The way to prosperity a sermon / preached to the honourable convention of the…

Some time since there were Sundry well disposed persons in Virginia, upon whose affectionate Letters, full of desires, that they might enjoy the means of eternal Salvation, diverse worthy Ministers were sent from hence unto them, Mr. Thomson, Mr. Knowles, & Mr. James; who after a passage so tedious & dangerous as made them almost suspect their Call, at length arrived there, where God gave them a blessed Success of their labours, with a loving & a liberal Entertainment in the Country: Yet it was not long before the Rulers of the Plantation drove them away by an Order, That all such as would not Conform to certain things, which the consciences of these Gentlewere known to scruple, should leave the Country by such a day. Before that black day came, the Indians, who for some hundreds of Miles had entered into a Confederacy to cut off all strangers, made a dreadful massacre of the English, & 300 at least were suddenly killed by the natives there: A grievous Mortality by Sickness did also accompany the said Massacre, so that many removed from thence, & many of the Rest glorified & magnified the Justice of God, thus avenging the Quarrel of His Refused Gospel.

Some time since there were Sundry well disposed persons in Virginia, upon whose affectionate Letters, full of desires, that they might enjoy the meanes of eternal Salvation, diverse worthy Ministers were sent from hence unto them, Mr. Thomson, Mr. Knowles, & Mr. Iames; who after a passage so tedious & dangerous as made them almost suspect their Call, at length arrived there, where God gave them a blessed Success of their labours, with a loving & a liberal Entertainment in the Countrey: Yet it was not long before the Rulers of the Plantation drove them away by an Order, That all such as would not Conform to certain things, which the consciences of these Gentlewere known to scruple, should leave the Countrey by such a day. Before that black day came, the Indians, who for some hundreds of Miles had entred into a Confoederacy to cut off all strangers, made a dreadful massacre of the English, & 300 at least were suddenly kill'd by the natives there: A grievous Mortality by Sickness did also accompany the said Massacre, so that many removed from thence, & many of the Rest glorified & magnified the Iustice of God, thus avenging the Quarrel of His Refused Gospel.