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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63439	The six voyages of John Baptista Tavernier, Baron of Aubonne through Turky, into Persia and the East-Indies, for the space of forty years : giving an account of the present state of those countries, viz. of the religion, government, customs, and commerce of every country, and the figures, weight, and value of the money currant all over Asia : to which is added A new description of the Seraglio / made English by J.P. ; added likewise, A voyage into the Indies, &c. by an English traveller, never before printed ; publish'd by Dr. Daniel Cox; Six voyages de Jean-Baptiste Tavernier. English	Tavernier, Jean-Baptiste, 1605-1689.; Phillips, John, 1631-1706.; Cox, Daniel, Dr.	1677 (1677)	Wing T255; ESTC R38194	848,815	637

to the Parents House to feast If any tax their Baptism for insufficient in regard the Three Persons of the Divinity are not nam'd therein they can make no rational defence for themselves Nor have they any knowledge of the Mystery of the Holy Trinity only they say that Christ is the Spirit and Word of the Eternal Father They are so blind as to believe the Angel Gabriel to be the Son of God begotten upon Light yet will not believe the Eternal Generation of Christ as God Yet they confess he became Man to free us from the Punishment of Sin and that he was conceiv'd in the womb of a Virgin without the knowledge of Man by means of the Water of a certain Fountain which she drank of They believe he was crucifi'd by the Jews that he rose the third day and that his Soul ascending up to Heaven his Body remain'd on Earth But like the Mahometans they corrupt their Faith by saying that Christ vanish'd when the Jews came to take him and that he deluded their cruelty with his Shadow In the Eucharist they make use of Meal or Flow'r kneaded up with Wine and Oyl For say they the Body of Christ being compos'd of the two principal parts Flesh and Blood the Flowr and the Wine do most perfectly represent them besides that Christ at his Supper made use of Wine only and not of Water They add Oyl to signifie the benefit we receive by his favour of the Sacrament and to put us in mind of our Love and Charity towards God and our Neighbour To make this Wine they take Grapes dry'd in the Sun which they call in their Language Zebibes and casting Water upon them let them steep for so long a time The same Wine they use for the Consecration of the Cup. They make use of Raisins in regard they are more easie to be had than Wine the Persians especially the Arabians under whose Government they live not permitting nor indeed allowing them the use of it Of all people that follow the Law of Mahomet there are none so opposite to other Religions as these Persians and Arabians about Balsara The words of their Consecration are no other than certain long Prayers which they make to praise and thank God at the same time blessing the Bread and Wine never making mention of his Body and Blood which they say is not at all necessary because God knows their intentions After all the Ceremonies are ended the Priest takes the Bread and having eaten some of it distributes the rest to the People As to their Bishops and Priests when any one dyes who has a Son they choose him in his place and if he have no Son they take the next a-kin that is most capable and best instructed in their Religion They that make the Election say several Prayers over him that is elected If he be a Bishop after he is receiv'd and that he go about to Ordain others he ought to fast six days during which time he continually repeats certain Prayers over him that is to be ordain'd Priest who also for his part fasts and prays all the said time And whereas I say the Father succeeds the Son it is to be observ'd that among the Christians in those Parts both Bishops and Priests marry as do the rest of the people only if their first Wife dye they cannot marry another unless she be a Virgin Moreover they that are admitted to Ecclesiastical Functions must be of the race of Bishops or Priests and their Mothers must have been always Virgins when they were marry'd All their Bishops and Priests wear their Hair long and a little Cross wrought with a Needle When there is any Wedding to be the kindred and persons invited go together with the Bridegroom to the House where the Bride lives Thither comes the Bishop also and approaching the Bride who is sitting under a Canopy he asks her if she be a Virgin If she answer that she is so he makes her confirm it by an Oath After which he returns to the Guests and sends his Wife with some other skilful Women to make an inspection If they find her to be a Virgin the Bishop's Wife returns and makes Oath of it and then they all go to the River where the Bishop re-baptizes the Couple to be marry'd Then they return toward the House and making a stop before they come quite near it the Bridegroom takes the Bride by the Hand and leads her seven times from the Company to the House the Bishop following them every time and reading certain Prayers After that they go into the House and the Bride and Bridegroom place themselves under the Canopy where they set their Shoulders one against another and the Bishop reads again causing them to lay their Heads together three times Then op'ning a Book of Divination and looking for the most fortunate day to consummate the Marriage he tells them of it But if the Bishop's Wife do not find the Bride to be a Virgin the Bishop can proceed no farther so that if the young Man have still a mind he must go to some meaner Priest to perform the Ceremony Which is the reason that the people take it for a great dishonour to be marry'd by any other than the Bishops for when a Priest marries 't is an infallible sign that the Bride was no Virgin The Priests also in regard they take it to be a great Sin for a Woman to marry not being a Virgin they never marry any such but by constraint and to avoid ensuing inconveniencies for sometimes in despite they will turn Mahometans The reason of the Inspection is that the Husbands may not be deceiv'd and to keep the young Girls in awe As to what they believe touching the Creation of the World they say that the Angel Gabriel undertrking to create the World according to the command which God gave him took along with him three hundred thirty-six thousand Demons and made the earth so fertile that it was but to Sow in the Morning and Reap at Night That the same Angel taught Adam to Plant and Sow and all other necessary Sciences Moreover that the same Angel made the seven lower Spheres the least whereof reaches to the Center of the World in the same manner as the Heavens do all contriv'd one within another That all these Spheres are of different Metals the first next the Center is of Iron the second of Lead the third of Brass the fourth of Laten the fifth of Silver the sixth of Gold and the seventh of Earth The seventh is that which contains all the rest and is the chiefest of all as being the most fruitful and profitable to Man and the most proper to preserve Mankind whereas the rest seem rather to be fram'd for its destruction They believe that over every Heaven there is Water whence they conclude that the Sun swims in a Ship upon that Water and that the Mast of his Ship is a Cross and that there