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.

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    THE CONTENTS pp THE SEVER ALL; iC HAP TER S AND P a'r a G fi,'A P H s''i N T H E S E ' BOOKES ENSVING. ' i '/if • ASIA. ’ ft- ■ THE FIRST SOOKE. )f the firft beginnings of tlfc'^Vorld and Religion: and ' and of Babylonia, AC ^ ^ria^ Syria, Phoenicia, and Palcftina. ,1 .7^ ■■ ^ ^ ' I*, ' ’i \ ' ^]F Go^t One in Nature, Three in Perfons, the F hj viek, Sonnb/.-*W Holy Ghost. • -v,-T3g.I G H A P. 11. i Of the Creation ef the World,^ y^ .,\j pag.5 Chap. III. , diuifion of Tongucs and Nations, pag, j Chap. IX. Geografhieall Narration of the whole Earth in generall, and more particularly of Afia. pag.39 Chap. X of Babylonia: 'the originallof Idolatric: Chalda?ans Antiquities before thcLj Floud j as Berofus hath reported them, p.44 Chap. XL O/Man, confideredin his firfl fate wherein he was created; Paradife | the place of ^ _ his habitation, ' pag-13!, of the City and Country ^Babylon : their j r. Chap. III I* i, ^f**^ptuofss}ValSyTempleSjand Images, of thewordKchglon: and of the Religion i ^ Chap. XII. of our firjl Parents beforethe fall, ■ pag.jy C H A p. V. » Oj the fall ofls/[zx\: and ofOriginaUfin,p.i i Cha p. VI. of the reliques of the Diuine Image after the fall, whereby naturally menaddtUthem- felues 'Unto fame Religion .--andwhat was the^ Religion of the World before thefloud. pag.a { Chap. VII. Of the caufe and commin^ oft he Floud.p. jo ' Chap. VIII. of the repeopling of the World, and of the ^ of the Priefls, Sacrifees, religiem rites and cuflomesofthe Babylonians. pae.51 Chap. XIII. r^^Chaldaean and AlTyrian Chronicle,or computation of Times with their manifold alte¬ rations ^/Religions and Gouernmcnt/» thofe parts vntillour time. P^g-Jjf Chap. XIIII. of Niniue, and ether neighbouring Nat/^ pag.s 5 Chap. XV. of Syria, and the ancient Religions there: IF IT of j!u m ']\f. 41 ^ if 4r .1^'