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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

other cause yet because he is a man is more to be valued than all the Crystal cups in the world And doubtlesse he deserves not the name of a man who knows not how to value a man But how is mankinde in these last ages of the world become degenerate and wilde from that which Nature first shaped it unto For man was made in the beginning to man as Moses was made to Aron Ex. 4. 16. in some sense a God for succour and comfort but how contrary to this rule do most men walk so that we may justly complain with that noble and virtuous French-man Philep Morney saying what is more rare amongst men than to finde a man that is as he interprets himself amongst men how many beasts are there for want of the use of reason and for not using reason well how many Devils Lions saith Plini● fight not against Lions Serpents bite not Serpents but the most mischief man sustains comes from man Thou art deceived saith Seneca if thou givest credit unto the looks of those that meet thee who have the faces of men but the qualities of wilde beasts Some like the Crocodiles of Nilus that can flatter and betray weep and murder cry and kill Oh how hath mankinde in these latter ages justified the madness of the most savage and untractable beasts and steel'd their affections with more cruelty than ever Lions or Serpents could learn in the wildernes But certainly that crying clamouring sin of bloud or murther unlesse it be washed away with a floud of tears issuing from a bleeding and a broken heart and died into another colour by the bloud of Christ will in conclusion bring woe and misery enough upon them that shed it For there was never any drop of innocent bloud spilt upon the earth from the bloud of righteous Abel to this present hour or that shall be shed so long as there are men and malice and mischief in the world but it swells as big as the Ocean Sea in the eyes of God and cannot be washed away by all the waters therein And further neither the heat of the Sun nor the dust of the ground shall ever be able to drie and drink it up till it be either avenged or pardoned unlesse the earth and heavens and all that are therein can be bribed to keep silence and to take no notice thereof Without all doubt when God shall make inquisition for bloud he will remember for he that bottles up the tears of his poor people cannot forget their bloud Whence it comes to passe by the righteous judgement of Almighty God that they who delight in bloud have usually enough of it before they die or if bloud do not touch bloud for the present it will deny a man 〈◊〉 peace after the fact committed Had Zim●● peace who slew his Master 2 King 9 31. no he had no peace no more have any guilty of that sin if their consciences be not for the present ●oof'● over if the mouth of them be not for the present bung'd up But as it was in that first plague of Egypt wherein Pharaoh and the Egyptians were smitten all their waters in their Rivers Ponds and Pools as in their Vessels of wood stone were changed into bloud So in the minde and conscience of a murtherer there usually remains a plague of bloud His eyes shall behold no other colour but Sanguine as if the air were died into it The visions of his head in the night shall cast a boul of bloud in his face all the cogitations and thoughts of his heart shall overflow with the remembrance of that bloud he hath spilt The consideration of which methinks should be enough to trouble and affright men that lie under the guilt of this sin if they fear either guilt or conscience which will first or last fly in their faces Plutarch writing de serâ numinis vindictâ of the late but sure revenges executed upon men by divine justice hath this story of the Delphians who made no scruple to murder Aesop amongst them but after this when they were most grievously plagued by variety of heavy judgements they who had imbrued their hands in his bloud walked up and down in all the publick assemblies of Greece and caused this to be proclaimed by noise of Criars that whosoever would should be avenged on them for Aesops death They believing themselves the procurers of those plagues which were then upon them Deus patiens redditor God is a patient rewarder whose revenges are slow but sure Fortis ●st Deus Deus retributionum Jet 51. 56. the Lord God of recompences shall surely requite who is many times long before he strike but tarditatem supplicii gravitate compensat the severity of his justice shall at last make a full amends for the slownesse thereof 'T is sad to consider that Heathens as before was observed should have so much tendernesse in their Nature and any bearing the names of Christians so much cruelty that Heathens should make so much scruple in taking away the lives of base inferiour Creatures of those which are not onely uselesse but offensive and men called Christians so forward by wayes of violence to cut off the lives of men never enquiring into the justice of their quarrel but the rate of their pay and as if their own lives and the bloud of others were not worth the valuing will adventure to kill or be kill'd for a dayes wages Thus making havock of men as fearfully made as dearly redeemed as tenderly cherished brought up as themselves yet occidendi causa occidunt they kill because they take pleasure in killing and are no more troubled at the death of a man than if a Dog had fallen before them 'T is true that Lions will tear and Dogs will bark and bite and Serpents will sting because it is in their nature so to do yet men Christians must do otherwise and not make the slaughters of men of multitudes of people professing Christ delightfull arguments of their ordinary discourse or Table talk as if it were a relation that had pleasure in it as if there were no difference 'twixt the cutting down of men and the mowing of Straw and Stubble I confesse that when men have an immediate commission from God to execute vengeance on those he would have destroyed they may do execution with boldnesse without pity or regret for it is as great a fault to spare when God bids destroy for he wrongs the innocent who spares the gu●lty for which very thing Saul payes dear 1 Sam. 15. as to destroy when God bids spare The Israelites had such a Commission often granted and renewed for the rooting out of those Nations which God would have grubb'd up root and branch and then they were to destroy without pity But afterward that people because they did so much abuse their prosperity and successe and after both their peace they perish themselves by the Sword of War Jerusalem had many-many

probaby so named at first by some Welshman in whose language Pen-guin signifies a white head and there are very many great lazy fowls upon and about this Island with great cole-black bodies and very white heads called Pen-guins The chief man of the eight there left was sirnamed Cross who took the Name upon him of Captain Cross He was formerly a Yeoman of the Guard unto King James But having had his hand in blood twice or thrice by men 〈◊〉 by him in severall Duels and now being condemned to die with the rest upon very great fute made for him he was hither Banished with them whither the justice of Almighty God was dispatched after him as it were in a Whirlwind and followed him close at the very heels and overtook him and left him not till he had payd dear for that blood he had formerly spilt This Cross was a very stout and a very resolute man who quarrelling with and abusing the Natives and engaging himself farre amongst them immediatly after himself with the rest were left in that place many of these Salvages being go 〈…〉 together fell upon him and with their Darts thrown and Arrows shot at him stuck his body so full of them as if he had been Larded with Darts and Arrows making him look like the Figure of the man in the Almanack that seems to be wounded in every part or like that man described by Lucan totum pro vulnere corpus Who was all wound where blood touched blood The retaliations of the Lord are sure and just Hee that is mercy it self abhorrs cruelty above all other sins Hee cannot endure that one man should devour another as the Beasts of the field Birds of the ayr Fishes of the Sea doe and therefore usually shewes exemplary signall revenges for that sin of Blood selling it at a dear rate unto them that shed it Every sin hath a tongue but that of blood our-cryes and drowns the rest Blood being a clamorous and a restless suter whose mouth will not be stopt till it receive an answer as it did here The other seven the rest of these miserable Bandi●i who were there with Cross recovered their Boat and go● off the shore without any great hurt and so rowing to their Island the waves running high they split their boat at their landing which engaged them to keep in that place they having now no possible means left to stirre thence And which made their condition while they were in it most extremely miserable it is a place wherein growes never a tree either for sustenance or shelter or shade nor any thing beside I ever heard of to help sustein nature a place that hath never a drop of fresh water in it but what the showrs leave in the holes of the rocks And besides all this there are a very great number of Snakes in that Island as I have been told by many that have been upon it so many of those venemous worms that a man cannot tread safely in the long grasse which growes in it for fear of them And all these put together must needs make that place beyond measure uncomfortable to these most wretched men To this may be added their want of provision having nothing but dry Bisket and no great quantity of that so that they lived with hungry bellies without any place fit for repose without any quiet rest for they could not choose but sleep in fear continually And what outward condition could make men more miserable than this Yet notwithstanding all they suffered these seven vile wretches all live to be made examples afterward of Divine Justice For after they had continued in and endured this sad place for the space of five or six moneths and they were grown all even almost mad by reason of their several pressing wants and extremities it pleased God by providence to bring an English Ship into that road returning for England four of these 7. men being impatient of anymore hours staythere immediatly after that ship was come in made a float with the ruines of their split boat which they had saved togither and with other wood which they had gotten thither and with raveld and untwisted boat-roapes fastned as well as they could all together for there are no such sudden teachers and instructers as extremities are These four got upon the Float which they had thus prepared and poysing it as well as they could by their severall weight hoped by the benefit of their Oares and strength of the tyde that then ran quick toward the ship newly arrived they might recover it but this their expectation failed them for it being late in the day when they made this attempt and they not discovered by the ship which then road a good way up in the Bay before they could come up neer unto her the tyde return'd and so carried them back into the main Sea where they all perished miserably The day following the ship sent a boat to the Island which took those three yet surviving into her as the other four might have been if they could but have exercised their patience for one night longer these survivers came aboard the ship related all that had befallen to their fellows But these three notwithstanding all their former miseries when they were taken into the ship behaved themselves so l●wdly as they returned homewar● that they were very often put into the Bilbowes or ship-stocks in the way returning and otherwise many times punished for their great and severall misdemenours at last the ship being safely returned into the Downes she had not been there at an anchor above three hours but these three Willains got on shore and they had not been ashore above three hours but they took a Purse and a very few hours after were apprehended and all taken for that fact and suddenly after that their very foul storie being related to the Lord chief Justice and they looked upon as men altogether incorrigible and uncapable of amendment by lesser corrections by his speciall Warrant were executed upon their former Condemnation for which they were banished not to return hither again but never pardoned neer Sandwich in Kent where they committed the robbery from whose example wee may learn that it is not in the power of any affliction how heavy soever it light and how long soever it lye if it be not sanctified to do any man good That when the rod is upon a man if he be not taught as well as chastned all the stripes bestowed on him are cast away A man might have hoped that these wretched fellowes had been long enough in the fire to have purged away their dross But afflictions like fire harden as well as soften and experience teaches us that the winds and waves though they beat with their greatest violence upon the rocks yet leave them as they found them unmovable It being a most tryed truth recorded by Solomon Prov. 27. 22. That bray or beat a fool in a morter he will not

causes of the distemper and sickness of the whole Body of this Nation even from the sole of the foot unto the Crown of the head Never such liberty taken by youth of all sorts of both sexes as now How generally do they forget God the guide of youth for how do they slig●t him by that irreverence they shew in religious duties they being seduced in ways that carry them from Religion and consequently from God What lightness looseness pride drunkenness and prophaneness may be observed in too too many of them What a generall debauchery expressed by wickedness in life ●ath eaten into the manners of such multitudes of the younger sort of people more by far in the present than in foregoing times whence it comes to pass that there never was such a scarcity of good servants So that if Almighty God that can do what he will do do not please to put ●u●bs on them that may reform or restrain them the succeeding age is like to prove a monstrous generation How much uncharitableness and censoriousness that is accompanied in some with blindness of mind and consequently with error about the things of God hath taken up the thoughts of many more of riper years And lastly there is so much covetousness which turns so many wholy into themselves without respect had unto any others which makes so many steer their course for wealth esteeming any thing that may be gotten to be good gain being resolved to be rich however they come by wealth though that they get be like the waters of Bethelem 2 Sam. 23 17. Which David there calls blood because gotten with so much hazard and jeopardy of their lives that got those Waters So of the lives and souls too of those that get this wealth and yet for all this for Judas his wages they will do Judas his work they want peices of silver must have them as Judas had though they earn them as dearly and suffer for them as deeply as Judas did Esteeming gain godliness when it is godliness that is gain the hearts of so many are so bent upon and run after their covetousness in these present untoward and self seeking times The Prophet Esay once cryed Es 45. 8. O yee Heavens drop down Righteousness when righteousness was taken up into the Clouds So may we say Oh! yee Heavens drop down kindness Love Charity in our times that people may know that they were not borne onely for themselves that they came not into the world to laugh and joy and rejoyce to themselves nor to eat and drink or to thrive and grow rich and to live alone to themselves and to their own private relations but for others who stand in need of them who by the very Prerogative of mankind may challenge an interest in their succour and service The consideration whereof bids me turn back mine eyes again upon some forementioned passages in this relation that set forth the most excellent Moralities which shine in those Indians and by reflexion do very much shame us And this doth further make me call to mind a passage of Erasmus in that Colloquie of his called convivium Religiosum where admiring Soorates an heathen upon the same account said that he could hardly forbear sometimes to cry out Sancte Soorates Ora pronobis Now as before I have observed againe and again that heathens should out-go us in any way that is safe and good that they should out-strip us as they do us that have so much advantage of them in the way us that have so much assurance if we run well in the race set before us and chalk'd out to us to get the better of them in the end Tha● heathens I say should walk in many things so exactly and being but heathens do so as it marvelously condemnes so it may deeply humble many of us who bear the names of Christians and make us passionately to cry out and say Oh Religion thou when thou art professed in purity and power which bindest God to man and man to God! Where art thou What is become of thee Whither art thou gone Whither departed Where shall we seek thee where find thee If not very much amongst those which profess thee some and they the greatest number by far lay thee altogether aside some make thee to consist too much in forms and others as much in affected Phrases which are made by many a new Shibboleth to distingush one man from another A very great Number make this a Complement as others a cloak Some slight thee and others think themselves above thee some make thee an any thing and some an every thing and some a nothing And yet for all this it is true of very many by reason of their great unsetledness That while they run into these wide extreames Religion and conscience are their Theams Without all doubt Machevils position is no good Divinity which adviseth men to take up the profession of Religion but to slight the practice and power thereof Da justum sanctum que videri As if they resolved to make the Church of Christ a Theater or stage to act a part on as if it were enough for a man to seeme good and not to be so But let all assure themselves that their sin their own sin will first or last discover them find them out When they shall further by sad experience feel that the revenges of Almighty God are never so deadly never fall so heavily upon sinners as after they have had most way in sinning And that God will find a time to pull off all peoples vizards Thamar muffles her selfe to take a short pleasure Gen. 38. 15. And others muffle their consciences for a time but as Thamar was discovered so shall all hearts be laid open and pull'd out of their thickets wherein they would hide themselves as Adam when he had sinn'd would have done Gen. 3. when a man shall say to his conscience as Ahab sometimes spake unto Elias hast thou found me O mine enemy certainly if the brests of many were ript up the wounds and rents and breaches which guilt hath made there would most visibly appear Tuta esse scelera secura non possunt A man may think to sin without danger for a time but never without fear Oh this conscience when it is throughly awakned will appear to be a very strange a terrible thing if it be full of guilt for then it will swell so big as that it will be ready to break open the brest of him that bears it And it would do so but for these Reasons first because it is many times hoodwink't mask't or seared as with an hot iron having the mouth of it as before bung'd up or hooft over and this makes it not to see or to be sensible of its present condition And 2. a man by the malice and cunning of Satan may be brought to esteem the doing of things good which in themselves are most horrid damnable Now conscience is