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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A87878	Americans no Iewes, or improbabilities that the Americans are of that race. By Hamon l'Estrange, Kt.	L'Estrange, Hamon, 1605-1660.	1651 (1651)	Wing L1186; Thomason E643_3; ESTC R205986	59,127	85

wholsome but makes the skin harsh and rugged and oyle makes it soft and smooth againe And Thucydides saies In gymnasio Lacedaemonii corpora nudarunt oleo perfuderunt the Lacedemonians at their feats of exercise bared their bodies and then annointed them with oyle Exercent patrias oleo labente paaaestras Nundati socii virg. Aenead and Oleum quo superunguntur Athletae ad adjiciendum Robur Ceroma dicitur sayes Seneca the oyle wherewith wrestlers annoint themselves to get strength is called Ceroma and Plutarch in this Alexander saies that the Gods bestowed oyle upon men for refreshment after wearinesse and labours There was another Annointing with oyle mentioned in Scripture which was of such as were sick as Mark 6. 13. Ia. 5. 14. that was a Power given by Christ to his Disciples which was not from any expresse receipt or cure but onely for a signe and earnest of Spirituall health and cure of the Soul as were many other miracles done by them this manner of annointing lasted as long as the gift to work miracles lasted Chrysost. Hom. 4. in Math. and Aust. de vera religione cap. 15. both confesse that they were vanished before their times and from that primitive use the Papists have extremely translated it into a Sacrament Other Annointing than what I have here mentioned I find not in use among the lewes save that in festis solebant Iudaei caput oleo ungere upon their festivall daies the Iewes used to annoint their head with oyle which was no other than that because upon those high and great daies they were more publique in their meetings and assemblies therfore they annointed themselves both to smooth and chear the countenance and to please by sent perfume And their head rather than any other part both because the hair would better lodge and retain the sent especially also being preserved warm with an hat or covering and because when men are together in ordinary conference and discourse the outward seat of the seat of smelling which is in the nose a member of the head is nearer the object of delight as they talke nearer and their heads are nearer together by the salutations of kissing or embraceing and so they contribute pleasing odours and perfumes to the delight of one another Of all this that is said which is of odoriferous and sweet oyles nothing makes for the scope of the Author to the use of the Indians who never annoint to the purposes aforesaid but as they prefer the dark and tawny complexion so they love to adulterate the colour of their hair So in Florida and some parts of Brasile they annoint themselves their skin with oyle ut nudam cutem c. to crust harden and defend it against the scorching of the Sun but of the annointing of the head I reade no custome among them They pride themselves with Earings and have their noses bored through with Iewells hanging at them as wee read in Esay 3. v. 20. 21. I confesse the Earings in use among the Americans as was in Esay is with us and all Europe over by perforation Auribus extensis ma●nos commisit elenchos Iuvenal li 2. sa● 6. but the Nose-rings in Esay were onely naso impendentia hanging down upon the forehead as was most in use among us in late memory but the Americans bore the sides of their nostrills through to hang their Iewells at And so their lower lips also for lip rings but I forbear to quote authority thereof being confident of the readers consent and satisfaction in so clear a matter In th● 〈…〉 let us observe and an●●i● 〈…〉 ●●ane time Iewe● 〈…〉 e negative command to the 〈…〉 ●evit ca. 19. v. 27. In ●ll India they wash themselves often and the Iewes were frequent in this Mark 7. 3 4. Io. 2. 6. To say they wash themselves often must implie they wash their bodies often and such washing the heat of Brasile and other hot Clymates require and such washing may also easily and often be done by a people going almost naked and so with small and little labour to dresse and undresse but the washing of the hands before meat quoted out of Mar. was with the Iewes as with us a common practise before meales but otherwise of the washing of the body and that quotation out of Marke c. is onely a note of the seeming outward purity and cleanenesse of the Pharisees and their ceremonious strictnesse putting and placing religion in opere operato and the forme of Godlinesse for they washed before meat at meat upon drinking pledging changing of Pots Glasses c. and therefore for their severall often and frequent uses they had in their diningroomes great pitchers or vessells of water ever in readinesse as at the marriage in Cana. Io. 2. But the Americans wash their bodies often to coole themselves and to wont and accustome to the waters they practising very much swimming in fishing and diving but Io. de Laët Ind. occid. lib. 15. cap. 2. saies the Brasilians one of the largest provinces of all the West-Indians eate their meat illotis manibus with unwashed hands And Purchas America cap. 5. saies the Brasilians wash not before meales and in his treatise of Nova francia cap. 8. he saies they wash not at meales except they be e●ceeding foule and then they wipe upon their own or their dogs hai●es and whereas Lerius hath a nonnulli that wash before and after meals this denotes but a few admits the generality not to wash as for the Levitical law of washing that respected onely clensing after supposed pollution by touching of unclean creatures and other defilings and contamination and contrary to Gods expresse command whereas the question with us resteth onely in a voluntary and nationall use and custome yet for washing before meales it is a common use among us and other countries who are any whit civilized by commerce and so Linschot saies of the Cambians Goans Peguans and Bengalans I could here relate of the sundry superstitious particulars of the Pharisaicall washings as the Jesuis Serrarius quotes them out of the Rabbins enough to pose all America They exceedingly delight in Dancing c. This is so cheap and prostitute a custome all the World over and must needs be most among naked people as inopem me copia fecit if I should begin to exemplifie I knew not when to end It is a ravishment of the Intellectuals with an high content of fruition or near hopes which the soul breathes forth by her ministers the faculties of the body in all light volatile and aiery motions and activities The Jews were wont to call them Fathers and Mothers that were not their naturall Parents so the Indians c. This assertion is not exemplified by any quotation of Scripture how and in what manner and measure it is intended or extended for the words Pater Mater have sundry other than naturall significations and in many of them the