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A37317	Færoæ & Færoa reserata, that is, A description of the islands & inhabitants of Foeroe being seventeen islands subject to the King of Denmark, lying under 62 deg. 10 min. of North latitude : wherein several secrets of nature are brought to light, and some antiquities hitherto kept in darkness discovered / written in Danish by Lucas Jacobson Debes ... ; Englished by J.S. ... ; illustrated with maps.	Debes, Lucas Jacobsen, 1623-1675.; Sterpin, Jean.	1676 (1676)	Wing D511; ESTC R9923	139,909	451

times and in several manners to the antient by his Prophets but now he hath spoken to us by his Son and his Son withdrawing from us his visible presence sent to us his Apostles and Disciples Matth. 28. ver 19. therefore saith Paul we are Messengers in the place of Christ for God admonisheth by us so we pray now in the name of Christ we reconcile our selves unto God 2 Cor. 5. ver 20. We may perceive by the premises that the spirit of lies was not the person whom he pretended to be being much less sent of God as he gave out but was the unclean spirit himself This salutation also gives no little suspition of him when he used an earnest salutation and worship which agreeth little with that of holy Angels but is rather like that of Apollo the Idol of Delphos which always contained some hidden Mystery Neither ought it to be an occasion of error to any that he healed him It may be the young man was cured of himself on the fourteenth day but if it be so as the party solemly protesteth it is easie for the Divel to heal and do good for a bad end that he might thereby confirm men in their errors God hath ratified his word by Miracles that he might thereby strengthen men in the true vivifying faith and besides we have a constant prophetical word which alone we ought to believe 2 Pet. ver 19. But Satan is the ape of God doing often the like things that he may seduce men from faith and the word to superstition and thus be powerful in them Ephes 2 ver 2. The Apostles shewing great signes and miracles by healing the sick and making the blind to see that they might bring blind Heathens from darkness to light and from Belial to Christ Simon the Magician is presently ready to doe the same by the help of Satan as powerfully and masterly to the eyes of all Samaria so that many stuck to him and said this is the great power and vertue of God Acts 8. 9 10. It is needless to add more examples but we must consider that the devil does not do this for a pastime for Christ says of him that he was a Murtherer and a lyer from the beginning John 8. 44. and it is his own nature to speak lyes and as the Father of lies disperse them amongst the Children of men Therefore Paul says plainly to the Thessalonians 2 Thes 2. 7. what he seeks by his si●●● which is thereby to induce man to believe lies wherefore he calls those signs lying wonders not but that they doe sometimes happen amongst men as this example witnesseth but because he seeks thereby to strenthen his lyes against the truth of God his false worship against Gods true adoration his superstition against the true justifying saith for God is truth and his word is truth his will being that all men come to the confession of truth and be saved 2 Tim. 2. 4. But Satan is the Father of lies all his words being nothing but lies and therefore would seduce men from truth to falshord and thereby to damnation with him and what he cannot do with his false words he seeks to execute by his false miracles and signs The prayer which he taught that young man is at the end of Mr. John Thomason's Psalter and hath been continually us'd in houses in the same Town where that young man lived and I do in a manner believe there is some falshood in this relation he having continually heard it said in that place But if it be so that Satan hath taught him it he hath himself found it in the said Book or been present when it was read and therefore could 〈…〉 the young man which is not 〈…〉 ●e being present in the 〈…〉 Lord and rooting the word out 〈◊〉 hearts of many Luke 8. 12. neith●● 〈◊〉 it a new thing for him to speak the w●rd of God for he knew excellently to make use of the word of God out of Davids Psalms against Gods own son Mat. 4. 6. but it is a wonderful thing that he cannot make use thereof without falsifying it He therefore commanded the party to say it lying upon the threshold of the Church door with his head outwards which this simple man did accordingly till he was converted from his Errors Which foolish and false command of Satan is more worthy to be mocked and laughed at then refuted only hereby is perceived his power of seducing wherewith as in a net he would have taken that poor people The Psalm which he commanded to be Sung when they Rowed out was wholly needless the Inhabitants never going to Sea but they sing that and other Godly Psalms The Prayer which he commands them to pray is most imperfect in many sorts of occasions for which and all other we have a perfect one which the Son of God hath taught us himself Mat 6. 9. c. That he commands Godly exercises and reprehends sins worthy in themselves of reprehension and are alas but too many amongst the children of men threatning thereupon imminent plagues and punishments is his old Sanctity when he will give himself out for an Angel of Light and though all that be good in i● self yet he knoweth to extract his own evill out of that good which he also doth by his signs and miracles only endeavouring thereby to draw and seduce the children of God from the fast Prophetical word from the plain Preaching of the word to believe visions and certain apparitions And when he hath brought them thus far he knoweth himself powerful in their superstition and can lead them captive according to his will from one error into another and at last make them believe manifest lyes It was already come so far with this poor people that some cared but little for their Teachers as appeareth by what we have already said which God in his mercy forgive them for they knew no better This is the most dangerous means whereby Satan can seduce men whereby he steals the word out of their hearts which is the only sword wherewith they could put them to flight By what is already said the foolish and erronious arguments of the common people fall of themselves and are reduced to nothing whereby one may see how easie it is to lead such poor Sheep into errors from whence they cannot come out except their Shepherd and Archbishop of their souls recall them by his servants O Christian Reader thou that hast perused the premises and their explication I admonish and warn thee out of a brotherly charity to take occasion from thence in spirit and truth to call dayly upon the Lord thy God to leave off thy great sins and thy bloody oaths not because Satan puts thee in mind thereof but because the Lord commands it thee least Satan who is the continual accuser be not only a perfect accuser but also a true witness of thy disobedience Remember to keep the Saboth holy according to Gods own institution learning thereby to rest from thy sins not only on Holydays but all the days of thy life that thou maiest become worthy to keep the ever lasting Sabath before the throue and the Lamb eternally Ho y Father sanctifie us in thy outh for thy word is truth Amen FINIS

have been clean or no. I have also an example that the Father hath been unclean and yet the Children healthful It has also been taken notice of that two living together in Marriage though the one be found infected they live together as before as long as one doth but murmur of it till the Magistrate doth separate them and yet the sound remaineth uninfected whereas another is often taken with the Disease by a very little conversation Here are examples yet before our eyes that poor Cripples clean but helpless have been put among the sick in the Hospital eat with them converse dayly with them and are not infected in the whole time of their lives what is this but that God confirms the truth of his word taking pleasure in them that live in a just Wedlock and wander in Lawful ways putting their hopes in him that neither fire nor Water contagious disease nor dangerous Pestilence shall hurt them CHAP. VII Of Religion And first of Teachers SOmething above 100 years after Feroe was inhabited with people it pleased God out of his Grace according to his Divine Providence and Promise in the 66th of Isaiah I will send some of them that are delivered to the Heathens a long the Sea and far out to the Islands where none hath heard of me nor seen my glory c. to settle his Domicil and build his Tabernacle here in Feroe For King Oluff Trygeson in the fourth year of his Reign and in the 1000 year of Grace when the word of God was Preached in Denmark did send Sigismund Brosteson a man of Fero● of whom is said before that the King caused him to be Baptized to Feroe who Baptized all the people there Though the Inhabitants of Feroe did not after the Death of Sigismund break the contract of their Baptisme with Christ as is perceived and concluded by the History of King Olaus the Holy who not only acquired friends in Feroe but also called them to him and made them take their oath which he had not done if they had not confessed themselves to be Christians having continual work with those of Island that came to him to be converted to the Christian Faith as the Chronicle of Norway plainly teacheth Nevertheless one may well perceive that the beginnings of Religion were very mean the Inhabitants in a long time refusing to acknowledge the Kings of Norway for their Soveraigns Whence we find also that it was long before they got any Bishops in the Country for Bishop Sarquir that is the fifth in the Catalogue of Bishops which Mr. Peter Clauson reckoneth lived 200 years after Sigismund Bresteson for he was Bishop in the time of King Hagen Hagenson in the year 1223. as is said before in the 4th chapter Wherefore if the Preaching of the Gospel had continued without interruption there would needs have been more then four Bishops in two ages though there may be an errour in the Catalogue since we find that there has been a Bishop in Feroe in the time of King Magnus Erlingson in the year 1277. whose name was Roar by whom King Suere was brought up whose name though the most renowned amongst them is left out of the Bishops Catalogue it might therefore more probably be that some of their names are left out of whom we find nothing in History yet howsoever it be all beginnings being difficult specially the light of the word being obstructed by the Prince of darkness it may very well have been so in matters of Religion here in Feroe till at last there came Bishops into the Country but we cannot find when that was possible in King Sigurd the Hierosolumites time in the age 1100. when the Kings of Norway were well setled wherewith the Catalogue of Bishops doth best agree When the said Bishops came first higher they had their residence at Kircke boe in Stremoe where there hath been formerly many stone buildings that are now ruin'd there only remaining a stone house with a great Parlour of Timber built after the antient fashion The Church which they had then in that place is yet standing and is made use of it is built of free-stone but of a very poor and low structure There stands besides another new Church-wall which one of the last Bishops called Hillarius did build it is a curious Edifice of even stone and the frames of the Windows are of Stone purposely cut for that use The Wall is yet in some manner unhurt and one might yet build a Church of it if the hearers would not spare their pains The Bishops in those days here as in other places have had great revenues of the Country but the Priests have fared very meanly It is not certainly known how many Bishops have been in Feroe Mr. Peter Clauson in his Description of Norway reckoneth up the following Sudmunds Mathias Kroll Suein or Swerke Peter Gauti Serquir Erland or Ellendar Loden Sigvar Giaffvard Hanard besides these there is found Bishop Roar in the History of King Suerre who it seems should be the third in order and besides the said Bishop Hillarius that built the new Church wall Arrild Huitfield in the Chronicle of King Frederick the I. in the year 1532. writes that Amund Oluffson was chosen Bishop of Feroe being a Canon of Bergen and gave the King 1000 Gilders of Feroe for his confirmation for Kings took then that pretended due which the Popes of Rome received of Bishops pro pallio or the Investiture having at last better discovered the covetousness of the Pope This Amund was the last Roman Catholick Bishop of Feroe King Fred●rick dying the year after his Son Christian the III. as soon as he was settled in his Kingdom removed all his Lord Bishops in all his Kingdoms and Provinces Since which time here hath been but one Evangelical Bishop called Mr. Jens Riber that lived here during some years till at last he was several times rob'd by French Pyrates and being an antient man he returned from hence to Copenhagen from whence he was sent to Stawanger in Norway and was there Bishop in the year 1556. after whom his Majesty of happy Memory King Christian the third Ordained that there should always be a Provost over the Churches there who was under the Bishops of Bergen as long as the Trade of Feroe was established there afterwards he was subjected to the Bishop of Copenhagen when the Comerce of Feroe was removed from Bergen to the Burghers of that City which the conveniency for travelling by Sea hath been the cause of His Majesty hath been Graciously pleased to grant a Mannor in Andes●●rd in Osteroe called Gaard Hodcle to the said place of Provost the first whereof was Mr. Heine Haugregster as we have said above in the History of Magnus Heineson after whom was Provost Mr. Oiden in Osteroe Mr. Tolle Priest of Feroe in Osteroe Mr. Christian Marsing Parish Priest of Thors haven Mr. Jens Skrwe Parish Priest of Sundoe Mr. John Rasmuss●n Feroe Parish Priest of