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mention) their ab fence whom they defired to flatter . The cit. 

 rioptie of excellent workmen increafedthx ldolatrie,for thefe 

 Images were made fo excellent by th'dr Art, that the ignorant 

 wer e provoked to worjhippe them , fo as by the perfection of 

 their Art e y pretending' to content them that gave them to 

 make , they drew Pictures and Images farre more excellent: 

 and ] the 'common people, ledde with the pew and grace of the 

 worke , didholde and ejleeme him for a God , w horns before 

 they had honoured as a man : And this wa* the miserable er- 

 rour of men , whofometim&s yeelding totkeir^affeclion and 

 fence , fometimes to thefiatterie of their K ings ,did attribute 

 <unt oft ones the incommunicable name of Cod , wot flipping 

 them for Gods. 



All this is in the booke of Wifedome,\TOorth^toJbe 

 notedj and fuch as arc curious in the fearch of Anti- 

 uities, fliallfinde that the beginning of idolatry were 

 cfe Images of the dead . I fay idolatry, which is pro 

 perly the^voH^ : for that it is 



not ccrtaine that this^ther idolatry to worfhip the cre 

 atures , as the Sunne , and the hoftes of heaven , or the 

 number of Planets and Starres, whereof mention is 

 made in the Prophets, hath beene after the idolatry of 

 Images, although without doubt they have made idols 

 j n honour of the Sunne,the Moone,and the Earth ^Re 

 turning to our Indians they came to the height off cfo- 

 ^ atl y by the fame meanes the Scripture maketh menti- 

 on of : firft they had a care to kecpe the bodies of their 

 Kings and Noblemen whole,from any ill fcent or cor- 

 ruption above two hundred y cares . In this forte were 

 their Kings Ingua* in Cufco , every one in his Chappell 

 and Oratorie } fo as the Marquife QfCanctte being Vice 

 roy, to root out Idolatry, cau fed three or foure of their 

 gods to be dravvne out and carried to the city of Kings t 



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