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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

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

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

may be in safety Others make wells and Tanks for the publick benefit Or maintain servants which continually attend upon road-wayes that are much travelled and there offer unto Passengers water for themselves and beasts which water they bring thither in great skins hanging upon the back of their Buttelos which as it is freely given so it must be freely taken by all those who desire to refresh themselves by it There are some which build rich Monuments to preserve the memories of those whom they have esteemed eminent for their austerity and holiness these they call Paeres or Saints amongst whom some of those before mentioned help to fill their Number who sequester themselves from the world as they think and spend their life alone upon the tops of Hills or in other obscure corners Now lastly for a close of this section I shall intreat my Reader to call to mind and to take a second and a very serious view of the reverence and a we which seemes so far as eyes can judge to be in that people Reverence and awe I say of the Majestie before whom they appear when they are in their devotions Whose most submissive carriage in that duty doth very much condemn infinite numbers of those who professe Christ while they are in Religious services rushing upon and continuing in those holy duties without any seeming reverence or regard at all of the dreadfull Majestie before whom they appeare as if God were not or as if he were not worth the regarding As if Death and Hell and judgment an everlasting separation from the prelence of God for evermore were tearms meerely invented to affright people withall and as if there were no such places and no such things I confesse it is true that external Ceremonies by bowing the body in the performances of Religious duties and the like may be found in the falshood of Religion and when a man rests in these alone easy performances it is to complement with Almighty God not to worship him yet as he looks for more than these in our humble addresses to him So he expects these likewise for without all doubt the most submissive gesture of the body in this case may both expresse and further the piety of the soul And therefore though the God of spirits doth most regard the soul of our devotions and looks most at the heart while holy duties are performing yet it is true likewise that it is not only unmannerly but most irreligious to be misgestured in them the carless and uncomly carriage of the body in this case making the soul to be prophane signifying it so to be To him will I look even to him that is poor and of a contrite spirit that trembleth at my words Es 66. 2. I shall therefore never be of their mind in this case who think the heart may be devout when the outward man shews no regard Sancta Sancté holy duties must be done in an holy manner great reverence must be used in them and therefore when the hands and knees and mouth and eyes and tongue forget to do their offices as they should they discover an ungodly as well as a negligent heart that should command them to do otherwise for as God will be worshipped in spirit so in the outward man likewise otherwise St. Paul might have spared that precept which commands thus 1 Cor. 6. 20. Glorifie God in your bodies and in your spirit which are Gods as if he had said both are bought with a price the body redeemed as well as the soul and therefore God looks for and expects reverence from both In all our addresses to God he expects at once familiarity and feare familiarity in the expression of our prayers for we speak not to an implacable an inexorable judge but to a tender Father and there fear and reverence to accompany those expressions hence it is said that God is greatly to be feared in the assembly of his Saints and to be had in reverence of all that are about him Ps 89. 7 and serve the Lord in fear and rejoyce with trembling Ps 2. 11. and again let all the earth fear the Lord let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him Ps 33. 8. in awe of him at all times and in all places but especially there where he is in a more special manner present as he hath promised to be in his ordinances The Lord is in his holy Temple Heb. 2. 20. when Jacob was in his journey to Padan-Aran he had a vision in the way which signified and shewed unto him nothing but love mercie and comfort and peace yea he cried out how dreadfull is this place c. Gen. 28. 17. Almighty God is altogether as awfull to his own in his mercies as he is in his judgements Great is thy merci● O Lord that thou mayest be feared not slighted not neglected but feared For to them who have a through acquaintance with God there is no lesse Majesty shines in the favours of God than in his judgements and justice the wicked heart never fears God but thundring or shaking the eartl never but then when he appears most terrible but the good can dread him in his Sun-shine when he appears most gracious and so they do and so they must Primus in orbe Deos fecit Timor it is a saying that hath much truth in it though spoken by a Heathen because the foundation of Religion is fear without which there can be no Religion as Lactantius wisely argues saying quod non metuitur contemnitur quod contemnitur non colitur that which is not feared is contemned and that which is contemned cannot be worshipped from whence it comes to passe that Religion and earthly power must needs be very much supported by fear First Religion expressed in all our duties to God if I be your father where is my honour if your master where is my fear Mat. 1. 6. Secondly obedience manifested in our subjection to men unto the powers here below whom God hath appointed to bring to keep men in order is very much regulated by fear for were it not for this prop that holds up governments it would presently be dissolved were it not for this curb to restrain men for that cord to lead some and to compel binde others all societies of men would presently run into disorder Kingdoms and Common-wealths would immediately come to confusion I shall conclude this digression with a most remarkable example when Ehud came to Eglon though an idolater and a Tyrant and told him that he had a message to him from God Judg. 3. 20. he arose presently out of his seat or Chair of state and though the unwildiness of his fat body was such that he could not arise with readines and ease yet no sooner doth he hear news of a message from God but he riseth as fast as he was able from his Throne that he might not shew himself unmannerly in the business of