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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

over another upon the Navel and say softly some Prayers to themselves 4. They still keep their face to the Keble 5. At the end of every Prayer prostrate themselves on the ground and cry Allah ekber At Sabahnamaz they prostrate 8 times At Noon 20 times At the Quindy 16. At the Akschamnamaz 10. At the Yatzinamaz 24. 6. They never prattle nor talk in their Moschs but carry themselves with great Reverence 7. They turn neither this way nor that way whatever may happen M. de Thevenot Ancient Heathen The people were obliged both among the Ancient Greeks and Romans to a grave Comportment all profane and rude persons being driven away And when any Sacrifice was offered both the Priest and People that offered laid their hands on the Altar to signifie their free consent and heartiness of Devotion Modern Heathen In the Becar a Province of the East Indies when the people come to their Pagods having taken directions from their Bramens they anoint their bodies with Oil and say their Prayers and depart M. de Thov But first they present their Oblations to the Idol Idem The Persians are covered on their Heads all day long with their Shasks not excepting the presence of their King nor their set times of Devotion Sir Tho. Herbert 16. The Rule of Worship Jewish 1. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Moses The Prophets The Psalms H. Scripture Hammi-kra Reading 2. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 viz. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 A Secondary Law consisting in Traditions for many Years unwritten or dispersed without Order till after our Saviour's time and then by Rabbi Juda reduced to Aphorisins which afterwards became of great Authority with all the Jews The Book is called Mischna i. e. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Its parts are as followeth 1. Zeraim of Fruits and Seeds c. 2. Moed of Fasts 3. Naschim of Women Divorces Diseases 4. Nezikim of Losses 5. Kodaschim of Sacrifices and sacred things 6. Tahoroth of Purifications Hotting Their Religion is contained in the Old Testament and Talmud M. de Theven For say they Moses was not with God on M. Sinai 40 Days and 40 Nights to keep Geese Purchas Canons also were made by the Sanhedrim and varied in several Generations about the Times of Morning and Evening Service the Number of Prayers to be said daily which at last grew to be 18 c. Dr. Lightfoot To study and read the Bible is a Vertue and not a Vertue i. e. a small Vertue but to learn their mischna or Talmud-Text is a Vertue worthy Reward and to learn Gemaram the Complement of the Talmud is a Vertue so great that none can be greater Purchas ex Tract Banamaziah Ancient Christian 1. H. Scripture Our pious Fathers fetcht their Weapons against the Hereticks out of no other Armory than the Scripture Augustine against Patilianus the Donatist saith Let not these words be heard among us I say or you say but let us rather say Thus saith the Lord Jerome saith whatever things are asserted as delivered from the Apostles without Scripture-Testimony are smitten with the Sword of God Ambrose to Gratian the Emperour Let the Scriptures be asked saith he Let the Apostles be asked Let the Prophets be asked Let Christ be asked Jewel's Apol. I adore the fullness of Scripture Let Hermogenes's School shew that it is writ if not writ let him be afraid Tertul. 2. Traditions Of which Tertullian speaks in these words I will begin with Baptism where coming to the Water we testify before the President That we renounce the Devil his Pomps and his Angels then are we thrice dipt answering somewhat more than Christ commanded in his Gospel The Sacrament of the Eucharist which our Lord instituted after Supper we partake of in our meetings before the Day arise we think it wickedness to fast or to pray kneeling on the Lord's Day we kneel not from Easter till Whitsuntide● Whensoever we go forth or come in or whatsoever we are conversant about we sign our foreheads with the sign of the Cross And if you do require a Law of Scripture for these Observations you will find none Tradition will be alledged as the Author and Custome the confirmer of them de Coron Mil. c. 3.4 Vincentius Lirinensis saith he many a time and with much industry and attention enquired of Holy and Learned Men how he might by a certain general and regular way discern the Truth from Falshood c. and he always received this kind of Answer First by the Authority of the Divine Law and secondly by Tradition of the Catholick Church Because saith he tho the Scripture be perfect and more than sufficient for all things yet by reason of its heighth it is diversly interpreted Let us endeavour to hold that which hath been believed every where always by all Vin. Lirin Commonit c. 1 and 3. Mahometan Mahomet distinguisheth the Law into 1. Written viz. The Alcoran so called from Al this and Koran Reading of 124 Azoaras or chapters On the Cover of which they write Let none touch this but he that is clean Their Liturgy is in the Arabian Tongue not understood by many of the common people The Priests never touch their Alcoran without an Expression of much outward Reverence So the people at seeing or hearing of it read shew much attention affection and reverence The Alcoran written in Heaven and sent in the month Ramadan They lift it to their heads before they read it It hath no method or order in it 2. Unwritten viz. the Suna or Assonna Traditions whereof Bochari hath published 7275 Titles or Apothegms Most of the Mahometans do firmly believe them all called therefore Populus Sunae N. B. They receive the Decalogue of Moses and cause it to be observed by all M. de Theven Ancient Heathen 1. Written The Romans had the Books of Sibylla Cumana kept by a College of 8 Pontiffs with a Chief whose Office it was to regulate all the Ceremonies relating to the Worship of the Gods Galtruch What Rites of Sacrifices and Worship were to be observed were not only diligently prescribed in the Laws of Sacrifices but by the Oracle of Apollo enjoyned to be observed with much Accuracy Nat. Com. 2. Unwritten The Druids of Gaul held it not lawful to commit their Verses of which they had a great number containing the mysteries of their Discipline to writing Caesar Comment Modern Heathen 1. The Hindoes or Indians call the book of their Law Shest●r or the book of their written word which hath been transcribed in all ages ever since the first delivery of it not long after the Creation as they say by thee Bramins out of the which they deliver Precepts unto the people Viz. 1. Thou shalt not kill any living creature c. 2. To observe times of fasting and hours of watching 3. About Festivals c. 4. To take their food moderately c. 5. Help the poor as far as possible 6. Not to tell false Tales 7. Not to steal 8. Not

High Creator of all things That the Bishop reads Prayers over the Child in Church before the Baptism and in the River at Baptism while the Godfather plunges the Child three times all over and then to Feasting Papists 1. Doctrines according to the Council of Trent I N. do with a stedfast Faith believe and profess all and every Point contained in the Symbol of the Faith that the Holy Roman Church doth use viz. To believe in God the Father Almighty Maker of Heaven and Earth of all things visible and invisible And in one Lord Jesus Christ the only begotten Son of God and born of the Father before all Worlds God of God Light of Light True God of True God begotten not made of the same Substance with the Father by whom all things were made who for us Men and for our Salvation came down from Heaven was Incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary and was made Man was crucified for us under Pontius Pilate suffered and was buried and rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and ascended up into Heaven sitteth at the right Hand of the Father and he shall come again with Glory to judge both the Quick and the Dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no end and in the Holy Ghost the Lord and Giver of Life who proceedeth from the Father and the Son who with the Father and the Son together is worshipped and glorified who spake by the Prophets and one Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church I confess one Baptism for the Remission of Sins and I expect the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the World to come Amen I do most stedfastly admit and embrace the Traditions of the Apostles and of the Church and all other Observances and Constitutions of the same Church I do likewise admit the Holy Scripture according to that Sense which our Holy Mother the Catholick Church hath holden and doth hold unto whom it doth appertain to judge of the True Sense and Interpretation of the Holy Scriptures neither will I ever understand nor interpret the same otherwise than according to the uniform consent of the Fathers I do also profess that there be truly and properly Seven Sacraments of the New Law and necessary for the Salvation of Mankind although they be not necessary for all Men viz. Baptism Confirmation Eucharist Pennance Extream Unction Orders and Matrimony and that these Sacraments do give Grace and that of them Baptism Confirmation and Orders cannot be reiterated without Sacrilege I do also receive and admit all the received and approved Ceremonies of the Catholick Church in the Solemn Administration of all the aforesaid Sacraments I do embrace and receive all and every of those things which in the Holy Council of Trent have been defined and declared touching Original Sin and Justification I do profess also that in the Mass is offered unto God a true proper and propitiatory Sacrifice for the Quick and Dead and that in the most Holy Sacrifice of the Altar there is truly really and substantially the Body and Blood together with the Soul and Divinity of our Lord Jesus Christ and that there is made a Conversion of the whole Substance of Wine into the Blood which Conversion the Catholick Church doth call Transubstantiation I do also confess that under either kind only is received Christ whole intire and the True Sacrament I do constantly hold that there it Purgatory and that the Souls which be there detained are holpen by the Prayers of the Faithful Also that the Saints who reign together with Christ are to be worshipped and called upon and that they offer up Prayers to God for us and that their Relicks are to be worshipped I do most stedfastly affirm that the Images of Christ of the Mother of God always Virgin and of other Saints are to be had and received and that due Honour and Reverence is to be given to them I do affirm that the Authority of Indulgencies was left by Christ in the Church and that the use of them is very behooveful to Christian People I do acknowledge the Holy Catholick and Apostolick Roman Church to be the Mother and Mistress of all Churches and do promise and swear true Obedience to the Bishop of Rome who is the Successor of St. Peter Prince of the Apostles and the Vicar of Jesus Christ All other things defined and declared by the Holy Canons and Oecumenical Councils and chiefly by the Holy Council of Trent I do undoubtedly receive and profess And also all contrary things and whatsoever Heresies condemned rejected and accursed by the Church I likewise do condemn reject and accurse This True Catholick Faith without which no Man can be Saved which now I do willingly profess and hold I the same I. N. do Promise Vow and Swear to hold and confess most constantly by God's help intire and uncorrupted even to the last end of my Life and to procure as much as shall lye in me that my Subjects or those of whom I shall have care in my Office shall accordingly teach and preach the same So God help me and these Holy Gospels of God Dr. James Library-keeper of Oxford out of Lewis de Grenado 's Sp. Doctrine 2. Vsages and Ceremonies and Traditions 1. In publick Prayers they use the Latine-Tongue 2. In the Commandments they make the First and Second One and divide the Tenth into Two 3. They distinguish Sins into 1. Mortal by which only they say the Commandments are broken which are 1. Pride 2. Covetousness 3. Leachery 4. Anger 5. Gluttony 6. Envy 7. Sloth 2. Venial Not contrary to the end of the Commandments i. e. to Charity e. g. an idle Word an officious or jesting Lie stealing of a Pin or Apple c. not killing but disposing to mortal Sin 4. They say 't is possible necessary and easie by the assistance of God's Grace to keep all the Commandments 5. That mortal sin is remitted by 1. Hearty Penance 2. Contrition 6. That venial sin is remitted by 1. All the Sacraments 2. Holy-water 3. Devout Prayer c. 7. The punishment Of mortal sin is Hell for ever 7. The punishment Of venial sin is Purgatory 8. That there are six Sins against the Holy Ghost 1. Despair of Salvation 2. Presumption of God's Mercy 3. Impugning the known Truth 4. Envy at others known good 5. Obstinacy in Sin 6. Final Impenitence 9. That there are four crying Sins 1. Wilful Murder 2. The Sin of Sodom 3. Oppression of the Poor 4. Defrauding VVork-men of their VVages 10. There be three principal Counsels of Christ to his Church 1. Voluntary Poverty 2. Perpetual Chastity 3. Obedience to another's will in all that is not Sin 11. There be six Commandments of the Church principally 1. To hear Mass on all Sundays and Holy-Days if opportunity serve 2. To Fast 1. Lent 2. Vigils commanded 3. Ember-Days and Fridays by custom of England 4. To abstain from Flesh on Saturdays 3. To confess

If the Soul had done evil it was adjudged to perpetual Prisons if well it had an easy return to Life by Transmigration That God judges according to the plurality or paucity of Merits or Demerits Seven sorts of Pharisees according to Godw. Jew Antiq. 1. Pharisaus Sichemita 2. Truncatus that upon pretence of Meditation would searce draw his Foot from the ground 3. Impingens that to avoid seeing a Woman would wink and run his head against a wall 4. Quid Debeo facere faciam Luke 18. 5. Mortarius wearing a Hat like a Mortar to look only downward of forward 6. Ex Amore. See the next pag Godw. ibid. 7. Ex Timore See the next pag Godw. ibid. Pharisees their History Pharisees from Phares to divide or Parash to expose to publick view or Parash to Expound They were a crafty and subtil generation of Men and so perverse even to Princes themselves that they would not fear many times openly to Affront and oppose them Dr. Cave out of Joseph Ant. Jud. l. 17. c. 3. Much Affected and Esteem'd of the Populace Id. Therefore Alexander Jannaus when he lay a dying advised his Queen by all means to comply with this fort of men imputing his own miscarriages to the Offences he had given them Id. ex eod Infinitely proud and insolent surly and ill-natur'd hating all mankind but themselves censuring all who were not of their way greatly Zealous to gather Proselytes and then making them not more Religious but more fierce censorious heady two-fold more the Children of Wrath discriminating themselves from the Herd by Long-Robes broad Rhylacteries large Fringes long Prayers frequent Easting domure Looks a whing Tone c. Idem They were an improvement of 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 1 Mac. 2.42 Those that voluntarily performed somethings which the Law required not who divided themselves from the rest of the Profane World which did not as they did nay from the Asidei themselves who performed as much as they but did not think themselves or others obliged by Law to do so And therefore were 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Pharisees Separaters from other Men Not an Order settled by Law but only a Sect of which some of all Orders of men were and indeed a prevailing Sect taken up by most of the chief Men of the Nation the Elders in the Sanhedrim and Rulers in the Consistories therefore called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Dr. Hammond Annot. on Luke 14.1 Hillal and Sammai were two chief Masters amongst them of Divers Sects The Jews reckon 7 kind of Pharisees The Essenes were divided into 1. Cloisterers Collegiates 1. Married 2. Continent 2. Eremites solitary Persons The 7 Kinds were 1. Siehemitoe which measured Piety by Honour and Profit as the Sichemites which for the Marriage of Dinab would be Circumcised 2. Nacphi which lifted not their Foot from the ground 3. Kisai draw-blood which would smite their head to the wall to draw blood and shut their Eyes that they might not behold a woman 4. Makehobathi that stood on their own Perfection the word signifies what is my sin 5. Meduchia which went low and stooping 6. The Pharisee of Love which obeyed the Law for Love of Vertue or Reward Abraham's Pha. 7. Of Fear or Job's Pharisee which obeyed for fear of Punishment Essees so called from a word which signifies Rest or Silence Sealiger Essoei qu 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Phil. Jud. Pliny l. 5. c. 17. placeth them on the West of the Dead Sea above 4000 in Number avoiding Riches and Pleasures as sins not Marrying but instructing the Children of others not meddling with War or Merchandise Neither Swearing nor Lying their Society such that one Garment one House one Food Treasury one getting spending one life served to them all Purchas Oyl and Neatness they Shun yet wore always a white Garment they worshipped towards the East given to the Study of Physick ascribing all things to Fate Offering inanimate Sacrifices as Pythagoreans and given much to silence keeping every seventh week a Pentecost careful to preserve the Names of Angels Rosse 3. Samaritans Nazarites Rechabites Samaritans 1. Name and Distinction SO called from Samaria the Countrey where they dwelt and the place where they worshipped for their Temple was on Mount Gerizim Of these were four Sects Dositheans Sebueans Essens Gorthens 2. Original Manasses Brother to Jaddus the High-Priest in Jerusalem being Married to Sanballat the Horouite's Daughter by reason of Nehemiah's charge of putting away their strange wives being forced either to put away his wife or not be Priest got leave of Sanballat to build a Temple on Gerizim a Hill in Samaria whither many Apostate Jews fled together with Manasses their High-Priest 3. Errors 1. They as well as the Sadduces rejected Traditions and other Scripture save the Pentateuch 2. They denied also the Resurrection but held that there was Angels 3. Sacrificed at the Temple on Mount Gerizim 4. Allowed no Commerce with the Jews John 4.9 being Excommunicated in Secreto nomine Tetragrammati by Ezra and Nehemiah so that they should have no part in the resurrection Nazarites 1. Name These were Votaries Numb 6. So called from 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to separate 2. Office They separated themselves from 1. Wine Strong-drink c. 2. The Dead 3. The Rasour 3. Distinction Some were Nazarites 1. For Life as Sampson John Baptist c. 2. For 30 days as Absalom Paul Acts 21.24 3. Mystically as Christ Mat. 2.3 Rechabites We have little account of them save only out of S. Scripture Jer. 35.2 3. c. Viz. That they were so called from Rechab their Father that they neither did 1. Drink Wine nor 2. Sow Seed 3. Nor build Houses 4. Nor Plant Vine-yards 5. But lived in Tents all their days like strangers Ossens Ossent are added by Epiphanius which seem to be derived from the Essens but they Worshipped Angels Col. 2.21 And the Sun called thence Sampsaeans one of whose chief Doctors was one Elxai in the time of Trajan who taught Aequivocation forbade Praying to the Eastward detested Sacrifices acknowledged a She-holy Ghost c. Mahometan Sects Turks 1. The Turks pretend that Aboubeker was the lawful Successor of Mahomet Omar Successor of Aboubeker Osman of Osmar Aly of Osman Whom the Persians execrate the Memory of Some reduce the difference of Turks and Persians to these 4 Heads 1. A different Explication of the Alcoran 2. Diversity of Saints 3. Diversity of Miracles 4. Diversity of Mosques and Ceremonies 3. The Turks are called Sunni because they follow also Counsels of Devotion besides the commands of their Law M. de Thev 4. They call to Prayers from the tops of Twoers 5. In praying the Sunni hold their hands one over another upon the stomach 6. Among the Turks for a Christian to dispute with them about matters of Faith is punishable by Death M. de Thev Persians The Religion of the Persians is the same in substance with that of the Turks tho no Nations in the