lord’s discovery of the banians and persees.

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becaufe the world fhould end in deftruction, therefore the continuance of Rudderywas three times fo long, that when the great day of judgment fhould come, he mightdeftroy all the bodies, and carry the fouls with him to the place of glory.

Nought wanted now, but that they fhould every one in their feveral turns Ihew thepowers conferred upon them. So Rremaw confulting with himfelf how he mightfulfil the charge impofed upon him, grew extraordinarily afflicted in his body; theftrangenefs of which anguifh vexing him in every part, boded fome alteration or unex-pected event; when to fuch a travail as happeneth to women in labour feized him,and a certain tumour and fwelling of his body withall, according to the fudden ripenefsof the burthen within, diftended his bowels more and more, and gave newer and greaterextremities to him in this agony, till the burthen (though Bremaw far exceeded theftature of common men) made two ruptures, the one on the right fide, the other onthe left; when behold two twins the one male, the other female, to wit, man andwoman, did betray themfelves to the world in full growth and perfect ftature; whothus produced and informed concerning God by the inftruttions of Bremaw, the manwas by him named Manow, and the woman Ceteroupa. So giving worfhip to God thecreator, and reverence to Bremaw their producer, with a bleffing of multiplication pro-nounced upon them, they were fent to the eaft, to a mountain called Munderpurvool,thence to difpread their generations to the weft, north, and fouth ; fo they departed,and Ceteroupa brought forth three fons and three daughters ; the eldeft fon was calledPriauretta, the fecond Outanapautha, the third Soomeraut: the eldeft daughter’s namewas called Cammah, the fecond Soonerettaw, the third Sumboo.

As thefe grew in years, they were in their feveral orders difperfed feveral ways;namely Priauretta and Cammah to the weft, to the mountain called Segund; Outana-pautha and Soonerattaw to the north, to the mountain Bipola; Soomeraut and Sumbooto the mountain Supars; all which brought forth plentiful generations. Thus Bremawmade man and woman,, and replenilhed the earth with the reft of the living creatures.

Vyftney likewife did provide all things neceflary that might be to the fuftentation andprefervation of the living creatures that Bremav/had made, giving them in enjoymentfuch bleflings as were needful to a well being.

.✓To conclude, Ruddery did difperfe afflictions, ficknefs, death, and judgment, accord-ing as the fons of men did by their wickednefs invoke this fmart upon themfelves.And this was the order God took for reftoring of people to inhabit the earth in thefecond age of the world. Now how God provided for the eftablilhment of religion inthis fecond age, that thefe that lived might fear and werlhip him, Ihall be declared inthe chapter next following, as it is unfolded by the tradition of the Banians.

Ciiap. VIII. — How God communicated Religion to the World by a Book delivered toBremaw ; the particular Tracts, of the fame : the jirfl Tradl thereof touching the moralLaw laid down , with the Appropriation of the fame to the feveral Cafls ; and a Con~futation of the Errors thereof.

GOD , knowing that there would be but evil government where there was not theeftablilhment of his worlhip and fear, after the world was replenilhed anew, bethoughthimfelf of giving them laws to reftrain that evil in them that was the caufe of thedeftruQion of the former age.

Defcending, therefore, on the mountain Meropurbatee, he called Bremaw to him, andout of a dark and dulky cloud, with certain glimpfes of his glory, he magnified himfelfto Bremaw, telling him that the caufe why he brought deftruction on the former age,

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