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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

is King of the whole world hauing in the word Echad many superstitious subtilties that the letter Daleth in regard of his place in the Alphabet signifieth foure and the word Echad contayneth in numerall letters two hundred fortie and fiue whereunto adding three hael elohechem emes God our Lord is true they make vp the number of two hundred fortie and eight and so many members there are in mans bodie for euerie member a prayer secures them all And this verse thrice recited secureth against the ill spirit They esteeme it a holy prayer by which miracles may bee wrought and therefore vse it morning and euening They haue another prayer called Schone esre that is eighteene because it contayneth so many thankesgiuing which they say twice a day and the chiefe chanter of the Synagogue singeth it twice by himselfe They thinke by this prayer to obtaine remission of their sinnes They must pray it standing so that one foot must not stand more on the ground then the other like the Angels And their foote was a right foote When they come to those words in it Holy holy holy Lord God of hosts they leape vp three times aloft And hee say their Chachamim which speaketh a word during this prayer shall haue burning coales giuen him to eate after his death These eighteene thanksgiuings are for the eighteene bones in the chine or back-bone which must in saying hereof be bended After this followeth a prayer against the Iewes reuolted to Christianitie and against all Christians saying These which are blotted out that is reuolters shall haue no more hope and all vnbeleeuers shall perish in the twinkling of an eye and all thine enemies which hate thee O GOD shall be destroyed and the proud and presumptuous Kingdome shall quickly be rooted out broken layd euen with the ground and at last shall vtterly perish and thou shalt make them presently in our dayes obedient to vs Blessed art thou God which breakest and subduest them which are rebellious They call the Turkish Empire the Kingdome of Ismael the Roman Edomiticall proud c. They are themselues indeed exceeding proud impatient and desirous of reuenge The Talmud sayth That the lying spirit in the mouth of Achabs Prophets which perswaded him to goe and fall at Ramoth Gilead was none other but the spirit of Naboth whom hee had before flaine And Victor Carbensis a Christian Iew testifieth That there are not vnder heauen a more quarrelsome people themselues acknowledging the Christians farre meeker then themselues when they haue this Prouerb that the modestie of the Christians the wisedome and industrie of the Heathens and faith of the Iewes are the three pillers which sustaine the world But to returne to their deuotions After those other before mentioned followeth a prayer for the good sort for Proselytes reedifying of the Temple for sending the Messias and restauration of their Kingdome In the end they pray GOD to keepe them in peace and when they come to these words Hee that makes peace aboue shall make peace ouer all Israel Amen they goe backe three paces bow themselues downewards bend their head on the right hand then on the left if some Christian bee there with an Image they must not bow but lift vp their heart This they doe for honours sake not to turne their hinder parts on the Arke and thus they goe like Crabbes out of the Synagogue vsing certaine prayers not running but with a slow pace lest they should seeme glad that their Mattins were done Other their niceties in praying as laying the right hand on the left ouer the heart not spetting nor breaking winde vp or downe not interrupted by a King to cease prayer to shake his bodie this way and that way not to touch his naked bodie and to say Amen with all his heart for they that say Amen are worthie to say it in the world to come And therefore Dauid endeth a Psalme with Amen Amen signifying that one is to bee said heere and the other in the other world also in a plaine eminent place purged from all filth freed from the sight of women his face to the East standing his feet close together fixing his eyes on the ground eleuating the heart to heauen c. I hold it enough thus to mention Their praying to the East must be vnderstood from our Westerne parts because Ierusalem standeth that way for otherwise Rambam sheweth that Abraham prayed in Mount Moriah toward the West and the Sanctum Sanctorum was in the West which place also Abraham set forth and determined And because the Gentiles worshipped the Sunne toward the rising therefore Abraham worshipped Westward and appointed the Sanctuarie so to stand The Talmud saith Praying to the South bringeth wisdome toward the North riches I might heere also adde their Letanie and Commemoration of their Saints almost after the Popish fashion As thus for a taste Wee haue sinned before thee haue mercie on vs O Lord doe it for thy names sake and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for Abraham thy perfect one and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for him which was bound in thy porches to wit in Mount Moriah where the Temple was afterward builded and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for him which was heard in the ladder Iacob from thy high place and spare Israel thy people Lord doe it for the merit of Ioseph thy holy one c. Lord doe it for him which was drawne out of the waters Moses and spare c. Lord doe it for Aaron the Priest with Vrim and Thummim Lord grant it for him that was zealous for thy name Phineas Lord doe it for the sweet Singer Dauid Lord doe it for him which built thine house They name not any but expresse him after this sort And then proceed in like manner with the titles attributes and workes of GOD. Doe it for thy Name Doe it for thy Goodnesse for thy Couenant thy Law thy Glorie c. in seuerall versicles And then to their Saints in a new passage Doe it for Abraham Isaac and Iacob Doe it for Moses and Aaron for Dauid and Salomon as if their combined forces should effect more then single Doe it for Ierusalem the holy Citie for Sion for the destruction of thy house for the poore Israelites for the bare Israelites for the miserable Israelites for the Widdowes and Orphans for the sucking and wained and if not for our sake yet for thine owne sake Then in another forme Thou which hearest the poore heare vs thou which hearest the oppressed heare vs Thou which heardest Abraham c. With renuing a commemoration of their Saints larger then before and after some repeating the diuine titles in another tune they oppose their Saint and wicked ones together as Remember not the lye of Achan but remember Iosua forgiuing him and remember Heli and Samuel and so on in a tedious length CHAP. XVI Of their Ceremonies at home after

other Boyes carrying cups full of red Wine After them another carrieth the circumcising knife another brings a dish with sand another brings another dish with Oyle in which are cleane and fine clouts which after the Mohel applyeth to the wounds of the child These stand in a ring about the Mohel the better to marke and learne and these their Offices are bought with money by those children Some come thither also with Spices Cloues Cinnamon strong Wine to refresh if any happen to swoune These being thus assembled the God-father sitteth downe vpon one of those two seats right against him the Mohel placeth himselfe and sings the song of the Israelites and others Then the women bring the child to the doore all the congregation presently rising vp The God-father goeth to the doore taketh the child sitteth downe on his seat and cryeth out Baruch habba that is Blessed be hee that commeth in their Cabalisticall sense habba being applyed either to the eight day which is the day of Circumcision or the comming of Elias whom they call the Angell of the Couenant so they interpret the Prophet and say that Elias commeth with the Infant and sits downe on that other emptie seat For when the Israelites were prohibited Circumcision and Elias complained thus The children of Israel haue forsaken the Couenant that is Circumcision God promised him That from thence-forwards hee should be present at Circumcision to see it rightly performed And when they make readie that seat for Elias then they are bound in set words to say This seat is for the Prophet ELIAS otherwise as a vnbidden ghest he commeth not This seat remaineth for him three whole dayes together Then when the God-father holdeth the child in his lap the Mohel takes him out of his clouts and layeth hold on his member and holding the fore-skinne putteth backe the top thereof and rubbeth the fore-skinne so to make it haue the lesse sense of paine Then he taketh from the Boy the circumcising-knife and saith with a loud voyce Blessed bee thou O God our Lord King of the World which hast sanctified vs with thy Commandements and giuen vs the Couenant of Circumcision and whiles he thus speaketh cuts off the fore-part of the skin that the head of the yard may bee seene and presently hurleth it into the Sand-dish and restoreth his knife to the Boy againe taketh from another a cup of Red Wine and drinketh his mouthfull which hee presently spitteth out on the Infant and therewith washeth away the bloud and if he see the child begin to faint he spitteth out some thereof on his face Presently he taketh the member of the child in his mouth and sucketh out the bloud to make it stay from bleeding the sooner and spitteth out that bloud so sucked into the other cup full of Wine or into the dish of Sand This hee doth at least thrice After the bloud is stayed the Mohel with his sharpe-pointed thin nayles rendeth the skinne of the yard and putteth it backe so farre that the head thereof is bare Hee is more painefull to the Infant with this rending of the remaining skinne which action is called Priah then with the former This being done hee layeth the clouts dipped in oyle aforesaid to the wound and bindeth them three or foure times about and then wrappeth vp the Infant againe in his clouts Then saith the Father of the child Blessed bee thou O God our Lord King of the World which hast sanctified vs in thy Commandements and hast commanded vs to succeed into the Couenant of our Father ABRAHAM To which all the Congregation answerth As this Infant hath happily succeeded into the Couenant of our Father ABRAHAM so happily shall hee succeed into the possession of the Law of MOSES into Marriage also and other good workes Then doth the Mohel wash his bloudie mouth and his hands The God-father riseth with him and standeth ouer-against him who taking the other cup of Wine saith a certaine prayer and prayeth also ouer the Infant saying O our God God of our Fathers strengthen and keepe this Infant to his Father and Mother and make that his name in the people of Israel may bee named heere he first nameth the Child calling him Isaac ISAAC which was the sonne of ABRAHAM Let his Father reioyce in him that hath come out of his loynes Let his Mother reioyce in the fruit of her wombe as it is written Make glad thy Father and Mother and her that bare thee to reioyce And GOD saith by the Prophet I passed by thee and saw thee troden in thy bloud and I said vnto thee In thy bloud thou shalt liue yea I said vnto thee In thy bloud thou shalt liue Heere the Mohel puts his finger into the other cup of Wine wherein hee had spit the bloud and moysteneth the Childs lippes three times with that wine hoping that according to the former sentence of the Prophet he shall liue longer in the bloud of his Circumcision then otherwise he should Dauid also saith He is mindfull of his marueilous acts which hee hath done and of his wonders and the iudgements of his mouth c. Then hee continueth his prayer for the present assembly and that God would giue long life to the Father and Mother of the Boy and blesse the child This done he offers the blessed Cup to all the yong men and bids them drinke Then with the Childe who is thus made a Iew they returne to the Fathers house and restore him to his Mothers armes This last prayer he makes neere the Arke and some of the deuouter Iewes before and after Circumcision take the Childe and lay him vpon Elias pillow that Elias may touch him The skinne cast into the sand is in memorie of that promise I will make thy seed as the sand of the Sea and of Balams saying Who can number the dust of IACOB that is his posteritie whose fore-skin is cast in the Sand or Dust and because the Curse on the Serpent is thus fulfilled Dust thou shalt eat that is this skin in the dust thus to their enemie the Serpent fulfilling also that precept If thine enemie hunger feed him And by this meanes the Serpent can no more seduce this man If a Childe bee sicke on the eight day they deferre Circumcision till his recouerie they hold also the blowing of the North winde necessarie to this action and therefore thinke that their Fathers for bare circumcision those fortie yeeres in the Wildernesse because the North winde blew not all that time lest it should haue blowne away the piller of smoake and fire and besides this winde is wholsome for wounds which else are dangerous But lest they should stay beyond the eighth day expecting this Northerne breath their Talmud tels that euery day there blow foure windes and that the North is mixed with them all and therefore they may Circumcise euery day If the Child

away and they dyed whence came that custome of saluting and praying well to men in neezing The strangling of Achitophel they also interpret of this neezing farewell The fourth dayes fast is for Women which are with childe or giue sucke but the Tuesday and Wednesday in likelyhood were not ordinarie as the other Sunday might not bee thus honoured being the Christian Sabbath and Friday was the preparatiue to their owne Those two dayes are generally halfe holy-dayes Assembling earely in their Synagogues besides their ordinarie prayers they annexe many other Among others they vse one Prayer called Vchurachum of miraculous effect as appeared in Vespatians time who committing three Ships full of Iewes without Oare or Mariner to the wide Seas which arriued in three seuerall regions Louanda Arlado Burdeli worke for Geographers Those which arriued in this last port by tyrannicall Edict of the King were to be tryed whether they were true Iewes as Hananias Misael and Azarias made proofe of their Religion Whereupon three dayes being required as they said Nebuchadnezzar had granted them wherein to betake themselues to fasting and prayer in this time of respite three deuout Iewes Ioseph Beniamin and Samuel inuened each of them a prayer which they ioyned into one and continued in praying the same three dayes at the end whereof they cast themselues into the fire and there continued till it was consumed Hence arose this ordinance euery Munday and Thursday to vse the same prayer which is this And hee is mercifull and pardoning sinne doth not destroy the sinner Hee often turneth his anger from vs and doth not kindle all his wrath Thou O my God suffer me not to want thy mercie let thy gentlenesse and truth keepe mee alwayes Helpe vs O God our God and gather vs from the Gentiles c. for their restitution as in other their prayers and destruction of their enemies the Christians After this they prostrate themselues on their faces as before with many other orisons to the like effect §. II. Of their Law-Lectures THeir solemne ceremonie of the Law-lecture followeth In all their Synagogues they haue the fiue bookes of Moses written in great letters on Parchments of Calues-skins sowed together in length which at both ends are fastened to pieces of wood by which the booke may be lifted and carried This booke is kept in an Arke or Chest set in some wall of the Synagogue Before the doores of the Arke is a hanging of Tapestrie more or lesse precious according to the qualitie of their Feasts and for the most part wrought with Bird-worke The booke is wrapped in a linnen-cloath wrought with Hebrew words without that is hanged about some other cloath of Linnen Silke Veluet or Gold to which is fastened a plate of Siluer by a chayne of Gold vpon the which is written The crowne of the Law or holinesse of the Lord Then goeth one about crying Who will buy Gelilah etzchaijm This is an office whereby they are authorized to handle those pieces of wood and to open the booke of the Law Hee which giueth most for it hath it the money is reserued for the poore The pieces of wood are called etzchaijm tree of life according to Salomon Wisedome is a tree of life to them that lay holde thereon When the chiefe Chanter hath taken out the booke and goeth with it into the Pulpit they all sing out of Num. 10.35 Arise O Lord and let thine enemies bee scattered and let them that hate thee flye before thee And out of Esay 2.3 Many people shall goe and say Come let vs ascend to the mount of the Lord to the house of the God of IACOB and hee shall teach vs his wayes and wee will walke in his pathes for the Law shall goe out of Sion and the Word of the Lord from Ierusalem When this Praecentor layeth the booke on his arme hee saith Magnifie the Lord with mee and let vs exalt his name together to which all the people answer Exalt yee the Lord our God and bow before his foot-stoole for it is holy exalt yee the Lord our God and bow to the mountaine of his holinesse for Iehouah our God is holy There vpon a Table couered with silke hee layeth downe the booke and he which hath bought the Office taketh from it the cloathes wherein it is wrapped Then these two call some one of the Congregation by his owne and his Fathers name who commeth foorth and kisseth the booke not on the bare Parchment for that were a sinne but on the cloathes which couer it and taking it by those pieces of wood saith aloud Praise the Lord c. Blessed bee thou O Lord who hast chosen vs before any other people and giuen vs thy Law Blessed bee thou O God the Law-giuer Then the Praecentor readeth a Chapter out of the booke and then hee which was called foorth with like kissing and blessing returneth Then another is called foorth and doth likewise After him another who had need bee of strong armes for hee lifteth vp and carrieth this booke that all may see it all crying This is the Law which Moses gaue to the Israelites This Office is called Hagbahah and is sold as the former The women meane-while contend amongst themselues in this Synagogue by some Lattice to haue a sight of the Law for the women haue a Synagogue apart seuered with Lattices so besides their pretence of modestie to fulfill the saying of Zacharie The family of Dauid shall mourne apart and their wiues apart c. If he which carrieth the booke should stumble or fall it were ominous and should portend much euill These two Officers fold vp the booke as before and then come all and kisse the same and then it is carried to his place with singing After this they end their Prayers as at other times saying Lord leade mee in thy righteousnesse because of mine enemies direct thy way before me And The Lord keepe my going out and comming in from henceforth for euer Which they also say when they goe foorth on a iourney or to worke §. III. Of the Iewish Sabbath THey prepare themselues to the obseruation of their Sabbath by diligent prouision on the Friday before night of the best meates well dressed especially the women prouide them good Cakes They honour the Sabbath with three bankets first on the Friday night when their Sabbath beginneth another on the Sabbath day at noone the third before sunne-set Eate yee it to day to day is the Sabbath of the Lord to day yee shall not find it Manna in the field do you not see To day thrice mentioned and therefore by Moses owne ordaining that Manna must so often bee eaten on the Sabbath The richest Iewes and most learned Rabbins disdaine not some or other office at chopping of hearbs kindling the fire or somewhat toward this preparation The Table remaineth couered all that night and day They wash and if need

hurle after him a broken sherd signifying that with him all heauinesse should bee expelled and broken When they are come to the place of buriall they say Blessed be GOD which hath formed you with iudgement and iustice hath created fed sustained and at last hath depriued you of life speaking to the dead Hee knoweth the number of you all and will quicken you againe in his time Blessed be God which doth to die and maketh aliue Let the dead liue with my carkasse let them rise againe Awake and reioyce yee that lie in dust because thy dew is the dew of light and the earth shall cast foorth her dead This the Minister sayth alone then he goeth on with a long prayer of three and twenty sentences which the people say after him going about the sepulchre They call this prayer Tzidduck haddin the subiect whereof is the iustice of GOD calling for pardon in the name of Abraham Isaac and Iacob acknowledging that by three things the foundations of the world are founded the Law worship and piety to the dead calling for deliuerance for the bloud of his seruants shed in the 856. yeere for the confession of his holy Name and for the merit of the onely-begotten which was seuen and thirty yeeres old in whose place a Ramme was taken concluding with mention of their Captaines slaine in the 136. yeere Heere they take downe the corps and then the Minister singeth the people following This is the way of the world let him sleepe in peace c. Yee Fathers of the world which sleepe in Hebron open vnto him the gates of the garden of Eden and say His comming be in peace Yee euerlasting hills of the double caue open vnto him the gates of the garden of Eden and bid him welcome Yee Angels of peace go forth to meete him vnlocke to him the gates of Paradise Yee keepers of the treasures of the garden of Eden open the gates and let N. enter enioy the fruites of Paradise good things bee at his right hand pleasant things at his left Heare this O Lord and let his comming be in peace Then lay they him into the ground and his neerest kinsmen cast in the first earth after which they turne to the East with diuers other blessings When they returne they blow themselues backwards three times and throw grasse ouer their heads signifying their hope of the resurrection according to that Es 66.14 and your bones shall bud as the grasse saying also Dust thou art and to Dust thou shalt returne Then doth euery one mutter a Prayer to himselfe as he goeth out of the buriall place In the porch of the Synagogue God shall destroy death for euer say they and wipe away all teares from their eyes and will take away their reproach from all the earth for the Lord hath spoken it Then enter they into the Synagogue and leape vp and downe and change their Seates seuen times and there say ouer their Purgatorie-prayer Kaddisch The Mourners goe bare-foote seuen dayes and eate not Flesh nor drinke Wine except on the Sabbaths and Festiuals They bathe not in three and thirty dayes after cut not their nayles worke not make a pittifull howling c. The first night the Mourner eateth nothing of his owne but meate sent him from his friendes The childe mourneth for his Father a yeere The sonne eleuen moneths saith ouer his Kaddisch for meane sinners are freed sooner but the wicked stay the whole twelue moneths and therefore to persist the twelfth moueth in his prayer should be to acknowledge his father a wicked man And for the effect hereof Rabbi Akibha met once in the way a man with an Asse-like burthen of stickes which vpon examination confessed That hee was a Purgatorie-ghost carrying to burne himselfe such bundles euery day Rabbi Akibha enquired if hee had a Sonne or Wife and where and finding out his sonne taught him this prayer which was so effectuall that in a dreame this Ghost returned to the Rabbi with thankes for his deliuerance and sayd hee was now in Gan Eden or Paradise Rabbi Akibha signified this to the Iewish Synagogues with iniunction to teach their Children this prayer But to returne to our Funerals when they are come backe to the mourning house they wash their hands but obserue not the Mosaicall Rites because the Temple is not standing Then doe they powre out a long blessing ouer a cup of Wine and another ouer their Meate exceeding much longer Their Purgatorie-Prayer or as Genebrard calleth it their Requiem vel libera is this It is better to go into the house of mourning then into the house of feasting in which is the end of all men which let the liuing remember Let vs heare the end Feare GOD and keepe his Commandements this is the dutie of euery man A sure rest in the high habitation vnder the wings of GOD in the degree of the Saints shining as the brightnesse of the skie The change of bonds pardon of sinnes grant of saluation indulgence and mercie from the sight of him which dwels in Heauen and a portion in the life to come there let the portion be and the dwelling of the soule of the wise Master N. The Spirit of the Lord make him to rest in Gan Eden and giue him peace as it is written in Esay Let peace come and let him rest in beds walking before it he and all the deceased of Israel through his mercie Amen They write also on the Tombe Let his soule bee in the Garden of Eden Amen Or Let his soule bee bound in the bundle of life And sometimes Thou art the Tombe of N. which departed into Eden such a day of such a moneth and yeere Thus poore Purgatorie with Iewes and Romists is preached by walking Ghosts They haue a light burning for the dead seuen dayes They powre the water out of the doores because the Angell of Death washed his sword lately vsed in water and enuenometh it This his sword he holdeth in his hand at the beds head hauing on the end thereof three drops of gall The sicke man spying this Deadly Angell openeth his mouth with feare then those drops fall in of which one killeth him the second maketh him pale the third rotteth and putrifieth Elias Leuita addeth that after a man is dead the Angell of Death commeth and sitteth on his Graue and presently the soule entreth into his body and hee maketh him stand on his feet hauing to that purpose in his hand a chayne halfe of yron and halfe of fire wherewith hee striketh him At the first blow his members are dissolued at the second his bones are scattered then come the Angels and gather them at the third hee is brought to dust and ashes and returneth into his Graue And this sayth R. Meir is more grieuous then the iudgement of Hell for the iust and the sonnes of the Princes and abortiues are iudged therewith except they which dye on the Eeuen

Law that Mahomet would not permit Iewes to turne to his Law without baptizing them first vnto Christianitie that the Saracens worship the New-Moone that the women spend all their time and care to adorne themselues for their husbands lust and because they respect fatnesse in their wiues these therefore with idlenesse sleepe and diet according doe fat themselues like Swine that a Mahumetan may attaine to that perfection that he may satisfie for sinne past and after liue without sin especially by Fastings and Pilgrimages that the blessed Virgin shal as they dreame in the other life bee married to that cursed monster Mahomet that women shall rise againe in the male sex and shall also haue women for their lust which shall bee produced out of certaine trees with diuers other things scarcely obiected to them by others Thomas à Iesu another Spaniard hath written prolixly of this Argument but I may not heere now follow him Let me yet be bold out of certaine Arabikes of the best note to adde the Creed the Commandements Mescuites with other Mahumetan Rites and Custome collected by Gabriel and Iohn two Maronites and first touching the Easterne Languages and Authors THere are in the East eight principall Languages the Arabike Persian Turkish Hebrew Chaldee Syriake which little differs from Chaldees Greeke and Armenian The Arabike is most noble and vsuall and is extended as far as Mohameds name as their sacred Language know to all Moslemans of better fashion In this is their Alcoran and their publike Prayers and most of their Lawes Yea saith Zaheri the blessed in Paradise vse it In this also are writ en their Bookes of Physicke Astrologie Rhetorike The Persian hath little but Poets and Historians the Turkish almost nothing the Chaldee and Syriake are nigh lost as the Greeke But Auerroes Algazeles Abu-Becer Alfarabius called of the Moslemans the second Philosopher Mohamed Ben-Isaac and Mohamed Ben-Abdillab adorned the Arabike besides very many Astrologers Mathematicians Physicians and Historians Ben-Sidi Aali reckons one hundred and fiftie which haue written on their Law Ben-Casem innumerable Grammarians and Rhetoricians Now for the Moslemans Religion Ben-Sidi Aali expresseth it to consist herein that they beleeue all the speeches made by Gabriel the Angell to our Prophet when hee questioned him of the things to bee beleeued and done which are these to beleeue in one God to whom none is equall this against Christians and that the Angels are the Seruants of God to beleeue in the Scripture sent to the Apostles diuided in their opinion into one hundred and foure Bookes of which tenne were sent to Adam fiftie to Seth thirtie to Enoc called Edris ten to Abraham the Law to Moses the Psalmes to Dauid the Gospel to Isa or Iesus Christ lastly the Alcoran to Mohamed That they hold these sent for mens good and beleeue in the Resurrection after death and that some are predestinate to fire some to Paradise according to the will of God for it is said in the Alcoran there is none of you which hath not his place in Paradise and a place determined in Hell that they beleeue also the reward of the good and punishment of the bad and the intercession of the Saints Also this is of the things to bee holden that they firmely beleeue in the Diuine Pen which was created by the finger of God This Pen was made of Pearles of that length and space that a swift Horse could scarcely passe in fiue hundred yeeres It performeth that office that it writes all things past present and to come the Inke with which it writes is of light the Tongue by which it writes none vnderstandeth but the Archangel Seraphael That they beleeue also the punishment of the Sepulchres for the Dead are vsed often to be punished in their Graues as happened in a certaine Sepulcher betwixt Mecca and Medina The Precepts of the Moslemans are first Circumcision not on the eight day as to the Iewes but at the eight ninth tenth eleuenth twelfth yeere that they may know what they doe and may professe their Faith with vnderstanding And although most hold women free therefrom yet in Egypt they circumcise women at thirteen fourteene or fifteene yeeres old many of them till then goe starke naked and Sidi-Ben Aali saith that it was commanded to men but is vsed to women for honour The second Commandement is Prayers hourely which in the Church at home or abroad they are bound to performe fiue times in the day and night first at breake of day the second about noone the third in the afternoone the fourth after Sun-set when the Starres begin to appeare the last in the first watch or before mid-night for after it is vnlawfull saith Ben-Sidi Aali neither may any transgresse these houres without sin yea saith he if one were cast into the Sea and knew the houre of Prayer if he be able he ought to doe it as also women in trauell must hide the Infants head as they can and doe it Trauellers when they perceiue that houre is come goe out of the way and wash or if they haue no water lightly dig the Earth and make shew of washing and go not thence till they haue finished their Deuotion Thirdly Almes is also commanded and they which are so poore that they cannot giue to Orphans and the poore must helpe in Hospitals and High-waies by such seruice to satisfie God Fourthly Ramahdan Fast of thirtie dayes is commanded from morning to Sun-set and the Stars appearing for then after euening Prayer they eate any food except Wine with Bacchanall cheere and tumults Fifthly Pilgrimage once in their liues to Mecca and Medina is also commended and sixthly to fight against the enemies of their Faith is no lesse commanded not to preach by the Word and Meekenesse as Christ but by the Sword and Warre to inuade and reuenge And if by their persons and blood they cannot they must saith our Author by their purse and goods helpe the Prince herein And if they die in Wat the sensuall pleasures of Paradise Riuers of Milke and Honey beautifull women and the like are their present purchase Therefore do they giue to Apostataes which become Moslemans an Arrow borne vp by their fore-finger the Arrow signifying Warre and that one Finger the Vnitie of the Deitie Their last Commandement is washing with water which is three-fold one before Prayers handled in three Chapiters by Ben-Sidi Aali thus performed the armes stripped naked to the elbow they wash the right hand and arme then the left after the Nose Eares Face Necke Crowne Feet to the ioynts if they bee bare or else their shooe-tops lastly their Priuities meane-while mumbling their Deuotions These washings they thinke to wash away their Veniall and lighter sinnes for their greater they vse Bathes and say all the bodie must be washed to wash away Crimes The third washing is of their secrets by themselues or their Seruants after the Offices of Nature

that crueltie Some interprete Moloch and Remphan Act. 7. to bee the Sunne and Moone The Talmudists would perswade men that they did not burne their children in this Moloch-sacrifice but onely the father tooke his children and moued them to and fro thorow the fire none otherwise then at this time on Saint Iohn Baptists day when the Sunne passeth thorow Cancer children vse to leape thorow bone-fires But both Scripture and Heathen Authors write otherwise Moloch is also called Baal There was a valley neere Hierusalem sometime possessed by the sonne of Hinnom where the Hebrewes built a notorious high place to Moloch it was on the East and South part of the Citie It was also called Topheth or Tymbrell of that Tymbrell-rite which those Corribantes and bloudie Priests did vse or else for the spaciousnesse of it Ieremie prophecieth That it should be called the Valley of slaughter because of the iudgements for the idolatrous high places in it Vpon the pollution hereof by slaughter and burials it grew so execrable that Hell inherited the same name called Gehenna of this place first of the lownesse being a Valley secondly for the Fire which heere the children there the wicked sustaine thirdly because all the filth was cast out of the Citie hither it seemed they held some resemblance The Ammonites also were as Montanus affirmeth circumcised Canaan was the sonne of Cham Father of many Nations as Moses declareth Sidon and Heth Iebusi Emori Girgashai Hivi Arki Sini Aruadi Zemari Hamathi the most of which were expelled their Countrey slaine or made tributarie by the Israelites Their border was from Sidon to Gaza West and on the East side from Sodome to Lasha or Callyrrhoe Arrias Montanus is of opinion that according to the number of the twelue Tribes of Israel so were the people of Canaan and therefore to those eleuen before rehearsed he addeth their Father Canaan who left his name to them all and where he liued retained a part to himselfe betweene the Philistims and Amorites Of those his sonnes Sidon the eldest inhabited the Sea-coast and Eastward from him Heth vnto the hill Gilboa of him came the Hittites Iebus went further on the right-hand Emor inhabited the midland Countrey Westward from the Iebusites The Girgashite dwelt aboue the Hittite next to Iordan and the lake Chinereth so called because it resembleth the forme of a Harpe after called Gennezareth The Heuite or Hiuite inhabited betweene the Amorite and the Philistim The Arkite possessed the rootes of Libanus The Sinite dwelt beyond the Hittite Eastward neerer to Iordan Aruadi enioyed the Countrey next to the Wildernesse of Cades Zemari obtained the Hills called of him Semaraim The Hamathite possessed the Countrey nigh to the Fountaines of Iordan As For the most notable Mountaines and Cities which each of these Families enioyed they which will may reade further in the same Author Of these and their ancient Religions and Policies wee find little or nothing but in the Scripture where the Lord testifieth that for their sinnes the Land spued them out Some of them as some thinke fled into Africa where Augustine saith that the Countrey people inhabiting neere Hippon called themselues in their Punike Language Chanani Procopius in the fourth booke of the Vandale warre affirmeth That all the Sea-coast in those times from Sidon to Aegypt was called Phoenicia and that when Ioshua inuaded them they left their Countrey and fled into Aegypt there multiplied and pierced further into Africa where they possessed all that Tract vnto the Pillars of Hercules speaking halfe Phoenician They build the Citie Tinge or Tanger in Numidia where were two Pillars of white stone placed neere to a great Fountaine in which in the Phoenician tongue was ingrauen Wee are Canaanites whom IOSHVA the Thiefe chased away Which if it were so the name of Hercules might therefore bee ascribed to those Pillars as accounted the chiefe Phoenician Idoll Philo or the Author of those fabulous Antiquities sayth That the Israelites found among the Amorites seuen golden Images called Nymphes which as Oracles directed them in their affaires and wrought wonders the worke of Canaan Phut Selah Nebroth Elath Desvat of admirable workmanship yeelding light in the night by vertue of certaine stones which could not by mettall be broken or pierced or be consumed by fire but must needs haue an Angell to burie them in the depth of the Sea and there let them lie This people was not vtterly at once destroyed but sometime as in the dayes of Iabin and Sisera conquered their Conquerors and retayned some power and name of a People till the times of Dauid who destroyed the Iebusites and dwelt in the Fort of Sion calling it after his owne name The Citie of Dauid And in the dayes of Salomon Pharao King of Aegypt tooke and burnt Gezer and slue the Cauaanites that dwelt in the Citie and gaue it for a present to his daughter Salomons wife And all the people that were left of the Amorites Hittites Perizzites Hiuites and Iebusites whom the children of Israel were not able to destroy those did Salomon make tributaries vnto this day 1. King 9.16 20 21. The posteritie of these seruants of Salomon are mentioned among the Israelites which returned from the Babylonian Captiuitie and accrued into one People with them OF THE HEBREW NATION AND RELIGION FROM THE BEGINNING THEREOF TO OVR TIMES THE SECOND BOOKE CHAP. I. The Preface of this Booke and à Description of the Region of Palaestina since called Iudaea and now Terra Sancta IN the former Booke we haue traced the foot-steps of Religion following Her in Her wanderings from the Truth and Her selfe through diuers Nations till we came into this Land sometime flowing with Milke and Hony whose first inhabitants we last tooke view of The Hebrewes were by the Soueraign Lord of all made heires of their labours and possessed both their place and wealth Houses and Cities which they builded not Vineyards which they planted not and which is more these were a type vnto them of the true and heauenly Countrey which not by their merits but by the meere mercy of the Promiser they should enioy These did GOD choose of all the Kindreds of the Earth to make vnto himselfe a Kingdome of Priests a holy Nation and his chiefe treasure aboue all people though all the Earth be his He made them the Keepers of his Oracles bestowing on them the Adoption and the Glorie and the Couenants and the giuing of the Law and the Seruice of God and the Promises of whom were the Fathers and of whom concerning the flesh Christ came who is God ouer all blessed for euer Amen These things were not onely communicated but appropriated to them He shewed his Word vnto IACOB his Statutes and his Iudgements vnto ISRAER He dealt not so with any Nation neither had the Heathen knowledge of his Lawes hee was their prerogatiue and

they his peculiar In Iewrie was GOD knowne his Name was great in Israel In Salem was his Tabernacle and his dwelling in Sion And Christ himselfe ratified it acknowledging himselfe sent to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel a Minister of the Circumcision and said to the Cananite woman which besought him for her daughter It is not good to take the childrens bread and to cast it to Dogs Such in spirituall reputation before GOD were all people excluded as vncleane Dogs out of his heauenly Ierusalem till this partition wall was taken downe and they which had beene farre off were made neere by the bloud of Christ who abrogated through his flesh that hatred and made of twaine Iewes and Gentiles one new man in himselfe So that the Gentiles the name of all the World excepting this people which had beene without Christ and aliants from the Common-wealth of Israel strangers from the Couenants of promise had no hope and were without GOD in the world were now no more strangers and forreiners but Citizens with the Saints and of the houshold of GOD built vpon the foundation of the Prophets and Apostles Iesus Christ himselfe being the chiefe corner stone Let it not bee tedious to heare of this which the Angels reioyced to learne a Mysterie which from the beginning of the world had beene hid in GOD and vnto Principalities and Powers in heauenly places was made knowne by the Church But the Word whereby we haue fellowship in this mysterie came out of Sion and the preaching began at Ierusalem This and not Rome by the confession of Espensaeus a learned Papist was Emporium fidei Christiana Ecclesiae Mater The Mart of Christian faith and Mother of the Church Yea it was necessarie that the Word of GOD should first be spoken vnto them which they by incredulitie put from themselues and gaue place to the Gentiles The fall of them became the riches of the World and the diminishing of them the riches of the Gentiles as a Glasse wherein we may behold the bountifulnesse and seueritie of GOD and in both the deepnesse of the riches of the wisedome and knowledge of GOD whose Iudgements are vnsearchable and his wayes past finding out I may fitly compare them to Gideons Fleece which receiued the dew when all the Earth besides was drie and after it was drie vpon the Fleece onely when the dew couered all the ground Sometimes they alone receiued all those Dewes Showers Riuers Seas of sauing Bountie and all the world besides was a parched wildernesse Now he turneth the fruitfull Land into barrennesse for the wickednesse of the Inhabitants but that Wildernesse he turneth into Pooles of water and the drie Land into water-springs Hee hath called them his people which were not his people and her beloued which was not beloued and where it was said Yee are not my people there they are now called the children of the liuing GOD. Thus hath hee shut vp all vnder vnbeliefe that he might haue mercy vpon all that his free election might appeare not of works lest any should boast themselues but of grace Behold therefore all Atheists and wonder The Iewes branded with iudgement wander ouer the World the contempt of Nations the skum of People the hissing derision and indignation of men for refusing Him whom they expect denying Him whom they challenge hating Him whose Name is in life and death vnto them the sweetest tune and most melodious harmonie still wayting for and glorying in that Messias whom vnknowne they crucified and slue and still pursue with the deadliest hatred in all his followers GOD they please not and are contrarie to all men Yet such is GODS manifold wisedome in his deepest Iudgements that his enemies shall fight for him euen against themselues the Midianites shall sheathe their swords which they haue drawne out against GOD in their owne bowels and Christian Truth shall preuaile and let our enemies themselues be iudges Out of their premisses which they maintayne as earnestly as thou O Atheist securely deridest which they will seale with that which thou makest thy heauen thy GOD we will and doe conclude against thee and them that in which with which for which we will liue and die Let the old Testament yeeld the Proposition in prophesie and the new Testament assume in Historie and euen be thou the Iudge if that Reason which thou hast as a man and peruertest as a Deuill will not by force of their scriptures which they preferre before their liues necessarily in the conclusion demonstrate the Christian Truth Neither I appeale vnto our common Reason canst thou more wonder at vs for beleeuing things in thy seeming incredible absurd and impossible then at them vpon such grounds which with vs they hold not beleeuing For what beleeue we but for the maine and chiefe points of our Faith are as plainly in their Euangelicall Prophets as in our Propheticall Euangelists All the Historie of Christ in a more diuine way seemeth rather told then foretold a Historie not a Prophesie as is easie by conference of both to shew and thou if thou beest not idle or wilfully malicious mayest finde That then which thou seest come vpon them a spirit of slumber eyes that they should not see and eares that they should not heare which yet haue the light of the first Scriptures had they not a veile ouer their hearts the same see in thy selfe that when greater light doth offer it selfe willingly shuttest thine eyes as though there could be no light because thou liuest in and louest thy darknesse It is the same hand that giueth vp both thee and them because yee will not beleeue the Truth to be saued to strong delusions that yee might beleeue lyes and be damned To me and all Christians let the Iewes bee both reall and verball teachers of the Truth which they let fall and we take vp the one in their Oracles of sacred Writ the other in their exemplarie iudgement And to them Let O thou Lord of all heare and grant it let all Christians be that which Moses prophesied a prouocation to emulation not of enuie and hatred which hitherto hath beene in these amongst all the Christian enemies the most implacable and despitefull but of imitation that as their casting away hath beene the reconciling of the World their receiuing may be life from the dead which Paul seemeth plainly to fore-signifie THus much being premised as a preparation to our Iewish Historie which as of more importance then any other deserueth more ample view let vs in the next place suruey that Countrey which their Progenitors had with those priuiledges and their Posteritie together with those priuiledges haue lost This Countrey was first called the Land of Canaan after that the Posteritie of Canaan the sonne of Cham had possessed it Moses and Ioshua conquered it to the Posteritie of Iacob of whom it