364 UNCTION IN MEXICO 



LIB. v. jf anie one did conceale any sinne the empty scale yeelded 

 not ; and if hee grew obstinate after instance made to con- 

 fesse himselfe, refusing to open all his sinnes, the Goquis 

 cast him downe from the toppe, where in an instant he is 

 broken into a thousand peeces. Yet this Christian, who was 

 called John, told vs that commonly the feare and terrour of 

 this place is so great to all such as enter therein, and the 

 danger they see with their eies to fall out of the ballance 

 and to be broken in peeces, that seldome there is any one 

 but discovers all his sins. This place is called by another 

 name Sangenotocoro, that is to say, the place of Confession; 

 wee see plainely by this discourse how the Divell hath pre 

 tended to vsurp vnto himselfe the service of God, making 

 confession of sinnes (which the Lord hath appoynted for the 

 remedy of man) a divellish superstition, to their great losse 

 and perdition. He hath doone no lesse to the Heathen of 

 lappon than to those of the provinces of Collao in Peru. 



CHAP. xxvi. Of the abominable unction which the Mexicaine 

 priestes and other Nations vsed, and of their witchcrafies. 



God appoynted in the auntient Lawe the manner how 

 they should consecrate Aaron s person and the other Priests, 

 and in the Lawe of the Gospel wee have likewise the holy 

 creame and vnction which they vse when they consecrate 

 the Priestes of Christ. There was likewise in the auntient 

 Lawe a sweete composition, which God defend should be 

 employed in anie other thing then in the divine service. 

 The Divel hath sought to counterfet all these things after 

 his manner as hee hath accustomed, having to this end in 

 vented things so fowle and filthie, whereby they discover 

 wel who is the Author. The priests of the idolles in Mexico 

 were annoynted in this sort, they annointed the body from 

 the foote to the headland all the haire likewise, which hung 



