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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

comfort in those their frequent performances in that great duty He answered that I needed not to trouble my selfe with that for they found as great comfort as they could desire in what they did And presently he would needs inferr this Relation There was said hee a most devout Mussleman who had his habitation in a great City where Mahomet was zealously professed and that man for many yeares together spent his whole day in the Mosquit or Church in the mean time he minding not the world at all became so poor that he had nothing left to buy bread for his family yet notwithstanding his poor condition he was resolved still to ply his devotions and in a morning when he perceived that there was nothing at all left for the further subsistence of himselfe and houshould tooke a solemne leave of his wife and Children resolving for his part to goe and pray and dye in the Mosquit leaving his family if no relief came to famish at home But that very day he put on this resolution there came to his house in his absence a very beautifull young man as he appeared to be who brought and gave unto his wife a very good quantity of Gold bound up in a white Napkin telling her that God had now remembred her husband and sent him his pay for his constant paines taken in his devotion withall charging her not to send for her husband for though he had taken such a solemne leave of her that morning yet he would come home to her againe that night and so he departed from her The woman presently bought in some necessaryes for her house for they had eaten up all before and further made some good provision for her husband against his coming home in the evening for so he did and finding all his family very cherefull and merry his Wife presently told him that there had been such a one there as before described and left so much gold behinde him with that fore mentioned message delivered with it Her husband presently replyed that it was the Angel Gabriel sent from God for the Mahometans speak much of that Angel and he further added that himselfe had nothing to bring home unto her but a little grett or sand which he tooke up in his way homeward and bound it in his girdle which he presently opening to shew her it was all turn'd into pretious stones which amounted unto a very great value in Money The Seventh part of which as of his gold likewise he presently gave to the poore for said he a Mussleman is very charitable and then inferrd that if we doe not neglect God God will not forget us but when we stand most in need of help will supply us Vnto which conclusion we may all subscribe leaving the premises which are layd downe in that story unto those that dare believe them The Mahometans say that they have the Bookes of Moses but they have very much corrupted that story in ascribing that to Ishmael which is said of Isaac Gen 22. as if Ishmael should have beene sacrificed not Isaac of which more afterward They say that they have the Booke of Davids Psalmes and some Writings of Solomon with other parcels of the old Testament which if so I believe a made much to vary from their original They speak very much in the Honour of Moses whom they call Moosa Calim-Alla Moses the publisher of the minde of God So of Abraham whom they call Ibrahim Carim-Alla Abraham the Honored or Friend of God So of Ishmael whom they call Ismal the Sacrifice of God So of Iacob whom they call Acob the blessing of God So of Joseph whom they call Eesoff the betrayed for God So of David whom they call Dahood the Lover and prayser of God So of Solomon whom they call Selymon the wisdome of God all expressed as the former in short Arabian words which they sing in ditties unto their particular remembrances And by the way many of the Mahometans there are called by the names of Moosa or Ibrahim or Ismal or Acob or Eesoff or Dahood or Selymon so others are called Mahmud or Chaan which signifies the Moone or Frista which signifies astarre c. And they call their women by the Names of Flowers or Fruits of their Countrey or by the names of Spices or Odours or of pearls or precious Stones or else by other Names of pretty or pleasing signification As Iob named one of his daughters Jemimah which signifies Cleare as the day the second Keziah which signifies pleasant as Cassia or sweete spice And the name of the third Keren-happuch signifying the Horne or strength of beauty Iob 42. 14. But I 'll return again to that people that I may acquaint my reader with one thing of speciall observation and t is this That there is not one among the Mahometans of any understanding which at any time mentions the name of our blessed Saviour called there Hazare● Eesa the Lord Christ but he makes mention of it with high Reverence and respect For they say of Christ that he was a good man and a just that he lived without sin that he did greater miracles than ever any before or since him nay further they call him Rha-how-Alla the breath of God but how he should be the Son of God cannot conceive and therefore cannot believe Perhaps the Socinians first tooke that their opinion from these which bids them to have every thing they receive as truth to be cleered up unto them by the strength of Reason as if there were no need of the exercise of faith And truly I must needs confess that to beleeve the Incarnation of the Son of God is one of the hardest and greatest taskes for Faith to encounter withall that God should be made a Man that this Man Christ should be born of a Virgin that Life should s●ring from Death and that from Contempt and Scorne Triumph and Victorie should come c. But Christians must bind up all their thoughts as to these in that excellent meditation of Picus Mirandula saying Mirandam Dei Incarnationem c. concerning that admirable and wonderfull Incarnation of Christ the Son of God I shall not say much it being sufficient for me as for all others that look for benefit by Christ to believe that he was begotten and that he was born These are Articles of our Faith and we are not christians if we believe them not It may seem very strange therefore that the Mahometans who understand themselves better should have such a very high esteem of our Blessed Saviour Christ and yet think us who profess our selves Christians to be so unworthy or so uncleane as that they will not eat with us any thing that is of out dressing nor yet of any thing that is dressed in our vessels There are more particulars which challenge a roome in this Section as their proper place but because I would not have it swell too bigg I shall here part it and speak

the palm of his hand long by a mistake took the poysoned Pi●● himself and gave him the other which Pill put the King immediately into a mortal flux of bloud which in few dayes put an end to his life in his ●itie Lahore Neque enim lex justior ulla est Quam necis artifices arte perire sua When some to kill most deadly engines frame 'T is just that they themselves be caught it 'h same Achabar Sha thus dead Sultan Coobsurroo his Grand-Childe then aged about twenty years took his opportunity at the first bound and ascended the Regal Throne at Lahore where by a general Acclamation of that very great and populous City he was pronounced and acknowledged King His Father the late Mogol was thus acknowledged at Agra Two great Armies were presently levied and meet together to decide the controversie and the generality of the people within that Empire thinking it meet that the Father should be King before the Son clave by far more to him then to his Son by which means Sultan Coobsurroo was defeated and taken prisoner and a very great many of young Gallants with him whereof his Father immediately after caused to be impaled or put upon Stakes that most cruell and tormenting death eight hundred in two severall ranks in one day without the City Lahore and then carried his Son most disgracefully through them bidding him to behold the men in whom he trusted His Son told him that he should have serv'd him so and spared the other who did nothing in that action but upon his command his Father replyed that he could serve him so presently if he so pleased his Son wild and desired him so to do telling his Father that he had no joy at all to live after the beholding of so many gallant men dead Notwithastanding the King spared his life casting him into Prison where his eyes were sealed up by something put before them which might not be taken of for the space of three years after what time that seal was taken away that he might with freedom enjoy the Light though not his Liberty And after his Father had taken him out of Prison he kept him alwaies near about him but with a very strong guard upon him so that he following the King his Father in his Progresses we sometimes saw him And once he called my Lord Ambassadour to him as we passed by him asking him many questions as how far distant our Country was from them and what we brought thither and what we carried thence and how the King his Father had used him since his arrive there whither or no he had not bestowed upon him some great gifts The Ambassadour told him that his business there was to obtain a free trade for his Nation the English and that being granted him he had reward enough The Prince replyed that this could not be denyed us we coming so far to trade there with him and the Prince further asked him how long he had been there the Ambassadour told him about two years the Prince replyed again that it was a very great shame for the successor of Tamberlane who had such infinite Rules to suffer a man of his quality to come so far unto him and to live so long about him and not to give him some Royall gift and he further added that for himself he was a Prisoner and therefore could do him no good but he would pray for him and so he departed For that Prince he was a Gentleman of a very lovely presence and fine carriage so exceedingly beloved of the common people that as S●●tonius writes of Titus he was Amor Deliciae c. the very love and delight of them Aged then about thirty and five years He was a man who contented himself with one wife which with all love and care accompanied him in all his streights and therefore he would never take any wife but her self though the liberty of his Religion did admit of Plurality It was generally beleeved to be the intent of his Father for he would often presage so to make this Prince his first-born his successor though for the present out of some jealousie his being so much beloved of the people he denyed his liberty His Fathers love brings upon him the extream hatred of his Brother Caroom the Mogals third Son who then lived in very great Pomp and splendor at that Court ayming at that Empire to which end he put many jealousies into his Fathers head now grown in years concerning his Brother Coobsurroo and that his Father might live more secure and out of all present fear of him if he so pleased upon which insinuations partly by force as I observed before and partly by intreaty of friends about the King he was by the King put into the Cruel hand of his Brother Caroom who told his Father that he would have both his eyes upon him and further so provide that he should never have cause to fear him any more and he was as good as his word for presently after he had gotten possession of him tho●gh his Father had given him as great a charge as possibly he could to use him well and to keep him honourably and by no means to hurt him which was all promised by Caroome to be faithfully observed he caused his second Brother Sultan Parveen to be poysoned and not long after that strangled that most gallant Prince his eldest Brother which did so trouble his Father that the grief thereof as it was strongly beleeved shortned his days who not long after this much against his mind made room for that murderer to succeed him in that Empire who layd the foundation of his high advancement in the blood of his Brothers and rather than he would have missed it would certainly made a way through the blood of his Father likewise All Laws of honesty of Nature by him thrown down trampled under foot forgotten and made void to compass and gain his most unjust ends as if he resolved to practise that language which Polynices out of the height of Ambition spake in the Tragedy Pro Regnovelim Patriam Penates Conjugem flammis dare Imperia Precio quolibet constant bene Sen. Trag. Fire on my Gods Wise Country for a Crown An Empire can the dearest price weigh down But whatsoever he might think I am sure that the holy Scriptures are stored with examples that have fallen heavy upon usurpers and resisters of lawfull Authority as upon Corah and his Confederates swallowed up quick into the Earth Upon Zimri burnt in his Palace which he had but immediatly before usurped Upon Absolon hangd by his hairy Scalp As Achitophel in an halter Certainly they who ever they be that come to rule upon hard and unjust tearms shall first or last live to rue and to repent their bargain as Ahab did in another case after he had kild and taken possession And as the Emperours of this large spreading and far extended Monarchy have been