The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Second PartHead, Richard
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The English Rogue: Continued in the Life of Meriton Latroon, and Other Extravagants: The Second Part
Head, Richard
Rogues and vagabonds -- England -- Fiction
2. That he must do all his own work, in token of humility, and for
purity, _viz._ Set his own hearbs, Sow his own grain, and dress his own
meat, unless he have a Wife to do it for him, which is not usual.
3. That he take Tyth or Tenth of the _Behedin_, as Gods due, and dispose
of it as he thinks fit.
4. That he must use no Pomp or superfluity, but either give all away in
charity, or bestow it in building of Temples.
5. That his house be near the Church, where he must retire himself,
living recluse in Prayer.
6. That he must live purer than others, both in frequent washings and
dyet, and also sequester himself from his Wife in time of her
pollutions.
7. That he be learned, and knowing all the several Books of _Zertoost_,
as well the Astrological and Physical parts, as the other.
8. That he must never eat and drink excessively.
9. That he fear no body but God, and sin; and not fear what _Lucifer_
can do to him.
10. That God having given him power in matters of the soul; therefore
when any man sins he may tell him of it, be he never so great; and every
man is to obey him, as one that speaketh not his own cause, but Gods.
11. That he be able to discern in what manner God comes to reveal
himself, in what manner _Lucifer_.
12. That he reveal not what God manifesteth to him by Visions.
13. That he keep an ever-living fire, that never may go out; which being
kindled by that fire that _Zertoost_ brought from heaven, may endure for
all ages, till fire shall come to destroy all the world, and that he say
his prayers over it.
This is a Summary of those precepts contained in the book of their Law,
that _Zertoost_ is by them affirmed to bring from heaven; and that
religion which _Gustasph_ with his followers embraced, perswaded by the
afore-mentioned Miracles wrought by _Zertoost_ among them.
The _3d._ particular in this Tract is the rights and ceremonies observed
by this Sect, differencing them from others.
First, Though their Law allows them great liberty in meats and drinks;
yet because they will not displease the _Banians_ and _Moors_, they
abstain from Kine and Hogsflesh; they eat alone, and drink in several
Cups.
2. They observe 6 Feasts in the Year, according to the 6 works of the
Creation.
3. As for their Fasts, after every one of their Feasts they eat but one
Meale a day for 5 days together; and when they eat Flesh they carry part
of it to the Temple as an offering.
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