fo they keepe no clcanenejfi in their life , nor in their mArria* 

 ges, but one through envy takes AWAJ the lift of an other, an 

 other takes away his wife and his contentment , and aU is in 

 conf{iffn> blood jnurther, tktft, deceipt Corruption , ivjiddu 

 tie^fiditionty penuries, mutinies, forgetfulnejjc ofGodjollu* 

 tion of fouks, change offexesandbirthjnconftancieefmar- 

 fiiges, and the disorder of adultery and flthineffe. : for ido 

 latry is thefincke ofallnnftries. The Wife man fpeaketh 

 thisofthofe people of whome D4i;/^complaines, that 

 the people of Ifrael had learned thofecuftomes, even 

 ttHacrifice their fonnes and daughters to the divell,thc 

 which was never pleafing nor agreeable vnto God. tor 

 as hce is the Authour of life , and hath made all thefe 

 things for the commodi tie and good of m'an , foishec 

 not pleafed that men (hould take the lives one from an- 

 other- although.the Lord did approove and accept the 

 willingneflTe of the faithfull patriarke Abraham, yet did 

 hee not confcnt to the deede, which was, to cut off the 

 head of his fbnne : wherein wee fee the malice snd ty* 

 ranny of the divell, who would be herein-as God, tak 

 ing pleafure to be worfhipt with the effufion of mans 

 blood , procuring by this meanes ,*the ruine of foule 

 and body together, for the deadly hatred he beareth to 

 jnan, as his cruell enemy. 



Oft he horrible ptcrifices of men which the Mexi- 

 caines tfeJ. CHAP. 20. 



ALthoughthey of Per* have fiirpaflfed theMexi- ^ ^^, 

 cainesin the (laughter and facrifkre of their chil- ^ ' ( 

 dren, (for I hive not read nor vnderftood that the Me- 

 xicaines vfed any fuch (acrifices ) yet they of Mexico - 

 have exceeded them, yea all the nations of the worlde* 



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