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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A45281	An account of the famous Prince Giolo, son of the King of Gilolo, now in England with an account of his life, parentage, and his strange and wonderful adventures, the manner of his being brought for England : with a description of the island of Gilolo, and the adjacent isle of Celebes, their religion and manners / written from his own mouth.	Hyde, Thomas, 1636-1703.; Giolo, Prince of Gilolo, b. ca. 1662.	1692 (1692)	Wing H3872; ESTC R1979	23,672	30

nine thousand Years God divided into three parts and holding up three of his Fingers ordered the Devil to choose which he would The meaning was what time he would choose to exercise his cruelty in against Mankind The Devil after a seeming pause chose the middle finger of the Three and consequently the middle Time Wherefore by the fatal necessity of this decree all humane affairs are subject to inconstancy nor can there be any settled state of things for any long duration In the first time Justice Moderation Temperance and Piety to God and man flourished when the world enjoyed Peace and Tranquility From which by the temptation of the Devil through Fase Peace and Pride falling and rebelling against God the Devil is permitted to infect and disturb the world with Vices contrary to those former Vertues as Injustice Violence Pride Lust and Avarice And all manner of Impieties both to God and Man swell to the greatest exorbitancies and consequently the effects thereof Wars Distractions and the other scourges of God as Famine Pestilence and Desolation Which God out of his infinite mercy and pity to Mankind and the World will not suffer to rage for ever but bridles the fury and malicious envy of the Devil and interposes a breathing time of happiness and tranquility Of the twelve thousand Years first decreed for the duration of the World nine hundred sixty-two remain when we expect a day of Judgement of all Mankind and the dissolution of the World And then as soon as all the dead shall have risen and received their doom the Righteous shall immediately enjoy the Heavenly Vision of God and be placed in glorious mansions proportionable to their good deeds and merits on earth and the Wicked having in their souls received condign punishment for their Sins in those several torments which were appointed them by the Angels Mehur and Vumudsittur shall at the day of Judgement also rise and their sins by the infinite mercy of God be pardoned and themselves be admitted into certain outward mansions where they shall at a distance be blessed with the Heavenly Vision only they shall be distinguished from the Just by certain Spots which shall be mark't in their Foreheads At the day of Judgement the Devil and all his Angels shall be Judged and their Kingdom utterly destroyed The World was created in this order The Heavens in forty five dayes The Water in sixty The Earth in seventy five The Trees in thirty The Creatures in eighty Man in seventy five dayes Yaxatend was the Name of our Prophet from whose death we begin our Aera which is now 1052. Years We Believe also That to do any Injury to another is a hainous crime and not to be pardoned without an equivolent Reparation That Ingratitude out-weighs at Pul 〈◊〉 almost all ones good Works especially if we presevere in it till our death We Believe a private sin against another more hainous than a publick one And that he that betrayes under the name of a Friend is certainly damn'd to the lowest of the seven Hells I have mentioned For our duty to God we are not oblig'd to many Prayers only that we make all our Actions such Fine words are not likely to prevail with God when the actions contradict his pleasure Praises we are bound to thrice every day for the benefits of preservation The past night for Food and Preservation the past day Priests we have but three in the Island one to each Kingdom who is employ'd continually in Praising the God of Heaven and Earth without any regard to the goods of this Life and when any publick benefit accrues to the whole Kingdom then this Minister appears in a pompous and solemn manner and returns in the presence of the chief of the Nation Thanks as publick as the favour Receiv'd As for other occasions we are every one his own Priest And our Parents are obliged under pain of death to instruct us in the Law of our Prophet so that when we appear before the Judges of the Country we may be able to give a full account of all its parts We are of Opinion that as Ingratitude weighs heavier than an abundance of good Works so Generosity and the doing good to those in distress will countervail all the ill Actions of our Life provided they be not injurious to our Neighbours in wronging them in their Estates Possessions and Reputations 'T is an offence against our Laws also for the same are the Laws of our Religion as of our State for any Parent for any interest whatever to force the Inclinations of their Children that so as they have no other bond but Love the Husbands and Wives might continue together during their Life with Pleasure and Content and beget Children that should inherit the Virtues and Beauties of their Parents who are led to Generation by the Dictates of Love not Duty Dissimulation in Love is accounted an unpardionable fault and which by our Laws is Punishable when discovered which after possession cannot well be hid Parents are obliged to give Satisfaction for all the Crimes their Children commit till they die because if they gave them a severe and virtuous Education they would not be subject to such extravagances and Masters that are cruel to their Servants are obliged to be publick Slaves for a proportionable time till they are better instructed in the chances of Human Life Servants that are refractory and disobedient are put to death as are all Rebels without any Tryal every Man being free to destroy such disturbers of the Publick Peace Thus Sir I have given you an account of the State and my Birth and Place of Nativity and wish you cou'd dispense with a more particular account of my Life because it will set before my eyes the remembrance of what I have been and render my present Captivity the more insupportable The Merchant gave the Company a particular account of all the Prince had said which my Friend took in Short-hand and then begged him to press Giolo to give them an account of his Life and adventures since by his unwillingness to relate them made them suppose contain'd something extraordinary and surprizing The Dutch-man tho' not so desirous of hearing any more as the rest was yet prevailed upon to solicite the common satisfaction which with some importunities he obtained And thus the Prince begun I have already informed you that the Isle of Gilolo is divided into three parts which were once three distinct Kingdoms and that my Fathers Predecessors had subdued one of the other two in the third that is called Batachina Verghad an Old Warlike Prince that had lost all his fourteen Sons in the Wars and incursions that had been made into his Country by the Kings of 〈◊〉 who had formerly great part of that Kingdom in their Possessions but by the Prowess of this Prince were driven out and after many attempts to recover their sooting there finding it to no purpose gave it over tho' in