The Ranters Religion. [ 1233]
IT is reported of the Lindians, a People in the Isle of Rhodes,* 1.1 who using to offer their Sacrifices with curses and execrable Maledictions, thought their unholy holy-Rites were prophaned, if that in all the time of the solemnity, vel imprudenti alicui exciderit verbum bonum,* 1.2 any one of them at unawares should have cast out or let fall one good word: Such is the irreligious Religion, and desperate carriage of a wretched crew, called Ranters, whose mouthes are fill'd with cursing, and blasphemous speeches, and that in such an ••orrid and con∣fused manner, as if Pythagoras his 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 were to be credited, a Man would think Rabshekah's Soul had been transported into their bodies, their Dialect be∣ing alike Divellish, their language semblable.