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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

who lies prostrate before him he will with his broad round foot immediately presse him to death but if that wretched Creature be condemn'd it 〈…〉 mori ut se mori sentiat so to dye as that he may feel tortures and torments in dying which are as so many several deaths The Elephant will break his bones by degrees as men are broken upon the wheel as first his Legs then his Thighs after that the bones in both his Arms this done his wretched Spirit is left to breath its last out of the middest of those broken bones But it is a very sad thing and very much unbeseeming a man as he is a man to seem to take pleasure in executing of punishment as those appear to do who make it their businesse to study and invent tortures to inflict on others Thus those Monsters of men did in the primitive times of Christianity devise new torments for the exercise of the Faith and patience of Christians which in their relations are extream hard and sad to read of much more in their suffering of them were they to be endured Yet almighty God did then so support his people in the middest of all those grievous extremities they were made to suffer that their Tormentors were more troubled to invent then they were to endure tortures so that they overcame while they were overcome and were not more than men but mor● tha● Conquerors over those who seemed to conquer them I cannot deny but that the strength of pride may carry men very far the strength of del●sion much further as we may observe from the examples of the ancient Stoicks and since them from others whose Frantick opinions have made so prodigal of their limbs and lives as that they would seem very little to regard extreamity of tortures and sufferings yea death it self When one told Theodorus Seneca the Philosopher reports the stories that he would hang him up alive in the Air he answered thus minitare istud purpuratis tuis c. threaten this to thy Carpet Knights Theodoru● cares not whither his body rot in the Air or in the Earth and that when others were upon the Rack they would cry ô quam suave c. Oh what pleasure is there in racking Now what pity wrought in others pride and delusion wrought in these The truth is non p 〈…〉 a sed ●ausa facit Martyr●m it is not a mans suffering but the reason of it which made a Martyr and therefore however others bear things ou● they and they onely to whom it is given not onely to believe but also to suffer can behold their sufferings so with a clear eye of Faith that though they be intolerable in themselves and seem so to others yet are they made easie to them Ignatius came to the stake and kissed it at which he was presently burnt Others have inimbraced those flames which immediately af●●r ●●●n'd them into ashes whence Tyrants persecutors have often served though much against their wills to build and enlarge the Church of Christ As the persecution of Stephen served to spread the Doctrine of salvation in the Countreys thereabouts and to raise up a number of Churches that happening to persecutors which might happen to a man who to put out a quick fire of burning Coals should scatter them all over his Chamber and so set on fire his whole House The Church of Christ hath ever gained in persecution what it hath lost in prosperity Therefore those Christians in the primitive Church when they were tortured would not except of deliverance Heb. 11. 35. that is a●●●pt of it upon any sinfull terms and in the 138. of the same Chapter they received or took possession of the promises which they had onely in hope a far off and embraced them as if they had had them in hand 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 they hug'd them they kiss'd them as resting abundantly satisfied with the hope and expectation of them If in thi● life onely the people of God had hope then were they of all m●n most miserable for they are here as some chief tender plants of another Countrey who have much ado to live and grow whereas the wicked like weeds th●ive without watering The Devil is called the Prince of the World and therefore it would be very strange if any of Gods people should finde very much content where Satan hath so much to do Here in this World optimi pissim● agunt the best usually fare worst the righteous have most wrong But it will not alwayes be thus a time of refreshing shall come from the presence of the Lord and then all tears shall be wiped from his peoples eyes and all sadnesse shall be removed from their Spirits Nec Malleus Tyrannorum nec secur is p●rsecutionis and as one of the ancients sweetly comforts when the Hammer of Tyranny cannot touch nor the Ax of persecution hurt them for they shall be out of the reach of all fears troubles annoyances which make their lives here sometimes for the present seem bitter unto them Without doubt the services of Gods people would be very ill rewarded if they should continue here in this life still But God who lends them to the world ●owes them a far better turn than the whole earth can pay them and therefore when he sees good removes them hence because it is for their preferment in the mean time though the miseries of Gods people be great their dayes are short And although Almighty God do not say it vocally yet secretly he speaks to all his people as sometimes he did to Moses after he had done all the words which he appointed him to do here he bids him go up to Mount Nebo and dye there Deut. 32. 50. go up and dye as if he had said go up and eat So Joseph before him said unto his brethren I dye Gen. 50. 24. as if he had said I eat I drink I sleep It is neither news or strange for any dear servant of God to think of dying because he knows that he shall part with nothing by death but what is a burden to him his sin loose nothing by dying but what he would fain be rid of his corruption Hence the ancient Fathers naming the death of the faithfull their birth and the day of their Martyrdom the day of their Nativity shewed what great satisfaction and content they had in the thought and hope of the life to come In the mean time they beheld their sufferings whatsoever they were so with the eye of Faith as before that it made them easie to be endured while they looked not at things which were seen or did not much regard them but at the things which were not seen for the things they saw or felt here how bitter or sharp soever they were were temporal transient would have an end but the things they saw not but assuredly expected were eternal where they should finde weight of glorie for lightnesse of affliction 2 Cor.

4. 17 18. And therefore said the same Apostle Rom. 8. 18. I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared unto the glorie which shall be revealed I reckon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 it is a Metaphor either taken from accountants that put many particulars into one entire summe or else from Logicians who draw certain or infallable conclusions from foregoing premises Thus I reckon or I conclude when I compare profit and losse together as what I shall certainly gain and what I may happily loose by the profession of the Gospel when I have put all crosses and incumbrances in the one Scale and the recompence of the reward in the other it amounts all to this that the eternal w●ight of the Crown doth exceedingly outweigh the momentary weight of the Crosse Thus it is with all men who in their greatest pressures can see further than earth as that first Martyr professing the Gospel Stephen did who died not upon a bed of Down but under a shower of stones yet could out of that terrible and thick storm look into Heaven and so do others who can behold whatsoever they feel with the eye of Faith and this is like that Tree which Moses cast into the bitter waters of Marah and it made them sweet Exod. 15. But as for others I have named and shall further name to behold their sufferings and torments onely with the eye of sense it must needs make their tortures however they bear them out out of measure to torment I have been told by some who were eye-witnesses whom I dare credite and therefore I dare relate it of strange kindes of death executed by the command of the King of Japan upon his subjects where some are Crucified or nailed to a Crosse Others rather roasted than burnt to death Thus there is a stake set up and a Circle of fire at a pretty distance made round about it the condemned person being naked is so fastned to that stake as that he may move round about it and so doth as long as he is able to stir till his flesh begins to blister then he falls down and there lyes roaring till the fire made about him puts him to silen●e by taking away both his voice and life Now they say that one great reason why they put men there unto such exquisite torments is because they hold it a thing of the greatest dishonour there for any man to dye by the hand of an Executioner therefore they are usually commanded when they are sentenced to dye to rip up or cut open their own bellies and those who will not so do are tormented in dying Hence most of that people when as they have received that hard command to prevent death by dying call for their friends about them eat and seem to be merry with them then in the close of the meal and in their presence commit this sad slaughter upon themselves as first those poor wretches make themselves naked to the middle he or they who are to dye then the most wretched self-murderer who is to act that bloudy part strikes a sharp Knife into the bottom of his belly then rips himself up and after gives himself one other cut cross his belly and when he hath done both these if after he can but wipe his bloudy knife upon a white paper or Napkin that is laid by him he is believed to part with his life with a very great deal of honour and immediately as he is made to believe goes to Fakaman whom they say is the God of War So much power the Devil hath in those dark places of the World to make the people there do what he please Oh 't is a misery of all miseries here to be a drudge a bond-man a slave to the Devil as those and so infinite multitudes more professing Christ are by obeying Satan in his most unreasonable commands and yet will not be made sensible of that their basest bondage But to return again to the place frō whence I have made some excursion when I was in India there was one sentenced by the Mogol himself for killing his own father to dye thus first he commanded that this Paricide should be bound alive by his heels fastned to a small iron Chain which was tied to the hinde leg of a great Elephant and then that this Elephant should drag him after him one whole remove of that King from one place to another which was about ten miles distant that so all his flesh might be worne off his bones and so it was when we saw him in the way following that King in his progresse for he appeared then to us a skeliton rather than a body There was another condemned to dye by the Mogol himself while we were at Amadavar for killing his own Mother and at this the King was much troubled to think of death suitable for so horrid a crime but upon a little pause he adjudged him to be stung to death by Snakes which was accordingly done I told you before that there are some Mountebanks there which keep great Snakes to shew tricks with them one of those fellows was presently called for to bring his Snakes to do that execution who came to the place where that wretched Creature was appoin●ed to dye and found him there all naked except a little covering before and trembling Then suddenly the Mountebank having first angred and provoked the venomous Creatures put one of them to his Thigh which presently twin'd it self about that part till it came near his Groin and there bit him till bloud followed the other was fastned to the outside of his other Thigh twining about it for those Snakes thus kept are long and slender and there bit him likewise notwithstanding the wretch kept upon his feet nere a quarter of an hour before which time the Snakes were taken from him But he complained exceedingly of a fire that with much torment had possessed all his Limbs and his whole body began to swell exceedingly like Nasidius bit by a Lybian Serpent called a Prester of whom Mr. May in his Translation of Lucan the ninth Book thus writes His face and cheeks a sudden fire did rost His flesh and skin were stretch'd his shape was lost His swelling body is distended far Past humane growth and undistinguish'd are His limbs all parts the poyson doth confound And he lies hid in his own body drown'd Now much after this manner did the stinging of those Snakes work upon that wretch about half an hour after they were taken from him the Soul of that unnatural Monster left his growing Carkasse and so went to its place And certainly both those I last named so sentenced and so executed most justly deserved to be handled with all severity for taking away the lives of those from whom they had receiv'd their own Some of our family did behold the execution done upon the later who related all the passages of it and for