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A71161	The history of all religions in the world, from the creation down to this present time in two parts : the first containing their theory, and the other relating to their practices ... : to which is added, a table of heresies : as also a geographical map, shewing in what countrey each religion is practised ... / by William Turner ...	Turner, William, 1653-1701.	1695 (1695)	Wing T3347; ESTC R6111	329,028	716

me leave to say That I am only yours I know I have deserved death and should think my self happy to receive it at your hands but it troubles me to be affronted by this Knez c. For which he had a Present of 1000 Crowns and the Knez a good Cudgelling D. of H. Am. Trav. Heathens In the Island Fermosa there is so great an Equality of Condition that they are yet ignorant of the Names of Master and Servant yet they render great Honour one to another and express a great respect and submission to one another not upon the score of a more eminent Dignity or Wealth but Age which is so Considered that a young Man is obliged to go aside to make way for an Old Man and turn his back to him till he be passed Mandelslo's Trav. Good Servants Jews TO pass over here in silence the Example of Abraham's Servant spoken of before Joseph is the next most remarkable instance in Scripture Faithful both to God and his Master even in a case where his Mistress was the Rival and his own Flesh doubtless no Friend or Assistant The Story of Daniel and the three Children is well known who at the same time served God and their Masters with an Obstinate Integrity and stoutly resisted and safely evaded the Attacks and Attempts of their and fraudulent Adversaries Antient Christians S. Augustine tells us of an old Servant-maid that had carried his Grandfather upon her back when he was a Child and therefore for her Age and excellent behaviour was afterwards much respected by her Master and Mistress who thereupon committed to her charge the care of their Daughters She was saith S. Augustine Religiously severe and soberly prudent in teaching and restraining them For she would not allow them to drink so much as water except at Meals tho never so thirsty fearing an ill Custom and adding a wholesome word You now drink water because you have not Wine in your Power but when you come to have Husbands and be Mistresses of Cellars and Boutiques you will scorn Water but still have the custom of Drinking By this means she so restrained their tender Appetites that they did not so much as desire any thing that was not decent but notwithstanding Monica S. Augustine's Mother being employed sometimes to fetch Wine by her Parents out of wantonness used to sip a little out of the Flagon till at last she could drink almost a full Cup without breathing the old Maid came and caught her and with bitter insulting upbraided her calling her a Wine-bibber which so pricked and provoked her that presently she saw the illness of the Act condemned the custom and left it off Confess l. 9. c. 8. Hindoes Heathens They serve for 5 sh a Month which is paid usually the next day after the change before-hand They stand usually to be hired in the Market-place If their Salary be not paid exactly at the time they will be gone but if bidden to provide themselves of other Masters they will not stir but serve out their time to an hour They keep within call of their Masters and will not stir without leave Japan In Japan the Departure of great Lords is commonly attended by the Voluntary Execution of 20 or 30 Vassals or Salves who rip up their Bellies and dye with their Masters this they are obliged to by Oath and it is done partly by way of acknowledgment of the particular kindness which their Lords had for them having acquainted their Lord that they are willing to be obliged to Sacrifice themselves in that manner when accasion shall require they entertain him with a short discourse to this purpose Most mighty Sir you have many other Slaves and Servants of whose Affection and Fidelity you are assured who am I Or what have I deserved That you should honour me with your favour above any of the rest I resign up this Life to you which is already yours and promise you I will keep it no longer than it shall be serviceable to yours Then with a Bowl of Wine which is the most Religious Ceremony they have among them they Confirm their Oaths which thereby become Inviolable Mandelslo p. 142. But it is for the most part Slaves weary of Life that offer themselves so freely to Death Good Ministers and Pastors Jews IT Cannot be reasonably expected that I should have much to say upon this point save what we meet with in Sacred Scripture which I refer my Readers to Nothing material hath occurred to me in my reading concerning their Modern Doctors Christians Here is so spacious a Field to walk in that the plenty of matter rather makes a confusion in my thoughts than conduceth to order and method The Fathers of the Church the many Ecclesiastical Doctors of the East and West of the Lutheran and Zuinglian Denomination of the Dutch French and especially English Church so famed for Learning Courage Devotion Writings Labours Sufferings c. Are so obvious to every Reader that I shall rather chuse to say little or nothing or next door to nothing than begin so long a Catalogue and not go thorow with it to some degree of Perfection which to do would require a pretty large Volume only a little for Orders sake take these two or three short touches which I believe will be so far from satisfying a Reader of an eager appetite that I shall both begin and end displeased my self In the Church of Milan S. Augustine saith he heard Ambrose every Lord's-day Preach Bishop Ridley Preached every Holy-day and Sunday Bishop Latimer twice a Week S. Austin would never purchase Houses nor Lands nor any other Possessions for his Church And they who knew his mind sold their Lands and gave Austin the Money Being perswaded that the good Bishop would bestow it on Pious uses and not in making new Purchaces for enriching of his Church Be often refused the Inheritances offered to his Church thinking it fitter they should go to their Lawful Heirs F. Simon ox Possid in vit Aug. S. Austin admitted no Clerk into his Church till first he had disposed of all his Goods either in favour of the Poor or by Sale He was for having all Clerks really Poor in imitation of the Apostles and for living altogether in common on the Revenues of the Church F. Simon in his Hist of Eccl. Reven Luther when his Friends disswaded him from going to Wormes at a Disputation then held between the Papists and Protestants lest they should burn him as they had John Husse he said if I knew there were so many Devils in Wormes as tiles on the Houses did I hear it were like to go ill on our side in the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ I would go thither Calvin at the 28th year of his Age wrote his Institutions at his Death his Inventory amounted not to more than 60 pound taking into the Account his Library Miles Coverdale Bishop of Excester Preach'd every Sunday and Holy-day and most commonly

Chutz Lilis is That if the Mother bring a Boy God would not give him a scolding undutiful Wife as Lilis was but one like Eve Doctor Addison Christians My Mother being given to my Father of GOD became not only his Helper but also his Leader and Captain both by Word and by Deed drawing him to the best things and albeit in other things it were best for her to be subject to her Husand for the right of Marriage yet in Religion and Godliness she was not afraid to shew her self his Mistress She being a Christian Woman and he an Infidel watched fasted sung Psalms and prayed for her Husband and was careful for him She converted her Husband she converted others she brought up her Children in the Fear of GOD her Husband entrusted her with the disposal of his Money to the Poor Greg. Nazianz. of his Mother's help to his F. Bp. of Nazianz. S. Augustine speaking of his Mother Monica saith That she served her Husband as her Lord and that she endeavour'd what she could for the winning of him to the Faith That she patiently sustained the Injuries of the Bed and though Patricius was of a hot and cholerick Temper yet she never made resistance to him in his Anger neither in Word or Deed but sometimes when she had an opportunity in his calm Humours she would give him an account of what she had done and the reasons for it She would often gravely admonish other Women for laying open the Faults of their Husbands in Familiar Discourses with one another and let them know that she had a Faculty beyond them in escaping scratch'd Faces and Quarrels under a Husband of a much rougher Spirit than theirs that it was never heard or known by any sign that Patricius had ever beaten his Wife or Monica ever quarrel'd with her Husband Aug. Conf. l. 9. c. 9. At last she begat him to the Faith Queen Katherine Henry the Eighth's Wife used to work with her own hands and kept her Women to work with her Dr. Burnet Queen Anne Boleyn work'd with her own hands the last time Months of her Life gave 1400 l. to the Poor Idem Bern. About Bern the Wives even of the chief Magistrates look into all the concerns of the House and Kitchin as much as the Wives of the meanest Peasants Idem Japoners The Women live retired and are very faithful to their Husbands the Emperor having put to death one of his Lords in hopes to enjoy his Wife who desiring time to consider upon it shut her self up in a Room with her Children and sending her Servant with a Paper to the Emperor set the Chamber on Fire and burnt her self c. Persians The Persian-Women are seen by none but their own Husbands are very idle in their own Houses not so much as looking after any thing of Housewifry spend their time in taking Tobacco going to the Baths wearing the best Cloaths bringing Collations have many Slaves whom they use to rub their Arms Legs Thighs 'till they fall asleep in their voluptuous Prison M. Tavern l. 5. c. 14. Opposita juxta se posita magis clucescunt Muscovites As soon as the Wedding is over the Woman must resolve to live a retired life seldom giving visits and because they are much given to Wine and have lewd Tongues and sometimes pleasure a Friend no wonder if sometimes they are soundly cudgelled by their Husbands But I can't say as Barclay in his Icon animorum that they take unkindness if not beaten D. of Holst Ambass Trav. Madagascar In Madagascar the Fidelity of Wives to their Husbands is remarkable and exemplary and the Men think it no disparagement to take their Advice and because they have two Wives commonly or more he hath most compliance for the more Aged Mandelslo Armenians The Armenian Wives never speak to their Husbands but only nod never dine with them are seldom seen by them always rise before day See Chapter of Marriage Indians The Husband dying among the Indians the Wife can never Marry again so that as soon as the Man is dead the Wife retires to bewail her Husband shaves off her Hair lays aside her Ornaments of Apparel and all the rest of her Life after lives slighted and despised and in a worse condition than a Slave in the same House where she was Mistress before For this reason and because the Bramins flatter them with a hope that whilst they are in the midst of the Flames Ram will appear and reveal wonderful Visions to them and that they shall revive again with their Husbands in another World with more honour and advantages they choose to be buried alive with their Husbands Those who cannot get leave of their Governours to be burnt spend the rest of their lives in doing Penance and in works of Charity sitting upon the Road to boyl certain Pulse in Water and give the Liquor for the use of Travellers others sit with Fire always ready to light their Tobacco others vow to eat nothing but the undigested Grains in Cow-dung When the Governour finds no Porsuasions alter the Woman's resolution his Secretary making sign that he hath received the Coin in a surly manner gives the VVoman leave bidding the Devil take her and all her Kindred Having got this leave their Musick begins to strike up and away they ding to the House of the deceased with Drums beating and Flutes playing before them and Women following with loud Congratulations and Songs in honour of the miserable Creature that is going to dye I have seen Women burnt three several ways in Guzerat and Bengala c. Tavern Trav. p. 2. l. 3. c. 9. Good Masters Jews ABraham the Father of the Faithful and the Glory of the Jewish Nation as he performed the part of a good Master having that excellent Elogium bestowed upon him by GOD himself That he would command his Children and Family after him and instruct them in the Fear of the Lord. So he had a Servant both Pious and Faithful that discharged the Trust put in him delivers his Message prays for a Blessing upon his Undertaking gave thanks for his Success and this all in a Momentous Affair the procuring a Wife for his young Master Isaac Gen. 24. Muscovites The Muscovites are generally very severe to their Servants and use the Cudgel upon a small cause but especially the Great Dukes have been wont to lash their Physicians looking on that Art as infallible formerly c. A German Physician that had one time disappointed the Czar's expectation in the cure of the D. of Holstein his Kinsman came with a tatter'd Garment his Hair hanging over his Eyes and Face to the Duke's Chamber creeping on all four to his Bed-side told him That he was not worthy to live c. A Kuez being present kick'd him on the head and drew Blood The Physician perceiving favour in the Great Duke's Countenance said confidently to him Great Prince I know I am your Slave but be pleased to give