heriticks & traytors in other Countreys, as my eyes have seene, which can no more Reach them then the smoake of our Chimnies can the Starry firemement. 1711. In my Reading the old Testament I observe that many Folio severe Judgements befell the whole Nation of the Israelites 127/125. for the particular sins of theire owne Kings, in which I doe Nations not find that the people were in any wise guilty. punished for their Kings First I begine with King Saul: 2 Samll 21 Chap: sins. (where Saul in his zeale slew the Gibeonites, to whome Saul. Josuah & the Princes of Israell had sworn by the Lord God of Israell to let them live). Josuah 9 Chap: which tho this League was obtained by fraud, yet God was Angry for breakeing it (as he was with King Zedekiah. Ezekiel 17 Chap (read the whole Chap) & 3 yeares famine fell upon the whole nation of Israel, And nothing lesse could expiate Gods anger & remoove the Judgment but hanging 7 of the Royall family which King David granted & was done accordingly ver 14 & after that God was intreated for the Land. The next was 2 Samll 24 Chap & 1 Chro: 21 Chap. King David numbring the people which in boath the fore- David. mentioned places David owned to be his owne sin, & Cleared the people viz'. 'I have sinned, & I have done wickedly, but these sheepe what have they done,' & againe 1 Chro: 21 Chap & 17 ver: he repeateth it againe, is it not I that Commanded the people to be numbred, even I it is that have sinned, & done eviell in deede; but as for these Sheepe, what have they done,' we find thare that Joab told the King it would be a cause of trespasse to Israel, & that it was abominable to him, that he left out 2 tribes. Levi & Benjamen in numbring, notwithstanding the Kings word prevailed against Joab & against the Captaines of the host that they went unwillingly when they could not deswade the King from it, & upon this we read followed a pestilence that carried away twenty thousand men. Next is King Manaseh: 2 King 21 Chap: & 2 Chro: Manaseh. 33 Chap he seduced Israell to doe more eviell then did 1711. the nation whome the Lord destroyed before them, & made Judah to sin in doeing that which was eviell in the sight of the Lord, moreover he shed inocent Blood very much tell he had filled Jerusalem from one end to the other, these were his owne Acts & not the peoples for he forced them. May we not Justly sopose that this Inocent blood he shed was of those that Desented & would not conforme to his Idolitrious worship, which he either did or would have made the Nationall religion & established it by Law & whose soules lay under the Alter: Revel: 6 & 10 Crying with a loud voice how longe O lord holy & true doth thou not Judge & avenge our blood one them that dwell one the earth' & note Gods Answer in the 11 ver that they should rest for a little season untill theire fellow servants also & theire Bretheren that should be killed as they were should be fulfilled, let us marke the Severe Judgements that God brought upon the whole land for Manaseh's sins, tho in the reigne of King Jehoiakim neere 100 yeares after: 2 Kings 24 Chap 3 & 4 vers surely at the Commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah to remoove them out of his sight for the sins of Manaseh according to all 128/126. that he did And for the inocent blood that he shed for he filled Jerusalem with inocent blood which the Lord would not pardon, & the whole land was destroyed & led into Captivity. Folio Josiah. The next I must mention the good King Josiah, 2 Kings 23 & 2 Chro: 35 Chap that turned to the Lord with all his heart & with alle his soule & with all his might neither after him arose thare any like him: notwithstanding the Lord turned not from the fercenesse of his great wrath, be cause of all the provocations that Manasseth had provoked him withall, 2 Kings 23 Chap: 25: 26 ver: 2 Chro: 35 & 20: & after King Josiah had prepared the Temple; yet for his ingageing in an unjust & ofencive War against the King of Egypt ver 21: 22 & hearkened not to the words of Necho (wheather he beleeved him not) from the mouth of God he was slaine in the battell, & the whole land layde under Contribution, tell King Nebuchadnezzer made a totall conquest of the whole Land, & Captivated the people. Whareas I cannot find in the Scriptures that any of the Kings of Israell or Judah suffered onely for the sins of theire people wherein they themselves were not guilty unlesse Eli who was a Prince as well as a priest, who tho he did admonish & Deswade his sonns yet because he restrained them not therefore Gods Judgement fell one him for we read of no other sin in Eli, 1 Saml 2 & 3 Chap. I shall Conclude with those Sacred Poems of the Reverent George Herbert fo. 140 which are so agreeable to me boath in heart & soule, viz' :— Thou hath granted my Request, Thou hath heard me, Thou didst note my Workeing breast, Wherefore with my utmost art I will sing thee, And the Crown of all my heart I will bring thee, And alone when they replyed, Thou didst heare me, Seven whole days, not one in seven, I will praise thee, In my heart, though not in heaven, I can raise thee, 1711. Kings not punished for the Sins of their people. Herbert fo: 140— Anno 1709. ROBT: KNOX Certaine Passages I would Keepe in Memory. Anno 1660 Aprill 4th I came one Shore at Cattior one Folio. Zelone when & whare I was Detained Captive- 129/127. 1711. Ditto the roth My father came one Shore thare & was detained-Ditto 11th the Long boate came one Shore & was detained also. The 2nd Febrowary my father died 1680. 1664 Sept 16th I received letters from England, & never more. 1670 October 22th my true friend John Loveland died. 1679 Sept the 22th I sett out from my house in order to make escape & the 12th Octobr I entred the uninhabited woods & the 18 Ditto Arived safe with the Duch at Arepa fort, the 19th October Came from Arepa to Mannar & the 2th Nov Departed thence (by Sea) for Colomba & the 4th Ditto Arived there, & the 24th Ditto sayled thence for Batavia in ship Middleburgh & Arived thare the 5th January. The 4 Feb I came from Batavia to Bantam, & the 24th Ditto sayled thence for England, 1678 October the 2th Anno 1672: Janua: the 26th Anno 167: May the 13th Anno 1679. By the Church booke in Nacton in the County of Suffolke neere Ipswich, I find that my Grandfather was borne thare, in Anno 1581, & my father was borne thare also, & Baptised the 15th March 1606 By Mee ROB KNOX FINIS Accrareagull, 404. Index NOTE.-M.S.: = Modern Sinhalese Adam's Peak, description of, 5; pilgrimage to, 129. Agriculture, methods of, 11 ff. Almanza, battle of, 388. Animals, wild, in Ceylon, 33. 66 Ann," loss of the ship, xv. ; voyage Ant, Coddia, m.s. Kodaya, 37; Ants, varieties of, in Ceylon, 37 ff. 9. Arepa, see Arrepa. Army, expeditions of Sinhalese, 88. K.C. 449 Arundery, see Arrandery. Badoula, m.s. Badulla, the place of Bananas, in Ceylon, 23. Bantam, 281; taken by Dutch, 311. Barbadoes, Berbadoes, Knox calls Barbers, caste of, in Ceylon, 109. Batticaloa, Batticalow, town of, 2. Beard, Charles, captive in Ceylon, Bees, varieties of, in Ceylon, 39, 40. Belgall Courly, county in Ceylon, Bencoolen, in Sumatra, 342; descrip- 2 F |