HiHorieoftbefnctics. Kb. 5. 



'Homer & Virgil. Therefore the Preachers of the Gofbe' 

 have no great diificultie to plant pcrfwade this truth 

 of a fupreame God , be the Nations of whomc they 

 preach never fo barbarous andbrutifli. But it is hard 

 to roote out of their mindes, that their is no other 

 God,nor any other deitie then one : and that all other 

 things of thenifelves have no power,being,nor worke- 

 ing,proper to thcmfclves, but what the great and only 

 God and Lord doth give and import vn to them. To 

 conclude, it is neceffaric to perfwade them by all 

 meanes,in reproving their errors,as well in that where 

 in they generally faile, invvorfliiping more then one 

 God , as in particular, (which is much more) to hold 

 for Gods, and to demand favour and helpe of thole 

 things which are not Gods, nor have any power, but 

 what the true God their Lord and Creator hath gi 

 ven them. 



O/thefrft kindt ofldolttrie, vpon ntiurallAnd'vm- 

 ver fall things. CHAP. 4. 



NExt to F/r^0^,orgtheir fupreme God^hat which 

 moft commonly they have and do adore amongft 

 thelnfidells,is theSunne^and after thofe things which 

 are moft remarkable in the celcftiall or elementaric na- 

 ture,as the moone, ftartes, fea, and land. The Guacas, 

 or Oratories, which the Ingnas Lords of Peru, had in 

 greateft reverence,next tortracocha and the funne,was 

 the thunder which they called by three divers names, 

 ChuquilU, CatHtIla> and iKtiiSapa, fuppofing it to bee a 

 man in heaven , with a fling and a mace, and that it is 

 in his power to caufe raine, haile, thunder, and all the 

 reft that appertaines to the region of the aire, where the 



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