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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

commands or not to do it at their perill But secondly if in our whole course we manifest Zeal for God Zeal joyned with knowledge and carried on with discretion If we propose the honour of God as our principal aim and end and make Love Charity Long-suffering Gentlenesse Goodnesse meeknesse modesty temperance to shine in our lives that it may be said of us in Particular non tantum praedicat sed vivit that we live as well as preach for then do we preach the truths of God as we should when we endeavour to live up unto those duties our selves which in our exhortations we commend to others Briefly if we live though not without failings yet without scandal in not giving any just cause of offence unto others whatsoever they may say or think of us and thus we must labour to live we deserve to suffer without pitty if we do not so that we may be inculpabiles though not inculpati not meriting the least blame though we must look to be blamed by some who will not passe a right judgment of us how good soever our deservings are the way to heaven being as well through evil as good report and hence it comes to pass that many times while we are most faithful we are most foully used by scornes and contumelies put upon us which we must gather up and keep together as so many jewels hereafter to adorn our Crowns In the mean time be very well content to be the drunkards songs rather then their Companions To suffer any wrongs from others rather then do the least unto any To carry chearfully the reproaches of wicked men to heaven rather then their applauses to hell In a word if we be 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 blamolesse though not sinlesse for so we cannot be while our bodies are cloathed with flesh but if we walk by rule evenly carefully Circumspectly we are most injuriously dealt withal if we be denyed any of those respects and encouragements which are due unto us And further if there be no way to attain Salvation but only in and through the merits of Jesus Christ all those who presume to name the Name of the Lord Jesus should behold much beauty in the face of them which proclame these glad tydings especially if they consider what fair Characters are put upon them by Almighty God both in the old and new Testament In the Old Testament called the strength of a Kingdom and the excellency of their strength The Chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof 2 King 13. 14. see Ezek. 24. 21. so it is said of the godly Levites the Ministers of that time that they strengthned the Kingdom of Judah and made Rehoboam strong 2 Chron. 11. 17. and so they do all places besides wheresoever they are In the new Testament they are called Ministers of Christ and stewards of the Mysteries of God 1 Cor. 4. 1. Ambassadors for Christ 2 Cor. 5. 20. c. and God hath promised to be with his faithful Ministers and Messengers alway unto the end of the world Mat. 28. 20 to be with them in respect of themselvs by his presence and assistance and to be with them either in mercy or judgement in respect of others which do or do not entertain their Messages and he that heareth you heareth me and he that despiseth you despiseth me saith Christ Luk. 10. 16. All which promises well considered and duly regarded might remove far from us many causes of just complaining which now we have and may make us take up the complaints of one of the Ancients and say ad quae tempora reservati sumus and to repeat it over and over again Oh to what times are we reserved In what daies do we live For that people in East India two principal causes of their more accurat walking compared with others may be these First because they keep close unto those principles most of them founded in the book of Nature which are given them in charge to walk by And secondly because the currant of justice run very quick in these parts as I have observed before But for us of this Nation I need not enquire into the causes and reasons of the most fearful miscarriages and of the many many evils committed amongst us they lye so open unto every knowing and observing mans understanding and therefore they want no great discovery Only I shall take liberty to repeat some of them which are first more general and then those which are more special and particular And first the general and Principal cause of all the evil in this and consequently of every nation under heaven hath its Original from that masse of Corruption that poysoned fountain which hath infected the whole world or from that leaven which hath sowred the whole lumps of mankind Ne mali fiant times Nascuntur Every one is born bad as well as becomes so● Sin sticking more close to mans nature then his skin doth to his flesh And that Original guilt like a fretting leprosie hath eaten into the manners of all corrupting the whole man in all the parts of his body and in all the faculties of his Soul The Persons of our first Parents defiled their Nature But ever since the Nature of every one defiles his person Whence the hearts of all are evil from their youth estranged from the womb and go astray assoon as they are born Now secondly for those causes which are more special and particular of the increase and groweth of wickednesse in this Nation they proceed much from the want of restraint upon people who are so naturally apt to wander out of the way that dare take any unfit and unlawful liberty they please to take An eye and a sword make a fit embleme to expresse Magistracy an eye to observe and watch and a sword to chastise some and to support and defend others But when this eye is dim or sleepy then justice must needs faintly draw her breath When Canker and r●st growes upon the sword of Authority for want of use and thence cries out against him who should otherwaies manage it for bearing the sword in vain as Canker and rust doth from the covetous mans silver and Gold Ia. 5. 3. and is a witnesse against him it is a principal cause why the qualities and dispositions of so many people amongst us who cannot go without a Reine are so invaded and vitiated nay quite overthrown It is a good and a true saying Qui non vetat peccare cum possit jubet those which are in Power contract the guilt of all those sins upon themselves which they might restrain in others but do not The great sin of Eli otherwise a good man for which he paid dear because when his sens made themselves vile he restrained them not 1 Sam. 3. 13. All which the poor indulgent Father there saith unto his l●wde sons was why do ye such things for I hear of your evil doings by all the people nay my sons