Virginia's
God
be
thanked
.
Psalme
,
107.
verse
.
23.
They
that
goe
downe
to
the
Sea
in
Ships
,
and
occupie
in
the
great
waters
;
24.
They
see
the
workes
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
wonders
in
the
deepe
:
25.
For
hee
commandeth
,
and
raiseth
the
stormie
winde
,
and
it
lifteth
vp
the
waues
thereof
.
26.
They
mount
vp
to
the
heaven
,
and
descend
to
the
deepe
;
so
that
their
soule
melteth
for
trouble
:
27
They
are
tossed
too
and
fro
,
and
stagger
like
a
drunken
man
,
and
all
their
cunning
is
gone
.
28.
Then
they
cry
vnto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
;
and
hee
bringeth
them
out
of
their
distresse
.
29.
He
turneth
the
storme
to
a
calme
,
so
that
the
waues
thereof
are
still
.
30.
When
they
are
quieted
they
are
glad
;
and
he
bringeth
them
to
the
haven
where
they
would
be
.
31.
Let
them
therefore
confesse
before
the
Lord
,
his
loving
kindnesse
;
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
.
32.
And
let
them
exalt
him
in
the
Congregation
of
the
people
,
&
prayse
him
in
the
Assembly
of
the
Elders
.
THE
occasion
of
our
present
meeting
(
Right
Honorable
,
Right
Worshipfull
,
and
dearely
beloved
in
our
Lord
Iesus
Christ
)
is
to
celebrate
the
goodnes
of
our
good
and
gracious
God
,
&
to
giue
him
publique
and
solemne
prayses
for
the
sa●e
arriving
of
your
Fleete
of
9.
Sayle
of
Ships
in
Virginia
,
in
November
,
and
December
last
:
And
for
the
happie
(
yea
,
and
in
a
maner
miraculous
)
landing
o●
800.
people
M●n
,
Women
,
and
children
,
all
in
health
:
As
also
for
the
hopeful
and
good
successe
,
wherewith
Almightie
God
hath
crowned
your
Colony
in
that
Heathen-now
Christian
Kingdome
.
This
Taske
being
layd
vpon
me
(
the
vnworthi●st
of
many
,
who
could
and
would
haue
performed
it
better
)
I
haue
endevoured
to
discharge
,
according
to
the
scantling
of
time
,
and
measure
of
grace
vouchsafed
vnto
mee
.
The
Prophet
in
this
Psalme
,
magnifying
the
Providence
of
God
,
against
all
prophane
Epicures
,
and
carnall
Worldlings
(
who
ascribe
all
●hings
,
either
to
blinde
Fortune
;
or
their
owne
Industrie
)
setteth
downe
foure
kindes
of
men
,
which
are
most
indebted
vnto
God
for
deliverance
from
Dangers
:
The
first
is
of
those
,
who
in
their
Iourney
by
land
haue
escaped
a
Dearth
,
from
the
first
verse
to
the
tenth
.
The
Second
,
is
of
Prisoners
inlarged
and
set
at
libertie
,
from
the
tenth
verse
,
to
the
seaventeenth
.
The
Third
,
is
of
such
,
as
are
freed
from
a
desperate
and
mortall
Sicknesse
,
from
the
17.
verse
to
the
23.
The
Last
,
is
of
Mariners
,
Saylers
,
and
Sea-faring
men
;
who
haue
escaped
a
storme
,
and
haue
got
into
the
wished
haven
,
from
the
23.
verse
to
the
33.
This
last
part
,
being
the
Text
appoynted
for
my
present
discourse
;
I
haue
for
my
better
proceeding
in
it
;
and
your
Memories
sake
,
reduced
to
these
three
heads
,
A
Danger
,
A
Deliverance
,
A
Dutie
.
The
Danger
is
set
downe
verse
,
25.26.27
.
(
for
the
other
two
verses
,
are
but
as
it
were
,
an
Introduction
into
it
)
for
hee
commaundeth
,
and
raiseth
the
stormie
winds
&c.
The
Deliv●rance
from
the
Danger
is
set
forth
by
the
Meanes
that
these
Sea-faring
men
vse
to
bee
freed
from
it
,
viz.
faith●ull
and
fervent
Prayer
vnto
God
,
verse
28.29
.
30.
Then
they
cry
vnto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
&c.
The
Dutie
,
is
delivered
verse
31.
32.
Let
them
therefore
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
&c.
To
speake
of
these
in
order
;
the
first
thing
wee
haue
to
note
is
this
,
that
Great
is
the
Danger
of
Sea-faring
men
.
Pittacus
.
for
as
one
sayth
Navigantes
neque
inter
vivos
,
neque
inter
mortuous
.
Saylers
are
neither
amongst
the
living
,
nor
yet
amongst
the
dead
:
as
having
but
a
few
inches
of
planke
betweene
them
and
Death
,
they
hang
betweene
both
;
ready
to
offer
vp
their
Soules
to
every
flaw
of
wind
,
and
billow
of
water
wherein
they
are
tossed
.
The
immoveable
rocks
,
and
the
mutable
windes
;
the
ouerflowing
waters
,
and
swallowing
sands
;
the
tempestuous
stormes
,
&
spoyling
Pyrats
haue
their
liues
at
their
mercy
and
commaund
.
Mariners
living
in
the
Sea
,
almost
as
fishes
,
hauing
the
waters
as
their
necessariest
Element
:
are
commonly
men
voyd
of
feare
,
ventrous
and
contemners
of
dangers
:
yet
when
God
on
a
sudden
commandeth
a
●●orme
,
and
sitteth
himselfe
in
the
mouth
of
the
tempest
:
when
their
Ship
is
foundred
with
water
vnder
them
;
when
Life
and
Soule
are
readie
to
shake
hands
,
and
depart
this
present
world
;
then
,
euen
these
nought-fearing
fellowes
,
these
high
stomaked
men
tremble
for
feare
like
faint-hearted
women
that
shrink
at
euery
stirre
in
a
wherrie
on
the
River
of
Thames
in
a
rough
and
boysterous
Tyde
:
or
like
vnto
a
yong
Souldier
,
which
starteth
at
the
shooting
off
of
a
Gun
.
I
remember
what
Aeschi●es
spak
of
Demosthenes
at
Rhodes
when
he
read
the
Defence
that
Demosthenes
had
framed
to
his
Accusation
;
the
people
wondring
at
the
strength
and
validitie
of
it
.
Quid
si
ipsam
andissetis
bestiam
sua
verba
pronu●cia●tem●
What
would
you
haue
tho●ght
(
sayd
he
)
if
you
had
heard
the
Beast
(
for
so
hee
speaketh
disgracefully
of
Demosthenes
)
pronouncing
it
with
his
owne
mouth
?
You
wonder
at
the
hearing
of
the
dangerous
storme
,
described
here
by
the
Prophet
;
but
what
would
you
say
,
if
you
had
seene
it
your selues
with
your
owne
eyes
?
Ionah
,
a
Sea-faring
man
,
when
he
writeth
of
the
storme
wherein
he
was
;
his
pen
wrote
nothing
so
effectually
,
as
his
heart
felt
:
and
being
the
Scribe
and
Orator
onely
,
hee
is
nothing
so
fluent
and
copious
as
when
he
is
the
Patient
.
The
stile
of
his
history
is
simple
&
plaine
Ionah
prayed
v●to
the
Lord
his
God
out
of
the
belly
of
the
fish
.
prayed
,
but
that
he
cryed
,
praying
is
turned
into
crying
;
not
from
the
belly
of
the
fish
,
but
fro●
the
belly
of
hell
:
a
maru●ilous
transformation
:
And
the
trouble
he
speaketh
of
,
a
casting
of
him
into
the
bottome
of
the
midst
of
the
Sea
;
and
a
compassing
of
him
about
with
flouds
,
surges
&
waues
,
which
went
ouer
and
ouer
his
head
:
Nay
,
a
compassing
about
of
his
soule
,
and
a
very
melting
of
it
for
tro●ble
,
as
heere
in
this
Psal.
verse
26.
and
a
wrapping
about
of
his
head
with
weedes
,
and
a
going
downe
vnto
the
bottome
of
the
Mountaines
.
Let
the
Scriptures
bee
throughly
searched
againe
and
againe
,
from
the
beginning
of
Genesis
,
to
the
end
of
the
Revelation
;
and
wee
shall
hardly
meete
with
the
like
description
of
Misery
,
so
emphatically
and
pathetically
set
out
as
this
of
Sea-faring
men
,
set
downe
both
in
that
second
Chapter
of
Ionah
,
and
in
this
107.
Psalme
.
The
miseries
of
Iob
,
you
all
know
how
vehement
they
were
,
and
he
neuer
more
kind●ly
expressed
them
then
by
this
translation
.
Am
I
a
Sea
,
or
a
Whale-fish
that
thou
keepest
me
in
ward
?
Will
you
yet
see
the
great
danger
of
Sea
men
,
I
will
leade
you
along
to
weigh
it
by
an
experience
and
tryal
of
mine
own
,
In
a
Typhoon
,
or
cruel
tempest
that
I
met
with
off
of
the
Islands
of
Macqa●
,
adioyning
to
the
Continent
of
Chyna
.
In
this
Typhoon
or
storme
,
our
goodly
Vnicorne
(
a
ship
of
800●
T●nne
)
was
cast
away
vpon
the
Continent
of
Chyna
;
but
all
the
people
(
blessed
be
God
)
saued
;
and
though
at
their
first
landing
vpon
the
Chyna
shore
,
they
were
rifled
by
some
of
the
baser
●ort
of
the
Chynae●
;
yet
vpon
the
comming
of
the
Mandarins
,
or
Governours
,
they
had
good
entertainement
of
dyet
&
house-roome
for
their
mony
,
and
were
very
kindly
vsed
by
those
of
better
note
.
In
this
Tempest
wee
lost
also
our
Pinnace
,
with
24
or
30
men
in
her
which
we
had
sent
before
vs
to
Firando
(
an
Island
adioyning
to
Iapan
)
to
giue
notice
of
our
comming
,
of
whom
we
never
heard
newes
:
wee
cut
off
our
long
Boate
,
and
let
her
goe
;
we
sunke
our
Shallop
with
two
men
in
her
,
who
were
swallowed
vp
by
the
waues
.
Such
was
this
Storme
,
as
if
Ionah
had
been
flying
vnto
Tharshish
.
The
ayre
was
beclouded
,
the
heavens
were
obscured
,
and
made
an
Egyptian
night
of
fiue
or
sixe
dayes
perpetuall
horror
:
The
experience
of
our
Sea-men
was
amased
;
the
skil
of
our
Mariners
was
confounded
;
our
Royal
Iames
most
violently
and
dangerously
leaked
;
&
those
which
pumped
to
keepe
others
from
drowning
,
were
halfe
drowned
themselues
with
continuall
pumping
.
But
God
that
heard
Ionah
crying
out
of
the
belly
of
Hell
;
and
who
,
heere
is
sayd
to
turne
a
storme
into
a
calme
;
hee
pitied
the
distresses
of
his
servants
;
hee
hushed
the
Tempest
,
and
brought
vs
safely
to
Firando
,
our
wished
Haven
.
O
that
the
Tempest
of
Macqau
may
never
out
of
my
minde
,
but
that
this
wonderfull
Deliverance
and
al
other
Gods
mercies
,
may
stil
be
iogging
mee
at
the
elbow
,
and
putting
me
in
minde
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
loving
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
Sonnes
of
men
;
that
I
may
exalt
him
in
the
congregation
of
the
people
,
and
prayse
him
in
the
Assemblie
of
the
Elders
.
But
you
will
say
,
what
needeth
all
this
Discourse
,
touching
the
Danger
of
Sea-men
;
we
are
met
together
for
another
purpose
,
to
giue
thanks
vnto
God
?
Beloued
,
I
doe
confesse
indeed
it
is
so
,
that
the
end
of
our
present
meeting
is
for
Thankesgiuing
.
But
how
can
wee●er
be
feelingly
thankfull
,
as
we
should
in
word
and
deed
,
if
wee
know
not
the
Danger
wherein
wee
are
,
and
the
Deliverance
vouchsafed
vnto
vs
?
Will
not
the
true
knowledge
and
deepe
consideration
of
these
,
make
vs
put
so
many
the
more
thankes
into
our
Sacrifice
of
Prayse
?
Wherefore
I
beseech
you
to
take
to
heart
,
first
,
the
Danger
of
your
people
in
their
passages
both
to
Virginia
,
and
after
their
landing
.
Secondly
,
the
Danger
of
your
whole
Colony
there
.
Thirdly
,
The
Danger
of
your selues
here
at
home
.
And
left
others
,
that
are
not
of
your
Honourable
Company
,
may
thinke
this
point
impertinent
to
them
;
Let
all
of
vs
consider
the
Dangers
wherein
we
were
,
and
still
are
;
and
the
many
Deliverances
vouchsafed
vnto
vs
(
for
I
must
intreat
you
to
giue
me
leaue
to
joyne
Danger
and
Deliverance
together
,
for
the
better
stirring
of
you
vp
vnto
your
dutie
.
)
And
then
I
doubt
not
,
but
all
of
vs
shall
haue
cause
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
.
And
first
,
to
touch
the
Danger
of
your
people
,
both
in
their
passage
to
Virginia
,
and
after
their
landing
there
,
may
I
not
say
in
the
words
of
Iob
,
Will
yee
giue
the
words
of
him
that
is
afflicted
to
the
winde
?
As
if
he
had
said
,
when
affliction
it selfe
,
and
the
inmost
sorrowes
of
my
heart
tell
my
tale
,
will
you
not
regard
it
?
O
that
your
soules
were
in
my
soules
stead
,
that
you
felt
as
much
sorrow
as
I
doe
:
L●quor
in
angustia
mea
;
quer●r
in
amaritudine
animae
mea
,
I
speake
that
that
I
speake
from
a
world
of
trouble
;
I
make
my
complaint
in
the
bitternesse
of
my
soule
.
Surely
,
if
some
hundreds
of
those
that
mis-carried
in
the
infancie
,
and
at
the
first
beginning
of
your
Plantation
,
(
which
is
exceedingly
bettered
within
these
2.
yeeres
)
were
now
aliue
,
I
thinke
they
would
speake
no
otherwise
than
Iob
spake●
Wil
you
giue
the
words
of
them
that
are
afflicted
to
the
winde
?
Will
ye
not
beleeue
in
what
Danger
we
were
,
And
now
,
beloued
,
since
the
case
is
altered
,
that
all
difficulties
are
swallowed
vp
:
And
seeing
,
first
,
there
is
no
danger
by
the
way
;
neither
through
encountring
of
enemy
,
or
Pyrate
;
nor
meeting
with
rockes
,
or
Sholes
(
all
which
to
Sea-faring
men
are
very
dangerous
,
and
from
all
which
your
Ships
and
people
are
farre
remoued
,
by
reason
of
their
faire
and
safe
passage
through
the
maine
Ocean
)
nor
through
the
tediousnesse
of
the
passage
;
the
fittest
season
of
the
yeare
for
a
speedie
passage
,
being
now
farre
better
knowne
then
before
;
and
by
that
meanes
the
passage
it selfe
made
almost
in
so
many
weekes
,
as
formerly
it
was
wont
to
be
made
in
moneths
;
which
I
conceiue
to
be
,
through
the
blessing
of
God
,
the
maine
cause
of
the
safe
arriuall
of
your
last
Fleete
of
nine
Sayle
of
Ships
,
that
not
one
(
but
one
,
in
whose
roome
there
was
another
borne
)
of
eight
hundred
,
which
were
transported
out
of
England
and
Ireland
for
your
Plantation
,
should
miscarry
by
the
way
;
whereas
in
your
former
voyages
scarce
80.
of
a
100.
arrived
safely
in
Virginia
.
And
secondly
,
seeing
there
is
no
Danger
after
their
landing
,
either
through
warres
,
or
famine
,
or
want
of
conuenient
lodging
,
and
looking
too
,
through
which
many
miscarried
heretofore
;
for
,
blessed
be
God
,
there
hath
beene
a
long
time
,
and
still
is
a
happie
league
of
Peace
and
Amitie
soundly
concluded
,
and
faithfully
kept
,
betweene
the
English
and
the
Natiues
,
that
the
feare
of
killing
each
other
is
now
vanished
away
.
Besides
,
there
is
now
in
your
Plantation
plentie
of
good
and
wholesome
provisions
for
the
strength
and
comfort
,
not
onely
of
the
Colony
,
but
also
of
all
such
as
after
their
passage
doe
land
ashore
.
There
is
also
convenient
lodging
,
and
carefull
attendance
provided
for
them
,
till
they
can
provide
for
themselues
;
and
a
faire
Inne
for
receiuing
and
harbouring
of
Strangers
,
erecting
in
Iames
Cittie
;
to
the
setting
vp
of
which
,
both
your
worshipfull
Governour
,
Sir
Francis
Wyat
,
and
your
worthie
Treasurer
,
Master
George
Sands
doe
write
,
that
they
doubt
not
,
but
there
will
be
raised
betweene
fifteene
hundred
and
two
thousand
pounds
;
to
which
euery
man
contributeth
cheerefully
and
bountifully
;
they
being
all
free-hearted
,
and
open-handed
to
all
publique
good
workes
.
Seing
,
I
say
,
that
now
all
former
difficulties
(
which
much
hindered
the
progresse
of
your
noble
Plantation
)
are
removed
,
and
in
a
maner
ouercome
:
And
that
your
people
in
your
Colony
(
through
Gods
mercy
)
were
all
in
good
health
,
euery
one
busied
in
their
Vocations
,
as
Bees
in
their
Hiues
,
at
the
setting
sayle
of
your
Ship
the
Concord
from
Virginia
in
March
last
.
O
what
miracles
are
these
?
O
what
cause
haue
you
and
they
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
?
But
to
passe
from
the
Danger
and
deliverance
of
your
people
,
who
indangered
,
yea
,
lost
their
liues
in
setling
of
your
Plantation
,
consider
,
I
beseech
you
,
in
the
second
place
,
the
Danger
wherein
your
whole
Colony
stood
,
at
the
time
of
Sir
Thomas
Gates
arriving
in
Virginia
from
the
Summer
Ilands
,
when
it
was
concluded
a
few
dayes
after
his
landing
,
by
himselfe
,
Sir
George
Summers
,
Captaine
Newport
,
and
the
whole
Counsell
,
by
the
generall
approbation
of
all
,
to
abandon
the
Colony
(
because
of
the
want
of
provisions
)
and
to
make
for
New-found-land
,
and
so
for
England
.
And
will
not
the
hopefull
setling
of
your
Colony
there
,
now
vnder
the
Government
of
a
worthy
and
worshipfull
Commander
;
and
a
wise
and
wel-experienced
Counsell
,
stirre
you
vp
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
?
But
,
if
neither
the
Danger
of
your
people
;
nor
the
Danger
of
your
whole
Colony
abroad
,
and
the
Deliverance
vouchsafed
to
them
both
be
enough
to
stirre
you
vp
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
:
Then
I
beseech
you
,
in
the
third
place
,
to
consider
the
Danger
of
your
owne
selues
here
at
home
.
What
masse
of
money
haue
you
buried
in
that
Plantation
?
How
many
of
you
had
it
not
made
to
wish
that
you
had
neuer
put
your
hand
to
this
Plough
?
Nay
,
how
many
of
you
had
it
not
made
to
shrinke
in
your
shoulders
;
and
to
sinke
(
as
it
were
)
vnder
the
burden
,
and
to
be
quite
out
of
hope
for
euer
seeing
penny
of
that
you
had
so
largely
depursed
?
And
now
,
Beloued
,
is
not
the
case
altered
?
Are
not
your
hopes
great
of
seeing
;
nay
,
of
feeling
,
within
a
few
yeares
of
double
,
treble
;
yea
,
I
may
say
of
tensold
for
one
?
Doe
not
all
of
you
know
what
that
Religious
and
judicious
Overs●er
of
your
Colledge
lands
there
writeth
vnto
you
from
thence
?
George
Thorpe
in
his
Letter
written
from
Iames
Citie
May
17.
1621.
No
man
(
sayth
he
)
can
iustly
say
,
that
this
Country
is
not
capable
of
all
those
good
things
,
that
you
in
your
wisedomes
,
with
your
great
charge
haue
projected
,
both
for
her
wealth
and
honour
:
and
also
of
all
other
good
things
,
that
the
most
opulent
parts
of
Christendome
doe
afford
;
neither
are
wee
hopelesse
,
that
this
Country
may
also
yeeld
things
of
better
value
then
any
of
those
?
And
surely
,
by
that
which
I
haue
heard
and
seene
abroad
in
my
travailing
to
India
and
Iapan
,
I
am
confirmed
in
the
truth
of
that
which
he
doth
write
.
for
Iapan
,
lying
in
the
same
latitude
that
Virginia
doth
;
and
if
there
be
any
ods
,
Virginia
hath
them
,
as
lying
more
Southerly
then
Iapan
doth
:
Iapan
(
I
say
)
lying
vnder
the
same
latitude
that
Virginia
doth
,
aboundeth
with
all
things
for
profit
and
pleasure
,
being
one
of
the
mightiest
and
opulentest
Empires
in
the
world
,
hauing
in
it
many
rich
Mines
of
Gold
and
Siluer
.
And
had
you
not
a
taste
of
some
Marchantable
Commodities
sent
vnto
you
from
Virginia
some
yeeres
agoe
,
whilest
that
worshipfull
and
worthy
Gouernour
,
Sir
Thomas
Dale
sent
home
vnto
you
samples
of
aboue
a
dossen
severall
good
Commodities
from
thence
?
Haue
you
not
now
great
hopes
of
abundance
of
Corne
,
Wine
,
Oyle
,
Lemmons
,
Oranges
,
Pomegranats
,
and
all
maner
of
fruites
pleasant
to
the
eye
,
and
wholesome
for
the
belly
?
And
of
plentie
of
Silke
,
Silke
Grasse
,
Cotton-wooll
,
Flax
,
Hempe
&c.
for
the
backe
?
Are
not
you
already
possessed
with
rich
Mines
of
Copper
and
Yron
,
and
are
not
your
hopes
great
of
farre
richer
Minerals
?
George
Sandes
in
his
Letter
written
from
Iames
Citie
March
3.
1621.
Haue
you
not
read
what
of
late
your
worthie
Treasurer
doth
write
vnto
you
?
If
(
sayth
hee
)
wee
ouercome
this
yeere
the
Yron-workes
,
Glasse-workes
,
Salt-works
;
take
order
for
the
plentifull
setting
of
Corne
;
restraine
the
quantitie
of
Tobacco
,
and
mend
it
in
the
qualitie
,
plant
Vines
,
Mulbery-trees
,
Fig-trees
,
Pomegranats
,
Potatoes
,
Cotton
woolles
;
and
erect
a
faire
Inne
in
Iames
Citie
(
to
the
setting
vp
of
which
,
I
doubt
not
but
wee
shall
raise
fifteene
hundred
or
two
thousand
pounds
:
for
every
man
giues
willingly
towards
this
and
other
publique
workes
)
you
haue
enough
for
this
yeere
.
And
a
little
after
,
in
the
same
letter●
Maister
Pory
deserues
good
incouragement
for
his
paineful
Discoveries
to
the
South-ward
,
as
far
as
the
Choanoack
,
who
although
he
hath
trod
on
a
litle
good
ground
,
hath
past
through
great
forests
of
Pynes
15.
or
16.
myle
broad
and
aboue
60.
mile
long
,
which
will
serue
well
for
Masts
for
Shipping
,
and
for
pitch
and
●arre
,
when
we
shall
come
to
extend
our
plantations
to
those
borders
.
On
the
other
side
of
the
River
there
is
a
fruitfull
Countrie
blessed
with
aboundance
of
Corne
,
reaped
twise
a
yeere
:
aboue
which
is
the
Copper
Mines
,
by
all
of
all
places
generally
affirmed
.
Hee
hath
also
met
with
a
great
deale
of
silke
grasse
which
growes
there
monethly
of
which
Maister
Harriot
,
hath
affirmed
in
print
many
yeeres
agoe
,
that
it
will
make
silke
Grow-graines●
and
of
which
and
Cotten
woll
all
the
Cambaya
and
Bengala
stuffes
are
made
in
the
East
Indies
.
Heard
you
not
with
your
owne
eares
what
M.
Iohn
Martin
an
Armenian
by
birth
(
that
hath
lived
now
6.
or
7.
yeeres
in
Virginia
,
and
is
but
very
lately
come
from
thence
,
and
purposeth
(
as
all
others
that
are
lately
come
ouer
,
who
also
farre
preferre
Virginia
to
England
)
to
returne
thither
againe
,
with
this
resolution
,
there
to
liue
and
die
)
said
in
the
audience
of
your
whole
Court
the
8th
of
this
Instant
?
I
haue
travailed
(
said
he
)
by
Land
over
eighteene
severall
kingdomes
;
and
yet
all
of
them
in
my
minde
,
come
farre
short
of
Virginia
,
both
for
temperature
of
ayre
,
and
fertilitie
of
the
soyle
.
All
this
throughly
considered
,
O
how
great
cause
haue
you
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
?
And
that
all
of
vs
here
present
may
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
;
Let
vs
take
to
heart
our
private
,
our
publique
Dangers
and
deliverances
:
from
how
many
Dangers
eminent
and
imminent
hath
the
Lord
delivered
vs
and
our
whole
Land
in
eightie-eight
;
and
in
the
Gun
powder-Treason
?
Haue
wee
not
then
all
of
vs
good
cause
to
exalt
the
Lord
in
the
Congregation
of
the
people
,
and
to
prayse
him
in
the
Assembly
of
the
Elders
?
Nay
,
haue
not
Elders
and
Yongers
,
and
all
good
cause
so
to
doe
?
But
,
alas
,
I
am
afraid
,
that
we
haue
forgotten
the
louing
kindnesse
of
the
Lord
,
and
his
wonderfull
Deliverances
bestowed
vpon
vs
.
Beneficij
memoria
est
brevissima
;
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
〈◊〉
.
May
not
England
justly
be
charged
with
Israels
sinne
,
whose
Prayers
and
Prayses
ended
so
soone
as
they
passed
the
red
Sea
?
Amongst
the
Tribes
,
there
was
one
named
Manasse
,
which
signifies
,
Forgetfulnes
;
I
pray
God
the
Tribes
,
euen
the
heads
of
our
people
forget
it
not
;
but
that
we
and
the
whole
Land
,
may
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
;
and
se●ke
to
exalt
him
in
the
Congregation
of
the
people
,
and
to
prayse
him
in
the
Assembly
of
the
Elders
.
Verse
28.
Then
they
cryed
vnto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
&c.
THus
having
spoken
of
the
Danger
,
I
come
now
to
speake
a
word
of
the
Deliverance
,
and
the
meanes
which
these
Sea-faring
men
vsed
to
be
freed
from
their
trouble
,
which
is
faithfull
&
fervent
Prayer
,
Then
they
cryed
vnto
the
Lord
,
&c.
Faithfull
and
fervent
Prayer
vnto
God
,
in
the
name
of
Iesus
Christ
,
is
a
sure
meanes
to
procure
helpe
in
trouble
,
and
to
free
vs
from
the
greatest
danger
that
is
,
or
at
least
from
the
evill
thereof
.
These
Mariners
going
vnto
God
,
not
with
a
cold
and
carelesse
devotion
;
nor
with
a
dombe
Spirit
:
but
with
as
earnest
and
impatient
a
voyce
,
as
the
affection
of
their
heart
,
and
affliction
of
their
body
could
send
forth
:
they
thus
crying
vnto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
;
hee
brought
them
out
of
their
distresse
,
he
hushed
the
storme
:
he
brought
them
to
the
haven
of
their
desire
,
&
made
them
glad
at
the
heart
.
As
David
gaue
charge
to
his
Souldiers
that
they
should
not
kill
Absolom
his
Sonne
,
though
hee
sent
them
against
Absolom
to
stay
his
rebellion
:
So
God
forbids
his
crosses
to
destroy
his
children
,
though
he
send
them
against
his
children
,
to
purge
out
their
corruptions
.
As
Iohn
after
the
voyce
of
Thunder
heard
the
voyce
of
Harpers
;
so
when
the
Saints
haue
heard
the
noyse
of
sorrow
,
they
shall
heare
the
sound
of
ioy
.
As
the
viper
leapt
vpon
Paul
,
and
leapt
off
againe
:
so
troubles
leape
vpon
the
righteous
and
leape
off
againe
,
as
though
they
had
mistaken
the
partie
,
and
rapt
at
the
wrong
doore
.
One
calleth
Affliction
the
Trance
of
the
righteous
,
because
they
seeme
dead
for
a
while
,
but
they
wake
againe
.
Now
all
this
commeth
to
passe
,
because
the
Lord
sendeth
the
Spirit
of
Prayer
into
the
hearts
of
his
Children
,
whereby
they
cry
vnto
him
in
the
time
of
their
trouble
,
and
therefore
no
marveile
,
when
they
cry
vnto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
,
that
he
bringeth
them
out
of
their
distresse
.
The
most
ef●●ctuall
spe●ch
to
the
secret
eares
of
God
commeth
not
from
wordes
,
but
from
sighes
and
grones
:
he
that
heareth
without
eares
can
interpret
our
prayers
without
our
tongues●
hee
that
saw
and
fancied
Nathaniel
vnder
the
fig-tree
,
before
he
was
called
,
hee
that
saw
and
sanctified
Iohn
Bap●ist
in
his
mothers
wombe
before
hee
came
forth
,
he
s●eth
,
and
blesseth
our
praiers
fervently
conceived
in
the
bosome
of
our
Consciences
before
they
be
vttered
.
But
if
they
be
faint
and
faithlesse
,
Giue
therefore
but
thy
prayer
a
voyce
to
cry
:
for
,
it
must
not
be
dumbe
,
nor
tong-tied
;
giue
it
an
eye
to
seeke
:
for
,
it
must
not
be
wandring
and
carelesse
;
and
giue
it
an
hand
to
knocke
:
for
,
it
must
not
feare
to
molest
and
disquiet
;
and
not
onely
shalt
thou
bee
freed
from
Dangers
,
but
the
doores
,
yea
,
all
the
treasures
and
jewels
of
the
kingdome
of
Heaven
shall
be
open
vnto
it
.
But
some
,
it
may
be
,
will
say
,
My
danger
is
great
;
yea
,
so
great
that
it
maketh
my
heart
to
ake
within
me
,
and
my
soule
to
melt
for
sorrow
.
I
answere
,
the
greatnesse
of
our
Danger
cannot
be
a
stop
to
our
Deliverance
;
If
we
can
but
call
and
cry
vnto
the
Lord
in
our
trouble
,
Hee
will
bring
vs
out
of
our
Distresse
.
The
Sea-faring
men
here
described
,
had
their
hearts
to
melt
for
sorrow
,
yet
crying
vnto
the
Lord
in
their
trouble
,
He
brought
them
out
of
their
distresse
?
The
word
here
translated
,
Distresse
,
Vmimmitskothebem
.
is
by
Arias
Montanus
translated
de
coarctationibus
;
and
by
Iunius
and
Tremellius
,
ex
angustijs
.
So
that
the
trouble
here
spoken
of
,
is
not
properly
trouble
,
but
narrownes
&
straights
.
Be
our
case
then
never
so
desperate
,
the
Lord
can
helpe
it
:
for
,
nothing
is
vnpossible
to
him
.
The
Israelites
groaned
vnto
him
in
Egypt
,
he
heard
and
deliuered
them
from
the
tyrannie
of
Pharaoh
:
The
yong
men
in
the
Fierie
Furnace
called
vpon
him
,
and
were
deliuered
:
The
cry
of
Daniel
stopped
the
mouth
of
the
roaring
Lyons
;
Paul
and
Silas
being
in
bonds
,
prayed
,
and
their
chaynes
fell
loose
from
them
;
the
doores
opened
and
gaue
them
passage
.
Although
wee
be
plunged
never
so
low
,
that
we
know
not
where
to
seeke
,
nor
where
to
finde
;
although
the
floods
of
troubles
runne
cleane
ouer
and
ouer
vs
;
in
so
much
that
we
seeme
to
our selues
past
helpe
and
recovery
;
yet
are
we
not
indeede
past
helpe
,
so
long
as
we
are
not
past
desire
to
be
holpen
.
Men
indeed
are
altogether
amazed
,
and
in
a
maner
bereft
of
wit
and
vnderstanding
,
when
they
feele
themselues
dangerously
tossed
too
and
fro
,
as
here
these
Sea-faring
men
did
;
but
when
they
cried
in
their
trouble
vn●o
the
Lord
,
he
brought
them
out
of
their
distresse
.
There
was
neuer
affliction
so
great
,
but
the
hand
of
the
Lord
hath
beene
able
to
master
it
;
There
was
neuer
storme
so
fierce
,
but
his
power
hath
beene
able
to
allay
it
.
Therefore
,
if
out
soules
doe
euen
melt
for
trouble
within
vs
;
wee
must
not
take
discomfort
at
it
.
The
lord
sitteth
aboue
the
water-Floods
;
the
Lord
commandeth
the
Sea
,
and
all
that
is
therein
;
the
Lord
that
turneth
the
storme
to
a
calme
(
blessed
be
his
name
,
and
let
the
might
of
his
Maiesty
receiue
honour
for
euermore
)
hee
will
neuer
forsake
his
children
that
crie
vnto
him
;
neither
in
health
nor
sickenes
,
light
nor
darkenesse
,
stormes
nor
calmes
;
in
the
land
of
the
liuing
,
nor
in
the
land
of
forgetfulnes
.
Therefore
,
let
vs
resolue
with
holy
Dauid
,
Though
I
should
walke
thorow
the
valley
of
the
shadow
of
death
,
I
will
feare
no
euill
.
I
will
feare
no
euill
(
saith
Dauid
)
neither
great
nor
small
:
for
it
is
all
one
with
God
to
deliuer
from
the
greater
stormes
,
aswell
as
from
the
lesser
.
Some
difference
there
is
indeed
of
Dangers
and
Deliuerances
out
of
them
,
but
it
is
only
such
as
in
Books
printed
on
large
and
lesse
letter
and
paper
,
the
matter
not
varying
at
all
;
for
example
.
When
God
brought
some
of
the
ships
of
your
former
fleetes
to
Virginia
in
safty
;
here
Gods
prouidence
was
seen
&
felt
priuately
by
some
;
and
this
was
a
deliuerance
,
written
(
as
it
were
)
in
quarto
on
a
lesser
paper
&
letter
.
But
now
,
when
God
brought
all
of
your
9.
ships
,
and
al
your
people
in
them
in
health
&
safety
to
Virginia
:
Yea
and
that
ship
Tyger
of
yours
,
which
had
fallen
into
the
hands
of
the
Turkish
men
of
war
,
through
tempest
and
contrary
windes
,
she
not
being
able
to
beare
sayle
,
and
by
that
meanes
drouen
out
of
her
course
some
hundreds
of
miles
:
for
otherwise
of
it selfe
the
passage
from
England
to
Virginia
,
is
out
of
the
walke
of
Turkes
,
and
cleere
and
safe
from
all
Pyrates
,
who
commonly
lurke
neere
Ilands
,
and
head-lands
,
and
not
in
the
maine
Ocean
.
When
this
your
Tyger
had
falne
,
by
reason
of
this
storme
,
and
some
indiscretion
of
her
M●ster
and
people
,
who
taking
the
Turkes
to
haue
beene
Flemmings
,
bound
for
Holland
or
England
,
bore
vp
the
helme
to
speake
with
them
:
for
they
needed
not
if
they
had
listed
to
haue
come
neere
the
Turkes
,
but
haue
proceeded
safely
on
their
voyage
)
into
the
hands
of
those
mercilesse
Turkes
,
who
had
taken
from
them
most
of
their
victuals
,
and
all
of
their
seruiceable
sayles
,
tackling
and
anchors
,
and
had
not
so
much
as
left
them
an
houre-glasse
or
compasse
to
steere
their
course
,
thereby
vtterly
disabling
them
from
going
from
them
,
and
proceeding
on
their
voyage
.
When
(
I
say
)
God
had
ransomed
her
out
their
hands
,
They
that
runne
and
ride
post
may
reade
it
.
O
then
how
great
cause
haue
you
and
they
,
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
?
Verse
31.32
.
Let
them
therefore
confesse
before
the
Lord
,
&c.
HItherto
of
the
Danger
and
D●liuerance
;
now
of
the
Dutie
,
which
,
in
a
word
,
is
thanksgiuing
.
The
greater
our
danger
i●
;
the
more
ioyfull
is
our
deliuerance
,
and
●he
more
cheerfully
ought
wee
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonder●ull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
.
Thanksgiuing
is
the
end
of
our
Deliuerance
.
This
dutie
carefully
performed
,
is
a
singular
exercise
of
faith
,
when
men
standing
vpon
the
shore
,
and
beholding
the
dangerous
and
tumultuous
Seas
which
they
haue
passed
,
are
stirred
vp
to
sacrifice
prayse
and
glory
to
him
for
the
s●me
.
Gen.
8.20
.
Exod.
15.1
Psal.
50.15
.
This
seruice
is
a
further
worke
of
faith
then
petition
:
for
they
which
are
but
illightned
●gainst
death
may
serue
in
a
sort
to
make
some
petitions
to
God
;
but
they
neuer
bethinke
them
at-all
of
the
dutie
of
thanksgiuing
,
when
they
haue
receiued
benefits
from
him
.
And
for
this
cause
,
nine
of
the
ten
leapers
which
Christ
cleansed
,
are
defamed
to
all
posteritie
by
the
Holy
Ghost
in
the
Gospel
.
Let
vs
labour
to
purge
our selues
of
such
a
wickednesse
,
spending
much
of
our
time
in
songs
of
thanksgiuing
,
Confessing
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnesse
,
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
.
For
thanksgiuing
is
,
as
it
were
,
the
homage
or
rent-charge
,
which
wee
are
to
returne
to
God
for
all
his
mercies
,
especially
for
our
right
to
our
inheritance
in
heauen
.
And
wee
know
that
if
men
refuse
to
do
their
homage
,
or
pay
their
rent
to
their
earthly
Land-Lord
,
they
shal
deserue
thereby
to
be
turned
out
of
their
farmes
,
&
others
to
be
put
in
their
roome
,
which
shall
discharge
the
duty
better
.
So
,
if
we
proue
vnthankfull
to
the
Lord
of
heauen
,
shall
wee
not
iustly
deserue
to
lose
our
inheritance
?
Wherefore
let
vs
doe
as
men
,
which
are
bound
by
bond
to
make
tender
of
a
sum
of
money
vpon
great
penalty
in
a
certaine
place
;
and
,
at
a
certaine
time
named
in
the
bond
,
they
will
be
sure
to
tender
the
paiment
in
the
place
,
and
at
the
time
appointed
and
specified
in
the
bond
,
lest
they
incurre
the
penaltie
.
Euen
so
,
&c.
Let
vs
beware
wee
doe
not
forslow
our
thankfulnesse
vpon
light
and
slight
excuses
,
lest
we
forfeit
Gods
louing
kindnes
,
&
our
owne
saluation
.
Let
vs
weigh
,
what
God
hath
done
for
vs
,
&
lay
all
Gods
benefits
together
,
thereby
the
be●ter
to
sti●re
vs
vp
vnto
thankfulnes
.
Leah
beareth
one
son
,
&
calleth
his
name
Reuben
;
a
second
son
,
&
called
his
name
Simeon
,
Iudah
,
&
expresly
protests
that
she
wil
praise
the
Lord
.
If
one
benefit
moue
you
not
,
many
should
if
many
haue
not
done
it
,
yet
this
last
&
late
mercy
passing
all
the
former
.
O
call
it
Iudah
,
&
now
of
set
purpose
praise
the
Lord
,
&
confesse
before
him
his
louing
kindnesse
and
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
.
Which
that
you
may
the
better
do
,
giue
me
leaue
I
pray
you
to
shew
you
how
your
thanksgiuing
ought
to
be
qualified
,
that
it
may
be
a
sweet
sauour
vnto
God
.
It
must
be
accompanied
,
1.
with
confessi●●
.
2.
with
exalt●tion
.
Confession
againe
,
is
either
of
Gods
louing
kindnes
;
or
of
his
wonderfull
workes
.
There
are
two
things
in
which
Gods
louing
kindnesse
is
to
be
seene
,
1.
In
giuing
.
2.
In
forgiuing
.
Gods
louing
kindnes
in
giuing
,
is
to
be
praised
:
for
is
not
God
a
great
&
good
benefactor
or
ours
,
and
do
wee
not
greatly
praise
our
benefactors
?
O
let
vs
confesse
his
louing
kindnesse
as
he
is
our
Benefactor
.
Gods
louing
kindnesse
in
forgiuing
our
sinnes
is
also
to
be
confessed
.
I
shewed
you
before
the
danger
of
your
people
sent
to
Virgini●
,
the
danger
of
your
Colony
planted
there
,
and
the
danger
of
your
owne
selues
here
at
home
.
And
now
if
you
looke
to
the
Primitiue
&
original
cause
of
al
these
your
great
Dangers
,
and
many
dis-asters
that
haue
heretofore
befalne
to
your
plantation
,
I
suppose
you
shall
soon
find
the
cause
to
be
sin
.
The
Marriners
in
the
transportation
of
Ionah
,
Virginia
.
Was
it
for
the
sin
of
our
land
in
generall
,
either
because
(
as
it
is
said
of
M●r●●
)
it
came
not
out
to
helpe
forward
this
worke
of
the
Lord
with
their
Prayers
and
Purses
;
The
whole
head
is
sicke
,
and
the
whole
heart
is
heauy
,
from
the
sole
of
the
foote
to
the
crowne
of
the
head
,
there
is
nothing
whole
therein
,
&c.
Surely
,
surely
,
the
sinnes
of
our
land
are
crying
sinnes
;
and
is
it
any
wonder
if
they
doe
awake
the
Iustice
of
God
,
and
turne
the
mercies
of
Heauen
into
roddes
of
Indignation
?
Or
was
it
for
the
sinne
of
your
owne
society
at
home
;
because
you
haue
eyther
too
much
affected
your
gaine
?
or
too
too
seldome
called
vpon
the
name
of
God
in
prayer
for
giuing
his
blessing
to
your
plantation
?
or
too
faintly
depended
vpon
God
by
faith
and
patience
for
the
issue
?
or
too
much
neglected
God
in
thankefulnesse
for
the
successe
?
I
can
not
excuse
nor
accuse
you
;
you
need
not
care
to
bee
iudged
by
mans
day
:
Or
,
was
it
for
the
sinne
of
such
as
you
haue
transported
to
your
Plantation
,
because
(
most
of
them
at
the
first
,
beeing
the
very
scumme
of
the
Land
,
and
great
pity
it
was
that
no
better
at
that
time
could
be
had
;
)
they
neglected
Gods
worship
,
liued
in
idlenesse
,
plodded
conspiracies
,
resisted
the
gouernment
of
Superiours
,
and
caried
themselues
dissolutely
amongst
the
heathens
.
If
in
any
of
these
they
haue
offended
,
was
not
Gods
rod
of
Mortalitie
iustly
vpon
them
for
their
sinnes
?
But
now
(
beloued
)
Almighty
God
hath
graciously
looked
vpon
you
and
your
people
,
in
passing
by
their
and
your
sins
;
The
Lord
hath
sayd
to
the
destroying
angel
,
It
is
sufficient
,
hold
now
●hy
hand
;
the
mortality
of
your
people
is
ceased
abroad
:
and
the
hope
of
your
good
returnes
is
increased
at
home
:
O
●herefore
,
ought
you
not
to
confesse
before
the
Lord
his
louing
kindnes
,
both
in
giuing
of
mercies
,
and
forgiuing
of
sinnes
?
Another
confession
there
must
be
,
of
Gods
wonderfull
workes
.
And
both
these
confessions
are
againe
and
againe
repeated
in
the
amebe
,
burden
or
foote
of
this
psalme
.
It
is
most
true
,
Gods
workes
are
wonderfull
(
for
he
hath
made
them
all
in
wisedome
,
in
number
,
weight
and
measure
)
and
that
the
Lord
declareth
himselfe
to
be
great
and
wonderfull
euen
in
the
least
of
them
amongest
the
sonnes
of
men
.
This
Pharaohs
Inchanters
did
confesse
,
This
is
the
finger
of
God
,
What
signe
(
sayd
the
fleshly
hearers
of
Christs
word
)
shewest
thou
,
that
we
may
see
it
,
and
beleeue
thee
?
What
dost
●hou
worke
?
No
signe
,
no
faith
:
yea
except
God
do
great
things
for
them
,
Let
vs
therefore
consider
and
weigh
well
the
Wonderful
workes
of
the
Lord
:
for
,
is
it
not
a
work
of
wonder
to
command
the
creatures
against
the
course
of
nature
?
as
to
cause
the
winde
to
cease
with
a
word
,
and
to
quiet
the
Seas
onely
with
a
becke
?
To
stay
the
fire
that
it
doe
not
burne
;
and
the
hungry
Lyons
that
they
doe
not
deuoure
?
to
mollifie
the
hearts
of
Saluages
,
and
to
make
some
of
them
voluntarily
to
remooue
from
their
owne
warme
and
well
seated
and
peopled
habitations
,
to
giue
place
to
Strangers
,
whom
they
had
neuer
before
seene
:
as
P●whatan
at
the
first
plantation
of
the
English
,
to
remoue
from
his
owne
station
,
and
now
of
late
the
Mattaw●mbs
to
depart
from
their
cleared
and
rich
grounds
;
and
to
make
others
of
them
(
as
Opachancano
)
to
sell
to
the
English
and
their
Gouernour
sir
George
Yeardly
the
right
and
title
they
had
to
their
possessions
?
Yet
all
these
hath
the
Lord
done
,
and
are
they
not
wonderfull
works
indeed
?
O
then
let
vs
stir
vp
our selues
and
others
,
and
call
vpon
them
,
saying
,
Come
and
hearken
all
yee
that
feare
God
,
and
I
will
tell
you
what
the
Lord
hath
done
to
my
soule
.
O
let
vs
confesse
before
the
Lord
,
as
his
louing
kindnesse
,
so
also
his
wonderfull
workes
before
the
sonnes
of
men
.
But
alas
,
I
am
afraid
,
that
it
is
with
vs
concerning
Gods
wonderfull
workes
,
as
it
was
with
the
people
of
the
Iewes
,
concerning
the
wonders
of
Gods
Law
,
of
whom
God
by
his
Prophet
complayneth
;
I
haue
written
to
them
the
great
things
of
my
Law
,
but
they
were
accounted
as
a
strange
thing
.
God
had
vouchsafed
to
teach
them
the
wonders
of
his
word
,
what
greater
bounty
?
They
passed
by
them
,
as
things
not
worthy
to
be
wondred
at
and
regarded
;
what
greater
impiety
?
O
that
it
were
not
with
vs
touching
his
wonderfull
workes
,
as
it
was
with
them
concerning
the
wonders
of
his
law
?
Our
thankesgiuing
,
if
it
be
good
,
must
bee
accompanied
with
exalting
of
the
Lord
.
Now
,
to
exalt
the
Lord
none
can
properly
be
said
to
doe
it
;
for
who
can
exalt
the
Highest
that
exalteth
all
,
and
is
exalted
of
none
?
To
exalt
the
Lord
then
in
the
congregation
of
his
people
,
is
nothing
else
,
but
as
Dauid
expounds
it
,
O
then
(
beloued
)
would
you
haue
God
to
accept
of
your
thankes
,
and
to
giue
a
blessing
to
your
Colony
abroad
,
and
your selues
at
home
;
studie
to
wish
well
,
and
to
doe
well
to
Gods
Church
and
people
.
Labour
first
,
to
procure
faithfull
,
honest
,
and
peaceable
Preachers
,
and
send
them
ouer
to
your
people
(
as
you
haue
sent
some
already
,
both
of
good
learning
and
sanctified
life
,
and
many
more
such
may
you
send
,
)
that
they
may
Open
their
eies
,
that
they
may
turne
from
darknes
to
light
;
and
from
the
power
of
Satan
vnto
God
;
that
they
may
receiue
forgiuenesse
of
sinnes
,
and
an
inheritance
amongst
them
which
are
sanctified
by
faith
in
Christ
.
If
you
prouide
not
spiritual
foode
for
your
people
,
aswell
as
corporall
,
what
better
prouision
make
you
,
then
you
doe
for
your
bruite
beasts
which
feede
in
your
pastures
?
Nay
,
do
you
make
so
good
?
For
,
hath
not
an
Oxe
therein
what
he
needeth
;
but
a
man
without
this
,
is
hee
not
left
vnprouided
of
the
farre
better
part
,
euen
his
Soule
?
Yea
,
and
if
you
haue
no
care
to
prouide
good
Preachers
for
your
people
,
but
send
ouer
vnto
them
such
as
offer
themselues
hand
ouer
head
;
you
prouide
not
well
for
your selues
:
for
,
what
assurance
can
you
haue
of
them
,
who
haue
no
assurance
of
themselues
?
what
seruice
can
you
expect
from
them
which
perfourme
none
vnto
Almightie
God
?
will
they
euer
be
faithfull
vnto
you
,
that
are
vnfaithfull
vnto
him
?
And
how
can
they
bee
faithfull
vnto
God
,
if
they
haue
not
faithfull
Preachers
to
bring
them
vnto
him
?
Surely
,
the
best
you
can
looke
from
them
,
is
but
eie-seruice
,
which
how
good
this
wil
be
,
I
leaue
it
to
yourselues
well
to
consider
of
,
who
haue
felt
the
smart
of
it
by
your
slow
returnes
.
Nothing
can
cast
a
sure
knot
vpon
the
hearts
of
your
people
,
but
the
true
knowledge
and
feare
of
God
:
so
as
when
you
aduance
religion
,
you
aduance
together
with
it
your
owne
profit
.
The
neglect
of
this
hath
made
your
hopes
in
your
long
looked
for
Returnes
,
to
this
houre
to
bee
frustrate
.
Obed
Ed●m
prospered
the
better
for
the
Arke
of
God
.
The
Iewes
had
no
good
harnest
whilest
they
left
off
to
build
Gods
Temple
;
and
they
amended
in
their
estate
when
they
amended
that
fault
,
and
reformed
themselues
.
Amongst
other
of
the
causes
,
that
it
hath
not
pleased
God
to
be
succesfull
vnto
your
Plantation
at
the
beginning
thereof
,
and
in
the
infancy
of
the
same
.
That
worthy
ouer-seer
of
your
Colledge
Lands
before
mentioned
,
giueth
this
as
one
;
That
you
haue
not
as
you
ought
(
for
these
bee
his
very
words
)
preferred
Gods
glory
by
your
serious
endeauo●rs
of
conuerting
the
Natiues
,
who
(
as
he
writeth
)
do
liue
so
peaceably
amongst
vs
,
and
round
about
vs
,
as
they
do
euen
seeme
to
groane
vnder
the
burden
of
the
bondage
of
Satan
,
and
to
want
nothing
but
meanes
to
be
deliuered
.
And
this
hee
confirmeth
by
a
discourse
which
he
had
with
Opachankan●
,
their
great
King
,
who
hath
succeeded
Powhatan
,
whose
daughter
Pokah●●ta●
,
one
maister
Iohn
Rolfe
,
an
English
Gentleman
of
good
worth
,
married
:
for
he
found
that
the
sayd
Opachankano
had
more
notions
of
religion
in
him
,
then
could
be
imagined
in
so
great
a
blindnesse
,
since
he
willingly
acknowledged
that
theirs
was
not
the
right
way
,
desiring
to
be
instructed
in
ours
:
And
confessing
that
God
loued
vs
more
then
them
;
and
that
he
thought
the
cause
of
his
anger
against
them
,
was
their
custome
of
making
their
children
Blacke-boyes
,
or
consecrating
them
to
Sathan
.
Hee
found
also
that
the
sayd
Opachankan●
had
some
knowledge
of
many
of
the
fixed
S●arres
,
and
had
obserued
the
North
Starre
,
and
the
course
of
the
Constellations
about
it
,
and
called
the
great
Beare
Manquahanum
,
which
in
their
language
doth
signifie
the
Sunne
.
I
might
heere
speake
something
touching
my
owne
experience
,
of
the
willingnesse
of
the
Heathens
in
gen●rall
in
all
the
Easterne
parts
of
the
world
,
where
I
haue
trauailed
,
how
ready
they
are
to
receiue
the
Gospel
,
if
there
were
but
Preachers
amongst
them
that
could
and
would
instruct
them
by
their
Doctrine
and
Life
.
And
of
one
of
them
in
speciall
,
England
,
and
taught
him
(
I
not
being
able
to
speak
otherwise
to
him
,
nor
he
to
mee
,
but
by
signes
,
)
to
speake
,
to
reade
and
write
the
English
tongue
and
hand
,
both
Romane
and
Secretary
,
within
lesse
then
the
space
of
a
yeare
,
so
that
his
Maiestie
and
many
of
the
Nobilitie
wondered
at
his
hand
;
and
within
the
compasse
of
three
yeares
,
I
taught
him
the
grounds
of
Religion
,
and
to
learn
most
of
Saint
Pa●les
Epistles
by
heart
,
and
to
giue
a
publique
confession
of
his
Faith
the
day
hee
was
baptized
in
a
famous
assembly
heere
in
the
Cittie
,
before
the
right
worshipfull
the
East
India
Company
,
and
since
to
write
the
Latine
Epistles
heereunto
adioyned
.
I
could
heere
say
much
of
the
double
diligence
of
Iesuites
their
poysoning
with
the
Coloquintida
of
Popery
many
thousand
soules
in
the
E●st
I●dies
and
Iapan
,
and
other
the
remotest
parts
of
the
world
:
All
which
might
bee
Motiues
strong
enough
to
stirre
you
vp
to
haue
a
greater
care
of
the
planting
of
the
Gospell
in
your
Plantations
.
But
Time
now
calleth
vppon
mee
to
excite
you
,
as
to
labour
to
procure
and
send
ouer
honest
and
painefull
Preachers
,
so
in
the
second
place
to
haue
a
care
(
as
I
know
you
haue
)
to
procure
and
send
ouer
skilfull
and
pianefull
Tradesmen
and
Husbandmen
,
to
follow
their
trades
,
and
to
cultiuate
the
ground
.
Our
Countrey
aboundeth
with
people
;
your
Colony
wanteth
them
:
you
all
know
that
there
is
nothing
more
dangerous
for
the
estate
of
Commonwealths
,
then
when
the
people
doe
increase
to
a
greater
number
and
multitude
,
then
may
iustly
parall●ll
with
the
largenesse
of
the
place
and
country
in
which
they
liue
.
For
,
euen
as
bloud
,
though
it
be
the
best
humour
in
the
body
,
yet
if
it
abound
in
greater
quantitie
,
then
the
vessell
and
state
of
the
body
will
contayne
and
beare
,
doeth
indanger
the
body
,
and
oftentimes
destroyes
it
:
so
although
the
honour
of
a
King
be
in
the
multitude
of
people
(
as
wise
King
Salomon
speaketh
)
yet
when
this
multitude
of
people
increaseth
to
ouer
great
a
number
,
Thus
hauing
falne
into
this
point
of
exalting
God
in
the
congregation
of
the
people
,
and
the
assembly
of
the
Elders
,
I
haue
here
good
occasion
offered
to
mee
to
blesse
God
for
the
prudence
and
prouidence
of
this
honourable
citie
,
the
honourable
Elders
thereof
,
the
honourable
Lord
Maior
,
and
the
right
worshipfull
the
Aldermen
his
brethren
;
who
seeing
this
Cittie
to
be
mightily
increased
,
and
fearing
lest
the
ouer-flowing
multitude
of
inhabitants
should
,
like
too
much
bloud
in
the
body
,
infect
the
whole
Cittie
with
plague
and
pouertie
;
haue
therefore
deuised
in
their
great
wisdomes
a
Remedy
for
this
Malady
,
to
wit
,
the
transporting
of
their
ouer-flowing
multitude
into
Virginia
;
which
was
first
put
in
practise
in
the
Maioralitie
of
that
worthy
&
famous
Lord
Maior
Sir
George
B●wl●●
,
who
se●t
ouer
a
hundred
persons
,
the
halfe
of
their
charge
being
borne
by
the
Citie
;
the
other
halfe
by
the
Honourable
Virginia
Company
;
which
worthy
course
was
afterwards
followed
by
the
right
worshipfull
Sir
William
Cockins
,
in
whose
Maioraltie
were
sent
ouer
a
hundred
more
in
the
like
nature
.
And
now
likewise
the
right
Honourable
,
the
present
Lord
Maior
,
with
the
right
worshipfull
the
Aldermen
his
brethren
,
intend
to
con●inue
this
course
,
that
they
may
ease
the
Citie
of
a
many
that
are
ready
to
starue
,
and
do
starue
dayly
in
our
streetes
(
to
the
great
griefe
of
all
tender-hearted
and
mercifull
men
)
for
want
of
foode
to
put
into
their
mouthes
.
This
course
,
I
say
,
they
haue
taken
already
,
and
meane
to
prosecute
it
,
as
I
am
informed
,
to
the
end
they
may
preserue
this
famous
Cittie
in
greater
Peace
and
Prosperitie
:
Herein
wisely
imitattng
the
prudent
and
prouident
husbandman
,
whom
they
see
thus
to
deale
with
his
grounds
,
when
they
are
ouercharged
with
cattle
:
For
,
as
he
by
remouing
them
from
one
ground
to
another
,
prouideth
well
both
for
his
cattle
and
for
his
ground
:
so
they
in
their
wisedoms
,
by
remouing
their
super-increasing
people
from
the
Citty
to
Virginia
,
haue
prouided
well
both
for
this
Cittie
and
their
people
:
for
,
whereas
many
of
those
which
were
sent
ouer
,
were
a
burden
to
this
Citty
,
they
are
now
through
the
good
gouernment
there
,
and
Gods
blessing
vpon
the
works
their
hands
)
become
men
able
to
liue
of
themselues
in
good
sort
and
fashion
in
Virginia
;
being
before
their
sending
ouer
like
to
vnconuerted
Onesymus
,
vnp●ofitable
vnto
all
;
Onesymus
,
but
truely
conuerted
,
profitable
to
the
Plantation
,
and
to
the
Cittie
;
to
the
one
by
their
paines
,
to
the
other
by
their
prayers
,
blessing
God
from
the
bottome
of
their
hearts
that
they
were
sent
from
London
to
Virginia
;
yea
,
blessing
also
the
Lord
Maiors
,
in
whose
time
they
were
sent
ouer
.
I
may
say
of
this
singular
prudence
and
prouidence
of
this
honourable
Cittie
,
what
our
Sauiour
sayd
of
the
fact
of
Marie
Magdalen
in
powring
her
costly
oyntment
on
his
sacred
head
(
howsoeuer
some
sonnes
of
Beliall
maligne
this
worthy
worke
,
as
Iudas
the
Traitor
,
and
some
of
hell
,
maligned
●●at
act
of
Ma●ies
anoynting
of
Christ
,
pretending
●●e
good
of
the
poore
,
but
intending
it
as
much
as
his
owne
saluation
,
which
was
little
or
nothing
at
all
,
)
Verily
I
say
vnto
you
wheresoeuer
this
Gospell
shall
bee
preached
,
throughought
all
the
world
,
there
shall
also
this
that
she
hath
done
be
spoken
of
,
for
a
memoriall
of
her
.
So
verily
,
I
say
of
this
honourable
City
and
worthy
Elders
thereof
,
that
so
long
as
there
shall
continue
any
English
in
Virginia
(
and
we
hope
their
race
shall
continue
there
till
the
second
comming
of
our
blessed
Sauiour
)
transported
from
this
Citie
thither
,
they
shall
not
c●ase
to
pray
for
the
prosperitie
of
this
famous
Citie
,
and
worthy
gouernours
thereof
.
Wherefore
let
me
beseech
so
many
of
the
right
.
Worshipfull
and
worthy
Gouernours
of
this
famous
Cittie
,
as
are
present
,
(
and
I
humbly
intreate
them
,
to
stirre
vppe
all
such
as
are
absent
)
to
proceede
as
they
haue
begunne
,
Pro●
.
4.18
.
that
their
Way
may
shine
as
the
light
that
shineth
more
and
more
vnto
the
perfect
day
;
that
what
was
spoken
of
Ruth
,
may
bee
verified
in
them
;
Thou
hast
shewed
more
goodnesse
in
the
latter
end
,
then
at
the
beginning
:
and
that
that
may
bee
their
praise
,
which
is
recorded
to
be
the
commendation
of
the
Church
of
Thy●tir●
;
I
know
thy
workes
,
and
thy
loue
and
seruice
,
and
faith
and
patience
;
and
how
thy
workes
are
more
at
the
last
then
as
the
first
.
Right
Worshipfull
,
yee
are
plentifull
in
other
good
workes
,
the
maintaining
of
your
Ho●pitals
,
and
other
publike
workes
in
this
famous
Cittie
,
preach
your
munificence
through
all
the
world
,
Many
haue
done
worthily
for
the
plantation
in
Virginia
,
but
the
honourable
Citty
of
London
surmounteth
them
all
.
Your
Cittie
(
as
I
sayd
)
aboundeth
in
people
(
and
long
may
it
doe
so
)
the
Plantation
in
Virginia
is
capable
enough
to
receiue
them
;
O
take
cour●e
to
ease
your
Cittie
,
and
to
prouide
well
for
your
people
by
sending
them
ouer
thither
;
that
both
they
of
that
Colony
there
,
and
they
of
your
owne
Cittie
here
,
may
liue
to
blesse
your
prudent
and
prouident
gouernment
ouer
them
.
For
,
I
haue
heard
many
of
the
painfullest
labourers
of
your
Cittie
,
euen
with
teares
bemoane
the
desolate
estate
of
their
poore
wiues
and
children
;
who
though
they
rise
earely
,
taw
and
teare
their
flesh
all
the
day
long
with
hard
labour
,
and
goe
late
to
bed
,
and
feede
almost
all
the
weeke
long
vpon
browne
bread
and
cheese
,
yet
are
scarce
able
to
put
bread
in
their
mouthes
at
the
weekes
end
,
and
cloathes
on
their
backes
at
the
yeares
end
;
and
all
because
worke
is
so
hard
to
be
come
by
,
and
there
be
so
many
of
the
same
Trade
,
that
they
can
not
thriue
one
for
another
.
Right
Worshipfull
,
I
beseech
you
ponder
(
as
I
know
you
doe
)
the
forlorne
estate
of
many
of
the
best
members
of
your
Citty
,
and
helpe
them
,
O
helpe
them
out
of
their
misery
;
what
you
bestow
vppon
them
in
their
transportation
to
VIRGINIA
,
they
will
repay
it
at
present
with
their
Prayers
,
and
when
they
are
able
with
their
Purses
;
and
GOD
in
the
meane
while
,
will
plentifully
reward
your
liberalitie
this
way
with
his
blessing
vpon
your
famous
Citie
,
vpon
your selues
,
vpon
your
posteritie
:
For
doth
not
your
mercifull
God
,
the
Lord
of
Hosts
,
proue
him
,
if
hee
will
not
open
the
windowes
of
heauen
vnto
you
,
and
powre
you
out
a
blessing
without
measure
?
And
that
I
may
bend
my
speech
vnto
all
,
seing
so
many
of
the
Lords
Worthies
haue
done
worthily
in
this
noble
Action
:
yea
,
and
seing
that
some
of
them
greatly
rejoyce
in
this
(
as
I
haue
heard
it
from
their
owne
mouthes
)
that
GOD
hath
inabled
them
to
helpe
forward
this
glorious
Worke
,
both
with
their
Prayers
and
with
their
Purses
,
let
it
be
your
griefe
and
sorrow
to
be
exempted
from
the
Company
of
so
many
honourable
minded
men
,
and
from
this
noble
Plantation
,
tending
so
highly
to
the
advancement
of
the
Gospell
;
and
to
the
honouring
of
our
drad
Soveraigne
,
by
inlarging
of
his
Kingdomes
,
and
adding
a
fifth
Crowne
vnto
his
other
foure
:
for
,
En
dat
Virginia
quintam
,
is
the
Motto
of
the
Legal
Seale
of
VIRGINIA
.
And
let
mee
,
in
a
word
,
shut
vp
all
,
vnto
you
all
,
that
hath
beene
spoken
with
that
exhortation
of
the
Apostle
;
My
beloved
brethren
,
be
yee
stedfast
,
vnmoueable
,
aboundant
alwayes
in
the
worke
of
the
Lord
:
for
as
much
as
you
know
that
your
labour
is
not
in
vaine
in
the
LORD
.
FINIS
.