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A10231	Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... The fourth edition, much enlarged with additions, and illustrated with mappes through the whole worke; and three whole treatises annexed, one of Russia and other northeasterne regions by Sr. Ierome Horsey; the second of the Gulfe of Bengala by Master William Methold; the third of the Saracenicall empire, translated out of Arabike by T. Erpenius. By Samuel Purchas, parson of St. Martins by Ludgate, London.	Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.; Makīn, Jirjis ibn al-ʻAmīd, 1205-1273. Taŕikh al-Muslimin. English.; Methold, William, 1590-1653.; Horsey, Jerome, Sir, d. 1626.	1626 (1626)	STC 20508.5; ESTC S111832	2,067,390	1,140

eighteene Cubits depth whereinto the water of Nilus is conueyed by a certaine sluce vnder the ground in the midst whereof is a Pillar marked also with eighteene Cubits to which Officers for the purpose resort daily from the seuenteenth of Iune to obserue the increase which if it amount to fifteene Cubits and there stay it doth portend fertilitie and how much ouer or vnder so much lesse abundance In the meane time the people deuoutly exercise Prayer and Almes-giuing And after the price of victuals especially of Corne is proportionably appointed for the whole yeere The Cities and Townes of Egypt whiles this inundation lasteth are so many Ilands Master Sandys writes that it begins to arise with the arising Sunne on the seuenteenth of Iune swelling by degrees till it mounts sometimes foure and twenty Cubits but that the vttermost Heretofore seuenteene was the most that it attayned to presented by that Image of Nilus hauing seuenteene children playing about it brought from hence by Vespasian and dedicated in his Temple of Peace still to bee seene in the Vatican at Rome That yeere when he was there it did rise at Cairo three and twentie Cubits about two miles aboue the Citie at the end of old Cairo in the beginning of August they cut the bankes for sooner it would destroy the vnreaped fruits the Bassa himselfe in person giuing the first stroke a world of people attending Boates or in Pauillions on the shoare with night triumphs and reioycings welcoming in the Riuer into the Land diuers dayes together The Bassa feasts three dayes in the Castle of Michias In the nights their many lights placed in buildings erected of purpose for this solemnity make a glorious shew These lights are said to succeed the Deuillish Sacrifices of a young Man and a Mayd wonted to be offered at this time to Osiris and Isis euery night they haue fire-workes Euery Turke of account hath a gallant Boat adorned with Streamers Chambers and the Lights artificially set to represent Castles Ships Houses or other formes in the day making Sea-fights others practising like exercises on land The soyle is sandy and vnprofitable the Riuer both moystening and manuring it Yea if there dye in Cairo fiue thousand of the plague the day before yet on the first of the Riuers increase the plague not only decreaseth but meerely ceaseth not one dying the day after which we haue elsewhere ascribed to the Sunnes entrance into Leo. The land is otherwise a very Desart as appeared two yeeres together when Cleopatra raigned Nilus not ouer-flowing and in Iosephs seuen yeeres of famine the Riuer being part of Pharaohs Dreame by which he stood and out of which the fat and leane Kine ascended And thus sayth Herodotus The Land of Egypt doth not onely owe the fertility but her selfe also vnto the slimy increase of Nilus for raine is a stranger in this Countrey seldome seene and yet oftner then welcome as vnwholesome to the Inhabitants Pharus by Homer mentioned farre off in the Sea is now adioyning to the Continent The mouthes or falls of Nilus numbred by the Prophet Esay and other in old times seuen and after Plinie who reckoneth the foure smaller eleuen are now as Willielmus Tyrius out of his owne search testifieth but foure or as other Writers but three worthy of consideration Rosetto Balbicina Damiata where the saltnesse of the earth and shels found in it may seeme to confirme Herodotus opinion that Nilus hath wonne it from the Sea which Goropius laboureth to confute Aristotle g doth not onely auerre the former opinion with Herodotus but addes that all the mouthes of Nilus except that of Canopus may seeme to be the labour of men and not naturall Channels to the Riuer HONDIVS his Map of Egypt AEGYPTUS §. II. The diuision of Aegypt and the great workes of their Ancient Pharaos EGypt was anciently diuided into Thebais Delta and the Region interiacent and these subdiuided into sixe and thirty Nomi which we call Shires whereof Tanete and Heliopolite were the assignement of Iacobs Family them called Goshen from whence Moses after conducted them into Canaan as Strabo also witnesseth The wealth of Egypt as it proceedeth from Nilus so is it much increased by the fit conueyance in the naturall and hand-laboured channels thereof Their haruest beginneth in Aprill and is threshed out in May. In this one Region were sometimes by Herodotus and Plinies report twenty thousand Cities Diodorus Siculus sayth eighteene thousand and in his time three thousand He also was told by the Egyptian Priests that it had beene gouerned about the space of eighteene hundred yeeres by the Gods and Heroes the last of whom was Orus after whom it was vnder Kings vntill his time the space almost of fifteene hundred yeeres To Herodotus they reported of three hundred and thirty Kings from Menas to Sesostris The Scripture whose Chronology conuinceth those lying Fables calleth their Kings by one generall name Pharao which some interprete a Sauiour Iosephus saith it signifieth authority and maketh ancient mention of them in the dayes of Abraham Some begin this Royall computation at Mizraim If our Berosus which Annius hath set forth were of authoritie hee telleth that Cham the sonne of Noah was by his father banished for particular abuse of himselfe and publike corruption of the World teaching and practising those vices which before had procured the Deluge as Sodomie Incest Buggerie and was therefore branded with the name Chemesenua that is Dishonest Cham in which the Egyptians followed him and reckoned him among their gods by the name of Saturne consecrated him a Citie called Chemmis The Psalmes of Dauid doe also thus intitle Egypt The land of Cham which name was retayned by the Egyptians themselues in Ieromes dayes Chemmis after Diodorus was hallowed to Pan and the word signifieth Pans Cit●●'s in Herodotus his time it was a great Towne in Thebais hauing in it a Temple of Perseus square and set round with Palme-trees with a huge porch of stone on which were two great statues and in it a Chappell with the Image of Perseus The Inhabitants want not their miraculous Legend of the Appatitions of their god and had a relique of his a sandale of two cubits which hee sometimes ware they celebrate festiuall games in his honour after the Greeke manner Herodotus also mentioneth an Iland called Chemmis with the Temple of Apollo in it Some say Thebes was called in their Holies Chemia or Chamia and all Egypt was sometime called Thebes Lucan saith the Egyptians were the first that had Temples but their Temples had no Images Their first Temples are reported to haue beene erected in the time of Osiris and Isis whose parents were Iupiter and Iuno children to Saturne and Rhea who succeeded Vulcan in this Kingdome They built a magnificent Temple to Iupiter and Iuno and two other golden Temples to Iupiter Coelestis and

further the Priests hindrances Ceremoniall was the third Tithe as dependant on the Temple and Feasts The Fourth Iudiciall as reliefe to the poore of that Iewish state whether Leuites or Lay-man in their seuerall habitations But if any lust to fill themselues with matter of this argument let them reade what hath beene written by Master Selden and his Antagonists which maintaine the portion of Leui in the Euangelicall Priest-hood against his Historie of Tithes seeming by way of Storie to vndermine it Wherein Sir Iames Sempills labours that I mention not many of our owne more interessed deserue honorable mention in all Leui's Tents and to all his generations §. III. Of their Personall Offerings and of their and our Ecclesiasticall Reuenues BEsides First-fruits and Tithes they payed to the Treasurie personall offerings as Exod. 30.12 Euery man payed halfe a shekel which the Hebrewes interpreted to be perpetuall for the maintenance of the Sacrifices others temporarie then onely put in practice As for that collection 2. King 21. made by Ioas for the repayring of the Temple and that after by Nehemiah Chap. 10. the circumstances shew much difference This Treasurie in regard of this Poll-money grew very rich as appeared in Crassus robbing the same often thousand talents at one time besides a great beame of gold which Eleazarus the Treasurer vpon Crassus his Oath afterwards violated neuerthelesse to redeeme the rest deliuered to him weighing three hundred Mina euery Mina being two pounds two ounces and a quarter Troy Tully and other Authors mention these Oblations of the Iewes to their Treasurie yeerely These Gifts and offerings the Law exacted they performed many other also either of their free-will or of Vow otherwise little differing from the former Leuitici vltimo Many other Ceremonies of their meates garments fastings Trumpets and in other cases I hope I shall haue leaue to omit in this place and remit him that would further know of them to the Scripture it selfe hauing pointed out the principall But by this is apparant which Doctor Downam hath obserued that all these being deliuered them in the Lords Treasurie without their labour or cost together with their eight and fortie Cities assigned them amounting to a farre greater proportion for the maintenance of that small Tribe then all the Bishoprick Benefices Colledge-lands or whatsoeuer other Ecclesiasticall endowments and profits in this Land although the prophane Ammonites or hypocriticall Cloysters had neuer conspired to shaue off our beards and our garments by the Buttocks not leauing to couer our nakednesse or their shame And yet how sicke is Ahab for Naboths Vineyard And would GOD we had no Iezabels to play the too cunning Physicians in this disease Let me haue a little leaue to say no more then others for the substance in bookes and Sermons haue said alreadie although those Bellies to whom we speake haue no eares The first stroke that wounded vs and causeth vs still to halt was from Rome The mother of abominations and whoredomes Here as in the suburbs of Hell were founded the Churches Ruines Our Bulls of Bashan Abbey-lubbers and Cloysterers with the leaden hornes of those Romane Bulls haue pushed downe our Churches our Chauncels at least and made them to fall into those Cages of vncleane Byrds the Popish Monasteries Of nine thousand two hundred eightie and foure Parishes in England after Master Camdens account three thousand eight hundred fortie fiue were it is properly termed impropriated And who knoweth whether those Appropriations did not supplant their Supplanters and dispropriate them of that which in a iuster proprietie was giuen them in their first foundations for that three-fold maintainance of themselues of learning and of the poore yea happily yet if we obserue the course of Diuine Iustice we may see many whose former inheritances haue by the addition of these as of a contagious garment beene infected and haue either died or beene sicke at the least of this plague The Arke when it was in Dagons Temple because imprisoned in an Idoll-Temple brake Dagons neck and when it was thence translated to their Cities they also were filled with diseases Our Arke hath thus dealt with the Temples and cannot well brooke the Cities and Lay-hands which imprison or if they will appropriate it O that they would once send it home where it should be How fitly and fully doe those words of Habacuk agree to the houses founded for Religion by this and like irreligion peruerted and at last subuerted They coueted an euill couetousnesse to their houses they consulted shame to their owne houses by destroying many people and sinned against their owne soules The stone hath cryed out of the wall and the Beame out of the Tymber hath answered it Woe vnto him that buildeth a Towne with blood and erecteth a Citie by iniquitie Thus we see the stones haue cryed out of their walles indeede and by their demolished heapes may receiue Labans name Iegar schadutha the heape of witnesse their ruines remayning testimonies of GODS iudgements A violent streame saith Master Camden breaking through all obstacles hath rushed out vpon the Ecclesiastick state of this Land and ouerwhelmed to the worlds wonder and Englands griefe the greatest part of the English Clergie with their most beautifull buildings and those riches which the Christian pietie of the English had from the time of their first Christianitie consecrated to God were as it were in a moment dispersed and if I may so say prophaned And let not our Temporall men pretend inheritances and humane Lawes in these things of diuine right For how can Kyrkes so called as 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 that is the Lords houses before giuen vp by solemne consecration into diuine possessions with their liuings become humane without surrender of the owner or satisfaction to him As the word since hath receiued a double aspiration so the things themselues a doubling and deceiuing alteration wherby we haue robbed our GOD as in Malachie he complaines worse then the heathen which he there iustifies and which in that extreme Aegyptian famine alienated all Lay possessions but wanted this Aura sacra fames sacri left the Priests Lands inuiolated which yet were very large as in our Aegyptian Relations shall appeare Poore Vzzah offered in a good intent which I also thinke of many which were forward in suppression of Religious houses in the daies of King Henrie and of other Church lands in King Edwards time but GOD accepted not such zeale and he by his vntimely fates left the name to the place Perez Vzzah vntill this dvy Nor did King Henry long enioy that his Ecclesiasticall purchase or long continue much wealthier by it but was forced to base monies before his end that I speake not of the short raigne of King Edward his sonne that vertuous Prince whose times rather then his holy hands caused the desolations of the Chauntrie lands and how many other vanished away in

Seth the sonne of Adam who affirme that two men being created in the beginning and the Angells dissenting the faeminine power preuailed in heauen for with them are males and females gods and goddesses Eue perceiuing that brought forth Seth and placed in him a Spirit of great power that the aduersaries powers might be destroyed Of Seth they say that Christ should come of his stock yea some of them conceiue him to be the very Christ The Heliognosti called also Deuictaci worshipped the Sunne which said they knew all the things of GOD and yeelded all necessaries to men Others there were which worshipped Frogges thereby thinking to appease Diuine Wrath which in Pharaohs time brought Frogges vpon the Land of Aegypt He reckoneth the Accaronites which worshipped a Flie of which else where is spoken as also the Thamuzites of Thamuz which hee saith was the sonne of a Heathen King whose Image the Iewish woman worshipped with teares and continuall sacrifices and that Pharao which ruled Aegypt in Moses time was of that name Astar also and Astarot he saith were Kings of Syria and Aegypt worshipped after their deaths But perhaps more truely we haue expressed these things in our former booke Beniamin Teudelensis speaketh of a sect in his time which he calleth Cyprians and Epicures who prophaned the euening before the Sabbath and obserued the euening of the first day I might adde to their sects the diuers Christs or Messiases which in diuers ages they had but that I haue referred to the tenth Chapter CHAP. IX Of the Samaritans IT remaineth to speake of the Samaritan Sects Samaria was the Citie royall of the ten Tribes after that Omri who as other his predecessors had raigned before at Ticzah had bought the Mountaine Shomron of one Shemer for two talents of siluer and built thereon this Citie which he called after the name Shemer Lord of the Mountaine In vaine therefore is it to seeke the name of the Samaritans from the signification of the word which is keeping seeing they are so called of the place and the place of this their ancient Lord It remayned the chiefe seate of the kingdome as long as the same endured and namely till the dayes of Hoshea their last King in whose time Salmanasar the Assyrian carried the Israelites thence Esarhaddon the son of Senacherib otherwise called Osnappar thus saith Hezra and therefore Epiphanius was deceiued in ascribing this act to Nabuchodonosor in the time of the captiuitie fortie yeeres before the returne sent to inhabite that Region Colonies from Babel and from Cuthan and from Aua and from Hannah and from Sepharuaim Babel is knowne Cutha and Aua are esteemed parts of the desart of Arabia the other of Syria and Mesopotamia It seemeth that most of them were of Cutha because all of them after passed into that name and were of the Iewes called Cuthaei as witnesseth Iosephus Elias Leuita giueth the same reason and addeth that a Iew might not say Amen to a Samaritans or Cuthans blessing The Cuthi saith he were the subtlest beggers of all men in the world and from them as he thinketh came those cosining Roging Gipsies or Egyptians which so many ages haue troubled so many countries of Europe These Heathens serued not the Lord and therefore the Lord sent Lyons among them which slew them wherefore they sent to the King of Assyria who sent thither one of the captiued Priests of Israel to teach them how to worship GOD Epiphanius calleth his name Esdras He dwelt at Bethel and as some conceiue taught rather that Idolatrous worship whereof Bethel had beene before the Beth-auen where Ieroboam had placed his golden Calfe then the true worship of the True Iehouah Howsoeuer euery Nation saith the Text made them gods and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made The men of Babel made Succoth Benoth and the men of Cutha made Nergal and the men of Hamath Ashima and the Auims Nibhaz and Tartak and the Sepharuams burnt their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech their gods Thus they feared the Lord and serued their gods after the manner of the Nations and so continued A mungrell Religion begotten of a bastard or haereticall Iudaisme and wilde Paganisme What those gods were it is vncertaine and interpreters agree not Of Succoth Benoth is already spoken Wolphius interpreteth Nergal a wilde Hen Ashima a Goate Nibhaz a Dogge Tarkak an Asse Adramelech a Mule Anamelech a Horse Thus saith he the Hebrewes expound them and hee supposeth these creatures were among them canonized and sacred as the Persians are said to worship a Cock the Proembari of Africa a Dog other people other creatures Some are of opinion that Nergal was that continuall fire which these Cuthaeans after the Persian manner kept in their Pyraeths places inclosed for that purpose as in our Persian relations shal follow and Kimchi saith that Adramelech had the forme of a Peacock Anamelech of a Pheasant But neither are the trifling RR. too far to be trusted nor haue we any other good testimonie Thus their Religion continued till after the returne of the Iewes from captiuitie to whom they would haue beene officious helpers in building of the Temple which being refused they be came their enemies and hindred a building the long time But the Temple being built and Religion established among the Iewes and their state flourishing Sanballat gaue his Daughter Nicaso to Manasses the brother of Iaddus the high Priest in the time of Darius the last Persian Monarch This Nehemiah mentioneth but deigneth not to name him affirming that he chased him from him of which some descant whether it were by exile or excommunication or some other punishment R. Salomo interpreteth it of exile Pelican of excommunication Drusius hath a discourse out of a Iewish Author which relateth the forme of that first Anathema and iudiciall curse not vnmeete here to be mentioned denounced against the Samaritans for hindring the worke of the Temple Zorobabel and Ioshua saith hee gathered all the Congregation into the Temple of the Lord and brought three hundred Priests and three hundred Trumpets and three hundred Bookes of the Law and as many children and sounded And the Leuites singing and playing on instruments cursed with all kindes of Anathema's the Chutheans in the secret of the name Tetragrammaton and in writing written vpon Tables and with the Anathema of the house of the higher iudgement and the Anathema of the house of the lower iudgement that none of Israel should eate the bread of the Cuthean whereupon it is said He which eateth a Samaritans bread be as he that eateth Swines flesh and that a Cuthean should not bee a Proselyte in Israel nor should haue part in the Resurrection of the dead Thus they writ and sealed and sent vnto all Israel which were in Babylonia which heaped vpon them