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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
cause_n	way_n	zeal_n	zealous_a	138	4	9.2564	4	false

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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

before but all in vain When distress and anguish commeth upon them then shall they call upon God but he will not hear them c. the reason follows because they hated knowledg Prov. 1. 27 28. c. because they hated and despised knowledge as Esau was said to despise his birth-right because he put no greater valuation on it I confesse that if we whose businesse it is to teach and direct others do not in the first place labour to teach and instruct our selves If we be like the statue of Mercury which pointed the way to others while it stood still it selfe Or like Watermen that look forward while they Row and move backward If we seduce or mislead our people by Error or Example If we do not manifest love and mercy and pitty to our Congregations but while we undertake the oversight of their souls either silently or else in passion or discontent tell their persons that we care not for them If we be not ready according to our abilities for to open our hands to releive the poor and having ability our doors to let in others that they may know we do not desire to eat all our bread alone If we open not our mouths to pray for and instruct all If we desire not to carry our people in our bosoms as God commanded Moses Numb 11. 12. that those under our charge may be tender and near and dear unto our affections and to this end use all winning carriages towards them that may draw their affections unto us and by loving us may be won to the love of him in whose stead we stand and whose messages we deliver If we observe not all Gospel Principles to order us as well when we are out of as when we are in our Pulpits If we study as some did in daies of persecution to defend evil actions in evil times and by depraved reason or perverted Scripture could make any thing appear lawful that might please either our selves or others If we desire more of the Serpent then the Dove and know better to flatter then to reprove If we resolve as some have done in all ages to close unto that side on which the Purse hangs as it was said of Josephs brethren but in a different case that when they opened their sacks mouths they saw their 〈…〉 ey so if it may be said of us Sacco so 〈…〉 app 〈…〉 num 〈…〉 that if the knot of our designes and endeavours be und●●e 〈◊〉 advantage worldly profit will appear and so voluntarily hamper our selves in those s 〈…〉 es the world casts in our way to e 〈…〉 ap us which in a special manner we must ●arne others to take heed of If we study wealth more then books and appear to be Bubulci potius quam pastores neatherds husbandmen horscoursers rather then shepherds and being basely and sordidly covetous care for our fleeces more then our floc●s Or if by being any other way negligent or scandalous we forfeit that respect and honour and love we might challenge and receive from others we have no cause at all to complain if we finde i● not But yet the high calling of a Minister of the Gospel deserves honour even then when the person that dishonoureth it above all others offending deserves punishment On the contrary if we the Messengers of God labour in our whole course to walk in wisedom As first by shewing all diligence in our calling that by Gods blessing upon our endeavours we may do our work with joy and not with grie● if we study to shew our selves approved unto God whatever we appear to others workmen that need not to be ashamed and so make a full proof of our ministry by speaking and pressing truths in season rightly dividing the word of God Not putting honey in the Sacrifice when we should put salt nor salt when we should put honey But wisely temper and mixe together Law and Gospel Mercy and Judgment as occasion is offered If we dare be good in bad in the worst times as those blessed Martyrs and Confessors of whom the world was not worthy in their generations were some of them making their faith to shine cleare through their flames who I say durst be good when others durst not be so but out of cowardise though they call'd it prudence did not speak out speak home speak all but betrayed the cause of God while they undertook to maintain it and were ready to censure and judge and condemn others for want of wisedom and discretion who did but their duty herein while they spoke by the pound and talent words of weight and neither knew nor in this case feared the faces of men but did boldly reprove any that durst boldly sin against God by setting up a standard in the Name of the Lord against the Abominable Pride the bold prophaness the swinish drunkeness the beastly filthynesse against the Arm'd Injustice the crying oppressions against the gross errors the damnable heresies the horrid Blasphemies as against all other provoking sins that the envy of Satan could tempt unto or the corrupt nature of man yeild unto committed in the times and places wherein they lived crying loud against them by lifting up their voyces like Trumpets and if their cries could not pierce their deafe ears that they might be left unto that cry at midnight which will one day awaken sinners with a witnesse For as Jericho was overthrown with a noise Josh 6. so every carnal heart is like a Jericho shut up it must be spoken loud unto or else it will not down The gentle spirit of Eli is not sufficient to amend children that are ungratious nor mild and gentle proceeding men that are so and therefore we must be bold when sin grows impudent and cannot blush A little more by the way Where I would have my Reader to believe that I desire to retain and manifest as many Bowels of mercy and pitty towards others as any can shew Yet howsoever I do believe this to be a truth and I am not alone in this judgement that Hereticks and dangerous Scismaticks must be compelled to do their duties if allurement wil not serve When people are and will be obstinate they must not alwaies be prayed and intreated He that hath a Phrensie must be bound And he that hath a Letbargie must be prickt up A member that is rotten must be cut off least it indanger the whole body He that hath strengthned himselfe in Heresie or Schism must violently be puld from it For some must be pulled out of the fire saved by fear discipline correction and these they whose sins proceed from wilfulnesse others must finde compassion whose faylings take their rise meerly from weaknesse Some things must be commanded as well as taught these things Command and teach 1 Tim. 4. 11. Command 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word is used Act. 5. 40. and it is a Metaphor taken from a Judge giving a charge unto others to do what he