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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

first seasoning while life remaineth That dangerous time of youth by the envy and cunning and help of Satan carries very many young men left too much unto themselves into most shameful courses They being of themselves like a Ship on the maine Ocean that hath neither Helm nor compass and therefore moves it knows not whither Or in this like weak limb'd Children who if they be suffered to go too much and to soon lame themselves for ever Yet many think that in that time of life their youth gives them some liberty and priviledge aliquid aetati juvenum est concedendum they say which words abused make them the Divels dispensation and not Gods though they may fondly and falsly suppose that because they are young they may be borne withall in any thing they do as if Pride Drunkenness Whoredome and the like most fearfull exorbitances were not faults in youth they not considering that want of years and want of judgement which judgement enables to put a right difference 'twixt good and evill usually go together And that youth is like unto green wood which is ever shrinking and warping for as with the antient there is wisdom Job 12. 12. so pampered and ungoverned youth is commonly rash heady insolent wedded to its own will led by humour a rebell to reason a subject to passion fitter to execute than to advise and because youth cannot consider as it should it is no marvell if it so often miscarry The ways of youth being steep and slippery wherein it is very hard to stand as very easy to fall and to run into most fearful exorbitances It being the usual manner of young men so much to intend as they falsly think the love of themselves in the love of their pleasures as that they cannot attend the love of God And therefore that man may much better hope to come safely and happily unto the end of his course who hath passed over his first journey I mean his youth well But which is a very great hinderance unto many young men when they do but begin to enter upon their way there are many Parents which do not desire that their Children should be good betimes they being misled by one of the Devils Proverbs which is a young Saint an old Devill It is true that some who have been wild and wicked in youth have proved good in age But it is a most tryed truth to encourage the groth of early holiness which hath been made good by much experience that a Saint in youth an Angell in age And truly very many Children may thank their Parents for much of the evill that is in them beside their Birth-sin poysoning them as they do by their evill examples Children confidently believing that they may lawfully do any thing they see their Parents do before them hence Juvenal speaks well Maxima debetur pueris reverentia Therefore Parents should take heed what they do or what they spe●k before their Children As 't is writ●en of wise Cato though an Heathen that he was wont to carry himself with as much grav●ty before his Children as if he had been before the Senate of Rome The neglect of which care shall give Children cause one day to speak that in truth unto their Parents which Zipp●rah sometimes sp●ke unadvisedly unto her husband Moses when he had Circumcised her son Ex 4. 25. Surely a bloody Husband art thou unto me so these will say to their Parents that they have been bloody Fathers and bloody Mothers unto them in giving them a Serpent when they should have given them a Fish a stone when they should have given them bread in teaching them to swear when they should have taught them to pray un●oing them by their evill when they might have done them much good by their holy and unblameable examples as also by their early instruction and their timely correction which might have prevented through Gods blessing their rushing into the pit of ruin But why Parents thus generally fail in their duties we need not much marvell if we consider the carelesness or rather inability of most Parents to instruct their Children Scilicet expectas ut tradet mater honestes Aut alios mores quam quos habet Ju. No Mother can good precepts give Who hath not learn'd her self to live It is not to be hoped that Parents should give their Children better precepts than they have learn'd themselves But here I must prevent an objection and 't is this That if Parents be not wanting in their duty herein it is not al the care they can possibly have which of it self can make good Children For how many good Children have fall'n from bad Loins And how many gracious Parents to their greatest grief have been the Fathers and Mothers of most untoward Children The reason is because goodness doth not like lands and goods descend from Parents to Children for God will be the free giver and bestower of all his Graces and will have mercy on whom he will have mercy So then if our Children be good we must thank God for that if evill they may thank us and themselves us for their birth-sin and many times for more of their evill then so as before themselves for the improvement of that evill in the ways of wickedness However we may conclude this as a rule that those Children of all others in all probabilities are like to prove best who have been best seasoned in their young years for train up a Child in the way he should go and when he is old he will not depart from it Pr. 22. 6. In the wars 'twixt Syria and Israel there was a little Maid of Israel taken by the Syrians 2 Kings 5. and she was put to wait upon the wife of Naaman the Syrian That Naaman was a great man with his Master the King of Syria and honourable saith the story c. but he was a Leaper and that stain of Leprosie sauced all his greatness so much that the poorest man in Syria would not have changed place with him to have had his skin to boot There is no greatness that can exempt a man from the most loathsome and wearisome conditions doubtless that Leprosie must needs be a grievous burden to that great Peer The Maid of Israel tells her Mistriss would God my Lord were with the Prophet which is in Samaria for he would recover him of his Leprosie Her Mistriss presently tells her Lord who upon this report immediately repayr unto that Prophet and is healed of his disease I report that storie to this end that it is very good for Parents to acquaint their Children while they be young with the knowledge of God and of his Prophets for we do not know what great good they may do by it The generall neglect of which and of many other duties of Parents for the good and welfare of their Children as the great faylings of others I have named in their severall relations are principal and most apparent

therefore have but one word in their language though it be very Copious and that word is Most for a drunkard and a mad-man Which shewes their hatred of drunken distempers for none of the people there are at any time seen drunk though they might find liquor enough to do it but the very offal and dreggs of that people and these rarely or very seldom And here I shall insert another most heedfull particular to my present purpose which deserve a most high commendation to be given unto that people in general how poor and mean soever they be and that is the great exemplary care they manifest in their piety to their Parents that notwithstanding they serve for very little as I observed before but five shillings a Moon for their whole livelyhood and subsistence yet if their Parents be in want they will impart at the least half of that little towards their necessities choosing rather to want themselves then that their Parents should suffer need I would have this read and read over again by many who call themselves Christians yet most shamefully neglect those loynes from which they fell looking upon their Parents if they be in need either with a scornfull or a grudging eye Whence we have this saying amongst us which that people would spit at that one Father and Mother will better provide for ten helpless Children then so many Children make fitting provision for one poor Father and Mother as if they were not the Sons and Daughters of men but rather Children of the Horseleeches who are ever Crying Give give never returning ought or any thing proportionable to answer that love and care they have received from their Parents It is the Precept of the Apostle Ephes 6. 2. which is often repeated before in the sacred storie Honour thy Father and thy Mother which is the first Commandement with promise with promise of a blessing unto all those who perform that duty as they ought Now this honouring of Parents must be expressed by all wayes that manifest Childrens duty not only in an outward respect and distance but also in a free release of them if Children be able and Parents stand in need 'T is well observed that when Noah once surprized by wine had layd open his Nakednes in his Tent Gen. 9. and by one houres drunkenness had discovered that which more then six hundred years sobriety had modestly concealed for drunkennes doth both make imperfections and prefents them thus made to others eyes that his Sons Shem and Japhet out of duty and respect unto their Father took a garment and went backward that they might cover not behold their Fathers nakednes Which act of Duty and respect unto their Father was largely repayed unto them in their posterity whereas Cham their brother for his undutifulnes in this case beares his Fathers curse and lives under it and is plagued in his children We may conclude it as a rule that there have not been any very neglectfull of or rebelliously undutifull unto their Parents that have prospered in themselves and seed Absolon lifts up his hand against his Father David and his head is after lifted up and hanged in an Oke where he dyed miserably 2 Sam. 18. I could instance further if it were the busines of this discourse But I return again to the place from whence I am digressed and must say Further for this people which is not the least commendation of them they are in general a Nation that do never pride it in any new Fashions for as they are very civilly clad so I am confident that they keep to the very selfe same Fashion that their Ancestors did weare many hundred yeares agoe as before I observed And certainly if a man should take his journey from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same he should not find a people in all the world so overrun with an Itch after a new fashion as the French and English are of which likewise something before For the Mahometans who live much upon the labours of the Hindooes keeping them under because they formerly conquered them there are many of them Idle and know better to eat than work these are all for to morrow a word very common in their mouths and the word is Sub-ba which signifies to morrow and when that day comes to morrow and so still to morrow they will set down upon their businesses to morrow will do any thing you would have them to do to morrow they will bestow any thing upon you Sub-ba to morrow Pollicitis divites most rich in promises in performances not so That being true of many of those Mahometans which Livie sometimes spake of Hannibal that he stood most to his promise when it was most for his Profit though to do the Mahometans in general right such as are Merchants and Traders are exact in their dealings or as Plutarch writes of Antigonus the King who was called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as being ever about to give but seldome giving Or as Martial of his Posthumus Cras te venturum Cras dicis Posthuma semper Dic mihi cras istud Posthume quando venit To morrow still thou sayest thou 't come to me Say Posthumus when will that morrow be But for the Hindooes or Heathens the ancient inhabitants of East India they are a very industrious people very diligent in all the works of their particular callings believing that bread sweetest and most savoury which is gain'd by sweat These are for the generality the people that plant and till the ground These they which make those curious Manifactures that Empire affords working as we s●y with tooth and nail imploying their eares and toes as well as their fingers to assist them by holding threds of silke in the making of some things they worke These are a people who are not afraid of a Lion in the way of a Lion in the streets as the slothfull man is Prov. 26. 13. but they lay hold on the present time the opportunity to set upon their businesses which they are to do to day they being very laborious in their several imployments and very square and exact to make good all their engagements Which appeares much in their Justnes manifested unto those that trade with them for if a man will put it unto their consciences to sell the Commodity he desires to buy at as low a rate as he can afford it they will deal squarely and honestly with him but if in those bargainings a man offer them much less than their set price they will be apt to say what doest thou think me a Christian that I would go about to deceive thee A salt a sharp a biting Sarcasme or rather an horrible truth to be put upon the Score of many who call themselves Christians yet resolve quocunque Modo Rem to get what they can gain however they get it It therefore concernes all and that most highly who trade in those parts and are called by

Roman in them it may be applyed to Christians who shew no resolutions for Christ that there is nothing Christian in them they even betraying the cause of Christ while they so faintly maintain it Hardly would they dye for Christ who dare not speake for him certainly they would never be brought to afford him their blood that will not for the present afford him their breath But to returne againe to those Mahometan Priests who out of zeale doe so often proclaim their Mahomet Tom Coryat upon a time having heard their Moolaas often as before so to cry got him upon an high place directly opposite to one of those Priests and contradicted him thus La alla illa alla Hasaret Eesa Ben-alla that is no God but one God and the Lord Christ the Son of God and further added that Mahomet was an Impostor and all this he spake in their owne language as loud as possibly he could in the eares of many Mahometans that heard it But whether circumstances considered the zeale or discretion of our Pilgrim were more here to be commended I leave to the judgment of my Reader That he did so I am sure and I further believe how that bold attempt of his if it had been acted in many other places of Asia would have cost him his life with as much torture as cruelty could have invented But he was here taken for a mad-man and so let alone Happly the rather because every one there hath liberty to profess his owne Religion freely and if he please may argue against theirs without feare of an inquisition as Tom Coryat did at another time with a Moolaa and the Question which of these two was the Mussleman or true Believer after much heate on both sides Tom Coryat thus distinguished that himselfe was the Orthodox Mussleman or true true believer the Moola the pseudo Mussleman or false true believers which distinction if I had not thought it would have made my Reader smile had been here omitted The Mahometans have a set forme of prayer in the Arabian tongue not understood by many of the common people yet repeated by them as well as by the Moolaas they likewise rehearse the Names of God and of their Mahomet certain times every day upon Beads like the miss-led Papists who seem to regard more the Number then the weight of prayers Certainly Will-worship is a very easy duty and if Almighty God would be as much pleased with it as man is so much of that service would not be quite lost But in those services wherein God is highly concern'd to rest in the performance of any duty when t is done or any other way to fayle in the manner of doing it makes those services which some may esteeme holy no better then Sins Prayers an Abomination there being a vast difference twixt saying of prayers and praying of prayers twixt the service of the head and that of the heart prayer and prayer heedefull circumstances considered differing as much as Religion and Superstition But for the carriage of that people in their devotions before they goe into their Churches they wash their feet and entring into them put off their shooes As they begin their devotions they stop their eares and fix their eyes that nothing may divert their thoughts then in a soft and still voyce they utter their prayers wherein are many words most significantly expressing the Omnipotency and Greatness and Eternity and other Attributes of God Many words likewise that seeme to express much Humiliation they confessing in divers submissive gestures their owne unworthiness when they pray casting themselves low upon their Face sundry times and then acknowledg that they are Burdens to the Earth and poyson to the Ayre and the like being so confounded and asham'd as that they seeme not to dare so much as to lift up their eyes towards Heaven but after all this comfort themselves in the mercyes of God through the mediation of Mahomet If this people could as well conclude as they can begin and continue their prayers in respect of their expressions and carriages in them they might find comfort but the conclusion of their devotions marrs all Yet this for their commendation who doubtless if they knew better would pray better that what divorsins and impediments soever they have arising either from pleasure or profit the Mahometans pray five times a day The Mogol doth so who sits on the Throne the shepherd doth so that waits on his flock in the field where by the way they doe not follow their flocks but their flocks them all sorts of Mahometans doe thus whether fixed in a place or moveing in a journey when their times or hours of Prayer come which in the morning are at Six Nine and Twelve of the clock and at three and six in the afternoone When they pray it is their manner to set their Faces that they may look towards Medina neere Mecha in Arabia where their great Seducer Mahomet was buried who promised them after one thousand years to fetch them all to Heaven which terme when it was out and the promise not fulfilled the Mahometans concluded that their fore-Fathers misstooke the time of the promise of his comming and therefore resolved to waite for the accomplishment of it one thousand years more In the mean time they doe so reverence that place where the body of Mahomet was lay'd up that whosoever hath beene there as there are divers which flock yearely thither in Pilgrimage are for ever after called and esteemed Hogg●es which signifies holy men And here the thing being rightly and seriously considered it is a very great shame that a Mahometan should pray five times every day that Paganes and Heathens should be very frequent in their devotions and Christians who only can hope for good answers in Prayer so negligent in that great prevailing duty For a Mahometan to pray five times every day what diversions soever he hath to hinder him and for a Christian to let any thing interrupt his devotion for a Mahometan to pray five times a day and for one that is called a Christian not to pray some believing themselves above this and other ordinances five times in a weeke a moneth a year But this will admit less cause of wonder if wee consider how that many bearing the Names of Christians cannot pray at all those I meane which are prophane and filthy and who live as if there were no God to hear or to judg and no Hell to punish Such as these can but babble they cannot pray for they blaspheme the Name of God while they may thinke they adore it I shall adde here a short storie It happened that I once having some discourse with a Mahometan of good quality and speaking with him about his frequent praying I told him that if himselfe and others of his profession who did believe it as a duty to pray so often could conclude their Petitions in the Name of Jesus Christ they might finde much

before but all in vain When distress and anguish commeth upon them then shall they call upon God but he will not hear them c. the reason follows because they hated knowledg Prov. 1. 27 28. c. because they hated and despised knowledge as Esau was said to despise his birth-right because he put no greater valuation on it I confesse that if we whose businesse it is to teach and direct others do not in the first place labour to teach and instruct our selves If we be like the statue of Mercury which pointed the way to others while it stood still it selfe Or like Watermen that look forward while they Row and move backward If we seduce or mislead our people by Error or Example If we do not manifest love and mercy and pitty to our Congregations but while we undertake the oversight of their souls either silently or else in passion or discontent tell their persons that we care not for them If we be not ready according to our abilities for to open our hands to releive the poor and having ability our doors to let in others that they may know we do not desire to eat all our bread alone If we open not our mouths to pray for and instruct all If we desire not to carry our people in our bosoms as God commanded Moses Numb 11. 12. that those under our charge may be tender and near and dear unto our affections and to this end use all winning carriages towards them that may draw their affections unto us and by loving us may be won to the love of him in whose stead we stand and whose messages we deliver If we observe not all Gospel Principles to order us as well when we are out of as when we are in our Pulpits If we study as some did in daies of persecution to defend evil actions in evil times and by depraved reason or perverted Scripture could make any thing appear lawful that might please either our selves or others If we desire more of the Serpent then the Dove and know better to flatter then to reprove If we resolve as some have done in all ages to close unto that side on which the Purse hangs as it was said of Josephs brethren but in a different case that when they opened their sacks mouths they saw their 〈…〉 ey so if it may be said of us Sacco so 〈…〉 app 〈…〉 num 〈…〉 that if the knot of our designes and endeavours be und●●e 〈◊〉 advantage worldly profit will appear and so voluntarily hamper our selves in those s 〈…〉 es the world casts in our way to e 〈…〉 ap us which in a special manner we must ●arne others to take heed of If we study wealth more then books and appear to be Bubulci potius quam pastores neatherds husbandmen horscoursers rather then shepherds and being basely and sordidly covetous care for our fleeces more then our floc●s Or if by being any other way negligent or scandalous we forfeit that respect and honour and love we might challenge and receive from others we have no cause at all to complain if we finde i● not But yet the high calling of a Minister of the Gospel deserves honour even then when the person that dishonoureth it above all others offending deserves punishment On the contrary if we the Messengers of God labour in our whole course to walk in wisedom As first by shewing all diligence in our calling that by Gods blessing upon our endeavours we may do our work with joy and not with grie● if we study to shew our selves approved unto God whatever we appear to others workmen that need not to be ashamed and so make a full proof of our ministry by speaking and pressing truths in season rightly dividing the word of God Not putting honey in the Sacrifice when we should put salt nor salt when we should put honey But wisely temper and mixe together Law and Gospel Mercy and Judgment as occasion is offered If we dare be good in bad in the worst times as those blessed Martyrs and Confessors of whom the world was not worthy in their generations were some of them making their faith to shine cleare through their flames who I say durst be good when others durst not be so but out of cowardise though they call'd it prudence did not speak out speak home speak all but betrayed the cause of God while they undertook to maintain it and were ready to censure and judge and condemn others for want of wisedom and discretion who did but their duty herein while they spoke by the pound and talent words of weight and neither knew nor in this case feared the faces of men but did boldly reprove any that durst boldly sin against God by setting up a standard in the Name of the Lord against the Abominable Pride the bold prophaness the swinish drunkeness the beastly filthynesse against the Arm'd Injustice the crying oppressions against the gross errors the damnable heresies the horrid Blasphemies as against all other provoking sins that the envy of Satan could tempt unto or the corrupt nature of man yeild unto committed in the times and places wherein they lived crying loud against them by lifting up their voyces like Trumpets and if their cries could not pierce their deafe ears that they might be left unto that cry at midnight which will one day awaken sinners with a witnesse For as Jericho was overthrown with a noise Josh 6. so every carnal heart is like a Jericho shut up it must be spoken loud unto or else it will not down The gentle spirit of Eli is not sufficient to amend children that are ungratious nor mild and gentle proceeding men that are so and therefore we must be bold when sin grows impudent and cannot blush A little more by the way Where I would have my Reader to believe that I desire to retain and manifest as many Bowels of mercy and pitty towards others as any can shew Yet howsoever I do believe this to be a truth and I am not alone in this judgement that Hereticks and dangerous Scismaticks must be compelled to do their duties if allurement wil not serve When people are and will be obstinate they must not alwaies be prayed and intreated He that hath a Phrensie must be bound And he that hath a Letbargie must be prickt up A member that is rotten must be cut off least it indanger the whole body He that hath strengthned himselfe in Heresie or Schism must violently be puld from it For some must be pulled out of the fire saved by fear discipline correction and these they whose sins proceed from wilfulnesse others must finde compassion whose faylings take their rise meerly from weaknesse Some things must be commanded as well as taught these things Command and teach 1 Tim. 4. 11. Command 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word is used Act. 5. 40. and it is a Metaphor taken from a Judge giving a charge unto others to do what he