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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A42949	The Negro's & Indians advocate, suing for their admission to the church, or, A persuasive to the instructing and baptizing of the Negro's and Indians in our plantations shewing that as the compliance therewith can prejudice no mans just interest, so the wilful neglecting and opposing of it, is no less than a manifest apostacy from the Christian faith : to which is added, a brief account of religion in Virginia / by Morgan Godwyn ...	Godwyn, Morgan, fl. 1685.	1680 (1680)	Wing G971; ESTC R21645	117,175	190

still retaining the fashion of those Elder times planting each Man his own provision of Maiz room being first made for the Seed to pass into the Ground with no subtiler Engine than a simple Stick thrust into it or it may be with his Finger And after this weeding his Corn with Fish shells instead of Hoa's used by the English and other wiser People And this they still practise without craving the least assistance unless possibly some few of them since our Arrival from those Trades of which as indeed of almost all other they are wholly ignorant 7. Thirdly turning to the Septuagint Bible he there reades that Cain talking with his Brother invites him in these words 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to go into the Field From which Clause not found in the Hebrew he is sure they must needs at that time dwell in some Town or City not so soon to be built by Adam's thin Race And therefore other Architects and Workmen must be fetcht from that imaginary Elder Creation But this Logic even admitting that Clause would never hold in Virginia where there is neither Town nor City their Metropolis excepted lately consisting of some twelve or fourteen Families but since the late Rebellion and Burning of it I suppose of fewer throughout that nor even the Neighbouring Provinces And even in this Island we know that Men do not always take their way thorow the Bridg-Town into their Plantations And no more necessity was there for Cain and Abel's not doing the same And here also the Natives and I shall suppose no less of the South of Africa could have taught him to erect places for Shelter and Lodging such as 't is possible both Adam and his Children for a long time might be contented with without the aid of Masons or other Builders than what were needful for platting of Arbours covered only with Leaves or the Bark of Trees which generally are the Royal Mansions and Basilicks of their greatest Kings and Emperours But this Eutopian or Atlantean City having no Foundation nor being any where extant but in our Quixots rambling Fancy there is no need to produce either Builders or Inhabitants for it 8. However to put an end to this Dispute There is no doubt but that these places in Genesis viz. Chap. 2. 5. 3. 20. 7. 21 22 23. and 10. 32. All levelled as it were expresly against this Doctrine of Pre-Adamitism as the learned Judge hath observed do certainly carry in them no less truth than those other which its first Author contrary to the sense and judgment of the whole World both Jews and Christians who have gone before him hath wrested to that his wicked purpose and ought with as great certainty to be believed So also doth Saint Paul's affirmation at Athens in the hearing of the Wits and Virtuosi there who refused not to acquiesce with him in the same judgment That God had made of one Blood all Nations of Men for to dwell on all the face of the Earth Acts 17. 26. I say these with many other weighty Arguments and Testimonies from sacred Scripture ought to challenge from us at least an equal measure of credit with those Dreams of that Fantastic Author And may no less at the same time inform us how misbecoming Wise Men and Christians it is without consideration of what may be said on either side in a moment to run down and explode such ancient received Principles for an irrational Novelty never before thought on and thus to shake the foundation of the Christian Faith only to gratifie a silly Humour and to shew how bold they dare be with the Almighty Who yet if they are resolved not to be satisfied with the Account which Moses gives of the Creation as hitherto it hath been generally understood and received It much stands them upon since they reject the Old to find out a New and better which to give them their due they do not in the least pretend to beyond bare and empty Conjectures void of all Ground and Reason Which tho themselves may admire they must allow others a due liberty at the same time to esteem ridiculous 9. But here after this Deviation to return to the matter in hand we are to take notice that their objected Pre-Adamitism doth not at all prejudice nor even relate to this Question which is touching the Homoniety of our Negro's not their Origination or Descent That Creation which they pretend to be Antecedent to Adam's being according to the Principle of its first Author no less of Real Men than this latter their Posterity therefore must needs be such And our cause hath this further Advantage that as Cham's African Race and the Curse said to be annexed thereto do make nothing against our American nor yet Asian Slaves nor Tributaries so this Pre-Adamitism doth utterly evacuate and overthrow whatever they from thence might otherwise infer tho in it self never so conclusive and good 10. Nor are they like to speed better from the Ninth than from the three former Chapters unless they can make it appear that that Curse did deprive all Cham's Posterity of their Reason and so metamorphose them into Brutes Nor yet even so will it do their Work unless they also prove that all Negro's wheresoever found are his Posterity and particularly Descendents from Canaan against whom alone that Curse was denounced as in the progress of this Discourse I shall shew which will be no very easie task But this I shall refer to the next Section to be further considered what at present I shall think requisite to be spoken being only this that since Man alone is capable of Discipline of which our Negro's equally with other People are Nothing but Malice can be supposed to bespeak them less which even at the same time must be thought to bely it self And so for the present letting this and such other Arguments rest which they pretend to borrow from the Holy Scripture where in truth not the least syllable can be wrested so as to favour this their brutish supposition I shall proceed to examine whether the voice of Reason the thing they so mightily pretend to will determine more on their behalf than ether Religion or the sacred Writ 11. For to do them Right even in this so bad a Cause they are not of those who shun to answer at this Bar so long as they have any thing which they imagine will make for them there to be insisted on But here at last failing which 't is to be presumed in such a Case they cannot but soon do we may the less blame them if for their ultimate refuge and defence they betake themselves to Railing or even to worse Arguments Their specious Reasons on which this pious belief is grounded do seem to have been drawn from these four Pretences the Complexion Bondage Pretended Stupidity and Barbarousness of our Negro's Manners because different from ours Of the second of which they make this two-fold Vse first to