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\:o preach it vvich fervour and cbirity towards their Neighbours, and wich due re–
fµeét cowards God, who hach fhewed chem fuch greac and miraculous works.
And iodeed we may aver it for a truth; that ic could be no lefs than miraculous,
That a Spaniard or tWo íh5mld t~avell alone ~w9 or three hundred Leagues in an
Enernies Countrey, and t5e CRrr1ed'-through 1t 01'1 M~ns Shoulders, aod ali Re–
fpe8: and ·Adoration paid to them, as if they had been Gods, whenas they
might have thrown them over fome Bridge, or clown fome precipice, or by other
means hav~ eafily de'fl:royedlbeni, is.a confe1vat-ion above ali humane Wifedom
arrd Diteé1:ion, and ought to be folely attributed to che Divine Providence, by
fuch as profeís themfelves good Chriíl:ians, and Preachei;s of che .Gofpel of Jefus
Chrill. 0chers improving this confideration and Argument farther, did forne
times in prefence of che Governour difcourfe to this effeét. That in regard Ata–
hHalpa had received Baptiíin, ic had been more conducing to tbe quier of thac
KingdGlm,.and pro.pagation of clne Catholick Faith, e-opave conferved him alive,
and paid him aH Honour and R.efpeei: , r,equirir¡g of.him, thac fmce he himfelf
,,vas become a Ghd.íHan; that ·he fbould pobliíh an Ediét in favou,r of tbat Reli–
gion, comrñanaing a,11·his Subjeéts and Vaflals ,\li'thiR a certain time ro be bap–
tized·; 'certamly 'th~ ~ourfo would ,have been ·excremely prevarlent for chree or four
mo!l: pm1gent Reaforo, every one nf..which;fingly~$igbt have 'been fufficient to
have convcrn:d thé \\irn0:ll:! Nation, how ml:lGb more, Jvhen they ali concurred co-
gecher. , , ·
As fü(l;, The CommandíOf the Inca, to which in che mofr rriv-ia1 matters 0be–
dience is yielded º as 'to ~he Law of God; ilow m"1cb more -would it qe in che
Cafe of R.eligion, delivered by tli1ofe whotn they ih their own Minds eíleemed
co be Gods.
Secondly? tbe Natutál Obediencé'which they always yielded tó their Inca,.
Thimrlly;' The Exatnple which the fKing had given in being bapril6d, w,ould
eafily dia,ve begonten-a conformity in h1s People. And,
11hly, That which would haveappeared moíl: fperious and obligamty, and
comprehends tbe force of all together, would have been the Precept óf
tl¡ra, declarJng, Thac in purfuance of the Prophecy of his Facher Hua_yna 'Git–
pac, delivered in his laíl: Will and Teíl:ament, figrlifying che 0bedieaae 'they we1ie
Eo yield to thofe11ewúneíls, wbo were to -encet into their Cm.tmrey, whofé
Law anti R<i'ligion was much becrer, and more exceUent than cheirs.
Had ( I fay) che Preachers caken. advamage of rhis convincing Mechod of Ar–
gurnencs., certainly che Goípel would have entred and fpread without oppofition;
but God in his focret fodgrnent would not admit of chefe Methods, thac fo chofe
matrers.might come n0,p~, which afcerwards fucceeded.
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