Mr. Blount's oracles of reason examined and answered in nine sections in which his many heterodox opinions are refuted, the Holy Scriptures and revealed religion are asserted against deism & atheism / by Josiah King ...

Pag. 78.

Now their Body of Learning doth not teach nor treat of each little Point or Nieity in Philosophy, as our Modern Philosophers use to do; but like the Natural Theology of the Ancients, it treats of God, of the World, of the Beginning and Ending of Things, of the Primitive State of Nature, of the Periods of Worlds, and their Re∣novations.

ANSWER.

If our Modern Brachmans philosophize in these things, as the Ancient Brachmans did; the Modern could not philosophize out of Books given by God to the great Prophet Brahma, as formerly the Law of the Israelites was to Moses; as Mr. Blount reports they were wont to pretend.

Clemens Alexandrinus, p. 451. says, They wor∣shiped Hercules and Pan. And a little after- 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉. They Worshipped a certain Pyramid, under which they thought a certain God to be buried. Porphury in his 4th Book, De Abstinentia, accuses them of Polutheism; and so doth Quintus Curtius, in his Eighth Book.

Maffeius, in his Book of the Indians; affirms that they worshipped God, or a Daemon in the Figure of an Ox, as the Egyptians did Apys; and that they also worshipped an Ele∣phant as God.