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Commentarie1.
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I.
ro make no other reply, than that he feemed to be a Captain or Guider of
the
ord, (he might
mean
perhaps a Preacher) or Minifter
of
the fupreme God
r Meffenger of the
Pachacamac,
and
that he was of different quality to the others:
Then Friar
Vicente
having
made a low Obeifance and Reverence, according
to
he manner of Religious Men,
with
pennHlion of the King, he made
him
this
o lowing
Speech.
The
Firft Part
of the
Spe
ch of
Friar
Vicente de Valverde.
I
T
u
neceJTary
for
you
to
k._now
,
(mp
ft
f
amom tind pow1rfull King) and alfo
for
all Jo11r
Subjell.r, who are dejirous to learn the Catholick._F1tith, thatyou and tho both he11r
and
believe
the thing.r which
follow.
Fir{l- that God, who is
t~ee,
andyet'one, created Heaven and Earth, and aO the
thi11g1
whi
ch trl'e inthu
World.
711at he gives the Reward
of
Eternal Life to thofe that doe 1reU,
and
punifo.esthe evilt -,.,ith (!verlafti111, Tormmts.
That this God at the
beginning
of
the
Wor
ld mad.eMan
of
the Duft of
th~
E>irth, and hreathed into him the Spirit
of
Life, which
we call the Soul, which God made after hu own Image and lik.[nef.r;
hy
which it appear1,
thllt the
who
le Man conftft.s
of
Body, am/ a rational Soul.
From the
fir.ftMan, whom God called
Adam,
all Mankjnd,
which
u
in thu World,
i1
defcended,
a
nd from him we tak..e the original and beginning
of
our
Nat11re.
That
thu
Adam
finned,
hy
breakjng the Commandment of his Creatour, and in him all
Men
that
have been born Jince his time are unde-1'Jin, and
fo
fhall
be.
to the end
of
the World; for nei–
their Man, nor Woman,
u
free from
thu
original Sin, nor can
be,
excepting onely oHr
Lord
Tefm
Chriff, who being the Son of the onely true God, defaended from. Heaven,
and
WtU
horn from the Virgin
Mary~
that
fo
he might redeem and
free
all Mankind from the
Subjection
fJf
Sin; and final!J he tfyed for our Salvation
upon
the Crof.r, which
WM
a piece
of
Wood, in form
of
thu
which I hold in
my
Handt, for which reafan, we that are
Chriftians
do
adore and reverence it.
T-his [efm
by
his own power arofe frmn the dead, and forty D ay.r after he afcended into
Heaven, where he now Jit.r at the right hand
of
God the Father Almighty.
After JVhich he
left his
Apo.If/esupon the Earth, who were his Succef{ours, who
by
their
Words
and Admo–
nition.r,
and ot'her ho!J me1tn1, might lrl'ing men to the Knowledge and Worjhip ofGod,
ana
Ohf ervation of hi.1 Laws.
Of the{e Apoftle.r St.
Peter
WM
conflituted Chief,
Mare
alfo his Succejfours
of
all other
fucceeding Apojfle.r, and of all Chriftian.r, and
tU
St.
Peter
wM
God's Vicar,
O'I'
Yiceger~t,
fa after
him were
all the iPopes
of
Rome,
who
are
endued
with
that fupreme
ARrmritJ
which God hath given them; and which
they
have, and do, and jhall for ever exercifa with
much {anflity and care, for propagation of the Gofpell, and guiding Men
accordjng
t~
the
Word
of
God.
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