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 was drawen from the effects which it worketh in giving 

 light to the moone & other starres, and causing all 

 things to grow and encrease upon the earth : answere 

 was made, that it did moove with the rest as the 

 wheeles of a clocke, and therefore of force must have 

 a moover. Likewise in the Eclipse being darkened it 

 is manifestly prooved that it is not god, for God is 

 altogether goodnesse and brightnesse, which can neither 

 be darkened nor receive detriment or hurt : but the 

 Sun receiveth both in the Eclipse, as it is apparant : to 

 which hee could not answere ; but so they had received 

 from their ancestors, that it was without beginning or 

 ende, as in any Orbicular or round body neither begin- 

 ning or end could be found. He likewise sayd, that 

 there were other Gentiles in ye Indies which worship 

 the moone as chiefe, and their reason is. The moone 

 when she riseth goeth with thousands of starres accom- 

 panied like a king, and therefore is chiefe : but the 

 Sunne goeth alone, and therefore not so great. Against 

 whom the Banianes reason, that it is not true, because 

 the Moone and starres receive their light from the 

 Sunne, neither doth the Sunne vouchsafe them his 

 company but when he list, and therefore like a mighty 

 prince goeth alone, yet they acknowledge the Moone as 

 Queene or Viceroy. Law they hold none, but onely Tke seven 

 seven precepts which they say were given them from P™ ce P u °J 

 their father Noe, not knowing Abraham or any other. 

 First, to honor father and mother ; secondly, not to 

 steale ; thirdly not to commit adultery ; fourthly not to 

 kill any thing living ; fiftly, not to eate any thing 

 living ; sixtly, not to cut their haire ; seventhly, to go 

 barefoot in their churches. These they hold most 

 strictly, & by no meanes will breake them : but he 

 that breaketh one is punished with twenty stripes ; but 

 for the greatest fault they will kill none, neither by a 

 short death nor a long, onely he is kept some time in 

 prison with very little meat, and hath at the most not 

 above twenty or five & twenty stripes. In the yere 



