VIRGINIA'S God be Thanked, OR A SERMON OF THANKSGIVING FOR THE HAPPY success of the affairs in VIRGINIA this last year. Preached by PATRICK COPLAND at Bow-Church in Cheapside, before the Honourable VIRGINIA COMPANY, on Thursday, the 18. of April 1622. And now published by the Commandment of the said honourable COMPANY. Hereunto are adjoined some Epistles, written first in Latin (and now Englished) in the East Indies by Peter Pope, an Indian youth, borne in the bay of Bengala, who was first taught and converted by the said P. C. And after baptised by Master john Wood, Dr in Divinity, in a famous Assembly before the Right Worshipful, the East India Company, at S. Denis in Fan-Church street in London, December 22. 1616.  
LONDON Printed by I. D. for William Sheffard and john Bellamy, and are to be sold at his shop at the two Greyhounds in Cornhill, near the Royal Exchange. 1622.   

TO THE RIGHT NOBLE AND HONOURABLE EARLS, BARONS, And Lords; And to the right worshipful Knights, Merchants, and Gentlemen, Adventurers for the Plantation in VIRGINIA; all happiness, external, internal, and eternal in Christ jesus our blessed SAVIOUR.  
AFter I had discharged the charge laid upon me by your Honourable and Worshipful Court; and was presently after, solicited by some of your Honourable Society, to present to the eye, what I had delivered to the ear. Though at first, I was indeed very unwilling, at their entreaty: yet, being commanded by your Honourable Court to publish what before you had entreated me to Preach; and weighing well with myself, that words spoken, are soon come, soon gone; but that written withal, they make a deeper impression: for, by striking as well the Eye of the Reader, as the Ear of the Hearer, they pierce his heart the better, and save his soul the sooner. Hereupon, that I might testify how much I honour your lawful Commandments; and withal, that I might confirm with my Pen that grace, which it pleased God to work by my Voice; I have now yielded to all of your Requests, making that common to all, which then was imparted but to some: only in desire some way to witness my dutiful respect ●o your Honourable Court, and love to your Noble Plantation. For, seeing many of your Noble and worthy Company have spent a great part of their painfully gained estates upon this honourable Action; and rejoice in nothing more than in this, that God hath given them a price in their hand, and a heart to use it for the furthering of this glorious Work; How could I, at so earnest entreaty, refuse to adventure this Mite of mine, among so many worthy Adventures of theirs? How could I (I say) refuse to make their public Bounty, and your public Thanksgiving, yet more public?  
If your Honours will be pleased to take in good part what now I impart; it may prove a spur unto me, to undertake some bet●er piece of service for the good of your noble Plantation; at least, if it lie in my poor power to bring it to pass. Thus entreating your Honour's favourable acceptance, I rest  
London this 22 of May. 1622. In all humble duty to be commanded P. C.   

Virginia's God be thanked.  

Psalm, 107. verse. 23.  
They that go down to the Sea in Ships, and occupy in the great waters;  
24. They see the works of the Lord, and his wonders in the deep:  
25. For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, and it lifteth up the waves thereof.  
26. They mount up to the heaven, and descend to the deep; so that their soul 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 unto the Lord in their trouble; and he bringeth them out of their distress.  
29. He turneth the storm to a calm, so that the waves 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 confess before the Lord, his loving kindness; and his wonderful works before the sons of men.  
32. And let them exalt him in the Congregation of the people, & praise him in the Assembly of the Elders.   
THE occasion of our present meeting (Right Honourable, Right Worshipful, and dear beloved in our Lord jesus Christ) is to celebrate the goodness of our good and gracious God, & to give him public and solemn praises for the sa●e arriving of your Fleet of 9 Sail of Ships in Virginia, in November, and December last: And for the happy (yea, and in a manner miraculous) landing o● 800. people M●n, womans, and children, all in health: As also for the hopeful and good success, wherewith Almighty God hath crowned your Colony in that Heathen-now Christian Kingdom.  
This Task being laid upon me (the unworthiest of many, who could and would have performed it better) I have endeavoured to discharge, according to the scantling of time, and measure of grace vouchsafed unto me.  
The Prophet in this Psalm, magnifying the Providence of God, against all profane Epicures, and carnal Worldlings (who ascribe all ●hings, either to blind Fortune; or their own Industry) setteth down four kinds of men, which are most indebted unto God for deliverance from Dangers: The first is of those, who in their journey by land have escaped a Dearth, from the first verse to the tenth. The Second, is of Prisoners enlarged and set at liberty, from the tenth verse, to the seventeenth. The Third, is of such, as are freed from a desperate and mortal Sickness, from the 17. verse to the 23. The Last, is of Mariners, Sailors, and Seafaring men; who have escaped a storm, and have got into the wished haven, from the 23. verse to the 33.  
This last part, being the Text apppointed for my present discourse; I have for my better proceeding in it; and your Memories sake, reduced to these three heads, A Danger, A Deliverance, A Duty.  
The Danger is set down verse, 25.26.27. (for the other two verses, are but as it were, an Introduction into it) for he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy winds etc. The Deliverance from the Danger is set forth by the Means that these Seafaring men use to be freed from it, viz. faithful and fervent Prayer unto God, verse 28.29. 30. Then they cry unto the Lord in their trouble etc. The Duty, is delivered verse 31. 32. Let them therefore confess before the Lord his loving kindness etc. To speak of these in order; the first thing we have to note is this, that Great is the Danger of Seafaring men. 
D. Great is the danger of Seafaring men.  A lively Image of their uncertain and variable lives is here set down by the Prophet. And if we mark well the comparison; It is next to famine, Imprisonment, and a deadly Disease to be a Seaman: 
Pittacus.  for as one saith Navigantes neque inter vivos, neque inter mortuous. Sailor's are neither amongst the living, nor yet amongst the dead: as having but a few inches of plank between them and Death, they hang between both; ready to offer up their Souls to every flaw of wind, and billow of water wherein they are tossed. The immovable rocks, and the mutable winds; the overflowing waters, and swallowing sands; the tempestuous storms, & spoiling Pirates have their lives at their mercy and command. Mariners living in the Sea, almost as fishes, having the waters as their necessariest Element: are commonly men void of fear, venturous and contemners of dangers: yet when God on a sudden commandeth a ●●orme, and sitteth himself in the mouth of the tempest: when their Ship is foundered with water under them; when Life and Soul are ready to shake hands, and depart this present world; then, even these nought-fearing fellows, these high stomached men tremble for fear like faint-hearted women that shrink at every stir in a wherry on the River of Thames in a rough and boisterous Tide: or like unto a young Soldier, which starteth at the shooting off of a Gun.  
I remember what Aeschi●es spoke of Demosthenes at Rhodes when he read the Defence that Demosthenes had framed to his Accusation; the people wondering at the strength and validity of it. Quid si ipsam andissetis bestiam sua verba pronu●cia●tem● What would you have tho●ght (said he) if you had heard the Beast (for so he speaketh disgracefully of Demosthenes) pronouncing it with his own mouth?  
You wonder at the hearing of the dangerous storm, described here by the Prophet; but what would you say, if you had seen it yourselves with your own eyes? jonah, a Seafaring man, when he writeth of the storm wherein he was; his pen wrote nothing so effectually, as his heart felt: and being the Scribe and Orator only, he is nothing so fluent and copious as when he is the Patient. The style of his history is simple & plain jonah prayed v●to the Lord his God out of the belly of the fish. 
jonah 1. 1.  What one word therein is lofty and magnificent, and lifted above the common course of speech? But the style of jonah himself speaking from a sense and feeling of his own woes, is full of Ornament and Majesty, full of translated and varied phrases, as if a sentence of ordinary terms were not sufficient to express his extraordinary woes: for being in Affliction, and in the danger itself; 
verse 2.  it is not said as before that he prayed, but that he cried, 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, 
verse 3.  is said to be a casting of him into the bottom of the midst of the Sea; and a compassing of him about with floods, surges & waves, which went over and over his head: Nay, 
verse 5.  a compassing about of his soul, and a very melting of it for tro●ble, as here in this Psal. verse 26. and a wrapping about of his head with weeds, and a going down unto the bottom of the Mountains. Let the Scriptures be throughly searched again and again, from the beginning of Genesis, to the end of the Revelation; and we shall hardly meet with the like description of Misery, so emphatically and pathetically set out as this of Seafaring men, set down both in that second Chapter of jonah, and in this 107. Psalm.  
The miseries of job, you all know how vehement they were, and he never more kindly expressed them then by this translation. Am I a Sea, or a Whale-fish that thou keepest me in ward? 
job 7.12.   
Will you yet see the great danger of Sea men, I will lead you along to weigh it by an experience and trial of mine own, In a Typhoon, or cruel tempest that I met with off of the Islands of Macqa●, adjoining to the Continent of Chyna. In this Typhoon or storm, our goodly Unicorn (a ship of 800● T●nne) was cast away upon the Continent of Chyna; but all the people (blessed be God) saved; and though at their first landing upon the Chyna shore, they were rifled by some of the base ●ort of the Chynae●; yet upon the coming of the Mandarins, or Governors, they had good entertainment of diet & houseroom for their money, and were very kindly used by those of better note. In this Tempest we lost also our Pinnace, with 24 or 30 men in her which we had sent before us to Firando (an Island adjoining to japan) to give notice of our coming, of whom we never heard news: we cut off our long Boat, and let her go; we sunk our Shallop with two men in her, who were swallowed up by the waves. Such was this Storm, as if jonah had been flying unto Tharshish. The air was beclouded, the heavens were obscured, and made an Egyptian night of five or six days perpetual horror: The experience of our Seamen was amazed; the skill of our Mariners was confounded; our Royal james most violently and dangerously leaked; & those which pumped to keep others from drowning, were half drowned themselves with continual pumping. But God that heard jonah crying out of the belly of Hell; and who, here is said to turn a storm into a calm; he pitied the distresses of his servants; he hushed the Tempest, and brought us safely to Firando, our wished Haven. O that the Tempest of Macqau may never out of my mind, but that this wonderful Deliverance and all other God's mercies, may still be jogging me at the elbow, and putting me in mind to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the Sons of men; that I may exalt him in the congregation of the people, and praise him in the Assembly of the Elders.  
But you will say, what needeth all this Discourse, touching the Danger of Seamen; we are met together for another purpose, to give thanks unto God?  
Beloved, I do confess indeed it is so, that the end of our present meeting is for Thanksgiving. But how can wee●er be feelingly thankful, as we should in word and deed, if we know not the Danger wherein we are, and the Deliverance vouchsafed unto us? Will not the true knowledge and deep consideration of these, make us put so many the more thanks into our Sacrifice of Praise?  
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 yourselves here at home. And left others, that are not of your Honourable Company, may think this point impertinent to them; Let all of us consider the Dangers wherein we were, and still are; and the many Deliverances vouchsafed unto us (for I must entreat you to give me leave to join Danger and Deliverance together, for the better stirring of you up unto your duty.) And then I doubt not, but all of us shall have cause to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons 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 job, 
job 16.3.4.  Will ye give the words of him that is afflicted to the wind? As if he had said, when affliction itself, and the inmost sorrows of my heart tell my tale, will you not regard it? O that your souls were in my soul's stead, that you felt as much sorrow as I do: Liquour in angustia mea; queror in amaritudine animae mea, I speak that that I speak from a world of trouble; I make my complaint in the bitterness of my soul. Surely, if some hundreds of those that miscarried in the infancy, and at the first beginning of your Plantation, (which is exceedingly bettered within these 2. years) were now alive, I think they would speak no otherwise than job spake● Will you give the words of them that are afflicted to the wind? Will ye not believe in what Danger we were, 
Summer Lands.  when some of us made Shipwreck upon the supposed enchanted Lands; when others of us encountered with bloody enemies in the West Indies; when many of us died by the way; and when those that were left alive, some perished a shore, for want of comfortable provisions, and looking unto, and others were killed with the Bows and Arrows of the Savages upon our first landing there? I presume, I speak to melting hearts of flesh, as tenderly sensible of your brethren's woe, as heartily thankful for your own good.  
And now, beloved, since the case is altered, that all difficulties are swallowed up: And seeing, first, there is no danger by the way; neither through encountering of enemy, or Pirate; nor meeting with rocks, or Shoals (all which to Seafaring men are very dangerous, and from all which your Ships and people are far removed, by reason of their fair and safe passage through the main Ocean) nor through the tediousness of the passage; the fittest season of the year for a speedy passage, being now far better known then before; and by that means the passage itself made almost in so many weeks, as formerly it was wont to be made in months; which I conceive to be, through the blessing of God, the main cause of the safe arrival of your last Fleet of nine Sail of Ships, that not one (but one, in whose room 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 wars, or famine, or want of convenient lodging, and looking too, through which many miscarried heretofore; for, blessed be God, there hath been a long time, and still is a happy league of Peace and Amity sound concluded, and faithfully kept, between the English and the Natives, that the fear of killing each other is now vanished away. Besides, there is now in your Plantation plenty of good and wholesome provisions for the strength and comfort, not only of the Colony, but also of all such as after their passage do land ashore. There is also convenient lodging, and careful attendance provided for them, till they can provide for themselves; and a fair Inn for receiving and harbouring of Strangers, erecting in james City; to the setting up of which, both your worshipful Governor, Sir Francis Wyatt, and your worthy Treasurer, Master George Sands do write, that they doubt not, but there will be raised between fifteen hundred and two thousand pounds; to which every man contributeth cheerfully and bountifully; they being all freehearted, and openhanded to all public good works. Seing, I say, that now all former difficulties (which much hindered the progress of your noble Plantation) are removed, and in a manner overcome: And that your people in your Colony (through God's mercy) were all in good health, every one busied in their Vocations, as Bees in their Hives, at the setting sail of your Ship the Concord from Virginia in March last. O what miracles are these? O what cause have you and they to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men?  
But to pass from the Danger and deliverance of your people, who endangered, yea, lost their lives in settling 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 Lands, when it was concluded a few days after his landing, by himself, Sir George Summer, Captain Newport, and the whole Counsel, by the general approbation of all, to abandon the Colony (because of the want of provisions) and to make for Newfoundland, and so for England. And will not the hopeful settling of your Colony there, now under the Government of a worthy and worshipful Commander; and a wise and wel-experienced Counsel, stir you up to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons 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 stir you up to confess before the Lord his loving kindness: Then I beseech you, in the third place, to consider the Danger of your own selves here at home. What mass of money have you buried in that Plantation? How many of you had it not made to wish that you had never put your hand to this Plough? Nay, how many of you had it not made to shrink in your shoulders; and to sink (as it were) under the burden, and to be quite out of hope for ever seeing penny of that you had so largely depursed?  
And now, Beloved, is not the case altered? Are not your hopes great of seeing; nay, of feeling, within a few years of double, treble; yea, I may say of tensold for one? Do not all of you know what that Religious and judicious Overseer of your College lands there writeth unto you from thence? 
Master George Thorpe in his Letter written from james City May 17. 1621.  No man (saith he) can justly say, that this Country is not capable of all those good things, that you in your wisdoms, with your great charge have projected, both for her wealth and honour: and also of all other good things, that the most opulent parts of Christendom do afford; neither are we hopeless, that this Country may also yield things of better value than any of those? And surely, by that which I have heard and seen abroad in my travailing to India and japan, I am confirmed in the truth of that which he doth write. for japan, lying in the same latitude that Virginia doth; and if there be any odds, Virginia hath them, as lying more Southerly than japan doth: japan (I say) lying under 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, having in it many rich Mines of Gold and Silver.  
And had you not a taste of some Merchantable Commodities sent unto you from Virginia some years ago, whilst that worshipful and worthy Governor, Sir Thomas Dale sent home unto you samples of above a dozen several good Commodities from thence? Have you not now great hopes of abundance of Corn, Wine, Oil, Lemmons, Oranges, Pomegranates, and all manner of fruits pleasant to the eye, and wholesome for the belly? And of plenty of Silk, Silk Grasse, cotton-wool, Flax, Hemp etc. for the back? Are not you already possessed with rich Mines of Copper and Iron, and are not your hopes great of far richer Minerals? 
Master George Sands in his Letter written from james City March 3. 1621.  Have you not read what of late your worthy Treasurer doth write unto you? If (saith he) we overcome this year the Yron-workes, Glasse-workes, Salt-works; take order for the plentiful setting of Corn; restrain the quantity of Tobacco, and mend it in the quality, plant Vines, Mulbery-trees, Figtrees, Pomegranates, Potatoes, Cotton woolles; and erect a fair Inn in james City (to the setting up of which, I doubt not but we shall raise fifteen hundred or two thousand pounds: for every man gives willingly towards this and other public works) you have enough for this year.  
And a little after, in the same letter● Master Pory deserves good encouragement for his painful Discoveries to the southward, as far as the Choanoack, who although he hath trod on a little good ground, hath passed through great forests of Pines 15. or 16. mile broad and above 60. mile long, which will serve 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 fruitful Country blessed with abundance of Corn, reaped twice a year: above which is the Copper Mines, by all of all places generally affirmed. He hath also met with a great deal of silk grass which grows there monthly of which Master Harriot, hath affirmed in print many years ago, that it will make silk Grow-graines● and of which and Cotten will all the Cambaya and Bengala stuffs are made in the East Indies.  
Herd you not with your own ears what M. john Martin an Armenian by birth (that hath lived now 6. or 7. years in Virginia, and is but very lately come from thence, and purposeth (as all others that are lately come over, who also far prefer Virginia to England) to return thither again, with this resolution, there to live and die) said in the audience of your whole Court the 8th of this Instant? I have travailed (said he) by Land over eighteen several kingdoms; and yet all of them in my mind, come far short of Virginia, both for temperature of air, and fertility of the soil. All this throughly considered, O how great cause have you to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men?  
And that all of us here present may confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men; Let us take to heart our private, our public Dangers and deliverances: from how many Dangers eminent and imminent hath the Lord delivered us and our whole Land in eightie-eight; and in the Gun powder-Treason? Have we not then all of us good cause to exalt the Lord in the Congregation of the people, and to praise him in the Assembly of the Elders? Nay, have not Elders and Yongers, and all good cause so to do?  
But, alas, I am afraid, that we have forgotten the loving kindness of the Lord, and his wonderful Deliverances bestowed upon us. Beneficij memoria est brevissima; 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉. May not England justly be charged with Israel's sin, whose Prayers and Praises ended so soon as they passed the red Sea? Amongst the Tribes, there was one named Manasse, which signifies, Forgetfulness; I pray God the Tribes, even the heads of our people forget it not; but that we and the whole Land, may confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men; and se●ke to exalt him in the Congregation of the people, and to praise him in the Assembly of the Elders.  
Verse 28. Then they cried unto the Lord in their trouble etc. 
THus having spoken of the Danger, I come now to speak a word of the Deliverance, and the means which these Seafaring men used to be freed from their trouble, which is faithful & fervent Prayer, Then they cried unto the Lord, etc.  
Faithful and fervent Prayer unto God, 
D. There is no danger so great, out of which faithful and fervent prayer will not help a man.  in the name of jesus Christ, is a sure means to procure help in trouble, and to free us from the greatest danger that is, or at least from the evil thereof. These Mariners going unto God, not with a cold and careless devotion; nor with a dumb Spirit: but with as earnest and impatient a voice, as the affection of their heart, and affliction of their body could send forth: they thus crying unto the Lord in their trouble; he brought them out of their distress, he hushed the storm: he brought them to the haven of their desire, & made them glad at the heart. As David gave charge to his Soldiers that they should not kill Absolom his Son, though he 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 john after the voice of Thunder heard the voice of Harpers; so when the Saints have heard the noise of sorrow, they shall hear the sound of joy. As the viper leapt upon Paul, and leapt off again: so troubles leap upon the righteous and leap off again, as though they had mistaken the party, and rapt at the wrong door. One calleth Affliction the Trance of the righteous, because they seem dead for a while, but they wake again.  
Now all this cometh to pass, because the Lord sendeth the Spirit of Prayer into the hearts of his Children, whereby they cry unto him in the time of their trouble, and therefore no marvel, when they cry unto the Lord in their trouble, that he bringeth them out of their distress.  
The most effectual spe●ch to the secret ears of God cometh not from words, but from sighs and groans: he that heareth without ears can interpret our prayers without our tongues● he that saw and fancied Nathaniel under the figtree, before he was called, he that saw and sanctified john Baptist in his mother's womb before he came forth, he s●eth, and blesseth our prayers fervently conceived in the bosom of our Consciences before they be uttered. But if they be faint and faithless, 
1 King. 18. 26● 27. etc.  they shall be answered of God, as the Prayers of Baal's Priests were, who though they cried loud from morning to noon, and to the offering up of the evening Sacrifice; and cut themselves till the blood gushed out upon them, yet there was none to hear, nor to regard their roar.  
Give therefore but thy prayer a voice to cry: for, it must not be dumb, nor tongue-tied; give it an eye to seek: for, it must not be wand'ring and careless; and give it an hand to knock: for, it must not fear to molest and disquiet; and not only shalt thou be freed from Dangers, but the doors, yea, all the treasures and jewels of the kingdom of Heaven shall be open unto it.  
But some, it may be, will say, My danger is great; yea, so great that it maketh my heart to ache within me, and my soul to melt for sorrow.  
I answer, the greatness of our Danger cannot be a stop to our Deliverance; If we can but call and cry unto the Lord in our trouble, He will bring us out of our Distress. The Seafaring men here described, had their hearts to melt for sorrow, yet crying unto the Lord in their trouble, He brought them out of their distress? The word here translated, Distress, 
Vmimmitskothebem.  is by Arias Montanus translated de coarctationibus; and by junius and Tremellius, ex angustijs. So that the trouble here spoken of, is not properly trouble, but narrownes & straits. Be our case then never so desperate, the Lord can help it: for, nothing is impossible to him. The Israelites groaned unto him in Egypt, he heard and delivered them from the tyranny of Pharaoh: The young men in the Fiery Furnace called upon him, and were delivered: The cry of Daniel stopped the mouth of the roaring Lions; Paul and Silas being in bonds, prayed, and their chains fell loose from them; the doors opened and gave them passage. Although we be plunged never so low, that we know not where to seek, nor where to find; although the floods of troubles run clean over and over us; in so much that we seem to ourselves past help and recovery; yet are we not indeed past help, so long as we are not past desire to be holpen. Men indeed are altogether amazed, and in a manner bereft of wit and understanding, when they feel themselves dangerously tossed too and fro, as here these Seafaring men did; but when they cried in their trouble vn●o the Lord, he brought them out of their distress. There was never affliction so great, but the hand of the Lord hath been able to master it; There was never storm so fierce, but his power hath been able to allay it. Therefore, if out souls do even melt for trouble within us; we must not take discomfort at it. The lord sitteth above the water-Floods; the Lord commandeth the Sea, and all that is therein; the Lord that turneth the storm to a calm (blessed be his name, and let the might of his Majesty receive honour for evermore) he will never forsake his children that cry unto him; neither in health nor sickness, light nor darkness, storms nor calms; in the land of the living, nor in the land of forgetfulness. Therefore, let us resolve with holy David, 
Psal. 23.4.  Though I should walk thorough the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil. I will fear no evil (saith David) neither great nor small: for it is all one with God to deliver from the greater storms, aswell as from the lesser. Some difference there is indeed of Dangers and Deliverances out of them, but it is only such as in Books printed on large and less letter and paper, the matter not varying at all; for example. When God brought some of the ships of your former fleets to Virginia in safety; here God's providence was seen & felt privately by some; and this was a deliverance, written (as it were) in quarto on a lesser paper & letter. But now, when God brought all of your 9 ships, and all your people in them in health & safety to Virginia: Yea and that ship Tiger of yours, which had fallen into the hands of the Turkish men of war, through tempest and contrary winds, she not being able to bear sail, and by that means droven out of her course some hundreds of miles: for otherwise of itself the passage from England to Virginia, is out of the walk of Turks, and clear and safe from all Pirates, who commonly lurk near Lands, and head-lands, and not in the main Ocean. When this your Tiger had fall'n, by reason of this storm, and some indiscretion of her M●ster and people, who taking the Turks to have been Flemings, bound for Holland or England, bore up the helm to speak with them: for they needed not if they had listed to have come near the Turks, but have proceeded safely on their voyage) into the hands of those merciless Turks, who had taken from them most of their victuals, and all of their serviceable sails, tackling and anchors, and had not so much as left them an hourglass or compass to steer their course, thereby utterly disabling them from going from them, and proceeding on their voyage. When (I say) God had ransomed her out their hands, 
Esa. 43.4.  as the Prophet speaketh, by another Sail which they espied, and brought her likewise safely to Virginia with all her people, two English boys only excepted, for which the Turks gave them two others, a French youth and an Irish. Was not there the presence of God printed, as it were, in Folio on Royal Crown Paper and Capital Letters, that, as Habacucke saith, 
Hab. 2.2.  They that run and ride post may read it. O then how great cause have you and they, to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men?   
Verse 31.32. Let them therefore confess before the Lord, etc. 
HItherto of the Danger and Deliverance; now of the Duty, which, in a word, is thanksgiving.  
The greater our danger i●; 
D. The more & greater Gods blessings are upon us, the larger & heartier ought our praises and thanksgiuings be unto God for the same.  the more joyful is our deliverance, and ●he more cheerfully ought we to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men. Thanksgiving is the end of our Deliverance. This duty carefully performed, is a singular exercise of faith, when men standing upon the shore, and beholding the dangerous and tumultuous Seas which they have passed, are stirred up to sacrifice praise and glory to him for the s●me. Gen. 8.20. Exod. 15.1 Psal. 50.15. This service is a further work of faith then petition: for they which are but enlightened ●gainst death may serve in a sort to make some petitions to God; but they never bethink them atall of the duty of thanksgiving, when they have received benefits from him. And for this cause, nine of the ten lepers which Christ cleansed, are defamed to all posterity by the Holy Ghost in the Gospel.  
Let us labour to purge ourselves of such a wickedness, spending much of our time in songs of thanksgiving, Confessing before the Lord his loving kindness, and his wonderful works before the sons of men. For thanksgiving is, as it were, the homage or rent-charge, which we are to return to God for all his mercies, especially for our right to our inheritance in heaven. And we know that if men refuse to do their homage, or pay their rent to their earthly Landlord, they shall deserve thereby to be turned out of their farms, & others to be put in their room, which shall discharge the duty better. So, if we prove unthankful to the Lord of heaven, shall we not justly deserve to lose our inheritance? Wherefore let us do as men, which are bound by bond to make tender of a sum of money upon great penalty in a certain place; and, at a certain time named in the bond, they will be sure to tender the payment in the place, and at the time appointed and specified in the bond, lest they incur the penalty. Even so, etc. Let us beware we do not foreslow our thankfulness upon light and slight excuses, lest we forfeit God's loving kindness, & our own salvation. Let us weigh, what God hath done for us, & lay all God's benefits together, thereby the be●ter to stir us up unto thankfulness. Leah beareth one son, & calleth his name Reuben; a second son, & called his name Simeon, 
Gen. 29.32. 33. etc.  and a third, and called him Leni; but when above expectation she conceiveth, and beareth the fourth time, she purposely calls his name judah, & expressly protests that she will praise the Lord. If one benefit move you not, many should if many have not done it, yet this last & late mercy passing all the former. O call it judah, & now of set purpose praise the Lord, & confess before him his loving kindness and his wonderful works before the sons of men.  
Which that you may the better do, give me leave I pray you to show you how your thanksgiving ought to be qualified, that it may be a sweet savour unto God.  
It must be accompanied, 1. with confessi●●. 2. with exaltation. Confession again, is either of God's loving kindness; or of his wonderful works.  
There are two things in which Gods loving kindness is to be seen, 1. In giving. 2. In forgiving.  
God's loving kindness in giving, is to be praised: for is not God a great & good benefactor or ours, and do we not greatly praise our benefactors? O let us confess his loving kindness as he is our Benefactor.  
God's loving kindness in forgiving our sins is also to be confessed. I showed you before the danger of your people sent to Virgini●, the danger of your Colony planted there, and the danger of your own selves here at home. And now if you look to the Primitive & original cause of all these your great Dangers, and many disasters that have heretofore befallen to your plantation, I suppose you shall soon find the cause to be sin. The Mariners in the transportation of jonah, 
Ionah● 1.7.  made no question hereof. Let us with these Mariners cast lots that we may know for whose cause this evil came upon your plantation in Virginia.  
Was it for the sin of our land in general, either because (as it is said of M●r●●) it came not out to help forward this work of the Lord with their Prayers and Purses; 
judg. 5.23.  or was it because (as the Prophet speaketh 
Isay 1.5. ,) The whole head is sick, and the whole heart is heavy, from the sole of the foot to the crown of the head, there is nothing whole therein, etc. Surely, surely, the sins of our land are crying sins; and is it any wonder if they do awake the justice of God, and turn the mercies of Heaven into rods of Indignation? Or was it for the sin of your own society at home; because you have either too much affected your gain? or too too seldom called upon the name of God in prayer for giving his blessing to your plantation? or too faintly depended upon God by faith and patience for the issue? or too much neglected God in thankfulness for the success? I can not excuse nor accuse you; you need not care to be judged by man's day: 
1. Cor. 4: 3●  your consciences can best tell you, whether the lot fall upon you or not.  
Or, was it for the sin of such as you have transported to your Plantation, because (most of them at the first, being the very scum of the Land, and great pity it was that no better at that time could be had;) they neglected God's worship, lived in idleness, plodded conspiracies, resisted the government of Superiors, and carried themselves dissolutely amongst the heathens. If in any of these they have offended, was not God's rod of Mortality justly upon them for their sins?  
But now (beloved) Almighty God hath graciously looked upon you and your people, in passing by their and your sins; The Lord hath said to the destroying angel, 
2. Sam. 24.16.  It is sufficient, hold now ●hy hand; the mortality of your people is ceased abroad: and the hope of your good returns is increased at home: O ●herefore, ought you not to confess before the Lord his loving kindness, both in giving of mercies, and forgiving of sins?  
Another confession there must be, of God's wonderful works. And both these confessions are again and again repeated in the amebe, burden or foot of this psalm.  
It is most true, 
Ps●l. 40.5. & 66.3. & 10 4. 24.  that all God's works are wonderful (for he hath made them all in wisdom, in number, weight and measure) and that the Lord declareth himself to be great and wonderful even in the least of them amongst the sons of men. This Pharaohs Enchanters did confess, This is the finger of God, 
Exod. 8.19.  in the little louse. But unthankful man taketh no notice of ordinary favours, common protection, health, plenty, rest, pleasure, which are usual with them, and therefore God's name is not praised for them: for except Christ work miracles, they will not believe; 
john 6.30.  What sign (said the fleshly hearers of Christ's word) showest thou, that we may see it, and believe thee? What dost ●hou work? No sign, no faith: yea except God do great things for them, 
Psal. 147.20. Mark 2.12.  that they may be able to say, that he hath not done so to any, and we never saw such a thing; they will not confess his loving kindness, but rather smother both it, and his wonderful works.  
Let us therefore consider and weigh well the Wonderful works of the Lord: for, is it not a work of wonder to command the creatures against the course of nature? as to cause the wind to cease with a word, and to quiet the Seas only with a beck? To stay the fire that it do not burn; and the hungry Lions that they do not devour? to mollify the hearts of savages, and to make some of them voluntarily to remove from their own warm and well seated and peopled habitations, to give place to Strangers, whom they had never before seen: as P●whatan at the first plantation of the English, to remove from his own 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 Governor sir George Yeardly the right and title they had to their possessions? Yet all these hath the Lord done, and are they not wonderful works indeed? O then let us stir up ourselves and others, and call upon them, saying, 
Psal. 66.16.  Come and hearken all ye that fear God, and I will tell you what the Lord hath done to my soul. O let us confess before the Lord, as his loving kindness, so also his wonderful works before the sons of men.  
But alas, I am afraid, that it is with us concerning Gods wonderful works, as it was with the people of the jews, concerning the wonders of God's Law, of whom God by his Prophet complaineth; 
Hosea 8.12.  I have 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 wondered at and regarded; what greater impiety? O that it were not with us touching his wonderful works, as it was with them concerning the wonders of his law?  
Our thanksgiving, if it be good, must be accompanied with exalting of the Lord. Now, to exalt the Lord none can properly be said to do 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 David expounds it, 
Psal. 122.8.9.  to wish prosperity unto God's Church, & to procure the wealth of God's people.  
O then (beloved) would you have God to accept of your thanks, and to give a blessing to your Colony abroad, and yourselves at home; study to wish well, and to do well to God's Church and people.  
Labour first, to procure faithful, honest, and peaceable Preachers, and send them over to your people (as you have sent some already, both of good learning and sanctified life, and many more such may you send,) that they may Open their eyes, 
Act● 26.18.  that they may turn from darkness to light; and from the power of Satan unto God; that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and an inheritance amongst them which are sanctified by faith in Christ. If you provide not spiritual food for your people, aswell as corporal, what better provision make you, than you do for your bruit beasts which feed in your pastures? Nay, do you make so good? For, hath not an Ox therein what he needeth; but a man without this, is he not left unprovided of the far better part, even his Soul? Yea, and if you have no care to provide good Preachers for your people, but send over unto them such as offer themselves hand over head; you provide not well for yourselves: for, what assurance can you have of them, who have no assurance of themselves? what service can you expect from them which perform none unto Almighty God? will they ever be faithful unto you, that are unfaithful unto him? And how can they be faithful unto God, if they have not faithful Preachers to bring them unto him? Surely, the best you can look from them, is but eye-service, which how good this will be, I leave it to yourselves well to consider of, who have felt the smart of it by your slow returns. Nothing can cast a sure knot upon the hearts of your people, but the true knowledge and fear of God: so as when you advance religion, you advance together with it your own profit. The neglect of this hath made your hopes in your long looked for Returns, to this hour to be frustrate. 
1. Sam. 6.11. Deut. 28.5. Hag. 1.19.30.  Obed Ed●m prospered the better for the Ark of God. The jews had no good harnessed whilst they left off to build God's Temple; and they amended in their estate when they amended that fault, and reform themselves.  
Amongst other of the causes, that it hath not pleased God to be successful unto your Plantation at the beginning thereof, and in the infancy of the same. That worthy overseer of your College Lands before mentioned, giveth this as one; That you have not as you ought (for these be his very words) preferred God's glory by your serious endeavours of converting the Natives, who (as he writeth) do live so peaceably amongst us, and round about us, as they do even seem to groan under the burden of the bondage of Satan, and to want nothing but means to be delivered. And this he confirmeth by a discourse which he had with Opachankan●, their great King, who hath succeeded Powhatan, whose daughter Pokah●●ta●, one master john Rolfe, an English Gentleman of good worth, married: for he found that the said Opachankano had more notions of religion in him, than could be imagined in so great a blindness, since he willingly acknowledged that theirs was not the right way, desiring to be instructed in ours: And confessing that God loved us more than them; and that he thought the cause of his anger against them, was their custom of making their children Blacke-boyes, or consecrating them to Satan. He found also that the said Opachankan● had some knowledge of many of the fixed S●arres, and had observed the North Star, and the course of the Constellations about it, and called the great Bear Manquahanum, which in their language doth signify the Sun.  
I might here speak something touching my own experience, of the willingness of the Heathens in gen●rall in all the Eastern parts of the world, where I have travailed, how ready they are to receive 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 special, 
Peter Pope, so named by his Majesty.  which I brought with me out of India to England, and taught him (I not being able to speak otherwise to him, nor he to me, but by signs,) to speak, to read and write the English tongue and hand, both Roman and Secretary, within less than the space of a year, so that his Majesty and many of the Nobility wondered at his hand; and within the compass of three years, I taught him the grounds of Religion, and to learn most of Saint Pa●les Epistles by heart, and to give a public confession of his Faith the day he was baptised in a famous assembly here in the City, before the right worshipful the East India Company, and since to write the Latin Epistles hereunto adjoined.  
I could here say much of the double diligence of Jesuits their poisoning with the Coloquintida of Popery many thousand souls in the E●st Indieses and japan, and other the remotest parts of the world: All which might be Motives strong enough to stir you up to have a greater care of the planting of the Gospel in your Plantations.  
But Time now calleth upon me to excite you, as to labour to procure and send over honest and painful Preachers, so in the second place to have a care (as I know you have) to procure and send over skilful and pianefull Tradesmen and Husbandmen, to follow their trades, and to cultivate the ground.  
Our Country 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 do increase to a greater number and multitude, then may justly parallel with the largeness of the place and country in which they live. For, even as blood, though it be the best humour in the body, yet if it abound in greater quantity, than the vessel and state of the body will contain and bear, doth endanger the body, and oftentimes destroys it: so although the honour of a King be in the multitude of people (as wise King Solomon speaketh) yet when this multitude of people increaseth to over great a number, 
Pro●. 14.28.  the common wealth stands subject to many perilous inconneniences, as famine, poverty, and sundry other sorts of calamities.  
Thus having fall'n into this point of exalting God in the congregation of the people, and the assembly of the Elders, I have here good occasion offered to me to bless God for the prudence and providence of this honourable city, the honourable Elders thereof, the honourable Lord Mayor, and the right worshipful the Aldermen his brethren; who seeing this City to be mightily increased, and fearing lest the overflowing multitude of inhabitants should, like too much blood in the body, infect the whole City with plague and poverty; have therefore devised in their great wisdoms a Remedy for this Malady, to wit, the transporting of their overflowing multitude into Virginia; which was first put in practice in the Maioralitie of that worthy & famous Lord Maior Sir George B●wl●●, who se●t over a hundred persons, the half of their charge being borne by the City; the other half by the Honourable Virginia Company; which worthy course was afterwards followed by the right worshipful Sir William Cockins, in whose Mayoralty were sent over a hundred more in the like nature. And now likewise the right Honourable, the present Lord Maior, with the right worshipful the Aldermen his brethren, intent to con●inue this course, that they may ease the City of a many that are ready to starve, and do starve daily in our streets (to the great grief of all tender-hearted and merciful men) for want of food to put into their mouths. This course, I say, they have taken already, and mean to prosecute it, as I am informed, to the end they may preserve this famous City in greater Peace and Prosperity: Herein wisely imitattng the prudent and provident husbandman, whom they see thus to deal with his grounds, when they are overcharged with cattle: For, as he by removing them from one ground to another, provideth well both for his cattle and for his ground: so they in their wisdoms, by removing their super-increasing people from the City to Virginia, have provided well both for this City and their people: for, whereas many of those which were sent over, were a burden to this City, they are now through the good government there, and God's blessing upon the works their hands) become men able to live of themselves in good sort and fashion in Virginia; being before their sending over like to unconuerted Onesymus, unprofitable unto all; 
Philem. ver. 1●.  and now by their being there, like unto the same Onesymus, but truly converted, profitable to the Plantation, and to the City; to the one by their pains, to the other by their prayers, blessing God from the bottom of their hearts that they were sent from London to Virginia; yea, blessing also the Lord Mayor, in whose time they were sent over.  
I may say of this singular prudence and providence of this honourable City, what our Saviour said of the fact of Marie Magdalen in pouring her costly ointment on his sacred head (howsoever some sons of belial malign this worthy work, as judas the Traitor, and some of hell, maligned ●●at act of Ma●ies anointing of Christ, pretending ●●e good of the poor, but intending it as much as his own salvation, which was little or nothing at all,) 
joh. 12.3.4. ●c Mat. 26.13.  Verily I say unto you wheresoever this Gospel shall be preached, throughought all the world, there shall also this that she hath done be spoken of, for a memorial 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 coming of our blessed Saviour) transported from this City thither, they shall not cease to pray for the prosperity of this famous City, and worthy governors thereof. Wherefore let me beseech so many of the right. Worshipful and worthy Governors of this famous City, as are present, (and I humbly entreat them, to stir up all such as are absent) to proceed as they have begun, 
Pro●. 4.18.  that their Way may shine as the light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day; that what was spoken of Ruth, may be verified in them; 
Ruth 3.10.  Thou hast showed more goodness in the latter end, then at the beginning: and that that may be their praise, which is recorded to be the commendation of the Church of Thy●tir●; 
Re●. 2.19.  I know thy works, and thy love and service, and faith and patience; and how thy works are more at the last then as the first.  
Right Worshipful, ye are plentiful in other good works, the maintaining of your Hospitals, and other public works in this famous City, preach your munificence through all the world, 
R●●●●. 8. & 16.19.  as the faith and obedience of the Romans was published abroad among all. O be rich in well doing this way likewise, that it may be said of you, Many have done worthily for the plantation in Virginia, but the honourable City of London surmounteth them all. Your City (as I said) aboundeth in people (and long may it do so) the Plantation in Virginia is capable enough to receive them; O take cour●e to ease your City, and to provide well for your people by sending them over thither; that both they of that Colony there, and they of your own City here, may live to bless your prudent and provident government over them. For, I have heard many of the painfullest labourers of your City, even with tears bemoan the desolate estate of their poor wives and children; who though they rise early, taw and tear their flesh all the day long with hard labour, and go late to bed, and feed almost all the week long upon brown bread and cheese, yet are scarce able to put bread in their mouths at the week's end, and clothes on their backs at the years end; and all because work is so hard to be come by, and there be so many of the same Trade, that they can not thrive one for another. Right Worshipful, I beseech you ponder (as I know you do) the forlorn estate of many of the best members of your City, and help them, O help them out of their misery; what you bestow upon 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 mean while, will plentifully reward your liberality this way with his blessing upon your famous City, upon yourselves, upon your posterity: For doth not your merciful God, the Lord of Hosts, 
Mal. 3. ●0  bid you prove him, if he will not open the windows of heaven unto you, and pour you out a blessing without measure?  
And that I may bend my speech unto all, seeing so many of the Lords Worthies have done worthily in this noble Action: yea, and seeing that some of them greatly rejoice in this (as I have heard it from their own mouths) that GOD hath enabled them to help forward this glorious Work, both with their Prayers and with their Purses, let it be your grief 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 Gospel; and to the honouring of our dread Sovereign, by enlarging of his Kingdoms, and adding a fifth Crown unto his other four: for, En dat Virginia quintam, is the Motto of the Legal Seal of VIRGINIA. And let me, in a word, shut up all, unto you all, that hath been spoken with that exhortation of the Apostle; 
1. Cor. 15. 5●.  My beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, abundant always in the work of the Lord: for as much as you know that your labour is not in vain in the LORD.   
FINIS.   

To the most Illustrious Knight, Sir Thomas Smith, the most prudent Governor of the East-Indy Company, eternal felicity in the Lord.  
Right Worshipful,  
IN many respects to be reverenced by me. May it please your Worship to pardon my boldness in visiting you with this rude Epistle, to the end that I may show my thankfulness towards you for your great and many benefits bestowed upon me: As soon as God shall enable me to make a greater progress in the Latin tongue, you may expect a longer; yea, perhaps a more elegant and eloquent Letter. In the interim I doubt not but your Worship (in regard of your Clemency towards me) will accept in good part these witnesses of a thankful mind. The Almighty and all powerful God preserve you long in health, that you may be (as you are) a grace and ornament to the Company of Merchants, that you may attain to high Honour here on earth, and most ample glory hereafter in Heaven: Farewell.  
From your Royal james, this 24. of April 1620. A Favourite of your Illustrious dignity. Peter Pope.   

To the Worshipful and worthy Captain, Martin Pring, Commander of the Sea Navy of the East-India Company in India.  
I Shall peradventure seem bold (most Illustrious Maecenas) daring to trouble your learned ears with this rude Epistle, but your humanity towards all, and benevolent love toward the learned encouraged me, though the least of the learned, yet most desirous of learning, and a lover of learned men, to present unto you these first fruits of my wit, and first trial in the latin tongue; to the end I may testify how much I love both you and the excellent gifts and graces of God bestowed upon you. Now if you will be pleased to take in good part, and have respect to these unpolished lines, you may perhaps o'er it be long, expect from the some more learned and better digested Letters. Farewell Worshipful Sir.  
From the james Royal .22. january 1619.   

To the same.  
Worshipful Sir,  
IN regard of late it was your pleasure to witness your love to me by a gift, to the end that hereafter I might account you not only a special friend, but also a worthy supporter of me in learning; it was most acceptable unto me: and as I embrace this pledge of your benevolence, so interchangeably I promise myself to be respective towards you, according as your piety and liberality deserve. Of both which towards all, especially towards me, this token is a sufficient witness. For the present I have but little, which I may render for your great liberality towards me (and to return nothing at all, were altogether a sign of an ungrateful mind) unless it be this small Paper-gift. Now if I may perceive that any gift of this kind shall be acceptable to you, I will satisfy you either with these or the like even to the full. Farewell Worshipful and worthy Sir: The Lord always guide you with his Spirit, and uphold you with his mighty power, and every day enrich you with the rich graces of his Spirit.  
From the james Royal, the 20. of May. 1620. Your Worships in all dutiful obedience. Peter Pope.   

Illustrissimo equiti aurato, Domino Thomae Smit●, societatis Mercatorum Indiae orientalis gubernatori prudentissimo, aeternam in Domino felicitatem.  
CLarissime Domine, multis nominibus plurimùm mihi colende, libet si licet epistolio te hoc, rudi licet, in●isere; quò gratitudinem in te m●am, ob magna multaque tua in me collata beneficia tester. Vbi Deus maiores in lingua latina dederit progressus, longiores fortassis etiam elegantiores a● magis disertas, a me expectabis literulas. Interea non dubito quin cels●●do vestra, pro ea quae tua in me est ●lementia, ha● grati animi testes, aequi bonique consulat. Deus opt. Max. te longè multùmque incolumem seru●t ● quò illustri Mercatorum Societati sis decorì ac ornamento eximio, atque ita hîc favorem assequaris ampliorem, & in coelis amplissimum.  
Vale ex Regali vestra jacobo .24. Aprilis 1620. Illustrissima amplitudinis ●●a studio ●iss●●●s. Petrus Papa.   

Clarissimo Domino D. Martino Pringo, Nauticae Classis societatis Mercatorum Indiae orientalis, praefecto vigilantissimo, Petrus Papa. S. P. D.  
AVdax fortassis videbor (Mecoen●s Illustrissime) qui a●deam doctas ●uas aures r●d● hoc epistolio interturbare; sod quae tua est in omnes bamani●●s, & in li●era●●● ben●●●l●us amor, me (literarurum licet minimum, literarum tamen studio fissim●●●, & literatorum amantissimum) induxit, ut has ingenij mei primitias; & in lingua latina primum specimen tuo ●●mini inscriberem, quò testatum faciam quami ●e, & eximias in te collatas Dei dotes, colam. Quòd si inexpolit●● has literalas aqu● bonique consulueris, e●l●iores fort●ss● brevi & magis comptas a nobis expectabis. Vale pl●rimùm mihi colende.  
Ex Regati jacobo 22. januarij 1619.   

Eidem.  
QVOD ●uper mihi per donum innotescere voluisti (Domine plurimùm mihi colende) ut posthacte non inter amicos solum, sed & inter beneficos Mecoenates cens●am, gratum mihi fuit: ac sicuti amplector hanc benevolentiaetua tesseram, ita viciss●● p●lliceor me benevolo erga te fore animo, prout & tua pi●tas, & liberalitas merentur; cuius utriusque in omnes, me preserti●●, tantis tuis d●nis ill●st●● specimen apparet. Inpresentiarum parum est quod protanta tua in ●e liberalitate referam (nihil autem referre animi esset 〈◊〉 i●gratissimi) praeter chartaceum hoc mun●scul●●. Quòd fih●i●sce●odi mu●mosyna persp●xere tibi gr●ta ess●, ●is a●t 〈◊〉 similib●s te ad satietatem, 〈◊〉 ad fastidium usque satiabo. Vale Domine eximie, & plu●imùm mihi ex anim● colende. Dominus Spiritu te suo semper gubernet, sustineat invicta virtute & suis donis indies locupletet.  
Ex Regali jacobo May 20. 1620. Vestra celsitudinis studio fissi●●●, Petrus Papa.