A display of two forraigne sects in the East Indies vizt: the sect of the Banians the ancient natiues of India and the sect of the Persees the ancient inhabitants of Persia· together with the religion and maners of each sect collected into two bookes by Henry Lord sometimes resident in East India and preacher to the Hoble Company of Merchants trading thether

The Authors conclusion to the Reader.

SVch in summe (worthy Rea∣der) is the Religion which this Sect of the Persees professe, I leaue it to the censure of them that reade, what to thinke of it. This is the curiosity of superstition, to bring in Innouations into Religious worshippe, ra∣ther making deuises of their owne braine, that they may be singular, then following the ex∣ample of the best in a solid profession. What seeme these Persees to be like in their religious fire? but those same Gnats, that admiring the flame of fire, surround it so long, till they proue ingeniosi insuam ruinam, ingenious in their owne destruction. And if the Papists would hence gather ground for Purgatory, and prayers for the dead, and many other su∣perstitions by them vsed, to bee found in these two Sects, wee can allow them without any shame to our Profession, to gather the weedes of superstition out of the Gardens of the Gentile Idolaters. But the Catholike Christian

indeed, wil make these Errours as a Sea marke to keepe his faith from shipwracke. To such I commend this transmarine collection, to be∣get in good Christians the greater detestation of these Heresies, and the more abundant thanksgiuing for our Calling, according to the aduise of the Apostle, Ephes. 4.17. This I say, and testifie in the Lord, that ye henceforth walke not as other Gentiles walke, in the vanitie of their minde, hauing their vnderstandings darkened, be∣ing alienated from the life of God, through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindnesse of their heart: but rather that we may pray that God would establish vs in his truth, his Word is that Truth.

FJNJS.