and true Blood c. 5. Then he delivers Bread by it self and Wine mingled with Water to represent the Water and Blood that issued out of our Saviour's side 6. They admit Children of 7 Years to this Sacrament F. Simon 7. The Bread is leaven'd with a Cross on it Abyssins They receive some Weekly some Monthly but always at Church Fasting and towards the Evening on Fasting-Days They never spit that Day on which they receive In crowded Churches Priest and Sub-Priest Deacon and Sub-Deacon all help and read Several Prayers at the use of several Vessels and variety of Actions Some bring Offerings Bread Oil c. to be distributed to the Poor They administer in both Kinds to both Clergy and Laity and have been very angry with the Latines for denying the Cup to the Laity Lud. They admit not the Doctrine of Transubstantiation or real presence but when the words of their Liturgy are objected e. g. Lord now lay thy hand upon this Dish bless it and Sanctifie it that so thy Body may be made Holy therein And again Convert this Bread that it may become thy pure Body which is join'd with this Cup of thy most precious Blood c. They answer Retzitze nagare vet i. e. 'T is a nice business Or Mastar vet i. e. 't is a Mystery In short one Gregory a Native of Abyssinia told my Author Ludolphus That his Countrey men were not so scrupulous Ludolph Georgians 1. They Consecrate in wooden Chalices 2. They give the Communion to Children when dying 3. Others at Age receive but seldom 4. They carry the Sacrament to the Sick without Light or Attendance 5. On some Holy-days the Priests together assist at the Mass of the Bishop who gives them the Sacrament in their hands and they themselves carry it to their Mouths Christians of St. John 1. They use Flour kneaded with Wine and Oil. 2. They use no other form of Consecration then only some long Prayers to praise and thank God at the same time blessing the Bread and VVine never making mention of his Body and Blood 3. The Priest takes the Bread and having eaten some of it distributes the rest to the People M. Tavern v. post Mengrelians The Papa's of Mengrelia keep the Eucharist in a little bag of Leather or Cloth which they tie to their Girdle and carry it about them whithersoever they go to be made use of upon occasions when they are to give the Viaticum to the Sick Yea they give it to others Men or VVomen to carry c. Armenians 1. They use leaven'd Bread 2. They mingle no Water with their Wine 3. Consecrate in wooden and earthen Dishes 4. Give the Communion to Children and at Weddings to the Married couple 3. They never Communicate without singing and playing on great Cymbals called Hambarzon D. of Holst Emb. But now saith Tavernier they spare no cost to adorn the Choir and Altar you tread upon rich Carpets c. From the Body of the Church to the Choir is usually an Ascent of 5 or 6 Steps Nestorians They consecrate in leaven'd bread They put into their bread salt and oyl using a great many prayers Indians 1. They Communicate on Holy Thursday and other Festivals 2. They use no other preparation then coming to the Sacrament fasting Others say 3. They consecrate with little Cakes made with oyl and Salt which the Deacons and other inferior Church-men baked in a Copper vessel singing several Psalms and Hymns whilst they were a baking And when they are ready to Consecrate through a hole in the floor of that little Tower wherein they baked they let the Cake in a little basket made of leaves slide down upon the Altar 4. Their wine is only water with dry grapes infused 5. He that serves at Mass wears a Stole over his ordinary cloaths tho no Deacon 6. The same hath always a Censer in his hand and saith almost as many prayers as he that Celebrates Cophties 1. They never Communicate in private places 2. The Priest at Communion breaks the bread in form of a Cross and puts it into the wine eating 3 morsels and drinking 3 spoonfuls 3. They consecrate in leaven'd bread which they call Baraca i. e. benediction before consecration and Corban or Communion afterwards 4. They use little loaves as big as a Crown piece whereof they bake many the night before the Liturgy and at the end of Mass distribute them to those who have been present 5. They use not Tavern-wine as prophane but private or water with raisins infused 6. They never confess or Communicate but in Lent 7. They Communicate in both kinds 8. They give wine in a spoon 9. They give the Communion to children after baptsim 10. Vanslebio reports that at the Elevation of the Host they knock their breasts cast themselves on the ground make the sign of the cross and move their cap a little F. Sim. Maronites 1. They consecrate with unleaven'd bread tho probably this but of late since their submission to Rome Abyssins 1. The Abuna Papas or Metropolitan Consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria and sent out of Egypt They take Ordination many times with Tears in their Eyes by reason of the Turkish Vexations Their only Qualification is only to be able to read Arabic The Fathers of the Society tell us of a sad tool in their time a Miller Of these there are Four of equal Power and Dignity No Bishops nor Arch-bishops 2. Icegue the Governor of the Monks 3. Comos Overseers of the principal Churches 4. Depterat or Canons who look to their Musick 5. Nebrat or Dean 6. Kasis or Priest 7. Sub-priest 8. Deacon 9. Subdeacon All carry a Cross in their hands Georgians They Confess twice in their Life 1. At Marriage 2. Death Their Confession is in three or four words Muscovites Before the Sacrament they Confess in the midst of the Church before an Image all their Particular Sins at every sin expressing remorse and promising Amendment Absolution is granted with the Assignation of certain Penances as saying Gospodi Pomilui several times making several reverences before the Saints abstaining from Women for a time standing at the Church-door using of Holy Water which the Priests Consecrate on Twelfth-day and not to be had of them for nothing this water they think hath the vertue to cleanse them from all their sins D. of Holstein's Emb. Trav. Ahassins Account confession one of their seven sacraments But they neither confess the number nor the particular species of their sins but cry in general I have sinned I have sinned absan absan Insomuch that when the Roman Priests press'd them to particular confession they never acknowledged any more then three if they had been guilty Homicide Adultery and Theft The offender is absolved in few words together with some gentle stripes upon the side with an Olive Twig but for those great crimes before mention'd they are many times severely scourged Ludolph The Metropolitan sometimes hears
High Creator of all things That the Bishop reads Prayers over the Child in Church before the Baptism and in the River at Baptism while the Godfather plunges the Child three times all over and then to Feasting Papists 1. Doctrines according to the Council of Trent I N. do with a stedfast Faith believe and profess all and every Point contained in the Symbol of the Faith that the Holy Roman Church doth use viz. To believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth of all things visible and invisible And in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God and born of the Father before all Worlds God of God Light of Light True God of True God begotten not made of the same Substance with the Father by whom all things were made who for us Men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven was Incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made Man was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate suffered and was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and ascended up into Heaven sitteth at the right Hand of the Father and he shall come again with Glory to judge both the Quick and the Dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no end and in the Holy Ghost the Lord and Giver of Life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets and one Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church I confess one Baptism for the Remission of Sins and I expect the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to come Amen I do most stedfastly admit and embrace the Traditions of the Apostles and of the Church and all other Observances and Constitutions of the same Church I do likewise admit the Holy Scripture according to that Sense which our Holy Mother the Catholick Church hath holden and doth hold unto whom it doth appertain to judge of the True Sense and Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures neither will I ever understand nor interpret the same otherwise than according to the uniform consent of the Fathers I do also profess that there be truly and properly Seven Sacraments of the New Law and necessary for the Salvation of Mankind although they be not necessary for all Men viz. Baptism Confirmation Eucharist Pennance Extream Unction Orders and Matrimony and that these Sacraments do give Grace and that of them Baptism Confirmation and Orders cannot be reiterated without Sacrilege I do also receive and admit all the received and approved Ceremonies of the Catholick Church in the Solemn Administration of all the aforesaid Sacraments I do embrace and receive all and every of those things which in the Holy Council of Trent have been defined and declared touching Original Sin and Justification I do profess also that in the Mass is offered unto God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Quick and Dead and that in the most Holy Sacrifice of the Altar there is truly really and substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that there is made a Conversion of the whole Substance of Wine into the Blood which Conversion the Catholick Church doth call Transubstantiation I do also confess that under either kind only is received Christ whole intire and the True Sacrament I do constantly hold that there it Purgatory and that the Souls which be there detained are holpen by the Prayers of the Faithful Also that the Saints who reign together with Christ are to be worshipped and called upon and that they offer up Prayers to God for us and that their Relicks are to be worshipped I do most stedfastly affirm that the Images of Christ of the Mother of God always Virgin and of other Saints are to be had and received and that due Honour and Reverence is to be given to them I do affirm that the Authority of Indulgencies was left by Christ in the Church and that the use of them is very behooveful to Christian People I do acknowledge the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches and do promise and swear true Obedience to the Bishop of Rome who is the Successor of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and the Vicar of Jesus Christ All other things defined and declared by the Holy Canons and Oecumenical Councils and chiefly by the Holy Council of Trent I do undoubtedly receive and profess And also all contrary things and whatsoever Heresies condemned rejected and accursed by the Church I likewise do condemn reject and accurse This True Catholick Faith without which no Man can be Saved which now I do willingly profess and hold I the same I. N. do Promise Vow and Swear to hold and confess most constantly by God's help intire and uncorrupted even to the last end of my Life and to procure as much as shall lye in me that my Subjects or those of whom I shall have care in my Office shall accordingly teach and preach the same So God help me and these Holy Gospels of God Dr. James Library-keeper of Oxford out of Lewis de Grenado 's Sp. Doctrine 2. Vsages and Ceremonies and Traditions 1. In publick Prayers they use the Latine-Tongue 2. In the Commandments they make the First and Second One and divide the Tenth into Two 3. They distinguish Sins into 1. Mortal by which only they say the Commandments are broken which are 1. Pride 2. Covetousness 3. Leachery 4. Anger 5. Gluttony 6. Envy 7. Sloth 2. Venial Not contrary to the end of the Commandments i. e. to Charity e. g. an idle Word an officious or jesting Lie stealing of a Pin or Apple c. not killing but disposing to mortal Sin 4. They say 't is possible necessary and easie by the assistance of God's Grace to keep all the Commandments 5. That mortal sin is remitted by 1. Hearty Penance 2. Contrition 6. That venial sin is remitted by 1. All the Sacraments 2. Holy-water 3. Devout Prayer c. 7. The punishment Of mortal sin is Hell for ever 7. The punishment Of venial sin is Purgatory 8. That there are six Sins against the Holy Ghost 1. Despair of Salvation 2. Presumption of God's Mercy 3. Impugning the known Truth 4. Envy at others known good 5. Obstinacy in Sin 6. Final Impenitence 9. That there are four crying Sins 1. Wilful Murder 2. The Sin of Sodom 3. Oppression of the Poor 4. Defrauding VVork-men of their VVages 10. There be three principal Counsels of Christ to his Church 1. Voluntary Poverty 2. Perpetual Chastity 3. Obedience to another's will in all that is not Sin 11. There be six Commandments of the Church principally 1. To hear Mass on all Sundays and Holy-Days if opportunity serve 2. To Fast 1. Lent 2. Vigils commanded 3. Ember-Days and Fridays by custom of England 4. To abstain from Flesh on Saturdays 3. To confess
Shirt hangs a Cross about his Neck to be kept 'till Death D. of Holst Emb. Trav. Modern Heathens The Baptism of the Persees in East-India is thus So soon as one is born the Daroo is called upon who delays not but being instructed in the precise time of his Nativity calculates his Fortune the Daroo gives the Name the Mother assenting to it This done they haste together to the Eggaree where the Priest puts a little Water into the Bark of a Tree the Name of which is Holme the place it grows in Yezd not far from Spahawn a Tree that Zertoost blessed a Tree which they say yields no shadow The Water out of this hallowed Rind being pured upon the Infant a Prayer is then made that it may be cleansed from all impurity At 7 years of Age the Child is Confirmed by the Daroo and taught to say his Prayers over the Fire but with his Mouth and Nostrils cover'd lest his sinful Breath offend the Deity after which he drinks a little cold Water chaws a Pomegranate-Leaf washes in a Tank cloaths his Body with a fine Shuddero reaching to his Waste ties a Zone of Cushee about his Loins woven with Inkle of the Herboods making which he wears ever after and after a short Prayer that he may never prove an Apostate but continue a Fire-Worshipper that he may eat no Man's Meat nor drink any Man's Drink but his own he is ever after reputed a Believer Sir Tho. Herb. Trav. into Persia Concerning the Bannyans see in the First Book Ch. Sacram. Amboyna In Amboyna though Worshippers of the Devil they Circumcise at Twelve or Thirteen Years of Age c. Mandelslo Sachion In Sachion the Tartars dedicate their Children to their Idols and on Festival-Days Sacrifice Rams for their Childrens Preservation Rosse Guinea In Guinea the Priests besprinkle their Infants after Sermon with Water wherein a Newt doth swim Rosse Loango In Loango Circumcision is used Idem And in Madagascar also and Jucatan Armenians The Armenians thus Consecrate and Administer the Sacrament 1. They set the Consecrated Bread on the Altar 2. The Arch-Bishop reads the Mass for the Ceremony 3. At reading the Gospel they light abundance of Wax-tapers 4. After the Gospel several of the Noviciates take Sticks in their hands about 5 Foot long at the end whereof are Latten Plates with little Bells hanging about them which when they are shaked sound like Cymbals 5. Other Noviciates hold a Copper Plate in their hands hung about with Bells which they strike one against another and at the same time the Ecclesiasticks and Laity sing together indifferent harmoniously 6. All this while the Arch-bishop hath two Bishops on each side of him who are in the room of a Dean and a Sub-dean 7. By and by he goes and unlocks a Window in the Wall on the Gospel side and takes out the Chalice where the Wine is 8. Then with all his Musick he takes a turn about the Altar on which he at length sets down the Chalice saying certain Prayers 9. With the Chalice in his hand and the Bread upon the Chalice he turns towards the People who presently Prostrate themselves upon the ground beat their Breasts and kiss the Earth while the Arch-bishop pronounces This is the Lord who gave his Body and Blood for you 10. Then he turns towards the Altar and eats the Bread dipt in the Wine For they never drink the Wine 11. He turns towards the People with the Bread and Chalice in his hand and they that will receive come one after another to the bottom of the Choir to whom he gives the Bread dipt as before The bread is without Leaven flat and round about as thick as a Crown and as big as the Host of the Mass being Consecrated the day before by the Priest whose Office it is M. Tavernier l. 4. c. 9. They never put Water in their Wine When they come to the Communion the Arch-bishop or Priest says these words I confess and believe that this is the Body and Blood of the Son of God who takes away the sins of the World who is not only ours but the Salvation of all mankind He repeats these words three times the people saying after him word for word ibid. They give the Communion to Children of two or three Months old which the Mothers bring in their Arms tho many times the Children put it out of their Mouths again ibid. They never administer in Lent for then they never say Mass but on Sunday noon which they call Low Mass at which time they never see the Priest who hath a Curtain drawn before the Altar and only reads the Gospel and Creed aloud The Armenians Baptize infants on Sunday except in danger of Life the Midwife carrying the Infant to Church where the Bishop or Priest plunges it naked in the water and returns it to the Godfather going on with his Prayers and twists a double string one of white Cotton another of red silk signifying the Blood and Water which flowed from the Body of Christ about the Child's neck then he anoints the Child and crosseth it in the several places where the Oyl dropped saying I Baptize thee in the Name of Father Son and Holy Ghost The Forehead Chin Stomach Arm-holes Hands and Feet are anointed The Patriarch makes this Oyl every year on the Eve of our Lady in September after a small Lent of eight days of several fragrant Flowers and Aromatical Drugs but the principal is called Balassau-Jague or flower of paradise When 't is made two bottles are sent to all the Convents of Asia Europe and Africa When the Ceremony of baptism is over the Godfather returns home with the Infant in his arms and a Taper of white wax in each hand attended with trumpets drums haut-boys which go before to the parents house where the Godfather delivers the child to the mother she prostrating her self before the Godfather and kissing his feet he her head the minister names the child according to the Name of the Saint of that day in their Almanack Afterwards they Feast The poorer sort carry the Child to Church on the Week-days without any Ceremony with Tears in their Eyes pretending it to be sickly and like to die and so make no Feasts at all If Women lye in 15 or 20 days before Christmas they often defer till the Festival then in all the Cities and Villages where the Armenians live if there be any river or pond they spread 2 or 3 Flat-bottom'd Boats with carpets to walk upon and in one of them set up an Altar and in the Morning by Sun-rising all the Armenian Clergy of that Town or City and Parts adjoyning get into the Boats in their Habits with the Cross and Banner dip the Cross in the Water 3 times and every time drop the Holy Oyl upon it then plunge the Infant and anoint him 3 times saying I Baptize c. The King of Persia is many times present at the Ceremony when
See after  Flagelliferans Baptism by Water is ceased baptism of voluntary blood by whipping is come in its place  Origenists Baptism by fire is the true baptism  Effrontes shaved their foreheads till they bled and then anointed them with Oyl A Seal of our Regeneration Montanists Novatians Russians All that die afore baptism are undoubtedly damned  Messalians sins past only are put away by Baptism  Pelagians Jovinians all sins are put away by Baptism  Papists Thomists Orig. only are put away by Baptism  Banisterians Baptism is no more than common Washings  Hierachites Children belong not to Heaven because they have no merits by spiritual Warfare 2. The Lord's Supper whose outward Signs are Bread Wine Eucretites Tatians Severians used no Wine  Aquarii Hydroparastites used water  Montanists Cataphrygians used bread and blood some say man's seed  Artotyrites bread and Cheese  Manichees bread and man's seed administred in one kind  Muscovites Donatists Albanenses bread and wine and warm-water  Gnosticks An Infant begot in their promiscuous Embraces beat in a mortar season'd with Honey and Pepper c. and then devour it calling it their Pass-over Epiph. The things signified are the Body and Blood of Christ taken by the godly Receiver Messalians Familists The Sacraments are but ceremonial bodyes which may be used in obedience to Magistrates  Mat. Hamant They are not necessary in the Church of God  Papists They confer Grace ex Opere Operato and are absolutely necessary to salvation The Priest may receive for the Absent and Dead  Banisterians There will be a time when we shall need no Sacraments  Russians Gave the Sacrament of the Lord's Supper to babes and infants and dead bodies  Lutherans Synusiasts Vbiquitarii Christ's body is corporally taken by every Communicant the Bread and Wine being consubstantiated  Symbolists Figurists Signisicatists The Faithful at the Lord's Supper receive nothing but bare signs  Marcus The Wine is converted into Blood The efficacy of which depends not on the Worthiness of the Ministers Donatists Novatians Agrippiani Origen Petilians Cyprian Apostolicks Henricians Rebaptizantes All denied wicked men to be Lawful Ministers and most of them Re-baptiz'd such as were before Baptized by Hereticks  Anabapt Familists Independents Wicked Ministers cannot Preach truly and duly as they ought  Disciplinarian Puritans condemn all Ministers that Preach not  Sabbatarians condemn all that hear not Preaching Ministers every Sabbath  Brownists all that Communicate with a blind or dumb Ministry  Rhemists That hear Hereticks Sermons tho True  Albanenses The sacraments lose their Efficacy if given by wicked Priests For the Church may Err. Papists It cannot for its Head the Pope is Infallible Donatists Familists It is pure And general Councils to be gathered by Princes may Err. Papists Emperors and Kings are but the Pope's summoners  Beza c. Private persons may call Assemblies  Muscovites since the 7th General Council neither Prince nor Pope may call a General Council  Papists They cannot Err the Holy Ghost is directer to them But the due Administrat of the Word and Sacraments are sufficient marks of the visible Church Papists Unity Universality Antiquity and Succession c. are the signs  Brownists Administration of the Word Sacraments and Discipline are If perform'd in a known Tongue Ossens Prayed in a strange Language which they Learned of Alexus their Founder  Marcosians At the ministration of Baptism used certain Hebrew words c.  Turks Perform all their superstitions in the Arabian Tongue  Jacobites Use a Tongue unknown to the Vulgar  Russians Use a mixture of the Greek and Sclavonian in their Liturgy  Papists Have divine service prayers sacraments in Latin To preserve them from contempt God hath appointed Bishops Pastors Anabaptists Contobabdites Apostolicks condemn all Bishops and superiority amongst Men.  Acephalians Would submit to no Bishops  Aerians make Bishops and Priests all one equal  Jesuits made a Law for the Abrogation of Episcopal Jurisdictions  Disciplinarian Puritans Are against Archbishops and Bishops c. of large Jurisdiction To Excommunicate obstinate Offenders Paulicians Condemned all censures Ecclesiastical  Pelagians Hereticks too otherwise sound may be Ecommunicated for private Errors  Papists Excommunicated Kings Dead men c. whole Kingdoms  S. Bernard Flies  Apostlicks All that were married  Brownists Whole Cities and Churches  Barrowists Kings  Erastus denied Excommunication as inherent in the Churche's power And Absolve them being Penitent Montanists Novatians Meletius Anabapt Germ. Barrowists Melchior Heffman All that sin after Baptism are Reprobate Who also may appoint ceremonies in the Church not Repugnant to God's word Papists The Pope may alter the Sacraments c.  Familists Brownists Disciplinarians The Worship of God should be simple Christians are free c.  Melancthon and the Adiaphorists Held the Customs and Constitutions of the Church of Rome to be indifferent things God hath appointed the Civil Magistrate Albanenses Manichees Fratricellians Flagelliferies Anabaptists Familists Condemn Magistracy or assert That it is founded on Grace Yet the Familists profess Love and Obedience to all kind of Magistrates  Free-men Asserted that they were freed from Obedience to Magistrates Taxes Tithes c. And the King as supreme Papists The King's Supremacy extends not to Popes Priests or the Church  Disciplinarians of Scotland Princes must be subject to the Church Who by administration of an Oath Esseis Albanenses Anabaptists Quakers Swearing before Magistrates is unlawful Which ought to be unviolate and sacred without dissimulation of the Truth Basilidians Priscillianists Helchisaites Familists Henricians To avoid Persecution will swear and forswear  Jesuits c. Sciti and Cagi Turkish Priests To promote the interest of their own Church and damnify the adversary will equivocate and forswear  Familists Hobbists Libertines men may outwardly profess what they will if their Hearts be sound And inflicting corporal Punishments on Offenders Manichees Donatists Anabaptists None for any Offence is to be put to Death  Familists For Sins of the second Table men may be put to Death not for Errors in Religion And the exercise of the Sword which he bears not in vain Manichees Lactantius Lud. Vives c. Anabapt Familists Erasmus doubted or denyed War to be Lawful  Muggletonians Christians using the steel are ignorant of Christ and enemies of his Gospel May maintain each one's properties Manichees Esseis Pelagians Apostolicks Fratricellians Anabaptists Familists Nudipedales would have Christians Goods common They who are predestinated to Life Pelagians Predestinates Familists c. The Doctrine of Predestination is a licentious and dangerous Doctrine  Armenians God predestinates on foresight of our Faith and Obedience After Death immediately a debt due to sin the Soul is made happy in the enjoyment of God Pelagius Socinus If Adam had not sinned yet he had died  Berylliani
shewing our fitness to praise God at all times 1. A particular Collect for the Day 2. A Commemoration out of the Dypticks 3. Another Collect post Nomina 4. Another Ad Pacem 5. A Preface relating to the Saint commemorated 6. Concluded with a Trisagion 7. Another relating to the Consecration 8. A devout Prayer for benefit by the Sacrament 9. A Collect for the Occasion ended with the Lord's Prayer 10. A Conclusion for the Day 11. A Benediction for the people 12. A Collect after the Eucharist 13. A short Thanksgiving Stilling fl ex Card. Bon. rerum Liturg. l. 1. c. 12. Mahometan Their Liturgy is in the Arabian Tongue not understood by many of the common People yet is repeated by the Moolaas or Priests and also by she common People The Mahometans also rehearse the Names of God and of Mahomet certain times on their Beads as the Papists do their Prayers The Devout Mahometans in a solemn manner assemble in their Mosquits or Churches where by their Moolaas upon Fridays some selected parts of their Alcoran are publickly read unto them which their Moolaas never touch without an expression of much outward Reverence And then they deliver some precepts out of it Purchas thus describeth their Method 1. They Wash 2. Go with a Sober pace to the Mâ—squit 3. In the Mesch it they all turn their Faces Southwards towards Mecha as the Jews towards Jerusalem 4. The Meizin or Sexton stands up and reads that Psalm which before he had cryed to them in the Steeple 5. Every one stands up holding his Hands fasten'd to his Waste and bow their Heads to their Feet with great Reverence and without stirring 6. Then the Iâ—am reads a Psalm aloud the Meizin as the Clark answering 7. This ended they fall on the ground and say Sabau Alla Sabau Alla Sabau Alla God have Mercy c. abiding Prostrate till 8. The Imam sings again his Psalm and then they rise This they do four or five times 9. The Meizin with a loud voice Prays God to Inspire the Christians Jews Greeks and all Infidels to return to their Law all kneeling and then with his hand lift up crying Amin Amin. 10. They touch their Eyes or wipe them with their hands as blessing themselves and bring their hands over their Face they depart Out of Menavius On Friday at nine of the Clock the Priest Preaches to the People out of the Life of Mahomet after which two little Boys stand up and sing certain Prayers Which ended the Priest and all the People with a low Voice sing a Psalm and then for half an hour they cry Illah Illelah i. e. There is but one God After all this one of the Antippi out of the high place 30 steps high shews to the People a Lance and Scimiter with Exhortation to use their Swords and Lances in defence of their Religion Purch Antient Heathen The Order of the Roman-Heathen Service out of Galâ—â—uchius 1. A choice was made of the Animals proper to the Gods A Buck for Mars a Horse and Bull for Neptune a He-goat for Bacchus Cows for Ceres and Juno She-goats for Diana young Kids for Faunus c. 2. They examined the Sacrifice whether it had any Blemish or Spot 3. They Lustrated 1. The Sacrifices 2. The Utensils 3. The people present who if they had any denatural default were driven a way by the Herald crying Procul este profani 4. The Priest took a himp of Burnt Corn or Meal mixt with Salt and Water called salsa fruges or mold salsa or Libum Adoreum and cast it upon the Victim 5. They killed the Victim and if it were an Holocaust burnt it all in the Fire otherwise part was reserved for the Priest and part for them that gave it 6. While the Beast was laid upon the Fire the Officers held their hands upon it and Prayed with the Priest 7. Then they poured Wine into the Fire 8. They Danced round about the Altar and sung Hymns 9. The Herald called upon the Priest Age quod Agis Modern Heathen The Chingulayes in Worshipping the Planets 1. Make Images of Clay deformed horrible in shape some with Tusks some with Horns c. 2. Set victuals before them and when they do it in case of sickness they breing the Sick Man and lay him before them all the while 3. They use Drums Pipes Dancing all Night and Day at least while the Ceremony lasts 4. They throw the Images into the High-way and the Victuals are eaten by Attendants and Beggars In Worshipping the Devils 1. They build a new House in their Yard like a Barn very slight covered with Leaves and Adorned with Branches and Flowers 2. They bring some Weapons or Instruments out of the Pagods and lay them on Stools at one end 3. They use Drumming Singing Piping and Dancing 4. They give away the Victuals to the Drummers Pipers Beggars and Vagabonds In Worship of the Supreme God 1. Observe they seldom do it but when lesser Devils fail 2. They prepare an Offering of Victuals ready dressed one dish always a red Cock. 3. They carry this Sacrifice into the Woods and lay it down to the Honour of their great Idol 4. There are Men before the Offering in an horrible disguise like Devils with Bells about their Legs and Doublets of a strange Fashion Dancing and Singing to invite if possible the God himself to come and eat of the Sacrifice 5. The Sick Person on whose account this Service is performed is all the while present Cap. Knox. In Guinea and the East-Indies they use neither Form nor Method in their Devotions But every one makes a God after his own Fancy Author of the view of the Engl. Acquis in Guin and E. Ind. On Festival-days the Felistero having 1. Set a Table in the Market-place 2. He placeth a seat upon it and sitteth thereon 3. He Preacheth 4. The Women offer him their Infants whom he sprinkles with Water in which a live Snake swims wherewith he likewise besprinkles the Table 5. He then uttereth certain words very loud 6. He stroakes the Children with some kind of Colours as if giving his blessing 7. He himself drinks the Water 8. The People clap their hands and cry I on I on and so he dismisseth the Assembly View of the Engl. Acquis in Guinea c. Diabolical Delrius tells us of some Semblance of Mass used at the Witches Meeting and a kind of Sacrament Disq Mag. l. 6. Glanvil tells us of 1. Kissing the Devil's Breech 2. Renouncing their Baptismal Covenant 3. Giving Soul and Body to him 4. Promising to observe his Laws and to do mischief and to keep secrets 5. Signing the Paper wherein these Articles are contained with an O or Cross which they make with Blood out of the fourth Finger of the right hand 6. Calling him Robin or saying O Satan give me my purpose 7. Doing courtesy to him 8. Anointing themselves with Oyl which the Spirit brings them 9. Permitting the Devil
Faithful or the Revenues of the Church one part was to be allowed to the Bishop two parts for Church Repairs and the Poor and one for the Clerks or Clergy according to their Merits Idem Sum. Decr. Simpl. Pa. 6. That the offerings of such as did not receive the Lord's Supper as did oppress the Poor as laid violent hands upon themselves were not to be accepted Idem c. So also of such as had delivered up their Children to be Baptized by Hereticks Idem 7. That Oblations were not to be made in Lent Idem Mahometan The Mahometan Pilgrims in commemoration of Abraham's Sacrifice offer upon the Plain near Medina 400000 Sheep on the Day of the little Bairam M. de Thev Ancient Heathen 1. Obs the kinds of Sacrifices 1. Humane Sacrifices were offered to Saturn in Carthage c. To Jupiter Apollo Mars Neptune Bacchus Juno Diana Pallas Mercury Moloch c. Amongst the Romans Scythians Cauls Aegyptians c. And some Indians now 2. Beasts and Birds c. 1. White to the Supernal Gods 2. Black to the Infernal 2. A Bull to Jupiter Mars Apollo Neptune Luna the Heroes A Ram to Mars and Jupiter A Horse to Sol and Mars A Doe to Minerva and Pan. A Lamb to Juno and Faunus A Dove to Venus A Sow to Ceres and Cybele A Hog to Sylvanus A Cock to the Lares A He-Goat to Bacchus The Women prostituted their own Bodies to Venus at her Temple for the use of Strangers They must all be 1. Of Fair Colour 2. Free from blemish 3. Not used to Labour 4. Such as they had received no profit from They chose proper Garlands to adorn the Men Sacrifices Altars Vessels e. g. In the Service of Bacchus Myrtle Ceres the Oak Hercules Poplar Apollo Lawrel They chose proper Fewel for the Altars Myrtle for Venus Ash for Mars Oak for Jove c. Natalis Comes tells of Vengeance inflicted for improper Fewel out of Pausanias c. They used proper Seasons of Service In the Morning to the Spernal In the Evening to the Infernal Proper Places On the Plain to the Terrestrial On Hills to the Supernal In Grots and Caves to the Infernal Modern Heathen The East-Indians offer Sacrifice some of them to the Sea and generally to the Idol in their Pagods M. de Thev In Guinea c. if the Fishermen have not a good draught they present a Piece of Gold to the Priest to reconcile them to the frowning Saint who with his Wives makes a kind of Procession through the Streets smiting his Breast clapping his hands with a mighty noise 'till he come to the shoar where they cut down Boughs from certain Trees and hang them on their Necks playing on Timbrels then the Priest turns to the Wives and expostulates with them and throws Wheat and other things into the Sea as an Offering to the Fetisso View of the Engl. Acqu in Guinea c. In Pegu and Bengala the Idols are honoured with Lights continually burning before them Rosse In Goa they wash in a Cistern near the Idol and offer Rice Eggs c. Idem The Gaurs Kids Hens Pigeons In Malabar they Sacrifice Flowers and Cocks to their Idol In Narsinga the Pilgrims offer Gold Silver and Jewels to their Idol Idem In Virginia they offered Tobacco c. In Mexico c. Men. Idem Diabolical Witches give their Soul and Body to the Devil And permit the Devil to suck their Blood once in 24 hours And destroy the lives of as many as they can in Devotion to the Devil Glanvil In Amboyna they offer him Meat and Drink and light a Wax-Candle in a certain place of their Houses and if he comes not they eat most of the Consecrated Meat themselves Mandelslo The like they do in Ceylon Capt. Knox. 4. Purifications Washings c. Jewish PUrification by Water was long in use with the Jews though not Sacramental therefore they expected it at the coming of the Messiah John 1.25 They question'd not his Baptism but his Authority Godw. Antiq. To make a Woman-Profelyte of the Covenant was required Purification by Water and Oblation viz. two Turtles or Pigeons to a Male-Profelyte Circumcision together with Purification and Oblation Idem Purification was used 1. To Males before Circumcision 2. To Women-Proselytes of the Covenant 3. To Women after Child-birth as the Law requires Lev. 12. but with this difference among the Modern Jews That after the birth of a Daughter the Wife retires for 66 or 70 Days her Husband not being permitted to touch her Finger or Clothes or cut in the same Dish or drink in the same Cup with her 'till she hath been washt c. Dr. Addison 4. To Churches Vessels c. Ancient Christian Hither may be referred the Baptism of Christiaus which is a kind of Purification though we have spoken of it before in the Chapter of Sacraments as may also the Lord's Supper in which the Souls of true Believing Communicants are purified in the Blood of Christ that Lamb of GOD which takes away the sins of the World This is that Fountain which was open'd on purpose for sin and for uncleanness which purifies more than the Refiners fire or the Fuller's Soap But ordinarily Repentance is the Christian's purification and that which disposeth and makes us meetly qualified for the Ordinances before-mentioned both which are but declarative of this and supposed in the Judgment of Christian Charity both in Baptism and the Lord's Supper Other Purifications have been added in succeeding Ages by the Papists especially as 1. Purification or Dedication of Churches by Praying Sprinkling the Walls with holy Water and a bundle of Hysop the Clergy and People going about and singing the Bishop knocking the Door with his Crosier saying Lift up your heads O ye gates c. Then entering in with three Servants wishing Peace three times to the House then on his knees to the Altar and praying whilest the Clergy without sing the Litany who afterwards carry in the Relicks of the Saint to which the Church is Dedicated The Walls are painted Salt Water Ashes and Wine are exercised and mixt into which the Bishop having dipt his Thumb makes the sign of the Cross on the Altar Walls Pavement offers Incense blesseth the Church Preacheth c. all enter the Church singing c. 2. Of Altars by going about them 7 times and sprinkling them with Water and Hysop 7 times having first made 4 Crosses on the 4 Horns of the Altars 3. The Putinae the Corporal Chalice Linnen Pix Fonts Crosses Images First-Fruits Holy-Water Salt Church-Yard Bells Easter-Tapers Chests wherein the Relicks of the Saints are kept c. And these Purified or Consecrated with Prayers Washing Crossing Ancinting Incense c. Mahometan The Turks have two kinds of Ablutions 1. Gousl viz. a general washing of the whole body after lying with their Wives Nocturnal Pollution Urine or any Unclean Thing touching them 2. Abdest viz. only of the Hands always before Prayers 3. After easing of
Profess Baptize and apply the Holy Oils as well as any Bishop or Arch-Bishop l. 3. c. 9. p. 124. Mengrelians They are so Ignorant that they know not so much as the Words necessary to Baptism They administer Baptism in the same manner as the Georgians Sometimes to render the Baptism more solemn they baptize with Wine A M. S. Relation attributed to Father Zampi a Theatin tells us the manner is thus 1. When a Child is first born the Priest only anoints it with Oil and signs it on the Fore-head with a Cross and no more is done for two Years 2. Then they dip it in hot Water and anoint it all over and give it Bread that hath been blessed to eat and Wine to drink This seems to be the old way of administring Baptism Confirmation and Eucharist together F. Simon Two or three days after the Woman is brought to Bed the Priest comes mumbles over a few Prayers and anoints the Mother and the Infant which they believe to be the best Baptism in the World Tavernier l. 3. c. 10. Indians of St. Thomas They own but three Sacraments viz. Baptism Orders and Eucharist In one Church were different Forms of Baptism A great many especially the Poor and in Words are never Baptized vs wanting Money yet these go to Church and receive the Sacrament After Baptism they anoint with an Unguent made of Indian-Nuts without Benediction F. Simon They Baptize commonly at the Fortieth Day if the Parent desire it not sooner They sign the Fore-head with the sign of the Cross and then wash all over with Water Sir Tho. Herbert Christians of St. John They Baptize only in Rivers and upon Sundays their way thus 1. They carry the Infant to Church 2. The Bishop reads Prayers over the Child 3. They carry it to the River with a Train of Men and Women go up to the Knees in Water the Bishop prays sprinkles the Infant three times in the Name of the Lord first and last of the World c. Tavern Maronites At Baptism they bless the Water by saying a great many Prayers warm it and then dip or sprinkle three times Also they anoint the Head Breast and whole Body from Head to Foot before Baptism Also afterward they have another Unction for Confirmation F. Simon Armenians I found in one of their Churches only the Priest and his Cloak an aged Woman who had brought the Child and a young Man aged about 18 who presented the Child to be Baptized 1. The Priest prayed 2. Askt the God-father several Questions 3. All went into the Sacresty where the Font was like a Trough half an Ell long and a quarter broad 4. The Priest consecrates the Water and puts holy Oil into it and plunges the Child naked into it In the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost 5. Pours Water three times on his head and afterwards all over his Body 6. He crossed the Child on the Fore-head with Holy Oil. 7. The time of Baptism is at 8 days old D. of H. Ambass Cophties They acknowledge Seven Sacraments 1. Baptism thus Administred about the 40th Day 1. A Mass is celebrated after Mid-night with many Prayers 2. They Sing for some time the Deacon carrying the Children to the Altar to anoint them with Holy Oil then they say The Children are new Spiritual Men. 3. Then they begin to Sing and the Children are anointed a second time with the sign of the Cross thirty seven times which serves for Exorcisin 4. They continue to Sing the Women making a loud noise in token of Joy 5. The Priest draws nigh the Font blesseth the Water pours Oil into it in the form of a Cross 6. With one hand he takes the Child by the right Arm and left Leg and with the other hand by the left Arm making a kind of a Cross with the Limbs of the Child which they cloath in a little white Garment All this while the Priest's reading and singing and the Women crying or howling 7. The Priest breaths three times in the Child's Face that he may receive the Holy Ghost 8. He gives it the Communion by dipping his Finger in the Chalice and putting it in the Child's mouth 9. They light Tapers and make a Procession and sing in the Church 10. The Deacons carrying the Children in their Arms the Priests going before and the Women following with cries and howling N. They use Circumcision also They baptize themselves every Year in Lakes and Rivers F. Simon Abassines They use Circumcision as well as Baptism but not with any signal Ceremony or Commemoration for it is done privately by some poor Woman without any by-standers not so much as the Father himself and this not upon the score of Religion but as a custom of the Country like Incisions of the Face in Ethiopia and Nubia and boaring the Ears among the Indians Ludolph out of Claudius K. of Ethiop Confession They repeat the Ceremony of Baptism every Year upon the Feast of the Epiphany Idem ex Godigno Their Ceremonies and Order of Baptizing are thus out of Ludolph 1. Of Adult Persons For they have frequent occasions of Baptizing Heathens 1. They read Psalm 52. 2. Perfume the Person with Frankincense and enquire his Name 3. Use certain Prayers the Deacon often exhorting the People to joyn with the Priest 4. Anoints several parts of the Body with Oil and lays his hand on his head 5. The Neophytes lifting up their right hand and looking towards the West abjure Satan as the Prince of Darkness and then lifting up their hand to the East make a kind of Vow to Christ 6. To the Priest reciting over the Creed they answer I do believe 7. They are again anointed and several parcels of Scripture read 8. Oil being poured into the Bason in the form of a Cross after some Prayers rehearsed the Neophytes conducted by the Deacon to a Pool before the Church-door are by the Priest plung'd over head and ears saying I Baptize thee in the Name of the Father Son and Holy Ghost 9. Men help the Men and Women Women out of the Pool called thence Susceptores 10. Being anointed again they are clad with a white Under-garment and a red Over-garment to signifie the Blood of Christ and presented with Milk and Honey and call'd Sons of Baptism 2. Of Infants who are Baptiz'd Males before the Fortieth Females before the Eightieth Day God-fathers and God-mothers answering for them and the Child's Tongue moistned with the Priest's Finger dipt in the Chalice Russians Muscovites 1. They Communicate but once a Year commonly on a Fasting-Day If on a Sunday they eat no Flesh after it 2. They admit but Three at a time 3. The Priest asks the Communicants If they be clean from Sin 4. The Communicants stand whilest the Priest prays with their Arms folded one within another and the Priest delivers to them a Spoonful of Bread and Wine temper'd together saying Eat this Drink this This is the true Body
c. 7. Christians 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 For how saith St. Chrysoston is it not Absurd that a Servant should not dare to call his Master by name or bluntly and ordinarily to mention him yet that we slightly and contemptuously should in our Mouth toss about the Lord of Angels How is it not Absurd if we have a Garment better than the rest that we forbear to use it continually but in the most slight and common way to wear the Name of God Dr. Barrow 's Sermon How grievous Indecency is it at every turn to Summon our Maker and call down Almighty God from Heaven to attend our Pleasure to vouch our idle Prattle to second our giddy Passions to concern his Truth Justice Power in our trivial Affairs Idem What Presumption is it with unhallowed Breath to vent and toss that Great and Glorious Holy and Reverend Fearful and terrible Name of the Lord our God the Great Creator the Mighty Sovereign the Dreadful Judge of all the Word what Name which all Heaven with profoundest Submission doth adore which the Angelical Powers the Brightest and Purest Seraphim without hiding their Faces and reverential Horrour cannot utter or hear the very thought whereof should strike an awe through our Hearts the mention whereof should make any Sober Man to tremble Idem A good Man should 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and exhibit 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Idem ex Clem. Al. Strom. 7. c. Chrysostom preach'd many Sermons to the People of Antioch against Swearing but they being weary of the Subject ask'd when he would leave off Preaching To whom he answered When you leave off Swearing Would you have the Plaister taken away before the Wound be cured Calamy a Fast-Sermon The best way to attest the Truth of what is spoken is to call God to Witness this is the Form of Swearing which we Christians use Athan. Apol. ad Constant. Imp. St. Chrysostom saith It was customary to come into the Church and to Swear upon the Communion-Table taking the Holy Gospels into their hands Dr. Cave St. Basil exhorts them that had Sworn rashly or in unlawful cases to Repentance appoints Perjured Persons Banishment from Communion eleven Years Idem Vegetius de Re Milit. l. 1. a Heathen Author living in the time of Valentinian Jun. sets down this as the Military Oath of the Christians By God Christ and the Holy Spirit and the Majesty of the Emperor Idem Novatus taking his Followers Hands wherein they held the Sacramental Elements caused them to Swear by the Body and Blood of our Lord Jesus Christ that they would not desert him Euseb Pope Pius appointed forty days Penance with Bread and Water and seven Years following for a Perjured Person that was Free three Forties or Lents Penance and lawful Holy-days for him that was bound Carrauz Decr. Pii Pap. If any Swear by God's Hair or Head if in Orders let him be deposed if a Lay-man Excommunicated c. Idem ibid. Dr. Taylor to the Bishop of London degrading him When the Bishop according to the Formality should have struck him on the Breast with his Crozier and his Chaplains disswaded him from it because he would strike again Yes said he by St. Peter will I for it is the Cause of Christ And again to Mr. Bradford the same Doctor relating the Story told him I have fâ—ightned the Bishop of London for that his Chaplains thought I would have struck him and by my Troth quoth he rubbing his hands I made him believe I would do so indeed Fox's Martyrol Papists Bishop Bonner swore frequently by God by St. Mary by St. Augustine by the Blessed Sacrament Allhallows by my Faith Troth Ibid. Common Swearing among the Papists a venial Sin Aug. de Clavasio Mahometans Vallahi or Tallahi i. e. by God a usual Form of Swearing among the Mahomitans About ten years ago an Arabian well known to me Ahmed Ibn Ali a Suliensian was reproved by the Famous Golius for Swearing took it well and gave thanks for reducing him from that Pernicious and Damnable Custom Hottinger Ancient Heathens 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 An Oath is a most dreadful thing Arist Reverence an Oath 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pythag. aur Carm. The best way of observing an Oath is if you neither use it frequently nor rashly nor in common matters nor for the amplification of Speech nor confirmation of a Relation but in things necessary and solemn and when there is no other way to procure Credit c. Hierocl in Curm Pyth. vid. Isocr ad Demonic Sect. 30. With the Scythians the Swearer's Punishment was loss of his Estate with the Persians Bondage with the Grecians cutting off the Ears with the Romans throwing down a steep Rock Anon. With the English now Payment of one Shilling Praying unto God Jews THE Jews in Barbary resort to Prayer thrice every day in their Oratories 1. At Sun-rising for two hours together which is called Tephillah Sabarit or Morning Prayer 2. About three a clock in the Afternoon which is called Tephillah Minscha or Evening Prayer 3. After Sun-set which is Tephillah arvit or Night Prayer These two last Services are not both of them above an hour long Dr. Addison They pray also to the Angels in their Retirements for the necessary Evacuations of their Body thus Most Holy and most Glorious Ministers of the most High I beseech you keep preserve and help me wait till I come in and go out for this is the Custom and way of all Men. Idem There is an Univesal Agreement among them that they ought every day to say over a hundred Benedictions viz. At washing in the Morning 23 at entrance into the Synagogue six at putting on the Zizith one at putting on the Tephillim one at every one of the three Offices in the Synagogue eighteen three after Dinner two before Night at going to sleep two and as many at Dinner and Supper Idem The Pharisees spent one quarter of the day in Prayer Dr. Hall Christians St. James the Just went daily to the Church and there kneeling on the Pavement prayed so that his Knees became hard and brawny as Camels Dr. Cave out of Euseb Nazianzen saith his Mother Gorgonia prayed so oft that her Knees were hard and did as it were stick to the Ground Idem The Barking of Dogs the Bellowing of Oxen the Grunting of Hogs pleaseth God better than the Canting of Luxuriant Clergy-men Hibernic ex August Thou didst afflict me with Pain of the Teeth and when it was so great that I could not speak it came into my Mind to admonish all my Friends present to Pray for me unto the God of all Health And I wrote this in Wax and gave it to them to be read As soon as we had kneeled down the Pain went away I was amazed I confess my Lord my God for I had never found any thing like it in all my Life August l. 9. Conf. c. 4. Constantine the Great caused his Image in all his
Pagod and walking from one end to the other pray again them strip stark naked shew their privy Parts to their Gods striking them with their hands then call for Water to wash themselves in the Face of the Congregation Ibid. Jews and Greeks Neither Jews nor Greeks use the posture of Kneeling in Prayer Praising of Him Singing Psalms c. Jews THE Jews at the pronouncing of Holy Holy Lord God of Sabaoth jump up three times They begin their publick Service with the Psalms Ps 3.7 c. Dr. Addison Christians S. Augustine saith We have the Precept and Example of our Saviour and his Apostles for singing in our Assemblies And he saith The custom of Churches were very different about this Matter In the Churches of Africa he saith They confined themselves to the Prophetical Hymns for which they were upbraided by the Donatists as too grave and formal But he allows Singing for one of the Solemn Parts of Divine Service with which he joyns Reading of Lessons Preaching and Prayer either aloud by the Bishop or in common by the Deacons giving notice Dr. Stilling Orig. Sacr. Pliny reports it l. 10. Ep. 97. as the main part of the Christians Worship that they met together before Day to joyn in singing Hymns to Christ as God Dr. Cave Concerning Singing see more in Dr. Burnet's History of the Reformation Fox's Martyrol Dr. Jackson's Notes on the O. T. Calvin's Instit Strabo Walafride The Christian's Companion c. Chrysostom saith That one may be said to sing 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 though all sing after him so that the Voice comes as it were from one Mouth Hom. 36. in 1 Ep. ad Cor. p. 487. Athanasius commanded the Deacon to read the Psalm and the People to answer For his Mercy endureth for ever Apol. de Fug p. 717. Sozomen saith They who were skilful were Praecentors and that the multitude 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 5. c. 19. In the constitutions Apostol 't is adjoyned that one should sing the Psalms of David and that the People should sing after the ends of the Verses 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 l. 2. c. 57. S. Basil saith In his time they did 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 And then permitting one to begin the Melody 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ep. 63. ad Cler. Neoc S. Austine speaking of the time when he was Baptized of Milain concludes thus How much did I weep at thy Hymns and Songs being sharply moved with the sweet Melody of thy Church Those words flowed into my Ears and thy Truth melted into my heart and thence bubbled up an Affection of Piety and my Tears run and I was well-pleased therewith l. Conf. 9. c. 6 7. How the same S. Augustine was passionately moved to Grief and Indignation against the Manichees in reading the fourth Psalm v. l. Conf. 9. c. 4. wishing that they might have been privately present to have seen him reading himself not knowing that they were present c. And how also he was angry with himself for past Faults and all others that loved Vanity Theodosius Junior rising early every Morning together with his Sisters interchangeably sung Psalms of Praise Dr. Cave S. Hierom speaking not of the Universal Church in Solemn Assemblies but what the Companies of solitary Virgins are wont to do of their own accord saith In the Morning at 3 6 9 a Clock at Evening and at Mid-night they sing Psalms only on Sundays they went into the Church Bullinger's Decads Sometimes they had Dances in their Churches and Chapels of the Martyrs Theodor. l. 3. c. 22. Praise Thanksgiving Protestants THE Protestants in England and Holland and Germany in some places use Organs In the Canton of Bern they use Trumpets in singing Psalms Conr. Werndly Liturg. Tigur The Lutherans in Swedeland c. have Organs and Bells in all their Churches Mangi The Sick here vow to offer their Blood to their Idols if they recover to which also they Sacrifice Rams with black Heads which with spiced Drinks they eat with singing and dancing Pâ—â—quet broke open Vol. 2. Cathay The Tartars here place their Idols at the entrance of their Tents and to them they offer the primitiae of Milk Meat Drink and the Hearts of Beasts all which they place before their Silken and Felt-Gods all Night and eat in the Morning Pacquet broke open Vol. 2. Tunquin The King of Tunquin after the Solemnities of his Inauguration takes his time to go and give thanks to his false Deities for his coming to the Crown when the Moon first changes shutting himself up for the first Week with the Bonzes and living in common with them with a great deal of Frugality During which time he visits the Hospitals gives orders for the building a Pagod c. Tavern Col. of Relat. c. Armenians The Armenians sing and play on Cymbals while the Communion is Administred D. of Holst Amb. Travels p. 208. After Dinner they go to Church where they sing certain Hymns Tavern l. 1. c. 4. p. 18. Mahometans After Perfuming of their Head Beard and Turbant with a Fumigation of Lignum Aloes the Mahometans lift up their hands on high and cry Elmendela i. e. Thanks be to God Tavern Acâ—â—et VIII Emperor of the Turks upon Tidings of a Peace made with the Christians at Buda with a number of Janizaries and others in great Magnificence went to the Church to give thanks to his Prophet Mahomet Knolls p. 1269. Moors The Moors about Fez On the finishing a work or Journey say Ham der illah i. e. Thanks be unto God Morden Geogr. The Mahometans at perfuming their Beards cry Illemed Illah i.e. God be thanked Tavernier When they meet a Friend upon the Road they say El ham dillah al salam tipsi i. e. God be praised that I see thee well Idem Among the Moors some of their Religious Santoes much more horrible than the Dervises clothed as the Dancers and have Felt-caps as they pray oftener viz. On Tuesdays and Thursdays about 10 or 11 a Clock at Night All meet at the call of him who goes to the Tower sing some Verses of the Alconan which they often repeat so that they have enough to last them till day clapping hands playing on Drums and such Instruments About the middle of their Singing they rise upright and put themselves into a ring one behind another he who is chief sings some Prayers aloud the rest answer Allah i. e. God making at every time a low bow and this with such straining without intermission and such bending of their Body that they look like Men Possess'd especially at the latter end when the Drum beats faster and the rest say Allah to every stroke of the Drum so that they foam like mad-dogs some void Blood at the Mouth This lasts about half an hour but towards the end they say nothing hut Hou i. e. He as wanting strength to say Allah Then they rest sing other Prayers and towards the end start up again and begin their sweet
because then the Face is disfigured on the second because then the Body begins to Putrify and on the twentieth because then the Heart Corrupts Some build Huts over the Grave and cover them with Mats because the Priest Morning and Evening for six Weeks Prays over the Grave The D. of Holstein's Embas Travels Lutherans The Lutheran Women Mourn in White Dr. Brown's Trav. p. 169. Tartars When a Sick Person lies dangerously ill they send for a Moullah who comes with the Alcoran which he opens and shuts three times saying certain Prayers and laying it upon the Sick Person 's Face if the Sick Person recover 't is attributed to the Sanctity of the Alcoran and the Moullah is Presented with a Sheep or Goat If he die all his Kindred meet and carry him to the Grave with great Testimonies of Sadness crying continually Alla Alla. When he is Interr'd the Moullah mutters certain Prayers over the Grave and is paid for his Pains according to the Wealth of the Heirs For the Poor he generally spends three days and three nights in that Exercise for the Rich he as usually spends a Month never stirring all the while from the Grave and sometimes seven or Eight M. Tavernier l. 3. c. 13. Circassians and Comanians At their Funerals the near Relations or Friends of the Dead cut their Faces and some other parts of their Bodies with sharp Flints others Prostrate themselves upon the Ground and tear their Hair so that when they return from the Burial they are all of a gore Blood However notwithstanding all this Affliction they never Pray for the Dead Idem l. 3. c. 12. Gaurs When the Gaurs are Sick they send for their Priests to whom they make a kind of Confession whereupon the Priests enjoyn them to give Alms and other good Works to gain Pardon of their Sins They neither Burn nor Bury but carry the Corps without the City to a Wall'd place where are abundance of Stakes about 7 or 8 foot high fixt in the Ground and tie the Dead Corps to one of the Stakes with his Face towards the East The People falling to their Prayers till the Crows come which those Coemeteries draw to them If the Crow fasten on the right Eye they believe the Person to be happy and for joy give large Alms and make a Feast in the Field but if upon the left Eye they return home sad without speaking to one another give no Alms nor Eat nor Drink Idem l. 4. c. 8. When a Man is just breathing his last they put the Mouth of a Dog to the Mouth of the Person Dying and cause him to Bark twice in that posture that the Soul of the Deceased may enter into the Dog who they say will deliver it into the hands of the Angel appointed to receive it When any Dog dies they carry him out of the City and Pray to God for the Carrior Idem Armenians When an Armenian Dies the Mordichou one whose Office it is to wash the Dead fetches from Church a Pot of Holy-water puts in into a great Vessel of Water in which he puts the Corps and washes it then they dress it with a new white shirt breeches wastcoat bonnet put it in a linnen Sack carry it to Church with every one a Taper in their hand there the Priest saith certain prayers sets up lighted Tapers round the Corps and so leaves it all night Next morning the Bishop or Priest saith Mass and then carry the body before the door of the Bishop's house where the Bishop comes forth and saith a prayer for the soul of the deceased then 8 or 10 of the poorer sort carry the body to the Church-yard the Priests Singing Dirges all the way till the body is let down into the grave the Bishop throwing 3 handfuls of Earth into the grave saying from Earth thou camest to Earth thou shalt return and stay there till our Lord comes Their feasts afterwards for Priests and poor are chargeable for 7 days together believing no soul departed can be saved without it Tavernier l. 4. c. 13. If a slave dies the Master writes a note let him not grieve I make him free In Mexico The Pagans buried their dead in gardens or on mountains sometimes they burn'd the body and if he was a great man they killed his chaplain and his officers to attend him and buryed his wealth with him that he might not want in the other world Ross The Priest used to attire himself at these funerals like a Devil with many mouths and glass-eyes and with his staff stir'd and mingled the ashes When the King died the Priests were to Sing his Elogies and to sacrifice 200 persons to serve him Idem Armenians When we were at Breakfast news came that a certain Bishop was dead in his return from the three Churches whither he was sent by the Patriarch to gather certain duties due from the Villages Immediately the Arch-Bishop rising from Table with all his Assistants and having made a prayer for the dead sent a Bishop and six Monks to fetch the Corps who returning a little after midnight the body was presently laid in the Church upon a Carpet spread upon the ground with the face turn'd toward the Altar In the mean time a great number of Wax-Tapers were lighted and all the rest of the night two Monks watch'd by turns to pray for the dead The next morning early the Arch-Bishop the Bishops and all in Religious orders said the Office for the dead which lasted half an hour and at the end of the Mass they brought the Corps to the Altar so that they made the feet of the Corps to touch it Then they took off the linnen cloth that cover'd his head at which time the Arch-Bishop anointed him in six places with holy oyl saying certain prayers every time Then they cover'd him again and said other prayers which lasted half an hour Then they carryed the Corps out of Church with Grosses and Banners and every one a Taper in his hand As the Corps pass'd by one of the Bishops put a paper in his right hand containing these words I came from the Father and I return to the Father Being brought to the grave upon a little mountain near the Covent and set down they said other prayers which lasted a quarter of an hour In the mean time a Bishop going down into the grave took away all the stones and made the place smooth after which the Corps was let down wrapt in a large linnen sheet Then the Bishop according to the Custom raised his head a little higher than his feet turning his face to the East Which done the Arch-Bishop and Assistants took every one a handful of Earth which the Arch-Bishop bless'd and gave it to the Bishop who strewd it over the body Then the Bishop coming out again the grave was filled up M. Tavernier l. 1. c. 4. p. 18. Nestorians Armenians and Jacobites At Bagdat if a Christian dies all the rest