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they have 16 feasts, and then they go to their church, 

 where is pictured in a broad table the Sun, as we use 

 to paint it, the face of a man with beames round 

 about, not having any thing els in it. At their feast 

 they spot their faces in divers parts with saffron all 

 yellow, and so walke up and downe the streets ; and 

 this they doe as a custome. They hold, there shalbe a 

 resurrection, and all shall come to judgement, but the 

 account shalbe most streight, insomuch that but one of 

 1 0000 shalbe received to favor, and those shall live 

 againe in this world in great happinesse : the rest shalbe 

 tormented. And because they will escape this judge- 

 ment, when any man dieth, he and his wife be both 

 burnt together even to ashes, and then they are throwen 

 into a river, and so dispersed as though they had never 

 bene. If the wife will not burne with her dead hus- 

 band, she is holden ever after as a whore. And by 

 this meanes they hope to escape the judgement to come. 

 As for the soule, that goeth to the place from whence it 

 came, but where the place is they know not. That the 

 body should not be made againe they reason w l the 

 phylosophers, saying, that of nothing nothing can be 

 made (not knowing that God made the whole world 

 and their god the Sun of nothing) but beholding the 

 course of nature, that nothing is made but by a 

 meanes, as by the seed of a man is made another, and 

 by corne cast into the ground there commeth up new 

 corne : so, say they, man cannot be made except some 

 part of him be left, and therefore they burne the 

 whole : for if he were buried in the earth, they say 

 there is a small bone in the necke which would never 

 be consumed : or if he were eaten by a beast, that 

 bone would not consume, but of that bone would 

 come another man ; and then the soule being restored 

 againe, he should come into judgement, whereas now, 

 the body being destroyed, the soule shall not be judged : 

 for their opinion is, that both body and soule must be 

 united together, as they have sinned together, to receive 



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