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A58938	A Seasonable prospect for the view and consideration of Christians being a brief representation of the lives and conversations of infidels and heathens, in our age, as to religion and morality : together with some reflections thereupon, in relation to us who profess Christianity : to which is now added many of the wise and vertuous sayings of the ancient heathens / by a gentleman.	Gentleman.	1691 (1691)	Wing S2239A_VARIANT; ESTC R34065	38,938	60

when we stand most in need of help supply us 2. In their Observations of their Sabbaths and other Festivals and Fasts Their Liturgy is in the Arabian Tongue not understood by many of the common People yet is repeated by the Moolaas or Priests and also by the common People The Mahometans also rehearse the names of God and Mahomet certain times upon beads as the papists do their prayers The devout Mahometans in a solemn manner assemble in their Mosquits or Churches where by their Moolaas or Priests upon Fridays which is their Sabbath some selected parts of the Alcoran are publickly read unto them which their Moolaas or Priests never touch without an Expression of much outward Reverence and then they deliver some precepts which they gather out of it And they never see their Alcoran and hear any part of it read without a great shew of Attention Affection and Reverence They keep a solemn Lent which they call Ramjam or Ramdam which begins the first New-Moon which happens in September and so continue it that whole Moon And during all that time those that are strict in their Religion forbear their Women and will not take either Meat or Drink any day during that time so long as the Sun is above the Horizon only after the Sun is set they eat at pleasure The last day of their Lent they Consecrate as a day of Mourning to the memory of their deceased Friends when I have observed saith the Author many of the meaner sort seem to make most bitter Lamentation besides what they do at their Friends decease when they howl and cry many whole days for their Friends departed and then at night they fire an innumerable company of Lamps and other Lights and when burnt out the Lent is ended and the people take their Food as before The day after the Ramjam or Lent is ended the most devout Mahometans in a solemn manner assemble at their Mosquits or Churches and hear some select parts of their Alcoran read unto them The Hindoes or Indians also being Heathens have little Churches called Pagods built round and standing under green Trees wherein are Images of monstrous Shapes but for what end the Author knows not He relates That both Men and Women before they go to their Devotions which is very frequently wash their Bodies which they think avails them much towards their cleansing from Sin and they ascribe a certain kind of Divinity to Rivers especially to the famous River Ganges whither they flock daily in Troops to wash themselves The day of rest or Sabbath which the Hindoes or Indians observe is Thursday as also many other Festivals or Times of publick Devotions they observe very Solemnly as also Pilgrimages And they never hear their Law or Precepts read to them by their Bramins or Priests without a shew of great Attention Reverence and Affection Their Bramins or Priests as the Author affirms have told him That they acknowledge one God whom they describe with a Thousand Eyes and a Thousand Hands and as many Feet as being all Eye to see all Feet to follow and all Hand to smite offenders thus they express his Power The consideration whereof makes them as the Author testifies very exact in their dealings with Men most carefully observing that Royal Law in doing to others but what they would be contented to suffer from them Now that Book of their Law which they call the Shester or the Book of their written Word hath been transcribed in all Ages ever since the first delivery of it not long after the Creation as they say by the Bramins out of which they deliver Precepts unto the people Both Men and Women before they go to their Devotions which are very frequent wash their Bodies as I related before led hereunto by a certain Precept as they say given them by their Lawgiver Breman which requires them daily to observe their times of Devotion expressed by their Washings and Worshippings and Prayer to God which must be all done say they with purity of Heart The Precepts delivered to them from him they call Breman are these First Thou shalt not kill any living Creature whatever it be having Life in the same for thou art a Creature and so is it thou art endued with Life and so is it thou shalt not therefore spill the Life of any of thy fellow Creatures that live Other Precepts they mention as delivered by their Lawgiver viz. 2. To observe times for Fasting and hours for Watching that they may be better fitted for their Devotions 3. directions about their Festivals wherein are required also To take their Food moderately not pampering their Bodies 4. And concerning Charity they are commanded to help the Poor as far as possibly they are able 5. Not to tell false Tales nor to utter any thing that is untrue 6 Not to Steal any thing from others be it never so little 7. Not to Defraud any by their Cunning in Bargains or Contracts 8. Not to Oppress any when they have Power to do it All which are observed by these Hindoes or Indians as the said Author affirms with much strictness several of them being very good Precepts having the impression of God upon them There are also another sort of Heathens among them called the Persees who have a Book of their Religion delivered by their Prophets in which as the Author was informed are these Precepts following I. To have Shame and Fear ever present with them which will restrain and keep them from committing many Evils II. When they undertake any thing seriously to consider whether it be Good or Bad Commanded or Forbidden them III. To keep their Eyes and Hearts from Coveting any thing that is anothers and their Hands from hurting any one IV. To have a care always to speak the Truth V. To be known only in their own Businesses and not to inquire into and to busie themselves in other Mens Matters VI. Not to Entertain or Believe any other Law besides what they have delivered to them by their Prophets Their Priests they call Daroos or Harboods above which they have a Chief or High-Priest they call the Dostoor who not often appears openly but when he does he meets with much Reverence and Respect given unto him by the Common People and so do their other Church-men which are his Inferiors unto all which they allow free maintenance for their more comfortable Subsistence and those Church-men by their Law are commanded to dwell near and to abide much in their Egares or temples to give advice unto any that shall repair unto them They observe divers Feasts and immediately after each of them a Fast follows 3. In their Zeal in their Religion and not induring that Religion should be Contemned and Neglected As they cannot bear that any one should affront or contemn their Religion both the Mahometans and the Hindoes or Indians So there is not any one among the Mahometans which at any time mentions the Name of our

with Sorrow moderate They are not lost but gone before where Fate Disposeth all and we in order must One after one be turn'd to the same dust We meet at the same Inn by several ways And in another World shall see new days And as to their Tartarus or Hell Virgil having begun to relate some of the infernal Torments passes over the rest in silence because of their multitude declaring that though he had one hundred Mouths and as many Tongues and a Voice of Iron yet should he not be able to recite so much as their Names I shall draw to a Conclusion and make use of the words of a late worthy Author That indeed Moral Vertues were never so establish'd by the Light of Reason as they are by the Laws of the Gospel and our Obedience endeared to us by nobler Promises than the Pagan Philosophy were ever made acquainted with and these Promises attended with all the Motives of Credibility and likewise enforced under severer Penalties than either Virgil or Homer in all their Romantick Description of Elyzium or Tartarus ever dreamt of Nor is there in all the Ethicks of the Grecians or Romans such an Inducement and incentive to practical Obedience as the Incarnation of the Son of God That God so loved the World that he gave his only begotten Son to die for us that we might not perish but have eternal Life nor such a matchless Patern of universal Vertue as the Life of the ever blessed Jesus sets before us So that upon the whole we Christians that have the Light of the Gospel the sacred Writings of the Old and New Testament are more inexcusable in our Failures and criminal in our Miscarriages than those that lived under the Conduct of meer Reason were And to which let me adjoin that notable Saying of Salvian viz. After what manner is Jesus Christ at this day honoured among us Christians when the being his faithful Disciples is an Occasion to make one less esteemed of men How can the Corruption of the World come to any greater Extremity than to hold Religion for a mean and dishonourable thing when on the contrary 't is Religion only that truly deserves Honour and Regard and to which all Divine and Humane Laws have ever given great Respect and Deference yea so far that the very feigned Deities of the Heathens were thought worthy of Gold and Silver Temples when even the true God who gives all Beauty and Lustre to Gold and Silver and precious Stones is scarcely honoured by us within Stone Walls Alas as another Author tells us The great Wisdom of many in our times consisteth only in getting Money the grand Antichrist of the World which in the very Letter of the Text they exalt above God and Religion But a wise man saith Seneca studies rather to fill his Mind than his Coffers And may I conclude with these serious Cautions of Seneca and Virgil. That Kingdom saith Seneca is in an unstable and cottering Condition where Impudence abounds and where is no regard of Religion Justice Fidelity and Integrity Discite Justitiam moniti non temnere Divos saith Virgil. Be admonished and learn Righteousness and cease to contemn God and Religion any more ERRATA PAge 37. l. 3. r. saith Seneca p. 39 l 1. for presenting r. prosecuting p. 41. dele the 10th line Books Printed for and Sold by Luke Meredith at the Angel in Amen-Corner Books written by the Reverend Dr. Patrick now Lord Bishop of Chichester THE Christian Sacrifice A Treatise shewing the Necessity End and Manner of receiving the Holy Communion together with suitable Prayers and Meditations for every Month in the Year and the principal Festivals in memory of our blessed Saviour In Four parts The Ninth Edition corrected The devout Christian instructed how to pray and give thanks to God Or a Book of Devotions for Families and particular persons in most of the Concerns of humane Life The Eighth Edition in Twelves And Advice to a Friend The Fourth Edition in Twelves The Glorious Epiphany with the devout Christian's Love to it in Octavo The Book of Job Paraphras'd in Octavo new The whole Book of Psalms Paraphrased in Octavo Two Volumes The Proverbs of Solomon Paraphrased with Arguments to each Chapter which supply the place of Commenting A Paraphrase upon the Books of Ecclesiastes and the Song of Solomon with Arguments to each Chapter and Annotations thereupon in Octavo The Truth of Christian Religion in Six Books written in Latin by Hugo Grotius and now Translated into English with the Addition of a Seventh Book against the present Roman Church in Octavo Search the Scriptures A Treatise shewing that all Christians ought to read the Holy Books with directions to them therein In Three Parts A Treatise of Repentance and of Fasting especially of the Lent Fast In Three Parts A Discourse concerning Prayer especially of frequenting the daily publick Prayers In Two Parts A Book for Beginners or a Help to Young Communicants that they may be fitted for the Holy Communion and receive it with profit Books written by Jer. 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THE Penitent pardoned or a Discourse of the nature of Sin and the Efficacy of Repentance under the Parable of the Prodigal Son A Winter Evening Conference between Neighbours in three Parts The Old Religion demonstrated in its Principles and described in the Life and Practice thereof Boanerges and Barnabas Judgment and Mercy or Wine and Oil for wounded and afflicted Souls In Two Parts By Fra. Quarles The Tenth Edition in Twelves The Saints Legacies or a Collection of certain Promises out of the Word of God Collected for privatence but Published for the Comfort of God's People Together with the Saints Support in time of Trouble The Thirteenth Edition In 12o. Bishop Cozen 's Devotions in Twelves The Countess of Morton's daily Exercise or a Book of Prayers and Rules how to spend the time in the 〈◊〉 vice and Pleasure of Almighty God The Thirtee●●● Edition 24. THE END