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A95658	A voyage to East-India. Wherein some things are taken notice of in our passage thither, but many more in our abode there, within that rich and most spacious empire of the Great Mogol. Mix't with some parallel observations and inferences upon the storie, to profit as well as delight the reader. / Observed by Edward Terry minister of the Word (then student of Christ-Church in Oxford, and chaplain to the Right Honorable Sr. Thomas Row Knight, Lord Ambassadour to the great Mogol) now rector of the church at Greenford, in the county of Middlesex.	Terry, Edward, 1590-1660.	1655 (1655)	Wing T782; Thomason E1614_1; ESTC R234725	261,003	580

first seasoning while life remaineth That dangerous time of youth by the envy and cunning and help of Satan carries very many young men left too much unto themselves into most shameful courses They being of themselves like a Ship on the maine Ocean that hath neither Helm nor compass and therefore moves it knows not whither Or in this like weak limb'd Children who if they be suffered to go too much and to soon lame themselves for ever Yet many think that in that time of life their youth gives them some liberty and priviledge aliquid aetati juvenum est concedendum they say which words abused make them the Divels dispensation and not Gods though they may fondly and falsly suppose that because they are young they may be borne withall in any thing they do as if Pride Drunkenness Whoredome and the like most fearfull exorbitances were not faults in youth they not considering that want of years and want of judgement which judgement enables to put a right difference 'twixt good and evill usually go together And that youth is like unto green wood which is ever shrinking and warping for as with the antient there is wisdom Job 12. 12. so pampered and ungoverned youth is commonly rash heady insolent wedded to its own will led by humour a rebell to reason a subject to passion fitter to execute than to advise and because youth cannot consider as it should it is no marvell if it so often miscarry The ways of youth being steep and slippery wherein it is very hard to stand as very easy to fall and to run into most fearful exorbitances It being the usual manner of young men so much to intend as they falsly think the love of themselves in the love of their pleasures as that they cannot attend the love of God And therefore that man may much better hope to come safely and happily unto the end of his course who hath passed over his first journey I mean his youth well But which is a very great hinderance unto many young men when they do but begin to enter upon their way there are many Parents which do not desire that their Children should be good betimes they being misled by one of the Devils Proverbs which is a young Saint an old Devill It is true that some who have been wild and wicked in youth have proved good in age But it is a most tryed truth to encourage the groth of early holiness which hath been made good by much experience that a Saint in youth an Angell in age And truly very many Children may thank their Parents for much of the evill that is in them beside their Birth-sin poysoning them as they do by their evill examples Children confidently believing that they may lawfully do any thing they see their Parents do before them hence Juvenal speaks well Maxima debetur pueris reverentia Therefore Parents should take heed what they do or what they spe●k before their Children As 't is writ●en of wise Cato though an Heathen that he was wont to carry himself with as much grav●ty before his Children as if he had been before the Senate of Rome The neglect of which care shall give Children cause one day to speak that in truth unto their Parents which Zipp●rah sometimes sp●ke unadvisedly unto her husband Moses when he had Circumcised her son Ex 4. 25. Surely a bloody Husband art thou unto me so these will say to their Parents that they have been bloody Fathers and bloody Mothers unto them in giving them a Serpent when they should have given them a Fish a stone when they should have given them bread in teaching them to swear when they should have taught them to pray un●oing them by their evill when they might have done them much good by their holy and unblameable examples as also by their early instruction and their timely correction which might have prevented through Gods blessing their rushing into the pit of ruin But why Parents thus generally fail in their duties we need not much marvell if we consider the carelesness or rather inability of most Parents to instruct their Children Scilicet expectas ut tradet mater honestes Aut alios mores quam quos habet Ju. No Mother can good precepts give Who hath not learn'd her self to live It is not to be hoped that Parents should give their Children better precepts than they have learn'd themselves But here I must prevent an objection and 't is this That if Parents be not wanting in their duty herein it is not al the care they can possibly have which of it self can make good Children For how many good Children have fall'n from bad Loins And how many gracious Parents to their greatest grief have been the Fathers and Mothers of most untoward Children The reason is because goodness doth not like lands and goods descend from Parents to Children for God will be the free giver and bestower of all his Graces and will have mercy on whom he will have mercy So then if our Children be good we must thank God for that if evill they may thank us and themselves us for their birth-sin and many times for more of their evill then so as before themselves for the improvement of that evill in the ways of wickedness However we may conclude this as a rule that those Children of all others in all probabilities are like to prove best who have been best seasoned in their young years for train up a Child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Pr. 22. 6. In the wars 'twixt Syria and Israel there was a little Maid of Israel taken by the Syrians 2 Kings 5. and she was put to wait upon the wife of Naaman the Syrian That Naaman was a great man with his Master the King of Syria and honourable saith the story c. but he was a Leaper and that stain of Leprosie sauced all his greatness so much that the poorest man in Syria would not have changed place with him to have had his skin to boot There is no greatness that can exempt a man from the most loathsome and wearisome conditions doubtless that Leprosie must needs be a grievous burden to that great Peer The Maid of Israel tells her Mistriss would God my Lord were with the Prophet which is in Samaria for he would recover him of his Leprosie Her Mistriss presently tells her Lord who upon this report immediately repayr unto that Prophet and is healed of his disease I report that storie to this end that it is very good for Parents to acquaint their Children while they be young with the knowledge of God and of his Prophets for we do not know what great good they may do by it The generall neglect of which and of many other duties of Parents for the good and welfare of their Children as the great faylings of others I have named in their severall relations are principal and most apparent

God and reverently attend to the tenor thereof though it proved as sharp a message as could be delivered or received Now How shall those Mahometans before mentioned and this Heathen mans carriage condemne thousands nay most of those which call themselves Christians that shew no more reverence nor regard at the hearing of messages from God whatsoever they be than if they heard an old wives fable that neither when they speak unto God by the mouth of their Mininisters nor when God speaks to them by the same mouth shew any outward regard reverence or respect such an Atheisme for the generality possesseth their hearts But I return again to that people and in the next place shall speak SECT 17. Of the Marriages of the Mahometans and of their Poligamy c. AMongst many other things that confirm the Mahometans in their irreligion this certainly is not the least the indulgence which Mahomet gives them to take more wives than one for they may take four if they please and that further promise which that monstrous Seducer hath made unto his followers of a fleshly Paradise hereafter wherein he will provide for them all wives which shall have large rowling eyes which they look upon in that sex as a great beauty And it is a very suitable comfort for such as walk so much after the flesh For Poligamy or the having of more wives than one Lamech a great Grand-child of Cain was the first that brought it into the World Gen. 4. 19. And it was first brought into the Church by Abraham which act of his as of others after him good men in their generation though it found permission never had approbation from Almighty God And further though under the times of the Law it found some connivence yet since the Gospel there hath been no such custom in any of the Churches of Christ And in those former times it was the charge of Almighty God to the Kings of Israel even before they were that they should not multiply wives Deut. 17. 17. Yet Solomon who in this discovered a great deal of folly as in other things abundance of wisdom went further beyond the bounds of that Law than any other whom God owns in Scripture The poor man in his later age lost himself amongst an house full of wives For the storie saith that he loved many strange women 1 King 11. 1. Every word had nothing but Bane in it He loved women many women outlandish idolatrous women and these not onely had but doted on he being so taken with their persons that he humour'd them in their sins And if one woman in the beginning undid all mankinde it is no great marvel if so many women did so much mischief to one Solomon The Abissins say that when the Queen of Sheba came to visite Solomon that she returned back with Childe by him from whose issue they further say have come the race of their Kings ever since But here I leave my Reader to believe in that as much and no more than he please This is clear in the sacred storie that Solomon though he had a thousand wives and Concubines he had but three Children Rehoboam his onely Son and Taphal and Basmah his two Daughters 1 King 4. 11. 15. an evident sign that God never approved of his multitude of wives when by his blessing on the single and holy wedlock of others he hath multiplied them in a very happy and numerous issue In the old World when the Sons of God saw the Daughters of men that they were fair they took wives of all that they liked Gen. 6. 2. and these multiplied not Children so much as iniquities Sampson in the choise of his wife had no other guides and counsellours but his own eyes He went down to Timnah and saw a Daughter of the Philistines and presently he speaks to his Father get her for me to wife for she pleaseth me well Judg. 14. 1. 2. He who follows nothing but his eyes in the choise of a wife that marries a beauty or a face or a portion may after finde a Philistine in his bed and be as unhappy in his choise as Sampson was Sampson sees a woman and we will suppose her beautifull and as soon as ever his eyes fix on her he must presently have her to wife Wisdom and Passion cannot dwell under one roof for a man cannot love nor desire nor mourn nor grieve nor rejoice over much and be wise for when the heart is taken up very much with the later there is no room left in it for the former The Kings daughter is all glorious within Psal 45. 13. and love that reciprocally settles upon this inward beauty must needs be lasting Magnes amoris Amor. Love in this case is the Load-stone of love so attractive that it draws love to it and holds it fast when as he who marries a portion or a face findes it often otherwise The portion that flies and the beauty that decayes tres veniunt rugae Ju. the forehead begins to be wrinkled whereon love was first setled and in those wrinkles or surrows it is immediately buried But yet for all this as men are generally valued amongst men by the pound and acre Quot possidet agri Jugera Ju. Sat. 3. So in the choise of wives virgins are usually thus rated Protinus ad censum de moribus ultima fiet Quaestio Ju. Men commonly asking the question at the wrong end as first what hath she and then what is she concerning which a Gentleman of this age wrote wittily but it is good earnest Who wooes a wife for state or face May win a Mare to loose a Race The truth is that many a Childe hath been cast away upon riches and therefore wealth in peoples matches should be as some Grains or Scrupses in a Ballance superadded unto the Gold of virtuous qualities to weigh down the Scales For when it is made the substance of the weight and good qualities but the appendants there is one earth poysed with another which whensoever it is done it is a wonder if either the Children prove not the Parents sorrow or the Parents theirs It was Balaams most damnable Counsel to make the men of Israel wantons by the beauties of Moa● that then they might be soon made Idolaters and so they were Numb 25. Sin commonly enters in at the eye and so creeps down to the heart and therefore that Soul lies open unto very much hazard when a Covenant is not made kept with the eyes which if Sampson had done he that had so much strength had not discovered so much weaknesse Solomon whom before I nam'd so much renowned for wisdom had not manifested so much folly in miscarrying so fearfully by wives which turned away his heart from God and therefore when he was come again to himself he freely confesseth to all the world Eccles 7. 28. that he found more bitter than death the woman whose heart is as snares and nets and her

that their King is about to leave them to remove out of the Hive and be gone Strife and Division in Religion is a sad presage that either God hath or else is about to leave a People It is a principle in Nature that vis unita fortior Strength united receives more strength and Experience shews that Planks and Timber well joyned together make a Ship but disjoyned they cause shipwrack So connexion of Stones and other materialls make an House but dissipation of them a ruin So Agreement of Christians builds up the Church Dissention amongst them pulls it down To him that demanded why Sparta had no Walls the King thereof shewed Citizens well arm'd and unanimous unanimity in the profession of the truth of Religion would make it impregnable Division and subdivision are Tearmes that have their use in Arithmetick but they are dangerous to be heard of in Religion This way therefore and that judgment and the other opinion or perswasion can never repair but make more breaches still in the Church of Christ and I fear that much lesse than half an age will make the Church in this Nation most sadly to feel and to rue the truth hereof for as God is one so is his will one and his way one and oh how happie were it for Christians if they could get into keep in that way How many exhortations have we in the sacred book to peace and unitie live in peace and the God of peace shall be with you How are they reproved in scripture that walk disorderly or are unruly both Metaphors taken from Souldiers that have their severall stations assign'd them and if they break their rankes it is very dangerous Let the same mind be in you which was also in the Lord Jesus saith the Apostle not the like but the same not another but the same And the same Apostle sets a marke upon those which cause divisons And if they shall be called the Children of God who are makers of peace they must look out for another name who are the breakers and disturbers thereof in this Church wherein we live where the connivencie at some whose opinions were thought lesse dangerous hath been unhappily made Genus Generalissimū from whence all the errors that have been heard of late in this Nation have taken their rise for while liberty was given to some it was taken by others and from hence it is come to passe that all those Ancient heresies recorded by Irenaeus and Epiphanius and others which we hoped had been long since buried in forgetfulness have in these late times of liberty I say been raked up out of their corruption revived and with new faces and glosses put upon them presented to this Nation in Printed booksPunc● and have been preached by some and applauded by others and defended by more to the endangering of the very life and soul of Religion and the utter overthrow of true Godliness here amongst us It was well resolved by good and reverend Calvin ne decem quidem maria c. that it would not grieve him to sayle over ten Seas about a uniform draught in the profession of Religion Other particular men have wished and I believe most heartily that all these impertinent and unprofitable differences about uniformity in the profession of Religion which so much disturb the peace of the Church of Christ were buried in their Ashes Oh how many are led away with perverse disputings a people of uneven unquiet unpeaceable and untractable spirits quite fall'n off from their first Principles revolted and gone so wedded to their own opinion as that there is no reasoning with them for whatsoever can be said to the contrary they will be sure to hold their conclusions they being wiser in their own conceits than seven men that can render a reason And that great opinion they have of their own wisedome that love and likeing they have to their own false way makes them uncapable either of Counsel or cure they peremptorily refusing to return into the way of truth Many of these have abundance of error which proceeds from their own Pride and ignorance setled in their hearts as Solomon saith Pr. 22. 15. a child hath folly bound up in his heart and in regard that all reasonings and disputings in this case with them will do no good for we leave them still where we first found them it were very well for such and much better for the Church of God in this Nation if the Rod of Discipline and correction were long enough and smart enough to drive it thence Yet the greater part of these pretend conscience for what they do when indeed as before it is the Pride of their hearts the ignorance and darkness of their minds together with the perve●sness of their wills which carries them into and keepes them in errour For the conscience and will they are both lodged together in the same soul and therefore may be easily mistaken or taken one for the other as they have often been and still are by people of this Nation wherein we live whence it comes to passe by the righteous judgment of Almighty God that very many here amongst us in these later times have been given up their sin being part of their punishment to believe and to be led away with lies because they would not entertain the truth Now whereas the people in general of those remote parts honour and reverence a Church●an and for that very reason because he is so these before named men of corrupt minds cannot endure us who are the called and allowed minister and publishers of the truth of God and meerely for our office sake bestowing on us all termes of obliquie and scorn they can possibly invent esteeming us as that blessed Apostle St. Paul and other good men of his time were accounted by some 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Cor. 4. 13. which properly signifieth filth or dirt scraped off mens shoes we are made saith the Apostle as the filth of the world and are the off-scouring of all things unto this day as if we were the very offall or filth of manking unworthy so much as to have being upon the face of the earth And whereas again the Mahometans and heathens give their Priests not only honour but cōfortable maintenance without all grudging there are very great numbers amongst us being very much led away by principles of worldly minded ness coveteousness cannot abide us for our maintenance sake not cōsidering how that they who preach the Gospel must live by the Gospel and that by Divine right we have an honourable maintenance allowed unto us by Almightie God as it is most cleere by many passages of the new Testament as well as the Old And by the Laws of the Land wherein we live we have as great a civil right to what we may challenge from the people for our livelihood as any that would deny it us hath either to his bread or shirt Yet this is contradicted