Htfturie of the Indies 



and lying gods all ofonefafhion : for 'their maner to 



ycaytoriracKki, totheSunne, the Stan cs, and the 



*eft of their Idolls , was to open their hands , and to 



make a certaine found with their mouthy (like people 



thatkiffed,) and to askc that which every one defired 



in offering his facrifices, yet was there great difference 



fcetwixt the wordes they vfed in fpeaking to the great 



TicwirAcwh* , to whom they did attribute the chcefc 



power and comrnandement over all things , and thofe 



they vfed to others , the which every one did worfhip 



privately in his houfe s as Gods or particular Lords, fay. 



ing, that they were their interceflors to this great Tic. 



civiracocba.'This maner of worfhip,opening thehands, 



and as it werekiiling,hath foniething like to that which 



70 had in horror, asfitforldolaters,faying, Jflhave,^ 



kijfid my hands ryithmyntouth^ beholding the Sunnewhen 



it fhincsjr the Moont whcx it is light , the which u a great 



i#iquitie,Andto deny t he mojl great God. 



Of the Idolatry the Indians vfedtoparticular things. 

 CHAP. 5. 



T He Divell hath not bcene con tented to make thefc 

 blinde Indians to worfliippetheSunne, Moone, 

 Starres, Earth and Sea 5 and many other gencrall things 

 in nature , but hee hath paffed on further, giving them 

 for God , and making them fubie<5i: to bafc and abie& 

 things, and for the moft part, filthy and infamous . No 

 manneedes to woonderat this barbarous blindnes , if 

 hee remember what the Apoftle fpeakcth of Wife men 

 and Philofophers, That having knowne God, they did 

 notglorifie him, nor give him thankes as to their God> 

 but they were loft in their own imaginations and con- 



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