrowded from the canine vnkindnesse of those lazie Lurdans that will neither take the good of them themselues nor suffer by their good will any other to doe it One reason more particular hath moued me to tender to your Lordships these my Labours and that is for that the one of you is resident in that Citie as in his proper and Episcopal Sea the other in the next neighboring both Citie and Country which either by it selfe in generall or by a certaine number of the worshipfull Citizens thereof in particular hath alreadie begun and at this present continueth a Plantation in New-found-Land which I therefore hope will be an occasion that may moue your good Lordships both this way to doe to the Places of your owne aboad which truly by reason of the number of people wherewith they are cloyed and ouerlaid doe as greatly need these helps as any Cities or Counties in England much good and benefit Which thing I am perswaded you may easily and greatly effect if you will be pleased but to shew your selues in countenancing and assisting me and others that doe and will employ our selues in them to approue and fauour to allow and like of these kind of Labours and Indeuours and namely that wherein your owne people and so neere Neighbours are alreadie so farre interessed and proceeded The Lord Iesus the high Bishop of our Soules vouchsafe vnto your Lordships whom he hath called to be Principall Pastors in this his Church of England such plentifull store of his Heauenly gifts and so guide you by his Holy Spirit that you may sincerely set forth his Gospel and seeke his Glory in this World and in the World to come be crowned by him with Celestiall and eternall Glorie Amen Your Honourable Lordships 〈◊〉 to command in the worke of the Lord RICHARD EBVRNE TO THE CVRTEOVS AND Christian READERS especially the Common-People of this Realme of ENGLAND OTher men diners haue laboured seuerally in describing and commending one this Countrey another that as Captaine Whitbourne New-found-Land Captaine Smith his New-England Master Harecourt Guiana and some others more then one or two Virginia And euerie of these hath vsed sundry Motiues for the aduancement of a Plantation in the place

surer probabilitie or hope would we haue that we shall or may easily and within short time win them to our owne will and frame them as we list Verily I suppose if all things be considered well and rightly compared we haue neerer home worse neighbours a great deale 3. The Spaniard hath reasonably ciuilized and better might if he had not so much tyrannized people farre more sauage and beastiall then any of these 4. We ought to consider that time was the old Brittons the ancient Inhabitants of this Land were as rude and barbarous as some of these of forraigne parts with whom wee haue to doe And therefore considering Quâ sumus Origine nati for wee are also their Off-spring wee ought not to despise euen such poore and barbarous people but pitty them and hope that as wee are become now by Gods vnspeakeable mercy to vs-ward to a farre better condition so in time may they Resp. The Aduentures are very dangerous and lyable to losses of life and goods to troubles manifold so that they may well bee called Aduenturers that will hazard themselues in them Enr. Good words I pray you 1. Many fore-cast perils where they need not and so many times are more afraid than hurt As Salomon obserued long agoe Prou. 22. 13. The slothfull saith A Lyon is without I shall be slaine in the streetes 2. Our life and state is not without perils at home and I tell you if these Aduentures as you call them be not better followed than yet they are they will and cannot but more and more increase 3. No Action of such a weight and worth as these are can bee without some perils hurts and losses which yet must be aduentured and indured in hope of a greater good and ampler recompence another way 4. Hee is not worthy to receiue such benefits as these Aduentures may yeeld him that for feare of euery inconuenience and danger is ready to fall off and disclayme them Neque mel neque apes saith the olde Prouerbe No Bees for feare of stinging no Honie 5. Of perils and misaduentures some are meerely Casuall and not to bee auoyded some are altogether needlesse and might haue beene preuented The former of these must be borne with as a part of that common calamity whereunto the life of man is subiect and of those crosses and afflictions wherewith God doth either try his Children as Gold in the fire or afflict and punish them and others For these no man ought to bee troubled and dismayed in these courses more than for the like in any other nor dislike them one iot the worse Wee finde when God would bring his owne people the children of Israel into that good Land the Land of Canaan which so oft so solemnely he had promised to them and to their Fathers he did it not without letting them passe and feele some perils by the way as the stopping at the red Sea the pursuite of Pharaoh one while the want of flesh another while of water in the Wildernesse the terrour of fiery Serpents and the assault of many and mighty enemies with other like Wee finde also that he was much displeased with and sharpely sometimes did punish those of them that murmured because of those things and would haue returned backe into Egypt regarding not to proceed and accept that Land that good Land which the Lord their God had giuen to them and their seed And may not this teach vs That we must not looke to haue the hand of Gods prouidence extended vnto vs without some dangers and incumbrances And that the Lord is not pleased with those that for feare of euery mis-hap and trouble will bee discouraged themselues or will dis-hearten and discourage others from such Attempts Christ likewise the Sonne of God sending abroad his Apostles to preach the Gospell is so farre from securing them of all troubles and dangers in their indeuours thereabout that hee fore-tells them He doth send them forth as Lambes among wolues That they should be hated persecuted and put to death for his sake c. But were the Apostles by this dismayed Did they therefore refuse to vndertake their charge and proceed in the worke of the Lord Wee know the contrary Notable to this purpose is the protestation of the Apostle Saint Paul 2. Cor. 6. 4. and 11. 23. Resp. I pray you recite the very words for I desire to heare what so great an Apostle hath said to such a purpose Enr. With a good will Speaking there both of himselfe and the rest of his fellow Apostles and Labourers in the Gospell thus he saith In all things we approue our selues as the Ministers of God in much patience in afflictions in necessities in distresses in stripes in prisons in tumults in labours By watchings by fastings by p●…ritie by knowledge by long suffering and a little after By honour and dishonour by euill report and good report as deceiuers and yet true as vnknowne and yet knowne as chastened and yet not killed as sorrowing and yet alway reioycing as poore and yet making many rich as hauing nothing and yet possessing all things And in the same Epistle Chap. 11. 23. opposing and contesting against false apostles of those times that sought to debase and disgrace him thus he writeth of his owne particulars In labours more abundant in stripes aboue measure in prison more plenteously in Death oft Of the Iewes fiue times receiued I forty stripes saue one I was thrice beaten with roddes I was once stoned I suffered thrice Ship-wracke Night and day haue I beene in the deepe Sea In iourneying I was often in perils of waters in perils of robbers in perils of mine owne Nation in perils among the Gentiles in perils in the Citie in perils in the Wildernesse in perils in the Sea in perils among false Brethren In wearinesse and painfulnesse in watchings often in hunger and thirst in fastings often in cold and nakednesse Beside the things which are outward I am combred daily and haue the care of all the Churches Who is weake and I am not weake who is offended and I burne not You haue heard abundantly of the sufferings heare also the inuincible constancy and magnanimity of this admirable Champion of the Lord expressed with his owne mouth Act. 20. 22. And now behold ●… goe bound in the Spirit vnto Ierusalem and know not what things shall come vnto mee there saue that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in euery City saying that Bands and afflictions abide mee But I passe not for it at all neither is my life deare vnto mee so that I may fulfill my course with ioy and the Ministration which I haue receiued of the Lord Iesus viz. to testifie the Gospell of the grace of God And Chap. 21. 13. I am ready not to be bound onely but also to dye at Ierusalem for the name of the Lord Iesus Hauing such Lights and Leaders for our example shall we grudge and vtterly refuse to suffer any

found true Ducimur omnes pr●…mio 2. If neither desire to further Christs kingdome nor to seeke their owne preferment can preuaile with any so farre as Sua Sponte to giue themselues to so good a worke I see not why the Church it selfe or the Bishop himselfe should not be thought to haue authoritie and power enough to thrust forth Labourers into this Haruest and to lay this charge vpon such as shall be fit for it inioyning them to goe in the Name of God as was done Act. 8 14. and 13. 2. and 15. 22. and Galat. 29. 3 Such course and care may also be had at the first in diuision of parishes that all parishes being made of a competent largenesse not as here in England too too many are so little that theyyeeld the Minister neither one quarter of a comfortable goodly congregation or auditorie nor one halfe of a cōpetent and honest maintenance both the fewer Ministers may suffice and they that be may haue competent and commendable allowance to liue vpon for them and their families 4. Also it must be considered that if Schollers that is Graduates and men of note for learning cannot be had it may suffise sometimes that such be inuited to the Ministerie as are of meane knowledge so as they haue good vtterance and be of sound and honest life and conuersation Resp. I did little thinke that you would haue thought any such fit for that place Enr. Why not In England it selfe we are faine sometimes to receiue such into the Ministerie I beleeue so it wil be as long as England is England much more may it be borne within the infancie of a Church where neither Schooles nor other means for learned and able men are yet planted Better such then none I haue read in an ancient Ecclesiasticall Historie that on a time there were two lay men that made a voyage vnto the Indians and remaining there a good while they did in the best manner they could informe and perswade many of them to the Christian faith and found the people very tractable At length returning home one of them whose name was Frumentius comming to Alexandria his citie goeth vnto the Bishop of the place which at that time was Athanasius that renowned Clerke surnamed for his great learning sincerity in faith Oculus mundi the eye of the world acquaints him with the matter praying him withall that he would send a Bishop and other Teachers thither that might goe forward with that worke of the Lord of which he said there was great hope Athanasius hauing called together for that purpose the Clergie of his citie considering a little of the matter stands vp and saith And where shall we finde such a man so fit for this imployment as your selfe Frumentius are in whom is the spirit of our God and therevpon presently all the rest approuing it he made him a Minister and a Bishop and sent him backe with others forthwith to furnish what he had begun and the Lord made the worke to prosper in his hand confirming the word with many signes and wonders following saith the Historie By this story you may see that holy men of God euen in the primitiue Church did not stand much vpon it to admit meane men and not professed schollers onely into the Ministerie where they saw other gifts correspondent and withall that Bishops vsed in those times and had power and authoritie to send forth men into forraine countries to preach and plant the Gospel And of these kinde of men let this suffice 13. But then farther besides these last mentioned and aboue all these hitherto spoken of I adde there must bee by some meanes or other drawne and induced to goe as Gouernours and Leaders of the rest some store of men of Name and Note men by whose power and authoritie greatnesse and grauitie purse and presence the multitude afore mentioned may be encouraged ordered and guided Common sense and reason can sufficiently enforme euery man that no body can consist without a head nor Army without a Generall no company without a Conductor and no societie without a Ruler And Nature her selfe teaching the Amazonian Bees not to swarme without their Ladie and the Cranes not to flie without their Leader may easily teach vs that we shall transgresse the very order of Nature and neglect that instinct which is ingraffed in all if we shall make such a remouall without the conduct of such men as for their place and power birth and breed may be fit to order and rule to support and settle the rest And if men of this ranke would once roundly set their foot to this way and their hand to this worke as Moses did with the Elders of Israel towards the Land of Canaan Aeneas and the noble Troians into Italie and Brutus and his Allies for this Land it were not to be doubted but their example and industrie would more preuaile in one yeere or two to draw multitudes with and after them then all the proiects hitherto without such attempted haue procured Resp. If men of place and authoritie in the Temporall State for of them onely you seeme to speake be so necessarie vnto such a worke as you seeme to imply me thinkes it should be as necessary likewise that there should goe some that may carrie like authoritie and place in the estate Ecclesiasticall Enr. I am of the same mind also It cannot be but requisit and necessarie that as well for the gouerning of Ministers themselues alreadie made as also for the ordering or making of more where need is for the Institution of them to Churches for the Diuision of Parishes the endowing erecting and consecrating of Churches and other like Episcopall and Ecclesiasticall duties and emploiments which must be followed and exercised instantly if we meane to make a Christian and Religious Plantation indeed there should go some one or more according to the greatnesse of the Plantation to be Bishop there and some others besides that shall exercise vnder him or them Ecclesiasticall authoritie and iurisdiction lest faction and confusion like Tares among the Wheat grow faster there then Religion Order and Peace of the Church Resp. Now I suppose you haue said enough for this matter more it is I am sure then euer I heard in all my life and so much as makes me thinke certainly that if in such a sort as you haue implyed and with such persons a Plantation were set forth then it would prosper indeed Enr. You thinke I haue said all in all that can be said but I tell you there is one thing yet vnsaid which in mine opinion is more materiall then any one thing whatsoeuer hitherto mentioned That indeed which must and would giue life to all the rest and without which the whole attempt wheresoeuer it be seemes to me to be like a building on the sand which you know will in the end haue a fall and the fall thereof will be