Selected quad for the lemma: scripture_n

Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
scripture_n	church_n	divine_a	revelation_n	2,708	5	9.4498	5	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A59127	Atlas minimus, or, A book of geography shewing all the empires, monarchies, kingdomes, regions, dominions, principalities and countries in the whole world / by John Seller ...	Seller, John, fl. 1658-1698.	1679 (1679)	Wing S2465; ESTC R13141	22,188	159

is a very considerable part of the World in regard 1. Because man was therein created 2ly Here our Blessed Saviour was born wrought his Miracles and suffered 3ly Here were transacted the most memorable occurrences mentioned in the old and new Testament 'T is accounted in length 5200 and in Breadth 4560 miles the principal Regions therein follow 1. TVRKEY in ASIA The Turk by his puissance having over-run a great share of two of the most considerable parts of the world possesseth in Asia these Countries viz. 1. Anatolia vulgarly Natolia and antiently Asia the Less a Country once of great fertility but now waste and almost desolate here were the seven Churches to whom John the Divine directs his Book of Revelations Ephesus Smirna c. 2. Syria and Phoenicia two adjoining Provinces wherein is the Mount Libanus famous is Scripture for goodly Cedars the Cities Damascus Antioch Tyre and Sidon and those now more renowned for commerce Aleppo and Scanderoon The Country abounds with Wheat Oyl Balm c. 3. Palestine Canaan in length but 200 miles and in breadth not above 50 yet so fruitful that we read in Holy Writ it once sustain'd thirteen hundred thousand fighting men besides the Tribes of Levi and Benjamin but now 't is nothing so plentiful verifying that Divine saying The Lord maketh a fruitful Land barren for the Iniquities of those that dwell therein 'T is now under the Turk inhabited by mixt people pretending to Christianity and shewing diverse of the places mentioned in Scripture to Strangers for Money 4. Caldaea in which stood Babylon now called Bagdet where happen'd the Confusion of Languages after the Flood 5. Mesopotamia lying between the Rivers Tigris and Euphrates the Soil exceeding fertile so that by some 't is thought to have been the place where stood the Garden of Eden 6. Turcomania heretofore called Armenia the greater but now takes name from the Turks who being a people of Scythia and too populous to get sufficient food in so barren a Country broke through the Caspian Streight and seated themselves here in the year 844. Lastly Georgia not so call'd from St. George whom yet here they greatly reverence but from the Georgi who long agoe inhabited the adjacent Countries The people now though Tributaries to the Turk profess Christianity and agree in most points with the Greek Church 2. Of PERSIA Persia is bounded on the East with the River Indus West with Tigris and the Persian Gulf North with the Caspian Sea and South with the main Ocean The People are of a proper stature an Olive-colour their Garments Calicue in Religion Mahumetans but enemies to the Turks as being of different sects and judgments in expounding the Alchoran whence bloody wars are oft between them Their Emperor is called the Sophy of Persia who rules very tyrannically and has many Provinces and petty Kings that are his Tributaries This is that Country so renowned of old for its riches and power for trampling on the Assyrian Monarchy they set up here the second great Empire which at last was destroyed by Alexander the Great Here reigned those mighty Princes Cyrus Cambyses Darius the great Xerxes Artaxerxes and others famous both in the sacred Scriptures and profane Histories From hence are brought several sorts of Silk the chief Port where we have trade with them was Ormus in the Gulf of Persia and since Gombroon about nine miles distant from thence The greatest Cities in the whole Empire are Spahawn supposed to contain 300000 souls Sushan where Ahasuerus made his Feast mentioned 1. Esther Caramania famous for Cloth of Gold and the best Scimitars in the world with several others 3. The great TARTARY Part of this Country extends to Europe but the main lies in Asia reaching from East to West 5400 miles and from North to South 3600 being called of old Scythia and bounded on the East with the Eastern Ocean on the West with Muscovia and Moldavia on the North with the frozen Ocean on the South with the Caspian Sea Persia and the Wall of China The people are of a swarthy Complexion deformed and barbarous in behaviour and as for their Religion most of them Pagans the rest Mahumetans many of them dwell in Tents which as pasture grows scarce for their Cattel do remove to new Quarters They sow little Corn for Horse-flesh is their chief food yet they have some great Cities as Astracan Casan Cambalu and Samarchand that gave both a Cradle and a Grave to mighty Tamberlain The Governour of this vast country is call'd the great Cham who rules by an absolute arbitrary power being stiled by his people The shadow of Spirits and Son of the immortal Gods 4. The Empire of the Great Mogul This mighty Empire lies in India partly within and partly without the River Ganges so call'd as being descended from the Mogul-Tartars and indeed within these 100 years last past this Monarch taking the advantage of his Neighbours Dissentions hath forced several flourishing Kingdoms to become Tributaries to his Sceptre in his Territories stands Surat to which our East-India Fleet frequently traffiques Here is likewise the populous Kingdom of Cambaia containing as is thought no less than sixty thousand Villages besides the Metropolitan City stock'd with eight hundred thousand souls As also the Kingdom of Bengala famous for Rhinocerots and Stuffs much in use for morning Gowns this Emperor says Boterus is able to bring into the Field at once three hundred thousand Horse and so reverenc'd by his Subjects that they strew the ways he is to pass with richest perfumes and whenever he cuts his Hair or shaves his Beard keep that day as a Festival 5. Of the PENINSULA or Tract of Land running out into the Sea without the GANGES and all the other parts of INDIA Ganges is one of the most famous Rivers in the world which divides India commonly called the East Indies into two parts of which one is said to be within the other without the Ganges but we here for greater plainness divide the whole into three parts 1. The Neck of Land towards the Sea without Ganges 2ly The main Land within Ganges and another Tract of Land within Ganges likewise but stretching out into the Sea These three parts are inhabited by five several sorts of people in general viz. 1. Indians or Natives which are in part Gentiles in part Christians the second sort are Mahumetans Persians and Tartars the third Jews the fourth Arabians or Moors and the fifth Portuguez In the Neck of Land towards the Sea without Ganges is the Kingdom of Narsinga where the people use to burn the Living Wife with the Dead Husband because of the trick they had got to poison their Husbands before this Law Here is likewise the City Calecute very large but not walled nor fair built the City of St. Thomas or Malleaper where they say St Thomas was Martyr'd to whose Sepulchre the Christian Indians come in Pilgrimage The Soil in these parts is exceeding fruitful yielding