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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

a Roopee in our money two shillings and nine pence he thanked me for it and would have taken it with his right but I desired him to take it with his maym'd hand and so he did and could clinch it very well which I was glad of Then we did shew as we had cause all the dislike we could against that desperat act of him from whom he received his hurt telling him that we were all strangers and for our parts had done him no wrong at all and therefore hoped that we should not be made any way to suffer for the faults of another and we further told him that if he would be quiet till we came up to the Con●t he should have all the satisfaction he could desire He told us that we were good men and had done him no wrong and that he would til then rest contented but he did not so for about two houres after we met with a great man of that Countrey having a mighty train with him as al the Grandees there have when they travel of whom more afterward He presently went towards him that to him he might make his complaint and so did telling him that he was the Princes servant why he came to us and how he had been used by us shewing him his hand and his other breaches The great man replied that it was not well done of us but he had nothing to do with it and so departed on his way That night after we came to a strong large Town and placing our selves on the side of it he did what he could as we imagined to rayse up that people against us some of them comming about us to view us as we conceived but putting on the best confidence we could and standing then upon our guard and all of us watching that night but in a special manner by the good providence of God who kept us in all our journey we here felt none of that mischief we feared but early in the morning quietly departed without the least molestation After which with a little money and a great many good words we so quieted this man that we never after heard any more complaining from him So that as before I observed we were not at any time in any dangers of suffering by that people but some of our own Nation were the procuring causes of it For the people there they are generally very Civil and usually keep themselves so within the bounds of command received from their superiours over which they do not pass as that they are not apt to take fire and to throw off their voak that they might do mischief They happily considering that as in a natural so in a body Politick there must be hands and feet as well as head and shoulders all parts as well as any the defect of the least being so prejudicial to both those bodyes that they know not how to want it But for both when they are fitted with all their integral parts all members must do their several offices the foot not medling with the business of the Head further than to receive Commands from it And therefore that precept of the Apostle Ephes 6. 5. Servants be obedient unto them that are your Masters according to the flesh c. though they never learn'd it from S. Paul yet having found that lesson cleerly written even in the Law of Nature with all carefulness they remember and with all diligence they practise it as well knowing the absolute necessity of superiority and inferiority amongst men that some must give others must take command for were it not for those cords to lead some and to hamper and restrain others there were no living for men amongst men but one would destroy another as the Beasts of the field the Fowles of the Air and Fishes of the Sea do were it not for those ligaments and tyes the very sinewes and nerves of every Kingdom and Commonwealth would crack asunder and all would run into confusion I have often heard it observed of the Welsh that they are Optimi servi but Pessimi Domini ill Masters but good servants I shall not further enquire into the truth of that proverbial speech but for this people this I can affirm that they are excellent servants who are as much at the command of their Masters as the people of Israel after the death of Moses were unto Joshua Josh 1. 17. there telling him all that thou commandest us we will do or whithersoever thou sendest us we will goe Or as the Centurions servants in the Gospel were at the word of command to their Captain Matth. 8. 9. who if he bad them go they went if come they came if do this or that they did it So these if they be commanded to carry letters of a sudden many miles distant from one place to another they yield obedience in this as to all other the commands of their Masters without regret or dispute not objecting against but doing the wills of those that imploy them Before I observed that for the generality of this people they have very low and timorous spirits but there are some I named in my last Section who are stout daring men as the Baloches Patans and Rashbootes who as they have the honour above all the rest of the people in those large Provinces to be accounted valiant so as occasion is offered they will shew themselves so to be and therefore they are much hyred as Convoyes to secure mens Persons and goods from place to place For those Provinces they are not without Mountains of prey and Tabernacles of Robbers as David and Job speak where desperate men keep in some woods and deserts which are not far from great road-wayes most frequented used and there like the wild Arabs in Companies meet and spoyl and destroy poor passengers when they expect them not it being the cursed manner of those spoylers if they prevail against them whom they surprise to kill them before they rifle them and therefore the first thing heard from them is Mor mor mor that is Kill kill kill which they all speak out as loud as they can We were often told of them as we travelled sometimes in the night by reason of the extreme heat of the day after we had taken leave of the King and so wer jour journeying towards Surat that we should meet with those cruell villans but through Gods mercy we were never in danger of them but once and that was about midnight neer a large City called Brodera but we being a competent number of English men together about twenty and all of us resolved to fell our lives at as dear a rate as we could and having twice so many Indian servants with us which are very nimble with their Bows and Arrowes we with our Pistols and Carbines which we presently discharged amongst them and our Indians plying them with their arrowes made them suddenly to retreat we receiving little hurt from them but after this

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

that their King is about to leave them to remove out of the Hive and be gone Strife and Division in Religion is a sad presage that either God hath or else is about to leave a People It is a principle in Nature that vis unita fortior Strength united receives more strength and Experience shews that Planks and Timber well joyned together make a Ship but disjoyned they cause shipwrack So connexion of Stones and other materialls make an House but dissipation of them a ruin So Agreement of Christians builds up the Church Dissention amongst them pulls it down To him that demanded why Sparta had no Walls the King thereof shewed Citizens well arm'd and unanimous unanimity in the profession of the truth of Religion would make it impregnable Division and subdivision are Tearmes that have their use in Arithmetick but they are dangerous to be heard of in Religion This way therefore and that judgment and the other opinion or perswasion can never repair but make more breaches still in the Church of Christ and I fear that much lesse than half an age will make the Church in this Nation most sadly to feel and to rue the truth hereof for as God is one so is his will one and his way one and oh how happie were it for Christians if they could get into keep in that way How many exhortations have we in the sacred book to peace and unitie live in peace and the God of peace shall be with you How are they reproved in scripture that walk disorderly or are unruly both Metaphors taken from Souldiers that have their severall stations assign'd them and if they break their rankes it is very dangerous Let the same mind be in you which was also in the Lord Jesus saith the Apostle not the like but the same not another but the same And the same Apostle sets a marke upon those which cause divisons And if they shall be called the Children of God who are makers of peace they must look out for another name who are the breakers and disturbers thereof in this Church wherein we live where the connivencie at some whose opinions were thought lesse dangerous hath been unhappily made Genus Generalissimū from whence all the errors that have been heard of late in this Nation have taken their rise for while liberty was given to some it was taken by others and from hence it is come to passe that all those Ancient heresies recorded by Irenaeus and Epiphanius and others which we hoped had been long since buried in forgetfulness have in these late times of liberty I say been raked up out of their corruption revived and with new faces and glosses put upon them presented to this Nation in Printed booksPunc● and have been preached by some and applauded by others and defended by more to the endangering of the very life and soul of Religion and the utter overthrow of true Godliness here amongst us It was well resolved by good and reverend Calvin ne decem quidem maria c. that it would not grieve him to sayle over ten Seas about a uniform draught in the profession of Religion Other particular men have wished and I believe most heartily that all these impertinent and unprofitable differences about uniformity in the profession of Religion which so much disturb the peace of the Church of Christ were buried in their Ashes Oh how many are led away with perverse disputings a people of uneven unquiet unpeaceable and untractable spirits quite fall'n off from their first Principles revolted and gone so wedded to their own opinion as that there is no reasoning with them for whatsoever can be said to the contrary they will be sure to hold their conclusions they being wiser in their own conceits than seven men that can render a reason And that great opinion they have of their own wisedome that love and likeing they have to their own false way makes them uncapable either of Counsel or cure they peremptorily refusing to return into the way of truth Many of these have abundance of error which proceeds from their own Pride and ignorance setled in their hearts as Solomon saith Pr. 22. 15. a child hath folly bound up in his heart and in regard that all reasonings and disputings in this case with them will do no good for we leave them still where we first found them it were very well for such and much better for the Church of God in this Nation if the Rod of Discipline and correction were long enough and smart enough to drive it thence Yet the greater part of these pretend conscience for what they do when indeed as before it is the Pride of their hearts the ignorance and darkness of their minds together with the perve●sness of their wills which carries them into and keepes them in errour For the conscience and will they are both lodged together in the same soul and therefore may be easily mistaken or taken one for the other as they have often been and still are by people of this Nation wherein we live whence it comes to passe by the righteous judgment of Almighty God that very many here amongst us in these later times have been given up their sin being part of their punishment to believe and to be led away with lies because they would not entertain the truth Now whereas the people in general of those remote parts honour and reverence a Church●an and for that very reason because he is so these before named men of corrupt minds cannot endure us who are the called and allowed minister and publishers of the truth of God and meerely for our office sake bestowing on us all termes of obliquie and scorn they can possibly invent esteeming us as that blessed Apostle St. Paul and other good men of his time were accounted by some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 4. 13. which properly signifieth filth or dirt scraped off mens shoes we are made saith the Apostle as the filth of the world and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day as if we were the very offall or filth of manking unworthy so much as to have being upon the face of the earth And whereas again the Mahometans and heathens give their Priests not only honour but cōfortable maintenance without all grudging there are very great numbers amongst us being very much led away by principles of worldly minded ness coveteousness cannot abide us for our maintenance sake not cōsidering how that they who preach the Gospel must live by the Gospel and that by Divine right we have an honourable maintenance allowed unto us by Almightie God as it is most cleere by many passages of the new Testament as well as the Old And by the Laws of the Land wherein we live we have as great a civil right to what we may challenge from the people for our livelihood as any that would deny it us hath either to his bread or shirt Yet this is contradicted