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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	christian_a	faith_n	life_n	1,074	5	4.4282	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58159	A collection of curious travels & voyages in two tomes ... / by John Ray ...	Ray, John, 1627-1705.; Rauwolf, Leonhard, ca. 1540-1596. Seer aanmerkelyke reysen na en door Syrien t́ Joodsche Land, Arabien, Mesopotamien, Babylonien, Assyrien, Armenien, &c. in t́ Jaar 1573 en vervolgens gedaan. English.; Staphorst, Nicolaus, 1679-1731.; Belon, Pierre, 1517?-1564.	1693 (1693)	Wing R385; ESTC R17904	394,438	648

always to be found in the Temple of Mount Calvaria And also how these and many other Strangers are treated by the Turkish Emperor as by their chief Head to whom they generally are subjected and his Officers IN the Temple of Mount Calvaria live Christians of several Nations as Latins or Italians Abyssins Graecians Armenians Georgians Nestorians Syrians Jacobites c. which for the most part are Priests and Friers which are of so different Opinions in many Articles of Faith that many of them might sooner be reckon'd amongst the Superstitious and Hereticks than Christians wherefore each of them have their peculiar Habitation and Chapel that they may perform their Devotion undisturbed by one another The Turkish Emperor also lets them alone and doth not at all trouble them for their Religion nor endeavour to bring them over to the Mahumetan Religion and Alcoran and is very well contented to receive his Yearly Tribute which is exactly demanded as it cometh to be due I have seen many of them in the Temple to go up and down in their peculiar Habit and once I did attend at their Devotion so that I easily passed away the time that the Turks kept us Locked up in it Their Pilgrims resort thither Yearly chiefly against the great Feasts or Holy Days in great Numbers to see the holy Places not only from the Eastern but also from the Western Countries These that are under the subjection of the Sultan which they are almost all of them except the Latins and Abyssins must pay him Yearly the fourth part of all their Revenues He that hath four Olive Almond or Quince-Trees must yield one of them to be the Emperors So in their Harvest every fourth Sheaf is also his their Harvest beginneth in the beginning of April and endeth in May as you may see Deut. chap. 16. vers 9. Seven weeks that is from Easter to Whitsonday shalt thou number unto thee begin to number the seven weeks from such time as thou beginnest to put the sickle to the corn Besides this Imposition they have another that is They must pay Yearly for every Head that is Male the Poor as well as the Rich one Ducat and sometimes two chiefly when the Sultan intendeth to go to War with the Christians then he beginneth to lay these Taxes upon them a Year before-hand and hath it Gathered in He that hath not wherewithal to pay it is forced either to sell one or the other of his Children to perpetual Slavery or else to give one of them to the Grand Turk according to his liking to be his own for ever And what is more he sendeth every 4th or 5th Year through all his Dominions his Emissaries viz. Wallachia Servia Bosnia Albania Colchid c. to fetch away every third Son of his Christian Subjects and they always chuse that which they like best and so they bring together a great Number and call them Azanoglans and give them to the Janizaries to be their Servants These have in some chief places their Exercises from their Infancy that in time they may be fit to be made Officers and Commanders in time of War In this the Turks exercise great Cruelty and Pride they spare no Body for if a Christian doth possess some small matter of Riches he must either keep it very privately or else with a great deal of discretion say That it is all belonging to his Emperor and him So if the Grand Signior hath occasion for any thing of theirs whatsoever it must be granted him without any refusal But what a trouble and heart-breaking this must be to the poor Parents not only to have their Children that are free by Nature forced to such a Brutal way of Life and Education but what is more taken away from Baptism to Circumcision from the Christian Congregation and Faith into a severe Slavery and Superstition wherein they are brought from their Duty to their Parents into a mortal enmity against them and their other Relations every Christian may with himself consider The Turks where there is choice take them that are single and young because they being still infirm and but slightly grounded in their Faith they are the sooner seduced chiefly if they are Instructed in their Mahumetan Laws and Educated therein for a while for then they soon forget their own Faith and grow in theirs and so as they grow up in Years they also grow in their Malice and become to be worse than they themselves as daily Experience doth sufficiently testifie Of the same stamp are also these Christians that after they have been taken Prisoners in the War turn Mamalucks which they call in their Language Haracs and are Circumcised These are free from all Imposition as well as the Turks save only the Tenth but dare not go away without their Masters leave upon pain of Death if they are taken they are according to their Law without any Tryal Sentenced and Condemned to be burnt And these also are confirm'd and obdurated in their impious and base Life that they forget God and themselves never think of coming home again to hear the Gospel Preached or to see their Friends and Relations again Yet the Prisoners are not so very much pressed by the Turks to deny their Faith and turn except there should be found one or more great Persons among them for such they always use to press more and endeavour to turn them one way or other and promise them great Preferment if they will declare for their Religion for they are in hopes that if they could perswade them a great many more of the little ones would also come over with them If such are perswaded by them and turn they are entertained by the Turks very Honorably and called Tscheleby that is Gentlemen and endued with great Revenues but yet they do not easily confide in them or put any Trust into their hands and do not esteem such inconstant and faltering Men in their Heart although they carry themselves very friendly before their faces for they make account That he that will easily deny his Religion will also betray his Prince and Country if occasion should serve I have known in these Countries some Slaves whom their Masters that bought them as their Servants did very much press to be Circumcised but when they did mightily resist and excuse themselves and say That they could not admit thereof with a safe Conscience and if by force they should take away their Prepuce and Circumcise them that notwithstanding all that they could not Circumcise their Hearts and therefore they desired them not to trouble themselves any further with them they were for all that ready and willing to serve them honestly and faithfully to the utmost of their power So their Masters have been satisfied with this Answer and have pressed them no more But if it should happen that a Christian should be taken in one of their Mosques for they as unclean Men are forbid to come there or should dispute