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.
- Samuel Purchas
- Date:
- 1626
Licence: Public Domain Mark
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 fyfl Books. 10 30 Liberall and bouncifull was Gods allowance, which yetas mknabufed ihtatingthc \.Cen.«.u. . forbidden fruit, lb whether any hnfull man did tranfgielle by eating the flelh of bcafts, as ® The-fathers iniquity increafed, it is vnoertaine. And yet it is likely, that when the Earth was ^ j^//fd flgfhbefo^re* rtith crtieltis y asmen elcapcdnotbeaftly butcherie,fobeaftselcaped not butcherly inhuma- thefloud Or^, nitie; and men that (lay not now for commillion to eate mans fiefh ^ would then much lelfe mCen.bem.i. aske leaue to feed on beads .Then did the godly Patriarchs liue many hundred yeares with- chrjfo]i.hom.tTi out fuch food,whereas now we reach not to one with this iielpe, tliat I Ipeake not of thole, which by abiTe hereof are as cruell to themfelucs (in Ihortning their dayes by furfets) as to ” Ya/:bex the Creatures, making their bellies to become VVarrens, Filh-pooles, Shambles, and what hom.u, imil. not, lauc what they Ihould bee ^ Had not Man beene Deuillifli in finning, hec Rad not beene in ben. Pfre» beafUy in feeding, nay, the beads had abhorred that which now they prabKfe, bothagainft their Lord, and their fcllow-feruants. « The WolfeJhould haue dwelt with the Tamie, the'Leo- fordfhouldbaHeljcn with the Kid, and the Cafe t and the Ljon, and the fat Teafi together ^ and d Tofia- little Childe might leade them. And this in the time of the Floud appeared, wlien all-of them tm, kphrem, kept the peace with each other, and dutifull allcgeance to their Prince in that'great Family //ifare; Aho and little moueable World, Arke, fadiannsGora.. The place * of zAdams dwelling is exprelTed by Moses 5 tAndth&LordGo ttpldn- tedaCarden Eafl-wardmEden, andtherehefnt the man whom hee had made, Genefz.i. Mar- and others uellitistofeetheconfufion whiclidnnebringeth, which appearcth notonely in thebodie, hauc largely 2Q foule, dyet, and other Preregatiues of our firlt Parents ; but in tliis place alfo, then a place of handled this pleafure, a Paradife and Garden of delights : after a place pitihibited, and kept hj the blade of a Sword fhaken: now the place cannot bee found in Earth, but ;is become’a common place ^ ^nbrofe in in mens biaines, to m.acel‘ate and vexe them in the curious leardi hereof. Some dceconueit hi* long Trea¬ ties Hiliory into an Allegory, as did the Manichees and the Originills, confuted by Afetho- ti[e,dei’ar(idif», diHfy as P Epiphant/*s witnedeth. q Hicrome in Dan. 10..Cj.th:y tha.t feekingfor Oaadowes le^netb fob in the truth, they oiier-turnc the Truth it lelfe. Umbrae & maginn in veritate ejuarentes, ip- ™ fam conantur €Hertereverttatem,vtfittmina, ^arb<n'es, &Paradtfurh fHtdnt Allegorta legtbtufe • debere fubruere. Such Myfticall, Mift-all, and Mifle-all Interpreters are our Famiiills in Epipban.hb. thefe times, by vpfeafonaljle and vnrcalbnable Allegories, -rayrmg mylls ouer di^Scripture- lenfe, which thereby they mifle and cannot find.'» relate th three opin&ns, that g Allegoricall, which he confuteththe litei-allj^ndr that .VyjackflilowetJifcatli the one . ^ the other, ashimfelfe doth. The f Hermians and SeleHcfpns are faid to denie,that there was* ^ - any liicli place : and the naked Adamites accounted thcif^hurch tobeParadif&Ochers'areis 1 Aiig.^ciiercp- prodigall Sc aferibe hereunto all the Earth,which was a Paradife,till finhebfouglit in aCurie. t Jite'-fg ,,. Thus holdeth * Wolfgangue Wtpnbnrg,Goropiut alfo Sc Vadanm are of like minde,Thac pigns ft^barg.Fr^fa^ exile was but the alteration of their happy ^p4ition,,that the fiery Ivyord was ilidfi^fy Slohe, Beu’e/: A great while it went for currant, that It vya§a|plpal ant Region, Fy a long traft of Seaand joJ.t^ad.dc * b Land, feparated from our habitable World,'and,vp to.the Circle oftlib Mbont,where- Paradi/b, ,-r by it was out of the reach of ISfodhs AonS, as «; truly perhaps z$ PatrictHe and others haue Like wife hkjo'- found another World in the Moone, with men and bealts therein, of greater ftature and Ion- ^oneAfhiso^* ger life then here with vs. Thusluth * PetrmQbmefior, zndStrabm, and many Travellers pinion totm ■ in old times hauc trauelled with this e6nce.it of their Fooles Paradifcjand brought forth alie, tmem^ftduum' as appearcth by their Legends, y That Saint Brandon fayled thither from Ireland, is as txutPttradt[um,fi as that he vnetludat in the way, releafed from his paincs, (as he was alway from Saturday boms non pec- to Sunday Euen-fong:) or that they made fire on a fifh (fuppofingittobeean Hand) as that Legend telletli. It fliould feemethe Man in the Moone called him,and (hewed him the way pecedtum to this Paradife, or that * which (according to the Relations of Aptompt^^ Diogenes) 'Annot. in Gen. trauellingbeyond Thule, went fo fane North that liec came to the Moone, which fetmeda “ Vatnc.i^m. fhining Earth, where he faw many ftrange fights, as credible as the fcrmerTQr elfe greatp^^l* , n himfelfe, who (asalaterTraueller * reporteth) bath lately bequeathe^ a Lioitenan* ^ ugiituyeit.° cic to Ignatius and his Colony of lefuites in the New Hell, in that New-found-World, of the^^ Amn. Dieg.' Moone ; the care of the foundation whereof he coramitteth to that lebufitieal^^cietie. But incredibil. dc let vs defeend from this Lunaticke Paradife. ■ \ , ibdle.capAi, Others place it Eaftward, in the higheft top of the Earth, where the fouteRii^rs men- tionedby A/cyb/,haue their originall, whence they runne,.and arc fwallpwcdl^p of the {, HugoAnnoU Earth, and after rifing in diuers places of the World, are knowne by the names of Ntltu, in Gen f. Ganges,Tigris y Euphrates. ^ Hugo de S.V’tUoreznA Adrichomitts are of this opinion; yca^,; cAiKi^chron. the great Cardinall ' Caietane and BelUrmine place Henoch and Elias in Earthly ^^ayadife,yet ' liuingthere vntill the time ot Antichrift, which wood he cannot fee (beekig ln'^tlve niiddell>^^,,^f) of it) for Trees. But the difeouery of the World by Trauellers, and dcfcrlppionithereof by degrat. irmbc. Geographers, will not fiifiPer vs to follow them (to the want of which Art ', Jf mcane Geo- minis. graphic, fuch fantafics may be imputed) whereby alfo is confuted the opiniofi oStlliem which placcit vnder the Equinotiiall Circle, as and ^ ■ ■ G a '' .'^Others 40 50 ■ t- I 60](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b30334652_0065.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
