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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A95658	A voyage to East-India. Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader. / Observed by Edward Terry minister of the Word (then student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row Knight, Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol) now rector of the church at Greenford, in the county of Middlesex.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing T782; Thomason E1614_1; ESTC R234725	261,003	580

and reade their language in written hand for as before they have no Printing Those Moolaas are more distinguished from the rest of the Mahometans by their Beards which they weare long then by any other of their habits Their calling gaines and gives them very much reverence and esteeme amongst the People as another sort of priests there have of an high order or ranke which live much retired but when they appeare openly are most highly reverenced they are called Seayds who derive themselves from Mahomet The Mahometans have faire Churches which as before are called Mosquits their Churches are built of Marble or Courser stone the broad side towards the West is made up close like a firme wall and so are both ends in which there are no lights the other broad side towards the East is erected upon Pillars where a man may take notice of excellent workemanship both in vaults and arches the spaces betwixt them pillars stand open Their Churches are built long and narrow standing North and South which way they lay up the bodies of their dead but none of them within their Churches At the four Corners of their Mosquits which stand in great Cityes or in other places much peopled the●e are high and round but small Turrets which are made open with lights every way wherein a man may be easily seene and heard their devout Moolaas five times every day ascend unto the tops of those high Turrets whence they proclaim as loudly as they can possibly speake their Prophet Mahomet thus in Arabian La alla illa alla Mahomet Resul-alla that is he re is no God but one God and Mahomet the messenger from God That voyce instead of Bells which they use not in their Churches puts the most devout in minde of the houres of their devotion those Priests being exceedingly zealous to promote the cause and to keep up the honour of their Mahomet as the men of Ephesus sometime were when they feared that the credit of their baggage Diana was like to be called into question they took up a Cry which continued for the space of two houres Crying out with one voyce greaet is Diana of the Ephesians Act. 19. 24. When a mans Religion is right he ought to be very zealous in the maintenance of it very fearefull of the hazard or loss thereof And therefore if these Mahometans or those men of Ephesus had had truth on their side they would both have deserved much commendation for what they did And so Micha too who thus complained when he had lost his jmages Judg. 18. 24. they have stol'n away my Gods and what have I more I confess that the loss of God is the greatest of all losses but those were proper Gods which Micha there bewayled that would be stol'n that could not save themselves who if the fire spare them rust or rottenness or time will consume them But those Mahometans though they doe not endure either Idoles or Images in their houses or Churches yet are they very forward to cry up their irreligion and to shew much zeale for it Zeale is derived from a word that signifies to burne it is a compound made up of many affections as of griefe joy love anger well tempered together and when it is so it hath its due commendation both of God and man and cursed is he that goes about to extinguish that holy fire that holy fire I say which hath light in it as well as Heat and heate as well as light The truth of Zeale may be further discovered of zeale that is good if we confider first the Roote from which it springs and that 's the knowledg and Love of God Secondly the Rule by which it is carryed on and acts and that 's the word and will of God and lastly the end it aymes at and intends and that 's the honour and glory of God and zeale thus ordered cannot be too violent but when for want of these it becomes irregular and shews it selfe over much in bad causes such as before were nam'd it is Cursus celerrimus sed praeter viam a swift violent motion but quite out of the way And if it be good to be zealous in a good cause then it is better to be zealous in the best and the best cause to shew zeale in is the cause of God Pro Aris Focis was the old good Proverb first to stand up for Gods rights and afterward for our owne and to believe that that vnum necessarium which our Saviour commends unto us Lu. 10 42. is that one thing principally and especially necessary though the Devill and our owne corruption will tell us if we will believe them that there is nothing more needless When Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh and spake unto him about sacrificing unto the Lord their God Pharaoh replyes yee are idle yee are idle therefore yee say let us goe and sacrifice unto the Lord Ex. 5. 17. the same Devill that there spake in Pharaoh speaks in all ignorant and prophane people who call Religion idleness and hypocrisie a strict and even walking with God singularity or a doing more then God requires us to perform But however that is most true which was spoken by Philo judeus ubi de religione ibi quoque de vita agitur we must act for religion as we would strive for life Philosophy tels us that Tactus est fundamentum animae sensitivae that the very foundation of natural life is feeling so then no feeling no life and the want of spirituall feeling argues a want too of spirituall life The poore seduced Mahometans and many others in the world are very keene and sharp and forward to maintaine that which they call Religion the more shame for those who profess themselves Christians and have a sure word to build their hope upon yet are ferventissimi in terrenis in coelestibus frigidissimi as hot as fire in earthly as cold as ice in heavenly things A sad thing to consider that so many should have their tongues bent like Bowes for lyes as the prophet Jeremy complaines Jer. 9. 37. and Christians not valiant for the truth that others should drive like Jehu furiously madly and that in the waies of error injustice oppression prophaness as in all other kinds of wickedness and Christians in the cause of God more heavily slowly like the Egyptians in the Red-Sea when their chariot wheeles were off Shall Turks and Infidels solicit bad causes so earnestly and Christians those actions which are good so faintly Acrius ad p●rniciem quam nos ad vitam make more hast to destruction then Christians to life and happiness It was St. Jeromes complaint considerare pudet quantus feruor quae cura c. That he was asham'd to consider how solici●ous some men were in earthly and how sluggish others in heavenly things as if they durst not so much as to owne the cause of God they were wont to say of cowards in Rome that there was nothing

Roman in them it may be applyed to Christians who shew no resolutions for Christ that there is nothing Christian in them they even betraying the cause of Christ while they so faintly maintain it Hardly would they dye for Christ who dare not speake for him certainly they would never be brought to afford him their blood that will not for the present afford him their breath But to returne againe to those Mahometan Priests who out of zeale doe so often proclaim their Mahomet Tom Coryat upon a time having heard their Moolaas often as before so to cry got him upon an high place directly opposite to one of those Priests and contradicted him thus La alla illa alla Hasaret Eesa Ben-alla that is no God but one God and the Lord Christ the Son of God and further added that Mahomet was an Impostor and all this he spake in their owne language as loud as possibly he could in the eares of many Mahometans that heard it But whether circumstances considered the zeale or discretion of our Pilgrim were more here to be commended I leave to the judgment of my Reader That he did so I am sure and I further believe how that bold attempt of his if it had been acted in many other places of Asia would have cost him his life with as much torture as cruelty could have invented But he was here taken for a mad-man and so let alone Happly the rather because every one there hath liberty to profess his owne Religion freely and if he please may argue against theirs without feare of an inquisition as Tom Coryat did at another time with a Moolaa and the Question which of these two was the Mussleman or true Believer after much heate on both sides Tom Coryat thus distinguished that himselfe was the Orthodox Mussleman or true true believer the Moola the pseudo Mussleman or false true believers which distinction if I had not thought it would have made my Reader smile had been here omitted The Mahometans have a set forme of prayer in the Arabian tongue not understood by many of the common people yet repeated by them as well as by the Moolaas they likewise rehearse the Names of God and of their Mahomet certain times every day upon Beads like the miss-led Papists who seem to regard more the Number then the weight of prayers Certainly Will-worship is a very easy duty and if Almighty God would be as much pleased with it as man is so much of that service would not be quite lost But in those services wherein God is highly concern'd to rest in the performance of any duty when t is done or any other way to fayle in the manner of doing it makes those services which some may esteeme holy no better then Sins Prayers an Abomination there being a vast difference twixt saying of prayers and praying of prayers twixt the service of the head and that of the heart prayer and prayer heedefull circumstances considered differing as much as Religion and Superstition But for the carriage of that people in their devotions before they goe into their Churches they wash their feet and entring into them put off their shooes As they begin their devotions they stop their eares and fix their eyes that nothing may divert their thoughts then in a soft and still voyce they utter their prayers wherein are many words most significantly expressing the Omnipotency and Greatness and Eternity and other Attributes of God Many words likewise that seeme to express much Humiliation they confessing in divers submissive gestures their owne unworthiness when they pray casting themselves low upon their Face sundry times and then acknowledg that they are Burdens to the Earth and poyson to the Ayre and the like being so confounded and asham'd as that they seeme not to dare so much as to lift up their eyes towards Heaven but after all this comfort themselves in the mercyes of God through the mediation of Mahomet If this people could as well conclude as they can begin and continue their prayers in respect of their expressions and carriages in them they might find comfort but the conclusion of their devotions marrs all Yet this for their commendation who doubtless if they knew better would pray better that what divorsins and impediments soever they have arising either from pleasure or profit the Mahometans pray five times a day The Mogol doth so who sits on the Throne the shepherd doth so that waits on his flock in the field where by the way they doe not follow their flocks but their flocks them all sorts of Mahometans doe thus whether fixed in a place or moveing in a journey when their times or hours of Prayer come which in the morning are at Six Nine and Twelve of the clock and at three and six in the afternoone When they pray it is their manner to set their Faces that they may look towards Medina neere Mecha in Arabia where their great Seducer Mahomet was buried who promised them after one thousand years to fetch them all to Heaven which terme when it was out and the promise not fulfilled the Mahometans concluded that their fore-Fathers misstooke the time of the promise of his comming and therefore resolved to waite for the accomplishment of it one thousand years more In the mean time they doe so reverence that place where the body of Mahomet was lay'd up that whosoever hath beene there as there are divers which flock yearely thither in Pilgrimage are for ever after called and esteemed Hogg●es which signifies holy men And here the thing being rightly and seriously considered it is a very great shame that a Mahometan should pray five times every day that Paganes and Heathens should be very frequent in their devotions and Christians who only can hope for good answers in Prayer so negligent in that great prevailing duty For a Mahometan to pray five times every day what diversions soever he hath to hinder him and for a Christian to let any thing interrupt his devotion for a Mahometan to pray five times a day and for one that is called a Christian not to pray some believing themselves above this and other ordinances five times in a weeke a moneth a year But this will admit less cause of wonder if wee consider how that many bearing the Names of Christians cannot pray at all those I meane which are prophane and filthy and who live as if there were no God to hear or to judg and no Hell to punish Such as these can but babble they cannot pray for they blaspheme the Name of God while they may thinke they adore it I shall adde here a short storie It happened that I once having some discourse with a Mahometan of good quality and speaking with him about his frequent praying I told him that if himselfe and others of his profession who did believe it as a duty to pray so often could conclude their Petitions in the Name of Jesus Christ they might finde much

more remote from it I shall at all not despair of my Readers pardon notwithstanding my length if he shall seriously peruse and carefully improve what he finds here written The principall end whereof was to make this Nation ashamed by many carriages of the Heathens As the Jews were provoked to jealousie by them that were not a people Deut. 32. 21. And as God instructs man by the Oxe and Ass and Stork and Turtle and Crane and Swallow and by the little Ant or Pismire Creatures which are onely sensible 〈…〉 much more they may be minded of and learn the practice of some duties from men people though strange and remote yet endued with reason It cannot be denyed but that there is a speciall use to be made in a clear sight or interview of Nations Persons Things Yet he is the best observer who strictly and impartially so looks about him that he may see through himself That as the Beams of the Sun put forth their vertue and do good by their reflection so in this case the onely way for a man to receive good is by reflecting things upon himself Therefore it was a very good precept which Plato sometimes gave unto his Scholars when they took notice of any thing bad or of an evill report which they beheld in others for every one of them presently to ask himself this question num ego feci tale have not I done the like A Christian must put the Question further in asking his own heart may not I do the like for there is nothing so bad acted by one but another left to himself may commit the same so long as the seed and spawn of every sin the rankness of corruption by reason of the pravity of mans nature is lodged in every soul When the Prophet Elisha with tears running down his Cheeks told Hazael that he should be King and being so what mischief he should do to Israel a● that he should set their strong holds on fire slay their young men with the sword dash their children and rip up the women with child Hazael replyes but what num quid servus tuus Canis am I thy servant a dog that I should do this great thing 2 Kings 8. 3. As if he had said can I be so forsaken of humanity as to do such monstrous and prodigious things as these yet he lived to do them And so have others to act such things as they would long before have heard with abhorrency if they had been told them doing things in the present which future times would not beleeve could ever be done And we shall have cause by fa● less to wonder at this if we consider that the very best in the whole cluster of mankind left to themselves without curb or rein to keep them in order may become as base as bad as the worst upon earth as the most wretched in Hell Yet to see Nature very much refined in many Heathens and to observe it again to lye so mixt amongst all its lees and dregs in as many if not in thousands more of those who profess themselves Christians is a thought which cannot pass by those who love and pray for the increase of Christs kingdom without much sorrow and sadness to attend upon it The Consideration whereof as of many other things wherein the due and deserved commendations even of those very Heathens reflects shame upon us enforceth me least I should be like those Bottles in Job 34. that were ready to burst for want of vent enforceth me I say having my Pen in my hand to expatiate and to let out my thoughts much further I confess than the rules and bounds proper to be observed in an Historicall Narration can well bear Yet however I shall take liberty in this my last Section to enquire into some causes and reasons why those Heathens compared with us but a wilderness should be so fruitfull in many Morall good performances and we compared with them a Garden enclosed should be so barren and fruitless And while I shall thus enlarge my self I would not be looked upon as one altogether out of my way though I be here found more at home than abroad more in England than India This Narrative in some foregoing passages hath taken notice of some Mahometan precepts as of others delivered by those Heathens to be as Rules for their followers to walk by Now for the Doctrin of Christianity which we profess it is that which teacheth a man to look for true and eternall happiness by Christ alone there being no other Name under Heaven given amongst men whereby they may be saved Acts 4. 12. No way under Heaven but onely by and through Christ Jesus and by him alone And therefore we must not look after another new way as for a new Christ a new passion a new resurrection or the like And here Reader let us sit down a little and suffer our thoughts to be taken up with that I called before matter of serious and sad I and of admirable consideration They who have curiously surveyed the world and the severall Nations which inhabits it have divided the Inhabitants thereof into thirty parts whereof nineteen are Heathens six are Mahometans and five are Christians by which account and I conceive that there is a good proportion in it if all the people which possess the whole face of the earth were numbred there would be but one in six so much as to bear the name of a Christian And to make up this Number we must take in all Christs retainers throughout the world who do but bear his Name as well as those which be his household Servants As all those poor superstitious blind Abissins in Ethyopia as also all those which inhabite Georgia and the two Armenia's under the Tyranny of the Turk and King of Persia of whom something before in my first Section now with some of those poor souls I have conferred and could never hear any thing from them unto any purpose onely they would tell me they were Christiano's but why they were so I perswade my self that they could not render any thing like a good reason their whole Christianity I fear almost all of it lodged as before in their very Name To these we must adde the Russians and the Muscovites who are most sottishly ignorant for one of their Churchmen being asked how many Evangelists there were answered that he did not well know but he thought four and when others have been asked such obvious and easy questions that a very child might make answer too they would reply that they could not give an answer unto it themselves But God and their great Duke knew all things Now as they are a most ignorant so are they a most treacherous prophane filthy and an Idolatrous people But further all those beside that bear the Names of Christians in the world as the Iacobites and the Maronites inhabiting Palestina the Greek and the Romish Church with all others bearing that name