The 3\(atura!l and Moratt 



was decked with the markes of the idoll which the no 

 ble man 'had reprefented for all noble men did repre- 

 fent idolles 5 and carried the name of fbme one : and fot 

 this occafion they were cfteemed and honoured. The 

 order of knighthoodedid commonly carry thefcforc* 

 (aide markes. He that fhould be burnt, being brought 

 to the place appoynted 5 they invironed him with wood 

 of pine trees, and all his baggage , then fct they fire vn- 

 to it 5 increafing it ftill with goomie wood , vntill that 

 all were con verted into afties, then came there foorth 

 a Prieft attired like a Divell, having mouthes vpon eve 

 ry ioynt of him, and many eyes of glafle, holding a 

 great ftaffc, with the which hee did mingle all the afhes 

 very boldly, and with fb terrible a geflure, as hec terri 

 fied all the affiftants. Sometimes thisminifter hado- 

 ther different habites, according to the quallitieof the 

 dead. I have made this digreflion of obfequies and fu- 

 neralls , vpon the idolatry and fuperftition they had to 

 the dead . It is reafon to returne now to our chiefc fub- 

 ie#, and to finifh this matter, 



The fourth and I aft k'mde of idolatry th: Indians vfid> 

 fffccially tht Mexicaines to Images and 

 Id0fls. C H AP* 9. 



ALthough in trueth God is greatly offended with 

 thefe above named Idolatries, where they woor- 

 fhip thecreatures^yet the holy-Ghoft doth much more 

 reproove and condemne another kind of idolatry, and 

 that is of thofethatworfhip Images and figures made 

 by the hand of men, whichhavcnothingclfcin them 

 but to be of wood,ftone,ormettal! 5 and of fuch forme 

 as God hath given them. And therefore theWifeman 



fpeaketh 



