'Some years travels into divers parts of Africa, and Asia the great. Describing more particularly the empires of Persia and Industan: interwoven with such remarkable occurrences as hapned in those parts during these later times. As also, many other rich and famous kingdoms in the oriental India, with the isles adjacent. Severally relating their religion, language, customs and habit: as also proper observations concerning them.' [‎49] (70/448)

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body begun to fwdl, yea, fo great anguift to afflift him, that in all points it re
fembled a womans travel , and indeed it had Analogy, in that his bowels began to ex'
tend more and mpreandhisdolourto hcreafe, till (after great toil) thefecondfwelling
found vent, broke, and delivered their burthen, being two Twins, of each whnm
heneeded notgive fuck unto, in that by like miracle they immediately grew up toa pef
fed ftature, and were miraculoufly furnilhed with language and education 7JnL
the Parent named them Ma,i.-nv and Ceteroupa, whom after he had blelfed he fent Fall: rr>
the great mountain Momderpurvool, where ftraightway brought forth thr-e
more fons and as many daughters: the Boys Ihe called and
Soomermt-,U\tGit\tiCammah, Sounerettaw, and Sumhoo. Tile eldeft fon and dankt-pr
went Welt to a mountain called the two feconds North to k^rrte t^ laft
of each fex to Siifar •, where they fo generated that they quickly peopled each thei r nna r
ter. Which done, God perceiving the' hearts of men enclined tTall for s of Sin to
give them direchons how to live vertuouny and avoid temptation, he left Heaven a
while, and alighting on the high Mount thither he call'd to
whom he fpake many things out of a duskie darK cloud, now and then flafhing glimpfes
of his Majefty; acquaintmg him why he deftroyedthe firft world, their finsprovoSng
hl « 5 ^ W K aS rel0l T e . d ne , ve t r 10 do fo again : to that end he delivered
a Book (the Shafierhy name) divided into three Trafts, dedicated to the three
Caftsi the firit containing Moral Precepts; the fecond the ceremonies of Worlhipf the
third a divihon of them into three, with peculiar inftrudions to each .Calt or Tribe
Their Moral Law (read and taught them by out of the has eight Com-
raandments i (moll: of which agree withthe feven which Rabbi fay^XauX
the World in his time, called the Noahcady.) wjsxvwb [augni:
tures Til0U n0t deftr0y ailSr livinS creal;ure i for Aon and it are both my crea-
2. Thou flialt not fin in any of thy five fenfes; Thy Eyes not beholding vanity ■, thy
Ears to be ftoppd m hearing evil; thy Tongue not to utter any filthinefs ■, thy Pallat
hating Wine, Flelh, and all other vive thingsthy hands abhorring things defiled,
proilratkg! 6 0101 UmeS ofdevotion ' ^ PWying, walhing, elevating,
4. Thou ihait not lie nor diflemble.
5- Thou Jhalt not be hard-hearted but helpful unto others.
6. Thou fhalt not opprefs nor tyrannize.
7* I hdu 0 t ) ^ er ve certain Feitivals and Faltins-davs.
8. Thou [halt not Ileal.
Thefe eight Precepts are fub divided iflto four: each of the four old Calls retaining
n ei ^' ^ ramon an d Shuddery, i. e. the Braminy and Barmy an are tied to a moil fevere and
itna ODler vance m the decorum of their Worihip. Cuttery and Wyfe, i. e. the Juflice and
aDourer agree in theirs. From whence it comes to pals, that the Priells and Mer-
cnants (appropriating thefirlland fecondto themfelves) are more fuperftitious than
tne calts ot Souldiers and Mechanicks who alfume a liberty of Meats and Wine in va-
nety. Notwithllanding, alloftiiem believe the Metempfychofis of Pythagoras, whofe
onceits we will parallel by and by with thefe Bannyans. In this place drawing; vour
judgment ta a remembrance of what is already related: wherein we may perceive the
aeiuhon Satan charms them with, whofe cuilom it hath ever been to ered to himfelf
ormipand Idolatry inibme things (to make 5 em more authentical) cohering withthe
oiy or our Bible and in imitation of the Jews. Now that this Shafier of the Bannyans
15 a depraved Story of the Bible, either introduced by fome Jews liich time as Solomon
iraaed to Ofhtr (near thefe parts*,) or from the Father of Lies, who ufually didates
ms Servants, is plain. For, Ipeaking of the Creation of the World out of a Chaos,
^o f Fourom and Farcontee fucceifively, who lees not the alluding to Adam
n Eve in this refemblance ? Like that of Ovid and Plato, borrowed from the Firft
tlw ^ 0 i es F e n ta teHch , which facred Pen-man lived Anno mundi 2430. before
y^Jncarnatim about 1490. years; and is found to be more ancient in time than the very
■j 0 j an y the Heathen Deities : The other of the Creation (delivered Mofes) flia-
owed int; The Llniverfal Deluge and dellrudion of mankind pointing out that of
th ] '■ k ^ remaw7s receiving the Law from God (in a dark cloud and lightning) upon
e nigh Mount Meropwbatee, Mofes his being on Mount Sinai in Arabia where the
ecalogue was given ; And in ^rm^'s departure from Earth to Heaven, thetranfla-
tion of Eli as. 1
The Bannyans are commanded (as in moll hot Countries in all other Pagan Religions
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