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granted on thefe injunctions, that he fhould ereCV pagods for God ’s worfhip, and adoreimages under green trees, becaufe God had under them manifefted himfelf by vifionto him.

So Jeiunagundah (for fo was the woman called) feeling the motions of affeCtion torenew in her, at the next meeting gave fuch expreflions of love to Wyfe, as fullyaccomplifhed his demand : fo converfing together they made good the nuptial ends, ina fruitful generation. So the fouth, as the other parts of the world, became inhabited.

Chap. VI. — Of the Meeting together of the four Brethren at the Place of their Birth ;their Divifions andDiffentions ; the great Evils amongfl their Generations bringeth a Flood•which deflroyeth them ; and fo the firfl Age of the World concludeth .

EVERY thing by natural motion palfeth to his own place; fo the brethren havingpeopled the world in thefe four parts, turn their courfe to the place where they firfl:breathed their vital air ; for Brammon having peopled the eaft, with all fuch as was ofhis call or tribe, was carried with a natural defire to go and conclude his dayswhere he began, and to poflefs the people of that place with the true form of divineworfhip, that fo all the world might retain one uniformity of religion, not rendingGod ’s worfhip into parts with the factions of unfettled opinions, as alfo not willing tolofe fo great a joy as his eyes fhould convey unt@ him in the fight of his parents andhis brethren, to the former of which religion had enjoined him, to the latter all expref-fxons of a brother’s love.

Cuttery alfo, the next that had accomplifhed the end of his travel, began to longafter the fight of the place that brought him r h, that he might there, to^his father,mother, and brethren, fhew the bleflings God , in his wife and progeny, andacquaint them with the ftory of his occurrences, and leave a race of foldiers there alfoin his pofterity.

Shuddery, turned alfo by the fame inclination, had his defires bent to his birth-place,being big with the eminency of his accidental fortunes, which had loft: their greatnefs,if his parents and brethren had loft the knowledge of them : to feed which humour,as accompanied with other refpeCts formerly mentioned, drew him to give his appear-ance amongfl the reft.

Laftly Wyfe, to communicate his arts, whofe adventurous travel was no lefs memo-rable than the reft, tranfporting his fons and daughters over the feveral feas, left themin feveral places, and repaired to his birth place, to pay his duty to his parents, andhis love to his brethren.

It happened, that God , that would not crofs any part of their intentions with evilfuccefs, did referve them to find the happinefs of their meetings in their feveral turnsand fuceeffions, as their works were in order accomplifhed, their feveral arrivals beingcongratulated with feaftings and triumphs, meet welcomes for fuch guefts. It was notto be doubted but Pourous and Parcoutee grew young again, having fuch a feafon ofhappinefs referved to finile upon them, towards the funfet of their age, fuch as wereable to make their forewafted powers, fpent with years, to renew their vigour ; every-one of them when their joy grew ftale, giving a frefh renewance of gladnefs to theirparents by their fucceflive arrival. Neither could it be imagined, but that the brethrenaccounted that the bleffed time that loft all remembrance of trouble, which, we-think,too importunate a difturber of our joys.

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