8. To teach the common people to pray, to pray with them for any good:
and when they come to the place of worship, to joyn in common prayer
together.
9. To give Licence for Marriage, and to marry men and women, the Parents
not having power to do it without the consent of the _Herbood_.
10. To spend the greatest part of their time in the Temple, that he may
be ready on all occasions.
11. And last Injunction is, upon pain of Damnation, to believe no other
Law but that of _Zertoost_, and not to add to it, nor diminish it.
These are the precepts enjoyned the _Herbood_, the _Distoore_ being the
High Priest, who commands all the rest, is enjoyned not only these of
the _Layman_ or _Behedin_, these of the _Herbood_ or Churchmen, but 13
more of his own, which are these that follow.
1. That he must never touch any of a strange Cast or Sect, of what
Religion soever; nor any Layman of his own Religion, but he must wash
himself.
2. That he must do all his own work, in token of humility, and for
purity, _viz._ Set his own hearbs, Sow his own grain, and dress his own
meat, unless he have a Wife to do it for him, which is not usual.
3. That he take Tyth or Tenth of the _Behedin_, as Gods due, and dispose
of it as he thinks fit.
4. That he must use no Pomp or superfluity, but either give all away in
charity, or bestow it in building of Temples.
5. That his house be near the Church, where he must retire himself,
living recluse in Prayer.
6. That he must live purer than others, both in frequent washings and
dyet, and also sequester himself from his Wife in time of her
pollutions.
7. That he be learned, and knowing all the several Books of _Zertoost_,
as well the Astrological and Physical parts, as the other.