not far off for He did not make them and go away Sed ex illo in illo sunt Ibid. l. 4. c. 12. Do not hide from me thy Face Let me dye truly let me dye that I may see it Moriar ne moriar ut eam videam l. 1. c. 5. What art thou to me Have Mercy on me that I may speak What am I to thee that thou shouldest command me to love Thee and if I do it not shouldst be angry with me and threaten me with great miserys Is it not a small thing if I should not love thee Alas for me tell me by thy Mercies O Lord my God what Thou art to me Say unto my Soul I am thy Salvation Speak so that I may hear c. Ibid. Galeacius Caracciola Marquess of Vicum the Pope's Nephew upon his parting with his Friends and Family his Lady and Children weeping and crying and himself going to Geneva as an Exile had these words Let them be accursed that prefer all the pleasures of this World to one Hours Communion with Jesus Christ Anonym Joachimus Curaeus a German Physician in the close of his Life spake thus Come Lord Jesus and let all that love thee say Come and he that loves thee not let him be Anathema Maâ—anatha Thou knowest I love thee with thee I shall be the beginning of this New-year Mel. Adam Affiance in GOD. Jews THE Jews still pray for the re-edifying of the Temple with a still Voice that none can hear in these words Let thy will be before thy Face O God our Lord Lord of our Fathers that the holy House of thy Temple may be restored to our Days and grant us thy Will in thy Law And afterwards rising with great Joy and Clamour they sing a Prayer of Praise in hope thereof and sitting down again they read a long Prayer gathered here and there out of the Psalms and some whole Psalms and part of 1 Chron. 30. And lastly the last words of Obadiah v. 21. The Saviours shall ascend into Mount Zion to judge the Mount of Esau and the Kingdom shall be the Lord's Which they speak in hope of the Destruction of the Christians and their own Restitution they proceed singing And God shall be King over all the Earth in that day God shall be One and his Name One as 't is written in thy Law O God hear Israel God our God is One God And this word 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 One in the next Prayer they repeat and resound for half an hour together One One One c. Looking up to Heaven and turning to the four corners of the World Purchas Christians Luther in great spiritual trouble having writ about the Walls and Tables in his Study in great Letters VIVIT He is alive to a Friend dedemanding of him the Reason replied Christ is alive and if he were not I would not desire to live one Hour longer Dr. Bolton in his Serm. Mahometans They look upon themselves as obliged to perform the inward acts of Faith and account all Actions without Faith as sins without any Merit F. Simon They commend nothing so much as Trust in God owning him for their only support Idem Heathens M. Antonius gave God thanks for his Assistance in the Government of his Will The Southern Americans when they go to Wars carry their Gods along with them and ask Counsel of them for all Affairs Rosse Obedience to His Laws Jews IN every Synagogue the Book of the Law is kept within a Chest written on Parchment in great Characters and carried to and fro on two Staves fastened to each end of the Parchment The Book which is the Pentateuch is wrapt in Linnen and covered with Silk Velvet or Tissue The two Staves are called the Trees of Life When the Praecentor brings forth the Book they all sing Num. 10.35 Let God arise and let his Enemies be scattered c. After some Anthems are sung one comes and kisses the Cloaths in which it is wrapt and with a loud Voice blesseth God who hath chosen them before all others and given them a Law Then the chief Singer reads a Chapter and the Book is kissed again after that elevated on high the whole Congregation shouting This is the Law that Moses gave to Israel When the Book is wrapt up again all both Young and Old kiss it touching it only with their two Fingers And while it is carried back again they all sing again Return Lord to the many Thousands of Israel Numb 10.36 Mr. Rosse Obedience to the Divine Laws Muscovites SOme Lutheran Divines in Sweden and Livonia have made it a Problematical Question Whether the Muscovites were Christians or not The Danish Gentleman who published the Embassie he was sent upon into Muscovy from Frederick the Second gives the Muscovites a very true Character in two Lines when he says They are subtile over-reaching humourous self-willed obstinate insolent and impudent regulating their Reason according to their Power that they have shaken hands with all Vertues to run themselves into all manner of Vice D. of H. Ambass Trav. Ceylan A witty Man of Ceylan and a good natural Philosopher called Alegamma Motiar having conversed with the Jesuits and desiring to be a Christian desired to know what Jesus Christ had done and left in Writing and having read over the New Testament with that heed and study that in less than six Months there was hardly a Passage which he could not repeat after which he desired to turn Christian because he found their Religion such as Jesus Christ had taught but only he wondred That they themselves did not follow his Example for that he never yet could find by his reading that Jesus Christ ever took any Mony of any body but that they took all they could get and never Baptized or Buried unless they were well paid but tho he started the Question he was Baptized and became a Sedulous Converter of others Tavernier Part 2. l. 3. c. 3 Love and Reverence to his Name Word c. Jews THe Jews to shew their Zeal for the Law of God wear the Zizith or Fringe which is a square piece of Linnen-cloth or Silk c. with Fringes worn next the Shirt hanging down on the breast or Shoulders c. and account the right wearing of it a keeping of the whole Law and ascribe as many miracles to it as the Papists to the Cowl of S. Francis Women never wear it Dr. Addison They have also scrowls of Parchment Phylacteries Tephillim written with several sentences of the Law and tied on the fore-head and left-arms Idem They have a great veneration for the Law viz. the five Books of Moses never reading it or taking it out of the Chest but on Monday Thursday and Sabbath-day After the Elevation of it and its return from Procession and being put in its coverings all the Males in the Synagogue kiss it in order as the Papists do the Pax. Idem When they kiss it they bless God
for the Master's Offence alone but for his own Rosse Self-denial Jews IN nothing scarce did the Pedagogy of the Mosaick Law approve it self to be an excellent Institution more than in this that the whole drift and tendency of it was to break the Jewish Nation off from their own Wills and bring them to an humble dependency upon the will of God And accordingly we find the Devout Persons that were among them deny themselves mightily in the Observations of the Mosaick Rites in the distinction of Meats of Days of Garments in their Solemnities of the Ordinances of Circumcision Passover Purifications Sacrifices c. And to this day they are superstitiously Zealous and Obstinate in bearing the reproach of an accursed People and adhereing still to their old Religion in despite of all the Evidences that are produced in the World to prove all the Shadowy part of it null and void Papists At the Inauguration of the Roman Popes the Master of the Ceremonies leads the way into S. Gregory's Chappel and burns some straws over a Candle repeating 3 times Sic transit gloria mundi Camerar Daniel Arch-bishop and Elector of Mentz in a little peculiar Book of Prayers which he had wrote Life is short Beauty deceitful Mony fluent Government hateful War destructive Victory doubtful friendship deceitful Old Age miserable Death happiness the fame of wisdom Eternal Idem Mahometans When they pray to God for any thing they are to resign themselves to his will and say O my God I beg of thee not to grant what I ask if it be not for my Good F. Simon Calvinists He that hath learned to displease himself much hath made a good proficiency in Christianity Calvin The Marquess of Vicum in Italy that for his Religion relinquished his Native Soyl the Wife of his Bosom his dear Children his great Riches and took upon him a voluntary Exile at Geneva to serve his God according to his Faith and Conscience that he might die in Peace and save his Soul was a very remarkable instance of Self-denial Indians Some of the Indian Faquirs live in little pitiful Huts near their Pagods where they have once in 24 hours Victuals bestowed upon them for God's sake Some will retire into Huts near their Pagods where there is but one hole to let in the light and will stay there according to the height of their Devotion sometimes 9 or 10 days together without either eating or drinking a thing which I could not have believed had I not seen it My Curiosity carried me to see one of them with the president of the Dutch Company who sent a Spy to watch night and day whether any body brought him any Victuals but he could not discover any relief the Faquir had all the while sitting upon his Bum like our Tailors never changing his posture above 7 days together not being able to hold out any longer by reason that the Heat and stench of the Lamp was ready to stifle him There are other sorts of Penance out-doing this which might be thought incredible were there not so many thousand witnesses thereof e.g. One over whose head several years have passed yet he never slept day nor night When he finds himself sleepy he hangs the weight of the upper part of his Body upon a double Rope fastened to the Bough of a Tree and by the continuance of this posture which is very strange and painful there falls a humor into their Legs which swells them very much Another night and day Summer and Winter carries his Arms above his Head which causes certain Carnosities to breed in his Joynts that he can never bring them down again His hair grows down to his waste his Nails are as long as his Fingers his nakedness is all the year long exposed to heat and rain and stinging of Flies For he hath no use of his hands to rid himself Another stands on one foot for several hours in a day with a Chafing-Dish in his hand offering Incense to his God and all the while fixing his Eyes upon the Sun Another sleeps without ever resting his Arms a great torment certainly Others have their arms flagging down upon their Shoulders through weakness being dried up for want of Nourishment Some in a posture quite contrary to the motion and frame of Nature keep their Eyes always turned toward the Sun Others fix their Eyes perpetually on the ground never so much as speaking one word or looking any person in the Face c. There is an infinite variety of them In City and Countrey they go all as naked as they came out of their Mothers Womb And tho the Women approach them to take them by the Fingers ends and to kiss those parts which modesty forbids to name yet shall you not observe in them any motion to Sensuality at all rather quite contrary seeing them never to look upon any person but rowling their Eyes in a most frightful manner you would believe them in an Ecstasy Tavernier Par. 2. l. 2. c. 6. Justice and Honesty See Care of the Bodies of others Jews THE Jews in case of Meum and Tuum have a cheap and compendious way of proceeding and determining what is Right and Wrong by a Juncto of Sabios or Masters Dr. Addison Ancient Christians Nazianzen reports of his Father That though he went through great Offices of State yet he made not one Farthing's addition to his own Revenue though he saw some before his Eyes that with Briarius laid hold on the publick Treasures and therewith filled their own Coffers St. Austine saith He knew a Man probably himself who having a Book offered him to be sold by one that understood not the Price of it at a very small Under-rate took the Book but gave him the full price according to its just rate a great deal more than the Seller asked De Trin. l. 13. It was Pliny's Testimony to Trajan l. 10. Ep. 97. The greatest Fault that they the Christians are guilty of is that they use harmlesly to meet to worship Christ and at those Meetings to bind themselves by a Sacrament or Oath that they would not do any Wickedness that they might be firmlier obliged not to commit Theft Robberies Adulteries not to falsifie their words or to deny any thing wherewith they are entrusted when it was required of them A Woman that industriously made her self to Miscarry was adjudged to ten years Pennance Infant-killing by a Law of Valentinian Emperor was made subject to the same Penalty with killing an adult Person The Punishment of Willful Murder by St. Basil's Rule was twenty years Pennance In Tertullian's time perpetual Pennance not to be absolved by Death Dr. Cave 's Prim. Christian. Georgians In Georgia a Thief is acquitted paying Seven-fold what he hath stole two parts to the Party robbed one to the Judges and four to the King If he hath not wherewith to satisfie he is sold if the Product do not yet equal the Sum his Wife is sold
world hate one another more than they do on the account of Religion they look on one another as Hereticks 1. The Persians hold that Aboubeker Omar and Osman were but so many Usurpers of Aly that Aly was the Lawful Successor of Mahomet and actually succeeded him that Aly was the first of the Twelve Imams whom they much honour and who succeeded one another of whom the last called Mahomet-Nekedy-Sahabzemon i. e. Mr. of the times was snatched out of the hands of those who would have killed him and translated as Enoch and Elias and that he will also come at the Day of Judgment to force the world to embrace the Faith of Mahomet that Jesus Christ shall be his Leutenant and that he will marry This is the great point of difference between the Turks and them M. de Thev 2. They have translated the Alcoran into the Persian Tongue with an Interlineal Translation word for word for Turks and Persians both believe that that book cannot be explained in any other Language but Arabick 3. They think it enough to follow the commands of their Law and therefore call themselves Schiai tho the Persians sometime follow some of the Counsels Idem 4. In Persia they call to Prayers three times a day from Terrasses not Towers viz. at Morn Noon and Sun-set and no oftener on Friday 5. The Schiai hold not their Hands on their Stomachs at Prayer but lay down a little gray stone before them which they always carry about them and every time they Prostrate lay their Fore-heads on that Stone made of the Earth of Keebela where Hussein the Second Son of Aly. was killed 6. Persians will not eat what a Christian hath touch'd nor suffer a Christian to come into their Coffee-houses or Bagnioes accounting them Megdis i. e. impure They break a Pot wherein a Christian hath Drunk They hate Turks no less but dare not tell them so M. de Thev 7. They will suffer Christians to dispute with them about matters of Faith Eastern Christians Greeks Present State 1. THey are Poor 2. Ignorant 3. Oppressed by the Turk to whom they pay every Man 4 Lyon-Dollars i. e. 16 Shillings per Annum Brierwood saith Their Tribute is a fourth part of their Increase and a Sultany 7 s. 6 d. for every Poll and also they are obliged to speak no thing against Mahometanism Formerly their children were decimated and made Janizaries Order of the Patriarchs 1. Patriarch of C. P. 2. of Alexandria 3. of Antioch 4. of Jerusalem When they all meet they kiss each other's hand 1. The Patriarch of Alexandria is over Aegypt Aethiopia Arabia The Indies 2. The Patriarch of Jerusalem is over Palestine 3. The Patriarch of Antioch is over Cilicia Mesopotomia Syria Phoenicia Cyprus The Patriarch of Constantinople is over 73 several Churches according to Mr. Smith Heraclea Thessalonica Athens Lacedemonia Larissa Adrianople Tornobou Johanna Monenbasia Methynna Phanarion Patrus Proconesus And all confirmed by the Grand Seignior Georgians or Iberians 1. Most of them so ignorant they hardly know the Principles of their Religion 2. The Clergy much oppressed by the Nobles Bishops and Priests used as Servants by the Prince and Nobility The Prince's Will is their Law no Judges nor admission of Witnesses The Estates and Persons of the Subjects are at the disposal of the Prince c. The Prince of the Georgians in a Letter to Pope Vrban VIII 1629. saith The Faith hath been kept pure among them since Constantine the Great Also That he allowed a Chapel to the Missionaries of Rome that they might pray for him The Patriarch of Constantinople sends Kaloyrs often into Iberia to encourage them in their Enmity against the Pope F. Avitabolis in a Letter from Goris in Iberia or Georgia 1631. From whence my Author F. Simon hath the following Account c. Sir Tho. Herbert saith No fewer than 40000 of Georgians and Sarcashes inhabited about Spahawn and Schyraz but little better than Captives being forcibly ttansplanted thither Poor Souls saith he hearing that we were Christians they flocked about us and wept to see us Mengrelians 1. They are accounted by Galanus of the same Belief mostly with the Georgians only 2. They live on the Mountains and in the Woods and therefore 3. Are a wilder and wickeder sort of People than the Georgians 4. They inhabit Colchis or Mengrelia which is part of Armenia and therefore much difference is not to be expected between the Mengrelians and Armenians or Georgians Muscovites They agree mostly with the Greeks in Faith Rites and Ceremonies Every House hath its Saint pictured and hung up on the Wall with a little Wax-Candle before it which they light when they say their Prayers The Picture of the V. Mary and S. Nicholas their Patron are in great Veneration amongst them The sign of the Cross is the ordinary Preface to all their Civil Actions They have a Patriarch at Mosco Three Arch-Bishops at Rosthon Sudal and Grand Novograde Bishops at Wologda Resan Sudal T wer Toboleska Astracan Casan Plescou Columna c. All chosen out of the Body of their Monks They force no Man's Conscience hate the Papists Nestorians 1. They are a Sect of the Chaldeans or Syrians 2. They Reverence Nestorius as their Great Patriarch and Invocate him in their Prayers 3. Their present Patriarch to whom they are subject is called the Patriarch of Babylon who hath Jurisdiction over 300000 Families Pet. Stroza de dogm Chald. 1617. 4. Under Pope Julius III. they chose one Simon Jusacha Patriarch who resided at Caramit in Mesopotamia next Abdiesu Metropolitan of Saba who at Rome recanted some Books which he had writ in favour of Nestorianism He was at the Council of Trent Ahacballa a Monk of St. Pachome Denha Simon who left Caramit to reside in Zeinalbech in the uttermost bounds of Persia submitting to the Patriarch of Babylon Simon Elias who sent a flattering submissive Letter to Pope Paul V. upon his request wherein he represents the differences between the Nestorians and Romans only Ceremonial But since they have broken Faith c. Indians of St. Thomas 1. One Sect with the Nestorians 2. Subject to the same Patriarch whose Jurisdiction reacheth as far as India 3. The Chaldeans who live at Goa Cochim Angamala c. all Nestorians 4. The Pope of Rome hath sent many Emissaries to them much violence and many arts have been used especially by Alexis de Meneses made afterward Arch-Bishop of Goa and Patriarch of the East A College was set up at Cangranor 1546. for instructing children in the Ceremonies of the Latines another for the Chaldean Language c. In fine they became Subject to Rome and continue so to this day for ought I can learn Sabeans or Christians of St. John M. de Thevenot giveth account of them about Bassora in the East-Indies but saith They are more Gentiles than Christians One of them who turned Roman Catholick confessing They were partly Jews part Turks part Christians and part Gentiles
Womb 70 years without losing her Virginity he exhorted the Grandees to build Hospitals in all Cities Agreeing much with Chacabout in Doctrine Taver Mahometans I Believe 1. That there is but one God and that there is no number in him 2. That Mahomet is the Messenger of God the most excellent and last of all the Prophets That the Christian Religion was to Cease at his Appearance 3. That Jesus Christ was a great Prophet Inspired by the Spirit of God 4. That God is a Being of great Perfection 5. Angels are Executioners of God's Commands without Sex different in Dignity and appointed to several Offices as well in Heaven as Earth 6. Good and Evil only happen because God hath Fore-ordain'd them having writ on a Table from all Eternity things that are and are to be 7. There shall be a general Resurrection of the Dead But before that 1. Anti Mahomet must come 2. Jesus shall come from Heaven to Kill him and Establish Mahometanism 3. Gog and Magog c. 4. A Beast is to come out of Meccha 5. All Living Creatures shall Die Hills fly into the Air the Heavens melt and drop upon the Earth Then shall God renew the Earth and raise the Dead naked but Saints and Prophets clothed and carried by Angels to the Empyrean Heavens 8. The Bad shall suffer Hunger Thirst painful Sweating c. 9. The Pains of the Wicked shall be proportioned to their Merits but shall not last above 50000 years 10. That at the day of Judgment S. Michael with be a Ballance shall weigh the good and bad Actions of Men. 11. They whose good Deeds out-weigh their Bad shall go to Paradise 12. There is a particular Judgment at Death to distinguish the Mussulman from Unbelievers F. Simon out of a Mahometan Dr. Ancient Heathen I Believe in one Supreme God who presides over all the rest who seeth and Governs all things in all places And in as many more Inferior Gods as our Magistrates and Laws shall require us to believe in That the Law of Nature and Reason is the ordinary Rule of our Manners And the Laws of the Nation Of our Religigious Worship That our Souls are Immortal and shall survive our Bodies That they who have defiled themselves with Vice their Souls at Death shall be secluded from the Society of the Gods and be tossed about the Earth but they who have lived well and honestly and have imitated the Lives of the Gods the Souls of these Men shall go to the Stars or Gods from whence at first they came This is extracted especially out of Cicero and Somn. Scip. Diabolical Their Creed is nothing but a Reverse of the Orthodox Faith an open Profession or secret Practice contrary to the Truth which must needs be so pregnant with Blasphemy that it will not be safe to exhibit a Copy of it to common View The Bannyans I Believe that a God of Immense Power Eternal and Provident in the beginning Created the whole World that he made the first Man by Name Pourous and for his Society Created the first Woman Parconty both so innocent that they would not cut any thing that had a Sensitive Life but fed upon Herbs and Fruits that from them sprung two couple of Boys Bramon Cuttery Shuddery and Wise the first a Priest the second a Warrior the third a Merchant the forth a Peasant which Peopled the four Parts of the World but upon their Impiety the World was Destroyed by a Deluge That afterwards upon Mount Meropurbatea God gave the Shaster to Bremaw in Clouds and Lightning for a rule of Living Mr. Hobbes's I Believe that God is Almighty matter that in him are three Persons he having been thrice represented on Earth that it is to be decided by the Civil Power whether he Created All things else That Angels are not Incorporeal Substances but preternatural Impressions on the Brain of Man that the Soul of Man is the Temperament of his Body that the very Liberty of Will in that Soul is Physically necessary that the Prime Law of Nature in the Soul of Man is Self-Love that the Law of the Civil Soveraign is the only obliging Rule of Just and Unjust that the Books of the Old and New Testament are not made Canon and Law but by the Civil Powers that what is written in these Books may be denied upon Oath in times of Persecution That Hell is a tolerable condition of Life for a few years upon Earth to begin at the general Resurrection and that Heaven is a blessed Estate of good Men like that of Adam before his Fall beginning at the general Resurrection to be from thence-forth Eternal upon Earth in the Holy Land Dr. Tenison Precepts or Commands Mahometan THeir Law is divided into eight Precepts or Commandments 1. There is but one God and his Prophet Mahomet 2. Children must be Dutiful to their Parents 3. Neighbours must Love each other 4. They must Pray five times every day 5. A Lent of thirty days is to be kept every year 6. They must be Charitable and give Alms to the Poor 7. Every one must Marry by twenty five years of Age. 8. They must abstain from Murder Pacquet broke open vol. 2. F. Simon makes Five Articles thus 1. There is one God 2. Mahomet is his Messenger 3. They must be exact in Prayers and Alms-deeds 4. And in the Fast of Ramazan 5. And in their Pilgrimage to Mecha Bannyans Their Moral Law hath eight Commandments most of which agree with the Seven which R. Solomon saith Noah taught the World in his time called Noah-Cady 1. Thou shalt not destroy any living Creature for thou and it are both my Creatures 2. Thou shalt not sin in thy five Senses Eyes not beholding Vanity Ears stopt in hearing Evil Tongue uttering no Filthiness Pallat hating Wine Flesh and all live things Hands abhoring all things defiled 3. Thou shalt duly observe set times of Devotion as Praying Washing Elevation Prostration c. 4. Thou shalt not Lie nor Dissemble 5. Thou shalt not be hard-hearted but helpful to others 6. Thou shalt not Oppress nor Tyrannize 7. Thou shalt observe certain Festivals and Fasting days 8. Thou shalt not Steal Sir Tho. Herb. Trav. into Persia out of their Shaster Persees 1. For Behedens or Lay-men 1. Cherish Modesty 2. Cherish Fear 3. Premeditate what you are to do if bad reject it if good c. 4. Let every day's object move to thankfulness 5. Pray daily to the Sun and nightly to the Moon 2. For the Herboods Daroos or Priests Besides those of the Beheden which they are to observe 1. Be constant to the form of Worship in the Zundavastaw 2. Covet not what is another man's 3. Abhor Lies 4. Be not worldly minded 5. Learn the Zundavastaw by rote 6. Keep your selves free from Pollution 7. Teach the Laity how to Comport themselves in Adoration 8. License Matrimony 9. Be frequent at Church 10. Forgive Injuries 11. Upon pain of Life Eternal
in aliud opus destinato Hence their Encaenia solemn Feasts at their Devoting of their Temples to the Worship of some Idol God Modern Heathen I confess I have not yet met with any thing in my reading to fill up this Section but am willing to leave a void space for the Reader to fill up at his leisure for his own Use for I cannot be induced to think but they generally use some Ceremony for this purpose tho perhaps our Travellers finding the Structures erected and peradventure long before their Arrival into the Countries might see nothing of it nor make enquiry about it Diabolical Delrius tells us out of a French Book of Florimund Raimunds a Senator of the King 's in the Court of Burdeaux that an old Woman Tried in that Court A. 1594. for Witch-craft confessed of her own accord That being a Girl she was enticed by an Italian Man on the Eve of S. John Baptist at Midnight to go with him into a certain Feild where the Italian mark'd out a Circle on the ground with a Beech Wand and muttered certain words over which he read out of a black Book and presently upon it a great black Goat stood by them with great Horns attended with two Females and by and by a Man came in Priests Habit c. Mag. Disq l. 6. 5. Priests and Church Officers their Distinction and Office Jewish 1. The High Priest whose Office was 1. Peculiar to himself as to enter into the Holy of Holies once a year upon the Propitiation day 2. Common with other Priests He had his Suffragan or Sagan 2. Inferior Priests whose Office was 1. To burn Incense and Offer Sacrifice 2. To sound the Trumpets for War and Assemblies 3. To slay the Sacrifices 4. To instruct the People 5. To Judg of the Leprosy David divided the Company of Priests into 24 Orders who were to serve in their turns by lot 1 Chro. 24. the chief of every Rank was called Summus Sacerdos 3. Levites in David's time divided 1. Into Treasurers some Gershonites 2. Judges and Overseers some Cohathites 3. Porters some Merarites 4. Singers In Moses time they bore the Tabernacle and Vessels c. 4. Prophets 1. Extraordinary Seers 2. Ordinary Expositors of the Law which no later times were 1. Wise men Pharisees wise above the Text of the Law taught Traditions 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Scribes not the Writing-Masters but Doctors of the Law who were to Write Read and Expound the Law of Moses 3. Disputers who taught Allegories and the Mystical Senses of the Text call'd 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Darshanim and their Homily Midrasch Note the First-born of all the Tribes were to manage Religious Affairs 'till the Levites were chosen in their room Exod. 13.2.15 Christian I. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Consecrated to the more proper and immediate acts of Worship These were I. Bishops usually chosen out of the Presbyters distinct from and Superiour to Presbyters as Blondid and Salmasius confess about the latter end of the Second Century Consider 1. Their Office viz. To Teach and Instruct the People to administer the Sacraments Excommunicate Absolve to preside in the Assemblies of the Clergy to ordain inferiour Officers to call them to Account to Suspend c. to urge the observance of Ecclesiastical Laws to appoint indifferent Rites to inspect and provide for those of their Charge 2. Order 1. Chorepiscopi Suffragan or County Bishops Vicarii Episcopi where the Diocess was large in imitation of the Seventy Disciples for so many they were at first 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Visitors Rural Presbyters who were to go up and down the Countrey to correct what was amiss 3. Arch-Bishops Metropolitans in every great City who were to Ordain or to Ratifie Elections of Bishops once a Year to Summon the Bishops under them to a Synod to enquire direct admonish suspend determine c. 4. Metropolitans Honorary or Titular without any real power yet taking place of other Bishops 5. Patriarchs Primates 2. Presbyters who were to Preach Baptize Consecrate the Eucharist assist the Bishop in publick Administrations These were 1. Clerici Superioris loci Antistites in ordine secunde Presbytens of every great City who were a kind of Ecclesiastical Senate Counsellors and Assistants to the Bishops in their Government and had Seats of Eminency in the Churches next the Bishop's Throne 2. Ordinary Presbyters N. B. They did not usually exercise the Power conferred by Ordination upon them in any Diocess without leave from the Bishop 3. Deacons who were to attend at the Lord's Table where the People met every Lord's Day to offer for the Poor Hence they have used to deliver the Sacramental Elements to the People also to Preach and Baptize Assistants to the Priest as he to the Bishop the number in any one place not above Seven 1. Arch-Deacon the Eye of the Bishop chosen out of the Deacons to inspect all parts of the Diocess 2. Sub-Deacon who assisted the Deacons waited at the Church Doors usher'd in and brought out the several Orders Catechumens c. 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Vid. Pag. 25. Mahometan 1. Musti i. e. Interpreter of the Alcoran who is as High-Priest attending only Matters of Faith and Religion He is Head of the Church and decides all Questions in their Law 2. Cadilesquiri Talismani i. e. Doctors of the Law resident at C. P. or where the Prince pleaseth These are as it were Patriarchs They examine the Cadis of divers Provinces These also call the People to Prayers among the Turks 3. Mulli qu. Bishops who place and displace Church-men at pleasure 4. Nuderisi qu. Suffragans who are to inspect the Cadis 5. Cadis Judges to punish Offenders there is one in every City 6. Naipi Young Judges or Candidates for the Office 7. Hogi who write Books and teach Sciences 8. Calfi who read unto them that Write 9. Sosti Young Students or Novices in the Law Some add Sophi Singers of Psalms c. Ancient Heathen 1. Pontifex Maximus the highest of the Chief Priests who was to appoint the Ceremonies belonging to the Worship of the Gods 2. Flamen or High Priest who was named according to the Gods whom they served as Hamen Martialis Hamen Dialis Humen Quirinalis c. 3. Priests 1. Of Cybele Curetes Corybantes Galli 2. Of Ceres and Bacchus Fratres Arvales who offered Sacrifices Ambarvales Hostias and Judged about the bounds of Fields 3. Of Mars Salii who were to keep the Ancile 4. Of Pan Lupercales c. 5. Of Jupiter Druids in use amongst the Gauls Curiones were Parish-Priests or Curates Two for a Curia Fifty Curiae in Rome over these was Curio Maximus 4. Priestesses of Vesta Vestal Virgins Six or Four in number who were to attend the Sacrifices of Ops or Bona Dea and to keep a Fire continually burning for the safety of the Empire as God hath set Stars in the Firmament for the good of the World Modern Heathen 1. The
welcome thither and bid him ask any thing of him and he would give it him c. M. de Thevenot 2. A Comfortable maintenance and that freely without grudging The Mulaes have great Salaries Purchas saith the Priests have stipends allowed by the Emperors but so little that they often use writing of books and handy-crafts for their living So soon as the Gr. Seignior perceives the Mufti he riseth up advances some steps and salutes him very respectfully By the Mahometan's law it is not lawful to put a Mufti to death M. de Thevenot Even Christian Priests and Monks and Jewish Rabbins are exempted from paying Karadge or contribution yearly to the Grand Seignior Idem The chief Temple in Fez hath 200 ducats a day for revenue Rosse Ancient Heathen 1. The Priests had 1. Tithes not for themselves only but for Sacrifices also and common uses The Aâ—â—â—nians dedicated their Tithes for Divine Sacrifices and common benefit Diog. Laert. lib. 1. Plautus makes mention of Tithes paid to Hercules Xenophon saith Of every litter of Pigs one was due to the Priest that when he pleased to offer to the Gods he might not want a Sacrifice de Rep. Laced The Sabeans offered the Tithes of their Spices to the Idol Sabis Cyrus at the taking of Sardis sequester'd the Tithe of the Spoil to Mars and Pallas 2. First-fruits The Hyberborei Northern People sent their First-fruits to Apollo at Delos Plin. The Druids are wont to be absent from War neither do they pay Tributes they are exempt from Warfare and have immunity of all things Coes 〈◊〉 Bell. Gall. The Pontifex Max. might ascend the Capitol in his 〈◊〉 which none else might do 〈◊〉 was he to render an account of any of his Actions 1. The Pontifex Max. not subject to the Magistrate 2. The Flamen Dialis might for that day protect any Malefactor that escaped to him 3. Augurs though convict of heinous Crimes yet were not punished or put out of Office 4. Vestal Virgins never walked abroad but with an Iron Scepter in their Hands and whatsoever Malefactor met them fortuitously escaped Punishment Modern Heathen The Persees at this day pay Tithes to their Priest-hood The Behedin or Lay-men pay to the Distoore or chief Priest and in his Absence to the Her-â—ood or Priest or lastly to the Daroo or Church-men spiritual Officers amongst them The Bramens in the East-Indies take what they please of the Offerings made to the Idols pick out of the funeral Ashes what Gold and Silver they can find are much respected in Malabar never hurt by Enemies in War as other People are M. de Thev The Koppuhs in Ceylon enjoy a piece of Land that belongs to the Dewal where they Officiate and that is all their benefit unless they steal somewhat that is dedicated to the Gods and therefore they follow Husbandry and other Employments Knox. The Priests of the Buddou God enjoy great Revenues of Church-lands without paying Scot or Lot or Taxes to the King And where-ever they go the People bow down to them but themselves bow to none They have the honour of carrying the Tallipot a broad Leaf for shelter with the broad end foremost and have a Matt with a white Cloth upon a Stool laid for them where-ever they come to sit upon Honours used only to the Kings besides Knox. Diabolical The Devil promiseth lavishly to his Factors as he did to our Saviour all the Kingdoms of the Earth and the glory of them but his golden Mountains are often as vain in their Effects as Aesop's pregnant teeming Mountain in its product Dr. d ee and Kelly after all the encouragement given them in quest of the Philosophers Stone died poor and we seldom see Wizards or Witches rich and 't is well for us that the God of Heaven is pleased to limit Satan in the distribution of the unrighteous Mammon for were he permitted to give freely and as he list to such prophane Wretches a great part of the World would soon be charm'd with the Temptation and as certainly fall to dancing after his Pipe as the Children of Hammel in Germany 130 in number followed him in the Habit of a Musician and were never seen more 11. Persons making up the Body of the Assembly Jewish 1. PRiests who had a Court by themselves where was the brasen Altar and Laver called Atrium Sacerdotum 2. People 1. Proselytes 1. Foedoris of the Covenant who submitted to the whole Mosaical Pedagogy called by the Rabbins 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Portae of the gate Deut 14.21 who were tied only to Noah's seven Commandements these dwelt among the Jews whence called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 incola Such was Naaman the Syrian the Eunuch Cornelius and those Act. 2.5 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. Unclean viz. by legal Pollutions who together with Strangers had a Court by themselves in Herod's Temple parted from the rest by a Stone-wall bearing this Inscription 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. Excommunicated by Niddui viz. put out of the Synagogue for they were allowed to be at Divine Service Note Where ten Israelites are met together there ought to be a Synagogue A Proverb 4. The clean Communicants 1. Men. in the outward Court called otherwise Solomon's Porch 2. Women in the outward Court called otherwise Solomon's Porch in the midst of it was a brasen Scaffold for the King 2 Cor. 6.13 it went round about the Temple divided perhaps in Jehoshaphat's time into the Mens and Womens Court between which was an ascent of fifteen degrees Ancient Christian 1. Clergy 2. People 1. Catechumens 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 i. e. more perfect well nigh ready for Baptism These stayed to the very last end of the first Service 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who stood amongst the Hearers and departed after the Lessons accounted yet as Heathens yet instructed in the Rudiments of Religion Note 1. They were shy of imparting Mysteries or as Basil Dogmata to them and this especially to make them eagerly desire the Privileges of the Faithful for this was part of the Form used in publick Service Let us pray that the most gracious and merciful God would hear the Prayers of the Faithful Chrysos Hom. 2. c. 1. ad Cor. 2. At first they were instructed privately at Home by Persons deputed on purpose then in the Congregation where they were present at some part of Divine Service especially Sermons 3. The Time for Catechising was different the Apostolical Constitutions appoint three years ordinarily 2. Penitents 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Such as wept and lamented as Candidates to be received into the Order of Penitents They stood usually in a squalid and mournful Habit in the Church-Porch begging the Prayers of the Faithful 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 who stood in the upper end of the Narthex heard the Scriptures and departed with the Catechumens 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Prostrate who stood next the Pulpit or Reading-Pew and after Service ended fell down before the
over another upon the Navel and say softly some Prayers to themselves 4. They still keep their face to the Keble 5. At the end of every Prayer prostrate themselves on the ground and cry Allah ekber At Sabahnamaz they prostrate 8 times At Noon 20 times At the Quindy 16. At the Akschamnamaz 10. At the Yatzinamaz 24. 6. They never prattle nor talk in their Moschs but carry themselves with great Reverence 7. They turn neither this way nor that way whatever may happen M. de Thevenot Ancient Heathen The people were obliged both among the Ancient Greeks and Romans to a grave Comportment all profane and rude persons being driven away And when any Sacrifice was offered both the Priest and People that offered laid their hands on the Altar to signifie their free consent and heartiness of Devotion Modern Heathen In the Becar a Province of the East Indies when the people come to their Pagods having taken directions from their Bramens they anoint their bodies with Oil and say their Prayers and depart M. de Thov But first they present their Oblations to the Idol Idem The Persians are covered on their Heads all day long with their Shasks not excepting the presence of their King nor their set times of Devotion Sir Tho. Herbert 16. The Rule of Worship Jewish 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moses The Prophets The Psalms H. Scripture Hammi-kra Reading 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Secondary Law consisting in Traditions for many Years unwritten or dispersed without Order till after our Saviour's time and then by Rabbi Juda reduced to Aphorisins which afterwards became of great Authority with all the Jews The Book is called Mischna i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Its parts are as followeth 1. Zeraim of Fruits and Seeds c. 2. Moed of Fasts 3. Naschim of Women Divorces Diseases 4. Nezikim of Losses 5. Kodaschim of Sacrifices and sacred things 6. Tahoroth of Purifications Hotting Their Religion is contained in the Old Testament and Talmud M. de Theven For say they Moses was not with God on M. Sinai 40 Days and 40 Nights to keep Geese Purchas Canons also were made by the Sanhedrim and varied in several Generations about the Times of Morning and Evening Service the Number of Prayers to be said daily which at last grew to be 18 c. Dr. Lightfoot To study and read the Bible is a Vertue and not a Vertue i. e. a small Vertue but to learn their mischna or Talmud-Text is a Vertue worthy Reward and to learn Gemaram the Complement of the Talmud is a Vertue so great that none can be greater Purchas ex Tract Banamaziah Ancient Christian 1. H. Scripture Our pious Fathers fetcht their Weapons against the Hereticks out of no other Armory than the Scripture Augustine against Patilianus the Donatist saith Let not these words be heard among us I say or you say but let us rather say Thus saith the Lord Jerome saith whatever things are asserted as delivered from the Apostles without Scripture-Testimony are smitten with the Sword of God Ambrose to Gratian the Emperour Let the Scriptures be asked saith he Let the Apostles be asked Let the Prophets be asked Let Christ be asked Jewel's Apol. I adore the fullness of Scripture Let Hermogenes's School shew that it is writ if not writ let him be afraid Tertul. 2. Traditions Of which Tertullian speaks in these words I will begin with Baptism where coming to the Water we testify before the President That we renounce the Devil his Pomps and his Angels then are we thrice dipt answering somewhat more than Christ commanded in his Gospel The Sacrament of the Eucharist which our Lord instituted after Supper we partake of in our meetings before the Day arise we think it wickedness to fast or to pray kneeling on the Lord's Day we kneel not from Easter till Whitsuntideâ— Whensoever we go forth or come in or whatsoever we are conversant about we sign our foreheads with the sign of the Cross And if you do require a Law of Scripture for these Observations you will find none Tradition will be alledged as the Author and Custome the confirmer of them de Coron Mil. c. 3.4 Vincentius Lirinensis saith he many a time and with much industry and attention enquired of Holy and Learned Men how he might by a certain general and regular way discern the Truth from Falshood c. and he always received this kind of Answer First by the Authority of the Divine Law and secondly by Tradition of the Catholick Church Because saith he tho the Scripture be perfect and more than sufficient for all things yet by reason of its heighth it is diversly interpreted Let us endeavour to hold that which hath been believed every where always by all Vin. Lirin Commonit c. 1 and 3. Mahometan Mahomet distinguisheth the Law into 1. Written viz. The Alcoran so called from Al this and Koran Reading of 124 Azoaras or chapters On the Cover of which they write Let none touch this but he that is clean Their Liturgy is in the Arabian Tongue not understood by many of the common people The Priests never touch their Alcoran without an Expression of much outward Reverence So the people at seeing or hearing of it read shew much attention affection and reverence The Alcoran written in Heaven and sent in the month Ramadan They lift it to their heads before they read it It hath no method or order in it 2. Unwritten viz. the Suna or Assonna Traditions whereof Bochari hath published 7275 Titles or Apothegms Most of the Mahometans do firmly believe them all called therefore Populus Sunae N. B. They receive the Decalogue of Moses and cause it to be observed by all M. de Theven Ancient Heathen 1. Written The Romans had the Books of Sibylla Cumana kept by a College of 8 Pontiffs with a Chief whose Office it was to regulate all the Ceremonies relating to the Worship of the Gods Galtruch What Rites of Sacrifices and Worship were to be observed were not only diligently prescribed in the Laws of Sacrifices but by the Oracle of Apollo enjoyned to be observed with much Accuracy Nat. Com. 2. Unwritten The Druids of Gaul held it not lawful to commit their Verses of which they had a great number containing the mysteries of their Discipline to writing Caesar Comment Modern Heathen 1. The Hindoes or Indians call the book of their Law Shestâ—r or the book of their written word which hath been transcribed in all ages ever since the first delivery of it not long after the Creation as they say by thee Bramins out of the which they deliver Precepts unto the people Viz. 1. Thou shalt not kill any living creature c. 2. To observe times of fasting and hours of watching 3. About Festivals c. 4. To take their food moderately c. 5. Help the poor as far as possible 6. Not to tell false Tales 7. Not to steal 8. Not
a Whore The Saying of R. Ase Ancient Christian The Christians in Aegypt continued all the six days in Devotion so earnestly that they forgot to take their Food from Morning 'till Night Sozom. l. 6. c 18. ex Phil. Jud. The People of Edessa would not be terrified from their often Meetings through the fear of Death threatned to them Ruffin l. 2. c. 5. 1. At rising they met together and betook themselves to Prayer Chrysost Hom. 1. de Precat This was done by the Master of the House unless some Minister of Religion were present Certainly they read some portion of Scripture c. Dr. Cave They had set Hours for Prayer V. Cypr. Clem. Alex. de Orat. Dom. viz. the First Third and Sixth 2. About Noon before Dinner some part of the S. Scripture was read and the Meat being set on the Table a Blessing was solemnly begged of GOD. Dr. Cave Theodosius Junior Empèror would not taste any Meat or eat a Fig before he had first given Thanks and set it apart with the sign of the Cross Idem 3. When at Dinner they sung Hymns and Psalms a custom which Clem. Alex. commends Paedag. l. 2. c. 4. p. 165. Chrysostom greatly pleads for it to be used at ordinary works at meals after meals as an excellent Antidote against Temptations in Ps 41. Tom. 3. Cypr. Ep. 1. p. 7. 4. Every time they took the Cup to drink they made the sign of the Cross and called upon Christ Nazianz. 5. Dinner ended they prayed Basil Ep. ad Greg. Tom. 3. p. 46. 6. Before going to bed they prayed again the whole family 7. At midnight they rose to pray and sing Hymns Clem. Alex. paed l. 2. c. 9. This was very ancient proceeding from their Nocturnal Assemblies in persecution Afterward left off as inconvenient yet it continues in Monasteries 8. Concerning Catechising vide alibi They read Scripture diligently prayed frequently and sung Psalms alone Vide Sub. Tit. particul Mahometan The Mahometans are obliged by their Religion to pray five times every day Most of them are careful to pray at least 3 times and in the Mogul's Countrey generally 5 times and they make a conscience of it from the Mogul himself upon the Throne to the poor Shepherd that attends upon his flock abroad But they endeavour commonly to say their Prayers in Church and if not there they do it in their houses or fields Ancient Heathen In every family there were so many little statues of Wood c. placed about their Lares as were Sons in the House and when any one was out of his childhood at 16 he hang'd the Bulla which he then left off about the Neck of the child's statue Servants also had statues of Wool or Hay The Romans had Laâ—es or Houshold Gods and Faci or Chimneys for them and the ordinary people observed the Ludi Compitalitii Plays and Dances in the streets in honour of them The Romans gave their Tables great Reverence accounting them sacred by laying on of the Salt-sellers and the Images of the Gods Arnob. 2. adv Gent. p. 87. The Druids procure publick and private Sacrifices Caes de Bell. Gal. Alexander Severus had in his private Chappel the Image of Jesus Christ amongst other Deities and Heroes to whom he paid adoration every morning particularly for that Precept Quod tibi non viâ— sieâ—i alteri ne feceris Modern Heathen The Chingulaes in Ceilon besides their publick Temples have private Chappels little Houses like Closets in their Yards not above 2 or 3 foot big sometimes but built upon a Pillar 2 or 3 foot from the ground wherein they place certain Images of the Buddou or Saviour God that they may have him near them and do testifie their Love and Service to him by lighting up Candles and Lamps in his House and laying flowers every morning before him Capt. Knox Relat. of Ceil In Guinea and the East Indies they daub with a kind of Chalky Earth for their Morning Devotions View of the Engl. Acq. in Guinea c. The Tunquinese adore 3 things in their Houses the Hearth of their Chimney made of 3 stones an Idol called Tiensa Patroness of Handicrafts and Buabin which they implore when they I go to build an House Tavernier Diabolical 1. Acts of Unbelief Distrust Despair Dishonour to God c. 2. Injustice Uncharimbleness Wrath Evil Speech Adultery Uncleanness Lying profane Swearing Cursing Covetousness Pride Discontent Curiosity c. 3. Idleness Intemperance Gluttony Drunlaenness And in a word all neglect and remissness in governing the Heart and Tongue and Actions in subduing the Lusts and Passâ—â—ns Yet in the Indies they use certain Ceremonies and Sacrifices as do also Magicians Spells and Invocations c. 19. Ecclesiastical Worship Jewish 1. THey sounded the Trumpers every morning at the opening of the Court-Gates particularly of the Gate of Nicanor to call the Levites and Stationary Men to their Desks and Service and the people of Jerusalem to the Temple Also they rung the Great Bell Migrepha 2. They offered Sacrifice in the Temple-Service twice a day 3. They read the Law twice The Master of the Synagogue called out one of the Seven Readers appointed for the Service of the Synagogue Gave him a Book to read He read standing in honour of the Law 4. The expounded the Law and made Discourses to the people Teaching and Instruction was always performed fitting Dr. Lightfoot 5. They had Prayers 4 times a day 6. Stationary men were appointed by course to be always attending the Service of the Temple lest they should want a Congregation as Deputies of the people for the Daily Sacrifice was the Sacrifice of all Israel And therefore it being impossible that all Israel should be present these were chosen Representatives Christian 1. The Roman Service for 400 years thus out of stilling Orig. Brit. 1. The Epistle out of St. Paul only Walasrid and the Pontifical Book Strabo 2. The Gospel 3. The Sacrifice In Celestine's Time 1. The Epistle 2. The Gospels 3. The Psalms or Antiphonae made out of them the whole Choir singing each Verse alternatim Walaf Strabo Microlog 4. Responsoria or proper Hymns Anthems i. e. one singing and the whole Choir answering 5. The Sacrifice No Creed No Sermon till Leo's Time 2. The Gallican Service Ibid. Morning 1. Lessons 2. Hymns 3. Psalms of St. Hierom's Translation with Gloria Patri at the end in Latin 4. Between the Psalms 1. The Deacon did silentium indicere 2. The people privately on their knees fell to their private Devotions 5. A concluding Collect Collecta Oratia the Lord's Prayer commonly 1. The Creed appointed by the 3 Council of Toledo 2. Prophetical Lessons Three Books being laid on the Altar viz. of the Prophets Epistles and Gospels Greg. Turon 3. The Sermon immediately after the Gospel 4. The Sacrifice in which Service were 1. Confession of sins Apdogia a particular Enumeration of sins Suscipe confessionem meam Domine 2. Prefaces and Collects Contestatio
to suck them in the Poll or elsewhere to suck their Blood once in 24 hours 10. The Devil promising to them to live gallantly having pleasure of the World for so many years that they shall want nothing Clothes Victuals nor Money 11. Giving Six Pence and vanishing with the paper 12. At their solemn Meetings upon the way saying Thout Tout a Tout Throughout and about 13. After Meeting and due courtesy done and other service they have a cloth laid on the ground c. 14. Wine Cakes Rost-meat Drink c. 15. The Devil sits at the upper end of the Table 16. Useth some words before meat 17. Bidding the Guests welcome 18. Plays upon a Pipe or Cittern 19. The Name of God or Jesus not mention'd at their Meetings 20. Giving them power to bewitch persons either by 1. Baptizing a Picture of Wax c. The Devil saying I Baptize thee with this Oyl The Witches saying A Pox on thee Ill spite thee c. The Devil himself being Godfather Or 2. Giving an Apple Dish Spoon c. Or 3. By a Touch or Curse c. 21. Sometimes they have Carnal Copulation together at such Meetings 22. The Devil leaves an ugly smell at parting 23. They use such words as these at parting A Boy merry meâ—t merry part 24. As they return homewards Rentum Tormentum In short the Devil keeps to no order is no where constant to himself In Popish Countries can be Papist in Turky Mahometan and adapt himself to the Humour of his Disciples The Order of the Jewish Service in Barbary out of Dr. Addison Jewish 1. THey spend some time in the Meditation of the Divine Attributes 2. They repeat to themselves Numb 24.5 How goodly are thy Tents c. And Psal 26.8 O Lord I have loved the habitation of thine house c. 3. They lay the right hand on the heart and bowing their Bodies toward the Chest wherein the law is kept they begin the publick Service 1. With Psal 5.7 As for me I will come into thy house in the multitude of thy mercies c. 2. After the appointed course of the Psalms they have Two Lessons the first out of the Law the second out of the Prophets 3. They Pray 1. Standing 2. Girt 3. With the Head bowed 4. Their Face toward Jerusalem 5. Their hands on their heart 6. Uttering their Prayers in a sort of plain Song 7. Without Spitting or Belching c. 8. At Confession of Sins using Prostration and shewing a great sense of their own vileness 9. At pronopuncing of Holy Holy Holy Lord God c. they jump up three times Ancient Christian The Order of the Divine Service amongst the Primitive Christians out of Dr. Cave The manner various commonly thus 1. They began with Prayers probably v. Tertul Apol. c. 39. 2. Read the Scriptures The Quantum arbitrary The Apost Constitut appoint two Lessons S. Clemens Epistle to the Corinth Hermas's Pastor The Writings of S. Ephrem Read in some places after Holy Service 3. They sung Hymns and Psalms vid. post 4. The Presbyters and President of the Assembly preach'd and made Exhortations one after another 5. Prayers were made for Catechumens Penitents Possessed c. according to their respective Capacities the Persons in every rank departing as soon as the Prayer that particularly concerned them was done 1. The Catechumens departed 2. The Penitents The Deacons crying aloud 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in Lat. Ite missa est 6. The Faithful only the Catechumens gone and the Doors shut proceeded to the Lord's Supper wherein they 1. Prayed for all states of Men c. 2. Gave the kiss of Charity 3. Prayed for the Consecration of the Eucharist 4. Received the Elements 5. Made their Offerings 7. They Admonished Censured Absolved c. 8. They concluded with a Blessing Afternoon Note They had publick Prayers and Sermon to the People in the Afternoon Chrysost Basil Augustine make sufficient evidence of it 9. The People stretched out their right-hand the left-hand being put under it Cyril 10. During the Administration they sung Psalms Psal 33. constit Apost and Hymns 11. Concluding with Prayer and Thanks-giving 12. Saluting each other with a Kiss of Peace Signacula Orationis Tertull. Ancient Heathen The Order of their Service out of other Authors D'Assigny c. 1. The Priest washes hands in pure Water 2. He leads the Sacrifice to the Altar 3. Before they offered to Jupiter they offered Praoedancae Hostia some preparatory things to the Daemones or Angels that they might intercede for them to the God 4. If these appeared unlucky they offered others succedancae Hostiae 5. The Priest offered a set Form of Prayer to Janus and Vesta 6. He mark'd the Beast with his Knife from head to tail and if he appeared unruly they let him go and took another 7. Laid upon his head and back the mola salsa mixt with Frankincense 8. Tasted a Cup of Wine 9. Caused the Assistants to do the like 10. Poured the remainder of the Wine between the Horns of the Beast 11. Took from that place a few Hairs called prima libamina and cast them into the Fire 12. Commanded an Officer to kill the Beast 13. The Assistants flead him lighted the Wood c. 14. The Sooth-sayer with a long Knife turned the Bowels up and down to observe them and tell his Judgment upon them for they might not touch them with their hands 15. The Priest cast some Frankincense in the Fire with some Wine 16. The Priest taking that part of every Member which the Officers had cut out into a Blatter called Lanx or Discus did litare i. e. cast them into the Flames to appease the God 17. While this was doing the Priest and the Person that gave the Victim did jointly make their Prayers to the God with their hands upon the Altar 18. Then they with the Assistants went to Feast upon the Remainder of the Sacrifice singing the Praises of their God 19. After the Banquet they returned to the Altar and cast into the Flames the Morsells of Meat that were left with the Tongue and some Wine 20. They returned Thanks to the God for the Honour of sharing with him in the Victim 21. At Rome they concluded with Prayers to Janus and Vesta the Tutelary Gods of the Empire N. B. At the beginning the Herald called to the People Favete linguis Afterwards to the Priest Age quod Agis Jewish Their Order of Service in Rome Venice Worms Mentz Frankfort c. at this day out of Mr. Rosse 1. THey wash and scrape their Shoes 2. They enter the Synagogue with great Reverence bowing towards the Ark. 3. Are tied to a set Form of Prayer by Book 4. The People answer Amen Though their Liturgy be in the old Hebrew which the People genearlly understand not 5. They utter divers brief Benedictions and after them some short Prayers 6. Instead of Sacrifices because banished from Jerusalem they read the Law concerning
business without demanding a Reason 6. Oratorians founded by Ph. Nerio all priests who were to preach diligently the lives of the Saints and other heads of practical and moral Duties 7. Anchorets the severest of the Recluse kept in a close place are to dig their Graves with their Nails ill clad and worse dieted 22. Orders of Nuns Nonnae Moniales 1. Of S. Clare called also Minorites or Minores who vow Poverty and Virginity go barefoot feed meanly c. 2. Gf S. Briget who was Qu. of Swedeland These cohabit under the same Roof with Friers yet are prohibited coming to one another but upon spiritual occasions The Confessor shrieves them thro' an Iron Grate by which his Lodging is parted from the Lady Abbess's Dr. Heylin See more of these Religious Orders in Alex. Rosse as also of all the Christian Orders of Knight-hood for I love not Actum agere Dominicans Franciscans Dr. Burnet speaking of Beru saith Those two famous Orders that had possessed themselves of the esteem of those Dark Ages about 20 years before the Reformation were engaged in a mighty Rivalry The Dominicans were the more Learned they were the eminentest Preachers of those times and had the Conduct of the Courts of Inquisition and the other chief Offices in the Church in their hands But on the other hand the Franciscans had an outward appearance of more severity a ruder habit stricter Rules and greater Poverty all which gave them such advantages in the eyes of the simple multitude as were able to ballance the other honours of the Dominican Order In short the two Orders were engaged in an high Rivalry but the Devotion towards the Virgin being the prevailing Passion of those times the Franciscans upon this had great advantages The Dominicans that are all engaged in the deence of Thomas Aquinas's Opinions were thereby obliged to assert that she was born in Original Sin this was proposed to the People by the Franciscans as no less than Blasphemy and by this the Dominicans began to lose ground extreamly in the minds of the People who were strongly prepossessed in favour of the immaculate Conception Dr. Burnet's Letters p. 31. edit 1680. Dr. Stillingfleet distributes his Discourse upon the Divisions of the Roman Church into Considerations 1. Of the Pope's Vsurpations under pretence of Universal Pastor whereby he may depose Kings c. 2. Of the Effects doubting not to prove that the Pope's Usurpation hath caused more Wars Bloodshed Confusion c. in Christendom than all other causes put together have done since the time it was first changed e. g. Constantine the first opposed Philippics Emperor Gregory the 2d taking away the small remainder of the Roman Empire from the Emperor Leo the 2d in Italy c. 3. Of the Schisms c. Sometimes 2 sometimes 3 several Heads at one time Bellermine in his Chronol confessing 26 several Schisms Onaphrius 30 whereof some lasted 10 some 20 one 50 years I need not insist saith he on the more antient between Cornelius and Novatianus Tiberius and Falix Damasus and Vrsinius Bonifacius and Eulalis Symachus and Laurentius Bonifacius and Dioscorus Sylverius and Vigilius c. Those of most continuance were A. D. 821. between Formosus and Sergius Benedict 9 and Sylvester 3. Regulars Seculars 4. Of the Differences in matters of Government e. g. between the Regulars and Seculars as to matters of Episcopal Jurisdiction even here in England the Mendicant Friers or Monks being exempted by the Pope the Jesuits difference with the Secular Priests in Q. Elizabeth's Reign proceeded to a Separation each from other about the Authority of Arch-Priests and they continually charged each other with the guilt of Horrible Schism The Jesuits opposition to Bishops Authority e.g. between Palafox Bishop of Angelopolis in America and the Jesuits Differences of Papists Lastly Of Matters of Doctrine between the Dominicans and Jesuits the Thomists and Scotists the Jansenists and Molinists Their Differences adds the aforecited Author are not confined to their Schools no not about the immaculate Conception the Thomists being against it the Scotists Occam and Franciscans for it John de Montesovo was convened first before the Faculty of Sorbon and his Doctrine against the immaculate Conception condemned and he forced to appeal to Rome and then to fly into Spain c. Dr. Stillingfleet 's Idolatry of the Church of Rome Jesuits and Molinists There being a great Indifferency in Italy as to Learning and Religion both and the Country being much improverished by the Ascendency of the Clergy and the People being Sick with the Observation of these things the Proposal of a new Remedy was easily received Michael de Molinos a Spaniard of an opulent Family who had entered into Priests Orders but not beneficed of an exact course of Life addicted to Mystical Divinity a Mysterious way of Devotion first set out by Cassian afterwards by St. Bernard Denys the Areop Thauler Rasbrachius Harphius Suso Tho. Ã Kempis S. Teresa Walter Hilton F. Cressy out of F. Baker's Papers considering a Man in a three-fold State 1. Animal or Imaginative where the Devotion is weak and variable 2. Rational where the Reason forces the Will and the Acts of Religion are dry 3. Contemplative in which the Will is so united to God and overcome by that Union that in one single Act it loves adores and is resigned up to God without any weariness or multiplicity of Acts upon which follows a secret Joy and Acquiescence in the Will of God Contemplation being nothing else but the silent and humble Adoration of God that ariseth out of a pure and quiet Mind All the common methods of Devotion being but steps to this State of Perfection To this end the Rosary Breviary c. are generally laid aside Molinos wrote a Book called Il Guida Spiritualâ— because Men may be deceived herein without a Guide This Book writ in Italy gave offence to the Regulars but especially the Jesuits This Book was published first A. 1675. with Approbation of the Arch-bishop of Rheggio General of the Franciscans F. Martin de Sparsa the Jesuit c. Molinos was hereupon received into Acquaintance and Favour with Cardinal Coloredi Ceceri Petrucci Cassanata Azolivi Carpegna and Cardinal d'Estrees the last was the most Zealous to advance his Design The Pope himself lodged him in an Apartment of his Palace many Priests came to consult him and all the Nuns except those which had Jesuits for their Confessors began to lay aside their Rosaries c. and gave themselves to Mental Prayer Upon this the Jesuits and Dominicans began to be alarmed at the Progress of Quietism Molinos and his Followers are given out to be Hereticks and Quietists Books writ against them Molinos and two hundred of his Friends clapt up by the Inquisition among whom were Count Vespiniani and his Lady Don Paulo Rocchi Confessor to Prince Borghese Cardinal Petrucci c. and the Pope himself in the single Quality of Benedict Odeschalci was secretly examined
lately an account of greater Divisions some of them being charged by others with damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils c. in a Book intituled The Plea of the Innocent c. I take them for a Branch of the Old Anabaptists which sprung up in Germany upon the Reformation though they made no appearance in England 'till the time of our Civil Wars about the Year 1644. and then were assisted at least by some Priests of the Popish Seminaries in disguise as were also several other Sects which then sprung up amongst us See Du Moulin's Philan. Angl. c. Mahometans 1. Creed The first Chapter of the Alcoran is as it were the Mahometan's Creed and 't is called the Mother of the Book containing the Words of Mahomet for the rest are all deliver'd as the Word of God he being induced as Speaker Which first Chapter is this Sense In the Name of God gracious and merciful Thanks be unto God the Lord of the World merciful pitiful Judge at the Day of Judgment We pray unto thee we trust in thee Lead us into the right way the way of them whom thou hast chosen not of them with whom Thou art angry and of the Infidels Out of the Alcoran may be collected more of their Faith as thus 1. God is One necessary to all incorporeal neither begetting nor begotten the Creator long-suffering searcher of the Heart true that he hath no Son needs nothing 2. That Christ is the Son of Mary the best of Women the Prophet of God begotten by the Spirit of her in the shape of a Man Christ was not slain by the Jews but one like him 3. Their Law is to be propagated by the Sword Of the twelve Months four are to be consecrated to this warfare they that refuse it lose their Souls The Unbelievers taken in War that will not turn must be killed or made Slaves 'T is not lawful to dispute about the Law 4. God made the World and disposed the seven Heavens and afterwards Man like unto himself and breathed into him his own Soul a portion of it That the Angels being commanded to do reverence to Adam Beelzebub refused and was therefore damned 5. There is a Paradise and Hell but of sensual Pleasures and Torments 6. Mahomet is the Seal and last of the Prophets to whom it was lawful to lie with all Women even Aunts and Kindred c. 7. There shall be a Resurrection proved by the story of the 7 Sleepers who slept 360 Years 2. Moral and Judicial Precepts and Prohibitions 1. Prohibitions 1. Abstain from Swines-flesh Blood that which dies alone and that which hath the Neck cut off 2. From Wine and Women more than their own Wives or Women 3. Working on Friday at Prayer-time 4. Games of Chesse Scails and Tables 5. Marrying with Men or Women of another Law 6. Marrying with Mother Daughter Sister Aunt Niece Nurse c. 7. Swearing rashly and For-swearing 8. Usury Lying Injustice c. 2. Precepts Affirmative 1. Pilgrimage to Mecha 2. Belief in GOD and Mahomet 3. Marry and Fight for the encrease of Religion 4. Giving wealth to the Poor Men Slaves Birds Dogs 5. Praying five times a Day 6. Keeping Lent one Month in the Year 7. Obedience to Parents 8. Keeping Friday Sabbath cum multis aliis Mahometan Sects 1. Turks or Arabians 1. THE Turks pretendc that Abouleker was the Successor of Mahomet making his Genealogy thus Mahomet 1 Abouleker 1 Omar 1 Osman 1 Aly. 2. The Turks are called Sunni because they follow also Counsels of Devotion besides the Commands of their Law M. de Thev 3. They call to Prayers from the tops of Towers 4. In Praying the Turks hold their hands one over another upon their Stomach 5. Among the Turks for a Christian to dispute with them is a Crime punishable by Death 6. The Turks make God the Author both of Good and Evil. 7. The Turks say the Law is Eternal 8. The Turks teach that God shall be visible to blessed Souls in his Essence 9. The Turks say Mahomet when he received his Alcoran was carried by the Angel Gabriel Body and Soul into God's presence 10. The Arabians pray five times a day 2. Persians 1. The Persians leave out of Mahomet's Succession the names of Abouleker Omar and Osman affirming them to be Usurpers only and no rightful Successors to Mahomet that Aly lawfully and actually succeeded him making the Genealogy thus Mahomet 1 Aly. which Aly say they succeeded Mahomet both in his Doctrine and Empire and married also Mahomet's Daughter who was also the first of the twelve Imams and whose Interpretation of the Law they embrace as the Truest and whose Sepulchre they visit as the Turks the other three 2. The Persians call themselves Schiai because they think it enough to follow the Precepts of their Law though sometimes they follow some of the Counsels too 3. In Persia they call to Prayers three times a day from Terrases not Towers 4. The Schiai in Praying hold not their hands on their Stomach but laying down a little gray stone which they always carry about them every time they prostrate lay their Foreheads on that stone made of the Earth of Keebela where Hussein the second Son of Aly was killed M. de Thev 5. The Persians will suffer Christians to dispute with them about matters of Religion 6. The Persians make God Author of Good only 7. The Persians say only God is Eternal 8. The Persians say he is visible only in his Effects and Attributes 9. The Persians that he was carried only in Soul 10. The Persians pray but three times a day Morning Noon and Night no not upon Fridays The Persians have translated the Alcoran into the Persian Tongue with an interlineal Translation word for word for Turk and Persian both believe that that Book cannot be explainted in any other Language but Arabick Subordinate Sects Dervises THey go about begging Alms in the name of Aly. They wear two Sheep-skins dried in the Sun the one hanging on their Back the other on their Breast the rest of their Body naked their whole body shaved Head bare Temples burnt with a hot Iron Rings with precious Stones in their Ears and a knotty Club in their Hand They are desperate Assassinates Robbing and Murdering on occasion They eat of an Herb called Asserad or Matslach which makes them Mad cutting and slashing themselves which makes them more reverenced On Friday after their Devotion they drink of Asserad and Sing and Dance about a Fire like mad c. See more in the sequel of this Book Imailer The Imailers or Religious Brothers of Love have for their Habit a long Coat of a Violet colour without Seam girt about with a golden Girdle at which hang silver Cymbals which jingle as they go These with a Book in their Hand of Love-Songs go about Singing and receive Money for their Songs and are always bare-headed wearing long Hair which they curl They are worse than Beasts
not what thou wouldst do with me for with thee is Wisdom I was delighted with this alone in that Exhortation that he did mightily excite me with that Discourse and inflame me that I should love seek after and attain and hold fast and embrace not this or that Sect but Wisdom it self whatever it was And I did burn and this only cooled me in so great a heat that the Name of Christ was not there For this Name through thy Mercy O Lord I had suck'd into my tender Heart with my Mother's Milk and whatsoever was without this Name tho Learned and Polite and True did not wholly Ravish me August l. 3. Conf. c. 4. Felix Africanus Bishop and his Associates chose rather to give up their own Lives in the Dioclesian Persecution that the Copies of the New Testament Origen when a Child was very inquisitive into the hidden meaning of the Scriptures and even tired his Father with asking questions and afterwards never went to Meals never to Sleep without some part of the Scripture read Dr. Cave John an Egyptian Confessor whom Eusebius saw and heard tho his Eyes were out and his Body mangled would repeat any passages out of the Old and New Testament whom I supposed saith he to be reading in a Book till coming near I was struck with great Admiration Idem Theodosius the younger could exactly repeat the Holy Scripture in any part Idem Nazianzen ptofesseth he had willingly renounced all other things for the sake of this Book Idem Gildas hath scarce one Paragraph in his Epistles unstored with Texts of Scripture T. Jones K. Alphonsus read over the Bible 14 times with Commentaries such as his Age afforded Mr Bradford never went to bed without his Book Fox Martyrol Heathens The more I study the Nature of God and inquire what he is the less I find The Saying of Simonides to Hiero of Syracuse Know that it is the greatest Point of Religion about the Immortal Gods to have right Opinions of them that you may know that they are and that they govern all things well and righteously and that we ought to obey them and acquiesce in all things that they do c. Epict. c. 38. Muscovites There are a great number of Monasteries both for men and women in Muscovy of S. Basil's order but they have this common with all the Muscovites that they can hardly write and read Not one in ten can say the Lord's Prayer much fewer the Creed and Commandments D. of Holstein's Emb. Travels p. 105. Persians The Audience being over The King of Persia again sent for Lalin Mariage and Father Raphael and after a short discourse having dismissed all but F. Raphael he fell into a Dispute with him touching the Unity of the Divine Nature the necessity of one Prophet and how Mahomet was the Seal and Crown of all the Prophets He seemed to admire that the Franks who had the reputation of being People of Wit and Discretion could think that Jesus Christ was a God Tavernier's Collection of several Relations c. p. 28. Papists The Venetians are generally ignorant of the matters of Religion to a scandal and they are as unconcerned in them as strangers to them Dr. Burnet's Letters The great Libertinage that is so undecently practised by most sorts of People at Venice extends it self to the Clergy to such a degree that tho Ignorance and Vice seem the only indelible Characters that they carry generally over all Italy yet those appear here in a more conspicuous manner than elsewhere Idem One of the chief Ornaments of Venice was the famous Young Woman that spoke five tongues well of which the Latin and Greek were two she passed Dr. of Physick at Padua was a person of such extraordinary Vertue and Piety that she is spoken of as a Saint she was of the Noble Family of the Cornaro's Idem 2. Love to God Christian ¶ From Syria even to Rome I fight with Beasts by Land by Sea Night and Day bound with 10 Leopards a guard of Souldiers would to God I might enjoy the Beasts prepar'd for me who I wish may make quick dispatch with me whom I will allure to devour me speedily and if they will not I will even force them Pardon me I know what is best for me Now I begin to be a Disciple of Christ Let Fire Cross and Troops of violent Beasts and all the torments of the Devil come on me that I may enjoy Christ Ignatius in his Journey to Rome My Love is crucified The saying of Ignat. Two Loves make two Cities the Love of God makes Jerusalem the love of the World makes Babylon Let every on ask himself what he Loves and he will find of what place he is a Citizen Aug. on Psalm 64. He loves thee less O Lord who loves any thing with thee which he doth not love for thee Idem in Conf. l. He that Loves not doth not labour for all labour is difficult to them who do not love Only Love is ashamed of the name of Difficulty Ibid. The Love of God is never idle Operatur enim magna Greg. in Ho. Our Soul is not more present where it lives than where it loves Vbi animat quà m ubi amat unless you suppoe it to be more there where 't is bound by necessity than were it is carried freely Bern. de Praecep Love of God Prior Deus dilexit nos Tantus tantum gratis tantillos tales Bern. If you would be presently cleansed from Vices enkindle in your self the Fire of Divine Love if you have perfectly tasted the sweetness of the Divine Love you will not care for temporal sweetness Rabanus in quod Serm. Wretched I how much ought I to love my God who made me when I was not Redeemed me when I was miserable For I was not and he made me of nothing not a Stone not a Tree not a Brute but he would have me to be a Man he gave me Life Sense Discretion brought me out of Exile Redeemed me out of Bondage called me by his Name that his Memorial might be always with me he anointed me with the Oil of Gladness with which himself was anointed that I might be anointed from the Anointed and called a Christian from Christ August de Sp. An. I have loved thee O lord not with a doubtful but certain Conscience Thou hast smitten my Heart with thy Word and I have loved Thee The Heavens and the Earth and all things therein cry unto me that I should love thee Neither do they cease to speak unto All Men that they may be inexcusable Idem in l. Conf. If Souls please thee let them be loved in God for they also are Mutable but fixed in Him they are established otherwise they would go and perish therefore let them be loved in Him and draw them with thy self to Him as many as thou canst and say to them Let us love Him let us love Him He made these things and He is
Body Let them who have a mind to 't glory in the Flesh we are under the profession of Humility all Glory is vain and swelling especially from the Flesh A Christian may glory in the Flesh but when 't is torn in pieces for the sake of Christ that the Spirit may be crowned not that it may prove a Snare to attract the Eyes and Sights of Young-Men's ungovernable Passions after it c. Cyprian Obj. 'T is acceptable to our Husbands Answ 1. Every wise and good Man cannot but like his Wife better without them Every Husband is a rigid Exactor of his Wife's Chastity If he be a Christian he will not require any such feigned Beauty if a Gentile let her do what she can he will suspect her to be naught Tertull. 2. The loose delicate Arts come too near the Practice of lewd wanton Prostitutes Birds and Beasts are content with their own natural Beauty and Colours Woman only as if inferiour to them thinks her self so deformed as that there is need to repair the defect by external bought and borrowed Beauty Children-like they admire every thing that is strange and gawdy they shew themselves to be Women that have put off shame and modesty and whosoever calls them so shall do them no wrong as carrying the very signs and representations of it in their Faces Clem. Alex. 3. These additional Arts are a bold and sacrilegious Attempt and an high contempt of God that is to reform what God hath formed That such a one hath cause to fear least when the Day of Resurrection comes He that made them should not know them c. And then he brings in the Densor of the World thus speaking This is none of my Workmanship nor this my Imdge and Likeness Cyprian Theodoret tells of his own Mother That when young having a Distemper in one of her Eye s which had baffled the Physicians she went to one Peter near Antioch famous for Miracles of a very Severe and Ascetic Life she to render her self the more considerable in his Eye put on her richest Robes Pendants Chains of Pearl c. The uncomplemental Man severely check'd her with a comparison drawn from an unskilful Bungler going about to correct a Picture made by an excellent Artist and not without much importunity would grant her Errand In fine she went away with a double Cure of Body and Mind Hist Relig. c. 9. in vit Petri. Clemens Alex. compares such Women to the Egyptian Temples without Splendor and magnificent Groves rows of Pillars Walls set off with Stones of several Countries Carved c. The Temples garnished with Gold Silver Amber c. within behind the Curtain a Cat a Crocodile So Women trimming themselves with Gold Curling their Hair Painting their Faces blacking their Eyes colouring their Locks c. within a lustful Ape a crafty Serpent c. Nazianzen saith his Sister Gorgonia used no Gold to make her Fine no yellow Hair ordered into Locks and Curles No loose transparent Garments no Lustre of Stones and Jewels no Arts of Painting c. Clothe your selves with the Silks of Honesty the fine Vertues of Piety the Purple of Modesty and being thus beautified and adorned God himself will be your Lover Tertull. Mahometans and Hindoes They never Pride it in any New Fashion The Habits of highest and lowest are the same which they never alter pure white fine Callico-Lawn is the bravery of the highest which they wash every day The Women are Habited somewhat like Men they of the greatest Quality are Adorned with many rich Jewels Temperance in Meats Jews THe Pharisees Fasted on Mondays and Thursdays as hath been noted before in remembrance of Moses going up and returning from Mount Sinai c. Concerning which we have spoken already in the first part of this Book in the Chapter of Fasting Christians Our Food and Diet should minister to Health and repair the Weakness of Nature Basil Our Nourishment ought to be simple and easy subservient to the two main ends of Life Health and Strength Clem. Alex. Nor are we less to take heed of Gluttony contenting our selves with a spare Diet and such only as is necessary not giving way to the Infinite and unsatiable cravings of a nice and intemperate Appetite which will have a thousand pretences to defend it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Justin Mart. Clemens Alex. reckons up the Inconvenience of Excess viz. wasting the Estate ruining the Body impairing the Health Debauching the Stomach deflouring the taste begetting an ill habitude and temper sowing it with the Seeds of all diseases dulling the mind preparing it for the entertainment of any Vice c. S. Cyprian in an Epistle to the Priests and Deacons Ep. 7. adviseth them to eat and drink sparingly that they might be watchful unto Prayer S. Hierom adviseth Leta to give her Daughter such a thin and mean Diet that after Meals she might be presently fit either to read or sing Psalms Ad Let. Tom. 1. The Council of Laodicea Can. 53. forbade them light and ludicrous Actions as leaping and Dancing enjoyning them to Dine and Sup gravely and modestly as Christians Julian Emperor being about to raise War and squeeze the Christians sent to S. Basil his fellow-student formerly at Athens for 1000 l. he return'd Answer That it was not to be expected there where he had not Provision before hand for one day That his greatest Dainties were a few Pot-herbs a piece of Bread and a little sowre Vapid Wine Basil Ep. 208. Tom. 3. Chrysostom commends Olympias that she had taught her Stomach to receive only so much Meat and Drink as was enough to keep her alive and in Health Alcibiades afterward Martyr had accustomed himself to a very rigid and sordid Course rejecting all sorts of Food but Bread and Water this before and after he was in Prison which had an ill influence upon others whereupon Attalus one of the most Eminent of those famous Martyrs the day after his being exposed the first time in the Amphitheatre had it Reveal'd to him That Alcibiades did amiss in refusing the good Creatures of God and giving scandal c. upon which he laid aside his singularity Eusebius out of the Letter of the Churches of Lyons and Vien in France to those in Asia Hist Eccl. l. 5. c. 3. Luther saith of himself I lose too much time by invitations to Feasts here in this City I know Satan hath such a hand in it that I may not deny it and yet it doth me harm to accept the Courtesy And again My Converse with my Friends which I use to call a Feeding of my Corps doth very badly steal away a great part of my time Fuller's Lives Muscovites Those who take Tobacco in Muscovy by reason of their Excess in it and doing hurt by it c. Burning their Houses and Infecting their Images with a stinking Breath are by order of the great Duke to have their Nostrils slit or be whipt as we have often
and desired his Guide to bring him thither whither when he was brought he begg'd leave to touch the Bier with his Hankerchief which he no sooner had done but immediately his Eyes were open'd and the fame thereof spread aboad and Praise given to God and Justina the Mother of Valentinian the Emperor was restrained from her purpose of Persecuting S. Ambrose c. Gratias tibi Deus meus Aug. conf l. 9. 2. Other Miracles of later Date which it would be too tedious to enumerate and perhaps not very easy to distinguish the true from feigned Mahometans 1. The Vision at Medina A.C. 1620. Sep. 20. At midnight a great Tempest fell with Clouds and Thunder afterward in the clear Sky these words in Arabick Characters Oh! why will ye believe in lies Between two and three a Clock in the Morning there appeared a Woman in white compassed about with the Sun with a chearful Countenance and a Book in her Hand and over-against her were Armies of Turks Arabians Persians c. in Battle-Array ready to Fight with her but she keeping her Station only open'd her Book and the Armies fled away and presently all the Lamps about Mahomet's Tomb were put out and a murmuring Wind heard This lasted three Weeks the Antient Pilgrims of Mahomet's Race were amazed only one of their Derysses took upon him to Interpret it and suffer'd Death for his boldness Knowls's Turkish History Bengal 2. A Jugler of Bengala a Kingdom famous for Witches brought an Ape before the Mogul who being willing to please himself with some Tricks c. gives the Ring of his Finger to a certain Boy among many present to hide the Ape going presently to the Boy that hid it This with many more feats being done at last this came strangely into the King's mind There are saith he many Disputes about the True Prophet we for Mahomet the Persians for Mortis Hale the Hindoes for Bremaw c. The Persees for Zortoost the Jews for Moses the Christians for Christ adding more to the number of twelve writing the Names on twelve several Scrolls and putting them together the Ape put his Paw amongst them and pulled out the Name of Christ This was done a second time Then Mahomet Chan a great Nobleman of that Court calling it an Imposture of the Christians tho there were none present desiring to make a third Tryal put eleven of the Names together reserving the Name of Christ in his hand the Ape searching as before pull'd forth his Paw empty and so twice of thrice together The King demanding a Reason for this was Answered that happily the thing he look'd for was not there he was bid to search for it and then pulling out those eleven Names the Ape in a seeming Indignation rent them then running to Mahomet Chan caught him by the Hand where the Name of Christ was conceal'd which delivered to him he open'd the Scroll and so held it up to the King not tearing it as the other The Mogul took the Ape gave his Keeper a Pension to look to him calling him the Divining Ape Nothing else followed upon this Wonder The Author believes this Story to be true hearing it often confirmed to him by diverse Persons who knew not one another and were of diverse Religions Anonym Narsinga c. 3. A.D. 1277. Myrangee an Atheist conquered Narsinga and all the Regions about Meliapora and one year going about to hoard up his Rice and Grain in a Chapel which the poor Christians used at that time to Pray in daily the poor People with all submission entreated him to refrain but that provoked him to more Prophaneness he commanded them to worship him Next Night in an affrighting Vision the Apostle approacheth S. Thomas the first Planter of the Gospel among the Indians threatening and with an Iron Whip proffering to whip the King who suddenly awaken'd relented and besought the Christians to pray for him and himself help'd to purge the Chapel and satisfie for his Sacrilege Sir Tho. Herb. Travels c. Egypt About five Miles from Cair there is said to be a place which every Good Friday shews the appearance of the Heads Legs Arms c. of Men and Children as if rising out of the Ground to a very great Number c. Stephen du-Pleis a Sober discerning Man saith he saw and touched divers of the same Members S. Clark Ceremonies in Salutation Greetings c. Jews THE Jewish Salutation consisted in these following particulars 1. They bowed the head Gen. 24.26 48. and ch 43.28 Exod. 4.31 2. They kissed one another 1 Sam. 20.41 So Judas also perverted this Kissing to a traiterous purpose vid. 2 Sam. 15.5 but this was used only to them of the same Sex Men with Men and Women with Women as we find the Custom afterward translated to the Christians 3. They wished them Peace as that which comprehended all other Blessings in it Peace be unto you Is it Peace Peace be to this House 4. They often invited them to eat Bread and drink Water and sometimes to tarry all Night as Gen. 19.2 c. 5. They offered Water to wash the feet of their Guests as a refreshment to them after they had been tired with travel in those hot Countries Gen. 18.4 c. Christians The Ancient Christians adopted most of these Usages into their common Salutations but in process of time they have varied according to the manners of the several Countries they have lived in according to the old Rule of Civility Cum fueris Romae Romano vivito more There is in Geneva an universal Civility not only towards Strangers but towards one another that reigns all the Town over Zurich and leans to an Excess so that in them one sees a mixture of a French openness an Italian exactness there is indeed a little too much of the last Dr. Burnet 's Letters The Women here not only do not converse familiarly with Men except those of their near Kindred but even in the Streets do not make any returns to the Civility of Strangers for it is only Strangers that put off their Hats to Women but they make no Courtesies and here as in all Switzerland Women are not saluted but the Civility is expressed by taking them by the hand Idem Mahometans They uncover not the Head but only lay the hand upon the Breast and bowing a little they say Selah meon Aleicom i.e. Peace be with you and he that is saluted answers Aleicom esselam ut eahmet ullah i. e. Peace be with you and God's Mercy also M. de Thevenot The Persians never uncover their Heads but bow and lay their right hand on their Breasts when they come in the Company of their Betters they fall upon their Knees to set themselves upon their Heels They are full of Compliments which they call Travexed M. Tavernier l. 5. c. 14. As we were riding in the City Buda divers of the common Turks murmured that we should ride where they went on foot
But I was pleased to see many Turks to salute Seignior Gabriel the Emperour's Courier in our Company and to take his hand and put it to their foreheads Dr. Edw. Brown 's Travels Persians A Mile nearer Spahawn the Visier the Sultan of Spahawn Meloyembeg and Hodgenazar the Armenian Prince in a Cavalcade of about 4000 Horse and innumerable Foot came out to meet us the High-way for two Miles full of Men Women Children and Banyans who all saluted us with Hoshomody Soflowardy the better sort with Hosh-galdom Sottogaldom i.e. Welcom welcom Heartily welcom Sir Tho. Herb. Mogul's Countrey Indolstan 1. The Meaner sort to their Superiors put their right hand to the Earth 2. Their Familiars in intimate Salutation take one another by the Chin and cry Father or Brother using good Wishes as God give you health Ans The same health God give you I wish you the Prayers of the Poor I wish one good after another to come to you every quarter of an Hour 3. The Better sort when they entertain you rise up to you bow their Bodies and then entreat you to sit with them The Goeghy a Sect of Banyans never speak to such as pass by them nor give them the time of the day nay they will not answer those that speak to them out of a Perswasion that being consecrated to their God Bruin they should defile themselves by speaking to other Men. Mandelslo's Travels into the Indies p. 56. Chinese Above all the Chinese exceed in this Point The first thing they teach their Youth is Salutation and have whole Books writ upon it If a Man hath but once seen a Person he is obliged to salute him and this is not done with the Hat but closing the left hand and putting it into the right and both to the Breast with a low inclination of the Head with Protestations to confirm what is expressed by Gestures c. Idem Tunquin Among the Tunquinese it is not the Custom to ask one another How they do but How many Measures of Rice he ate far his Dinner and whether he ate with an Appetite This is a general Custom among all the Idolatrous Indians unless in the Dominions of the Great Mogul where they â—at not Rice only but Bread and there they ask in Civility How much Rice they boiled and How much Meal they baked for Bread Tavernier 's Collect. of Relat. Fidelity Treachery Jews THE Treachery of the Jews hath been one great Reason of the unkind Usage they have met with from Christians and their frequent Expulsions from Country to Country as at Trent for crucifying a Child and poisoning Wells so likewise in Hungary c. for the like Misdemeanours In Curland for a Murrain as was suspected raised by Jewish Exorcisms among the Cattle but intended as was said a Plague to the People c. Christians The Christian Principle and the Practice of good Christians is well known in this respect Yet sometimes we have instances of gross Perfidiousness as in the case of Vladislaus K. of Hungary who by instigation of the Pope's Legate had broken League with Amurath the Turkish Emperour who upon his crying out Are these O Christ the Leagues which thy Servants have Sworn to by thy Name If thou art a God Avenge the Injury got the Victory over him and carried the King's Head on a Spear c. Alsted Papists Henry 7th Emperour was so Devout that he would pray and weep whole Nights before a Crucifix which he carried with him and received the Sacrament daily upon which occasion he died by a Minorite of Florence that gave him the Host Poisoned Alsted Hist. John Husse and Jerome of Prague were burnt alive after a Promise of Safe-Conduct granted by the Emperour and the Axiom enacted That Faith is not to be kept with Hereticks Russians The Muscovites are generally false and perfidious not regarding their words but studying to over-reach or cozen all they can insomuch that being in other Countries they strive to dissemble their own S. Clark Romans I love Treachery but hate Traytors said Augustus Emperour to one that boasted of his Merits Rhymitacles King of Thrace who had revolted from Antony to him Camerar Heathens Brennus King of France over-whelmed a Maid that had betrayed Ephesus to him with Bracelets and Necklaces the Reward of her Treachery Idem The Julian Law assigned the same Punishment to Sacrilege and Treachery placing the one the very next step to the other Vlpian l. 7. de Offic. Procons Mohometans Solyman The Turkish Emperour contrary to his Promise commanded the Betrayers of Buda to be slain Camerar The same Solyman promised his Daughter for a Reward to him that would betray the Isle of Rhodes but when the Christian Traitor challenged his Promise with a large Portion for Matrimony the King brought his Daughter out in very costly Attire with a Vides me stetisse promissis you see I am as good as my word but withal commanded him to be flead and put on a Bed of Salt or his Daughter would not be a fit Match except for a Mussulman whose Skin was Circumcised and clean from Baptism Idem One of the Dervises pretending to ask an Alms of Bajazet the Second desperately assailed him with a short Scimiter hid under his hypocritical habit Knolles p. 463. The like they had attempted against his Father in his Youth c. and in our days Mahomet the Great Vizier Passa was murthered by one of these Dervises Idem The Mahometans but especially the Hindoes are very faithful to all their Engagements insomuch that if they be assaulted at any time they will rather die in defence of their Trust than forsake it and those that intrust them in time of their need Marriage and Divorce Jews THE manner of proceeding in Marriage is set down Methodically in the first Book what was omitted there is to be related here After the Dowry made by the Bridegroom upon the Bride of which but half the Sum is usually given to Widows as to Virgins follows Affiancing in these words Behold take her after the Law of Moses The Man replies Be thou unto me a Wife according to the Law of Moses and Israel Their Dowry-bill according to the usage of the Jews in Barbary is thus Upon the Sixth of the Week the Fourth of the Month in the Year of the Creation of the World according to the Computation which we use here at Arzila a Town scituate on the Sea-shore of Barbary the Bridegroom Rabbi the Son of R. said unto the Bride-wife Daugter of R. Merchant in Alcazar Be unto me a Wife according to the Law of Moses and Israel and I according to the Word of God will worship honour maintain and govern thee according to the manner of Husbands among the Jews who do faithfully worship honour maintain and govern their Wives I also bestow upon thee the Dowry of thy Virginity amounting to 50 Shekels which belong unto thee by the Law and moreover thy food raiment and
Trees in great Veneration and consult with them as with Oracles Rosse In Angola and Congo they are much addicted to Divination by Birds Rosse In Jucatan they caused Boys in hollow Images to answer the Peoples Petitions as if God had spoke to them Idem The Priests in South-America learn Physick and Magick when young being shut up two Years in Woods all which time they keeep their Cells see no Women nor eat Flesh they are taught by their Masters in the Night Idem Some West Indians at this day by fuming their Heads over the smoak of Tobacco will fall into a Trance for four or five Hours and fore-see what Ships are making to their Ports tho' several days of and report where the Vessels then are when they awake Pacquet broke open Vol. 2. In Gilolo and Amboina they bring their Daemon or Nito to conference with a Tabor VVax-Candles and words of Conjuration he appears to them in the shape of a Man all their actions are preceded by consulting the Devil Ibid. Rewards and Punishments future according to the Jews Jews I Need not here declare what the Sentiments of the ancient Jews before our Saviour's time were it shall suâ—fice to tell what their Opinion is in the present Age as Dr. Addison hath informed us in his Present State of the Jews in Barbary 1. They say that all Souls were created together and placed in a certain Region whence the several Bodies in their proper times are furnished as they are ready to receive them and if the Souls offend in this State they are sent into infirm Bodies for a Punishment and this Pre-existence they found on Eccles 4.3 2. Souls are conjoyned with Bodies which is an Imprisonment like Birds in Cages 3. Afterwards they are separated from the Body to a Temporal State of Happiness or Unhappiness wherein they continue till the final Sentence 4. At last they are disposed of into a State of Eternal Duration yet 5. They hold a Purgatory to be in Hell from whence they can never be delivered but by the vertue of the Kaddish a Prayer repeated once a day for the space of a year by some surviving Relation 6. They generally hold that none stays there above a Twelve-month 7. If any one's Sins are too great or many to be purged the Soul by Transmigration is to finish its Penance in another Body and so on in a Third Fourth Fifth Sixth till it come to a Seventh where it finds rest Heaven eternal 1. The State of Pre-existent Souls 2. Of Souls conjoyned with Bodies 3. The Temporal State of Souls Separated from Bodies by death till the day of Judgment 4. A years Purgatory 5. The Soul not purged in transmigration to other Bodâ—â—â— 1. Body 2 Body 3 Body 4 Body 5 Body 6 Body 7 Body Rest. They hold That they which are not of their Religion if found disobedient to the Law of Nature I suppose my Author means shall suffer a total Perdition of their Being themselves are liable only to a lesser Happiness Both Jews and Moors are of Opinion That the Infernal Torments shall have an end and that the fallen Angels shall be then restored to Mercy They place the Consummation of the World in a Restoration of it to that Beauty and Order it was at first designed They say the Resurrection shall be only out of the Holy Land whither all that are buried in other Countries must uncessantly rowl thro' the dark Caverns of the Earth and to avoid this trouble they endeavour when old to return to Palestine Four Privileges of the Jews 1. The Land of Canaan 2. The Law of Moses 3. The Gift of Prophecy 4. And the Resurrection Mahometans An Account of them as communicated to us By F. Simon out of a Book of Mahometanism written by a Modern Doctor of that Religion according to the Doctrine generally received and approved by most good Men in and about Constantinople 1. After Death and Burial two of the greatest Angels Munzir and Nekir come and ask the Person what Belief he hath concerning God and the Prophet and the Law and the Kible what side one is to turn to in praying to God The Just are to answer Our God is he that hath created all things Our Faith is the Mussulman and Orthodox Faith and the true direction of our Prayers is the Kible Unbelievers not knowing what to answer are condemned to suffer great Pains 2. At the general Resurrection the Good before their entring into Paradise shall drink of certain Fountains so that they shall never thirst again Mahomet's Fountain for him and his Sect shall contain as much space of Ground as one can travel in a Month On the brinks of this Fountain shall be as many lavers as Stars in the Firmament the Water sweeter than Honey and whiter than Milk 3. Their Paradise is thus described 1. 'T is all full of Musk. 2. The Buildings of Gold and Silver Bricks 3. All sorts of Delicious Meats are there 4. Their Cloaths never wear out 5. What any one desires comes ready dress'd to their Hand 6. None subject there to sleep or other Necessities of the Body 7. Divine and Celestial Women and Virgins free from all Incommodities 8. They who once enter never come out again 4. Their Hell-thus 1. Unbelievers shall be Eternally with Devils 2. They shall be Tormented with Serpents bigger than Camels and Scorpions bigger then Mules With Fire also and scalding water 3. When burnt and turn'd to a Coal God shall raise them again for fresh Torments and so never to end 5. Believers dying without Repentance are to be disposed of by God according to his good pleasure some of them are pardon'd others to expiate by their sufferings till released and admitted to Paradise Mahomets Paradise A River of Water Honey Wine Milk God appearing on Fridays Fruits Delicious Dgennet Zlar i.e. Virgins of Paradise with black Eyes white Bodies always young never exceeding 15 red Cheeks Young Boyes to attend with Vials of Liquors Fruits and Fowles Cloaths of Green or Scarlet Silk and Gold Araf i.e. A Place for them who have done neither good nor evil The 6th Gate thro' which they that fear shall enter Paradise 5. Gate 6. Gate 7. Gate Gate of Hell 2. Gate Selzaboul a River of which when they have drunk after their sins are consumed they go to Heaven Zacon a Tree of whose frut they eat which shal burn in their Bellies like fire Chains of 70 〈◊〉 A Well of scalding water of which they drink * Purchas tells out of Bellonius That there is in Paradise a Tree which shadows it all over and spreads her Boughs upon the Walls the Leaves of pure Gold and Silver the Name of God and Mohomet writ on each Leaf That if one of those Virgins of Paradise should come forth at Midnight she would enlighten the World as much as the Sun If she should spit into the Sea all the Water would become sweet That Gabriel keeps the Keys of
Glanvil tells us from the Confession of some Witches that at their Night-Meetings when the Cloth is laid and the Devil set down at the upper end of the Table he useth some words before Meat Jews The Jews spreading their Hands over the Bread say Blessed art thou O Lord God King of the World who bringest Bread out of the Earth then over a Cup of Wine Blessed c. who hast made the Fruit of the Vine over Water no Blessing the 23d Psalm is set before them at Meal time and they have Multitudes of new Graces if any better Dainties be set before them Purchas Forms of Excommunication Jews The Degrees or Kinds of Excommunication are 1. THE Niddui the lowest sort as some think a separation or casting out of the Synagogue for about thirty Days during which time the Party was not to come within four Cubits either of Man or Woman nor to dress or trim himself as at other times yet admitted to instruction and divine Service Might be more severely punished his Son might be denied Circumcision his Dead not buried according to the Contumacy of the Person Excommunicated The Form was this N. Let him be excommunicated 2. The Shammatha the same with Maranatha as some think Mr. Selden thinks 't is the same with Niddui This was a total Exclusion from the Church a blotting them out of the Book of Life and not permitting them the least Communion in things of publick Religion and the word Shammatha they interpret the Coming of the Lord to take Vengeance on the Excommunicate It was never pronounced but when the Offender became desperate 3. The Cherem when the Offender within 30 days gave no sign of Amendment This was so dreadful and direful in our Saviour's time that many principal Jews who believed on Christ durst not confess him for fear of it See the Form By the Decrees of Cities and Command of the Holy we Anathematize adjure exterminate excommunicate curse and execrate God being willing and his Church by the Book of the Law by the 600 Precepts therein written by the Anathema with which Joshua anathematized Jericho by the Curse wherewith Elisha cursed the Young Man by the Curse wherewith Gehezi cursed his Boy and by the Excommunication with which Baruch excommunicated Merozi and by the Excommunication which R. Jehuda Son of Jehezkiel used in this matter and by all the Anathemata Imprecations Curses Excommunications and Exterminations which have been made from the time of our Master Moses and since by the name of Acetheriel Jah the Lord of Hosts Michael the great Prince by the name of Mittatron whose name is as the name of his Master by the name of Sandalipon who ties the bands of the Lord by the name of the 42 Letters by his name who appeared to Moses in the Bush by the name with which Moses divided the Sea by the name I am what I am by the mystery of the name Tetragrammaton by the Scripture that was written upon the Tables by the name of the Lord of Armies Sabath the God of Israel sitting upon the Cherubim By the name of the Spheres and Circles and Living Creatures Saints and Ministring Angels By the name of all the Angels which wait on the most High God Every Israelite and Israelitess who willingly and knowingly violates any of those laws which are now denounced to be observed Let him be Cursed of the God of Israel who sits upon Cherubim Let him be Cursed by the Bright and Glorious name which the High Priest in the day of expiation expresseth with his mouth Let him be Cursed by Heaven and Earth Cursed from Almighty God Cursed of Michael the great Prince Cursed of Mittatron whose name is as the name of his Master Cursed of Acetheriel Jah the Lord of Hosts of the Seraphim and of the Orbs of the Holy Animals and Angels who wait before the most High God of Israel in Holiness and Purity If he was born in the month Nisan which the Angel Vriel as the Prince of the Classes under which it is governs Let him be Cursed of him and all his Order and if in the month Ijar which the Angel Tzephaniel governs let him be Cursed of him and all his order c. Let him be Cursed of the 7 Angels set over the 7 weeks and of all their order and helping power Let him be Cursed of the 4 Angels which govern the 4 Seasons of the year Cursed of the 7 Palaces Cursed of the Princes of the Law by the name of the Crown and the name of the Seal Let him be Cursed of the great God strong and Bright Let him receive Confusion for his embraces Let him fall with swift Ruin Let God the God of Spirits put him under all Flesh Let God the God of Spirits lay him prostrate to all flesh Let the wrath of the Lord and Violent whirlwind fall upon the head of the wicked Let the Destroying Angels run upon him Let him be Cursed in every thing that he puts his hand to Let his Soul depart in Terrour Let him dye of the Quinsey Let not his breath come or go Let him be smitten with a feaver Dryness the Sword Rottenness the Jaundise Neither Let him be deliver'd from them before Destruction Let his sword enter into his own heart And let his Bows be broken Let him be as the dust before the wind and the Angel of the Lord scattering them Upon him shall rest all the Maledictions written in the Book of this Law and the Lord shall blot out his name from under Heaven Also the Lord shall separate him for mischeif out of all the Tribes of Israel to all the Curses of the Covenant written in the book of this Law But you who adhere to the Lord your God are all alive this day He that blessed Abraham Isaac Jacob and Moses and Aaron David and Solomon and the Prophets of Israel and those who are Pious among the Nations let him bless all this Holy Congregation except the man that hath violated this Anathema and so let it be his will and Decree Amen Dr. Addison Prsent state of the Jews in Barbary N. B. Samaritans were Excommunicated by sound of Trumpet and Singing of the Levites Ross Christians Greek A Form of the Greek Excommunication If they restore not to him that which is his own and possess him peaceably of it but suffer him to remain injured and damnifyed Let him be separated from the Lord God Creator and be Accursed and Unpardoned and Undissolvable after Death in this World and in the World to come Let Wood stones and iron be dissolved but not They. May they inherit the Leprosy of Gehazi and the Confusion of Judas may the Earth be divided and devour them like Dathan and Abiram may they Sigh and Tremble on Earth like Cain and the wrath of God be upon their Countenances may they see nothing of that for which they labour and beg their bread all their days may their works possessions and
services be accursed always without effect or success and blown away like Dust May they have the Curses of the Holy and Righteous Patriarchs Abraham Isaac and Jacob of the 318 Saints who were the Divine Fathers of the Synod of Nice and of all other Holy Synods And being out of the Church of Christ let no man administer unto them the things of the Church or bless them or offer sacrifice for them or give them 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the blessed bread or Eat or Drink or Work with them And after Death let no man bury them in penalty of being under the same state of Excommunication For so let them remain until they have performed what is here written Paul Ricaut Esq Abissine A Form of Excommunication among the Abissines And let him be accursed by Addirion and Actariel by Sandalpkon and Hadarmel by Ansiciel and Patchiel by Seraphiel and Zeganzael by Michael and Gabriel and by Raphael and Meschartiel and let him be interdicted by Trantzeviv and Haweheviv He is the great God and by the seventy names of that great King and on the behalf of Tzortak the great Ensign-bearer c. Job Ludolph l. 3. c. 5. They as the Jews think to tertify with uncouth and harsh words Idem Mr. Ross saith that in answer to the Degrees of Excommunication among the Jews the Greeks had their 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 2. ' 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 3. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Latins had their 1. Abstenti 2. Excommunicati 3. Anathemata N. B. Mr. Ricaut tells us that among the Greeks Excommunication is granted upon light occasions and is either expressive of the party with his name and condition or indenfinite of any person guilty of such crime Yet it is of high esteem and dread among them For they relate as sad and various stories of Judgments befallen the Excommunicated dying so as if they were still nourished in the Coffins and haunted the Countries as we do of witches Apostates are not received into the Church among the Greeks unless they have first sought it earnestly with tears and signifyed their desire by forty days fasting with bread and water and continual prayer night and day Those few Christians that after Apostasy to Turcism return do confess with extream danger of dying for it P. Ricaut Esq Western Christians In England we have several degrees or kinds of Censures as 1. Minor Excommunicatio exclusion from the Lord's Supper 2. Major Excommunicatio exclusion from the Society of Christians not only in spiritual duties but in temporal affairs and this if it continue 40 days is pursued with the King 's writ de excommunicato capiendo and then to prison without bail 3. Anathematismus for obstinate Heresy done by the Bishop Dean and Chapter 4. Interdictum a prohibition of all Divine offices Christian burial sacraments c. 5. Publick Penance the delinquent standing in the Church-Porch with bare head bare feet in a white sheet and a white rod in his hand c. See more in the present state of England part 2d Creeds Modern Jews Art 1. I Believe with a true perfect faith that God is the Creator whose name be blessed Governor and Maker of all Creatures and that he hath wrought all things and shall work for ever Art 2. I believe with a perfect faith that the Creator whose name be blessed is one and that such an unity as is in him can be found in no other and that he alone hath been our God is and for ever shall be Art 3. That the Creator is not Corporeal nor to be comprehended with any bodily properties and that no bodily essence can be likened to him Art 4. That the Creator is the first and last and that nothing was before him and that he shall last for ever Art 5. That the Creator is to be worshipt and none else Art 6. That all the words of the prophets are true Art 7. I believe with a perfect faith that the prophecies of Moses our master may he rest in peace were true that he was the Father and Chief of all the wise men that liv'd before him and shall live after him Art 8. That all the law which at this day is found in our hands was delivered by God himself to our master Moses God's peace be with him Art 9. The same law is never to be chang'd nor any other to be given us of God whose name be Blessed Art 10. That God whose Name be Blessed understands all the Thoughts and Works of Men As it is Written in the Prophets He fashions their Hearts alike he understands all their Works Art 11. That God will recompence good to those that keep his Commandments and will Punish those who transgress them Art 12. That Messiah is yet to come and although he retard his coming yet I will wait for him till he come Art 13. That the Dead shall be restored to Life when it shall seem fit to God the Creator whose Name be Blessed and Memory Celebrated world without end Amen The Creed Dr. Addison presents us with out of Sepher Ikkarim or Book of Fundamentals put in writing by Moses Ben Maimon a Corduba Jew A. D. 1104. And tho not set down in their Service-Book yet they begin their Mattins with it and utter it with a hollow tone different from the other Service Christians I Believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth And in Jesus Christ his only Son our Lord Who was Conceived by the Holy Ghost Born of the Virgin Mary Suffered under Pontius Pilate Was Crucified Dead and Buried he Descended into Hell The third day he rose again from the Dead He ascended into Heaven And sits on the Right Hand of God the Father Almighty From thence He shall come to Judg the Quick and the Dead I Believe in the Holy Ghost The Holy Catholick Church The Communion of Saints The Forgiveness of Sins The Resurrection of the Body And the Life Everlasting Amen This is commonly ascribed to the Apostles as the first Compilers but by general Confession and Testimony of Ecclesiastical Writers is very Antient Saving that those words He Descended into Hell are not of so old a Date the first place it being found in being the Church of Aquileia in the Fourth Century Dr. Pearson Gaurs 1. I Believe in God maker of the World 2. That he sent Ebrahim zer-ateucht his Prophet Son of Azer a Carver by Trade and Doghdon who upon the appearance of an Angel overspreading her Face with a Celestial Light Conceived the Prophet aforesaid 3. That the Birth of this Child was known by Astrologers and told to the King Nebrout who thereupon caused all the Women with Child through all his Domininions to be slain 4. That this Child laugh'd so soon as he was Born because he was to Triumph in the Hearts of the People 5. That the Father in fear confessed to the King the King going about to slay the Child with a Sword his