HiUorie of the Indies, lib.?. 



But in the end, although idolatrie had bcene rooted 

 out of the bed and moft notable partcs of the worlde, 

 yet he hath retired himfelf into the moft remote parts, 

 and hath ruled in that other part of the worlde, which 

 although it be much infcriour in nobilitie , yet is it not 

 ofleffe compafle. There are two caufes and chiefe mo 

 tives, for the which the diveli hath fb much laboured 

 to plant idolatry and all infidelity, fo as you (hall hard 

 ly finde any Nation where there is notfomemarkes 

 thereof. The one is this great prefumption and pride, 

 which is fuch, that whofo would coniider, how hee 

 durft affront the very Sonne of God, and true God in 

 faying impudently, that he ihould fill downe and wor- 

 fliip.him : the which he did, although he knew not ccr- 

 tainely that this was the very God, yet hadhe fome o- 

 pinion that it was the Sonne of God. A moft cruel! and 

 horrible pride, to dare thus impudently affront his ^ 

 God; truely he (hall not finde it very ftrangc , that hee 

 makes himfelfe to be worfhipped as God, by ignorant 

 Nations , feeing hee would feeke to be worfhipped by * 

 God himfelfe , calling himfelfe God , being an abho- 

 minable and deteftable creature . The other caufe and / -\ 

 motive of idolatrie, is the mortal! hatred hee hath con 

 ceived for ever againft mankinde. For as oar Saviour ; ^ 

 ftith, hee hath beene a murtherer from the beginning, 

 and holdes it as a condition and inseparable qualitie of 

 his wickedneffe . And for that he knowes the greataft 

 miftry of man,is to worfhip the creature for God : for 

 this reafbn hee never leaves to invent all fortes of Idola 

 tries, to deftroy man , and make him ennemy to God. 

 There are two mifchiefes which the divell caufethin i- 

 dolatry^ the one, that hee denies his God , according ' 

 to the text^T^ haft left thy God who crated flfor:The o- 



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