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their own Booksi and gathei*'d from the 

 mouths of thofe that have been the greatefl: 

 Speakers and Preachers among them. I have 

 always had a profound Veneration for the 

 Didates of Nature, and the univerfal Tra- 

 ditions of Nations, for hereby are Infinite 

 Things to be learned, for the eftablifhing of 

 our Glorious Religion againfl: Atheifts, and 

 the more eafie propagation of the fame among 

 Infidels and Heathens. 



Upon what account or grounds it is that 

 fome Travellers have filled thefe People Po- 

 lytheifts, or Atheifts, I cannot tell ; or 

 whether there be any fuch People at all in 

 the World, except fome of the bafe common 

 fort in all Nations, I much queftion ? It is 

 very obfervable here, that their Priefts, or 

 Bramines^ and Holy Men, whom they call 

 Jagees^ when they have occafion to Write 

 any thing they always put a figure of one ia 

 the firft place, to ftiew, as they fay, that 

 they acknowledge but one God, whom they 

 fay is Burme^ that is. Immaterial. When 

 they preach to the People, and Inftrud them^ 

 which is commonly every Feaft-day , full 

 Moon, or the time of an Eclipfe of either 

 Luminary, they tell the common People mucli 

 of God, Heaven and Hell, but very Im- 

 perfedly, Obfcurely and Myftically. They 

 fay that when God thought of making thef 

 World, he made it in a minute. 



They account this World the Body of 

 God, for all that they fay he's fematerral 

 and fay that the Highefl: Heavens are his 

 Head, the Fire his Mouth, the Air his Breath 

 aid Ireaft, the Water his Seed, and th^- 



