lately an account of greater Divisions some of them being charged by others with damnable Heresies and Doctrines of Devils c. in a Book intituled The Plea of the Innocent c. I take them for a Branch of the Old Anabaptists which sprung up in Germany upon the Reformation though they made no appearance in England 'till the time of our Civil Wars about the Year 1644. and then were assisted at least by some Priests of the Popish Seminaries in disguise as were also several other Sects which then sprung up amongst us See Du Moulin's Philan. Angl. c. Mahometans 1. Creed The first Chapter of the Alcoran is as it were the Mahometan's Creed and 't is called the Mother of the Book containing the Words of Mahomet for the rest are all deliver'd as the Word of God he being induced as Speaker Which first Chapter is this Sense In the Name of God gracious and merciful Thanks be unto God the Lord of the World merciful pitiful Judge at the Day of Judgment We pray unto thee we trust in thee Lead us into the right way the way of them whom thou hast chosen not of them with whom Thou art angry and of the Infidels Out of the Alcoran may be collected more of their Faith as thus 1. God is One necessary to all incorporeal neither begetting nor begotten the Creator long-suffering searcher of the Heart true that he hath no Son needs nothing 2. That Christ is the Son of Mary the best of Women the Prophet of God begotten by the Spirit of her in the shape of a Man Christ was not slain by the Jews but one like him 3. Their Law is to be propagated by the Sword Of the twelve Months four are to be consecrated to this warfare they that refuse it lose their Souls The Unbelievers taken in War that will not turn must be killed or made Slaves 'T is not lawful to dispute about the Law 4. God made the World and disposed the seven Heavens and afterwards Man like unto himself and breathed into him his own Soul a portion of it That the Angels being commanded to do reverence to Adam Beelzebub refused and was therefore damned 5. There is a Paradise and Hell but of sensual Pleasures and Torments 6. Mahomet is the Seal and last of the Prophets to whom it was lawful to lie with all Women even Aunts and Kindred c. 7. There shall be a Resurrection proved by the story of the 7 Sleepers who slept 360 Years 2. Moral and Judicial Precepts and Prohibitions 1. Prohibitions 1. Abstain from Swines-flesh Blood that which dies alone and that which hath the Neck cut off 2. From Wine and Women more than their own Wives or Women 3. Working on Friday at Prayer-time 4. Games of Chesse Scails and Tables 5. Marrying with Men or Women of another Law 6. Marrying with Mother Daughter Sister Aunt Niece Nurse c. 7. Swearing rashly and For-swearing 8. Usury Lying Injustice c. 2. Precepts Affirmative 1. Pilgrimage to Mecha 2. Belief in GOD and Mahomet 3. Marry and Fight for the encrease of Religion 4. Giving wealth to the Poor Men Slaves Birds Dogs 5. Praying five times a Day 6. Keeping Lent one Month in the Year 7. Obedience to Parents 8. Keeping Friday Sabbath cum multis aliis Mahometan Sects 1. Turks or Arabians 1. THE Turks pretendc that Abouleker was the Successor of Mahomet making his Genealogy thus Mahomet 1 Abouleker 1 Omar 1 Osman 1 Aly. 2. The Turks are called Sunni because they follow also Counsels of Devotion besides the Commands of their Law M. de Thev 3. They call to Prayers from the tops of Towers 4. In Praying the Turks hold their hands one over another upon their Stomach 5. Among the Turks for a Christian to dispute with them is a Crime punishable by Death 6. The Turks make God the Author both of Good and Evil. 7. The Turks say the Law is Eternal 8. The Turks teach that God shall be visible to blessed Souls in his Essence 9. The Turks say Mahomet when he received his Alcoran was carried by the Angel Gabriel Body and Soul into God's presence 10. The Arabians pray five times a day 2. Persians 1. The Persians leave out of Mahomet's Succession the names of Abouleker Omar and Osman affirming them to be Usurpers only and no rightful Successors to Mahomet that Aly lawfully and actually succeeded him making the Genealogy thus Mahomet 1 Aly. which Aly say they succeeded Mahomet both in his Doctrine and Empire and married also Mahomet's Daughter who was also the first of the twelve Imams and whose Interpretation of the Law they embrace as the Truest and whose Sepulchre they visit as the Turks the other three 2. The Persians call themselves Schiai because they think it enough to follow the Precepts of their Law though sometimes they follow some of the Counsels too 3. In Persia they call to Prayers three times a day from Terrases not Towers 4. The Schiai in Praying hold not their hands on their Stomach but laying down a little gray stone which they always carry about them every time they prostrate lay their Foreheads on that stone made of the Earth of Keebela where Hussein the second Son of Aly was killed M. de Thev 5. The Persians will suffer Christians to dispute with them about matters of Religion 6. The Persians make God Author of Good only 7. The Persians say only God is Eternal 8. The Persians say he is visible only in his Effects and Attributes 9. The Persians that he was carried only in Soul 10. The Persians pray but three times a day Morning Noon and Night no not upon Fridays The Persians have translated the Alcoran into the Persian Tongue with an interlineal Translation word for word for Turk and Persian both believe that that Book cannot be explainted in any other Language but Arabick Subordinate Sects Dervises THey go about begging Alms in the name of Aly. They wear two Sheep-skins dried in the Sun the one hanging on their Back the other on their Breast the rest of their Body naked their whole body shaved Head bare Temples burnt with a hot Iron Rings with precious Stones in their Ears and a knotty Club in their Hand They are desperate Assassinates Robbing and Murdering on occasion They eat of an Herb called Asserad or Matslach which makes them Mad cutting and slashing themselves which makes them more reverenced On Friday after their Devotion they drink of Asserad and Sing and Dance about a Fire like mad c. See more in the sequel of this Book Imailer The Imailers or Religious Brothers of Love have for their Habit a long Coat of a Violet colour without Seam girt about with a golden Girdle at which hang silver Cymbals which jingle as they go These with a Book in their Hand of Love-Songs go about Singing and receive Money for their Songs and are always bare-headed wearing long Hair which they curl They are worse than Beasts
Mexico drink no Wine and sleep little because most of their Exercises are in the night Purchas Chastity Jews FOrnication Adultery Drunkenness Gluttony Pride of Apparel c. are so far from being in request amongst the Jews in Barbary that they are scandaliz'd at the frequent Practice of these Sins in Christians Dr. Addison Christians The Chastity of the Primitive Christians appeared in these particulars 1. They would not Marry Justin Martyr saith There were many Christians in his time who for Sixty or Seventy years kept themselves uncorrupt 'T is very easie to find many amongst us both Men and Women who remain unmarried even in old Age. Athenag leg pro Christian Yet this without the Obligation of an Oath of perpetual Virginity 2. When they did Marry it is for no other end but the bringing forth and bringing up of Children As Husbandmen Till the Ground with respect to the Crop at Harvest Just Mart. 3. They seldom married twice Chrysostom's Mother at forty years old had lived twenty years a Widow Tertullian Cyprian Hierom Athenagoras c. did inveigh bitterly against second Marriages as little better than Adultery The ancient Canons as Zonaras tells in Can. 7. Conc. Neocesar suspended such as married twice from the Communion a whole year The Council of Laodicea requires That they should spend at least some small time in Penance in Fasting and Prayer before they be received to the Communion The Canons of the Apostles appoint That whoever after Baptism engaged in second Marriages is rendred uncapable of any Degree in the Ministry Can. 17. Note Digamy is 1. Two Wives at once Note Digamy is 2. One after the Death of another Note Digamy is 3. One after Divorce Of this some understand the Canons Note Digamy is 4. They shunned all Occasions c. 1. Going to Feasts c. Cyprian severaly chides with some Virgins for being present at Weddings where they laughed freely could not but hear loose Discourses see uncomly Carriages feed upon Luxurious Dishes all which must needs not only kindle but add Fewel to the Fire De Discipl had Virg. Constantine made a Law That Matrons should not be forced on the account of Debt to appear at publick Tribunals Cod. Theod. l. 1. Tit. 10. l. 1. St. Hierom doth as much commend some whom he knew who always kept at home on Festival-days to avoid the Crowd and Gazes of the People De Virg. The Council of Laodicea forbids all Christian Men using the same common Baths with Women Can. 30. Photius saith Justinian the Emperor made it a sufficient cause of Divorce and loss of Dowry for a Woman to Feast or Bathe in the Company of Men without her Husband's leave Cyprian would not have Ecclesiastick Persons and professed Virgins sleep near one another nor dwell together in the same House He commends Pomponius for suspending the Deacon and others for such Familiarity and ordered That they should not be absolved till after a sufficient Repentance c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 were Women brought in as Domestick Assistants to Ecclesiastick Persons especially such as were sent up and down to preach the Gospel Neither Wife nor Concubine but Attenders The Council of Antioch A. 272. under Aurelian Emperor condemns Paulus Samosatenus with his Presbyters and Deacons for keeping these introduced Women with horrible Inconveniencies Suspicion and Scandal St. Basil writes to a Presbyter seventy years old to abstain from the Company of a Woman he used to dwell with to avoid Scandal The Council of Nice forbids the same and universally the whole Clergy to have any Woman near them unless Mother Sister Aunt or such of whom there could be no Suspicion Can. 3. Honorius Emperor prohibits by a Law any Clergy-man whatsoever to keep company with these Extraneae strange Women limiting their Converse and Cohabitation within the very same Relations as the Nicene Canon Cod. Theod. l. 16. Bishops were to be deposed that entertain or cohabit with any Woman whatsoever Relation or Stranger Synops Basil l. tit 1. c. 41. St. Augustine would not cohabit with his own Sister Textor Domestick Marriage not openly made in the face of the Church were accounted no better than a State of Adultery and Fornication Tertull. de pudic c. 4. Their Ears they stopt against all loose and idle Songs filthy and obscene Discourses their Eyes they shut against all uncomely Objects wanton Pictures Clem. Al. Gorgonia when she lay under an acute and most dangerous Distemper yet resused to have any Physician come near her as blushing that any Man should see or touch her Nazianz. 2. Dancing and Musick The Fathers generally inveighed very bitterly against them None may Dance but the Daughter of an Adulteress but she who is Chast let her learn her Daughters Prayers not Dances Ambros What Modesty can there be where the Dancers shrick and make a noise together Idem Where the Timbrels sound the Pipes make a noise the Harp chatters the Cymbals strike together what fear of God can there be Hierom. in libr. contr Helvid Where wanton Dancing is there the Devil is certainly present for God hath not given us our Legs to dance but that we should walk modestly not skip like Camels but if the Body be polluted by dancing impudently how much more may the Soul be thought to be defiled The Devil danceth in these Dances Chrysost Hom. 49. in Mat. Men and Women together entering into common Dances having delivered their Souls to the drunken Devil wound one another with the pricks of unchast Affections Profuse Laughter is practis'd and filthy Songs meretricious habits inviting unto Petulancy are there used Laughest thou and delightest thou thy self with an arrogant Delight when as thou oughtest to pour out Tears and Sighs for what is past Singest thou whorish Songs casting away the Psalms and Hymns thou hast learned Dost thou stir thy Feet and caper furiously and dance unhappily when as thou oughtest to bend thy Knees to Prayer Basil in Orat. contr Ebr. Tzegedin cites several other Testimonies of S. Augustine c. and Councils and Canons against it De Choreis 5. They rather chose to suffer Torments and Death than the violation of their Chastity Domnina and her two Daughters Bernice and Prosdoce whom Chrysostom commends who being eminent for Beauty and Vertue were sought for as a Prey to Lust under the Diocle sian Persecution desired of the Souldiers leave to step out of the Road for some private occasion which granted they went and threw themselves into a River Chrysost Hom. 51. de S. Dom. Bern. c. Prosd Eusebius tells of the Wife of the Praefect or Governour of Rome a Christian sent for by Maxentius who was passionately enflamed with the love of her the Officers broke into the House to the terrour of her Husband She begged only so much time as that she might a little dress and adorn her self so she retired into the Chamber caught up a Sword and by a fatal stroke left nothing for
throws Rice upon their Heads praying that they may multiply as Rice The Woman's Parents give the Dowry and eight days are usually spent in Jovial merriment Sir Th. Herb. Trav. into Persia The Bannians in Calicut exchange their Wives Here not only Husbands but Wives are allowed Polygamy Persians The young Man and Maid see not one another before Marriage which is also observed in Muscovy The Bridegroom not the Bride gives a Dowry which is sent to the Mistress before Marriage or promised to be paid in case of Divorce the Kasi Ecclesiastical Judge or Molla contracts them by Proxies and marries them in the Name of God of Mahomet and of Aly giving them a Certificate of the Marriage and this in private perhaps in some Field for fear of Sorcery Presents are sent to the Bride of Pendants Bracelets c. she 's conducted on Horse-back With Musick c. to the Bridegroom's House where a Feast Poets Books Discourses of Morality are provided for their Entertainment if the Bridegroom find his Bride broken up to his Hands he may lawfully cut off her Nose and Ears and turn her away If any one of the Company is not there next day precisely by the hour of Dinner he is laid upon a Ladder set against a Wall with his Head downwards and whipt on the Soales of his Feet with a roll'd Handkercheif D. of Holstein 's Emb. Trav. At Aleppo the Kadi makes and dissolves all contracts of Marriage M. Tavernier l. 2. c. 2. p. 59. In Fermosa the Bridegroom after he hath sent the Dowry by a Relation to the Bride's House goes the next night and without Company or Light or sight of any one creeps by stealth into the House and so into the Bride's Bed where the Marriage is secretly consummated and for some time continues to do so never seeing one another in the day time unless in some remote place for they live not with their Wives till 40 Years of age Mandelslo In Bengala their Marriages are made in some Water wherein the Priest and the married Couple hold a Cow and Calf by the tail and pour water upon it then the Priest ties the married Persons Cloaths together and surround the Cow and Calf and so the Ceremony is ended the Priest hath for his Fee the Cow and Calf the Poor some Alms and the Idol some Money Rosse In Malabar the King will not converse with his new-married VVife till one of the chief Bramines hath had the first Night's Lodging with her Idem In Narsinga the chief Priest dispenseth with Marriages at his pleasure and when he gives License to the VVoman to marry again he seals it with a hot Iron on her Shoulder Idem Mahometans In Fez they marry in the Church Rosse The Tartars buy their VVives and in regard there are abundance of poor young Men that have not wherewithal to buy they never marr at all M. Tavernier l. 3. c. 13. Gaurs The Gaurs are permitted to have five Wives if they can maintain them nor is it laudable to repudiate any but in case of evident Adultery or that she turn Mahometan besides the Husband must stay a whole year to see if she will repent or no and upon confession of her fault after three Years Pennance they are remarried As to the Ceremony of Marriage the Priest asks before Witnesses if they both consent then taking a little Water he says a few Prayers over it and then washing both their Fore-heads he pronounces certain words and rhere's all They Marry not within the third degree M. Tavern l. 4. c. 8. With one of their Wives only they are to Lye at least two Nights a Week Friday and Saturday and she always goes before the rest When the Women have the custom of Nature upon them they lye in the Fields and have Meat and Drink brought them every day and when they are free they send a Kid Hen or Pidgeon for an Offering after which they go to the Bath and then invite some few of their Kindred to some small Collation Idem Armenians Amongst the Armenians the Mothers often agree upon Marriages for their Children at two or three years old sometimes before they are Born before either Party have seen each other or the Fathers and Brothers know any thing of it Upon the Fathers Approbation the Mother of the boy with 2 Old Women goes to the House where the Mother of the Daughter Lives and Present her with a Ring from the Boy the Boy appears afterwards and the Priest reads something out of the Gospel as a blessing upon both Parties after which they give him a sum of Money according to the quality of the Father of the Girl this done they present the Company with Drink And this is called a Betrothing After this giving of the Ring tho it be 20 years after before they are Married the Boy is bound yearly upon Easter-day to send his Mistress a New Suit of Clothes with suitable Trimming Three days before Marriage the Boy 's Parents prepare a Feast and a New Suit of Cloths for the Girl at length the Boy on one Horse and the Girl on another sumptuously Harnessed with Bridles and Saddles of Gold and Silver if the Parents be Rich set out from the Virgin 's Habitation the Bride-groom going before with a Veil of Carnation Tiffany on his Head or else with Gold and Silver Net-work the Meshes whereof are very close that reach below the Stomach he holds in his hand one end of a Girdle 3 or 4 Ells long and the Bride that Rides behind holds the other She is also covered with a large White Veil from head to Foot that spreads also a good way over the Horse under which as under a large White Sheet the Bride is so hid that nothing can be seen but her Eyes Two Men walk on either side the Horses and if they are Children of 3 or 4 years old there are 3 or 4 Men to hold them in the Saddle for so young they Marry A great Train of People follow with Tapers in their Hands as if going in Procession Drums Trumpets Haut-boys c. Attending to the Church-door When alighted the Bride-groom and Bride still holding the Girdle in their Hands advance to the Foot of the Altar where they lean Forehead to Forehead the Priest laying his Bible on their Heads instead of a Desk a weight sufficiently heavy as being a thick ponderous Folio Then the Minister commonly a Bishop or Arch-bishop reads the Service very much like ours demanding Wilt thou have such a one to thy Wife To thy Husband To which they Answer with a Nod of the Head After the Matrimonial Benediction they hear Mass and so return to the Daughter's Habitation where the Nuptials last three days the Women Drinking more than the Men. The Man goes to bed first the Woman pulling off his Breeches tho she doth not lay aside her Veil till the Candle is out Let it be what time of the year it will
1.1 doth not signifie a Person but the purpose of God the Father to make the world and send Christ  Antitrinitarians Polonian Arians Socinians also Deny the Trinity of Persons The Father Servetus There is no real Generation in God  Muggletonians God the Father was a Spiritual Man from Eternity but in time produced a Natural Body  Theaurau John 'T is nonsense to say God is the Father of us all Jesus Christ the Son of God Arrian-dadeians Christ is the Father's Servant  Arians Not truly or naturally the Son of God nor of the same Substance with the Father  Servetus Christ was but a Figure of the Son of God By Eternal Generation Photiniani Servetiani Nativitarii the Son always was but not Son till Born of the Virgin  Eunomians Samosatenians say the same  Francis Ker Christ was not God till after his Resurrection  Pelonian Arians The Eternal generation of the Son is against Truth and Reason Very God Carpoorates Cerinthians Ebionites Mat. Hammant Turks Socinians Jews Eunomians Impugned Christ's Divinity  Agnoite Christ's Divine Nature was ignorant of some things  Nestorians Christ became God by Merit not by Nature  Catabapt some Blandrat Christ is not the true God Of one substance with the Father Macedonians Christ is not of one Substance with the Father  Anomoei Not like the Father at all  Acatiani Semi-Ariani He is like the Father 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  Aeriani He is like the F. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Very Man of a Humane Body Saturninus Marcionites Eutychiant Cerdoniani Manichees Archontici Phantasmatici Christ was Man but putatively  Apellitae Christ took an Etherial Body of the Stars  Valentiniani Menno A Spiritual and Celestial Body by the Virgin Mary as by a Channel  Apollinarians Christ's humanity is consubstantial with the Father  Vbiquitarii Christ's Body humanity is every where  Servetus Christ's Body was compact of three uncreated Elements  Aphthartodoâ—itae Christ's Body was not corruptible but immortal as soon as he took it And reasonable Soul Eunomians Arians Christ had a humane Body but not Soul  Apollinarists Christ had a humane Body but not Soul or if Soul not Mind  Valentinus Christ had a carnal Soul  Theopaschites Christ had a Body but not Soul God and Man in one Person Eutychians Dioscurus Severites Christ had but one nature compounded of Divine and Humane  Arephali Theodosiani Christ had not the properties of both natures  Nestorians The word and Flesh were united in one Person as two Friends in love  Apollinarists The word was changed into Flesh Conceived by the Holy Ghost Monothelites Christ had but one Will.  Theodorus Mesechius The word is one thing and Christ another Born of the Virgin Mary Ebionites Carpocrates Theodosius Christ was conceived by Man of Humane Seed ex Viri coitu  Valentinians Anabaptists Familists Christ took the Flesh of the Virgin Mary qu. by a Channel  Armenii Christ had an incorruptible Body from the first moment of Conception  Nestorius The Virgin Mary was not 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉  Socinus Christ's Incarnation is against Reason  Hoffman God took Flesh of himself  Mennonists Denied Christ to be born of Mary  Antimarians Denied Mary's Virginity as did also Cerin hus and Helcidius Pure from all Sin Jews Christ was a Violater of the Sabbath Law c.  Marcionites Christ dissolved the Law Prophets and all the Works of God  Saturnians Christ came into the World to destroy the God of the Angels  Mat. Hamant Christ was a sinful Man and abominable Idol  Leon. Vairus Christ was a Veneficus a common Poisoner of Men and Women Our only Saviour Barcocab Moses Cretensis False Messiahs of the Jews  Arminius Christ died sufficiently for all but not effectually for any particular Persons  Socinus Christ did not satisfie for us but obtained power for us to satisfie for our selves  Simon Magus False Saviours Called himself the Holy Ghost Called himself greater than Christ  Menander False Saviours Called himself the Holy Ghost Called himself greater than Christ  Montanus False Saviours Called himself the Holy Ghost Called himself greater than Christ  Manes False Saviours Called himself the Holy Ghost Called himself greater than Christ  Mahomet False Saviours Called himself the Holy Ghost Called himself greater than Christ  David Geogre False Saviours Called himself the Holy Ghost Called himself greater than Christ  Noetus called himself Moses and his Brother Aaron  One Mother Jane is the Saviour of Women said Postellus the Jesuit  Saturnius Desider Burdegal Eudo de Stella c. False Christs Was crucified dead buried Cerinthus Jesus was not Christ  Manichees Phantasmatici Cerdonites Eutychians Christ suffered not truly but in appearance only  Familists The Incarnation and Passion of Christ is to be understood Allegorically  Sabellians Serverus Basilides Armenii Apollinarij Patri-Passians Theopaschites The Godhead suffered So also the Muggletonians  Islebius Andreas Musculus Christ suffered in his Humanity and Divinity both  Petrus Antioch The whole Trinity was crucified  Manichees The very Devils hung upon the Cross  Muhamedeus Not Christ who escap'd through the Roof of the House but Judas the Traitor was crucified in the shape of Christ  Socinus Christ died for the Infirmities of our Nature Descended into Hell Liberatores Christ descending into Hell the damned souls believed and were delivered  Papists Christ went into Lake Limbo to loose the souls of our Forefathers  Carlisle Christ descended not into Hell at all  Banister Christ in Hell endured the very Torments of the Damned Rose again the 3d day Jews Hamant David George Deny the Resurrection of Christ  Cerinthus Christ shall Rise is not yet Risen  Swenkfeldians Christ after his Resurrection was so Deified that he is meerly God alone Ascended into Heaven Jews c. Hamant Christ is not ascended  Ket Christ's Humane Nature is not ascended but is in Judea gathering a Church  Montanists Cataphrygians Carpocratians Christ in soul only ascended  Papists Christ at his Ascension carried with him the souls of those he delivered out of Limbo  Germ. Divines Christ carried with him the souls and bodies of those he raised out of their Graves  Brentius and Vbiquitaries Christ's body after his Ascension now is every where Thence he shall come to judg the World Atheists Manichees There shall be no general Judgment  Origenists Catabaptists All the Devils and Damned in Hell shall after some time be saved  Turks Those Devils c. that in Hell cry for mercy shall be saved  Familists The wicked shall not be judged but die as Bruits  Coppinger and Arthington said Will. Hacket was come to judge the World and themselves were his Angels  Papists Beside Christ the Pope is Judg of Quick and Dead  Cerinthus Papias Origenes
Body Let them who have a mind to 't glory in the Flesh we are under the profession of Humility all Glory is vain and swelling especially from the Flesh A Christian may glory in the Flesh but when 't is torn in pieces for the sake of Christ that the Spirit may be crowned not that it may prove a Snare to attract the Eyes and Sights of Young-Men's ungovernable Passions after it c. Cyprian Obj. 'T is acceptable to our Husbands Answ 1. Every wise and good Man cannot but like his Wife better without them Every Husband is a rigid Exactor of his Wife's Chastity If he be a Christian he will not require any such feigned Beauty if a Gentile let her do what she can he will suspect her to be naught Tertull. 2. The loose delicate Arts come too near the Practice of lewd wanton Prostitutes Birds and Beasts are content with their own natural Beauty and Colours Woman only as if inferiour to them thinks her self so deformed as that there is need to repair the defect by external bought and borrowed Beauty Children-like they admire every thing that is strange and gawdy they shew themselves to be Women that have put off shame and modesty and whosoever calls them so shall do them no wrong as carrying the very signs and representations of it in their Faces Clem. Alex. 3. These additional Arts are a bold and sacrilegious Attempt and an high contempt of God that is to reform what God hath formed That such a one hath cause to fear least when the Day of Resurrection comes He that made them should not know them c. And then he brings in the Densor of the World thus speaking This is none of my Workmanship nor this my Imdge and Likeness Cyprian Theodoret tells of his own Mother That when young having a Distemper in one of her Eye s which had baffled the Physicians she went to one Peter near Antioch famous for Miracles of a very Severe and Ascetic Life she to render her self the more considerable in his Eye put on her richest Robes Pendants Chains of Pearl c. The uncomplemental Man severely check'd her with a comparison drawn from an unskilful Bungler going about to correct a Picture made by an excellent Artist and not without much importunity would grant her Errand In fine she went away with a double Cure of Body and Mind Hist Relig. c. 9. in vit Petri. Clemens Alex. compares such Women to the Egyptian Temples without Splendor and magnificent Groves rows of Pillars Walls set off with Stones of several Countries Carved c. The Temples garnished with Gold Silver Amber c. within behind the Curtain a Cat a Crocodile So Women trimming themselves with Gold Curling their Hair Painting their Faces blacking their Eyes colouring their Locks c. within a lustful Ape a crafty Serpent c. Nazianzen saith his Sister Gorgonia used no Gold to make her Fine no yellow Hair ordered into Locks and Curles No loose transparent Garments no Lustre of Stones and Jewels no Arts of Painting c. Clothe your selves with the Silks of Honesty the fine Vertues of Piety the Purple of Modesty and being thus beautified and adorned God himself will be your Lover Tertull. Mahometans and Hindoes They never Pride it in any New Fashion The Habits of highest and lowest are the same which they never alter pure white fine Callico-Lawn is the bravery of the highest which they wash every day The Women are Habited somewhat like Men they of the greatest Quality are Adorned with many rich Jewels Temperance in Meats Jews THe Pharisees Fasted on Mondays and Thursdays as hath been noted before in remembrance of Moses going up and returning from Mount Sinai c. Concerning which we have spoken already in the first part of this Book in the Chapter of Fasting Christians Our Food and Diet should minister to Health and repair the Weakness of Nature Basil Our Nourishment ought to be simple and easy subservient to the two main ends of Life Health and Strength Clem. Alex. Nor are we less to take heed of Gluttony contenting our selves with a spare Diet and such only as is necessary not giving way to the Infinite and unsatiable cravings of a nice and intemperate Appetite which will have a thousand pretences to defend it self 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Justin Mart. Clemens Alex. reckons up the Inconvenience of Excess viz. wasting the Estate ruining the Body impairing the Health Debauching the Stomach deflouring the taste begetting an ill habitude and temper sowing it with the Seeds of all diseases dulling the mind preparing it for the entertainment of any Vice c. S. Cyprian in an Epistle to the Priests and Deacons Ep. 7. adviseth them to eat and drink sparingly that they might be watchful unto Prayer S. Hierom adviseth Leta to give her Daughter such a thin and mean Diet that after Meals she might be presently fit either to read or sing Psalms Ad Let. Tom. 1. The Council of Laodicea Can. 53. forbade them light and ludicrous Actions as leaping and Dancing enjoyning them to Dine and Sup gravely and modestly as Christians Julian Emperor being about to raise War and squeeze the Christians sent to S. Basil his fellow-student formerly at Athens for 1000 l. he return'd Answer That it was not to be expected there where he had not Provision before hand for one day That his greatest Dainties were a few Pot-herbs a piece of Bread and a little sowre Vapid Wine Basil Ep. 208. Tom. 3. Chrysostom commends Olympias that she had taught her Stomach to receive only so much Meat and Drink as was enough to keep her alive and in Health Alcibiades afterward Martyr had accustomed himself to a very rigid and sordid Course rejecting all sorts of Food but Bread and Water this before and after he was in Prison which had an ill influence upon others whereupon Attalus one of the most Eminent of those famous Martyrs the day after his being exposed the first time in the Amphitheatre had it Reveal'd to him That Alcibiades did amiss in refusing the good Creatures of God and giving scandal c. upon which he laid aside his singularity Eusebius out of the Letter of the Churches of Lyons and Vien in France to those in Asia Hist Eccl. l. 5. c. 3. Luther saith of himself I lose too much time by invitations to Feasts here in this City I know Satan hath such a hand in it that I may not deny it and yet it doth me harm to accept the Courtesy And again My Converse with my Friends which I use to call a Feeding of my Corps doth very badly steal away a great part of my time Fuller's Lives Muscovites Those who take Tobacco in Muscovy by reason of their Excess in it and doing hurt by it c. Burning their Houses and Infecting their Images with a stinking Breath are by order of the great Duke to have their Nostrils slit or be whipt as we have often
the Messengers but a dismal Spectacle Origen chose rather to commit Idolatry than Fornication though that too was his Enemy's Act rather than his own they hailing him up to the Altar and thrusting the Frankincense into his hand Dr. Cave 6. They accounted Uncleanness an heinous sin and amongst all the sins that were punished sharply in the Ancient Church Adultery was one of the chief Marcion being found guilty of lying with a Virgin and therefore thrown out of the Church betook himself to one Cerdon a Master-Heretick and espoused his Doctrines The Punishment for Adultery was perpetual Penance all a Man's Life and scarce admission to Communion at the Hour of Death 'till Pope Zephyrianus A. C. 216. ordered the Penance for a shorter space of time which offended the Afric Churches Tertullian inveighs bitterly against it as a thing unfit in it self and an Innovation in the Church The Council of Ancyra A. 315. set Adultery at 7 Years Penance Can. 20. The Council of Illiberis decreed for the second Fault perpetual penance not to be absolved at Death S. Basil in his Rules of Discipline for Amphilochius sets Fornication at 7 Years Penance Adultery at 15. His Brother Gregory Bishop of Nyssa sets Fornication at 9 Years Penance Adultery and all other kinds of Uncleanness at 18 yet giving liberty to Spiritual Guides to contract c. Justin M. gives an instance of a Woman that had lived lewdly with her Husband but Repenting and Reforming became strictly chaste and sober and would have persuaded her Husband to do the like but he obstinately refusing it begat a quarrel and that quarrel at last became the Matter of publick cognisance and was an occasion for Justin Martyr to write that excellent Apology for the Christians Apol. p. 41. Theodosius provided by a Law That no Woman should marry within a Year at least after her Husband's death and ratified it by a double Penalty Note of Infamy and loss of Dowry and whatever her Husband had bequeath'd to her Muscovites The postures of the Muscovites in Dancing and the insolence of their Women are infallible marks of their bad inclinations We have seen at Moscou both Men and Women come out of the publick Brothel-Houses stark naked and incite some young People of our Retinue to naughtiness by their filthy and lascivious expressions D. of H. Ambass Trav. p. 60. Yet Adultery is look'd upon as a Sin unpardonable A Polander turning Greek to marry a Muscovite Beauty being forced to take a Journey into Poland his Lady in his absence made a shift to be otherwise supplied and had a Child but fearing her Husband's displeasure retired into a Monastery and was shaved Her Husband would fain have got her out again and pardon'd the offence but it would not be permitted it being according to their Theology a Sin against the Holy Ghost not to be pardon'd in this nor the other World Ibid. Mahometans The Law of Mahomet allows four Wives to any and as many Concubines as they please The Great Mogul is said to have four Wives and a thousand Concubines yet had but six Children yet the Mahometan-Priests and some others content themselves with one Sultan Coob-Surroo one of the Mogul's Sons a Prince of a lovely Presence had but one which accompanied him in all his straits for in his younger Years he had been tempted to Rebellion Anon. The Turks in their Bagnio's separate Men from Women The strict Votaries of that Religion marry not at all 'T is observed those Mahometans who have most Concubines and Wives are most jealous and will not suffer their Wive's Brothers or Fathers to come to them except in their presence Honest Women of reputed Chastity will not at any time be seen but by their Husbands but if they are found Incontinent their own Brother's Hands shall be first against them to take away their Lives rather than they shall not be punished In Indolstan is notwithstanding a free Toleration for Whores who are inrolled before they can have liberty to keep such a House Some of them appear before the Mogul singing wanton Songs playing on Timbrals c. Heathens The Hindoes take but one Wife and are not jealous as the Mahometans who have many suffering their Wives to go whither they please Their Widows cut their Hair and live as Creatures neglected by themselves and others some are ambitious to dye with honour in their Husband's Funeral pile and she that is thus resolved never starts back but goes singing to her Death and altho ' not bound yet never offers to stir out of the Flames The Persees in Indostan have but one Wife who likewise is permitted to go abroad The Mogul one day found one of his Eunuchs kissing one of his Women Put her in a hole in the Ground up to her Head there she died in torment parch'd with the Sun after she had lain a Day and a Night crying out Ah! my Head c. The Eunuch in the same place in her sight was cut in pieces The Women of Deyly are handsome and the Gentiles very chaste insomuch that if the Mahometan Women did not by their wantonness dishonour the rest the Chastity of the Indians might be proposed as an Example to the Women of the East M. de Thevenot Trav. l. 3. c. 25. The Persian Women when they go abroad veil their Faces Sir Th. Herb. The Persees severely punish Adultery and Fornication Mandelslo's Travels Haron Wathic Billak a Turkish Chalif kill'd himself with immoderate Venery Hottinger Armenians One Mariage a Deputy from the King and French Company for Trade with Persia at Zulpha by the means of an old Woman Mother of one of his Lacqueys having debauch'd an Armenian Girl whom he kept privately to himself so soon as it was noised abroad all the Armenians were scandaliz'd at it and sent to seize the Bawd to punish her by their Laws as she deserv'd Mariage fled out of his Lodgings to her Assistance but seeing the People in an Uproar and finding the Stones to fly too thick about his Ears he was forc'd to seek his own safety was threatened by the Armenians to be complained of to the King of France and ever after lookt upon with Scorn and Contempt Tavernier's Collection of several Relations c. p. 36. Japonites In Japon Adultery is only punished in the Women Deflouring and Ravishing of Virgins in the Persons of the Criminals and the next of Kin too Idem p. 4. Here the Women live retir'd and are very faithful to their Husbands Ibid. p. 4. The Emperor having put to death one of the Lords of his Court out of hopes to enjoy his Wife she fearing Violence besought the Emperor to give her time to consider which was granted for some few days at the end whereof she shut her self up in a Room with her Children and after she had delivered a Paper to one of her Servants to carry to the Emperor she set the Chamber on fire and burnt both her self and her Children
Justinus Nepotiani Adamantii Chiliastae assert Christ shall Reign on the Earth 1000 years after the Resurrection So Apollinarii Victorinus Tertullian Irenaeus Lactantius  Jews Before the Judgment there shall be a Golden Age to the Godly  Hutistes Take upon them to prefix the very day and hour of Christ's coming to Judgment The H. Ghost is truly God Macedonians Tropicks Arians The Holy Ghost is a Creature or Power Celestial created by God thro' the Word  Effrontes The Holy Ghost is a bare Motion inspired by God into the Mind  Samosatenus Photinus Socinus Servetus Turks Ochinus Lombard Ket Hamant Brownists some Pneumatomachous likewise saying the Holy Ghost is not God but God's Love or Vertue whereby he works iâ— his Children  Hierax Melchisedec was the Holy Ghost  Sim. Magus His Helen was the Holy Ghost  Franciscan S. Francis was the Holy Ghost  Helehe The Holy Ghost was a Woman and the natural Sister of Christ  Grecians Russians The H. Ghost proceeds from the Father but not from the Son  Tritheists The H. Ghost is inferior to the Father as the Arians say he is not inferior to the Son Mankind is by Nature corrupt and guilty of Original sin Saturninus Some men are naturally good tho some bad  Carpocratians some of them they were every way as innocent as Christ  Adamites They were ever way as innocent as Adam before his Fall  Jews Carpocratians Familists Flatly deny Original sin  Pelagians Adam's sin hurt not his posterity  Albanenses There is no Original sin if their Adversaries report truly of them  Jack-a Leyden No Original sin  Papists The Virgin Mary was free from sin Original  Council Trent Concupiscence is no sin but proceeds from sin and inclines to sin  Manichees Original sin is another substance within us so that Man is not voluntarily but necessarily driven to evil  Socinus There is no Original Sin i. e. Concupiscence and Deformity of Nature in us Contracted by natural generation from Adam justly we being in his loins when he fell Florinus Blastus Hermogenes Therefore God is the Author of sin  Valentinians Original Sin comes From the Devil  Apollinarians Original Sin comes From Nature  Pelagians Original Sin comes By Imitation  Familists Original Sin comes By Imitation  Arminius All men are received into the Covenant of Grace and all freed from Orinal Sin So that now we have no will to good of ourselves Pharisees Sadduces Pelagians Donatists Papists Anabaptists Man hath no free will to Good  Lawr. Valla Man hath no Power to move his Body to outward things nor his Mind to sin  Hobbes Liberty of will in the Soul is Physically necessary  Socinus There is a Free will to Goodness in us  Arminius A Natural Man can by using the gifts of Nature rightly obtain saving Grace c. Nor sufficient Knowledg of our Duty Montanists said They knew more than the Apostles of Christ  Socinus No man by the Light of Nature can have any Knowledg of God Yet God requires holiness Carpocrates A Vicious Life will appease the Evil Angels  Basilides Exâ—oll'd a civil Righteousness up to the very Heavens Viz. That we worship him alone Angelici Adored Angels so did the Jews and Pythagoreans and Platonists  Armenii The Cross  Helcesaitae The Water and some Women a-kin to Helceseus  Greeks The V. Mary and Pictures  Collyridiani Offered bread to the Virgin M.  Papists Saints  Pagans Men under the Names of Jupiter Saturn c.  Persians A Dragon  Syrians A Fish and Pigeons  Aegyptians An Ox Calf Cats Vultures Crocodiles  Turks Mahomet  Americans The Devil under the name of Zemes and Tanto and Cendir  Hakem President of Egypt a Mahometan would be called God and was so by a servant of his Darareus who told him he had got 16000 Disciples viz. who would call him God  Cuscans and Peruvians Viracocha i.e. the Creator of Heaven and Earth Vaspu i. e. Wonderful and the Sun and Stars and Author of Rain and Thunder and Pachacuma and Macamoca i.e. the Earth and Sea and Rainbow high Trees c. Dragons Bears Tigers c.  Mexicani Vitzliputzli viz. Idolum quoddam  Muggletonians decry all outward Worship  Quietists do the same and call to that which is Inward and spiritual  Clancularii professed no Religion with their mouth but kept it in their heart According to his Word Will Pettaloronchiae put the Finger in the Mouth to appease God with silence  Tascodrongitae Spirituales put the Finger in the Nose to shew their Ardency in Prayer  Nudi-pedales Went barefoot  Collyridiani Used to carry about Bread in Honour of the Blessed Virgin  Papists In Procession carry about the Sacrament on Horse-back the Pope being carried on in a chair of Gold on the shoulders of 6 or 8 Noblemen By praying to him Messaliani Euchitae Euphemite Psalliani Martyriani were constantly Devoted to Prayers but idle  Agonyclitae Would not Pray kneeling nor prostrate but only standing  Beghardinae Beghinae No need of Prayers and Fasting  Prodiciani Brownists Reject the Lord's Prayer and all set Forms And praising him Arnheim Church sing the Prophets and their own Hymns And fasting and abstinence Cerdon Marcion Saturninus Carpocrates From flesh and marriage  Tatianus From Flesh Wine and Women Manichees the Priests did so yet in Fasts had plenty and variety of Fruits spices Liquors c.  Severus From Wine Women and Marriage  Gnosticks Aerians Priscillianists Apostolicks Hierarchites Valentinians Marriage is not Lawful or meet whoredom is so say the Armenians Apostolici and Encratitae from Marriage and Riches  Turks Jews Polygamy is Lawful so likewise say the Hermogenians and Ochinites  Valesii Castrated themselves  Nicolaitans Sim. Magus Woredom is Lawful  Papists They which are of spiritual Kindred may not marry  Papists admit none into the Clergy that are married unless they will be first unmarried  Vigilantian admit none into the Clergy that are married unless they will be first unmarried  Bishops admit none into the Clergy that are married unless they will be first unmarried  Origen Tertullian Catharans Henricians none should marry twice And Montanists of whom Tertullian was one so Athenagoras Hierome Nazianzen Origen  Ossens compel People to marry  Manichees Forbid marriage to the Electi Priests As God hath revealed his Will in the holy Scriptures of the Old and New Testament Circumcellians Burnt the Holy Scriptures  Archontici rejected most of the Old Testament and substituted the Apocrypha in its room  Basilides Carpocrates Valentinians Manichees Severians Catabaptists Marcionites Apelles rejected the Old Testament for the most part so the Socinians  Ebion allowed only S. Matthew's Gospel called Paul an Apostate  Sadduces only the Pentateuch  Muscovites rejected the 4 last Books