The ^(aturall and Mor all 



fojlwe in one of his Homilies compare them , butthc 

 icrvants of God which labour to draw them to falvati- 

 on , ought not to contemne thefe follies and childifli- 

 nefle, being fufficicnt to plunge thele poore abufed 

 creatures into eternallpcrdition 5 but they ought with 

 good and cleere reafons, to drawe them from fo great 

 ignorance. For in trueth it is a matter woorthy of con- 

 fideration , to fee how they fubieft themfelves to fuch 

 as inftrud them in the true way of life. Ther is nothing 

 among all the creatures more beutifull than the funne, 

 which all the Gentiles did commonly worfhip . A dit 

 creete captaineand good chriftian told me,that he had 

 with a good reafon perfwaded the Indians, that the 

 Sunne was no god. He required the Cacique or chiefe 

 Lord, to give him an Indian that were light, to carry 

 him a Letter- which doone,hc faide to the Cacique, Tel 

 mc,who is Lord and chiefe, either this Indian that car 

 ries the letter, or thou that doft fend him? The Cacique 

 anfwered, without doubt I am, for he dooth but what 

 I commaund him . Even fo replied the Captaine , is it 

 of the Sunne we fee, and the Creator of all things : For 

 that the Sunne is but a fervant to the moft high Lordf , 

 which (by his commaundement)runnesfwiftly,giving 

 light to all nations. Thus thou fecftit is againft reafon 

 to yeeld that honour to the Sunne, which is due to the 

 Creator and Lord of all. The Captaines reafon plea- 

 fed them all 5 and the Cacique with his Indians faydeit 

 was trueth, and they were much plcafed to vndcrftand 

 it. 



They report of one of the Kings inguu , a man of a 

 iubtill fpirite, who (Teeing that all his predeceflbrs had 

 worfhipped the Sunne,) (aid, that lice did not take the 

 Sunne to be God,neither could it be/or that God was 



