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A28444	The oracles of reason ... in several letters to Mr. Hobbs and other persons of eminent quality and learning / by Char. Blount, Esq., Mr. Gildon and others.	Blount, Charles, 1654-1693.; Burnet, Thomas, 1635?-1715. Archaeology philosophicae.; Gildon, Charles, 1665-1724.; H. B.	1693 (1693)	Wing B3312; ESTC R15706	107,891	254

the Ancients upon the Creation of the Universe together with its End and Destruction for they explain these Things by the Efflux or Emanation of all things from God and by their Reflux or Restoration into him again But this they propound in a Cabalistical Mythological way For they ●eign a certain immense Spider to be the first Cause of all Things and that she with the Matter she exhausted out of her own Bowels spun the Web of this whole Universe and then disposed of it with a most wonderful Art whilst she her self in the mean time sitting on the Top of her Work feels rules and governs the Motion of each part At last when she has sufficiently pleas'd and diverted her self in adorning and contemplating her own Web she retracts the Threads she had unfolded and swallows them up again into her self whereby the whole Nature of Things created vanishes into nothing After this manner our modern Brachmins represent the Birth Order and Perishing of the World Nor does this much differ from the Opinions of the Ancients we have above mentioned lib. I. cap. 7. page 63 64 c. provided that taking off the fabulous Shell we go to the Kernel If you have leisure to read a larger Account of the Indostan Gentiles 't is what you may find in Henry Lord F. Bernier and other Travellers who have more diligently enquired into their Literature In the Kingdom of Siam which Borders upon the Empire of the Mogul there is the same Progeny of the Brachmins Guido Tachard one of the Jesuits Society who waited upon the French Ambassador to the King of Siam has given us this Account of their Philosophy or Theology They say That the first Men were of greater Stature and longer Liv'd than we now adays are as also that they lived many Ages free from Distempers That this Modern Earth pa●ched with a long Heat will at length be consumed by Fire the Ocean being dried up the Mountains melted and the whole Surface of the Earth being made level This I find in our aforesaid Author with more of the same in others all which a late Poet has compiled and facetiously explained in these Versicles Stolidus Regni Mysta Siami Octoginta dat perituro Saecula mundo Tunc qui tantum Iam fuerit uno fervidus Oculo Septem pandet lumina Phoebus Qu●is aequor●as ebibet undas Qu●is immensum vindice flammâ 〈◊〉 O bem● Sed duo calidis Q●● 〈…〉 favil●is Einos homines ova creabunt Qui foecunda semine cultum Iterum poterunt reddere mundum Quem non salsis Neptunus aquis Alluet unquàm tantum rigui Undique fontes Dulcesque lacus Irrorabunt molliter herbas Et perpetuo verè Beatos Spargent variis floribus agros The Siamese Brachmins not only say that this modern Earth must perish and that by Fire but even that out of its ashes a new Earth must arise and without a Sea that is to say such a one as St. Iohn the Prophet saw Apoc. 21.1 and without the yearly Vicissitudes of the Seasons being blest with a perpetual Spring such another Earth as we have described in the Fourth Book of our Theory Cap. 2. T is really a most wonderful thing that a Nation half barbarous should have retained these Opinions from the very times of Noah for they could not have arrived to a Knowledge of these things any ●ther way than by Tradition nor could this Tradition flow from any other Spring than Noah and the Antediluvian Sages But out of what Author or Siames's Traveller the Poet has taken these Things I have not yet been able to learn Moreover the Kingdom of Choromandel on the Southren Coast of the Indies has its Brachmins whose Manners and Doctrine have been with no small Diligence enquired into by Abraham Rogers who wrote the Book called Ianua aperta ad Arcana Gentilsimi Having Himself lived many years there Now they affirm that there are several Worlds which do at one and the same time exist in divers Regions of the Universe and that there are several successive ones for that the same World is destroyed and renewed again according to certain Periods of Time They say also that our Terrestrial World began by a certain Golden Age and will perish by Fire Lastly they retain the Doctrin of the Ovum Mundanum comparing the World to an Egg as did the ancients both Greeks and Barbarians Finally to the Kingdom of Choromandel is Contiguous that of the Malabers where Father Robert Nobilius Founder as t is said of the Maudarian Mission has spent no small part of his life learned as well in the vulgar Indian Language as in that of the Branchmins then he is said to have written a great deal concerning the Theory of the Brachmin but I know not to what language for I have not yet happened to light upon any of his writings neither have I any Accounts of this or the rest of the Countrys of the Indies to be depended upon to furnish me with their Opinions either from eye or ear witnesses We have likewise before mentioned the Chinese a People of great Antiquity but among the Ancients unknown as to matter of Learning they have this in Common with the rest of the Orientals that they compare the World to an Egg and will have it to be born of one In like manner they say their first Man whom they call Puoncuus was born of an Egg whether you will suppose that by it they mean the Chaos or the Primitive Earth and altho they do not seem to have derived their Philosophy or History from the Brachmins yet they set so great a value on their Letters and secret Alphabet that as things sacred and of a very great Antiquity they use to inscribe them on their Idols As for the Mahometans who are spread at large over the East under several different Dominions I pass by them as men of an upstart ignorant kind what an Egyptian Priest formerly told Solon You Greeks always Boys not one of the Greeks ever comes to be Old May changing names be much more properly said to them Nor does the Egyptian give an ill reason for what he says Your are young in your Minds for in them is no tenent of the Ancients that comes by ancient Tradition you retain no Learning that is grey with old Age. These things exactly square with the Mehometans wheresoever they are dispersed they retain nothing of Ancient Wisdom for the Ambition of extending their D●minions has taken from them all manner of Love or Desire of Learning Even in Persia it self where formerly flourished the Mystical Philosophy of the great Zoroaster and the Magi at this day remains nothing worth taking notice of The aforementioned Henry Lord relates that when the Saracens overran all Persia having beaten and slain the King Iezdegird about the Year of our Lord 628. Some of the Persians who could not bear● the yoak of a new Slavery and new Religion transported

themselves and their effects by Sea into India And that having sworn Allegiance to the Indian Kings they each of them freely exercised their own Religion and ancient way of living The same Author relates some opinions Generally received by these Persians transplanted into India concerning the Original Age and End of the World But they are so stuffed with Fables that they hardly seem worth while to repeat This must be observed in General of the Modern Pagans that there are its true now remaining amongst them some Footsteps of the most ancient Tenents which come to them by Tradition from their Ancestours but quite overwhelmed with Trash and Filthiness being for the most part clogg'd with fabulous Additions even to the degree of being nauseous insomuch that when you come to manly Arguments they are of no manner of Validity I cannot but pitty the Eastern World that the place which was the first Habitation of wise men and one day a most flourishing Emporium for Learning should for some ages past have been changed into a wretched Barbarity Tantaene Animis coelestibus irae I pray God grant that we may not undergo the same Vicissitude and that in his Anger he may not withdraw that Light we now enjoy in the West but that it may be more and more diffused on all sides till the Knowledge of God shall have filled the Earth as the Waters fill the Sea To the most Ingenuous and Learned Dr. Sydnham at his House near the Pestle and Mortar in the Pall Mall SIR THE last time I had the happiness of your Company it was your Request that I would help you to a sight of the Deists Arguments which I told you I had sometimes by me but then had lent them out they are now return'd me again and according to my promise I have herewith sent them to you Whereby you 'l only find that human Reason like a Pitcher with two Ears may be taken on either side However undoubtedly in our Travails to the other World the common Road is the safest and tho Deism is a good manuring of a mans Conscience yet certainly if sowed with Christianity it will produce the most profitable Crop Pardon the hast of SIR Your most obliged Friend and Faithful Servant C. BLOVNT Rolleston May 14 th 1686. A Summary Account OF THE DEISTS RELIGION CHAP. I. The Deists Opinion of God WHatsover is Adorable Amiable and Imitable by Mankind is in one Supream infinite and perfect Being Satis est nobis Deus imus CHAP. II. Concerning the manner of Worshipping God FIrst Negatively it is not to be by an Image for the first Being is no s●nsible but in●e●ligible Pinge sonum puts 〈◊〉 upon an impossibility no more can an infinite mind be represented in matter Secondly Nor by Sacrifice for sponsio non valet ut alter pro altero puniatur However no such sponsio can be made with a bruit Creature nor if God loves himself as he is the highest Good can any External Rite or Worship re-instate the Creature after sin in his favour but only repentance and obedience for the future ending in an Assimulation to himself as he is the highest Good and this is the first error in all Particular Religions that external things or bare opinions of the mind can after sin propitiate God hereby particular Legislators have endeared themselves and flattered their Proselytes into good opinions of them and mankind willingly submitted to the cheat Enim facilius est superstitiosè quam justè vivere Thirdly Not by a Mediator for first it is unnecessary Miserecordia Dei being sufficiens justitiae suae 2 ly God must appoint this Mediator and so was really recon●iled to the World before And 3 ly a Medi●tor derogates from the infinite mercy of God equally as an Image doth from his Spiritualitie and Infinitie Secondly Positively by an inviolable adherence in our lives to all the things 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by an imitation of God in all his imitable Perfections especially his goodness and believing magnificiently of it CHAP. III. Of Punishments after this Life A Man that is endued with the same Vertues we have before mentioned need not fear to trust his Soul with God after death For first no Creature could be made with a malevolent intent the first Good who is also the first Principle of all Beings hath but one affection or Property and that is Love which was long before there was any such thing as Sin 2 dly At death he goes to God one and the same being who in his own nature for the sins of the Penitent hath as well an inclination to Pity as Justice and there is nothing dreadful in the whole Nature of God but his Justice no Attribute else being terrible 3 ly Infinite Power is ever safe and need not revenge for self-preservation 4 ly However Veri simile est similem Deo a Deo non negligi CHAP. IV. The Probability of such a Deists Salvation before the credulous and ill living Papists 1. TO be sure he is no Idolater the Iew and the Mahometan accuse the Christian of Idolatry the Reform'd Churches the Roman the Socinian the other Reformed Church●● the Deists the Socinian for his Deus factus but none can accuse the Deist of Idolatry for he only acknowledges one Supream Everlasting God and thinks magnificently of him 2 dly The Morality in Religion is above the mystery in it for 1. The Universal sense of Mankind in the Friendships men make sheweth this for who does not value good Nature Sincerity and Fidelity in a Friend before subtilty of understanding Religio quaedam cum Deo Amicitia An unity of nature and will with God that is the Root of the Dearest Friendships Then 2 ly it is an everlasting rule that runs through all Beings Simile a simili amatur God cannot love what is unlike him Now 3 ly here lies our trial here is the scene of our obedience and here are our conflicts with our Passions if this be true then the credulous Christian that believes Orthodoxly but lives ill is not safe 3 dly If the Deists errs he errs not like a fool but secundum verbum after enquiry and if he be sincere in his Principles he can when dying appeal to God te bone Deus quaesivi per omnia Notae Aliquot 1. The Grand Arcanum of Religion among the Pythagoreans was that the object of Divine Worship is one and invisible Plutarch cites this in the Life of Numa as the Dogma of Pythagoras and accordingly his Followers used no Images in their Worships 2 dly The Heathens notwithstanding their particular and Topical Deities acknowledged one Supream God not Iupiter of Creet but the Father of Gods and Men only they said this Supream God being of so high a nature and there being other intermediate Beings betwixt God and Mankind they were to address themselves to them as Mediators to carry up their Prayers and bring down his Blessings so as the opinion of