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,
Royal
Commentaries.
BooKl
to
preach
it
with
fervour
and
charity
rm,
ards their Neigh ours, and with due
re~
fpeet cowards God , who hath fhewed them
fuch
great and miraculous
arks.
And indeed \\ e may aver it for a truth; that
it
could be no lefs than miraculous
That a
Spaniard
or two
fhould
rraveil alone two qr three hundred Leagues in
ar:
Enemies Countrey, and be carried
through
it
on Mens houlders, and
all Re·
fpelt and Adoration paid to them, as
if
they had been Gods, whenas they
might have thrown them over fame Bridge, or down fome precipice, or by other
means
have eafily
defhoyed
chem,
is
a
confervation above
all
humane Wifedom
and DireCt:ion, and ought to be
folely
attributed to the Divine Providence, by
fuch as profefs themfelves good Chrifiians, and Preachers of the Gofpel
of
J
efus
Chrifr. Ochers improving this confideration and Argument farther, did fome
times in prefence of the Governour difcourfe to this effeet. That in regard
Ata–
hualpa
had received Bapcifm,
it
had been more conducing to the quiet of that
Kin~cfom,
xind
propagation of the Catholkk
faith,
rp
hat:r~
,COijf
erved him alive,
md
paid
lhlm
aiJ.
He>noor and
efp~,
requiring
of
him.,
that
fince he himfe
was heaome
2
Oruiilian, that
he
ibouJd poblllb an
E.Q~tt
in
favour of that
Reli–
gion,
commandl:
ng all
his
ubje& and
Vaflals ,
!Vi~hln
a
~erc~in
ime to be
bap–
taed;
G.ertam1v
this
cour(e would
have
beea extrefhely-prevalept
fo,r
three
or
fotJ
1nofr
pmragemf
B..eafons,
e·vecy
0~
pf
wh\ch fuigly
naigbt
have been fafficient
ro
have
c'Orwertecl
e w'hale
Nation>
how
much
more, when
,they all
concurred
tq·
gepluer
fuft,
T.beCoinvmnd
.of
rhe
lw:a,
tc:>
which
in
tl;1e
m,oft triv_ial matters Obe–
dience
is
yJ
elded
-as
·w
'the
aw
of
-God~ '
.fiow muqlj
mor~
W.Q\llcl
it
be
in the
Cafe
of
Religion,
delivete-01
by
thofe whom
they
ia their own
fvfiqc;ls ellee1,1:1e4
to
ht?
GIDds.
·
s~Ge>rnrlly.,
the
, mtal Obedience
which
they
alway ~
-yje
lcled to
~heir
IncM.
Thirdly)
The
Exam.pr.lewhich
the
King
bad
given
m be.if.lgbaptizeP,
WJ-Ould
earlily
av.e hegottem2 amformity in
his
People.
And,
Fourthly, That
~ichwould
have
appeared mofr
fperious aod obligatGry,
~ad
which comprehends
!the
furoe of all together, would have bec;n
the
Precept
<)f
.Atahul{lpa,
declaring, That
m
purf
uanc~
of
the Prophecy ofhis Father
Fluaymt
Ca–
pac,
delivered
in
his lall
Will and
Tellam~c.,
6gnifying
the
Obedience
rhey
W:ere
to yie1d
t0
thofe new Gaehls,
~vbP
rvye;ue
~o
.enter into their Couotrey,
whof~
Law
and Religion was
mQOfu JbtJt(er,
and
m9re xcellent than theirs.
Had
~
I
fa.y)
the Preachers takelJl advantage of
this
convincing Method of
Ar.
gumemts, certainly he tGofpel w0uld have e1;med and fpread without oppoficion;
hut
God
in his fecret ludgment would not adm·c of
there
Methods, that
fo
chofe
matters might come
to
pafs.,
wluc;h
afterwards
fucceeded.
CHAP.