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 of the children. The children which they have by their laves are indifferently etemed with thoe of their wives, and are all held as legitimate.

They have Temples, Colleges, and Hopitalls well revenued; they have covents of Religious, that live exemplarily; obey their Superiours without contradiction, and dance after the ound of Flutes and other intruments when they make their prayers.

They have moreover another ort of Religious Vagabonds through the world, clothed like fools of that Country; they often go naked and cut their skin in many places, are held to be holy perons, and live by alms, which are never refued them; both the one and the other ort of Religious are called Dervis, they are know by their habit, and can retire and marry when they pleae

They deny Jeus Chrit to be God, or the Son of God; neither believe they in the holy Trinity: they ay that Jeus Chrit was a great Prophet, born of the Virgin Mary, a Virgin both before and after her delivery; that he was conveived by divine inpiration, or by divine breath, without a father, as Adam was created without a mother; that he was not crucified, that God took him into heaven, and that he hall come again on earth at the end of the world to confirm the Law of Mahomet; they likewie affirm that the Jews thinking to crucifie Jeus Chrit, crucified a man among them that reembled him.

They pray to God for the Dead, they invoke their Saints, of whom they have a large Legend, nevertheles they believe not in Purgatory; and many among them imagine that the oul and body remain toge- ther