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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
religion_n	false_a	true_a	worship_n	4,780	5	7.8086	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A36730	Atlas Chinensis being a second part of A relation of remarkable passages in two embassies from the East-India Company of the United Provinces to the vice-roy Singlamong and General Taising Lipovi and to Konchi, Emperor of China and East-Tartary : with a relation of the Netherlanders assisting the Tarter against Coxinga and the Chinese fleet, who till then were masters of the sea : and a more exact geographical description than formerly both of the whole empire of China in general and in particular of every of the fifteen provinces / collected out of their several writings and journals by Arnoldus Montanus ; English'd and adorn'd with above a hundred several sculptures by John Ogilby.	Montanus, Arnoldus, 1625?-1683.; Dapper, Olfert, 1639-1689.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.; United Provinces of the Netherlands.	1671 (1671)	Wing D242; ESTC R5629	631,298	665

great Veneration that he would be pleas'd to spare them and do them no harm When they take up Arms and proclaim Hostility they offer Sacrifices to Talafula and Tapaliape their two gods of War Their Priests or rather Priestesses which they call Inibs are Women the whole Function in Divine Service or Worship belonging to them for they not only Pray to their gods and Preach but also Sacrifice Their chiefest Offerings are Stags and Boars Heads presented in a Charger upon boyl'd Rice Pynang and other strong Drinks as a Condiment This perform'd two of the Female Order stand up before the Congregation and make a Sermon in which they set forth the Praise and Honor of their gods going on with that vehemency of expressions and loud declamations that at last their Hair stands upright and their Eyes rowling seem ready to start out of their Heads then near the Conclusion of these their dire Exhortations they fall down in a Trance and oftentimes lie so for a whole Hour whilst the People gathering near them tear their Throats and cleave the Air with hideous shrieks and cries when coming to themselves in a cold and faint Sweat their Limbs trembling their Teeth chattering strangely discompos'd they tell the People That in their Trance the gods appear'd to them unfolding mysterious things for their good not yet to be express'd besides two others of these Women mount the Battlements of the Temple and standing at the gable ends they make afresh loud and long Supplications to their gods At last they strip themselves and thus denuded crying more earnestly to their gods and first shaking then taboring or clapping with their Hands raging as in a phanatick distraction All the Women following their impudent example throw off with their Weeds all Shame at once and so Tope and Deboush till they disgorge their too plentiful excess Besides this their publick Worship in the Temple they Offer in the open Streets and exercise private and domestick Devotions performing Family-duties daily in their own Houses to which those that please may repair and joyn with them in this their Idol-Service With these Inibs also they consult concerning fair or foul Weather when they have any Business abroad also of future Events which they seem to foretell and if bad advise how to prevent or at least to mitigate They also profess Exorcism to drive away Evil Spirits and to charm and confine the Devil and all such deceitful Tempters which they perform in a Rant with loud Hectoring Acclamations drawing a Iapan Faulchion with which they Fence Strike and Thrust flourishing it in the Air making them believe that thus they Fight the Fiend and slice Satan out in Sippets forcing him thus being mangled and cut almost into Attoms to dive for his better safety into the Sea Yet these so salvage People and blind with an over-grown ignorance have lately since the Hollanders East-India Company setled here and built a Fort for their Defence and conveniency of Trade without any great difficulty embrac'd the Doctrine of the Christian Faith which was the easier introduc'd the Inhabitants being their own Governors and under no Supream Authority who exercising a Tyrannical Power would as other Persecutors force them back from Gods true to their false idol-Idol-Worship as at that time most part of India was being either under Heathen or Mahumetan Governors who with great fury obstructed the Gospel which else might have flourish'd through the Oriental World Besides the Formosans kept no Books wherein the Bounds of Religion were fix'd and a setled maintain'd Doctrine which still caus'd great variance and hot Disputes amongst themselves the whole Conduct of their Divine Laws being left to a few frantick and ignorant Women who know nothing but by Tradition This made it the more easie to reduce them from their Paganism and Idolatry and finding little in their frenzied Inibs that might perswade them to persist in their former Superstitions many of them with small difficulty became good Christians Thus far Candidius which we have acquainted you with in our Iapan David Wright a Scots-man and later than Candidius who dwelt in the Isle several years hath thus enlarg'd more particularly in every part This Island is not under the Jurisdiction of one peculiar Governor but stands divided into eleven Shires or Provinces all lying to the In-land of which every one hath several Towns and Villages belonging to them besides divers Lordships on the Mountains Under the Hollanders Command with which we will begin first were formerly in the Northern Confines Sinkkan Tavakan Baklawan Soelang Mattou Tiverang Faberlang Takhais Tornap Terenip and Assoek The second Province is Kabelang a Territory by the Netherlanders call'd The Bay of Kabelang and contains seventy two Towns and Villages every one govern'd by their own peculiar Laws and in amity with each other The Hollanders never being able to subdue the Inhabitants thereof were forc'd to make Peace with them after which they not onely Traded with several sorts of Merchandise but also sold their Sons and Daughters to them for Slaves taking commonly for a Youth of thirteen years old ten Rix-Dollars The third Dominion belongs to the King of Middag lying against the North-East of Tayowan Southward of the River Patientia This Prince hath seventeen Towns that obey him the biggest whereof call'd Middag is his chief Seat and Place of Residence Sada Boedor Deredonesel and Goema are four other of his eminent Towns which last is a handsom place lying five Miles from Patientia in a Plain whereas all the other are built on Hills He had formerly twenty seven Towns under his Jurisdiction but ten of them threw off the Yoke He keeps no great State being at his going abroad accompanied onely with one or two Attendants He would never suffer any Christians to dwell in his Dominions but onely allows them to Travel through his Countrey About seven Leagues to the Northward of Middag and four Leagues from the Sea lies Mount Gedult so call'd from its difficult and hard Ascents It appears square like a Table so even and smooth as if it were the Work of Art not of Nature having the advantage of adjacent Plains round about and is over-grown with Brambles On the South-side at the Foot of this Hill glides a River with so strong a Current that the stoutest of the Natives which are Men of able Bodies dares not adventure to wade through it in any place so that to make it fordable they never attempt with less than twenty or thirty together holding fast one by another wherefore the Spaniards have by an Irony call'd it Rio Patientia The Patient River because to pass that rapid Stream asks not only a great deal of Labor but also some Patience The fourth Jurisdiction is that of Pimaba comprehending eight Towns and several Villages the chiefest whereof is Pimaba the Residence for the Governor The Inhabitants thereof are a stout and warlike People and most expert