The ^atural! and Moral! 



they no proper name for God , If wee (hall feoke into 

 the Indian tongue for a word to anfwer to this name cf 

 God, as in Latin, D<?/#,m Greeke,T/w,in Hebrew,/, 

 in Arabike, Alta^ but weefliall not finde any iixthe Cuf- 

 can or Mexicaim tongues. So as fuch as preach or write 

 to the Indiws , vfe our Spanifli name Dies, fitting it to 

 the accent or pronounciation of the Indian tongues,thc 

 which differ much, whereby appeares the fmall know 

 ledge they had of God, feeing they cannot fb much as 

 name him 3 if it be not by our very name : yet in trueth 

 they had fome little knowledge 5 and therefore in Pern 

 they made him a rich temple, which they called P<*~ 

 chacamac , which was the principall Sanduarie of the 

 realine. And as it hath becne faide 5 this word vtPachx- 

 camacjszs much to fay,as the Creator, yet in this tem 

 ple they vfed their idolatries, worfhipping the Divcll 

 and figures. They likewife made facrifices and offrings 

 to VirAcocha.) which heldethe chiefe place amongft the 

 worfliips which the Kings Ingua made . Heereof they 

 called the Spaniards VirocechM , for that they holde o- 

 pinion they are the ibnnes of heaven,and divine; even 

 as others did attribute a deitic to P^/and Bar tubas >cz\- 

 ling the one lupiter, and the other Mercuric, fo woulde 

 they offer facrifices vnto them , as vnto gods : and as 

 \Attei 18 the Barbarians of c^f^//V(? (which is CMalte) feeing 

 that the viper did not hurt the Apoftle^they called him 

 God. 



As it is therefore a trueth , conformable to reafbn, 

 that there, is a foveraigne Lorde and King of heaven, 

 whome the Gentiles (with all their infidelities and ido 

 latries) have not denyed, as wee fee in the Philofbphy 

 QfTiwee in Plato, in the Metaphif ickes QtArijlotlc, and 

 in the ^Efculape oTrtfatgi/ler,tt alfo in the Poefies of 



Homer 



