Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas.

  • Purchas, Samuel, 1577?-1626.
Date:
1626
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Credit: Purchas his pilgrimage. Or relations of the world and the religions observed in all ages and places discovered, from the creation vnto this present. Contayning a theologicall and geographicall historie of Asia, Africa, and America, with the ilands adiacent. Declaring the ancient religions before the floud, the heathenis, Iewish, and Saracenicall in all ages since ... / by Samuel Purchas. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    1021/1028 (page 967)
    P*i5* ^MRRICA, “The ninth ^ooke. from them tl.cirbloudicpriuiUdge of chi^newCachoIicifme) which tlic D.uill (till now he IS an older and cunntnger Serpent) had neurr learned himfelhr, nor could learne others betore h« had gotten Ignattan Vlhers in his Hellifh Schoole. ‘ But whither isyourPilgrimctranlported^ Friend,Idrawneere my Port and leaning . mtrtc4 behind mee, ftill red with this bloud; now alfo hauing EmgUnd m fight which fas Iromagreaterheight) wasneeretoamore dangerous fall: and in th.s lubicU’which is of . «ic Spanilh cruelties (not written in hatred of their Nation, becaufc they arc Spamards) ^ but ot their Pfeudo-catholikc Religion, vndcr (hew whereof , they there did. andheere would haue executed thofe butcheries;and for thankfulocffe to God for our later dcliuerance, 10 of which the time when I relate thefe things(bcing the returnc of that yery Day, « wherein thofe things (hould haue beeneeffca:ed)iuftlydemandeth my tcftimony ; I haue thus told out my Storie, . ' And now, me thinker, I fee the (hoares S»giand, from which ray lingring Pilgrimage hath longdtcarned me : I heare the Bth. and lee the Bon-fires, w.th publTkc.cclamations Of thankfalncffe for-that Deliucrance, all finging thsir Hslielu-i^hs, and faying, ^ Thu u the D0J which the L^rd hath madcy wee wiUreiejee and he glad m tt. And now I fee a better light then all my Pilgrimage could yecld; Chriftian Churches, without Heatheni(h,Ie wifh or An- , nchnllun pollutions: a Royall King, truely cntituled Defender of the Faith: a Learned Clergie; wile and Honourable Counicllers; peaceable and loyall Commons: in a word;£»f- 40 /jMgf DrefentS it feife m min«^ <‘V?« ra>nr<>f»nrinn fra mu . K)l_£ tt_ i rt- ’i “ w.v ..vwuu«.vu.*^uu.6«.i« ^«ua».,7ta w..c,c our lUDicction ana leruice is Freedome (which I haue not elfe-where found in all my Perambulation of the World) I feele my I'elfc here¬ with rauiflied, and in a ioyfull extafie cannot but eric out: *Itu good for vs tehe beere% in the true Church and Suburbs of the true Heauen 2) Hcerc then Reader, let me reft me, till I fee whether thy kind acceptation * of thfi, will make mee willing to accept another noueMtr f. OR, this day this in fhc fiifl; Imprcifion came in due order { without any ipecia] ap¬ pointment) CO the Preflf. Trin-yni fDeo gloria. <1