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A61291 The history of the Chaldaick philosophy by Thomas Stanley. Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678.; Stanley, Thomas, 1625-1678. Chaldaick oracles of Zoroaster. 1662 (1662) Wing S5240; ESTC R12160 140,604 202

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Gerundensis confirms the same story but R. Chain relates it otherwise Abraham saith he met with a Woman holding a Dish in her hand and the Woman asking him whether he would offer any thing to the Gods he took a staff and broke the Images which the Woman had and threw away the staff his Father coming thither at the same time demanded what was the matter Abraham answer'd that she had asked him whether he would make an offering and that upon his answering that he would first eat something there arose a dispute betwixt them but his Father urged that the businesse was otherwise and that he was heard to say many reproachful things of Nimrod The Controversy was brought before Nimrod the King of Babel he commanded Abraham to worship the Fire that was set before him Abraham answered If so then adore you the Water Water which quencheth Fire Nimrod said to him VVorship the Water Abraham answered If so worship the Clouds which distil the Water Nimrod said Then worship the Clouds whereupon Abraham If it be so then the Wind is to be worshipped which agitates and scatters the Clouds Again Nimrod VVorship the Wind but Abraham if so then is Man much more to be worshipped who understands the Wind. At length Nimrod growing angry You talk saith he idlely I worship none but the Fire into the midst of which I will cast thee Let the God whom thou worshipest come and free thee by his right hand Aran stood by and talked they asked of which opinion he was he answer'd If Abraham get the better I will be for him if Nimrod for Nimrod After Abraham had gone into the fiery Furnace and was freed they said to Aran of which side art thou he said of Abraham's then they took him and cast him into the fire and all his Bowels were burned and he was taken out dead in the presence of his Father Thus R. Chain but Cedrenus affirms that Abraham throwing his Fathers Idols into the fire his Brother Aran endeavouring to rescue them was burned The Arabians who imitate the Jews in Relations of this kind and fancy superstructures of their own upon fables of the Rabbies give a further accompt of what happened unto Abraham after his departure from Nimrod as appears by a fragment of a Mahometan Writer of which I shall cite only so much as most particularly concerns the Sabaeans Edris on whom be peace was the first who after Enoch the son of Seth the son of Adam on whom peace wrote with a pen. This thing afterwards Edris taught his sons and said to them O sons know that you are Sabaeans learn therefore to read Books in your youth Now Sabaeans are Writers of whom the High he means Mahomed said Alk. Sur. 2. The Sabaeans and the Nazarenes The Author adds that they ceased not to possess the Books of S●th and Edris by hereditary right among themselves until the times of Noah and of Abraham after that the High God aided him against Nimrod on whom be malediction But in that day wherein Abraham went out of the land of Irack and would go into Syria into t●e la●d of his Fore-fathers he went to the land of Charan and Ghesira and there he found a people of the Zabaeans who read old Books and believed such things as were contained in them But Abraham said O my God I did not think that besides my self and those that are with me there had been any of the Faithful who believed thee to be one and God breathed to Abraham this Answer O Abraham the Earth is never destitute but that there are some in it that dispute for God But God commanded him to call them to his Religion and he called them but they would not saying How shall we believe thee when thou readest not a Book and God sent among them a forgetfulness of these things whicb they knew of Sciences and Books for they conceived the Books which they used to be from God and some of them believed others not Afterwards the Zabaeans were divided and some of them believed viz. the Barhameans who did not separate themselves from Abraham of blessed memory but the rest followed their own Religion very eagerly viz. those who are in the land of Charan who went not with Abraham into Syria and said we follow the Religion of Seth Edris and Noah Thus according to Kissaeus the Religion of the Sabaeans was the same with that of the Haranaeans or Mesopotamians What he relates of Abraham ' s being sent to the Sabaeans is all borrow'd from the Rabbinical Traditions But that there were antiently Learned Persons in Arabia skilful in Natural Philosophy Astronomy and other Sciences is manifest from testimonies far more authentick as particularly from the discourses betwixt Iob and his Friends of the Arabian Philosophers is it understood that Salomon's Wisdom is said to have excelled the wisdom of all the sons of the East Tacitus describing Iudaea the land and bounds to the East are terminated by Arabia And that the Jews called Arabia the East Country is evident from several places in Scripture as Gen. 10. 30. and 25. 6. 18. Iob 1. 3. Iudg. 6. 3. 1. c. Pliny also mentions the Magi of Arabia of whom he instanceth Hippocus Ptolomy the Gulf of the Magi in Arabia and Porphyrius citing Diogenes relates that Pythagoras amongst other Countries to which he travelled for Learning went also to Arabia and liv'd with the King there CHAP. III. Their Writings THe Sabaeans pretended as was lately shew'd out of Kisseus to have had the Books of Seth and Edris and not only those but some also written by Adam for the same Author continuing the story of Abraham ' s coming amongst the Sabaeans adds that afterwards Abraham opened the Chest of Adam and behold in it were the Books of Adam likewise the Books of Seth and of Edris as also the names of all the Prophets that were to be sent after Abraham But Abraham said Happy indeed are the loins out of which all tbese Prophets shall come and God breathed to him this answer Thou O Abraham art the Father of them all and they thy Children and for this reason Abraham deserv'd to be called the Father of the Prophets upon whom be peace Of the same allay Maimonides conceives the Book of Healings to have been which was hid by Ezekiel The same Maimonides cites many other Books of the Sabaeans translated into Arabick of which the chiefest is entituled of the Agriculture of the c Nabateans translated by Aben Vachaschijah full of Idololatrical extravagancies it treats of the making of Tsilmenaias of the descent of familiar spirits of conjurations of Daemons of Devils of such as dwell in Deserts as Satyrs were thought to do many other things it contained very ridiculous by which nevertheless they conceived that they could confute the manifest miracles of Moses and the Prophets Another entituled the Worship or of the worship of the Nabateans out of which Maimonides