'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.' [‎273] (320/506)

Travel* into PERSIA.
up for Patriarch at Sis in Ciluia ; and the Monaftry of Caufaiar plead- Chap Vf
ing Antiquity, lying towards Candahar, on that Prefcript refufed
Obedience to any but their own Patriarch.
By which Seraphick Triumvirate they are now governed, own
ing no other Head of the Church.
But before we defcend into the particular Tenents ftill rmin t-Wrl
by thetn, it will riot be amifs to note, That from the Time of St.
gory to thisDivifion, was Four hundred twenty five Years, in which
there were Thirty three Patriarchs, agreeable to their own Annals;
I having herein confulted their own unbiafs'd Chronologers, and by
their Authority corredred Galenas, when tripping in Partiality to
the Papa! Aur u ~"^"
St, Gregory
Ariftarces
Ver thanes
Hefechius
Parnier/Jh
i Nierfes
I Ifaac
Zaven
Ashuraches
Surmach
Jofepb
Chyut
I John
Samuel
Guodams
x Ifaac
The Series after thisSucceffion of Patriarchs, as it was immediate
ly puddled with the Mud of Herefy, fo it often was difturbed by
the Impofition of the Secular Power, forcing not only Ignorant but
Ungodly Men upon them; who now at this Time have their Conge
d* EJlire from a Prince of another Religion, and many times purchafe - s
it by Simoniacal Contrads: So that the Purity of jChriftianity can
not be expeded, where Gain is made of Godlinefs, and thefe high
Cures of Souls are bought and fold; entring upon them with the
Emperor's Licenfe, not the Approbation of their own Clergy j not
by Defert and Merit, but by Fraud and Circumvention: And where
as Humility and Godlinefs, Learning and Ingenuity, fhould be the
Qualifications, now Pride and Envy, great Gifts with Stupidity are
exalted : And which is moft deplorable, generally fuch Men are put
into the Patriarchates as are moft odious to them \ whence it comes
to pafs,- that thefe Prelates have as little Integrity as Orthodoxy,
they favouring the Jacohites even to this day.
They are confident in the Superftitious Omens of the Heathens. Their Tc.
Judaize in the Choice of Meats, not eating Conies or Pork, nents.
Aflert the One Nature in Chrift, according to Dtoftorw.
Nn Hold
tnonty.
Years
3°
i Chrifiopher
7
Leontius
5
x Nierfes
6
2, John
S
Moyfes
34
Abraham
4
3 J 0 hn _
4
Ch omit as
S
x Chrift op her
6
Jefer
X
3 Nierfes
Anaftafius
iz
Ifrael
S
3 Ifaac
6
Eli as
S
Years The Succeffi-
r on of their
„ Patriarchs.
X
S
*5
3°
2 3
*6
8
5
10
20
6
6
29
24