Purchas his pilgrimes. part 1 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.

CHAP. II. Mans life a Pilgrimage. The Peregrinations of Christ, and the first Encom∣passing the habitable or then inhabited World by the holy Apostles and first planters of the Gospell.

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§. I. Man by sinne becomne a Worldly Pilgrime; Christs Pilgrimage in the flesh to recouer him: Mans spirituall Pilgrimage in and from the World.

GOD which in the beginning had made the World, and endowed Man with the Naturall inheritance thereof, whom also hee made another, a liuing and little World, yea a compendious Image of God & the World together: did in the a 1.1 ful∣nesse [ 20] of time send his owne Sonne (by whom hee had made the World and M••n) to be made a Man in the World, that he might make new and recreate the World and Man, now lost & vanishing to perdition. Which saluation first accomplished in the infinit worth and worthinesse of his person and passion, He committed to faithfull witnesses, giuing them charge to go b 1.2 into all the world and preach the Gospel to euery creature, that by those Ministerial conduits (in the cooperation of his Spirit) his amiable and imitable Example might, as the load-starre of Christians be proposed; his sauing vertue as heauenly influence infused; his all-couering and al-curing merits imputed to his beleeuing members by spirituall grace to prepare them to su∣percaelestiall Glory, whither Hee is before ascended as our Priest to make intercession, and as a King in humane flesh to take possession for Vs, by him made Kings and Priests vnto God.

[ 30] Thus haue we one Author of the World, of Man, of Peregrinations by men in and about the World. The first He made by his omnipotent Word, he commanded and in sixe dayes this huge Fabrike was both made and furnished. The second is vouchsafed greater indulgence, in prepara∣tion premised as of consultation, Let vs make Man; in the worke doing c 1.3, as of a Master-peece, he formed, and builded; in the exemplar or prototype in our owne image, after our likenesse: in his bountifull portion, the Sea and earth with all their appurtenances, subiected to his regall posses∣sion, the heauens with their reall influence and royall furniture to his wise vn-erring con∣templation.

Thus at first; but the first became last, by setting the last first, and preferring the Creature to the Creator, and therefore is iustly turned out of Paradise to wander, a Pilgrime ouer the world: [ 40] But therefore did his Creator (for medicines are of contraries) preferre this Creature to himselfe, by infinitenesse of humilitie to make satisfaction for his vnspeakable pride; and hee which had before made Man after his image, makes himselfe after mans image, to recouer that which was lost. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉! O amanda & admiranda dignatio! propicious, vnspeakeable, superadmirable bounty! The World he made that he might giue it Man. Man he made such as might be capable of the world, and gaue him now a double world, adding to the former greater, this lesser of Mans selfe. And when both these were lost, by wilfull Treason and voluntary actuall rebellion, that he might forgiue the Traitor He gaue the Prince, who to Himselfe forgaue not the demerits of his seruant; nor was content to regiue the forfaited world of creatures, but added a world supercele∣stiall, where fallen regained Man might supply the roomes of fallen forlorne * 1.4 Angels: yea Hee restored lost Man to himselfe in a surer and nobler possession: and for the complement of Bounty [ 50] he gaue to this lost Creature the Creators selfe: dedit se in meritum, dabit se in praemium. In this vnity giuen God hath obserued a Trinity of giuing. Hee gaue his Sonne vnto vs, doth giue his Spirit into vs, reserueth Himselfe for vs to be our exceeding d 1.5 great reward, our e 1.6 crown of glory & dia∣dem of beautie in that glory where we f 1.7 shall see him as he is, and g 1.8 God shall be all in all vnto vs. Nor was this a six daies worke, but he which made the world and man in sixe daies, vouchsafed to be made Man, indured to conuerse with sinners more then halfe sixtie yeeres; and not with a word commanded this new creation to be made, but the Word was commanded (& dixit h 1.9multa & ges∣sit mira & pertulit dura) God ouer all blessed foreuer was made obedient i 1.10 to the death, euen the death of the Crosse, and was made k 1.11 a curse for vs, to redeeme vs from the Curse, and to make vs heires of [ 60] blessednesse.

This was indeede the greatest of all peregrinations, when the word was made flesh and (leauing

in a sort his heauenly Country, and his Fathers house) dwelt amongst vs. The next remote pere∣grination was his ascention from the lower parts of the Earth (where also his life was a certaine vncertaine pilgrimage,l 1.12 farre m 1.13 aboue all heauens, to leade captiuitie captiue, and giue gifts to Men. And he gaue some Apostles, and some Prophets, and some Euangelists, and some Pastors and Teachers. By whom in the worke of the Ministery is effected a double remote Peregrination; one in vs, when we trauel from our selues, that each man might say to his corrupt corrupting flesh (as that traueller to his quondam Mistresse n 1.14, seeking after his returne to renew her dissolute acquaintance, and say∣ing, when she saw him strange as if he knew her not, Ego sum? Tis I: At ego non sum ego, an∣swered he, I am not I now) I trauell in birth till * 1.15 Christ be formed in me, and, I liue o 1.16 not but Christ liues in me, that I may p 1.17 deny my selfe and take vp my crosse and follow him. The other is when wee put off our earthly tabernacle, and departing from this house of clay, whose foundation is in the [ 10] dust, arriue in the faire hauens of Heauen, in the quire of Angels and triumphant societie of the Heauenly first borne. And thus is Mans whole life a Pilgrimage, either from God as Cains, or from himselfe as Abels, and all the Saints which confessed themselues Pilgrims on the earth, and to seeke another Country, that is, a heauenly. Vnto this spirituall and celestiall peregrination, was subordinated that bodily,* 1.18 of those first Euangelists vnto all Nations thorow the World to plant the Church and settle it on her foundation, which also in their q 1.19 times was effected accor∣ding to the Prophesie and precept of our Sauiour, whose peregrinations, if wee had all the parti∣culars, were alone sufficient to yeelde a large Volumne of Voyages.

Christ indeede vouchsafed, euen in literall sense, to honour peregrinations in his owne person, whose blessed Mother soone after his conception trauelled from Nazareth in Galilee, into the hill [ 20] Countries of Iudaea, to her Cousin Elizabeth, and after her returne is by Caesars Edict brought back that in r 1.20 an Inne at Bethlehem, this Pilgrime might in a Pilgrimage bee borne, the s 1.21 Gouernour of his people Israel, that is of spirituall Pilgrimes. And there from a remote place by Pilgrimes of the East is he visited; and how soone is his infancy forced to an Egyptian peregrination? how rest∣lesse and manifold were his after-peregrinations in Galilee, Samaria, the Wildernesses and Cities of Iudaea in the Coasts of Tyre and Sidon, in Decapolis by Sea, by Land, t 1.22 going about all the Cities and Villages, teaching and preaching, and healing euery disease among the people, till the Heauens receiued him into a certaine rest. But my Pen is vnworthy to follow his foot-prints.

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§. II. How Apostles differed from Bishops: their preaching the Gospell to all Nations.

HIs Apostles as they differed from others in immediate vocation, to Euangelicall Mini∣stery,* 1.23 and infallible reuelation of the Euangelicall mysterie; so in the vnbounded li∣mits of their Mission vnto all the world: whereas other ordinary commissions and callings are (though of God, yet) by Men; nor haue priuiledge of vnerring illumina∣tion; [ 40] and must take heede to the seuerall flockes ouer which the holy Ghost hath a 1.24 set them ouersee∣ers: whence also Episcopall Churches are called Cathedrall, and sees, from their sitting b 1.25 or teach∣ing (that being the preaching posture of the ancients both Iewes and Christians) in their speciall places of charge.

Well therefore did Saint Gregorie c 1.26 Bishop of Rome hold the title Oecumenicall incompetible to a Bishop, and Antichristian: and as ill haue his Successors in that See swelled ouer all Epis∣copall bankes into Titles, and vniuersalitie Apostolicall.

The Apostles were not all in all places, and sometimes as in consideration of diuine blessing vpon Pauls Ministery amongst the Gentiles, e 1.27 as of Peters amongst the Iewes, they did especially [ 50] employ themselues where they saw their labours most fruitfull, in which respect some setled their longer abode in certayne Cities, and some scarsly departed from Ierusalem, whiles others of them went f 1.28 forth and preached euery where, and the Gospell was g 1.29 in all the World (not vertu∣ally, but actually) and was fruitfull, and was preached vnto euery creature vnder Heauen, that is in Saint Matthewes phrase,d 1.30 to h 1.31 all Nations, or to all sorts of men. After which Embassage accomplished, the Temple as CHRIST had prophesied, and all the Le∣gall Ceremonies, which dyed in the death of our Sauiour, receiued a more solemne then honourable Funerall, by the reuenging Romane; Diuine Prouidence ordering that i 1.32 The fall of the Iewes should bee the riches of the World, and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gene∣tiles; and preuenting the reuolting of weaklings, which seeing those things to remaine, which the Prophets had built, and God had ordayned, might in a Iudaizing retire, embrace the sha∣dow [ 60] for the bodie, and preferre the dazeling lustre of carnall shewes to the synceritie of faith and spirituall truth: Nimirum id Domino k 1.33 ordinante dispositum vt legis seruitus (saith Sulpitius) à libertate fidei at{que} Ecclesiae tolleretur.

And that this was accordingly in the Apostles daies effected, we haue not onely generall te∣stimonies of the Ancients, but the particular Regions and peoples mentioned and acknowledged elsewhere by that generation, l 1.34 which in the question of Antichrist hence raise a demonstration, (no lesse still serues them, their Geese are all Swans) that he is not yet comne, because the Gospel is not yet preached thorow the World. Neither doe we seeke aduantages of the word World, as it is vsed in opposition to the narrow limits of Iudaea, where the Church in her nonage was impounded, and as it were swadled in that cradle of her Infancy (so you euen now read the fall m 1.35 of the Iewes the riches of the World.) Nor in a Roman challenge, wherein Rome pre∣tends her selfe Head of the World, in the stile of her quondam Emperours (succeeded and exceeded therein by her Moderne Prelate) one of which decreed in the Edict aboue in∣timated, [ 10] That n 1.36 all the World should bee taxed; which World was no more then the Ro∣man Empire, as since also the petty Councells Papall are called Oecumenicall (euen that of Trent) and the Church of Christ, in a strange Babylonian contradiction, Catholike-Roman: Nor yet in a figuratiue Hyperbole, as that seemes spoken of the Iewes at Ieru∣salem of euery o 1.37 Nation vnder Heauen▪ which heard the Apostles in their seuerall Lan∣guages, vttering the great things of God. But their sound p 1.38 went ouer all the Earth, and their words to the ends of the World, is true of the heauenly Bodies, and these heauenly Messen∣gers; Neither can any of the World bee shewed then inhabited, that is, no Nation of the World, whereof wee haue not plaine History, or apparant probability, that the Gospel had there founded before that generation of the Apostles passed. Whereof as wee [ 20] haue alleadged Diuine both prophecie before, and testimonie after the fulfilling: so our Ecclesiasticall Authors are herein plentifull. Thus doth Saint Chrysostome q 1.39 interprete that prophecie of our Sauiour, Matthew 24. to haue beene fulfilled before the destruction of Ie∣rusalem, and proues it by the fore-alleadged places, Romans 10.18. Colossians 1.6. and 23. So Theophilact r 1.40 after him. So Saint Hilarie s 1.41 Cùm vniuersis fuerit cognitio Sacramenti coe∣lestis inuecta, tum Hierusalem occasus & finis incumbent: Then shall bee the end of Ierusa∣lem, when the knowledge of the heauenly Mysterie hath beene carried to all men. So Tetullian t 1.42, Beda, Euthimius, Lyranus, Tostarus, Iansenius, Barradius, and others cited by the Re∣uerend and learned Bishop Downam, to whom I referre the Reader. And how else had they exe∣cuted their commission to all Nations, if this mission had not succeeded? For if by succession of [ 30] after Popes or Bishops; then ought that gift of tongues to haue continued or beene restored, and that of immediate reuelation, whereby the glory of the Worlds conuersion might be Gods pecu∣liar, and not diminished by the arts (not by the acts and labours alone) of Men. u 1.43 Ad quid enim necessariae linguae gentium nisi ad conuersionem gentium? And Genebrard x 1.44 accordingly affirmes that whiles the Apostles liued, in thirtie yeeres space at most, the Gospell (which hee calls the Faith of the Romans) was diuulged thorow the World, euen all the most remote Nations and barbarous. Hereof he citeth witnesses (besides the former) Clement Alexand. Iustin Martyr, Irenaus, Origen, Cyprian, and the Prophecie of Esay. c. 66.

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§. III. The peregrination of Saint PETER.

WE see the persecution which began against Stephen proceeded to the dispersion of the Disciples a 1.45 into the Regions of Iudaea and Samaria, and Phaenice, Cyprus, and Antioch (where they first heard the name Christians.) Peter also warned by vision, breakes the partition wall, and preacheth to Cornelius b 1.46 and other Gentiles, vnto whom soone after Paul and Barnabas receiue larger commission. Saint Peter also (as Ecclesiasticall writers testifie) besides Palestina, Syria, and the Regions adioyning to Iudaea, preached the Gospell in Antiochia,d 1.47 [ 50] and after in Rome (in both which places they constitute and celebrate his Episcopall Chaire) in Pontus, Galatia, Cappadocia, Asia, Bithynia, to whom is inscribed his former Epistle, that is, to the dispersion of the Iewes, in those Regions, he being principally the Apostle of c 1.48 the Circumcision. For the Iewes were diuided into three sorts, the Hebrewes (which were the inhabitants of Palestina) and the scattered strangers, which were either Hellenists, 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, or e 1.49 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉, the remainders of the Babylonish deportation which still continued in those parts, when others returned, and from thence were occasionally dispersed afterwards. The Metropolis of these was Babylon, of the former Alexandria. Of this sort were the Italian, Egyptian and Grecian Iewes, which vsed the Greeke tongue in their Synagogues, in which also they read the Scriptures trans∣lated by the seuentie two Interpreters: yea they were ignorant of the Hebrew, as Scaliger af∣firmes [ 60] e 1.50 of Iosephus and Philo, two of their most learned: they had a Synagogue at Ierusa∣lem, (called f 1.51 of the Alexandrians) of which were those Disputers against Stephen. Of the Ba∣bylonian dispersion were the Iewes in Asia, to whom Saint Peter wrote that Epistle from Babylon: And although Baronius g 1.52 and our Rhemists out of diuers Ancients labour to prooue thy Ba∣bylon in that place of Peter, to bee ment Rome, that some Scripture might testifie his beeing

there at least (though little could thence be inferred a 25. yeeres Episcopality, and lesse, Aposto∣like succession,* 1.53 and least of all an approbation of later nouelties successiuely hatched in the last and worst ages) yea the current of the Iesuites argue (not say onely) that Rome is the mysticall and A∣pocalypticall Babylon, and cry out vpon vs for vnhonest partiality, that there acknowledge it, here in Peter disclaime it, not considering what a hooke they swallow with this baite: yet be∣cause that Epistle of Saint Peteri 1.54 is deliuered in litterall and not mysticall forme, like the Apo∣calyps, and because that opinion of Peters fiue and twenty yeeres Bishopricke deliuered by Euse∣bius, is manifestly repugnant to the Scriptures; and because that some of the Romanists k 1.55 them∣selues differ from the receiued opinion as incredible, as l 1.56 Onuphrius and Genebrand, and Maria∣nus Scotus also alleadgeth out of Methodius that Peter preached at Babylon, to which hee also ad∣deth Corinth and almost all Italie, and because the Ancients m 1.57 receiued that conceit of Papias, a [ 10] man of no great iudgement, as appeared by the Millenary fancie deriued from his tradition: though I will not meddle with that controuersie, whether Peter were euer at Rome, or no, the negatiue whereof in whole bookes Velenus and Bernard haue written,n 1.58 yet I cannot beleeue but that he wrote that of and in the Chaldea Babylonia. The rather because that was the Metropolis of the Asian dispersion (as is said) & that it wel agrees with the prime Apostle to execute his Apo∣stolicall mission to remote and many Nations, especially to the Circumcision (whose peculiar A∣postle n 1.59 he was) in all Countries where they were scattered, as appeares by his care of the Helle∣nists and Alexandria their Mother Citie, where he placed, as Authors affirme, Saint Marke the first Bishop; and because Ecclesiasticall writers affirme that he preached vbique fere terrarum, al∣most all the world ouer (so p 1.60 Nicephorus) breuiter in totius Asiae & Europae oris, omnibusque adeo qui [ 20] in dispersione erant Indaeis & Graecis &c. q 1.61 Metaphrastes affirmeth that after the Church of Rome and many others set in order, Saint Peter went to Carthage in Africa. r 1.62 Onuphrius acknowledg∣ing his Roman See, yet will haue him a Non resident (if not an Apostle rather) not to abide there, but findes him in that fiue and twenty yeeres space at Ierusalem, after that at Antioch, seuen yeers together, whence he came to Rome and reformed that Church, constituted Linus and Cletus his s 1.63 Suffragans or Coadiutors; and trauelling thence thorow the most part of Europe, at his returne to Rome, was there crucified.

Thus in a larger sense of the word Bishop, might Peter bee stiled Bishop of Rome, as hauing care to ouersee that as a principall Church, not neglecting meane while his Apostleship, to which properly belonged the care of all Churches. And hence is that different reckoning of the Roman [ 30] Bishops, t 1.64 Hierom reckoning Peter the first, Linus second, Cletus the third, Clemens the fourth. But Irenaeus u 1.65 nameth Linus the first Bishop, Cletus the second, &c. The like difference is in the See of Antioche twixt Hierom and x 1.66 Eusebius, the one beginning with Euodius, the other with Peter, which sheweth their opinion that Peter preached in both places as an Apostle, not as Bi∣shop in proper sense. So Irenaeus y 1.67, the two Apostles (Peter and Paul) hauing founded the Ro∣man Church, committed the Bishoply charge thereof to Linus: and Rufinus z 1.68, that Linus and Cletus were Bishops while Peter liued, that they might haue the care of the Bishoply charges E∣piscopatus curam) and he might doe Apostolatus Officium, the dutie of the Apostleship: & a 1.69 Epi∣phanius, in Roma fuerunt primi Petrus & Paulus Apostoli ijdem ac Episcopi, deinde Linus, &c. Peter and Paul were both Apostles and Bishops in Rome; and after other wordes of doubt touching [ 40] Clemens his being Bishop in the times of Linus and Cletus, all of them liuing in the same times while Peter and Paul were Bishops, saith, proptera quod Apostoli saepè ad alias terras ablegabantur propter Christi praedicationem, non potuit autem vrbs Romae esse sine Episcopo, That the Apostles went often into other Countries to preach Christ, in which meane while Rome could not bee without a * 1.70 Bishop. For the Apostolicall function enioyned an vniuersall; the Episcopall, a particular charge. And as the greater Office includes the lesse, as the Office of the Lord Chancellour, or Lord Cheefe Iustice, or any Councellor of State, containeth the authority of a Iustice of peace in each shire, with larger extension and intension of power, and a diocesan Bishop the Ministeriall function in any pastorall charge in his Diocesse, which the Parson or Curate must yeelde to him being pre∣sent, and pleased to supply and execute: so, and more then so, the Apostolicall comprehends the [ 50] Episcopall commission, as lesse: and the Apostles were in this respect Bishops wheresoeuer they came, not by ordinary constitution, but by a higher and extraordinary function: to whom other Bishops are successours not in the Apostleship strictly taken, but as Bishop to Apo∣stles, as Iustices of peace in their limits to the higher Commissions either ordinary as of Itine∣rant Iustices, or extraordinarie by speciall commission on speciall occasions constituted, in part, not in all their authoritie.

We shall launch into a Whirle-poole if we proceede to declare Peters Successors (as some call the Bishops of Rome) the Fathers themselues disagreeing in their Catalogues. So farre off were they from making Papall succession an essentiall either Note of the Church, or ground and rule of Faith. But for their preaching the Gospell thorow the World, all Bishops are all Apostles suc∣cessours, [ 60] these in their limited, those in an vniuersall Commission; which either they performed, or not: if they did not, it was disobedience, as in Sauls expedition against Amalek: if they could not, it was impotence, and the command of preaching to all Nations, impleadeth defect

in the Commander, who is the wisdome of God, and the power of God. His wisdome appeared also together with his power in giuing them tongues, and not onely healthfull constitution of body, but miraculous transportation and power, Natures defects not hindring the effects of Grace, as ap∣peareth in the story of Philip and the Eunuch, Acts 8. of Pauls suruiuing a stoning, Iohn the scal∣ding in Oyle, and others other difficulties, mentioned in part, both in Diuine and Ecclesiasticall History, Neither haue Miracles and tongues necessary to such a conuersion, euer since happened, nor haue we promise that they euer shall. Nor was it euer meeter that the New King should be proclaimed, then when when hauing led captiuitie captiue, he ascended on high, and tooke posses∣sion of his supercaelestiall throne: the Apostles herein doing that, for the heauenly Salomon with spirituall magnificence, which Nathan, Zadock and others had done for the typicall Salo∣mon, [ 10] by Dauids appointment. The vniuersall Ceremonies being the same in the whole Church, and such as no generall Councell could determine, argue the vnitie of the spirit in the Apostolicall preaching, Thus as we haue partly shewed in all, and particularly shewed in Peter for his part, we will declare of the rest.

§. IIII. Of Saint ANDREW, IOHN, the two IACOBI, PHILIP [ 20] and SIMON ZELOTES.

ANdrew the brother of Saint Peter, as a 1.71 Dorotheus and Sophronius b 1.72 testifie preached to the Scythians, Sogdians, and Sacae, and to the inner or Sauage Aethiopians; was bu∣ried at Patrae in Achaia, being crucified by Aegeas Gouernour of the Edesens. Nice∣phorus c 1.73 writeth that he trauelled into Cappadocia, Galatia, and Bithynia, and thence to the Countrey of the Anthropophagi, or Man-eaters, and to the Wildernesses of the Scythians, to both the Euxine Seas, and to the Southerne and Northerne Coasts, as also to Byzantium now cal∣led Constantinople, where hee ordained Stachys Bishop: after which, hee went thorow Thrace, Macedonia, Thessalia, and Achaia. That hee was sent to the Scythians, Baronius prooueth out of [ 30] Origen, d 1.74 and Eusebius; and out of Nazianzene e 1.75 his descent into Graecia and Epirus.

SAint Iohn his banishment into Pathmos, and Epistles to the seuen Churches of Asia (which Tertullian f 1.76 cals Ioannis alumnas Ecclesias) are extant in his owne Writings. Irenaeus g 1.77 and many other mention his labours at Ephesus, Prochorus h 1.78 (his supposed Disciple) hath written a Hi∣storie of his Asian Peregrination, his actions at Ephesus, his passions at Rome, whither hee was sent, and in other places; but his authoritie is no better then of a Counterfeit, as Baronius i 1.79 hath also branded him. Of this nature we find many counterfeit Gospels and Iournals, or Histories of the Apostles acts, censured by the Ancients, the Deuill then labouring to sowe his tares in the Apostolicall Historie, which in after Ages, Antiquitie might countenance with venerable autho∣ritie. [ 40] Metaphrastes k 1.80 relateth his acts sn Phrygia and Hierapolis: That he preached in other Re∣gions of the East, Baronus l 1.81 affirmeth, especially to the Parthians, to whome his first Epistle was inscribed in ancient Copies: that hee conuerted the Bassorae, is still holden by Tradition a∣mongst them.

IAmes the brother of Iohn was put to death by Herod to please the Iewes, m 1.82 a wicked Gene∣neration not pleasing God, and contrary to all men. It is reported of some, that before his death he trauelled as farre as Spaine, and there preached the Gospel, at least to the dispersed Iewes. Ba∣ronius in his Martyrologe n 1.83 produceth a Booke of suspected faith attributed to Isidore, testify∣ing his preaching to the Nations of Spaine, and of the Westerne Regions; and the Breuiarie of [ 50] Toledo, in which are these Verses, Regens Ioannes dextra solus Asiam, Et laeua frater positus Hispa∣niam, &c. the testimonies also of Beda, Turpinus and others. All the Churches in Spaine, hee saith, o 1.84 hold the same opinion. Yet is he vncertaine, and so leaues his Reader, because of that vntimely timelinesse of his death. It is not likely that the Apostleship and office of preaching to all Nations, and the name of the Sonne of Thunder was giuen to him by Him, which as easily in∣fuseth the vertue as imposeth the name, and foreknew the times and seasons of his life and death, but that the sequell was answerable.

His hastie death argues his forward courage, as of him which stood in the forefront of the battle. That hee preached to the dispersed Tribes p 1.85 hath many authors: that his bodie was brought from Ierusalem to Spaine, the Romane Martyrologe, and the Popes Callistus and Innocen∣tius [ 60] are cited by Baronius.

THe other Iames called Alphaei, and Oblias, and Iustus, and the brother of our Lord (either be∣cause he was the sonne of Ioseph by a former wife, according to Eusebius, q 1.86 or because his

Mother was sister to the Blessed Virgin, as Saint Ierome r 1.87 rather thinketh) was a man famous for Sanctitie and Deuotion amongst the Iewes by the testimonie of Iosephus, s 1.88 which imputeth to his cruell and vniust murther, the terrible desolation which soone after befell that Nation. And 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Talmud both of t 1.89 Ierusalem and Babylon, mention him as a worker of Miracles in the N••me of Iesus.

Hegesippus a man neere the Apostles times, saith of him, Suscepit Ecclesiam Hierosolymae * 1.90 post Apostolos frater Domini Iacobus cognomento Iustus &c. Of which wordes this seemes the sense, That whereas the Apostles by common consent in a iust Aristocratie had gouerned the Church of Christ, residing at Ierusalem, vntill the time of their dispersion, to diuers parts of the World, (which as Eusebius u 1.91 citeth out of Apollonius, was the twelfth yeere after Christs Passion) they [ 10] then betaking them to their seuerall Prouinces; iointly agreed to leaue Iames the Iust at Ierusa∣lem for the regiment of the Church both there, and as from other places of the World occasions were offered thorow the Vniuerse. For as Ierusalem was farre x 1.92 the famousest of the Cities of the East, not of Iudaea alone, in other respects, as Plinie hath honoured it; so in Religion, it was by better testimonie called the y 1.93 Holy Citie, and the Citie of the great King, whose Tabernacle z 1.94 was in Salem and his dwelling in Sion; not in the time of the Law, but of the Gospel also; the Law of the Lord went out of Sion, as a 1.95 Esay had prophesied, and the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem. This was the Staple of Christian Merchandize, Emporium b 1.96 fidei Christianae (saith Espencaeus) the Mart and Mother of the Christian Faith, which therefore alway needed some graue Father to be the principall Factor in her Holy affaires: Hierusalem was before her destruction, the Cen∣ter [ 20] of Christianitie, whence all the lines of Apostolicall Missions were diffused and thither againe reduced; the Ocean, whence all the Ecclesiasticke c 1.97 streames of the Euangelicall waters of life issued, and whither they againe returned; Once, it was the Senate-house of Christian Councels and Counsailes for all Prouinces of Christianitie, the confluence of others, but specially of the Iewish dispersions, which from all Countries comming to the Legal Feasts, might there freight themselues home with Festiuall wares of Euangelicall commodities. Necessarie it was there∣fore that some Apostolicall Senator and principall Apostle should there reside, with whom in all difficulties to consult, not so much as Bishop (in proper sense) of that Citie, as of the Iewes, yea and as opportunitie lerued, of other Nations thorow the whole World. This was that Iames which wrote the Epistle bearing his name, whom Paul mentioneth to the Galatians, d 1.98 and the Acts e 1.99 often,* 1.100 especially in the fifteenth Chapter, where you see him President of the first [ 30] Councell (if not the only in strictest sense termed Generall) of the Apostles, after their Prouin∣ciall dispersions assembled at Ierusalem. For in his sentence the Councell concludes; and if the Apostles (as the Fathers concurre) had committed to him being an Apostle, the gouernment of Ierusalem, to whom might the Presidentship of Councels in that place appertaine, rather then to this Apostolicall Bishop and Bishoply Apostle, to whom the Lord first committed his throne on earth, as Epiphanius f 1.101 testifieth? As a Deputie or President resides g 1.102 in one Citie, though his gouernment be not there confined, but extends to the whole Kingdome or Region, so was it with this Apostles Bishoprike at Ierusalem, from that high Pinacle to ouersee and prouide for the affairs of the Catholike and Vniuersall Church. From that high pinacle (in another sense also) was [ 40] he cast downe, stoned, and at last with a Fullers Club brained by the Iewes, which were soone in a ter∣rible desolation called to accounts for this and other Apostolicall and Propheticall bloud, yea of the high Prophet and Apostle of our saluation, which yet the Iewes attributed to this Martyr∣dome of Iames, as lately and neerely preceding. His Successour was Simeon his brother, in that See of Ierusalem, not Simon called the Cananite, one of the twelue, as Baronius h 1.103 hath also obserued.

SAint Philip is recorded to haue preached in Asia superior, and (as the Romane i 1.104 Martyrologe saith) almost all Scythia. Baronius k 1.105 supposeth the testimonie of Isidore, and the Toletan Bre∣uiarie, that Philip conuerted the Galls, is falsly written for Galatians, which yet, if Nicephorus [ 50] Relations l 1.106 be true, needs no such correction.

Simon was called Cananite, as Nicephorus saith, for his birth at Cana, whose marriage was there celebrated when Christ turned water into Wine, and for the feruour of his Zeale, hee was sirnamed Zelotes. His preaching peregrinations he relateth thorow Egypt, Cyrene, Africa, Mau∣ritania, and all Libya euen to the Westerne Ocean, yea, to our Britaine Ilands. Hee preached last in Phrygia, and at Hierapolis was crucified.

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§. V. Of Saint THOMAS, BARTHOLOMEW, MATTHEW, IVDE, MATTHIAS: and of counterfeit Writings in the Apostles names.

SAint Thomas called Didymus, preached to the Parthians, as m 1.107 Origen, and after him n 1.108 Eusebius haue written: Gregorie Nazianzene o 1.109 addeth the Indians: Chrysostome [ 10] p 1.110 saith, he whited the blacke Aethiopians. Theodoret q 1.111 reciteth the Parthians, Persians, Medes, Brachmans, Indians and the adioyning Nations: Nicephorus r 1.112 hath the same, and addes the Iland Taprobane, which is now called (in the opinion of the most) Samotra: in Hieroms Catalogue is added out of Sophronius, the Germanes (of India) Hircans and Bactrians, and his death at Calamina. On the Coast of Choromandel, where the Riuer Ganges is swallowed of the Sea called the Gulfe of Bengala, are diuers Christians from old times called S. Thomas Christians. Some of the Iesuits haue added China also to the labors of S. Thomas. Of these Christians, both in Narsinga, and Cranganor on that Sea where Indus falleth, and in diuers parts of the Indies you may read in s 1.113 Osorius t 1.114 Maffaeus and others. His Feast day is celebrated at Malipur, (so they now call the Citie where he lyes buried) not by the Christians alone, but the Ethnikes also of those parts. The Eunuch of [ 20] Candace u 1.115 conuerted by Saint Philip, is amongst the Aethiopians in Prester Iohns Countries ho∣noured for Plantation of the Gospel in those parts of Africa; but by Dorotheus x 1.116 said to haue preached in all the Erythrean Coast, and the Iland Taprobana, before ascribed to Saint Thomas, and in Arabia Foelix.

SAint Bartholomew (saith Chrysostome y 1.117) passed into Armenia Maior, and instructed the Ly∣caones; Sophronius z 1.118 addes the Albanians, and the Indians termed Fortunate; Origen saith the hither India; a 1.119 Socrates, India next to Aethiopia. Eusebius b 1.120 testifieth, that Pantaenus a Stoike Philosopher and Rector of the Schoole or Vniuersitie at Alexandria, was ordained Preacher of the Gospel to the Easterne Nations, and pierced to the Regions of the Indians. For there were at that [ 30] time many c 1.121 zealous imitators of the Apostles: of whom was this Pantaenus, which preached to the Indians, amongst whom he is reported to haue found the Gospel of S. Matthew, in the hands of some Christians, which c 1.122 had receiued the faith by S. Bartholomew, and left them the said Gospel in Hebrew, reserued till that time. Nicephorus d 1.123 adioyneth S. Bartholomew, to S. Philip in his Plan∣tations of the Gospel in Syria and Asia Superior, and after at Hierapolis, where he was crucified with Philip, but deliuered, and yet againe at Vrbanopolis in Cilicia, died that ignominious death and glorious Mrrtyrdome. This e 1.124 Hebrew Gospel of Saint Matthew, Saint Hierome, both saw and copied out. It was reserued in the Library of Caesarea.

SAint Matthew trauelled into Aethiopia, that namely which adhereth to India, as Socrates [ 40] f 1.125 writeth, Nicephorus g 1.126 addeth the Anthropophagi, and tels I know not what Legends, re∣iected also by Baronius. For such was the indulgent prouidence of God, not to burthen the faith of the Church with voluminous Histories of Apostolicall Acts thorow the whole World, which scarsly (as Saint Iohn hath of our Lord) the h 1.127 whole World could haue contained. Vnto the faith of all, not to the curiositie of some, was written enough by those holy Penmen, the Secre∣taries of the Holy Ghost in holy Scripture. But the Deuill impiously prouident,* 1.128 hence tooke occasion to burthen the Church with so many vnworthy Legends, both presently after their times forged in their names, and since by Vpstarts deuised and obtruded on the Credulous world, as Liues, (lies) of the Saints, Histories, yea, Misse-stories, Hisse-stories, by the old Serpent hissed and buzzed amongst superstitious men (missing worthily the right, and deceiued with [ 50] lyes, because they had not receiued the loue of the truth; to make way to the succeeding mysterie of Iniquitie; out of which Babylonian Mint, wee haue lately that babbling and fabling Abdias, by Lazius his Midwifery borne after so many Ages, an Abortiue indeed, or Changeling, as the wiser i 1.129 of themselues confesse. Hee can tell you insteed of Saint Matthewes life, many Aethiopian Fables, and intertayne you in a (Fooles) Paradise situate aboue the highest Mountains, with such delicacies, as shew that Adams children are still in loue with the forbidden fruit, and will lose, or at least aduenture the true Paradise to find a false. Inopes nos copia fecit. Their abun∣dant labours and trauels which Came, Saw, Ouercame, each so large portions of the World, left them no leisure to write Annales (whence some haue found leisure to write Aniles, olde wiues Tales) and makes the conuersion of the World an obiect of our faith, rather in beleeuing the pre∣diction [ 60] and testimony thereof in the Scripture, then of humane credit, where the Apostles and Martyrs of their golden Actions and Passions, haue found such Leaden k 1.130 Legends and woodden workmen, Makers or Poets, rather then Historians: which here once spoken may bee applied to the rest, of whose great workes so little is recorded.

Saint Augustine l 1.131 complaines of such Apocrypha Scriptures amongst the Manichees, à nescio

quibus sutoribus fabularum sub Apostolorum nomine Scriptas: and refuseth the like testimonies of Iohn and Andrew produced by the Marcionites. S. Hierom m 1.132 nameth fiue Apocrypha Bookes fals∣ly attributed to Peter; his Acts, his Gospel, his Praedication, his Apocalipse, his Iudgement. Some also mention n 1.133 Itinerarium Petri, which perhaps is the same with Clements Recognitions, ano∣ther counterfeit. In Pauls name was published a Gospel, Apocalypse, his Reuelations, his Ascent to Heauen (which the Gnostiks vsed, as saith Epiphanius o 1.134) his Acts, & third Epistles to the Corinthians, and to the Thessalonians, and one to the Laodiceans. Iohn is made a Father of other Reuelations, and of the Virgins Departure. Saint Andrewes Gospel, Saint Thomas his Gospel and Apocalypse. Saint Bartholomew; Gospel, Saint Matthews Booke of Christs Infancy, receiued by the Valentinians, are condemned by p 1.135 Gelasius. Neither did Matthias, Philip, and Thaddaeus want their Gospels, here∣ticall [ 10] births iniuriously laid at their doores: nor Barnabas also, nor Marke, no nor Iudas the Trai∣tor, which the Caians acknowledged, as Theodoret and Epiphanius haue written, lettice sutable to such polluted lips. Wee might adde the Acts (so inscribed) of Andrew, of Thomas, of Philip, of Paul and Thecla Iohns Circuit. Yea the Coliedge Apostolicall was made to father like Bastards, as the Doctrine of the Apostles, the Lots of the Apostles, the Praise of the Apostles, besides other Acts of the Apostles, and the manglings of the truly Apostolicall Pages by Addition, or Substraction. What shall I say? Our Blessed Lord escaped not hereticall Impostures in his Name, as the Booke De magia ad Petrum & Paulum. And I thinke him rather prodigall then liberall, or iust of his faith which subscribes to that story q 1.136 of Abagarus. But it were endlesse no lesse then needlesse, to intangle our selues in this diabolicall Maze and hereticall labyrinth of sacred forgeries, in that and after Ages,* 1.137 the Enuious mans super seminations to bewitch vnstable soules, not contented with Gods [ 20] dimensum and prouident allowance. If therefore of Saint Matthewes Aethiopian peregrinations, if of Saint Matthias in Aethiopia also (for a great part of Asia, * 1.138 and the greatest of Africa were stiled by that name) if of Iudas Thaddeus his preaching in Mesopotamia, Arabia, Idumaea, and the Regions adiacent, we haue so little recorded, it is no great maruell. It may be sufficient to vnder∣standing Readers, that wee haue out of the best Authors extant, named the most Countries of the then knowne world. And if euery Region and People bee not mentioned, impute it to the want of History of their seuerall Acts, who so••ght rather to write Christs Passions in the hearts, then their owne Actions in the bookes, of Men; to produce deeds not wordes, and monuments of Diuine, not their owne glory. Few places can be named in Asia or Africa, which wee haue not [ 30] mentioned in their prerigrination and preaching▪ and faire probabilitie is for those not mentio∣ned by consequence of reason, which at lest can proue nothing to the contrary; and more then probability is the Diuine testimony before obserued.

§. VI. Of Saint PAVL: of Apostolicall Assistants: some doubts discussed.

AS for Saint Paul, the Doctor of the Gentiles, he flew like a swift Fowle ouer the World: [ 40] wee haue his owne testimony of his Preaching in Arabia, his returne to Damascus, and iourney after a 1.139 three yeers to Ierusalem, thence to the Regions of Syria and Cili∣cia; yea that hee (not sprinkled, but) filled Ierusalem to Illyricum with the Gospel; of his preaching in Italy and Rome, of his purpose for Spaine, which some b 1.140 say hee fulfilled after∣wards, adding thereto Portugall France, Britaine, the Orchades, the Ilands and Regions adioyning to the Sea, and his returne by Germany into Italy, c 1.141 where hee suffered Martyrdome, being by Nero beheaded. I force no mans credit, as neither to that of Ioseph of Arimathea his preaching to the Britons, nor Saint Denis his Conuersion of the Galles, at least in all things written of them. But for the Acts of Paul, as the Apostle of the Gentiles, the Scripture is more ample then of any the rest, the greater parts of Saint Lukes History, being of Pauls Acts. [ 50]

What should wee adde the labours of Euangelists, Assistants, and Co-workemen with the A∣postles in those first Plantations, sent by them in seueral missions to diuers places? Such were Bar∣nabas,d 1.142 Silas, Philip the Deacon, Siluanus, Timothee, Titus, and others: some of which were after Bishops (as is anciently beleeued) of particular Churches. Epaenetus Saint Pauls disciple is said to haue beene Bishop of Carthage, Andronicus another of them in Pannonia, now called Hungary, Amplyas at Odyssa, Vrbanus in Macedonia, Iason at Tarsus, Trophimus at Arles, Crescens at Vienna, Aristobulus in Britaine, Asyncritus in Hyrcania, Hermes in Dalmatia, and others in other places, a Catalogue of whom in Mermannius his Theatre you may see at leasure. Saint Marke disciple of Saint Peter hauing preached to Libya, Marmarica, Ammonica, Pentapolis, and Egypt ordained Bishops in the new planted Churches. Eutropius another of Saint Peters disciples, is said to haue [ 60] preached in France: Mansuetus another of them, to some parts of Germany, as Symon of Cyrene, to other parts. But it were too tedious, to bring hither all that Authors haue written of the se∣uenty disciples, and other Apostolicall Assistants, who spent and were spent, consumed and con∣summated their course in and for the Gospel.

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HONDIVS his Map of Saint PAVLS Peregrination.

[ 40] But here some may say, that wee haue not named all Countries of the World, and of those na∣med there is in Authors much varietie of report, in iudicious Readers much scruple to credit. I an∣swere, that it were a farre harder taske to proue that any Countrey, not here mentioned, was neg∣lected in this Ministry. Neither did the Geography of those times extend their suruey much fur∣ther, then that wee haue here in their Iournalls expressed: although it much extended it selfe be∣yond the truth. Besides, who can wonder that the Apostles found not Pen-men, to record their Euangelicall conquests thorow the World, seeking to establish a Kingdome Spirituall and Inter∣nall, contemning the worlds glory, and of vaine-glorious worldlings contemned, when the great Conquerours, which sought to subdue the World by force, and plant Empires by Armes, haue left so obscure notice of their exploits, though dedicated to humane applause and admirati∣on? Of the Aegyptian Conqueror Sesostris, Lucan sings, Venit ad occasum mundi{que} extrema Sosostris, [ 50] Et Pharios currus regum seruicibus egit! Of Nabuchodonosor the Scripture witnesseth, that his greatnesse e 1.143 reached to Heauen, and his Dominion to the end of the Earth; Yet haue they neither Iournalls nor Annalls of their great Acts left to posterity, not so much as the names of their sub∣dued Prouinces, not so much as wee haue here produced of the Apostles. Nay, what is left to me∣mory of the long-liued Assyrian Monarchy, but shadowes, glimpses, fables? Who hath left in Re∣gister the names of the one hundred twenty seuen f 1.144 Prouinces, subiect to the Persian Monarchy from India to Ethiopia? Nay, how little and how vncertaine is remaining of the Greeke Alexan∣der his Expedition, although then vndertaken, when Greece had arriued at the height of humane learning, and by him that was himselfe a famous Scholler of the most famous of Philosophers? [ 60] Did not hee deplore g 1.145 his owne vnhappinesse in this kind, treading on the Tombe of Achilles? And had not Curtius and Arrianus long long after his death, written of him (I question not the certainty) how little should wee haue of Great Alexander? Great in his Acts and Arts, greater in his Attempts, greatest in the vnbounded Ambition of Greatest Renoume to latest posterity; yet how much more is left of the Acts of Humble Apostles, then of Ambitious Alexan∣der?

And now his Conquests are obliterated and forgotten, how are theirs written not in Bookes and Lines, but in the minds and liues of Men, so great a part of the World still remaining the Vo∣lume of their Expeditions in their Christian profession?

And how much more did so, till the vnbeleefe and vnthankfulnesse of wicked men, prouoked Diuine Iustice to remoue his golden Candlestick from so many Nations thorow the World, which for contempt of Christian Truth, were againe abandoned to Ethnicke superstitions? Thus had God dealt with the Iewes before; thus after with the Christians in Africa almost generally in a great part of Europe, and in a great great part of Asia by Mahumetan madnesse, in which what that Arabian Canker-worme had left, the Tartarian Caterpiller did almost vtterly deuoure. Thus in Marco Polo, in Rubruquius, in Odoricus and Mandiuil••, yee may read of Christian Nations dis∣persed [ 10] quite thorow Asia 1200. yeeres and more after Christ, ouerwhelmed with that Tartarian deluge, where the Name of Christians in the remotest parts is extinct, till Nauigation in the last Age reuiued it. And had not Nauigation and Peregrination opened a window, no Geographer had let vs know the names of Nations, which Christians of the West found, professing the same Christ in the vnknowne Regions of the East, at once seene to bee, and to be Christian. Yea, how little of the remote North and East of Europe and Asia, or of the South of Africa, was knowne to Plinie, Ptolomey, and other ancient Geographers, where their Christian light hath shined to vs with the first notice of themselues?

I inferre not, that the Gospells lightning kindled an Euangelicall flame, and obtained Episco∣pall entertainment in euery place where the Apostles preached:* 1.146 nor that euery Lord, Tribe, and [ 20] Family heard this Diuine Message; nor that each Country was filled with the Gospel, or any with an vniuersall profession in the first Plantations, or in their times. The name Paganus which signifi∣ing a Pesant or Rustike, for this cause was altered to a Panime or Ethnike, because Religion could not, but in tract of time diffuse her bright beames and lines of light, from her Episcopall City Centre (that also not wholly Christian) to those ruder parts of her remoter circumference. This I say,* 1.147 that their sound went into all the Earth, and their words vnto the Ends of the World, in some Countries and Nations more fully, in some more obscurely, in all by fame at left, if not by the Apostles presence, as the Spirit permitted vtterance, that some of all might be conuerted.

§. VII. [ 30] Of America, whether it were then peopled.

ANd if any more scrupulous doubt of the New World, and of many places where no foot print of Chistianity is extant, I answere, * 1.148 (besides what before in our Ophirian Trac∣tate is spoken) not onely that time eates vp her owne Children, and that none can proue that Christ hath not beene there preached in former times, because these are thereof ignorant; (for a deluge of opposing persecutions, another of ecclipsing superstitions and heresies, a third of warre and inuasions, extinguishing both the Religion and People also hath suc∣ceeded, [ 40] in some the most renowmed Churches of the World: and what then may time haue done in vnknowne places?) But who can tell that America, and many parts of Asia, Afrike and Europe were then peopled with Men, the Subiects capable of this Preaching? Nay, may wee not in probabilitie think the contrary? how great a part of the World is yet without habitation? how great a part of the World is yet vnknowne? All the South Continent is in manner such, and yet in reason * 1.149 coniectured to bee very large, and as it were another New World; Also Fernand d•• Quiros saith hee hath discouered eight hundred leagues of shoare. Neither is it probable but that so temperate parts are inhabited (which in part, so farre as is knowne on the Shoares and adia∣cent Ilands, is apparant) nor is their likelihood of Christianity, where the Nations euery way ad∣ioyning are Ethnike, that I say not Sauage on the parts of Asia and America: and both these and they seeme latelier peopled then the Apostles dayes. In the new Straits beyond the Magellane, [ 50] the stupidity of the Fowles argued they knew not the face of Men, which they not at all drea∣ded. And many many Ilands not yet inhabited, this ensuing Discourse will manifest. Yea in large Tracts of the Continent of Groenland, & other parts vnto New-found-land, it is found that eyther there are no people, or they but for some time in the Summer, and for some purpose, as of hunting or fishing, not certaine and setled dwellers: a name scarcely fitting to the people in Virginia and Florida. Euen in our old World it self, how new are the eldest Monuments & Antiquities, in al the North, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Lapland, the Samoyeds, Tartars, yea the Northermost Russes, Lithu∣anians, Liuonians, Poles; how new their Arts, their Acts, their Lawes, Gouernment, Ciuility and Fame? Which therefore must needs as the World increased, bee euacuated from Countries neerer the Sunne, by necessitie inforced to harder Climates. Of Island our story will shew, it was but ye∣sterday [ 60] inhabited.

* 1.150The Scythians and Sarmatians of the ancient are more Southerly; and well may we reiect the fables of Hyperboreans, and I knowe not what deuised Northerne Peoples and Monsters, the

Creatures and Colonies of idle busie braines. These Northerne people, scarsely worthie the name of a People, did God vse when the sinnes of the Roman Empire were full, to punish their pride by so base instruments, in Gottish, Vandall, Hunnish, Saxon, Franke, and other names, in iudgement remembring mercy to the chastised Children, and to the chastising Rod, not there∣fore cast into the fire, except to refine them, but by conquering Christian Nations, them∣selues disposed by diuine hand to become a Christian Conquest, and to submit themselues to that God, to that Religion, whose looser Professors they ouercame with an ouerwhelming inunda∣tion. How vnsearchable are thy wayes, O God, and thy iudgements passing knowledge, which of Stones raisest children to Abraham, and bringest Lions into the Sheep-fold in hope of prey and spoyle, where thy discipline transformes them into Lambes? and persecuting Saul turnes a Prophet?

[ 10] The remotest Northerne and Southerne parts of America are yet thinly inhabited, and in great part not at all, as before is obserued, whereas Mexicana, and Peruuiana were abundantly peopled at the Spaniards first arriuall, with the Ilands adiacent. Two great Empires were there erected, one * 1.151 in Mexico, the other of the Ingas in Cusco; but neither of them ancient. Nor let any impute this to their illiterate barbarousnesse. For they had meanes to preserue memorie of their acts by computation no lesse certaine then ours, though more troublesome: and thereby is the Mexican Epocha, or first beginning, then beginning to bee a People, the Deuill imitating the Israelites in their Exodus towards the Countries which they after possessed, apparant to haue beene aboue seuen hundred yeeres after Christ: as that of the Ingas some hundreds later.* 1.152 For it [ 20] is most likely that America was first peopled from the North of Asia and Europe in her neerer and Northerne parts, whence by secret instinct, and hopefull allurements they were inticed to remoue neerer the Sunne, and from the Mexican to passe to che Peruuian Continent. Neither can probable reason be giuen of peopling America but from thence, as by the Discourses of A∣costa and Master Brerewood appeareth: neither did those Northerne parts receiue Inhabitants till the Regions of the World neerer Noas Arke, and of more commodious habitation were first peopled, whence the East and South parts were soone after Noas time replenished: the colder and worse successiuely, and the extreme North by later compulsion and necessitie, the better being peopled before: and there exceeding their iust proportion, they emptied themselues part∣ly by returning into the South by Conquests to ouer-runne ciuiller Nations, and partly were for∣ced to seeke further, as vicinitie of Seas and Lands affoorded, till America was also peopled. [ 30] For (besides that those Northerne parts were as fertile in the wombe, as barren in the soyle, nu∣merous beyond due food) those rough, cold mountainous habitations yeelded like constitution of body and vnquietnesse of mind strong and able to indure, bold and forward to aduenture greatest difficulties, still pressing (where worse then the present could hardly befall) and following their hopes till neerer propinquitie to the Sunne, Climates more temperate, richer Soyle, consent of Elements and Aliments bred content to their mindes and more prosperous concent of Fortunes, which softned their rigid dispositions, and by degrees disposed them to thinke on mechanicall and politike Arts, further to humanize their society, and to polish their cohabitation with Po∣litie. This we see soone done in Egypt, and Babylonia presently after the Floud: but how long before the Persians were ciuilized? how long after before the Macedonians, or Romans? yea, [ 40] how long before there were Romans?

Nature infused the first cares of necessary being, which being by the fertile habitation and in∣dustrious culture richly supplied, in the settled standing the Milke of humane wits yeelded the flower or creame of Arts for flourish and beautie, which vnsettled and discontented estates weary of the present, and pressing still forwards cannot produce; neither can a rolling stone gather mosse. And thus we finde the Germans now a ciuill Nation, which many ages after Christ were barbarous. Yea, where more feritie and sauage rudenesse then this our Britaine yeelded not long before the birth of our Sauiour, for their painting, nakednesse, and other rude demeanours worse then the Virginians now, and like some more barbarous Americans? What hath America sauouring of Antiquitie? what besides the former, not sauouring of the Cradle, and later trans∣migration?

[ 50] Those memorials which they haue of the Floud might passe with them by Tradition euen from the Arke it selfe thorow all their remoues and transmigrations. And no lesse might be said of that Ticfiuiracocha mentioned by Acosta, (whom Vega obserueth to haue many things not so truly) like to Our Men, and preached amongst them many good lessons with little effect,* 1.153 and af∣ter many miracles amongst them was slaine; whose picture some of the Spaniard•• had seene, re∣sembling those of our Saints. Vega tells another and more likely storie of Viracochas apparition in that habite, which no doubt was the Deuill. The like is recorded by Lerius, of a tradition a∣mongst the Brasilians, that innumerable Moones before, there came a Mair or Stranger, clothed [ 60] after the Christian manner, and bearded, which preached vnto them the knowledge of GOD, but none would beleeue him: after whom another came which deliuered them a Sword, since which time they haue vsed to slay and eate one another. These things, as they may be true, so may they be the New actions of the old Serpent ambitious of Deitie, or may by Tradition flie with them thorow all their habitations; or if any shall thinke it there happened (which I can∣not

beleeue) yet are they rather to interpret it of the Apostles (& so further confirmeth our opi∣nion) then of any other, seeing no such men could there haue accesse, and their speach be vnder∣stood, but by miraculous dispensation. As for the Rocke in Brasill called Etooca (where, as Ma∣ster Kniuet affirmeth, Saint Thomas preached) conuerted out of Wood into Stone, the Fishes be∣ing his auditors,* 1.154 who seeth not a Frierly supersemination in the report? wee reade in Theophra∣stus or Aristotle, or whosoeuer else be Authour of that Booke De M••rabilibus Auscultat. of a fer∣tile desart Iland found by the Carthaginians, abounding with Woods and Riuers nauigable, and other bounties of Nature, distant many dayes sailing from the African Continent: some of the Carthaginians intended there to inhabite, but were repelled, and all men prohibited on paine of death, lest the Soueraigne power and weale publike of Carthage might thence be endammaged. This is by some interpreted of the West-Indies, or some Ilands thereof; which if it be so, con∣firmes [ 10] our opinion that those parts were not then inhabited.* 1.155 Nor did any ciuilitie appeare in A∣merica to argue ciuill Progenitors, but that which was of later memorie. Plato's Atlantis wee haue elsewhere shewed to be allegoricall, at least no historicall truth: nor any likelihood in other ancient Nauigations mentioned in Plutarch, Diodorus and others to point at these parts.

If the multitudes of people found there by the first Spaniards seeme to pleade for a longer ha∣bitation then that we allow; let it be obserued that a thousand and foure hundred yeeres (for the first Discouerie was 1492. after Christ) might well fill a world with people, especially conside∣ring their Polygamie, or many Women, their simple Diet, and that which attended the same, healthfull Constitution and long Life (in some places admirable) their easie course of life con∣tented with a little, not fearing to exceed their meanes and maintenance by numerous issue; [ 20] where Nature yeelded home-spunne or rather womb-spunne attire, and the Mother Earth with little importunitie or labour yeelded food sufficient; where Plagues, Morraines, Famine, were scarse heard of; where Couetousnesse the root of all euill had so little worke; Ambition scarsely knew to diuersifie titles of honor; and warre (the inchanted circle of death, compendium of misery, Epitome of mischiefe, a Hell vpon Earth) had not Iron, Steele, Lead, not Engines, Stratagems, Ordnance, not any humane Arts of inhumanitie to fill those parts of the World with empti∣nesse, and there to erect Theaters of Desolation and Destruction. Nor did Nature yeeld many deuouring Beasts, but reserued all her sauagenesse to the Men.

To let passe the peopling of the World before and after the Floud, in no great time, we see [ 30] that in Egypt in the midst of heauy burthens, inhumane butcherie, and intolerable tyrannie, the Israelites were multiplied, in the space of two hundred and ten yeeres, from seuenty a 1.156 persons to aboue two millions, as may be ghesled, in that there were 600000. b 1.157 men, besides children, and besides the females also as appeareth in the c 1.158 second numbring by Moses, and d 1.159 in the third by him and Eleazar, when all those but Caleb and Ioshua were dead. Allowing therefore the male children not much lesse, as that third numbring euinceth, and the females in probabilitie as ma∣ny as the males (the rather for that Pharaohs cruell Edict touched not them) you cannot but find aboue 2000000. Now this their encrease was by naturall meanes though by singular proui∣dence, and therefore might as well happen in America, those impediments remoued, and many other furtherances annexed, in libertie, plenty, and largenesse of Territorie, all elements conspi∣ring [ 40] to multiplication. Neither can any thing but Diuine prouidence (which none can denie in America, and had many more easie and visible meanes, fewer lets then in Egypt) be alledged for the one more then the other. This I may say, that if any list to examine the proportion, and sup∣pose like prouidence, in that time of 1400. yeeres may follow a more numerous inundation of people, then euer America (perhaps the whole World) may probably be supposed at once to haue numbred, although large deductions be allowed both for ordinary mortality and some more dismal accidents. Neither is it likely that the first plantations were so few (if volūtarily seeking, & not by accident forced to those habitations) as 70. persons twice told: nor that America at once or from one place receiued her first Colonies, as by the diuers languages, statures, habits of men may appeare, although time, custome, accident, be allowed no litle power in these things. This we [ 50] see amongst our selues, where one Dutch or Teutonike e 1.160 hath yeelded not onely a distinction of higher and lower, but the English, Danish, Sweden, Norwegian, Islandish, Nordalbing, Frisian (besides the subdiuersified dialects which each of these multiplieth) Languages, Peoples, Rites, so much differing, and the elder both tongues and customes (as in our Saxon) by Variation and succession after a few Centuries in manner extinguished. So vaine a thing is Man. Let me conclude this dis∣course of multiplication in America, by an American example of cattell transported out of Eu∣rope thither, especially Kine, which as they beare no more at a burthen then a woman, nor oftner, so are they shorter-liued vsually by two third parts: yet haue they so increased there, that * 1.161 one man the Bishop of Venezuela had aboue 16000. yea they haue growne wilde, their numbers ex∣ceeding the care of owners, and euery man at pleasure killing them for their hides. And one man, [ 60] the f 1.162 Deane of Conception, had of one Kow liuing 26. yeeres, in her life time the increase of 800. Sic canibus catulos similes—These Indians which respected in generation little else but sen∣suality, and in manner of life resembled brute beasts rather then ciuill (that I say not Christian) Men, enioying like priuiledges of Nature in other things, might in this also.

§. VIII. The glorie of Apostolicall Conquests: the hopes of enlarging the Church in this last Age, by knowledge of Arts and Languages through the benefit of Printing and Nauigation.

LEt me conclude this Discourse of Apostolicall Peregrinations with consideration, with collaudation, with admiration euen to extasie and astonishment, of Their (shall I ••ay or Gods?) Exploits, and renowmed Acts. Little are the Acts of Great Alexander, Pom∣peius [ 10] Magnus▪ Fabius Maximus, and other Greats and Grandes of the World, who by Armes and Arts military, by Fire, Sword, Famine, Massacres forced the bodies (the least part) of Men to a compulsiue subiection, shaken off with the first opportunitie. But how shall I ad••or••e your noble Conquests, Yee Diuine Apostolicall Worthies? who walking in the flesh, not war∣ring after the flesh, without, yea, against the force of carnall weapons▪ pulled downe strong holds, cast downe imaginations, and euery high thing that exalted it selfe against the knowledge of God, and brought into captiuitie euery thought to the obedience of Christ? Herein they vsed not assistance of other Na∣tions by confederation, nor mustered multitudes in pressed and trained bands of their owne;* 1.163 nor receiued supportation by Subsidies, nor made inuasion by force, nor obtained an vnwilling conquest of Bodies (the shell wi••hout the kernel) nor entertayned clo••e intelligence, nor wro••ght [ 20] by close Treasons, nor diuided to them selues the spoiles▪ nor erected Forts, established Garrisons, imposed taxations, transplanted inhabitants, depressed Nobles, shared new Prouinces into Timars, tithed Children, planted Colonies; nor had their counsels of Warre at home, or warlike customes abroad, Engines, Stratagems, Combats, Sieges, Skirmishes, pitched Fields, Ships, Horses, Cha∣riots, Tents, Trumpets, Munition, nor that worst Baggage of Armies, Crying, Spoyl••ng, Sack∣ing, Wounding, Mayming, Killing with Multiformities of Cruelties, as if the nethermosts Hels had mustered and euaporated the most and worst of Her Fumes and Furies into Our world, which might therefore take, that they might destroy, the shapes of Men, by humane inhumanitie. But a few poore Fishermen, and Tent-makers ouerthrow the Worlds Wisemen, in the most flouri∣shing times of worldly learning, subdue the Scepters of greatest Kings and Monarchs, ruine the [ 30] gates of Hell, & vndermine the deepnesse of Satan, supplant the profoundest, suttlest, mightiest of Satanicall combinations with the whole World of Men against a handfull; and maugre their vni∣ted Forces, preaching a Crucified God,* 1.164 and teaching the Crosse as the first Principle of Christian Learning, to ouercome the edge of the Sword with suffering it, to stop the mouthes of Lions with their flesh, to quench the violence of fire with their bloud; to forsake all Goods, good Name, Wife, Life, Childe, to deny themselues, to plucke out their right eyes, to cut off their right hands, to pray for their persecutors, to recompence hatred with loue, and ouercome euill with goodnesse, looking for no other reward then what the World can neither looke on, nor for; they inuade with innocence, and with Sauing ouercome, the World; and whiles it most resisteth, per∣secuteth, ouercommeth, incline it to willingnesse, calmenesse, subiection; write their conquests [ 40] not in the bloud of the Conquered but of the Conquerors: erect Trophees, not in O••eliskes, Py∣ramides, Arches, by others industry, but in their owne Funerals, Crucifyings, Stonings, Martyr∣domes; solemnize Triumphs not with their owne Armies, not with captiued troupes, attending in greatest pompe the sublime Triumphall Chariot, but by being led forth with out-cries, shoutes, clamours, to the basest and most ignominious deaths. Those of whom the World was not worthy, re∣puted vnworthy of the World; haue the Panegyrikes of their prayses, written not by the pens of Parasites or Poets, nor in the lines, (as is said) but in the liues of men; the Christian World (as before is obserued) remayning not written, but reall Annalls of the Apostles Acts, who being poore made many rich, and hauing nothing possessed all things. The Solaecismes b 1.165 of Fish••rmen dissol∣ued the Syllogismes of Philosophers, and where but a few of any Nation could be wonne, to pro∣fesse [ 50] themselues the Disciples of any Philosophicall Sect,* 1.166 though graced and admired by the World, yet the World becomes Christian in despite of the Worlds disgraces and persecutions: nor could the immane-cruelties of some, or superfine subtleties of other, subuert, nay they conuerted men to the Gospel; the seed, the fatning of the Church was the Bloud of her slaine Martyrs; all ages, sexes, sorts of men, euen women, euen children, euen women-children, out-brauing the grea∣test, the fiercest, the wisest of Satanicall instruments▪ by suffering, conquering, and at once ouer∣comming the Deuill, the World, Themselues. Euen so O Father, because it pleased thee.

And be not angry Reader, if the passed, present vnto my contemplation future things▪ and if the consideration of diuine assistance in Tongues, Reuelations, Miracles immediately conferred for the first Plantation of Christianitie, occasion my thoughts to a more serious suruay of future [ 60] hopes in the propagation and reformauion thereof. In the first foundation of Mosaicall Rite••, God raysed Bezaleel, and Aholiab with others, by diuine instinct inabled to curious workman∣ship,* 1.167 fitting that Oeconomie of the Tabernacle, whiles that Iewish Church was as it were rocked in the Cradle, and God vouchsafed to dwell amongst those Tent-dwellers in a Tent. But after

that State was setled, and the Church flourished in the Reigne of Dauid and Salomon, God did not againe infuse Sciences by Miracle, or by miraculous disposition (as before the Egyptians were spoyled) prouided materials to that Worke; but furnished Salomons wisdome, with helpe of the two Hirams, the one a cunning workman in Gold, Siluer, Brasse, Iron, Stone, Timber, to graue any manner of grauing,* 1.168 and to find out euery deuice, the sonne of a Tyrian, by an Israelitish woman; the other his Master, the King of Tirus, a man furnished with a Nauy of ships and store of Mariners, by whose meanes the Temple and Court might be prouided of necessaries from remotest Ophir, aswell as the neerer Lebanon. I implore not, I importune not any vnwilling assent or follower of my apprehension and application hereof to what I now propound in like differing states of the Christian Church.* 1.169 Omnia contingebant illis in figurá. This was likewise founded, and as it were a Tabernacle built for Christ by the Apostles, men wholy enabled by immediate graces and gifts of [ 10] the Spirit to so diuine a Worke. A Tabernacle I call the Church, not only as being yet militant, and therefore abiding in Tents, but in comparison and respectiuely to that externall spendour which followed long after the Apostles times, when Kings became her Nursing Fathers and Queenes her Nursing Mothers, subiected their Crowne to the Crosse, shining in the highest top thereof. Albeit therefore in puritie of doctrine and manners the Apostolicall times had their spirituall preeminence (as the Tabernacle also exceeded the Temple in the ordinary Cloud, Pil∣lar of fire, Manna, Miracles, syncerest worship by Moses, and the like.) Yet when the World be∣came Christian, and the Crosse became the Imperiall Banner the Church, before persecuted, now reuiued vnder Constantine, Iouianus, Theodosius, and other Religious Monarchs, and Kings, see∣med to renew the Golden reuolutions and setled returnes of Christian Dauids and Salomons; and [ 20] they which before had not a Smith in Israel, scarsly a Bishop or Temple to be seene, had Temples, Schooles, Bishops, Councels, whence Religion was propagated and established in the seuerall Realmes and Nations of Christianity; not now by Miracles as before by the Apostles, but by the Ministery of Bishops and Priests of ordinary calling and gifts; and hee himselfe was now the greatest Miracle that beleeued not, the whole World beleeuing and wondering at infidelitie as a Monster.

And as the Temple and state of Religion declining was repaired and reformed by godly Kings, as Ioash, Hezekiah, Iosiah; and Zealous Priests such as Iehoiada; and after the ruines thereof was rebuilded by Princes and Priests, Zorobabel and Ioshua, Nehemiah and Ezra: so hath God stirred vp good Kings & Pastors in the declining age of the Church, as Charles the Great, King Alfred [ 30] and many others in Histories mentioned; & after the deportation therof into Mysticall Babylon, when shee seemed in her truest members fled out of the Worlds easier view into the Wildernesse, hath God raysed vp the Kings of England, Sweden, Denmarke, and other Christian Princes, States, and Potentates with Religious Bishops and Ministers to repaire the desolations of Sion, and restore Ierusalem with the Temple, if not to her first splendour, yet from her late Captiuity, where she had smal pleasure to sing the Lords song in a strange land, & babble her holies in the vnknown Language of Babylon.* 1.170 As therefore the first Plantation of the Tabernacle was by miracle and immediate instinct; the erection of the Temple, and succeeding reparations were by the art and humane in∣dustry of such Heroike spirits as God raysed vp and sanctified in euery age: so the Christian Church planted by Apostles, hath beene since wate••ed by faithfull Pastors, exalted by pious Em∣perours, [ 40] depressed by Heretikes and Persecutors, captiued by Popes, and in her diuersified changes and chances, rather expecteth extraordinary blessing vpon the ordinary helpes, functions, and graces, then meanes meerly extraordinary and miraculous. Amongst all which helpes by humane industry, none (in my mind) haue further preuailed then those two, the Arts of Arts, Printing and Nauigation, both in manner giuen at once to the World by diuine goodnesse, this for supply of matter, that other of forme, to this Spirituall Reedification of Gods Sanctuary. And as Hirams Art improouing natural wit by diligent industry, succeeded the infused Sciences of Bezaleel and Aho∣liab; so to that Apostolicall gift of Tongues, in the foundation of the Church hath succeeded for reformation thereof, the principall Tongues and Languages of Nations, Ebrew, Greeke, Latine, Syriake, Arabike, and the rest, partly refined, partly renewed by humane industrie, through the [ 50] benefit of Printing. For how were the learned and remoter Tongues buried and vnknowne in these parts, till that Art brought in plentie, facilitie and cheapnesse of Bookes, whereby Lan∣guages became the Keyes, Bookes the Treasuries and Storehouses of Science; whiles by those men found accesse into these; and Printing yeelded admittance to both in plentie and varietie? And thus was vnuailed that mystery of Iniquity in the age before vs, which had captiued so many Ages in worse then Egyptian darknesse. This mystery at first arose in a myst from the bottom∣lesse pit, in a time of barbarous ignorance, occasioned by irruption of Barbarians into all parts of Christendome, successiuely like wild Bores out of the Forrest, rooting vp Gods Vineyard, and preparing a way to the Romish Foxes to spoile the Vines, to corrupt and deuoure the fruits thereof. The Goths, Vandals, Hunnes, Herules, Lombards, Saracens, in Spaine, Afrike and Italy; the [ 60] Frankes, and after them the Saracens, Danes, and Normans in France, and the places adioyning; the Picts, Saxons and Angles, and after them the Danes, in these parts; the Auarés, Saracens, Tartars, Turkes in the East and South; with other deluges of Ethnikes hating learning, burning

Libraries, killing learned men, in these and other parts seconded with factions, treasons, and ci∣uill vnciuill combustions of Christians amongst themselues, made easie way first, and strong con∣firmation after to the Papacy apprehending all opportunities to aduance it selfe, first in spirituall things, after also in temporall.

But what illiterate ignorance little discerned, not muth withstood, renewed literature hath exposed to the view of all, and by reuiued Arts hath discerned the Arts of that painted Iezabel, whose fouler wrinkles, her Ieza••elicall, Iesuiticall Parasites still labour with renewed and refined Arts also to playster and fill vp a fresh; but hereby whet the industry of others to improoue their Arts and industry on the otherside, in more eagre search and diligent inquisition to take [ 10] those wise in their craftinesse, and to let men see that the materials of this later Babylon in the West are turfes of earth, which humane wits haue baked into bri••kes, and with slime of Policy, haue raysed to so superadmirable a frame and structure.

And lest so great a blessing procured by Printing, should rest and rust amongst our selues in this Westerne corner of the World, God hath added that other Art of Nauigation, as that other Hi∣rams assistance to Salomon, and of Nehemiah to Ezra, the Prince and Priest, learning and power combined. This Art was before obscure and rude,* 1.171 but by the industry of the Portugals lifted vp to higher attempts, with care of their Kings (employing Astronomie to her better furniture) enabled to new Discoueries in Africa, and after that in all the East; whose example the Spaniard following happily encountred a New World, and first of all men vnlosed the Virgin Zone of the [ 20] Earth, encompassing the whole Compasse of this vast Globe. And thus hath God giuen oppor∣tunitie by Nauigation into all parts, that in the Sun-set and Euening of the World, the Sunne of righteousnesse might arise out of our West to illuminate the East, and fill both Hemispheres with his brightnes: that what the Apostles, by extraordinary dispensation sent, by extraordinary prouidence protected & conducted into all parts, by extraordinary gift of Tongues were able to preach to all sorts of men; this latter Age following those glorious Fathers and Founders (though farre off, non passibus aequis) might attempt and in some sort attaine by helpes of these two Artes, Printing and Nauigation, that Christ may bee saluation c 1.172 to the ends of the Earth, and all Nations may serue him; that according to the Scripture innumerable numbers of all Nations and Kin∣dreds, and peoples, and Tongues, may be clothed with the white robes of the Lambe. I am no Prophet, [ 30] nor sonne of a Prophet, instructed in future reuelations, but one with all others praying, thy King∣dome come; neither dare I take vpon me the reuelation of the Reuelation in that Prophesie of the holy Ierusalem descending out of Heauen from God, newly measured with a golden Reed, to apply it to the reformation of the Church in the last times; which howsoeuer some haue interpreted only of her glorious and celestiall estate, others haue included the terrestriall also, after the calling of the Iewes (which Saint Paul cals life from the dead, as if it were the Resurrection of the World, and consequently in spirituall respects, a new Heauen and new Earth) alleadging many Argu∣ments, seeming altogether to this purpose not improbable. And least of all, will I, lesse then the least of all, take vpon me the reducing of the Iewes into I know not what externall pompe and policie, and exalt them in splendour aboue all other Nations and Monarchs (the very stumbling [ 40] stone of their downfall; this dreame of a glorious Messias, prouoking them to crucifie the Lord of glory, whose Kingdome is not of this World, though prefigured by types, and painted in sha∣dowes of Secular glorie) I meddle not with Secular States, but pray for the conuersion and spi∣rituall regeneration of all men. And Nature it selfe preacheth thus daily: if the Sunne daily,* 1.173 shal not the Sunne of righteousnesse once, enlighten all the World? It is the Holy Ghosts resemblance. If the Fathers d 1.174 of old did expect a further conuersion of Nations by the Gospel; if the Sybil∣line Oracles promise as much; if the Papists make this a demonstration that Antichrist is not yet come, because the Gospel is not yet preached to all men, which they hope hereafter shall bee ef∣fected; if the Prophecies of the glorious state of the Church mentioned in Esay and Zacharie,e 1.175 shadowed in Ezekiels Temple, and destruction of Gog and Magog, renued in the Reuelation, [ 50] seeme not yet to haue taken their full effect, but to promise some better future estate, as euen those many Ancients also conceited, whose full sayle and forward gale carried them beyond the Truth into the Millenary Errour: if our Church prayeth for all Iewes, Turkes, and Infidels, that they may be one sheep-fold vnder one Pastor: then I may also with the Streame bee carried into expectation of that dilating the Churches Pale, and a more Catholike enlarging of her bounds, specially in those parts of the World, where though we grant the Gospel preached by the Apo∣stles, yet little fruit in comparison followed in many Countries; nor any generall conuersion of Nations, except of the Romane Empire with the adioyning Regions, and some few, scarse a few Prounces annexed, hath hitherto happened. And how little to the rest of the World is all that which is called Christendome, or that also which in any setled flourishing estate of a Church hath [ 60] euer yet beene Christian? Pardon therefore this Charitie extended to all men, to pray and hope for the remotest of Nations no more remote from Christ in Nature or promise, then our selues.

And (to returne to our Nauigation) the present Nauigations, Missions, Preachings, of Iesuites

and Friers in the Heathen Nations of the World, seeme to present vnto my minde that state of the dispersed Iewes before Christs comming in the flesh. He came to his owne, and his owne receiued him not, which yet by their Scriptures, Synagogues, Rites, in their many many dispersions, had vnwitting prepared a way vnto him amongst the Gentiles. Let none contemne this figure of the Iewish Church (which yeelds d 1.176 in most obiections of Popery touching Visibility, Succession, Antiquity Vniuersality, Consent, Pontificall Priuiledges, and most of their vulgar and popular flourishes, reall and experimentall resolutions, by paraleling the Iew and Romanist; this being in∣feriour in euidence, superiour in arrogance) if herein also we see them like; and those later Phari∣ses, compassing Sea and Land to make Proselites, by preaching some Christian verities amongst their Traditionary chaffe, become Apparitors and Harbengers of a future purity, which yet them∣selues crucifie as Hereticall. Spaine hath as is said, in Nauigation best deserued (in leading the way [ 10] to others, some of which haue e 1.177 since in the Art equalled, in attempts perhaps exceeded her) and by diuine Prouidence hath beene bountifully rewarded in the East and West, both ouershadowed vnder her wings: is also one of the ten hornes (as the current of our Interpreters agree) which to∣gether with the beast receiue power as Kings, out of the ruines of the Romane Empire; of which it is prophesied that the ten hornes shall hate the Whore, and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eate her flesh and burne her with fire. For God hath put into their hearts to fulfill his will, &c. God put in∣to their hearts to be thus truly Catholike, and able to discerne the whoredoms and many witchcrafts of their mother Iezabel, the mother of fornications of the Earth; enable them to see that Catholike-Roman is the Language of Babel, where men but babble, and the word (like Esau and Iacob stri∣uing in the wombe) supplants the next preceding; that the now-Roman is but new-Roman, and [ 20] therefore Catholike no more in time then place, no more in sound apprehension of truth, then in round comprehension of the Vniuerse. And that God which hath giuen them to chase the relikes of the Moores out of Europe, to chastise them in Afrik & Asia, to find that New World of America, with her two armes of Nauigation from Lisbone and Siuill yeerely, to embrace the whole Globe, and to haue greater oportunities for so Catholike a worke then yet is granted to any other Nation; put into their hearts with other Princes and Christian Nations to fulfill this his will against that Whore; which the Prophesie enforceth to beleeue shall bee done, and their King in our Fathers dayes gaue instance how easie.* 1.178 I ring not, sound not an alarme, nor strike vp a march for warre, I determine not the particular way or instruments of that desolation. I delight not in imprecati∣ons, [ 30] nor to that Whore drunken with the bloud of Saints and Martyrs wish any bloudy reward of my selfe:* 1.179 but God himselfe hath foretold deuouring her flesh and burning her, and enioyned also, in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double. Which howsoeuer it shall bee effected, I doe not pre∣scribe, nor doe I single out that Nation to this purpose, but ioyne them with others in my Pray∣ers for the execution of that Prophesie, both to goe out of Babylon, and to goe against it in iust reformation, that it may bee no more found at all; at least by making her naked of that protection which thence she receiueth, and redemanding their owne, may detayne the ouer-flowings of EVPHRATES that the way of the Kings of the East may bee prepared to exterminate Babylon out of the World. And is it not better thus to pray for them that they may haue an honorable part in that Prophesie, that Babylon may further fall by their falling from them, then that they should fall with her? or to reckon vp the bloudy effects of their In∣quisition [ 40] in Europe, and their inhumanity in America, and number them amongst the Kings of the Earth, who shall bewayle and lament Romes ruines; or to those Ship-masters, Ship-companies, Saylers and Traders by Sea, and Merchants of the Earth weeping for her desolations? Once, I say not that they of all men haue the most eminent oportunity to subuert Babylon by their Italian neigh∣bourhood and Territories; I pray that they endeuour to conuert the Easterne and Westerne In∣dians making that best vse of their Nauigations,* 1.180 giuing them Gold refined and truly spirituall for their temporall. And though they now of all Nations seeme most enamoured of that Roman (therein truly Catholike, that is, common) Harlot, yet Hee which hath the heart of Kings in his hand as the riuers of water, can turne it, when and whithersoeuer he will: can effect this also by o∣thers,* 1.181 [ 50] without, yea against them: can reward (as sometime hee did Nebuchadnezzar for his ser∣uice done at Tyrus, with the land of Egypt for the wages of his Armie, and the Israelites at their depar∣ture with Egyptian spoiles) can reward I say both those which at his command go out of, or when his Prouidence shall dispose, against this Babylon (which for captiuing the people of God is called Egypt,* 1.182 for filthinesse Sodom, & for the Staple of Spiritual Merchandise, is also resembled to Tyrus) with the spoyles of the Spirituall Egyptians, with the Turks destruction (which litterally possesse Egypt) with the riches of the Gentiles brought to the Church, besides their own and the Churches liberty. And as Ierusalem (to return to our similitude) being demolished by the Romans, the Church became truely Catholike, not looking any more to walls of a Temple, to carnall Sacrifices, to the petty pinfold of one Nation, to one City, as the Mart & Mother of Christian Religion and disci∣pline [ 60] (how much had the Apostles to doe whiles Ierusalem stood, to withhold * 1.183 * 1.184 Christians from Iudaizing?) so is it to bee hoped and prayed, that this Mysticall Babylon, which now by vsur∣pation challengeth to bee Mistresse and Mother of the Church, arriuing at that prophecied irreco∣uerable downefall, Catholike-Roman (vniuersall-particular) may no more bee heard, but true Ca∣tholicisme

recouering her venerable and primary Antiquitie, may without distracted faction, in free and vnanimous consent, extend her Demesnes of Vniuersalitie as farre as the Earth hath Men, and the light of her truth may shine together with the Sun-beames, round about the habi∣table World: that as Salomon by Hirams Mariners fetched materialls, Gold, Gemmes, Almuggim Trees, to the Temples structure, which by the other Hirams Art were brought and wrought in∣to due forme; so the Heauenly Salomon, the LORD IESVS, may by this his gift of Nauigati∣on supply those remote fieldes, white vnto the Haruest, with plentie of labourers, to bring into the Societie of the True Church those rude Ethnikes, of them to frame pillars in the house of God,* 1.185 ves∣sells of sanctimony in the sanctuary finer then the Gold of Ophir, enlightned with spirituall wisdome and vnderstanding of holy things, richer then Rubies, and the most incomparable It wells: that [ 10] these may by the art of Hiram, the son of an Isralitish woman by a Tyrian father, that is by the Mi∣nistery of Pastors & Doctors, learned in diuine & humane Literature be instructed, baptised,* 1.186 edifi∣ed and disciplined; that in the places where yet is no Christian, nay no Humane or Ciuill People, it may be said vnto them, yee are the Sonnes of the liuing God; that there may be one Pastor and one sheepfold, one Saluation, Redeemer and Aduocate, to Iew and Gentile, IESVS CHRIST the light of the Gentiles and the glory of his people Israel: whom my Discourse hauing now obtained to em∣brace, shall here confine it selfe with a Nunc Dimittis, and end with Amen, to that Amen, in whom all the promises of God are yea and Amen. Euen so, Amen LORD IESVS.

[ 20]

[illustration] map of the Christian world

HONDIVS his Map of the Christian World.

Notes

• a 1.1

  Gal. 4.
• b 1.2

  Marke 16.15
• c 1.3

  Gen. 1.26.•• 2.7.22.
• * 1.4

  Folly and madnesse of enuie euen in those wis••st cretures taken by a higher Wisdome in their owne craftinesse! who enuying man his Para∣dise lost their owne Heauen and God; yea, left those Thrones and Principali∣ties of Princi∣palities and Thrones to bee by Gods mercie recouered and rep••ssessed by Men whom they had made sinfull, Christ victorious.
• d 1.5

  Ier 15.1.
• e 1.6

  Esay 18.5.
• f 1.7

  1. Iohn 3.
• g 1.8

  1. Cor. 15.
• h 1.9

  Ber. de dilig. Deo.
• i 1.10

  Phil. 2.
• k 1.11

  Ga••. 3.
• l 1.12

  Io. 1.
• m 1.13

  Eph. 4.8, 9.10, 11.
• n 1.14

  Amb. de poe∣nit. l. 2. c. 10.
• * 1.15

  Gal. 5.
• o 1.16

  Gal. 2.
• p 1.17

  Mat. 16.24.
• * 1.18

  Heb. 11.16. Ps. 39.12.
• q 1.19

  Mat. 24.14. Mark. 16. vlt.
• r 1.20

  Luk. 2.
• s 1.21

  Mat. 2.
• t 1.22

  Mat. 9.3••
• * 1.23

  How Bellarmine contradicts himselfe tou∣ching the Pope and Bishops succeeding the Apostles. See Torti Torti p. 248. and how improperly Gregory is cal∣led, our Apostle 325.
• a 1.24

  Acts 10.28. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• b 1.25

  Mat. 23.2. & 5.1. Luk. 4.20.
• c 1.26

  Greg. Ep, 38. &c.
• e 1.27

  Gal. 2.6, 7.
• f 1.28

  Mar. 16.20.
• g 1.29

  Col. 1.6, 23.
• d 1.30

  Vid. Durandi Rat. l. 2. in prin∣cipio.
• h 1.31

  Mat. 28.
• i 1.32

  Rom. 11.12.
• k 1.33

  Sulp. Seuer. l. 2 ••dem ••ed. in 〈◊〉〈◊〉, 13.
• l 1.34

  Bell. de Rom. Pont▪ l. 3. c. 4. Lessius de An∣tich d. 8.
• m 1.35

  Rom. 11.12.
• n 1.36

  Luk. ••.1. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• o 1.37

  Acts 2.5.
• p 1.38

  Rom. 10.18.
• q 1.39

  Chrys. in Mat. hom. 76.
• r 1.40

  Theoph. in Mat. 24.21.
• s 1.41

  Hil. in Mat. Can. 25.
• t 1.42

  Tertul. de re∣sur. carnis c. 22. vid. Down. de Antich. part. 2. ad Lessij. dem. 8. who also citeth Euseb. Hicron. Ambros. Theod. ••gnat••us, &c.
• u 1.43

  Bern. de Pen∣tec.
• x 1.44

  Geneb. Chron. An. 44.
• a 1.45

  Acts 8.1. & 11.19.
• b 1.46

  Acts 10.13.
• d 1.47

  Acts 6.1. & 1. Pet. 1.1.
• c 1.48

  Gal. 2.6, 7.
• e 1.49

  Io. 7.35. V••d. Ios. Scal. Annot. in Euseb. p. 124. & Can. Isag. pag. 278.
• e 1.50

  Scal. cont. Se∣rar. trib.
• f 1.51

  Acts 6.9.
• g 1.52

  Baron. tom. 1. an 45. 1. Pet. 5.13. & Rhem. Annot. o•••• those words (the Church at Babylon saluteth you)
• * 1.53

  Dellarm. de R.P. ••ib••ra in Ap. &c.
• i 1.54

  See this largely proued in Conf. ••aino'd. Ch 6.
• k 1.55

  Onuph in P••at. diu. 3. vit. Pet.
• l 1.56

  Mar. Scot. an. 72. Babyloniam verbo praedica∣tionisillust••auere
• m 1.57

  Euseb. hist. Ec. l. 2. ca. 14.
• n 1.58

  Vlricus Vele∣nus his booke is extant with B. Fisher his an∣swer printed at Antwerpe 1522.
• n 1.59

  Gal. 2.6.
• p 1.60

  Nicep. Cal. Ec. hist. l. 2. c. 35.
• q 1.61

  Metaph. in 29. Iun.
• r 1.62

  O••uph. ad Pla. in vita Petri.
• s 1.63

  In Choropisco∣pos siue coadiu∣to••es sues insti∣tuit. peregrinati∣one deinde per totam ferè Eu∣ropam suscepta.
• t 1.64

  Hier. de script. Eccles. in verbo, Clemens.
• u 1.65

  Iren. l. 3. c. 31.
• x 1.66

  Eus. Chron. & hist. l. 3. c 19.
• y 1.67

  Iren vbi sup.
• z 1.68

  Rufi••. prefat. recognit Clem. ad Ga••dent.
• a 1.69

  Epip••••. haer 27
• * 1.70

  So Damasus in Pontif. sa••••h that Peter or∣dained Linus & Cletus vtpresen∣tialiter omne ministerium sa∣cerdotale exbi∣berent. And Ge∣nebrard. An. 81. saith of Linus & Cletus, eos Pe∣trus chorepisco∣pos fiue coadiu∣tores asciuit. & Marianus Scotus An. 59. Linus coepiscopus sub. Petro A••o••tolo exteriora cura∣uit. An. 70. Cle∣tus coe••••, copus successit. after the p••oofe hereof, out of Pope Leo, ads Post Petrum, imò cum Petro, primus papa S. Clem. Romanam regit eccles.
• a 1.71

  Dorat. Synops.
• b 1.72

  Ap. Hieron. Catol scrip. Eccl.
• c 1.73

  Nic. hist. Ec. l. 2. c. 39.
• d 1.74

  Orig. in Ge. l. 3 Euseb. hist. l. 3. c. 1
• e 1.75

  Greg. Naz. Orat. in Arian.
• f 1.76

  Tert. l. 4. cont. Mart.
• g 1.77

  Iren. l. 3. c. 3.
• h 1.78

  Prochor. in hist. S. Ioan. in Biblioth. pat. to. 2
• i 1.79

  Ba••on. to. 1. An. 44.
• k 1.80

  Metaph. in 5. Septem.
• l 1.81

  Relat. ex Ep. Iesuit. an. 1555.
• m 1.82

  Act. 12.
• n 1.83

  Bar. Mart••. Iul. 25.
• o 1.84

  Annal. to. 1. an. 44.
• p 1.85

  Duodeci•••• tribubus in di∣spersione consti∣tutis. Catolog. Hieron. Dorothei Synopsis. Mer∣mannij thea∣trum &c.
• q 1.86

  Euseb. hist. l 2▪ c. 1. Vid. Epipha. haer. 78. Ab••. l. 6
• r 1.87

  Hier de script. Eccles.
• s 1.88

  Ios. Antiq. l. 20. c 8.
• t 1.89

  Talmud. Bab. de Idol c. 2. Hie∣rosul. Sciabboth. c 14.
• * 1.90

  So Hierom. but Euseb▪ l. 2. c. 22. hath vita cum caeteris A∣postolis▪
• u 1.91

  Euseb. hist. l 5 c. 17.
• x 1.92

  Plin. l. 5. c. 14 longe clariss. vr∣bium Orientis non Iudaeae modo.
• y 1.93

  Mat. 4 & 5.
• z 1.94

  Ps. 76.
• a 1.95

  Es. 2▪ 3.
• b 1.96

  Cl. Espenc. in 1. Tim 4.
• c 1.97

  Ec. 1.7.
• d 1.98

  Gal. 1.19.
• e 1.99

  Act. 15.
• * 1.100

  The other general Coun∣cels were ra∣ther of the Ro∣man, then the vniuersall World; assem∣bled by Roman Emperors only.
• f 1.101

  Ep. haer. 78.
• g 1.102

  As the Pre∣sident of Yorke for the whole Prouince; the Vice-roy of Goa for all the Indies, &c.
• h 1.103

  Bar. p. 325. to. 1
• i 1.104

  Rom. Mart. Mai. 1.
• k 1.105

  Baron. Martyr.
• l 1.106

  Niceph l. 2. c. 40. & li. 8. c. 30.
• m 1.107

  Ori. en. in Gen. l. 3. &c.
• n 1.108

  Euseb. l. 3. c. 1.
• o 1.109

  Naz. hom. ad Arian.
• p 1.110

  Chrys. hom. de 12. Ap.
• q 1.111

  Theod. ad Gent. l. 9.
• r 1.112

  Nic. l. 2. c. 40.
• s 1.113

  O••or. derch. Em. l. 3.
• t 1.114

  M••ff hist. Ind.
• u 1.115

  Act. 8.
• x 1.116

  Dor. Synops. ••n fine.
• y 1.117

  Chrys. hom. de 12. Apost. ex Bar.
• z 1.118

  Soph. ap. Hie∣ron. de script▪ Ec.
• a 1.119

  Soc. l. 1. c. 15.
• b 1.120

  Eus. l. 5. c. 10.
• c 1.121

  In the time of Aurelius and Commodus.
• c 1.122

  In the time of Aurelius and Commodus.
• d 1.123

  Nic. l. 2. c. 39.
• e 1.124

  Hier. vbi sup.
• f 1.125

  Socra. vbi sup.
• g 1.126

  Nic. l. 2. c. 41.
• h 1.127

  Iohn 21.
• * 1.128

  Counterfeits fathered on Apostles, &c.
• i 1.129

  Baron &c.
• k 1.130

  〈◊〉〈◊〉 and Canus com∣plaine 〈…〉〈…〉 hereof, yea D. Ha••d••u, &c.
• l 1.131

  Aug co••. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 & cont 〈…〉〈…〉. l. 1 c. ••••.
• m 1.132

  Hier. de scrip.
• n 1.133

  Clem. Alex. Strom. l. 6.
• o 1.134

  Epiph. haer. 26 Vid. de his Ba∣ron. an. 44. to. 1.
• p 1.135

  Gel. in decret. de lib. Apot.
• q 1.136

  Euseb. l. 1. c. 13
• * 1.137

  Matth. 13.
• * 1.138

  Sophron. & Ni∣ceph. l. 2. c. 40.
• a 1.139

  Gal. 1.
• b 1.140

  Mermannii Theat. Conuers. gent.
• c 1.141

  Bed. & Aug. Script. Niceph. l. 2. c. 20.
• d 1.142

  Vid de his Dorothei Synops. Merman. Baron. &c.
• e 1.143

  Dan 4.2••
• f 1.144

  Esler 8.9.
• g 1.145

  Cic. pro Arc••. Poet.
• * 1.146

  The reason of the name Pa∣gan or Paynim.
• * 1.147

  Rom. 10.18.
• * 1.148

  Sup. c. 1. §. 8.
• * 1.149

  See Brere∣woods Book of Lang. & Acosta de temp. nou. l. 1. c. 18.
• * 1.150

  See my Pilg. l. ••. c. 10.
• * 1.151

  As Canaan was in Abra∣hams time no∣thing so popu∣lous as in Io∣shuas.
• * 1.152

  Acosta rec∣kons the Mexi∣can beginnings out of their owne histories, about An. 900. and Garcilosso de la Vega born in Cusco ••nd of the stocke of the Ingas, be∣ginnes the first Inca after A. D. 1100. which w••re before most sauage.
• * 1.153

  Acost de procur. Ind. Sal. l. 1. c. 2. Veg. tom. 2 lib. 7. c. 13. pag. 1454. Lerius hist Na••. in Era. c 16.
• * 1.154

  Kniuets Iour∣nall.
• * 1.155

  P. Pilg. l. 8. c. 2.
• a 1.156

  Gen. 46.27.
• b 1.157

  E••. 12.37.
• c 1.158

  Num. 1.46. & 2.32.
• d 1.159

  Num. 26.51, 64.
• e 1.160

  Diatrib. de Europaeor. ling. Ios. Scalig. P. Merul. Cos∣mog. part. 2. l. 1. cap. 8.
• * 1.161

  Acosta l. 1. cap. 21. & l. 4. c. 34.
• f 1.162

  Ouiedol 15. c. 1 A few Horses also and mares left by the Ri∣uer of Plate so encreased, that since they haue sl••ine them only for their tailes, to sell to the Negros. Of Conies strange en∣crease, see l. 2. ••. 1. §. 2.
• * 1.163

  2. Chor. 10.3▪4, 5
• * 1.164

  Ap. 2.
• b 1.165

  Theo••. Orat. 5
• * 1.166

  2. Cor. 6.10.
• * 1.167

  Ex. 31. l. 6. & 35.30.
• * 1.168

  ••. Chron. 2.14.
• * 1.169

  1. Cor. 10, 11. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉.
• * 1.170

  Psal. 37.4.
• * 1.171

  Of this im∣prouement of Nauigation read the next Chapter.
• c 1.172

  Ps. 2. & 22. Luke 2. Apoc. 7.9.
• * 1.173

  Forbis, Bright∣man, Bernard, &c. in Apoc. Rom. 11.15.
• d 1.174

  Ps••l. 19. Rom. 10.
• e 1.175

  Aug. Ep 78.80. vid. Prosp. de lib. arbit. Syb. Or. l. 3. &c. Bellar. Lessius, &c.

  Vid. Acost. de Proc. Iud. sal. l. 4 c. 2. & de temp. nouis. l 1. c. 17.18 Collect on Good Friday. Except in the quoud••m Ro∣man Empire & the Countries next adioy∣ning, viz the Sweden••, Poles, Norw••gians, Danes, Russes, and other Northerne people most of them lately added to the Church; & the Abassines on the South, & some handfuls on the East; Christianity hath rather bin dispersed in Nations then publikely and generally professed. God grace (if it be his will, for I rather make it an Article of my Charitie then of my faith) a larger Christendome.
• d 1.176

  The greatest and pl••usiblest arguments of Papists drawn from the au∣thority, &c. of the Church, may be with fa••rer shew & ••urer ground applyed to the Iewish Church, which yet apo∣statize.
• e 1.177

  English and Dutch.

  Apoc. 17.13, 16. 2. Reg. 9.22. Ap••c. 17.5. Explo••s of Spaine.
• * 1.178

  Apoc. 17.6. Apoc. 18.6.
• * 1.179

  Vid. Praefat. Mo∣nit. Regis Iacobi.
• * 1.180

  Prou. 21.1:
• * 1.181

  Ez. 29.19.
• * 1.182

  Ez. 27. & Ap. 12
• * 1.183

  So some in∣terprete Gog & Magog. Apoc. 20.8. & Ap. 9. &c.
• * 1.184

  Acts 15. Ep. ad Gal. Col. Phil. Heb. &.
• * 1.185

  Prou. 8.
• * 1.186

  Hos. 1.10.