'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.' [‎217] (238/448)

titles arrogatedhy feveral % i y
* n A Feriardo. Commander o£all Creatures from the 36 Keldan, 27 Diatbec,
rlialsento the 37 Gulpll of Perfia .Lord of the four Ri- Armeny,30Karkafl,,
luc 5 / vj h j 31 Vafpracan, 32 Aramnoh, 3?
v ers of Paradife^ ^ Euphrates, 39 Ttgns, Ap Araxis a.id -fauracow, 54 Naugracott, 5y
a ! Indus : Of true defcent from Mortis-dtty^ Governour of jam], 36 Deriob-korafan, 37
all Sultans, Emperour of MulTulmen, Bud of Honour ? Mir- Deriob-Farfee, 38 Phrat, 39
rour of Vertue, Rofe of delight, &c. Diglab^o ArafF, 41 Synde.
And although to the modeft Reader a great deal of oilehtation appear in thefe bluller-
ina Titles, yet will they feem but fmall when we parallel them with Kings ofoldandat
this day in other places. For fuch was the amplitude of Nehuchadne^ars Kingdom that
in Van. 2. 39* 'tis recorded, wherefoever the Children of Men dwelt, beafts of the field
or fowls of the air, he gave under Nehuchadnez.^ars hands. To Ahafimermj Omnem Ter~
^ omnes Maris Infdas fecit tirihutarias-, Hep;. 10, To Cyrtts the Lord God of Hea
ven gave all the Kingdomes of the Earth, Ezra 1. And by Monarchs of the then known
world, Xerxes (as chine's writes) in his Letters proclaims 5^ ejfe DominHm omnium
Hominum ah oriente Sole ufque ad accidentem^ Soveraign Lord of all Men from the rifing of
the Sun to the going down thereof. Domitian (like Pharaoh, proudly fcoffing, Who is
the Lord ?) in his Proclamations thus, Your Lord God Domitian. And Caligula blafphe-
moufly intituled himfeif Dem oft. max. & Jupiter Latialis. Now if he could have fatis-
fiedhis Atheifm with the title of an earthly God or of Jove-, Menander and Tzetza had
defended him, faying from Homer j Rex eft viva Dei imago in terris, & Reges omnes olim vo-
caverunt Joves, & Reges pro Diis hahebant-, &c* Sapores Son to Mifdates the T erf an, Anno
Dm. 315- alfo began his Letter to Conftantius the Emperour in this fort (as lib. 17. Mar-
cellini) I Sapor es King of Kings, equal to the Stars, and Brother to the Sun and Moon,
Which kindred to the Sun was alfo claimed by Mark^ Anthony that noble Roman, who
called the two Children he had hy Cleopatra Sol & Lm'a : both which neverthelefs were
led captive by Amtfiwy ^ t0 the en(i lt mi & ht thereb y be inferred, that both Sun and
Moon were his inferiours. Cozrhoes zKo (Ormifda's Son) in the year of Grace 620.
(thefirft of the Mahometan Accompt) fcorning thofe of Deus Terrerm or ot Homo a
Deo fecmdus blows himfeif up in this blafpheming proeme to Mauritius the Emperour:
Cozrhoe great King, of Xings, Lord of Lords, Ruler of Nations, Prince of peace, Sal-
vition of men i among Gods, a man good and ever , among men, a Godmoft glori
ous • the sreat Conquerer, arifing with the Sun, giving eyes or luftre to the night, a Heroe
in d'efcent From which affeded pride thofe idolatrous flaves were induced to worlhip and
to clamour out, Tu es mfira Sdm & inte credimm* And whence the Poet to illuftrate his
Bees, fmgs
r i- 1 1 • ts- I Prseterea Regem non fic j£gyptus & ingens
tAZgypt nor Lydta do their lungs obey, Lydia, nec populi Parthorum, aut Medus Hydafpes
Nor Medes nor Parthians half fo much as they . Obfervant 3 &c.
From which examples others in later times have arrogated to themfelvesno lefsfuper-
^minency. For Solywtin T '^ ucchs (that wrathful Turk) prochiim d himlelf King of
Kings, Lord of Lords, Emperour of Conflantimfle and Ruler of
Africa, and Apa i Commander of the Ocean, and Conquerour of Jfyria, Arabia, &c.
Alfo Ammat his Grand-fon ftiled himfeif God of the Earth, Captain of the Umverfe,
facred Angel, Mahomets beloved, drc. At length the home-bred but th'other
day lending his Ambalfador to Ahhat with an Epiftle direded. To liis flave the Sophy of
Terpa, the undaunted Emperour of the World (a well read man) fends greeting: Nei
ther the Ambalfadours brags that his Mailer had fix hundred great Cities, two thoufand
walled Towns, a thoufand Caftles, fixty millions of Slaves, and a hundred and twenty
thoufand millions of Crowns yearly revenue could make his King there to be admired,
or priviledge his Ambaffadour from dirty welcome: the haughty P erf an fpnrnmg lum
backaaain, to alfure his Matter thejmeither believed him to be the Beauty of the Earth,
Bor fas he writes himfeif) Heir afearant to the Sun. ; His next neighbour and he
being at odds for Title, the Tartar 1 mean (vulgarly the great Cham) A CWmdeed m
his miftaken genealogy : For as fomehave writ, forgetting that his great Grandfire
Gngis-Cham was a Black-fmith, he blafphcmounyproclaimshimfelfSon to thchi^
God, and quintelfence of the pureft Spirits ; whence (as fome Tra ^ ell ® r . s . ^"^ r h e :
port) is ingendred that fanatick cultome, fome%cs ato'^mhave
found of Trumpet echo out to the other Potentates of the World that he has dind, lo