Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same. By Samuel Purchas, minister at Estwood in Essex.
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Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same. By Samuel Purchas, minister at Estwood in Essex.
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Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
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London :: Printed by William Stansby for Henrie Fetherstone, and are to be sold at his shoppe in Pauls Church-yard at the signe of the Rose,
1613.
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"Purchas his pilgrimage. Or Relations of the vvorld and the religions obserued in all ages and places discouered, from the Creation vnto this present In foure partes. This first containeth a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the Floud ... With briefe descriptions of the countries, nations, states, discoueries, priuate and publike customes, and the most remarkable rarities of nature, or humane industrie, in the same. By Samuel Purchas, minister at Estwood in Essex." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/A10228.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed June 7, 2024.
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THE FOVRTH BOOKE.
Of the Armenians, Medes, Persians, Parthians, Scythians, Tar∣tarians, Chinois, and of their RELIGIONS.
CHAP. I.
OF Armenia Maior: and Georgia: and the Neighbouring Nations. pag.287.
CHAP. II.
Of the Medes. pag.293.
CHAP. III.
Of the Parthians, and Hyrcanians. pag.297.
CHAP. IIII.
Of Persia, and the Persian affaires, vn∣till the Mahumetan Conquest. pag.301.
CHAP. V.
Of the Persian Magi, and of their an∣cient Religion, Rites, and customes. p.310.
CHAP. VI.
Of the alterations of the State and Reli∣gion in Persia vnder the Saracens. p.316.
CHAP. VII.
Of the Sophian Sect or Persian Reli∣gion, as it is at this present. pag.325.
CHAP. VIII.
Of the Scythians, Sarmatians, and Seres, and of their Religion. pag.331.
CHAP. IX.
Of the Tartarians, and of diuers Na∣tions which they subdued; with their pri∣stine
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CHAP. X.
A continuation of the Tartarian Hi∣storie, and the question discussed, whe∣ther Cathay and China bee the same. pag.342.
CHAP. XI.
Of the Religion of the Tartars, and Cathaians. pag.347.
CHAP. XII.
Of the Festiuall solemnities, and of the Magnificence of the Gran Can. pag.352.
CHAP. XIII.
Of the alteration of Religion among the Tartars: and of the diuers sorts, Sects, and Nations of them now remayning. pag.354.
CHAP. XIIII.
Of the Nations which liued in, or neare to those parts, now possessed by the Tar∣tars: and their Religions and Customes. pag.359.
CHAP. XV.
Of other Northren people adioyning to the Tartars. pag.363.
CHAP. XVI.
Of the Kingdome of China. pag.366.
CHAP. XVII.
Of the Religion vsed in China. pag.370.
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