RICHARD WRAG ad. 



1595. 

 judgement; and therfore the soule alone cannot. Their 

 seven precepts which they keepe so strictly are not for 

 any hope of reward they have after this life, but onely 

 that they may be blessed in this world, for they thinke 

 that he which breaketh them shall have ill successe in 

 all his businesse. 



They say, the three chiefe religions in the world 

 be of the Christians, Jewes, & Turks, & yet but one 

 of them true : but being in doubt which is the truest 

 of the three, they will be of none : for they hold that 

 all these three shall be judged, and but few of them 

 which be of the true shall be saved, the examination 

 shall be so straight ; and therefore, as I have sayd before, 

 to prevent this judgement, they burne their bodies to 

 ashes. They say, these three religions have too many 

 precepts to keepe them all wel, & therfore wonderful 

 hard it wil be to make account, because so few doe 

 observe all their religion aright. And thus passing the 

 time for the space of three moneths in this sea voyage, [II i. 311.] 

 we arrived at Venice the tenth of June : and after I 

 had seene Padua, with other English men, I came the 

 ordinary way over the Alpes, by Augusta, Noremberg, 

 and so for England ; where to the praise of God I safely 

 arrived the ninth of August 1595. 



[A letter 

 vi 113 h 



