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Religion See other Religion Articles Title: The First Charter of Virginia, Seedbed for the Nation The First Charter of Virginia Seedbed for the Nation by Herbert W. Titus, J.D., March 6, 2007 We gather this evening just one-half mile from historic Jamestown Island, Virginia, to celebrate the 375th anniversary year of Henricus Colledge (1619), Inc. While it was not until July 31, 1619, that the Colledge was authorized by the Virginia General Assembly, it is most fitting to commemorate its birth on April 9, 1994. For tomorrow, April 10, is the 388th anniversary day of the First Charter authorizing the founding of the colony of Virginia. Without the founding of the colony, there would obviously have been no college. But the connection between the two is far closer than that. Both were founded with the single purpose of winning the native peoples of Virginia to Christ. The 1606 Charter was secured from King James I by the founders of the London and Plimouth companies “to make Habitation, Plantation, and to deduce a colony of our people into that part of America commonly called Virginia, and other parts and Territories in America, either appertaining to us, or which are not now actually possessed by any Christian Prince or People....” After describing a geographical area stretching from the Atlantic to the Pacific coasts, and on a line south to the Carolinas and north as far as Maine, the Charter turned to the founders’ purpose and the King’s acceptance of it: We, greatly commending, and graciously accepting of, their Desires for the Furtherance of so noble a Work, which may, by the Providence of Almighty God, hereafter tend to the Glory of his Divine Majesty, in propagating of Christian Religion to such People, as yet live in Darkness and miserable Ignorance of the true Knowledge and Worship of God, and may in time bring the Infidels and Savages, living in those parts, to human Civility, and to a settled and quiet Government.[1] So the expressed purpose, and the only one written in the Charter, was to establish colonies in the new World as a Christian evangelical witness to the native peoples. And it was pursuant to that purpose that the Virginia General Assembly, in 1619, authorized the establishment of Henricus Colledge. Two days after the Assembly acted to create the Colledge, it set forth its purpose as “laying a surer foundation of the conversion of the Indians to Christian Religion.” To that end, the Assembly required that each city, borough, and plantation “obtain unto themselves by just means a certain number of the natives’ children to be educated by them in true religion and civile course of life...” Finally the Assembly expressed the hope that from these native children some would be “fitted [so that] from thence they may be sente to that worke of conversion” of their own people.[2] Less than three years after the Virginia Assembly acted, the building of the Colledge was underway on a large tract of land in the new settlement of Henrico, just up the James River from the Jamestown colony. But it was cut short, never to be completed at its original site, eventually to be devolved into the College of William and Mary in 1693. While this effort to take the gospel to the native American people failed, and while the general effort to Christianize them also met with little success, the purpose of Virginia colony and Henricus Colledge remains as a testament that America as a nation owes her birth to the Great Commission. The Great Commission Just before Jesus ascended into heaven to the Father, He gave these instructions to the Church: Go ye...and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the on, and of the Holy Ghost: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the world. Amen. (Matthew 18:19-20) Popularly known as the Great Commission, this passage has inspired and motivated Christians throughout the centuries to take the gospel of Christ to all nations. Christian literature is packed with testimonies of missionaries penetrating far-off jungles, climbing high mountains, enduring hot deserts, and surviving icy terrain under great hardship and with incredible sacrifice, even of their very lives. Not only have Christians defied the elements, but they have taken the gospel message into nations against the laws and the desires of the leaders of those nations. They have preached and taught, printed and disseminated—and even smuggled — the Word of God in violation of the rules. By what authority have Christians done these things? Does the end justify the means? God forbid! Christ has “all power...in heaven and in earth” (Matthew 28:18) and, therefore, the Church has authority from the King of Kings to take the message of Christ to all nations. She need obtain consent from no earthly ruler. Paul’s missionary journeys in the Roman Empire are illustrative of this overarching authority. At no time did he or his companions seek permission from any civil ruler to take the gospel message to any area. That authority came exclusively from God through the Holy Spirit (E.g., Acts 13 and 14). Nor were Paul and his companions deterred by charges that the gospel message violated Roman law (E.g., Acts 16:19-22), including the charge that he had violated the same law by which Christ had been charged and convicted, namely, that there was only one king, Caesar (Acts 17:7 and John 19:12, 15-16). No wonder they were accused of turning the world upside down (Acts 17:6). The very act of taking the gospel message into a nation without permission was considered illegal, because the nations’ leaders claimed all power and authority for themselves. But Jesus had taught the early Church well. Paul and his missionary brethren remembered to render unto Caesar only that which belonged to Caesar (Luke 20:25). And they knew that God had provided through the Holy Spirit the power to live that truth in a hostile political world (Acts 4:18-20, 23-33; 5:27-29, 40-42). After all, the Lord Jesus Christ was now at the right hand of the Father and the nations were under His command as the Psalmist testified: Why do the heathen rage, and the people imagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord and against his anointed, saying Let us break their bands asunder, and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh; the Lord shall have them in derision....(Psalms 2:1-4). All the Church needed to do was act upon this promise and, by the Providence of God, the nations would be hers: Ask of me, and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the uttermost parts of the earth for they possession (Psalm 2:8). In the first century after Christ, the Church asked and the Lord gave, for by the fourth century even the mighty Roman Empire had bowed her knee to the Lord.[3] Colonies for Christ Thirteen hundred years later, the Church was on the march again, this time across the mighty Atlantic Ocean into the New World. Ready to endure hardship and to risk their lives and fortunes, Christian people settled along the coast north to Massachusetts and south to Georgia. The 1606 Virginia Charter provided ample authority for all these various colonial enterprises, as they all were undertaken within the geographic area set forth in that document. It is instructive to note, however, that all but one of the original thirteen colonies found as its purpose the Great Commission. On November 11, 1620, the Pilgrims penned the Mayflower Compact acknowledging that they had “undertaken for the Glory of God, and Advancement of the Christian faith, and the Honour of our King and Country, a Voyage to plant the first Colony in the northern Parts of Virginia...”[4] Nine years later, the Puritans obtained permission from King Charles to found the Massachusetts Bay colony with the following statement of purpose: [W]hereby our said People...may be soe religiously, peaceablie, and civilly governed, as their good Life and orderlie Conversation maie wynn and incite the Natives of Country, to the Knowledge and Obedience of the onlie true God and Sauior of Makinde, and the Christian faith, which in our Royall intencon, and the Adventurers free Profession, is the principall Ende of this Plantation[5] In 1632, the Lord Baltimore, a roman Catholic, obtained from King Charles a Charter for Maryland. That Charter, like the ones before it, recited that the colonial enterprise was “animated with a laudable, and pious zeal for extending the Christian Religion...in a Country hitherto uncultivated...and partly occupied by Savages, having no knowledge of the Divine Being...”[6] Even the Rhode Island and Providence Plantations Charter of 1663, obtained by Roger Williams recited as its purpose, not just the desire for religious for himself and his fellow settlers, but “the gaining over and conversione of the poore ignorant Indian natives...to the sincere professione and obedience of the...[Christian] faith and worship...”[7] In the same year the Carolinas were chartered and eight years later, Pennsylvania. In both documents, the colonists recited their desire to propagate the Christian religion by their example of civil order and love of God. These Charters accounted for seven of the original thirteen colonies. Of the remaining six, five — Connecticut, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Delaware, and Georgia—were carved out of territories of three of the six, Massachusetts Bay, Pennsylvania, and the Carolinas. Only New York, which traced its origin to the 1633 Charter of the New Netherlands, did not rest on the Great Commission, although the original charter included a paragraph urging the colonists “to find out ways and means whereby they may support a Minister...that thus the service of God and zeal for religion not grow cool...”. So whether it was the Anglicans of Virginia, the Puritans of New England, the Catholics of Maryland, the Presbyterians of the Carolinas, the Separatist of Rhode Island or the Quakers of Pennsylvania—reliance upon Christ’s commission to the church united them all. This is, first of all, significant historically and eschatalogically, because it provides indisputable documentary evidence that the real purpose for the colonizing of America was a missionary one, to extend the Christian faith to a people that did not know God. Undoubtedly, many who came to America were not motivated by this noble purpose. And, because of hardship and of native resistance to the gospel message, those who came with that purpose oftentimes failed to carry it out. Notwithstanding the failures of men — and they are far too numerous to list here — God has honored the dedication of America’s early founders by sending revival to America generation after generation and by establishing her as a greatest missionary nation that the world has ever know. But the recitation of the Great Commission is also important politically and legally, for it has provided the only foundation upon which the United States of America may claim its legitimacy as a nation......... read the rest: www.visionforumministries.org/issues/gods_hand_in_history/the_first_charter_of_virginia_1.aspx About the Author Herb Titus has taught constitutional law, common law, and other subjects for nearly thirty years at five different law schools. Mr. Titus and his wife, Marilyn, reside in Chesapeake, Virginia. Text, First Charter of Virginia 1606 www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/states/va01.htm Mic 4:1 ¶ But in the last days it shall come to pass, [that] the mountain of the house of the LORD shall be established in the top of the mountains, and it shall be exalted above the hills; and people shall flow unto it. Mic 4:2 And many nations shall come, and say, Come, and let us go up to the mountain of the LORD, and to the house of the God of Jacob; and he will teach us of his ways, and we will walk in his paths: for the law shall go forth of Zion, and the word of the LORD from Jerusalem..... www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Mic/Mic004.html#1 www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Zec/Zec002.html#4 Zec 2:3 And, behold, the angel that talked with me went forth, and another angel went out to meet him, Zec 2:4 And said unto him, Run, speak to this young man, saying, Jerusalem shall be inhabited [as] towns without walls for the multitude of men and cattle therein: Zec 2:5 For I, saith the LORD, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her. Zec 2:6 ¶ Ho, ho, [come forth], and flee from the land of the north, saith the LORD: for I have spread you abroad as the four winds of the heaven, saith the LORD. Zec 2:7 Deliver thyself, O Zion, that dwellest [with] the daughter of Babylon...... January 31, 2007 "Virginia's Cape Henry Cross At Risk The Weekly Standard: "The 400th anniversary of Act One, Scene One of American history will be celebrated on April 29, 2007. "On that day in 1607, English colonists, who ultimately settled at Jamestown, first landed at the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay near Virginia Beach. In one of their first acts, they erected a cross to give thanks to God for safe passage across the ocean. The settlers called the place Cape Henry, and every year the raising of this cross is commemorated. A memorial cross of granite was erected on the site in 1935 by the Daughters of the American Colonists and is part of the Colonial National Historic Park, administered by the National Park Service. Today, a representation of the Cape Henry Cross is found on the seal of Virginia Beach, a city understandably proud of its heritage. "Four hundred years after the raising of the Cape Henry Cross, the symbol is under assault in Virginia. In the face of this attack, many political leaders across the Commonwealth, including Governor Tim Kaine and Rector Michael Powell, of the College of William & Mary, have been largely silent. Apparently they are poised to accept a radical argument about the appropriateness of the public display of crosses offered by the new president of William and Mary. If accepted, this argument will directly and logically lead to the repudiation and dismantling of the historic Cape Henry Cross, and other important crosses in Virginia." Steve Goddard's History Wire www.historywire.com/2007/01/virginias_cape_.html National Park Service waters down their original Cape Henry founding story: NPS - Page Not Found I'm sorry that page could not be found, but you may want to try this park's homepage here: www.nps.gov/colo/. www.nps.gov/colo/capeheny/capeheny.html reduced to this : Cape Henry Memorial (U.S. National Park Service) According to George Percy, one of the early settlers, "The nine and twentieth day we set up a cross at Chesupioc Bay, and named the place Cape Henry. ... www.nps.gov/came/ I noticed the National Park Service had deleted their original Cape Henry article a few weeks ago...it probably happened around the same time as this occurred: Thu Sep 6, 3:45 PM ET Court bans Christian cross on private land in public park SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The U.S. government cannot trade a parcel of land to private hands to allow a Christian cross to remain in the middle of a vast federal preserve, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Thursday. At issue is the Establishment Clause of the U.S. Constitution, which bars the government from favoring any one religion, as it applies to a lone white metal Latin cross in the Mojave National Preserve in southern California between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. In 2004, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that a cross on a prominent rock on public land was unconstitutional, prompting Congress to pass a law allowing a trade so its immediate area would become private land. People have been putting crosses in the spot since the 1930s, most recently with one man drilling a metal cross into the rock a decade ago without permission. In 1999, a man requested and was denied permission to build a Buddhist shrine there, setting the stage for a tangled legal fight. "A grave constitutional injury already exists," Judge Margaret McKeown wrote for a three-judge panel that upheld a lower court ruling. "The permitting display of the Sunrise Rock cross in the Preserve is an impermissible governmental endorsement of religion. "The government's long-standing efforts to preserve and maintain the cross atop Sunrise Rock lead us to the undeniable conclusion that the government's purpose in this case is to evade the injunction and keep the cross in place," the judge said. "Carving out a tiny parcel of property in the midst of this vast Preserve - like a donut hole with the cross atop it - will do nothing to minimize the impermissible governmental endorsement." news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070906/us_nm/usa_religion_cross_dc It's okay to have a synagogue of Satan in the Pentagon, and Babylonian Talmud parties at the Supreme Court, and to have Pharisees address Congress and advise them of their "duty" to enforce the beheading of Christians, but GOD FORBID we should allow the National Park Service to state in cyberspace the complete HISTORY of the placing of the cross at Cape Henry, which symbolically, is ensconced within the confines of a military fort, which requires one to run the gauntlet in order to visit it, for now....maybe a day from now, that cross will be removed from public property [who is the public, if not the Christian peoples who founded this country for Him who created the earth and everything in it?] Isa 52:2 Shake thyself from the dust; arise, [and] sit down, O Jerusalem: loose thyself from the bands of thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.... Isa 52:5 Now therefore, what have I here, saith the LORD, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the LORD; and my name continually every day [is] blasphemed..... www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Isa/Isa052.html#2 Ezekiel 17:1-10/John 15:1/Matthew 15:13.
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#1. To: AllTheKings'HorsesWontDoIt (#0)
The territory granted to the London Company included the coast of North America from 34th parallel (Cape Fear) north to the 41st parallel (in Long Island Sound), but being part of the Virginia Company and Colony, The London Company owned a large portion of Atlantic and Inland Canada. The company was permitted by its charter to establish a 100 mile square (26,000 km²) settlement within this area. The portion of the company's territory north of the 38th parallel was shared with the Plymouth Company, with the stipulation that neither company found a colony within 100 miles (160 km) of each other. On May 14, 1607, the London Company established the Jamestown Settlement on the James River about 40 miles upstream from the mouth of the Chesapeake Bay at Cape Henry. Later in 1607, the Plymouth Company established its Popham Colony in present day Maine, but it was abandoned after about a year. By 1609, the Plymouth Company had dissolved. As a result, the charter for the London Company was adjusted with a new grant that extended from "sea to sea" of the previously-shared area between the 34th and 40th parallel. It was amended in 1612 to include the new territory of Bermuda. The London Company struggled financially for a number of years, with results improving after sweeter strains of tobacco than the native variety were cultivated and successfully exported from Virginia as a cash crop beginning in 1612. In 1624, the company lost its charter, and Virginia became a royal colony. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Virginia_Company Just as Halliburton and Blackwater use religious fervor and patriotism to gain public acceptance and find recruits in order to increase their financial holdings, so did the East India Company etc. of the past. The London Company as well as some of the Colonial govts paid for each Native American scalp. xroads.virginia.edu/~Hyper/TURNER/chapter2.html Massachusetts offered bounties for scalps, varying in amount according to whether the scalp was of men, or women and youths, and whether it was taken by regular forces under pay, volunteers in service, or volunteers without pay.20 One of the most striking phases of frontier adjustment, was the proposal of the Rev. Solomon Stoddard of Northampton in the fall of 1703, urging the use of dogs "to hunt Indians as they do Bears." The argument was that the dogs would catch many an Indian who would be too light of foot for the townsmen, nor was it to be thought of as inhuman; for the Indians "act like wolves and are to be dealt with as wolves." 21 In fact Massachusetts passed an act in 1706 for the raising and increasing of dogs for the better security of the frontiers, and both Massachusetts and Connecticut in 1708 paid money from their treasury for the trailing of dogs.22 Thus we come to familiar ground: the Massachusetts frontiersman like his western successor hated the Indians; the "tawney serpents," of Cotton Mather's phrase, were to be hunted down and scalped in accord with law and, in at least one instance by the chaplain himself, a Harvard graduate, the hero of the Ballad of Pigwacket, who many Indians slew,
..... Isa 18:7 ¶ In that time shall the present be brought unto the LORD of hosts of a people scattered and peeled, and from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden under foot, whose land the rivers have spoiled, to the place of the name of the LORD of hosts, the mount Zion. www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Isa/Isa018.html#7 That sendeth ambassadors by the sea, even in vessels of bulrushes upon the waters, [saying], Go, ye swift messengers, to a nation scattered and peeled, to a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; a nation meted out and trodden down, whose land the rivers have spoiled! King James Version 1611, 1769
#3. To: robin (#2)
from a people terrible from their beginning hitherto; ...and quite frankly, I think there are a lot of Danites on this bus, who refuse to repent. The london/Virginia Company is apparently of the so-called Grail family. The Danites were the pioneers of Israel, the ship-builders, the warriors, the heathens. Their purpose was to get us here, and for a lot of them, to 'get cleaned'. www.watch.pair.com/dan.html [note the eagle.... Ezekiel 17:1-10/John 15:1/Matthew 15:13....... www.blueletterbible.org/tsk_b/Eze/20/38.html Mat 22:11 And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment: Mat 22:12 And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless. Mat 22:13 Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast [him] into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Mat 22:14 For many are called, but few [are] chosen. www.blueletterbible.org/kjv/Mat/Mat022.html#12 A lot of them are running out of time to get clean, and put on their wedding garment.
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