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

CHAP. XIIII.

Shewing the beginning of the third Age, the Restauration of the same by Ram; new euils bring a iudgement, concluding the third Age by an Earthquake or Chasma.

RVddery hauing restrained the windes from their former violence, all now was husht; but miserable and lamen∣table it was to behold the earth so desolate and voyd of inhabitants, more miserable to see the carkeises that were scattered on her surface, some blowne from the tops of high Mountaines, others bruised to mash, all rui∣ned and destroyed; so that the Almighty re∣pented him of his owne worke, and Ruddery was sorry that he should be an instrument of so great fury and destruction.

But because the head of all the former dis∣orders was from the wickednesse and ill go∣uernment of the Kings and Rulers, therefore

the Lord vtterly raced out all of the Tribe or Cast of the Cutteryes; those that were preser∣ued from destruction by the skirt of Vistneys preseruation, being some few of the other three Casts or Tribes.

Now because these foure Casts were so necessary to the worlds gouernment, that it could not subsist without them, though the Cast of the Cutteryes perished intyrely, for their wickednesse; yet that they might be re∣newed againe from a holier beginning, the Lord appointed that from the Bramanes the line of the Kings should bee renewed. So the Chiefe of the Bramanes that was then preser∣ued by Vistney, was called Ducerat; the next child that was borne after this destruction, and which was the youngest of foure, was chosen to propagate the race of their Kings, and Rulers, who being religiously educated, might as well fauour piety as pollicy, and with holinesse and prudence gouerne men in their seuerall Tribes.

So he did many worthy Acts, and excee∣dingly maintained Religion, was a Patron to the Bramanes, and Churchmen, and his name was Ram; who became so memorable for his worthy deedes, that his name is made hono∣rable in the mention amongst them euen to this day, that whensoeuer they meete and sa∣lute one another, they cry Ram, Ram, as a word importing the wishes of all good.

It is like that after him there ruled many worthy Kings, but tract of time rendering euery thing worse at the latter ending then at the beginning, brought forth such as follow∣ed the course of the ancient wickednesse, and new ambitions, and new hypocrisies, and new frauds and circumuentions, and daily brea∣ches of the Law deliuered in Bremawes book, began afresh to make intrusion amongst them.

So the Almighty was againe angry, that after so many iudgements, the people would not be warned to his feare, therefore by Gods appointment, Ruddery caused the earth to open and swallow them vp aliue, reseruing onely some few of the foure Tribes, as a last tryall for the new peopling of the world againe. And such was the conclusion of the third Age of the world.