'A New Account of East-India and Persia, in Eight Letters. Being Nine Years Travels, Begun 1672. And Finished 1681. Containing Observations made of the Moral, Natural, and Artificial Estate of Those Countries: Namely, of their Government, Religion, Laws, Customs. Of the Soil, Climates, Seasons, Health, Diseases. Of the Animals, Vegetables, Minerals, Jewels. Of their Housing, Cloathing, Manufactures, Trades, Commodities. And of the Coins, Weights, and Measures, Used in the Principal Places of Trade in Those Parts.' [‎271] (318/506)

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Fifteen Years Maceration in a Well, where he was privately relieved
by the daily Charity of a poor Godly Woman, who caft therein a
piece of Bread for his conftant Suftenance, when it was believed on
all hands that he had been difpatch'd by the cruel Commands of Ty-
ridates ; who refleding afterwards with Remorfeon his rafh Precept;
took him from that Clinking Dungeon, and endured his Reproof for
his Befliality towards the Good Man, and became an hearty Penitent
for his inhuman Ufage, and other Prevarications of his Life, and
from a Salvage Prince rendred himfelf a tame Follower of the Pa
triarch St. Gregory , who ruled the Church Thirty Years : From
whom the Armenians received their Confecrated Bifhops, Priefts,
and Monaftick Orders, called Vortoheeds, who profefs Celibacy, and
are as much as to fay, Maflers, going out with the Formality of a
Paftoral Staff and Bible ; who are generally fuch Teachers whofe
Cogency of Practice and Inftrudion no other Church furpafled,
while they held the Orthodoxy of their Founder.
Which might ftill have continued, had not that Inftigatof of Ills,
and Stirrer up of Strife, by his reftlefs and mifchievous Machinati
ons purpofely forbid its Durance, by malicioufly fowing Tares among
the Wheat: Whence fprang up fo many Monfters without Heads,
blown up by Emomtans and Apo/linarians, and that Peftilent Art an
Herefy \^hichfpread its Infection over the whole Face of the Chri-
ftian Churches, maintaining, That God the Son was not of the
feme Subftance, with God the Father ; which after it was
crept in here, Araftarces, the Son and immediate SuccefTbrof St. Gre*
gory, although he was prefent at the Nicene Council for that purpofe,
could not by all his Pains and Endeavours repel.
After whom (the fpace of Sixty or Seventy Years being firft
fpent) St. Bafil illuminated the lower Armenia. v
In the Time of Sourmach, falfe Patriarchs were foifted on them
by the Mandates of the Perjian Kings, when fottie began to celebrate
the Nativity of our Saviour on one and the fame Day with the Epi*
phany, which is on the Sixth of January; and that while Chry-
foftom, the Golden-Tongued Orator, furvived.
About this time there flourifhed in Amenta a Famous Learned
Hermit, called Mefroh , who firft difpofed the Languages of the
Georgians as well as Armenians, into their proper Alphabets, with an
admirable Exadhiefs and Accuracy.
In the Year of our Redemption Four hundred thirty five. Four
Years after the Ephefian Synod, (in which the Writings of Theodo
ras Mopfmftius, and Diodorus the Thar fun, from whom Nefiorius
fucked the Poyfon of his pernicious Opinions, were publickly con
demned ;) by Command of the Emperor of PerJja ) Nierfes Pacri-
veruanus called a Synod at Thevin, where by a Decree pafled by the
greater Suffrage, it was confirmed, That the Nativity and Baptifm
Ihould be kept on the fame Day ; giving this Reafon, That as Chrift
was conjointly God and Man, fo it was fit the Feftival of his Birth
and Baptifm fhould be jointly obferved on one and the fame Day, and
not feparately on two Days ; which Synod alfo added to the Hymn
of the Trifagium now ufed in the Qreek Church, ci-yi(&. aSawrfgl o
fhoS) aryi@* dboivdr@* iAsmv fifuut;; Qui crucifixus pro
nobis;
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