Selected quad for the lemma: christian_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
christian_n	baptism_n	circumcision_n	infant_n	1,521	5	9.8764	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A41248	A description of the whole world with some general rules touching the use of the globe : wherein is contained the situation of several countries, their particular and distinct governments, religions, arms, and degrees of honour used among them ... / by Robert Fage, Esq.	Fage, Robert.	1658 (1658)	Wing F83; ESTC R16870	29,927	77

weep and mourn over the bodies of their dead daubed over with dung they hold it a great impiety to burn or bury them but having embalmed them they lay them in so me inner room the men keep at home for the house-hold business the women follow merchandise and affairs abroade the men carry burdens upon their heads and the women upon their shoulders a witty and ingenious people the first inventers of Geometry Arithmetick Physick Astronomy Nec●omany and Sorcery yea they found out the very use of letters The Christians among them differ from all other Christians first using circumcision with baptisme Secondly conferring all orders under priesthood on infants immediately after baptisme their parents till they come to sixteen years of age performing what they promised in their behalf to wit chastity fasting on Wednesday and Friday and the four Lents of the year Thirdly reputing baptisme not to be of any efficacy except ministred by a priest in the open Church in what extremity soever Fourthly yet not baptising any children till the fortieth day though they die in the mean time Fifthly giving the Lords Supper to infants as soon as christened Sixtly contracting marriages in the second degree without dispensation Seventhly not observing the Lords day nor any Festivals except in cities Eighthly reading the Gospel writ by Nicodemus They differ from the Papists in these things first administring the Lords Supper in both kinds secondly with leavened bread thirdly admitting neither extreme unction nor the Lords Supper to those that are sick fourthly nor Purgarory not prayer for the dead fifthly not using elevation in the act of administring and sixthly accounting the Roman Church for he ●etical and esteeming the Latines no better then the Iews Mount Atlas is a ridge of hils of exceeding height and of no small length it is above the clouds and is alwayes covered with snow in the midst of summer full of thick woods and against Africa so fruitful that it affords excellent fruits of its natural growth not planted grafted or inoculated with the hand of man Lybia hath mount Atlas on the north by which it is parted from Barbary and Asrenaca on the east with Lybia Marmarica interposed betwixt it and Egypt and part of Ethiopia superior or the Abassine Empire on the south with Ethiopia inferior and the land of Nigros and on the west with the main Atlantick Ocean the country abounds with dates the chief diet of the people which commonly rotteth out their teeth their goats they feed with the stones wherewith they grow fat and yield store of milk the air is so ●ound that it cureth the French Pox without any Physick the inhabitants are a base and vile people thieves murderers treacherous and ignorant of all things feeding most on dates barley and carrion counting bread a diet for holidayes their garments of the coursest cloth so short that they cover not half the body the richer sort wear a jacket of blew cotton with great sleeves they ride upon camels without stirrup or saddle a leather thrust through an hole made in the nose of the camel serves them for a bridle and to save spurs they use a goade their religion is Mahome●isme The land of Negros is bounded on the east with Ethiopia superior on the west with the Atlantick Ocean on the north with Lybia Deserta and the south with the Ethiopick Ocean and part of Ethiopia inferior the country very hot by reason of the situation under the torrid zone yet very well inhabited full of people and in some places alwaies grass well watered specially where the River Niger overfloweth well stored with corn cattel and garden ware well wooded having store of beasts wild and tame they want fruit trees they have both gold and silver mines very pure the inhabitants are of little wit and destitute of all arts and sciences prone 〈◊〉 luxury and for the most part Mahometans Ethiopia superior is bounded on the east with the Red Sea and the Sinus Barbaricus on the west with Lybia inferior the Realm of Nabia in the land of Negros and part of the Kingdome of Congo in the other Ethiopia on the north with Egypt and Lybia Marmarica and on the south with the mountains of the moon it is in length a thousand five hundred miles in breadth half as much the religion of the people is they use to circumcise their children both males females Secondly they baptize the males at forty the females 80 daies after circumcision Thirdly after the Lords Supper they are not to spit till sun-set Fourthly they profess but one nature and one will in Christ Fifthly they accept only the three first General Councels Sixthly their Priests live by the labour of their own hands for they allow them nothing nor permit them not to beg Seventhly they baptize themselves every Epiphanie in lakes and ponds because that day they suppose Christ to have been baptized of Iohn in Iordan Eighthly they eat not of those beasts which in the old law are reckoned for unclean and they keep the Jews Sabbtah equally solemn with the Lords day Tenthly they minister the Lords Supper to infants presently after baptisme Eleventhly they reach the reasonable soul of man is derived from the parents by seminal propagation Twelfthly that infants dying unbaptized are sanctified in the womb by vertue of the Lords Supper received by the mother after her conception And finally they shew a book of eight volumes writ as they say by the Apostles assembled at Jerusalem for that purpose the contents therof they observe most solemnly and they differ from the Papists as the Christians in Egypt they are under the goverment of Prester Iohn and the Turk I pass by Ethiopia inferior the people being Pagans and likewise I omit the several Islands of Africa being but small because I have been so large already The chiefest cities of Africa with the names of the Rivers which are there most famous IN Barbary which containeth the Kingdoms of Fez Morocco Tremiser Algeir Tunis Tripoli and Barca there are the famous cities of Morocco Fez Tanger Telensin Oran Algeir Constantine Tunis Tripoli and Barca The Rivers there most famous are the Tensife the Ommiraby and the River of Cebus Mulvia Rio Major and the Magrida In Belledulgered which containeth the Kingdomes of Suz Daza Sagelmosse Tegorarin Bi●edulgerid and the Desart of Barca there are these famous cities Taradante Dara Segelmoss Tegorarin Zeb Billedulgerid the chiefest Rivers are the River of Sur the River of Darha and the Ghir In Egypt are the famous cities of Sabod Cairo Alexandria Rascha or Rosesta Dumietta Cosir and Surs the renowned River is the River of Nilus In the desert of Zaara are these memorable cities Zauhaga Zuenzera Targa Lemta Berdoa Gaoga and Borno In the country of the Negroes are these remarkable cities Gue Eata Gueneha Tombu Agados Cano Cassena Gangara Tula Catan or Senega Guinala Beria Melli Songo Gago Wuber Zegzog and Sanfara the Rivers here