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Commentaries.
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CH
AP.
xxx.
'·
How the Devils of
Peru
were flrook._
dumb
by
the Sacra111ents
·
of the Holy Mother the
Church
of
Rome.
~
I
T
ls
inoll certainly true, that
fo
foort
as.
the Sacraments of our Holy Mother
the
Church of
Rome
were brought into
Per11~
namely.the Confecration of
the
Hofr, or of the Body and Bloud ofChrift our Lord,
as
is performed
In
the Mafs,
and celebrated on fuch days as the
Spaniards
had
time and leifure to hear it
5
and
that fome
Indians,
who had entered themfelves into the
Service
of
Spa<iiardt,
re–
ceived the Sacrament of Baptifm
1
and
that likewife the Sacraments of Marriage
and Penance were pra&ifed; fo foon,
I
fay, as thefe
four
Holy
Myfl:~ies
were
made known, and appeared, (for the other three were not
as
yet introduced into
thofe Countries) the Devils became dumb and
filent,
and loft that familiar
diC.
courfe and converfation
in
publick which (as we have faid ) they formerly ufed
and praCtifed
with
thofe Gentiles, onely they whifpered fometimes in fecrer,
with
the famous
Magicians,
who were faid to have a greater power and influence
upon them. And
thou~
at
firft
the party of
Huafcar
gave out, that this
fullen
refervednefs and filence of the
Oracles was
caufed by the anger and difpleafure of
the
Sun
for the tyrannies and cruelties committed by
Atahualpa
;
yet at length
they were convinced of a more over-ruling caufe, which affeeted the
Indians
with
a.
general fear and confl:ernation, believing that the entrance of thefe new
Guell:s into their Countrey, had over-awed and filenced their Oracles : the which
opinion ferved to augment the dread and reverence they had of the
Spaniardf,
and confirm the Name
which
they gave them of
P'iracocha,
who is the God efpe–
cially adored by them, and held in more efteem and wodhip, than
all
their pecry
HuactU
;
of which
we have already given
a
more large relation.
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