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A64596	The Upright lives of the heathen briefly noted, or, Epistles and discourses betwixt Alexander the Conqueror and Dindimus King of the Brachmans giving an account what sort of people they are, their divinity and philosophy, with their manner of living, &c. : collected together, and published for a general service.		1683 (1683)	Wing U120; ESTC R33718	6,417	12

Habit proper Habitations and the use of Gold and Marriage they conceal their Mysteries from their Wives lest they should blad them abroad They esteem this Life as Mans Conception but his Death-day to be his Birth-day unto that true and happy Life to him which hath been rightly Religious A worthy Sentence The Brachmans hold the World to be created corruptible round ruled by the high God Water they imagin to have been the beginning of making the World and that be●●des the four Elements there is a fifth Nature whereof the Heavens and Stars consist They hold the Immortality of the Soul and of the Torments of Hell and that the Souls of the Righteous go to God Megasthenes commendeth Mandanis one of the Brachmans saying That when Alexander 's Messengers told him That he must come to the Son of Jupiter with Promise of Rewards if he came but if otherwise menacing Torture He answered That neither was he Jupiter's Son nor did possess any great part of the Earth As for himself he neither respected his Gifts nor feared his Threatnings for while he lived India yielded him sufficient if he dyed he should be freed from Age and exchange for a better and purer Life whereupon Alexander both pardoned and praised him Clemens Alexandrinas speaks of their Fastings and other austere Courses out of Alex. Poly. Hist de Ru●us judicis The Brachmans saith he neither eat any quick thing nor drink Wine but some of them eat every day as we do some only every third day They contemn Death nor much est●●m of Life believing to be Born again Clem. Alex. storm l. 3. Suidas tells of a Nation called Brachmans inhabiting an Island in the See where Alexander erected a Pillar with Inscription That he had passed so far They live an hundred and fifty years and have neither Bread Wine Flesh Mettal nor Houses but live of the Fruits and clear Water and are very Religious c. These slay no Beasts in Sacrifice but affirm that God accepteth unbloody Sacrifices of Prayer and more delighteth in Man his own Image To Alexander did the Indian Magie so doth Arianus call their Brachmans say That he was but as other men saving that he had less Rest and more Troublesom and being dead should enjoy no more Land than would serve to cover his Body and every man said they stamping with their feet on the ground hath as much as he treadeth on Arian lib. 7. Eusabius writeth out of Braedsanes Cyrus That amongst the Indians and Bactrians were many Thosand Brachmans which as well by Tradition as by Law worshipped no Image nor eat any quick Creature drank no Wine nor Beer only attending on Divine things whereas the other Indians are very Vitious yea some hunt men sacrifice and devour them and were as Idolaters Euseb depres Evang. lib. 6. cap. 8. Heurnius reporteth That they have Books and Prophets which they alledge for Confirmation of their Opinions and that they have in their Writings the Decalogue with the Explication thereof that they adjure all of their Society to silence touching their Mysteries and that they adore the God which created Heaven and Earth often repeating the Sentence I Adore thee O God with thy Grace and Aid forever When they wash themselves which is often they lay a little Ashes on their Fore-heads and Breasts saying That they shall return unto Ashes Heur indic cap. 3. There was a malabar Poet which wrote nine hundred Epigrams against their Pago-gods each consisting of eight Verses wherein he speaks many things Elegantly of the divine Providence of Heaven and the Torments of Hell and other things agreeing to the Christian Faith That God is present every where and gives to every one according to his estate That Coelestial Blessedness consists in the Vision of God That the damned in Hell shall be tormented Millions of Years in Flames and shall never dye Aristotle in his Ethicks lib. 10. cap. 4.7 said They that did these things did them not as men but as having something Divine or of God in them Those that desire to read more of their Divinity Philosophy and manner of Living are refer'd to a paper lately published entituled A Dialogue betwixt an East Indian Brachman and a Christian price 1 d. THE END

The UPRIGHT Lives of the Heathen Briefly Noted Or Epistles and Discourses betwixt Alexander the Conquerer AND DINDIMUS King of the Brachmans Giving an Account what sort of People they are their Divinity and Phylosophy with their manner of Living c. Collected together and Published for a general Service Pythagoras saith God resembleth Light Truth God himself inhabits tho lowest highest and middlemost there is no beeing or place without God Socrates said God is so great as that at once he sees all hears all is every where and orders all Philo a Jew born yet a very noted Philosopher saith How should the Soul of a man know God if he did not inspire her and take hold of her by his divine Power Who after Death reache the heavenly plain Become like God and never dye again The Golden distick of the Pythagorians as it hath been called London Printed and Sold by Andrew Sowle at the Crooked-Billet in Holy-Well-Lane near Shoreditch 1. Dindimus King of the Brachmans his Letter to Alexander the Conquerer KING We have heard of thy Battles and Victories but what shall suffice thee whom all the World sufficeth not Riches we have none for thee why then shouldst thou war on us All our Goods are to common us Vile things and scarce we have instead of Gold and great Aray Our Women be not arayed to please for great Aray is counted nought with us not highness nor fairness Our Women desire no more Fairness than they have by kind dry Ditches and Dens stand us in double stead for Harbour while we live and for Graves when we are dead If we have sometimes a King it is not to do us Right for Honesty by kind will do that We have amongst us neither Doom nor Plea for we do nothing that needs Redress either by Doom or Plea We desire no more than Reason and Kind asketh we hold that needful which we know is measurable Our People have one Law and do nothing against this Law of Kind We use no Trade to make us covetous We shun and forsake soul Sloth and Leachery We do nothing that needs Punishment It is unlawful to us to wound the Hills with Coulters or the Ax We use no glutting or outragiousness of Meat or Drink therefore we be not sick We dwell in the dry Ditches Heaven finds us a Covering the Earth a Lodging We be not Warriors we make peace with good living not with strength We seek not plentious Gain for it is right liking to us to behold the Firmament and Stars of Heaven We be men of single Speech its common to us all not to Lye The God of all Grace is our God for he hath liking in our words and deeds by our manner of speaking he is a Word a Spirit Love and Thought and is not pleased with worldly Riches but with holy Works and thanks for his Grace Upon this King Alexander answer'd with Taunts and Jeers as if Dindimus despised Gods Benefits counting all Handicrasis sinful and also say That they are Gods and so have envy to God and blame his fairest Creatures But Dindimus answered We be not at home in this world we come not to dwell here c. we be not aliend with charges of Sin but without each manner of charge we draw near to our own Houses and lie fast homewards we say Not we be Godds but we say we will not abuse the goodness of God Almighty we say things are seemly which are lawful God hath put the use of things into mens freedom then he that leaveth the worst and followeth the best is not God but is made Gods Friend When ye swell in Wealth and Pride hath blown you up ye forget that ye are Men and say that God reekons of Mankind Ye build Temples to your selves in which ye shed mens Blood and therefore I call you Wood or Mad for ye wot not what ye do and if ye despise Gods writing then ye hold in the Sacriledge Then Alexander writeth this Epistle to him again with many Taunts and Jeers comparing them in their Sacrifices to them that were in Prison saying The cause why they tilled not the ground w●s because they had no Iron And their Women not costly arrayed is no marvel because they have not wherewith Dindimus answered Ye make wars and Battles and war outwardly against men because ye have not overcome the Enemy Within but we Brachmans have overcome the inward Battels in our Members and rest secure and have no Battles outwardly we behold the Firmament of Heaven her Birds singing we be healed fed with Leaves and Fruits of Trees we drink Water and sing Songs in Worship of God and take heed think of the Life coming We be approv'd with few words and even still and hold our peace Ye say what shall be done and yet do it not Your Wit and Wisdom is in your Lips ye hunger after Gold ye need Houses and Servants ye want Reverence and Worship c. II. Of the Ambassadours sent by Alexander to Dindimus with his Reply to them After that Alexander sent Ambassadors to Dindimus requiring him and charging him To come to him without delay promising him great Gifts and Rewards if he obeyed which if he did not he should loose his Life and all this in the Name of Alexander the King of all men and Son of the great Godd Jupiter But Dindimus singling at this vapour and not moving his head from the Leaves he lay upon and lay still and answered after this manner Soth fast God the great King giveth man right doth no man Wrong he never begot Injury but Light Life Peace the Water Body and Souls which he also receives when they have finished their course nor was he ever the Author of Lust This is my Lord and only God who as he hates Murther so he wageth not War nor raiseth Strife The things I seek I easily attain to those things which I regard not I am not to be driven to if therefore Alexander take my Head and slay me he shall not destroy my Soul which will return to the Lord while the Body which was taken out of the Earth shall thereunto return for I being made a Spirit shall ascend unto my God who included us in the flesh and placed us upon this Earth to try us whether we being gone forth from him would live unto him as he hath commanded who demandeth an account of those that depart for he is a Judge of all Injuries and the Sighs of those that are injuriously treated become the pain of those that injure them Let Alexander then threaten them that love Silver and Gold and fear Death neither of which have place amongst the Brachmans who do neither fear the one nor love the other Go therefore tell Alexander Dindimus wants him not and if he wants Dindimus let him come to him III. The Conference betwixt Alexander and Dindimus Which being reported to Alexander he was