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R.oyal Commentarin.
BooK
l.
ro make no other reply, than that he feemed to be a Captain or Guider of the
W
ord, ( he might mean perhaps
a
Preacher) or Miniíl:er of the füpreme God,
_or Meílenger ofche
Pachacamac,
and that he
was
of different quality to tbe others.
Then Friar
Vicente
having made
a
low Obeifance and- Reverence, according ro
rhe manner of Religious Men, with permiffion of the King, he made him this
following Speech.
The Firíl: Part of the Speech of Friar
Vicente de Va/verde.
I
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ü
necef[ary for you to k?;ow, (moff famom and powerfull King) and alfo for ali you1·
Subjefls, who are dejiro,u to /earn the Catholick_Faith, thatyou and rhey borh hear and
believe the thi~gs which follow.
Fir(l that God, who is three, andyet
011e,
created Heaven and Earth, añd a!l the things
which are in thú wo-rld.
That he gives the Reward
of
Eternal Life to thofe that doe we!!,
and pHnifhes thc evi!l -with everlajfing Torments.
That thú God at tbe beginning of.the
World made Man
oJ
the Dujf ofthe E,trth, and breathed into him the Spirit
of
Lije, which
we ca!l the Soul, which God mJfde after hú own lmage and lik!nefs; by which it appear1
1
that tbe wholc Man conjijfs of Body, and-a rational Soul.
From the firff Man, whom God called
Adam,
al/ Mankjnd, which is in thú Wo-rld,
ú
defcended, and from him we ta~e the original and beginning of oNr Nat11re.
That this
Adam
Jinned, by breal<fng the Commandment of hú Creatour, and in him a/l Men that
have becn born Jince hú time are under fin, andfo fhall be to the end ofthe World; [br nei–
their Man, nor Woman,
is free from this original Sin, nor can be, excepting onely our
Lord fefm Chri(l-, who being the Son of the one!y true God, defamded from Heaven, and
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born from the Virgin
Mary,
that fo he might redeem and free all Mankfnd from the
Subjeflion of Sin; and final/y he dyed for our Salwition upon the Crofs, which was a piece of
Wood, in form
of
thü which I ho!d in my Hand.t, for which reafon, we that are Chriftians
do adore and reverence it.
Thú refm by his own power arofe from the dead, and fort_y Days after he afcended into
Heaven, where he now Jits at the right hand of God the Father Almight_y.
.
After which he
left his Apojfles upon the Earth, who were his Succef{ours, who by their Words and Admo–
nitions, and other ho!y mean,, might bring men to the Knowledge 11nd Worjhip ofGod, ami
Obfervation of hi, Laws.
Of thefe Apojfles St.
Peter
mu
conftituted Chie!,
M
are alfo his Succef{ours
of
all other
fucceeding Apojfles, and of alt Chriffians, and
tU
St.
Peter
was God'1 Vicar, or Vicegerent,
fo afur him were a/l the Popes of
Rome,
who
are
entlued with that fupreme A11thoriry
which God hathgiven them; and which they have, and do, andJha!l for ever e).:ercife with
much {anflity and care, for propagation of the Gofpell, and guiding Mm according to the
Word
of
God,
·
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