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Indies. We see what floods of treasure have flowed 

 into Europe by that action ; so that the cense or 

 rates of Christendom are raised since ten times, yea 

 twenty time told. Of this treasure, it is true, the 

 gold was accumulate, and store treasure, for the 

 most part : but the silver is still growing. Be 

 sides, infinite is the access of territory and empire, 

 by the same enterprise. For there was never an 

 hand drawn, that did double the rest of the habi 

 table world, before this ; for so a man may truly 

 term it, if he shall put to account, as well that that 

 is, as that which may be hereafter, by the farther oc 

 cupation and colonizing of those countries. And yet 

 it cannot be affirmed, if one speak ingenuously, that 

 it was the propagation of the Christian faith that 

 was the adamant of that discovery, entry, and plan 

 tation ; but gold and silver, and temporal profit and 

 glory : so that what was first in God s providence, 

 was but second in man s appetite and intention. 

 The like may be said of the famous navigations and 

 conquests of Emanuel, king of Portugal, whose arms 

 began to circle Afric and Asia ; and to acquire, not 

 only the trade of spices, and stones, and musk, and 

 drugs, but footing, and places, in those extreme 

 parts of the east. For neither in this was religion 

 the principal, but amplification and enlargement of 

 riches and dominion. And the effect of these two 

 enterprises is now such, that both the East and the 

 West Indies being met in the crown of Spain, it is 

 come to pass, that, as one saith in a brave kind of 

 expression, the sun never sets in the Spanish domi- 



