Purchas his pilgrimes. part 2 In fiue bookes. The first, contayning the voyages and peregrinations made by ancient kings, patriarkes, apostles, philosophers, and others, to and thorow the remoter parts of the knowne world: enquiries also of languages and religions, especially of the moderne diuersified professions of Christianitie. The second, a description of all the circum-nauigations of the globe. The third, nauigations and voyages of English-men, alongst the coasts of Africa ... The fourth, English voyages beyond the East Indies, to the ilands of Iapan, China, Cauchinchina, the Philippinæ with others ... The fifth, nauigations, voyages, traffiques, discoueries, of the English nation in the easterne parts of the world ... The first part.

§. V.

Superstition aduanced in and by the Holy Land Expeditions, and the Christians Christianitie in those parts worse then in other. Diuers Sects of Christians in the East.

FIrst for superstition, this voyage proued a Mart for Reliques, as is before in part ob∣serued of the multiplyed Crosse, of the Speare, of the Bloud of Christ, solemnely car∣ried by King Henrie to Westminster, of our Ladies haires, &c. Of the Crowne of * 1.1 Thornes, Matth. Paris tells, that Baldwin, Emperour of Constantinople before men∣tioned, [ 10] sold it to the French King for money, to pay his Armie. Peter the pilgrime Bishop of Winchester, bequeathed inestimable summes of money to Religious Houses by him founded at Hales, Tikeford, Seleburne, Portsmouth: and whereas two Churches had beene dedicated * 1.2 to Saint Th. Becket at Acon, he remoued one of them to a more conuenient place, and changed their Or∣der into a more competent, subiect to the Templars, and gaue besides by Will fiue hundred marks to it. But Vitriacus, the Bishop of Acon, will best acquaint vs with their conditions, who ha∣uing reckoned the Peeres of that Kingdome, the Earle of Tripolis, Lords of Berith, Sidon, Cai∣phas * 1.3 or Porphyria, Caesarea, Mount Royall, of Assur, of Ibelim, with some others; the Prince of Galilee, Lord of Tiberias; Earle of Ioppe and Ascalon, &c. tells vs of the flourishing state of Re∣ligion [ 20] by the odor of holy and venerable places there, sorted and fitting to mens deucuter hu∣mours; some choosing to liue in the Desart called Quarantena, where our Lord was tempted, li∣uing * 1.4 Heremiticall liues in petie Cells; others, in imitation of Elias in Mount Carmell neere Caiphas, in Hiues of small Cells, foure miles from Acon: others, in the Desarts of Iordan; o∣thers liuing solitarie in the Desart of Galilee, where Christ preached. In Thabor was a Monaste∣rie builded, and in diuers other places. Others chose rather to liue in Cities, especially Ierusa∣lem, Nazareth, and Bethleem.

Ierusalem was the Mother of the Faith, as Rome is of the faithfull; it stands on a high Hill, * 1.5 is on both sides Mountaynous, abounding with Wheat, Wine, and Oile, and all temporall good things: yet hath but one Fountayne, called Siloe, flowing out of Sion, sometimes hauing little or [ 30] no Waters. And as it is more holy then any place, so it hath drawne to it more religious Per∣sons. In it is a Temple of huge quantitie, whence the Templars haue their name, called Salo∣mons * 1.6 Temple. Whatsoeuer places (in all that Countrey) our Lord trod on, are esteemed holy and consecrated, and for precious Reliques by the faithfull; whence Religious both Clerks and Lay∣men, aswell militarie as of other condition, haue beene drawne thither: namely, the Brethren of the Hospitall of Saint Iohn, the Templars, and the Brethren of the Hospitall of Saint Marie of the Dutch. The Hospitalars were from the time of the Surians, hauing a Latine Church of Saint * 1.7 Marie, the Abbot whereof built an Hospitall in honor of Saint Iohn Eleemon. After the Franks Expedition, Gerard the Master, adioyning some others to him tooke a religious habit and white Crosse, whom Agnes the Abbesse followed. These buried their dead in Acheldama, and whiles * 1.8 [ 40] they were poore obeyed the Abbot, and payed their Tithes, and called the poore to whom they ministred, their Masters and Lords, but after became as Princes of the Earth. The Templars also * 1.9 were at first Lions in battell, Lambs at home, Eremites and Monkes in the Church, hauing Ban∣ners blacke and white (as mild to Christians, terrible to the Infidels) seuere in their owne socie∣tie, obsequious to the Patriarke, beloued for their Religion and humilitie, as the former, inso∣much that Dukes and Princes denyed the World and followed them.

And because a threefold Cord is not easily broken, that of the Dutch Knights was added, from a * 1.10 small beginning increasing into a swelling streame. For one Dutch man with his family dwelling at Ierusalem, many of his Countrey Pilgrimes, which knew not the language, were glad of his entertainment in a small Hospitall by him therefore builded, to which also he added a Chappel [ 50] in honour of our Lady, and partly procured of his owne goods, partly by almes, to the poore and sicke Pilgrimes. Some Dutchmen liking the intent, gaue all they had thereto, binding them∣selues by vow; and when some of Gentle and Noble bloud had adioyned themselues, they be∣came both followers of the Hospitulars in their care of the poore, and of the Templars in Mili∣tary Deuotion.

The Holy Land also flourished with Regulars, Religious, Anchorites, Monkes, Canons, Nuns, * 1.11 Inclosed persons, Virgins, Widowes. It was also full of peoples, Genuois, Pisans, Venetians, men fit for the Sea, and sage Counsels: Frankes, Almans, Britons, Englishmen, lesse ordered or circum∣spect, more impetuous, more superfluous in Dyet, prodigall in Expenses, deuout in the Church, feruent in Charity, more couragious in Battell, and formidable to the Saracens: which yet for [ 60] the vanitie of some, are by the Pollans, called the Sonnes of Hemaudius. They which descended of the Conquerors are called Pollans, eyther because they were Pulli, inrespect of the Surians, or * 1.12 because their Mothers were most of them Apulians the Army wanting women enough, and pro∣curing from Apulia, the neerest place of the Westerne Church. There are besides in the H••ly

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Land, Greekes, Iacobites, Maronites, Nestorians, Armenians and Georgians, of much seruice for husbanding the Earth and other commodities.

But when the Deuill (I still follow our Author) had found no rest in the first poore Pil∣grims; hee found the house emptie, swept and garnished (men idle and dwelling securely, a∣bounding with temporall goods) and taking seuen spirits worse then himselfe (the seuen deadly sinnes, for their ingratitude worse) hee entred againe, and the last state was worse then the for∣mer. They were proud, high-minded, contumelious, seditious, malicious, sorcerers, sacrile∣gious, couetous, slouthfull, drunkards, gluttons, adulterous, theeues, robbers, homicides, * 1.13 traitors, men of bloud, disobedient to Parents and Elders, without affection, truce breakers, mer∣cilesse: Reproach and lying man-slaughter, and theft, and adulterie ouer-flowed, and bloud tou∣ched [ 10] bloud. So was the imagination of wicked mens intent to euill at all times, so farre was all ver∣tue and religious honestie decayed, that there was scarsly any found which made difference betwixt the holy and profane, or separated the precious from the vile. All were gone head-long to confusion; from the sole of the foot to the crowne of the head there was no soundnesse: and as was the People, such was the Priest.

For when all the World in manner had made it selfe tributarie in Almes, Gifts, Oblati∣ons, the Pastors fed themselues, minding the Wooll and Milke, not the Soules of the Flocke; yea, became examples of Treason, rich by Christs pouertie, proud by his humilitie, glo∣rious by his ignominie, fattened and grosse by the patrimonie of him Crucified; howsoeuer Christ had said, Feede my Sheepe, not, Sheare my Sheepe. They sought their owne, not the [ 20] things of Christ, became blinde guides of the blinde, dumbe Dogs not able to barke; entring the Lords House pompously, wanting the Key of knowledge, polluted with Gehezis leprosie, erecting the Chayres of Doue-sellers and Money-changers, which our Lord ouer-threw, in the Churches euery-where, saying with Iudas, What will you giue mee? and I will betray him to you. All of them loued Gifts and followed Rewards, taking the Keyes from Simon Peter, and deliuering them to Simon Magus: manifold wayes luxurious, idle; feeding not with crummes from the Lords Table, but with whole Loaues and delicate Meates, their Whelps which of filthy Concubines they themselues more filthy had procreated.

The Regulars also infected with the poyson of Riches, and increased with possessions be∣yond measure, contemned their Superiours, and not onely became irksome to the Ecclesia∣stikes, * 1.14 [ 30] but enuied and detracted each other to the grieuous scandall of Christendome, to con∣tumelies, open hatreds, conflicts, violences, battells. For hauing begunne to build the Tower of Babel, with diuided Tongues, they not onely disagreed amongst themselues, but bandying factions procured discords amongst others. And howsoeuer many of them as graines of Corne amongst Chaffe, and Lillies amongst Thornes, as the times gaue leaue, obserued their rules, and sate not downe in the Chayre of pestilence; yet the impietie of the worse pre∣uailed, and their iniquitie superabounded, that in contempt of Ecclesiasticall Discipline, they receiued to their Holies those which by name had beene excommunicated: Abbots, Priors, Monkes, their miserable and mercenarie Chaplens, thrust their Sickles into others Haruests, made vnlawfull marriages, visited and houselled the sicke for gayne, not for god∣linesse; [ 40] binding and loosing against God and holy Canons, the Soules which belonged not to their charge; admitted the dead to burialls (their Pastors contradicting, and vsurped Pa∣rochiall right. Nunnes also leaped out of their Cloysters, frequenting publike Baths with secular persons. And as any were greater amongst the Lay-men, so much more perniciously corrupted they their wayes: a corrupt Generation, as Lees of the Wine, Cockle of Wheat, and Rust of Siluer.

These Pullani, delicate, wanton, effeminate, more accustomed to Baths then Battells, * 1.15 giuen to vncleannesse and leachcrie, curiously dressed after womens wont, were contemned of the Saracens, and (if they had none of the Westerne people with them) more vilipen∣ded then Women. They made league with the Saracens, and quarrelled with themselues, [ 50] for light matters raysing ciuill warres, and often borrowing aide of the Infidells, spending the Treasure and Stocke of Christians against Christians. They were deepe Dissemblers, not ea∣sie to bee perceiued in their fallacies till they had deceiued; iealous mewers vp of their wiues, that their owne Brethren and neerest Kindred might scarsly haue accesse; and keeping them from the Churches, and Sermons, and other things necessarie to their soules, hardly once in the yeere admitting them the Church. The richer sort erected Altars neere their wiues beds, and by some * 1.16 wretched Chaplens and vnlearned Sir Iohns, procured Masses to bee said, that they might seeme Christians. And how much closer their wiues are kept, so much more they whet their wits with a thousand deuises and infinite plots to finde starting holes; furnished by the Surians and Saracen women, with sorceries, mischiefes, and innumerable abominations. [ 60] They are ingratefull, and many wayes irksome to those Pilgrims, which come from re∣mote parts to their aide, with great labours and intolerable expenses, liking better their ease and carnall pleasures, then warres with the Saracens. These Pilgrims they entertayne at immoderate charge, defrauding and impouerishing them in buying, and bartering to their owne

exceeding enriching; afflicting them with reproaches and wrongs, and calling them a 1.17 Sonnes of Hernaud, as it were Fooles and Ideots.

There are others, continuing from ancient times vnder diuers Lords, Romanes, Greekes, Saracens and Christians, called Surians, vnfit for Warre, men for the most part Vnfaithfull, Double-dealing, * 1.18 Lyers, Inconstant, Fortune-fawners, Traytors, Gift-takers, esteeming Theft and Robbery for nothing, Spyes to the Saracens, imitating their Language and Condition. These shaue not, but nourish their beards, as doe the Greekes with great care, attributing thereto much virilitie, gra∣uitie, authoritie and glorie. Whereupon, when Baldwin Earle of Edessa, hauing marryed the Daughter of a rich Armenian, suffered his Beard to grow; to extort money from his Father-in∣law, he said, he had impawned his Beard for a great summe to certaine Creditors; who gaue him * 1.19 thirtie thousand Bizantines, to preuent that disgrace to his Family, and on condition neuer to [ 10] engage his Beard againe. These Syrians vse the Tongue and manner of writing of the Saracens in contracts, and all sauing their Diuinitie and Holies, for which they haue the Greeke Letter; so that their Laity vnderstand not their seruice, as the Greekes doe, whose Rites they wholly obserue. They obey the Latine Prelates, for feare of the Princes, otherwise not hauing Greeke Bishops of their owne, nor would regard their censures, but that our Lay-men in contracts and other businesse, would not haue to doe with them being excommunicated. For they say amongst themselues, that the Latines are all excommunicated, and therefore cannot excommunicate. The * 1.20 Surians and Greekes admit it not fourth Marriages. Their Priests marry not after their Orders, but vse their wiues which before they marryed. They account not Sub-deaconship in ho∣ly [ 20] Orders. Their simple Priests confirme with Chrisme, which with the Latines is not law∣full but to Bishops. They keepe Saturday holy, nor esteeme Saturday Fast lawfull but on Ea∣ster Eeuen. They haue solemne Seruice on Saturdayes, eate flesh, and feast it brauely like the Iewes.

There are also in the Holy Land and the East parts Iaeobites, so called of one Iames a Disciple * 1.21 of the Patriarke of Alexandria. These of long time haue inhabited the greater part of Asia, some amongst the Saracens, and some, as in Nubia, and great part of Aeth••opia, possessing whole * 1.22 Countries. They Baptise and circumcise their children, and obserue not Auricular Confession: some make Crosses with fire in their cheekes or temples; and they mayntaine but one nature in Christ. Some of them vse the Chaldee Letter, others the Arabike, that is, the Saracenicall. There are in the Holy Land, and by themselues in India, Nestorians, especially, in the Countrey [ 30] of Presbyter b 1.23 Iohn. These, with the Iacobines, are said to be more then the Latines and Greekes: and besides those which dwell by themselues entyre, there are said to be more of these Christians subiect to the Infidels, then are of Saracens themselues. They diuide the person of Christ, ma∣king the Virgin Mary Mother of the humane Person, & the Son of God another diuine Person. Nestorius and this his Heresie were condemned in the Ephesine Councell. They vse the Chaldee Letter, and leauened Hosts as the Greekes doe.

About Libanus are some called Maronites, many in number which acknowledged (Maro was their Master) but one nature in Christ. These Monothelites were condemned in the sixth generall Councel at Constantinople. They vsed Sacraments by themselues fiue hundred yeares, and [ 40] after by Aimerike, Patriark of Antiochia, were reduced to the Roman Faith, whose Traditions they follow; insomuch, that when all the Easterne Prelates except the Latines, vse no Rings, Miters, nor Pastorall Staues, nor Bels, (but Boords on which they knocke with a Sticke or Hammer to call the Assembly) the Maronites vse all; and their Patriarke was present at the Councell of Laterane, vnder Innocent the Third. They vse the Chaldee Letter and Saracen Language.

The Armenians are diuided from all other Christians in Rites; hauing a Primate of their * 1.24 owne, whom they call Catholicon, obserued by all of them as another Pope. They haue Let∣ters and Language proper, and Lyturgies in the vulgar. At Christmasse they fast, and at Twelf∣day they solemnize our Lords Baptisme, and his Spirituall Natiuitie, as they improperly speake.

Lent they fast so strictly, that they not only abstayne from Flesh, Egges, Whit-meates, but also from Fish, Oyle, and Wine, yet fast not but eate fruites, and as often as they please. On [ 50] some Fridayes they eate flesh. They mixe no water with Wine in the Sacrament. The Arme∣nians promised obedience to the Pope, when their King receiued of Henry the Emperor his Land, and the Crown of the Archbishop of Mentz: but retayne their old Rites notwithstanding. There is also a warlike people dreadfull to the Saracens, called Georgians, of Saint George; whom they haue for their Patrone, and worship as their Ensigne bearer aboue other Saints, vsing the Greeke * 1.25 Holies. Their Priests haue round crownes, the Lay-men square: and when they come to Ierusa∣lem on Pilgrimage, they enter with Banners displayed and without Tribute: the Saracens for∣bearing them, lest they should after their returne bee reuenged on other Saracens. Their noble women vse Armes in Battels, as Amazons. [ 60]

The Mosarabes are Latine Christians, and obserue the Romish Rites, dwelling amongst the * 1.26 African and Spanish Saracens. Yet some of them diuide the Sacrament into seuen parts, others into nime, whereas the Romane Church doth it into three. There are other miserable Easterne people, as Essees of Iewish descent, and Assasines, and Saducees, and Samaritans.

They which haue best knowne the Holy Land Affaires and Changes, affirme, that no greater plague hath hapned then flagitious and pestiferous men, Sacrilegious Theeues, Robbers, Murde∣rers, * 1.27 Parricides, Periured, Adulterers, Traytors, Pirates, Drunkards, Iesters, Dicers, Players, Runnagate Monkes, and Nunnes becomne common Whores, and such women as leauing their Husbands haue followed Bawdes, or such as haue forsaken their Wiues and marryed others. These Monsters haue runne away, and flying to the Holy Land, haue so much more boldly per∣petrated there their former euils without shame, as they haue beene further from those which knew them; neither fearing God nor respecting men. The easinesse of escaping, and impunitie of sinning haue loosed the reines to their Impietie: because that after villanies committed, they runne to the Saracens, and deny Christ, or else by ship flye to some Ilands, or getting to the [ 10] houses of Regulars, * 1.28 which euery where they found, by their pernicious libertie of Priuiledges, defending the wicked, they escaped without punishment. Some Murderers also condemned to mutilation or death in their owne Countries, by praying or paying obtayned often to bee con∣demned to perpetuall Exile in the Holy Land; and neuer altering their manners, haue there preyed on Pilgrimes and Strangers, kept Bawdie-houses and Gaming-houses, and Receptacles for Theeues and Murthers, paying a yeerely Pension to the potent and rich, to patronize them in these exorbitancies; extorting the same with greater summes from Whores and Gamesters. Many also came to the Holy Land, not for Deuotion, but Curiositie and Noueltie.

Thus you haue had a view of the Inhabitants, both Clergie and Laitie, Natiue and accesso∣rie: all flesh corrupting their way, and making it the most vnholy Sinke in the World, not the [ 20] nauill of the Earth, as some call it, but the Knaue-ill, Slaue-uile, and base confluence of villanie; not the foundation of Religion, but the fundament of the Deuill and of Irreligion, as formerly in other Ages, so worse then all worsts in this, that it was inhabited by these Pullans and Pil∣grimes. Neither haue I in this Relation augmented or exagerated, but for breuitie haue fallen farre short of the Authors blacke pitchie colours, wherein hee describeth their Hellish darknesse. And howsoeuer he much commends the first Pilgrimes (as comparatiuely they deserued) yet e∣uen that their righteousnesse was but pannus menstruatae, dyed in a deepe graine of Superstition, besides their other pollutions which the former Storie hath related. The best was a Popish pie∣tie, the worst was farre farre worse then Heathenish Impietie (Corruptio optimi pessima) so little good did Religion & Christianity hereby receiue euen here. And as for the hurt it receiued in the [ 30] West, we haue declared and proued at large; Religion comming to the West and worst, and that bright Sunne almost set in a darke misty mysticall Cloud, and darknesse from the bottomlesse Pit, principally by this meane and occasion.

Let none traduce me, as if I held it wholly vnlawfull to visit holy places, or to warre against Infidels, or that I enuy the Pope himselfe, his Temporalties: (howsoeuer gotten at first, as you haue heard) or absolutely deny Absolutions, Dispensations, Indulgences: the abuses I taxe, and historically haue shewed how by corruptions, confusions, combustions, the face and body of the Church hath beene empayred, weakned, and sicke (so neere to death in so many many members and limmes) of the Antichristian or Romish Disease. As Christ is the name not of the Head alone, but of the whole mysticall body, which is one Seed, one City, one Temple, one Vine, one New man, one [ 40] CHRIST: * 1.29 So is Antichrist both the head & mystical body; the name howsoeuer it be most pro∣perly due to the Popes in their successions, as the head, yet competible also to the whole body of the Popish Church, which together makes vp that mysticall Babylon, which thus by the carnall Ierusalem, and Iewish Opinions and Rites, hath so impouerished the new, spirituall and heauenly Ierusalem, and her Celestiall Priuiledges, whereof we are children by Regeneration, and enfran∣chised citizens in manifold Priuiledges. Neyther perhaps, did any one stratageme so farre reduce Iudaisme, or induce Poperie, or seduce the Christian world, as this Holy Land vnholy degenerati∣on. Christianity, is to liue by faith and not by sight, and to haue a conuersation heauenly, and the exercise of a spirituall warfare against the World, the flesh, the Deuill, by the panoply of God, [ 50] hope of Saluation for a Helmet, Brest-plate of Righteousnesse, Girdle of Sincerity, Greaues of the Gospell, Sword of the Spirit, which is the Word of God, and Shield of Faith (the euidence of things not seene, the ground of things hoped for) with perseuerant Watching and Prayer But these Expeditions first hapned in a tumultuary warring and spoyling Age; were begun for temporall respects in the first moouers; in many if not most of the followers apprehended to like purpose of spoyle (all being as you haue seene, the Souldiers owne, hee could get) which blan∣ched ouer with Honour, Religion, Merit; Once; being the seruice of two Masters at once, God and Mammon, (which in true Religion is incompetible) easily wonne entertaynment. And if men now will aduenture voluntarily to fight any quarrels of any Region or Religion, for foure shillings a week, (eight dayes to the weeke) in an Age more composed generally to words then [ 60] workes: is it any maruell, if so many inducements, in such a mist and smoke could whet so many Swords and courages in those Martiall times, where earthly purchases were the guerdon of the liuing, with Fame, Nouelties, and many many sensuall Holies; and Martyrdome was the Crowne of the dead with God, Heauen and Eternitie.

To conclude, Hypocrisie was the beginning, Bloud was the proceeding, Superstitious Pietie

that is impietie or impious pietie, with impuritie and desolation were the end. This whole businesse was (as the Serpents seducing Eue, and was prophesied of Antichrist) not an open pro∣fessed enmitie against Christ, but in coloured loue of Christ and his patrimonie, a more subtle de∣ceitfull working, the Deuill transformed into an Angell, that hee might proue the worse Deuill: this Expedition being after the working of Satan with all power, and signes, and lying wonders, and * 1.30 with all deceiuablenesse of vnrighteousnesse, as was foretold of that Sonne of perdition (which here∣by and herein he hath proued, if euer by any one course, as is shewed, to the perdition of thou∣sands and thousands of thousands, both bodies and soules) a strange Chymera, headed like a Lion, and in shew presenting a Lionlike fortitude, for the honor of that Lion of the Tribe of Iuda; yet after the Goats belly of various lusts, tayled like a Dragon, and enuenoming to manifold deaths [ 10] with the poyson of the old Serpent: in shew kissing, indeed betraying, with Iudas; in shew lif∣ting Christ higher, indeed crucifying him; the Pope in shew crowning these Pilgrims, but with a crowne of Thornes, with manifold externall miseries, void of all internall consolation, his In∣dulgences notwithstanding; in shew presenting the faces of men, and haire of women, indeed the tayles of Scorpions, which those Locusts had in their tayles. Once; herein was Christ many wayes crucified betwixt two theeues, in Vrban and Boamund the first Founders; in superstition and hypo∣crisie, the principall Mouers; in Reuelations of Peter the Heremite and others, and Papall Indul∣gences, the chiefe Confirmers: in the Greekes and Infidels, the one by Treacherie, the other by o∣pen Violence, the mayne Confounders, (like two Mill-stones, grinding the Westerne Christians and this whole exploit, to poulder) in exposing Christian bodies to bloudie crueltie, and their [ 20] soules to crueller impietie; in confusions and manifold disorders in Families and Commonwealths, by absence of Ouer-seers at home, and buying vanitie, nothing, and lesse then nothing (for that was the end) with Seas of bloud and heapes of carkasses abroad; in abasing the lawfull power of Kings, and exalting (in manner as yee haue heard) the vsurped Papall Monarchie; that is, by Ex∣communications, Interdicts, Treasons, Crusado's, Votifrages, Perjuries, abolishing them which are called Gods; and Him by whom Kings reigne, both in this his Ordinance, and in the whole face of his Religion; that the Man of sinne might exalt himselfe aboue all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that now, and principally hereby, He as God sitteth in the Temple of God, shewing himselfe that he is God. This was then a mysterie hidden from the wise and prudent: but now, and hereby, that Wicked is reuealed. [ 30]

Notes

• * 1.1

  Pag. 731.
• * 1.2

  By English∣men. Pag. 634.
• * 1.3

  Peeres of the Kingdome of Ierusalem.
• * 1.4

  Quarantena.
• * 1.5

  Ierusalem de∣scribed.
• * 1.6

  Templats, so called of a Temple built by Mahume∣tans.
• * 1.7

  Hospitalars.
• * 1.8

  Acheldama.
• * 1.9

  Templats.
• * 1.10

  Dutch Knights originall.
• * 1.11

  Holy Land Inhabitants.
• * 1.12

  Col••s, Chic∣kens or young things.
• * 1.13

  The Authour doth heape more senten∣ces of Scrip∣ture to disco∣uer heir abo∣minations, then here are mentioned, to shew them de∣plorate and de∣sperate: espe∣cially confide∣ring their sins out o•• measure sin••ull, and their Holies so leauened with manifold superstitions.
• * 1.14

  Regular Or∣ders, Masters of misse-rule and disorder.
• * 1.15

  Pullani, wicked and abomi∣nable.
• * 1.16

  Per miseros Ca∣pell. & imperitos presbyterunculos.
• a 1.17

  Before f••lios Hemaud〈…〉〈…〉, one is false printed
• * 1.18

  Surians.
• * 1.19

  The Westerne Church for many Ages v∣sed much sha∣uing, as in old pictures is seen Beards of price.
• * 1.20

  Force of Ex∣communicati∣on against contracts.
• * 1.21

  Iacobites.
• * 1.22

  See of this our former Abassine Relations. Nestorians.
• b 1.23

  Not the A∣bassine, but in Asian India, where the Por∣tugalls found Bishops and o∣ther Christi∣ans, called S. Thomas Chri∣stians. The Tartars caused mu••h alteration in these parts. Maronites.
• * 1.24

  Armenians.
• * 1.25

  Georgians.
• * 1.26

  Mosarabes, or Moxarabes.
• * 1.27

  The Holy Land the re∣ceptacle of all Impietie and Impuritie from other parts of Christ••ndome.
• * 1.28

  The Tem∣plers, &c.
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  1. Cor. 12. 12. Antichrist sig∣nifieth, in the stead of Christ, against Christ, or emulous of Christ. The Pope is all, in profession his Vicar, in shew emulous by zeale, in∣deed an emu∣lous Corriuall, and close Ene∣mie of Christ. Vid. B. Downam de Antichrist. l. 1 1. Thes 5. Ephes. 6. Heb. 11.
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  2. Thes. 2.