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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

thou hast somewhat of the carriages of this people in life Now after death some of them talk of Elyzian fields such as the Poets dream'd of to which their Souls must passe over a Stix or Acheron and there take new bodies Others of them think that ere long the World will have an end after which they shall live here again on a new earth Some other wilde conceivings of this people follow afterward Some Bramins have told me that they acknowledge one God whom they describe with a thousand eyes with a thousand hands and as many feet that thereby they may expresse his power as being all eye to see and all foot to follow and all hand to smite offenders The consideration whereof makes that people very exact in the performances of all moral duties following close the light of Nature in their dealings with men most carefully observing that Royal Law in doing nothing to others but what they would be well contented to suffer from others Those Bramins talk of two books which no● long after the Creation when the World began to be peopled they say were delivered by Almighty God to Bramon before spoken of one of which books they say containing very high and secret and Mysterious things was sealed up might not be opened the other to be read but onely by the Bramins or Priests And this book thus to be read came after as they further say into the hands of Br 〈…〉 of whom likewise something before and by him it was communicated unto Ram and Permissar two other fam'd Prophets amongst them which those Heathens do likewise exceedingly magnifie as they do some others whose names I have not Now that book which they call the Shester or the book of their written word hath been transcribed in all ages ever since by the Bramins out of which they deliver precepts unto the people They say that there are seven Orbi above which is the seat of God and that God knows not small and petty things or if he do regards them not There have been Philosophers of the like minde who madly thought that Almighty God had no regard of humane affairs For which very thing Tully though an Heathen doth most highly condemne them The Peripateticks housed the Providence of God above the Moon and thought that it had no descent beneath the Circle thereof to intend inferiour things and businesses The Atheists in the Psalm who say that there is no God inferre from hence how can God see what do the Epicures in Job say lesse or Eliphaz speaking in their names Job 22. how can God know can he judge through the dark clouds the clouds hide him that he cannot see and Chap. 24. 14 15. he brings in the murderer and adulterer acting their parts with much boldnesse confidence and presumption upon this false ground that no eyes see them for if they did believe the contrary then certainly they would not dare to do what they do which shews that there is a very Atheisme in the hearts of most men which makes them not afraid to do that in the presence of an all-seeing God which for fear or shame they durst not do in the sight of a little Childe Averroes a Spanish Phisician that he might seem to be mad with reason by reason goes about to exempt and with-draw smaller things from the sight and providence of God as if it were most injurious to bring down the Majesty of God so low thinking that the knowledge and understanding of God would become vile if it were abased by taking notice of mean and inferiour objects A very strange opinion as if a looking-glasse were deformed because it represents deformities Or the Beams of the Sun defiled because they fall upon dunghils and other filthy places or the Providence of God vilified who though he hath his dwelling so high yet he abaseth himself to behold the things in heaven and in earth Psal 113. 6. As he spake the word in the beginning so all things were made Gen. 1. thus ever since he sustaineth and beareth up all things by the power of that word Heb. 1. His Creation was the Mother to bring things forth his Providence the Nurse to bring them up His Creation a short Providence his Providence a perpetual Creation The first setting up the frame of the house the second looking to the standing and reparations thereof And therefore I will bring in Tully again to gain-say and condemne those forenamed mad opinions who in his first book de naturâ deorum tells us that the Providence of God reacheth usque ad Apium For 〈…〉 que perfectionem to the husbanding of Bees and Pis 〈…〉 ir●s And in his eight book on the same subject where speaking against the Epioures and Atheists of that age he saith curiosus plenus negotii Deus that God is a curious God exquisite in all things and full of businesse So far he an Heathen could see and so much say But a Christian that knows more can speak further that God is not a carelesse an improvident God or a God to halves and in part above and not beneath the Moon as the Syrians dreamed upon the mountains and not in the valleys but he is a God in lesser as well as in greater matters Who beholds at one view all places and all persons and all things And as our times are in Gods hands so he takes notice of every thing done by us in every minute and moment of our time He knowing all things not as they appear but are simplici notitia as the Schools speak with a sure certain exact knowledge Thus he takes notice of every sin that is committed and of every circumstance in sinning He saw the ●ins of the whole World in the book of his eternity long before the foundations of the World were laid He sees them in every mans breast before his hands commit them I knew thee saith God before thou camest forth of the Womb Jer. 1. 5. And God tells Israel that he knew what they meant to do long before they came out of the land of Egypt the consideration whereof may curb and confound all those that say God shall not see This Providence of God did reach to the handfull of Meal and the cruise of Oil in the poor Widows house 2 King 4. And so it reacheth to the Calving of Hindes to the feeding of young Lions and Ravens to the falling of Sparrows on the ground to the numbring of our hairs as to every thing beside But to return again to that people the Hindoos I spake of and these circumscribe God to place and further conceit that he may be seen but as in a m●st afar off but not near They further believe that there are Devils but so fettered and bound in chains as that they cannot hurt them I observed before the tendernesse and scr●ple which is in very many of that people in taking the lives of any inferiour and mee●ly sensible I of