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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

millions into the sea must we baite them with dogges that shall eate vp the mothers with their children let such be the practises of the diuell of Abaddon the sonne of perdition of Antichrist and his frie that is of purple Rome As for the professors of the Gospell they know with Gene. 47. ● Only a soiourning ●udg ●5 3. Warres onely defensiue Iacob and his posteritie to say to Pharaoh To soiourne in the land are we come for thy seruants haue no pasture c. They can with Sampson liue peaceably with the Philistims till they bee constrained by iniustice to stand vpon their defence They can instruct Gene. 41. 25. 38 the barbarous princes as Ioseph did Pharaoh and his Senators and as Daniel did Nabuchad-nezer Dan. 4. 16. c. And if these obiecters had any braines in their head but those which are sicke they could easily finde a difference betweene a bloudy inuasion and the planting of a peaceable Colony in a waste Onely the Planting of a Peaceable Colonie country where the people doe liue but like Deere in heards and no not in this stouping age of the gray headed world ful of yeres and experience haue not as yet attained vnto the first modestie that was Gene. 3. 7 in Adam that knew he was naked where they know no God but the diuell nor sacrifice but to offer their men and children vnto Moloch Can it be a sinne in Philip to ioyne himselfe to an Aethiopian charet Acts 8. ●9 Is onely now the ancient planting of Colonies so highly praised among the Romans and all other nations so vile and odious among vs that what is and hath bene a vertue in all others must be sinne in vs And if our obiecter bee descended of the Noble Saxons bloud Let him take heede lest while he cast a stone at vs he wounds his father that first brought him in his loynes from forreigne parts into this happie Isle But assuring my selfe that these obiecters speake that they thinke not because they think that they should not and if the tearmes of the persons were changed would praise other nations for that which they dislike in vs I leaue them to tremble before his glorious eyes that all things are naked and bare vnto and my selfe will passe to enforce the rest of our Text vpon the consciences of such which I hope to bee the sonnes of Abraham according to promise ABram must get him out from his country his kindred ijo. His Countrey Acts 72. his fathers house His Country was called Mesopotamia the sweetest and most fruitful soyle that was in the worlde For it lieth betweene the two great riuers Euphrates and Tygris which serued not Pli● Nat. Hist as other riuers do in other places to bring fatnes into the country but to sweepe away the ranknes and foison of the earth lest with the lustinesse of the ground the fruit of the earth should rot or be choked or run vp to weed His kindred was euery way of the best and noblest His kindred stocke of the sonnes of Noah namely the families of Gene. 9. 26. Shem of whom God said Blessed be the God of Shem. So blessed were his tents to wit the houses and families of his posterity that as of the most happie thing it is saide God perswade Iapheth and his posteritie 27. of which we are a parte to dwell in the tents of Shem. It seemeth then a matter of as greate a perill to leaue that kindred as to leaue the church and so saluation it selfe So saith Peter to Christ To whome Iohn 6. 68. shall we goe thou hast the words of eternall life His fathers house was worthy for him to haue His fathers house continued in For though some interpreters think that he was commanded to remoue because his Fathers house was idolatrous it is not so It is true indeed that they were idolaters because Iosuah doth say to the children of Israell your fathers dwelt be yond the floud in olde time Terah the Father Abraham Iosh 24. 2. and the Father of Nachor and serued other Gods But what of this Sure it was more through ignorance of the law then through rebellion and rage For when as Terah perceiued that God was with his sonne he left all without bidding to go with his sonne and had rather put himselfe in the tents of his sonne then want the blessing of God Heereby it appeareth that they were a very louing people one to the other soft harted to obey when the Lord did commaund His father also was very wealthy hauing many possessions much cattell a numbersome and great family of seruants All which is nothing obscurely implied in that which was spoken of Abram Abram was verie rich in cattell in siluer Gene. 13. 2. Gene. 14. 14. in gold and that when Abram heard that his brother was taken he armed of them that were borne brought vp in his howse three hundred and eighteene For it was not likely but that this wealth and multitude came to him from his Father yet all these must he forsake and get him from them vnlesse they would follow him and his fortunes as they say which they might if they wold Othervvise if none vvould goe vvith him but that he must be alone yet must he still follovv the commandement of his God that saith Get thee out from among them The reason is giuen by Christ that also called 1. Reason The commandement is of price and must be obeyed Matth. 10. 37. sonnes from their fathers ovvners from their houses and lands brethren from their brethren fathers from their children husbands from their vviues as he saith He that loueth father or mother more then me is not worthy of me The commandement of God is the kingdome of heauen It is a treasure hid in the field a Matth. 13. 44. Psal 119. 72. 127. pearle of greate price vvhich if hee hath the heart of a man that findeth he vvill s●ll a●l that he hath and buy it Heere then vvee see that vvhere God giueth a VSE Go when God calleth due vocation to spread abroad and inhabit the earth neither the loue of the country be it neuer so fruitefull the loue of kindred bee they neuer so noble and holy the loue of a mans fathers house be the family neuer so kinde so rich so numbersome no nor the largenes of possession ought to be any impediment to keepe vs from obedience Indeede it is true that if any thing could affoord a man a sufficient excuse to deferre obedience vnto Gods commandement of this kinde it may bee easilie found in one of these branches But vvhat Christ saith to his follovvers is to be repeated here Christ saith to one follow mee Luke 9. 5● 60. and the same said Lord suffer me first to goe and burie my father but Christ endureth no delay for hee presently subioineth a second commandement Goe thou