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A58938	A Seasonable prospect for the view and consideration of Christians being a brief representation of the lives and conversations of infidels and heathens, in our age, as to religion and morality : together with some reflections thereupon, in relation to us who profess Christianity : to which is now added many of the wise and vertuous sayings of the ancient heathens / by a gentleman.	Gentleman.	1691 (1691)	Wing S2239A_VARIANT; ESTC R34065	38,938	60

with Sorrow moderate They are not lost but gone before where Fate Disposeth all and we in order must One after one be turn'd to the same dust We meet at the same Inn by several ways And in another World shall see new days And as to their Tartarus or Hell Virgil having begun to relate some of the infernal Torments passes over the rest in silence because of their multitude declaring that though he had one hundred Mouths and as many Tongues and a Voice of Iron yet should he not be able to recite so much as their Names I shall draw to a Conclusion and make use of the words of a late worthy Author That indeed Moral Vertues were never so establish'd by the Light of Reason as they are by the Laws of the Gospel and our Obedience endeared to us by nobler Promises than the Pagan Philosophy were ever made acquainted with and these Promises attended with all the Motives of Credibility and likewise enforced under severer Penalties than either Virgil or Homer in all their Romantick Description of Elyzium or Tartarus ever dreamt of Nor is there in all the Ethicks of the Grecians or Romans such an Inducement and incentive to practical Obedience as the Incarnation of the Son of God That God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son to die for us that we might not perish but have eternal Life nor such a matchless Patern of universal Vertue as the Life of the ever blessed Jesus sets before us So that upon the whole we Christians that have the Light of the Gospel the sacred Writings of the Old and New Testament are more inexcusable in our Failures and criminal in our Miscarriages than those that lived under the Conduct of meer Reason were And to which let me adjoin that notable Saying of Salvian viz. After what manner is Jesus Christ at this day honoured among us Christians when the being his faithful Disciples is an Occasion to make one less esteemed of men How can the Corruption of the World come to any greater Extremity than to hold Religion for a mean and dishonourable thing when on the contrary 't is Religion only that truly deserves Honour and Regard and to which all Divine and Humane Laws have ever given great Respect and Deference yea so far that the very feigned Deities of the Heathens were thought worthy of Gold and Silver Temples when even the true God who gives all Beauty and Lustre to Gold and Silver and precious Stones is scarcely honoured by us within Stone Walls Alas as another Author tells us The great Wisdom of many in our times consisteth only in getting Money the grand Antichrist of the World which in the very Letter of the Text they exalt above God and Religion But a wise man saith Seneca studies rather to fill his Mind than his Coffers And may I conclude with these serious Cautions of Seneca and Virgil. That Kingdom saith Seneca is in an unstable and cottering Condition where Impudence abounds and where is no regard of Religion Justice Fidelity and Integrity Discite Justitiam moniti non temnere Divos saith Virgil. Be admonished and learn Righteousness and cease to contemn God and Religion any more ERRATA PAge 37. l. 3. r. saith Seneca p. 39 l 1. for presenting r. prosecuting p. 41. dele the 10th line Books Printed for and Sold by Luke Meredith at the Angel in Amen-Corner Books written by the Reverend Dr. Patrick now Lord Bishop of Chichester THE Christian Sacrifice A Treatise shewing the Necessity End and Manner of receiving the Holy Communion together with suitable Prayers and Meditations for every Month in the Year and the principal Festivals in memory of our blessed Saviour In Four parts The Ninth Edition corrected The devout Christian instructed how to pray and give thanks to God Or a Book of Devotions for Families and particular persons in most of the Concerns of humane Life The Eighth Edition in Twelves And Advice to a Friend The Fourth Edition in Twelves The Glorious Epiphany with the devout Christian's Love to it in Octavo The Book of Job Paraphras'd in Octavo new The whole Book of Psalms Paraphrased in Octavo Two Volumes The Proverbs of Solomon Paraphrased with Arguments to each Chapter which supply the place of Commenting A Paraphrase upon the Books of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon with Arguments to each Chapter and Annotations thereupon in Octavo The Truth of Christian Religion in Six Books written in Latin by Hugo Grotius and now Translated into English with the Addition of a Seventh Book against the present Roman Church in Octavo Search the Scriptures A Treatise shewing that all Christians ought to read the Holy Books with directions to them therein In Three Parts A Treatise of Repentance and of Fasting especially of the Lent Fast In Three Parts A Discourse concerning Prayer especially of frequenting the daily publick Prayers In Two Parts A Book for Beginners or a Help to Young Communicants that they may be fitted for the Holy Communion and receive it with profit Books written by Jer. Taylor D. D. and late Lor● Bishop of Down and Connor THE Rules and Exercises of holy Living and holy Dying the Eleventh Edition newly Printed in 8. The Golden Grove a Choice Manual containing what is to be believed practised and desired or prayed for the Prayers being fitted to the several days of the Week also Festival Hymns according to the manner of the Ancient Church A Collection of Offices or Forms of Prayer in Cases ordinary and extraordinary taken out of the Scriptures and the ancient Liturgies of several Churches especially the Greek Together with a large Preface in Vindication of the Liturgy of the Church of England The Second Edition in Twelves The Psalter of David with Titles and Collects according to the Matter of each Psalm whereunto are added Devotions for the Help and Assistance of all Christian People in all occasions and Necessities The Tenth Edition in Twelves Books written by the Reverend J. Goodman D. D. THE Penitent pardoned or a Discourse of the nature of Sin and the Efficacy of Repentance under the Parable of the Prodigal Son A Winter Evening Conference between Neighbours in three Parts The Old Religion demonstrated in its Principles and described in the Life and Practice thereof Boanerges and Barnabas Judgment and Mercy or Wine and Oil for wounded and afflicted Souls In Two Parts By Fra. Quarles The Tenth Edition in Twelves The Saints Legacies or a Collection of certain Promises out of the Word of God Collected for privatence but Published for the Comfort of God's People Together with the Saints Support in time of Trouble The Thirteenth Edition In 12o. Bishop Cozen 's Devotions in Twelves The Countess of Morton's daily Exercise or a Book of Prayers and Rules how to spend the time in the 〈◊〉 vice and Pleasure of Almighty God The Thirtee●●● Edition 24. THE END

me And very many times afterward when I appeared before him he still would shew tokens of Civility and Respect to me And I never went abroad among the People but those that met me upon this account that I was a Padre for so they called me a Father or Minister they would manifest by their Behaviour much Respect to me There was also as I have heard a Jesuit of very much Fame and Renown called Jeronimo Xaveria who was sent for by Achabar Sha the late King's Father 1595 to argue before him the Doctrine of Christianity there being always present during the disputation a Moolaas or Mahometan Priest and a Third Person who followed only the Light of Nature and these Two were to object what they could against the Reasoning of Xaveria The said Jesuit Xaveriá in the Mogol's own Language which was a great advantage to him began first to speak of the Creation and then of the Fall of Man in which saith the Author the Mahometans agree with us Then he laid down divers Grounds to bottom his Reasonings on viz. That Man was made by his Creation a most Excellent Creature endured with the Light of Reason which no other sublunary Creature besides himself had That Man thus endued must have some Rule or Law to walk by which he could not prescribe unto himself and therefore it must be given him from above That this Law was first given unto man from God and afterwards confirmed by Prophets sent into the World in divers Ages from God That this Law thus delivered must needs be one Law in all things agreeing in it self but so did not the Law of Mahomet That this thus delivered was most conformable to right Reason But so was not the Law of Mahomet That man fallen from God by sin was not able to recover himself from that Fall and therefore it was necessary that there should be One more than a man to do it for him and that One could not be Mahomet That this One was Christ God as well as Man God to satisfie the Mahometans themselves confessing that Christ was the Breath of God and Man to suffer death as he did That Christ the Son of God coming into the World about that great work of satisfying God's Anger against man for sin it was necessary that he should live a poor and laborious life here on Earth at which the Mahometans much stumble and not a Life that was full of Pomp and Pleasure and Delicacy That the Gospel of Christ and other holy Books of Scripture which the Christians retain and walk by contain nothing in them that is corrupt and depraved but there is very much to be found in their Alcoran which is so That the great Worth and Worthiness shining in the Person of Christ was by far more ex ellent than any thing observable in Mahomet for they themselves confess that Christ lived without Sin when Mahomet himself acknowledgeth that he had been a filthy Person That the feigned and foolish and ridiculous Miracles which they say were done by Mahomet were nothing compar'd to the Miracles done by Christ who as the Mahometans confess did greater Miracles than ever was done before or since him That there was a great deal of difference in the manner of promulgating the Gospel of Christ unto the World and the introducing the Laws of Mahomet That Christ hath purchased Heaven for all that believe in him and that Hell is prepared for all others that do not rely on him and on him alone for Salvation There were many other particulars besides these all which the King heard patiently at several times And after he had heard him One Year and half he sent him back to Goa honourably with some good Gifts telling him he would call for him again when he had a convenient time which Time or Season neither of them both ever found afterwards These Discourses with many more were given me saith the Author in Latin by Francisco Corsi a Jesuit resident at the Mogol's Court Who was a Florentine aged about Fifty Years who if he were what he seemed to be was a Man of a severe Life yet of a fair and affable disposition When he came to be first acquainted with my Lord the Embassador he told him that they were both by Profession Christians though there was a vast difference betwixt them in their professing it And as he should not go about to reconcile the Embassador to them so he told him it would be Labour in vain if he should attempt to reconcile him to us only he desired that there might be a fair Correspondency betwixt them but no disputes And further his desire was that those wide differences betwixt the Church of Rome and us might not be made there to appear That Christ might not seem by these differences to be divided amongst men professing Christianity which might be a main Obstacle and Hindrance unto the great Design and Endeavour for which he was sent thither to convert people unto Christianity there and that he should be ready to do for my Lord all good Offices of Love and Service and so he was saith the Author The Precepts of Mahomet owned in the Mogol's Country are saith the Author these that follow 1. That God is a great God and the only God and Mahomet the Prophet of God 2. That Children must obey their Parents and do nothing to displease them either in Word or Deed. 3. That every one must do to another that and only that which he would have another do to him 4. That every man five times every day must repair to the Mosquit or Church to pray there or wheresoever he is he must pray every day so often if not in the Church then elsewhere 5. That during one whole Moon or Month in every Year every man come to Years of Discretion must spend the whole day betwixt the rising and setting of the Sun in fasting 6. That every one out of his Store must give unto the poor freely and voluntarily 7. That every one except the Votaries which renounce Marriage must marry to increase and multiply the Sect and Religion of Mahomet 8. That no man must kill or shed Blood The said Francisco Corsi had not only free access unto the King but also Encouragement and Help by gifts he bestowed upon him Here the Jesuits have a Liberty to convert any they can work upon and the Mogol declared Such should not lose his Favour by turning Christians And the Author saith It was told him for a certain truth That a Gentleman of Quality and a Servant to the Mogol would needs be Baptiz'd and become a Christian Whereupon the King sent for him and both by promises and by threats strongly attempted to turn him again to Mahometanism for a tryal it seems of his constancy but he replied to the Mogol That he was most willing to suffer any thing in that Cause that the King could inflict and as for the Rewards profer'd him he