read twice in the week a Divinity Lecture Was hospitable sober humble suffered none to abide in his House who could not give account of his Faith and lived not accordingly Clark In Q. Mary's Days he was by K. Christian of Denmark's means dismissed out of Prison went into Germany Preached at Burghsaber upon the Queen's Death return'd but tho much sued to would not accept of his Bishoprick again but continued in London Preaching the Gospel as a private Minister whilst strength would permit and Died Anno. aetat 88. Mr. R. Greenham Preached twice on the Lord's Days and Catechised Preached on Monday Tuesday and Wednesday on Thursday he Catechized on Friday he Preached on the week-days in the Morning as soon as he could well see drenching his Shift with Sweating twice a day he Prayed in his Family after Sermon he took account of his Servants rising at 4. a Clock Winter and Summer to his Studies Disliked Martin-mar-Prelate a Book as tending to make Sin Ridiculous not Odious laid the charge of the Schism between Conformists and Nonconformists on either or neither side c. died at 60. Clark That Saint of ours so called by Jos Hall Bishop of Norwich Tunquin The Bonzes in Tunquin Beg for their Living and are not like the Bonzes in other Kingdoms who beg Alms as it were their due These on the contrary use all the modesty and humility that may be never taking more than is needful for them And if they have any thing to spare they give it to the Poor Widows and Orphans that cannot get their Living Tavernier's Collect. Zurich The Clergy of Zurich if they subsist plentifully they labour hard for they have generally two or three Sermons a day and at least one the first begins at 5 a Clock in the morning At Geneva and all Switzerland over there are daily Sermons which were Substituted upon the Reformation from the Mass but the Sermons are generally too long c. Dr. Burnet's Letters Pegu. The Talapoi in Pegu give the People a Sermon when they come to Church and by their exemplary Lives preserve to themselves a good reputation Paquet broke open vol. 2. They Condemn and Preach against the Offerings the Commonalty make to the Devil they go barefoot live in Woods and Desarts eat but once a day they meddle not with Points of Doctrine but insist on points of Morality and good Works the Piety of their Lives gives them great Honours after their Deaths Ibid. Siam The Clergy of Siam are regular and exemplary in their Lives they Preach to the People on Festivals 't is burning alive to have to do with Women in every Temple there is a Convent of Priests to say daily Prayers morning and evening Ibid. Cambodia It is thought here a horrid Sacriledge for the Clergy to intermeddle with temporal Affairs Ibid. Mexico The Priests exercise daily 4 times at midnight morn noon and Sun-set lashing themselves with knotted Cords drawing Blood upon themselves with knotted Cords drawing Blood upon themselves with Bodkins Preaching to the People at some Feasts Purchas Good Parishoners or People to their Priests Jews I Have already in the former Part signified the Allowances made to the Priest and Levite under the Law by Divine Ordinance and have not much more to add here save that first of all the People were generally very Just in paying their Tithes and some of them proceeded so far as to make a Decimation of their least things their Mint and Cummin lest they should not reach the Exactness of the Law Secondly That when they made any Address to the Prophets they commonly brought their Presents along with them as Saul to Samuel 1 Sam. 9.7 and Naaman to Elisha 2 Kings 5.5 Christians Alsted as I remember cites the Ancient Chronicles for it when he tells us That about the same time that Constantine the Great ordered Tithes to be paid to the Clergy a Voice was heard as it were from Heaven Nunc venenum infusum est Ecclesiae which I relate not as if I were of that Opinion that Tithes are not due but I fear the Payment in kind hath ill Effects The Clergy were so well maintained in the Primitive Times by the frequent Contributions of the People that Ammianus Marcell saith they lived like Pritices Ammian Marcell l. 27. St. Chrysostom was forced to make a whole Sermon 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. i. e. against them that envied the Clergy Dr. Cave Also He describes at length the sad State of Bishops and other Church-men since the Church enjoy'd fix'd Revenues because they forsook their Employments to sell their Corn and Wine and to look after their Glebes and Farms besides much of their time was spent in Law-suits He wishes that he might see the Church in the State that it was in in the Times of the Apostles when it enjoy'd only the Charity and Oblation of Believers F. Simon Hist of Eccl. Rev. out of Chrys Hom. 86. in Mat. St. Augustin was of the same Mind Ibid. In the Universities of Bern and Lausanne are maintained Professors the one for the German Territory which is the Ancient Canton and the other for the New Conquest which is the French in the former are about 300 Parishes in the latter about 150. But in the Benefices on the German side the ancient Rights are preserved so that some Benefices are worth 1000 Crowns whereas in the Pais de Vaud the Provisions are set off as Sallaries and are generally from 100 to 200 Crowns Dr. Burnet's Letters Heathens In Siam the Estaites of Persons of Quality are ordinarily divided into three parts one to the King one to the Ecclesiasticks they defraying the Charges of the Funerals and the third to the Children Mandelslo's Trav p. 104. In Pegu their Preachers are still Preaching and Begging their Alms are brought to them in the Pulpits whilst they are Preaching Rosse The People drink the Water wherein the Preachers wash themselves accounting it Holy Rosse In Mexico the Revenues of the Priests were great Rosse The Southern Americans have their Priests in great Esteem making use of them as their Physicians and therefore they are very Rich for they have all the Goods of him whom they cure Idem In Siam the Bonzes or Priests are highly reverenced as well at Court as among the People The King himself hath such a Value for some of them as to humble himself before them Tavernier Part 2. l. 3. c. 18. Some of them live by Alms others have Houses with good Revenues Protestants At Zurich the Dean and Chapter are still continued as a Corporation and enjoy the Revenues which they had before the Reformation Dr. Burnet 's Letters The Bishop of Coire hath yet reserved a Revenue of about 1000 l. Sterling a year Ibid. 50 or 60 l. is the common Sallary of a Geneva Minister Papists One that knew the State of this Kingdom well assured me that if it viz. Naples were divided into five parts upon a strict Survey it
Womb 70 years without losing her Virginity he exhorted the Grandees to build Hospitals in all Cities Agreeing much with Chacabout in Doctrine Taver Mahometans I Believe 1. That there is but one God and that there is no number in him 2. That Mahomet is the Messenger of God the most excellent and last of all the Prophets That the Christian Religion was to Cease at his Appearance 3. That Jesus Christ was a great Prophet Inspired by the Spirit of God 4. That God is a Being of great Perfection 5. Angels are Executioners of God's Commands without Sex different in Dignity and appointed to several Offices as well in Heaven as Earth 6. Good and Evil only happen because God hath Fore-ordain'd them having writ on a Table from all Eternity things that are and are to be 7. There shall be a general Resurrection of the Dead But before that 1. Anti Mahomet must come 2. Jesus shall come from Heaven to Kill him and Establish Mahometanism 3. Gog and Magog c. 4. A Beast is to come out of Meccha 5. All Living Creatures shall Die Hills fly into the Air the Heavens melt and drop upon the Earth Then shall God renew the Earth and raise the Dead naked but Saints and Prophets clothed and carried by Angels to the Empyrean Heavens 8. The Bad shall suffer Hunger Thirst painful Sweating c. 9. The Pains of the Wicked shall be proportioned to their Merits but shall not last above 50000 years 10. That at the day of Judgment S. Michael with be a Ballance shall weigh the good and bad Actions of Men. 11. They whose good Deeds out-weigh their Bad shall go to Paradise 12. There is a particular Judgment at Death to distinguish the Mussulman from Unbelievers F. Simon out of a Mahometan Dr. Ancient Heathen I Believe in one Supreme God who presides over all the rest who seeth and Governs all things in all places And in as many more Inferior Gods as our Magistrates and Laws shall require us to believe in That the Law of Nature and Reason is the ordinary Rule of our Manners And the Laws of the Nation Of our Religigious Worship That our Souls are Immortal and shall survive our Bodies That they who have defiled themselves with Vice their Souls at Death shall be secluded from the Society of the Gods and be tossed about the Earth but they who have lived well and honestly and have imitated the Lives of the Gods the Souls of these Men shall go to the Stars or Gods from whence at first they came This is extracted especially out of Cicero and Somn. Scip. Diabolical Their Creed is nothing but a Reverse of the Orthodox Faith an open Profession or secret Practice contrary to the Truth which must needs be so pregnant with Blasphemy that it will not be safe to exhibit a Copy of it to common View The Bannyans I Believe that a God of Immense Power Eternal and Provident in the beginning Created the whole World that he made the first Man by Name Pourous and for his Society Created the first Woman Parconty both so innocent that they would not cut any thing that had a Sensitive Life but fed upon Herbs and Fruits that from them sprung two couple of Boys Bramon Cuttery Shuddery and Wise the first a Priest the second a Warrior the third a Merchant the forth a Peasant which Peopled the four Parts of the World but upon their Impiety the World was Destroyed by a Deluge That afterwards upon Mount Meropurbatea God gave the Shaster to Bremaw in Clouds and Lightning for a rule of Living Mr. Hobbes's I Believe that God is Almighty matter that in him are three Persons he having been thrice represented on Earth that it is to be decided by the Civil Power whether he Created All things else That Angels are not Incorporeal Substances but preternatural Impressions on the Brain of Man that the Soul of Man is the Temperament of his Body that the very Liberty of Will in that Soul is Physically necessary that the Prime Law of Nature in the Soul of Man is Self-Love that the Law of the Civil Soveraign is the only obliging Rule of Just and Unjust that the Books of the Old and New Testament are not made Canon and Law but by the Civil Powers that what is written in these Books may be denied upon Oath in times of Persecution That Hell is a tolerable condition of Life for a few years upon Earth to begin at the general Resurrection and that Heaven is a blessed Estate of good Men like that of Adam before his Fall beginning at the general Resurrection to be from thence-forth Eternal upon Earth in the Holy Land Dr. Tenison Precepts or Commands Mahometan THeir Law is divided into eight Precepts or Commandments 1. There is but one God and his Prophet Mahomet 2. Children must be Dutiful to their Parents 3. Neighbours must Love each other 4. They must Pray five times every day 5. A Lent of thirty days is to be kept every year 6. They must be Charitable and give Alms to the Poor 7. Every one must Marry by twenty five years of Age. 8. They must abstain from Murder Pacquet broke open vol. 2. F. Simon makes Five Articles thus 1. There is one God 2. Mahomet is his Messenger 3. They must be exact in Prayers and Alms-deeds 4. And in the Fast of Ramazan 5. And in their Pilgrimage to Mecha Bannyans Their Moral Law hath eight Commandments most of which agree with the Seven which R. Solomon saith Noah taught the World in his time called Noah-Cady 1. Thou shalt not destroy any living Creature for thou and it are both my Creatures 2. Thou shalt not sin in thy five Senses Eyes not beholding Vanity Ears stopt in hearing Evil Tongue uttering no Filthiness Pallat hating Wine Flesh and all live things Hands abhoring all things defiled 3. Thou shalt duly observe set times of Devotion as Praying Washing Elevation Prostration c. 4. Thou shalt not Lie nor Dissemble 5. Thou shalt not be hard-hearted but helpful to others 6. Thou shalt not Oppress nor Tyrannize 7. Thou shalt observe certain Festivals and Fasting days 8. Thou shalt not Steal Sir Tho. Herb. Trav. into Persia out of their Shaster Persees 1. For Behedens or Lay-men 1. Cherish Modesty 2. Cherish Fear 3. Premeditate what you are to do if bad reject it if good c. 4. Let every day's object move to thankfulness 5. Pray daily to the Sun and nightly to the Moon 2. For the Herboods Daroos or Priests Besides those of the Beheden which they are to observe 1. Be constant to the form of Worship in the Zundavastaw 2. Covet not what is another man's 3. Abhor Lies 4. Be not worldly minded 5. Learn the Zundavastaw by rote 6. Keep your selves free from Pollution 7. Teach the Laity how to Comport themselves in Adoration 8. License Matrimony 9. Be frequent at Church 10. Forgive Injuries 11. Upon pain of Life Eternal
the Pastor laid upon the Altar the Bread and Wine for the Sacrament were taken viz. common Bread no dispute then about leaven'd or unleaven'd Bread 3. Hence also probably they had Provisions for the Agapae where Rich and Poor feasted together At â—â—â—st probably before the Sacrament 1 Cor. 11. Every one took his own Supper Afterwards in Chrysostom's time it was after the Sacrament for they fasted till the Sacrament 4. The Elements being prepared 1. The Deacon brought Water to wash the Bishop's and Priest's hands I will wash my hands in Innocency v. Constit. Ap. l. 8. 2. They Deacon cryed aloud Mutually embrace and kiss each other this is the holy kiss when thou bringest thy Gift to the Altar c. 3. They prayed for universal Peace wholesom Weather Kings c. See the Form Consist Apost 4. The Minister and People mutually saluted saying Priest The Lord be with you People And with thy Spirit Pr. Let us give Thanks unto the Lord. Peop. It is meet and just so to do 5. The Minister rehearsed the Prayer of Consecration giving Thanks for the Death Resurrection c. of the Son c. for admitting them to those Benefits praying for a closer Union Ending with the Lord's Prayer 6. The Minister cried 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Ans There is one Holy one Lord. J. Ch. 7. They exhorted to participation by a Hymn Come Taste and see that the Lord is good Cyril 8. The Bishop or Priest Sanctified the Elements See the Form in S. Ambros de Sacram. l. 4. c. 5. 9. They brake the Bread delivering it to the Deacon and he to the Communicants then the Cup the Wine mixt with Water For Infants and wealt the Bread dipt in Wine was given 10. The posture was various in Dionys Alezander's time standing Euseb Hist Eccl. l. 7. c. 9. 11. The People stretch'd out the right hand the left hand being under it Cyril 12. During the Administration they sung Psalms Ps 33. Constit Apost and Hymns 13. Concluded with Prayer and Thank sgiving 14. Saluted each other with a Kiss of Peace signaculo Orationis Tertul. Enlogiae pieces of Bread sent to Catechumens c. Mahometan The Mahometans used Circumcision after the 8th Year when the Child is able to make confession of his Faith where lifting up his Finger he speaks these words There is but one God and Mahomet his Prophet one God and equal Prophets After Circumcision ended they Feast three days together and then they carry the Circumcised to a Bath with great Pomp and then home again presenting him with gifts Circumcision not commanded in the Alcoran The Women are not circumcised but only use the words When any Christian abjures his Faith and is circumcised they are led through the Town with great honour and rejoycing and exempted from Taxes and Tributes Yet the Moors of Egypt circumcise their Daughters cutting off some of their Nymphae M. de Thev The Old Arabians circumcised at thirteen years of age Rosse In Mexico the Priests washed the Newborn Children and let them blood in the Ears Rosse Ancient Heathen In answer to Circumcision and Baptism The Heathen Romans every Citizen gave notice of the birth of their Children to the Prefects of the Treasury in the Temple of Saturn upon the Ninth day for the Male the Eighth for a Female but the Tenth amongst the Greeks upon which day called therefore Dies Lustricus Nominalia the Child was Purified Named They accounted the Child in danger till the seventh day past The supposed Goddess of the day was called Nundina The Grecians on the fifth day had their Midwives to carry the Child and run about a fire made for the purpose for the purification of the Infant and consecrating of it to the Houshold Gods This day was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dr. Holyday on Juvenal Modern Heathen The Inhabitants of Ceilon dedicate a Cock to the Devil by way of Vow in case of sickness Capt. Knox. The most Ancient Historians tell us that the Egyptians were the first that instituted Circumcision or else learn'd it from the Ethiopians thence it came to be used among the Cholchi Phenicians and Syrians Ludolph They of Alnajah circumcise with sharp Stones and Epiphanius quotes the Homerites for the same custom from whence came the Abyssinians Idem The Troglodytes Nigrites and other innumerable Nations use it for cleanliness or for generation as conducive to it or because they have a longer Praeputium idem Among the Abyssins Egyptians and Arabians even the Women are circumcised and the most impudent about the Cape of Good-hope who yet prostitute themselves for a small matter to the Seamen My Author wonders that only in Africa and Asia the Women should have such extuberances as have need to be cut off idem O Bandaron O Uncircumcised is as great a Reproach among these Women as O Arel i. e. O Incircumcised amongst the Jewish Men idem Among the Bannyans the Priests Children and Merchants i. e. Bramins and Bannyans in Baptism anoint with Oyl and cleanse with Water the prophaner sort Men of War and Manufactures have only Water with the point of a Pen opposed to their Foreheads Sir Th. Herb. Diabolical The Witches renounce their Christian Baptism and suffer the Devil to pour Water upon them and take another Feigned Name in their Fictitious Baptism Mart. Delrio Disq Mag. l. 5. Sec. 16. Also for a Pledge they give a Fragment of their Garments and write their Names or make their Marks with their own Hands in the Book of Damned Reprobates ibid. Some offer the Sacramental Bread to the Devil Also the Wizard or Witch in some secret part of the Body hath a kind of a Dug which the Familiar Spirit at certain seasons sucks thereby receiving some service and peradventure infusing some malignant virtue and power into the Witch which serves as a kind of Sacrament to them for the conveyance of continual nourishment Glanv Consid on Witches Dr. d ee when his Son Rowland was sick ready to die made a Vow if God should restore his Son to eat but one meal on Saturdays c. Act. with Spir. p. 10. vid. post cap. de Jejun Mr Mather tells of a Diabolical Sacrament in Bread and Wine Wonders of the Invisible World 7. Fasting Mortification Penances Jewish THE Fasts of the Jews are 1. Publick which are many concerning which we have given account already in the Monthly Festivals save only that we omitted one which is kept in the Month of Tizri or September for the death of Gedaliah Jer. 41.2 2. Private as 1. On Mondays The reasons of which see before in the Chapter of weekly times of Publick Worship 2. Thursdays Which are kept only by the Devouter Sort. The general rule in all their Fastings is to forbear Meat and Drink till the Stars appear but in this they are palpably carnal relying upon the very doing of the Work Dr. Addison Some fast on the 10th of March because Miriam died that day and
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
The Emperor met with nothing else in the Paper but Reproaches of his Tyranny and Attestations of Joy from the Lady that she had the opportunity to sacrifice her self to the memory of her Husband Ibid. Lutherans At Bern the third Adultery is punished with Death which is also the punishment of the fifth Act of Fornication of which I saw an instance while I was at Bern for a Woman who confessed her self guilty of many Whoredoms and designed to be reveng'd on some Men that did not furnish her liberally with Money was upon that account condemned and executed the manner was solemn for the Advoyer comes into an open Bench in the middle of the Street and for the satisfaction of the People the whole Process was read and sentence was pronounced in the hearing of all the Counsellors both of the great and lesser Council standing about the Advoyer who after Sentence took the Criminal gently by the Hand and prayed for her Soul and after Execution there was a Sermon for the instruction of the People Dr. Burnet's Letters Papists in Florence I was much scandalized to see Statues with Nudities here which I do not remember to have seen any where else in Churches Dr. Burnet's Letters Bengal In Bengal Adultery is punished by cutting the Nose yet is very common Pacquet broke open Vol. 2. Siam 'T is burning alive for the Clergy in Siam to have to do with Women but those that cannot contain may quit the Priesthood and be absolved from their Vow of Chastity There are also Nunneries of old Religious Women situate near the Temple that they may be present at the Offices and Prayers there Ibid. Patana The Mahometans in Patana judge Fornication no Sin but Adultery is capital yet the Delinquent may chuse the manner of Death and a near Relation must be Executioner Ibid Moluques Polygamy among the Moluques is lawful and Adultery unpunished Ibid. Japanese The Ecclesiasticks in Japan make a vow of Chastity so strictly to be observed that the least breach of it is punished with the most cruel Death imaginable fixing them in the Earth up to the middle in a Road and all the vulgar Passengers are to strike him in the Neck with a wooden Saw which makes him three or four Days expiring But think them not Chaste for all this for they are allowed the use of Men and Boys Ibid. Yet one Sect of the Ecclesiastics are allowed to marry Ibid. Fermosa Adultery Theft and Murder here are accounted no Crimes the only Sins being their covering their secret Parts at set-times to wear Silk when they should wear Cotton not to have destroyed Children in their Mothers Womb who cannot lawfully bear a Child at 30 or 35 Years of age Ibid. Chinese In China Polygamy is lawful Ibid. Candin In Candin they prostitute their Wives Sisters and Daughters to Strangers in honour of their Idols Ibid. Circassia They seem to adore a Goats-Skin which at the Funeral of the Chief Lords of each Village is set up at its entrance The Privities they cut off and cast against the Wall and if they stick there they worship them Ibid. Madagascar c. In Madagascar the Lower-Ethiopia c. they allow Polygamy Ibid. Mexico Some of the Priests in Mexico to preserve their Chastity slit their Members in the midst and do an hundred things to make themselves Impotent lest they should offend their Gods Purchas Paria In Paria each Man is allowed as many Wives as he lists at least as he can maintain tho they never have the Maiden-heads of any Prostituting them the first Night to the Piaco's Priests or to their appointment who for small matters turn over that drudgery to Strangers Nor do they at any time think their Guests welcome unless they will do the Office of Men to their Wives Sisters c. S. Clark Patience in Sufferings Christians There were Six Methods of Execution Ordinary in the Primitive Times 1. THE Cross ✚ Upon this the Christians Hung till starved with Hunger or dispatched by Birds or wild Beasts S. Andrew continued two whole Days on the Cross Preaching the Gospel all the while Timotheus and his Wife Maura after many other Torments hung nine Days before they compleated their Martyrdom It was the peculiar Punishment of Slaves Traitors and the vilest Malefactors S. Peter and some Egyptian Martyrs were hung with their Heads downwards Constantine took away the use of the Cross 2. The Rack Equuleus because the Man was Horsed upon the Engine by Ropes and Skrews and Pullies a long board was on the Top of it Besides which there was Catasta a Piece of wood like a little Scaffold that the Torments might be more conspicuous In both of them were ungulae pinchers of Iron with sharp Teeth to pull the Flesh by Piece-meal 3. The Wheel sometimes with Iron Pricks on which the person bound was whirled about with a Violent Distortion Thus suffered Felix Presb Fortunatus c. 4. Burning designed for Villains c. 5. Throwing to wild Beasts Bears Leopards Lions c. 6. Condemning to the Mines where was toyling beating with Clubs binding with Chains lying on the Ground Nakedness the Heads half shaved like Slaves a mark in the Face the right Eye pulled out the left foot disabled by cutting of Nerves the Estate forfeited c. To which add 1. Scourging with Rods Plumbate having Leaden Plummets at the ends 2. Beheading c Marcus Bishop of Arethusa being first dawbed with Honey was exposed to Wasps on a Pole in the Sun Some were put into old Ships and turned out to Sea the Vessels being first set on fire Thus an Orthodox Presbyter under Valens the Arrian Emperor was served Concerning the Patience of the Primitive Christians Observe 1. When sought for by Persecutors they cared not to escape So Polycarp refused to Fly tho into the next House Cyprian Commends some Confessors whom he wrote to in Prison that when oft desired to go out of Prison they would not Himself did with-draw from Carthage when sent for to Suffer at Vtica that when he did suffer he might Suffer at Carthage where he was Bishop a thing which he earnestly wished for and it was granted him 2. They Offered themselves The miscrable Creatures 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 do verily perswade themselves that they shall surely be Immortal and Live for ever on which account they despise Death and many of them voluntarily Offer themselves to it Lucian de Mort. Peregr Tom. 2. I am quite tired out in Punishing and Destroying the Galileans called here by the Name of Christians according to your Commands and yet they cease not to offer themselves to be slain Nay tho I have laboured both by fair means and threatenings to make them conceal themselves from being known to be Christians yet can I not stave them off from Persecution Tiberianus President of Palestine to the Emperor Trajan Apud Vsser Append. Ignat. O unhappy People if you have a mind to dye have you not
Halters and Precipices enough to end your Lives with but you must come hither for an Execution Arrius Antonius Proconsul of Asia to the People c. Ignatius Oh! that I might come to those wild Beasts c. Origon when a youth could hardly be restrained from running into danger 3. They gave thanks to their Enemies for Condemning them A Christian takes it as a favour to dye for so good a cause Tertull. As for us they our Persecutors do us no harm Death doth but the sooner send us to God Clem. Alex. When Lucius one of the primitive Martyrs for speaking for one of the Christians that he had very hard measure was Condemned forthwith he heartily thanked his Judg for it that by this means he should be delivered from such unrighteous Governors and be sooner sent home to his Heavenly Father Just M. 4. They bore up with quietness and composure By reason of our strange and wonderful Courage and Strength new Additions are made to us for when the People see Men with infinite variety of Torments torn in pieces and yet maintain a Patience unconquerable and able to live out his Tormentors what the truth is that the consent of so many and the perseverance of dying persons cannot be in vain Nor that Patience it self were it not from God could hold out under such Racks and Tortures Thieves and men of a Robust Body are not able to bear such tearing in pieces they groan and cry out and are overcome with Pain because not endued with a Divine Patience But our very Children and Women to say nothing of our Men do with silence Conquer their Torments nor can the hottest fire force the least groan from them Lactan. By the force of such Arguments Justin Martyr turned Christian from being a Platonick Philosopher Ap. 1. p. 50. I thought saith he with my self that it was impossible such persons should wallow in Vice and Luxury c. Hence Porphyry calls the Christian Religion 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 The Heathen in Min. Felix stiles the Christians men of an undone furious and desperate Party M. Fel. p. 7. M. Antoninus Emperor imputes this Courage to meer Stuborness l. 11. s. 3. Staupitius told Luther concerning his Behaviour that the first three years he did all things according to the utmost Rigor and that would not do The next three he did all according to the Laws and Councels of the Antients and that would not hit In the last three years he did all according to the Will of God and yet neither would that succeed and then he was fain to be content with what he could have Clar. in vit Capell Japon In Japon there have been Children from ten years old to a dozen who for sixty days together have endured to have their Bodies fastened to the Cross half Burnt half torn in pieces while the Executioners forced them to Eat on purpose to prolong their Lives in Misery and yet they would not renounce the Christian Faith which they had embraced Tavern Collect. c. p. 10. Domestick Worship Jews THey account themselves bound to say an hundred Benedictions of which see the particulars in the Chapter of Praying to God every day Christians Gaspar Colinius Admiral of France used to rise very early and then putting on his Night-gown and calling his Servants about him went to Prayer with them then he set time apart to hear the Deputies of the Churches and other businesses Each other day in the fore-noon he had a Sermon Preach'd before him after which he returned to his business till Dinner which being ready his Servants came in and there the Admiral standing by the Table and his Wife by his side one of David's Psalms was Sung and a Blessing craved upon the Meat which Course he did not only observe at his own House but every day in his Camp without intermission when the Cloth was taken away he presently rose and standing with his Wife by him either himself or Chaplain return'd thanks At Supper time the like was done both with Prayers and Psalms And because he found it hard to get his Servants together at Bed-time because of their various Employments he caused them all to come in presently after Supper where after a Psalm he went to Prayer with them Sam. Clark Bishop Ridley when at the Mannor of Fullham read daily a Lecture to his Family at the Common-Prayer beginning at the Acts of the Apostles and so going through the Epistles of S. Paul Giving to every Man that could read a New Testament hiring them besides with Mony to learn by Heart certain Principal Chapters but especially Acts 13. And often he read Psalm 101. Fox Martyrol Ere I can have sate at my Study to weariness my Family having now overcome all Houshold Distractions invites me to our Common Devotions not without some short preparation Dr. Jos Hall concerning himself Ancient Romans The Games called Ludi Compitales were Instituted among the Romans in honour of their Lares or Houshold Gods Galtruch Gilolo and Amboina The do no work but first they consult the Devil and are of opinion That no ill comes from any other Being and therefore that they ought to prevent it by Sacrifice to him which they are very observant of even in their Houses Paquet broke open vol. 2. Banda Banda is Mahometan and the People there are so Religious that they never do any thing till they have Prayed in the Morning Ibid. Formosa In Formosa each House hath its Oratory where all that is there spent is Offered to the Gods by the Women of the House Ibid. Iucatan In Iucatan they had in their Houses Images made like Bears which they Worshipp'd as their Houshold Gods with Singing and Incense Rosse Goa In Goa most of the Gentiles heads of Families dress their own Victuals themselves first they sweep the House then draw a Circle and confine themselves in it suffering none to enter for then all would be Profaned and the Cook would throw away what he had dressed the Victuals are divided into 3 parts the first for the Poor the second for the Cow of the House the third for the Family Thevenot In Goa they Pray to the first thing they meet with in a Morning tho a Goose or Ass and all day long they Pray to it Rosse Antient Tartars They Worshipp'd the Sun Stars Fire Earth and Water to whom they Offered the First-Fruits of their Meat and Drink every Morning before they eat and Drink themselves Rosse So do the Tartars of Cathay now Peguians In Pegu they feed the Devil every Morning with Baskets of Rice that he may not hurt them that Day Idem Indian Heathens In Fermosa every house hath a particular place appointed for the Devotions of the Family where they invocate the Gods and where the Women make their offerings of what is spent every day in the house But in case of Sickness or other misfortune they call the Inibs to do that Service Mandelslo's Travels p.
my Salvation I wholly offer up my Soul and Body I cast my self wholly upon his Mercy and Grace c. Ibid. Andrew Willet a little before his death repeated the 146th Psalm and said it was a most sweet Psalm by and by rising out of a Trance to his Wife crying out he said Let me alone I shall do well Lord Jesu and so departed Anonym Robert Bolton in a Quartane Ague after meditating on the Four last Things desiring to be dissolv'd in the pangs of death he breathed out I am now drawing on apace to my Dissolution hold out Faith and Patience your work will quickly be at an end he died aged 60. Anonym William Whately in Sickness comforted himself with Ps 41.1 2. whilst a Friend was praying with him lifting up his Eyes and one of his Hands in the Close of the Prayer he gave up the Ghost aged 56. Idem Ant. Walleus called his Family and exhorted them to the fear of God then took his leave and fell asleep never thoroughly awaking till on the Lord's day at 11 a Clock he expired aged 66. 1639. Hen. Alting the day before his death sang Psal 130. with great Fervency in the Evening blessed his Children and exhorted them to fear God and to persevere in the Truth of the Gospel and so died aged 57. A. 1644. Fred. Spanhemius having preach'd his last Sermon at Easter upon Phil. 3.24 Who shall change our vile Body c. he prayed for his Family and himself and in the Close of his Prayer died 1649 aged 49. Philip de Mornay Lord of Plessis Marley being sick of a continual Feaver often said I fly I fly to Heaven and the Angels are carrying me into the Bosom of my Saviour I know that my Redeemer liveth I shall see him with mine Eyes and I feel I feel what now I speak he died aged 74. Mr. John Bruen of Stapleford in Cheshire Esq the Morning before his Death said I will have no Blacks I love no Proud nor Pompous Funeral neither is there any cause of Mourning but of rejoycing rather in my particular Immediately before his Death Lifting up his Hands he said The Lord is my Portion my Help and my Trust his blessed Son Jesus Christ is my Saviour and Redeemer Amen Even so saith the Spirit unto my Spirit therefore come Lord Jesus and kiss me with the Kisses of thy Mouth and embrace me with the Arms of thy Love into thy Hands I commend my Spirit O come now and take me to thy self O come Lord Jesus come quickly O come O come O come and so died aged 65 A.C. 1625. Mr. Will. Perkins to a Friend praying for him said Pray not for the mitigation of my Torments but for the increase of my Patience he died aged 44. A.C. 1602. Edw. Deering As for my Death I bless God I feel so much inward Joy and Comfort in my Soul that if I were put to my choice whether to die or to live I would a thousand times rather chuse Death than Life if it may stand with the Will of God he died A.C. 1576. Melancthon to his Son-in-law Dr. Bucer asking what he would have answered Nothing but Heaven and therefore trouble me no more with speaking to me I have delivered more upon this subject in a former Book called The Christians Companion Mahometans and Heathens A great Solider in eminent favour with the Great Mogul a Mahometan Atheist upon a wound proving Mortal by the occasion of a Hair pluckt off his Breast about his Nipple in wantonness by one of his Women when a dying said Who would not have thought but that I who have been bred so long a Soldier should have died in the Face of my Enemy by a Sword or Lance or Arrow or Bullet or by some such instrument of Death but now am forc'd to confess That there is a great God above whose Majesty I ever despis'd that needs no bigger Lance than a Hair to kill an Atheist a Despiser of his Majesty and so desiring that those his last Words might be told unto the King his Master he died The Dervise that gave his sense of the Apparition at Medina mentioned in the Chapter of Miracles c. died with those Words in his Mouth if my Memory fail me not O thou Woman with the Book in thine Hand have Mercy upon me Heathen Antient. I am not haled to Death but am ascending up to Heaven The last Words of Socrates with the Mortal Cup in his Hand Socrates said Mr. H. Bullinger was glad when his death approached because he thought he should go to Hesiod Homer and other Learned Men whom he should meet with in the other World then how much more do I enjoy who am sure that I shall see my Saviour Christ the Saints Patriarchs Prophets Apostles and all Holy Men which have lived from the beginning of the World These I say I am sure to see and to partake with them in Joy The Words of Dying Bullinger See more in Erasmus ' s Conviv Religios Cicero in his Dialogue concerning Old Age introduceth Cato Major speaking thus If any God should grant me leave to grow young and cry like an Infant in my Cradle again I would utterly refuse it nor would I be willing as one that hath run his Race out to be called back from the Goal to the beginning again For what Profit hath Life or rather what toil hath it not But whether it hath or no certainly it gluts or satisfies for I am not minded to lament that I have lived which many and they Learned Men have often done nor do I repent my Life because I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain and I depart hence as out of an Inn not from my Home O famous day when I shall go to that Assembly and Council of Divine Souls and depart out of this Rout and Sink Occasions of Conversion Jews EVE Cohan was converted by ocasion of reading the New-Testament which she found in the Chamber of her Dancing-Master in Holland but being threatned and ill-treated by her Mother upon it married her Master came over into England and was baptized at London about half a score Years ago Discoursing once with an Italian Jew concerning the Conditions of Rome he began with great assurance to tell me That at Rome great Wonders were to be seen as a Man that could make his God make and unmake Sins at his pleasure c. closing up his Discourse with a deep Protestation That if he were a Christian the Vices and Doctrines of Italy would strongly tempt him to disown that Name Dr. Addison Christians Matthias Vessenbechius a Lawyer Student at Lovain converted by seeing the Sufferings of a poor Godly Man of that place Ex Melch. Ad. Francis Junius being at Lyons escaped an imminent Death upon which being somewhat awakened to a Sense of Divine Providence he desired to read over the New-Testament of which himself gives this Account When I opened
Trees in great Veneration and consult with them as with Oracles Rosse In Angola and Congo they are much addicted to Divination by Birds Rosse In Jucatan they caused Boys in hollow Images to answer the Peoples Petitions as if God had spoke to them Idem The Priests in South-America learn Physick and Magick when young being shut up two Years in Woods all which time they keeep their Cells see no Women nor eat Flesh they are taught by their Masters in the Night Idem Some West Indians at this day by fuming their Heads over the smoak of Tobacco will fall into a Trance for four or five Hours and fore-see what Ships are making to their Ports tho' several days of and report where the Vessels then are when they awake Pacquet broke open Vol. 2. In Gilolo and Amboina they bring their Daemon or Nito to conference with a Tabor VVax-Candles and words of Conjuration he appears to them in the shape of a Man all their actions are preceded by consulting the Devil Ibid. Rewards and Punishments future according to the Jews Jews I Need not here declare what the Sentiments of the ancient Jews before our Saviour's time were it shall suâ—fice to tell what their Opinion is in the present Age as Dr. Addison hath informed us in his Present State of the Jews in Barbary 1. They say that all Souls were created together and placed in a certain Region whence the several Bodies in their proper times are furnished as they are ready to receive them and if the Souls offend in this State they are sent into infirm Bodies for a Punishment and this Pre-existence they found on Eccles 4.3 2. Souls are conjoyned with Bodies which is an Imprisonment like Birds in Cages 3. Afterwards they are separated from the Body to a Temporal State of Happiness or Unhappiness wherein they continue till the final Sentence 4. At last they are disposed of into a State of Eternal Duration yet 5. They hold a Purgatory to be in Hell from whence they can never be delivered but by the vertue of the Kaddish a Prayer repeated once a day for the space of a year by some surviving Relation 6. They generally hold that none stays there above a Twelve-month 7. If any one's Sins are too great or many to be purged the Soul by Transmigration is to finish its Penance in another Body and so on in a Third Fourth Fifth Sixth till it come to a Seventh where it finds rest Heaven eternal 1. The State of Pre-existent Souls 2. Of Souls conjoyned with Bodies 3. The Temporal State of Souls Separated from Bodies by death till the day of Judgment 4. A years Purgatory 5. The Soul not purged in transmigration to other Bodâ—â—â— 1. Body 2 Body 3 Body 4 Body 5 Body 6 Body 7 Body Rest. They hold That they which are not of their Religion if found disobedient to the Law of Nature I suppose my Author means shall suffer a total Perdition of their Being themselves are liable only to a lesser Happiness Both Jews and Moors are of Opinion That the Infernal Torments shall have an end and that the fallen Angels shall be then restored to Mercy They place the Consummation of the World in a Restoration of it to that Beauty and Order it was at first designed They say the Resurrection shall be only out of the Holy Land whither all that are buried in other Countries must uncessantly rowl thro' the dark Caverns of the Earth and to avoid this trouble they endeavour when old to return to Palestine Four Privileges of the Jews 1. The Land of Canaan 2. The Law of Moses 3. The Gift of Prophecy 4. And the Resurrection Mahometans An Account of them as communicated to us By F. Simon out of a Book of Mahometanism written by a Modern Doctor of that Religion according to the Doctrine generally received and approved by most good Men in and about Constantinople 1. After Death and Burial two of the greatest Angels Munzir and Nekir come and ask the Person what Belief he hath concerning God and the Prophet and the Law and the Kible what side one is to turn to in praying to God The Just are to answer Our God is he that hath created all things Our Faith is the Mussulman and Orthodox Faith and the true direction of our Prayers is the Kible Unbelievers not knowing what to answer are condemned to suffer great Pains 2. At the general Resurrection the Good before their entring into Paradise shall drink of certain Fountains so that they shall never thirst again Mahomet's Fountain for him and his Sect shall contain as much space of Ground as one can travel in a Month On the brinks of this Fountain shall be as many lavers as Stars in the Firmament the Water sweeter than Honey and whiter than Milk 3. Their Paradise is thus described 1. 'T is all full of Musk. 2. The Buildings of Gold and Silver Bricks 3. All sorts of Delicious Meats are there 4. Their Cloaths never wear out 5. What any one desires comes ready dress'd to their Hand 6. None subject there to sleep or other Necessities of the Body 7. Divine and Celestial Women and Virgins free from all Incommodities 8. They who once enter never come out again 4. Their Hell-thus 1. Unbelievers shall be Eternally with Devils 2. They shall be Tormented with Serpents bigger than Camels and Scorpions bigger then Mules With Fire also and scalding water 3. When burnt and turn'd to a Coal God shall raise them again for fresh Torments and so never to end 5. Believers dying without Repentance are to be disposed of by God according to his good pleasure some of them are pardon'd others to expiate by their sufferings till released and admitted to Paradise Mahomets Paradise A River of Water Honey Wine Milk God appearing on Fridays Fruits Delicious Dgennet Zlar i.e. Virgins of Paradise with black Eyes white Bodies always young never exceeding 15 red Cheeks Young Boyes to attend with Vials of Liquors Fruits and Fowles Cloaths of Green or Scarlet Silk and Gold Araf i.e. A Place for them who have done neither good nor evil The 6th Gate thro' which they that fear shall enter Paradise 5. Gate 6. Gate 7. Gate Gate of Hell 2. Gate Selzaboul a River of which when they have drunk after their sins are consumed they go to Heaven Zacon a Tree of whose frut they eat which shal burn in their Bellies like fire Chains of 70 〈◊〉 A Well of scalding water of which they drink * Purchas tells out of Bellonius That there is in Paradise a Tree which shadows it all over and spreads her Boughs upon the Walls the Leaves of pure Gold and Silver the Name of God and Mohomet writ on each Leaf That if one of those Virgins of Paradise should come forth at Midnight she would enlighten the World as much as the Sun If she should spit into the Sea all the Water would become sweet That Gabriel keeps the Keys of
Paradise 70000 in Number each 7000 Miles long That there is a Table of Admant 700000 days Journey long and broad with Seats of Gold and Silver about it to Feast on Ancient Heathens Socrates held That the Souls of Men were Divine and had two ways to go when separated from the Body the wicked Excluded from the Communion of the Gods the Good and Chast went again to the Gods from whence they came Cic. 1. Tusc de Acad. Heathens Ancient Greeks Romans 1. For Punshment They assigned a place called Tartarus concerning which consider 1. It s Name Tartarus quia Multae ibi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 sive perturbationes Nat. Com. l. 3. Erebus ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Tenebrae 2. It s Antiquity Most Antient Coetaneous with the Night and the confused matter of the World Aristoph in Avibus 3. It s Scituation viz. As far distant from the Earth as Earth from Heaven 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Hesiod A piece of Iron would be ten days in falling to it 4. It s Description 1. Walls of Brass a Gate of Iron with many Bars 2. Rivers four in Number which Styx runs round Hell nine times Dict. qu. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Odiosus Styx Acheron Phlegethon Cocytus 3. Officers of several kinds 1. The God Plutus 2. The Judges three Aeacus Minos Rhadamanthus 3. The Ferriman Charon 4. The Porter Cerberus 5. The Destinies Parcae Clotho Lachesis Atropos 6. The Furies Eumenides 4. Punishments various rolling a Stone up a Hill drawing Water with a Sieve c. 2. For reward of Vertue They assign'd a place in the Elysian Fields or among the Stars or in the Retirements of Heaven among the Gods Many of those who suspected their Souls to be Eternal as if they were to pass streight to Heaven laid violent hands on themselves as Cleanthes and Chrysippus Zeno and Empedocles Of the Romans Cato Vticensis who taking it ill that Pompey was vanquish'd by Caesar stabbed himself with his own Sword having first read Plato's Phaedon concerning the Souls immortality Textor ex Lactant. CAMPI-ELYS II. Lethe Fluvius de quo bibebant animae ante discessum viz. Metempsychosin Huc ad omnimodam voluptatem transferebantur animae post Purgationem in Tartaro Tartarus Ixion Sisyphus Tantalus Orcus Aello Ocypete Celaeno Belides Dice Nomia Eyrene â—ora Harpyae Morpheus Nox Judices Pluto Proserpina Parcae Minos Rhadamanthâ—s AEacus Eumenides Dirae Clotho Lachesis Artropos Alâ—â—â—o Megaeâ— Tisiphone Chimaera Cerberus Cocytus Phiegethon Styx Acheron Charon Mors Modern Heathens The Persees believe the Metempsychosis or passage of Souls into Beasts e.g. the Souls of Drunkards or Epicures into Swine the Lustful and Incestuous into Goats and Dogs the Dissemblers into Apes Crocodiles and Foxes the Lazy into Bears the Wrathful into Tygers the Proud into Lions the Blood-thirsty into Wolves Ounces and Snakes the Perjured into Toads c. But the Souls of Good Men Abstemious Pitiful and Courteous into Kine Buffaloes Sheep Storks Doves Turtles c. Touching the last Judgment they hold it shall be more dreadful than the other the Moon will look as Red as Blood the Sun will shed his light like purling Brimstone after which will follow an universal flashing with Fire and loud Thunders then a flaming Redness will over-spread the Heavens and the four Elements shall maintain a dreadful Fight so long and so fiercely one against another that at last all will be resolved into a dreadful confusion the Souls of such as were good Men Ruddery one of their Prophets is to transport into Heaven the wicked must Perish but the Bodies of both rise no more being too incredulous of the Resurrection Sir Tho. Herbert's Travel into Persia Siam In Siam they believe that the Good are rewarded and Wicked punished That the World shall stand 8000 years and then be burn'd to Ashes whence shall come forth two Egs and out of them one Man and one Woman who shall replenish the Earth again Rosse Pegu. In Pegu they believe Transanimation that some Souls shall live in Carnal Pleasure after Death some in Torment some Annihilated Also multitudes of Worlds succeeding each other that this World hath been Govern'd by Four Gods already who are gone the fifth not yet come after whose Death the World shall be burn'd Idem Magor They also hold Transanimation of Souls Idem As do also the Tartars in Cathay Cambaia Here also they are so Superstitiously Pythagoreans that some of their Religious Orders are afraid to Kill a Gnat or Worm Idem They will not drink their Water cold left they should slay the Soul of the Water which they think is quicken'd by boyling Idem They are afraid to tread upon Ants and will eat no Egs lest there should be Blood in them Malabar These People also are Pythagoreans and hold not only the Immortality and Transanimation of the Souls of Men and Beasts but a kind of Divinity in Elephants Kine c. Idem Japan In Japan they believe diverse Paradises to which every peculiar God carrieth his own Worshippers to obtain which many drown themselves some cut their own throats or break their Necks some in narrow Holes receive breath only by a Cane and so continue Fasting and Praying till they die Idem They have a Feast in which they burn a multitude of Candles at their Doors and walk all night up and down the streets to meet the Souls of their Friends lately departed before whom they set Meat and Drink and invite them to their Houses that in their three years Journey to Paradise they may not faint for want of Provision Idem Some say they hold a Transmigration as do also the Chinese c. In Canada in America they believe that their Souls shall ascend into the Stars and go down with them into a Paradise of Pleasure Rosse Christians of St. John They believe there is no other future World but where Angels and Devils the Souls of Good and Bad reside That in that World are Cities Houses and Churches and that the Evil Spirits have also Churches where they Pray Singing and Rejoycing upon Instruments and Feasting as in this World That when any one lies at the point of Death 360 Demons come and carry his Soul to a place full of Serpents Dogs Lions Tigers and Devils The Soul of a wicked Man is torn in pieces of a just Man creeps under the Bellies of these Beasts into the Presence of God who sits in the seat of Majesty to Judg the World That there are Angels also that weigh the Souls of Men in a Ballance who being thought worthy are admitted immediately into Glory M. Tavernier l. 2. c. 8. p. 92. Gaurs The Priests of the Gaurs have several Books full of small Pictures in Water-colours ill done representing how the several sins of Men shall be Punished in Hell especially Sodomy which they abominate Idem l. 4. c. 8. If any of them fall sick they hire poor People to go and find out Adders Serpents Lizards Toads Frogs