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people. But inwardly they defired to be freed from fb 

 heavy a yoke . And it was a great providence of God- 

 that the firft which gave them knowledge of die Lawe 

 of Chrift, found them in this difpofition : for without 

 doubt it fccnicd to them a good law, and a good God, 

 to be fcrvcd in this forte . Heerevpon a grave religious 

 man in New Sfrint tolde me, that when he was in that 

 Country heehad dcmaunded of an auntient Indian, a 

 man of qnalitie, for what reafon the Indians haddefb 

 foone received the Lawe of Icfus Chrift, and left their 

 owne, without making any other proofe, triall, or dif- 

 pute thereon, for it feemed they had changed their re 

 ligion, without any fufficient reafbn to moovethem. 

 The Indi'in anfwered him,Belecve not Father,that we 

 have embraced the Law of Chrift fo rafhly as they fay, 

 for I will tell you, that we were already weary and diC 

 contented with fuch things as the idolls commaunded 

 vs, and were determined toleaveit , and to take an o- 

 ther Law. But whenas we found that the religion that 

 you preached had no cruelties in it, and thatlt was fit 

 for vs,& both iuft and good,we vnderftood and belee- 

 ved that it was the true Law, and fo we received it wil 

 lingly . Which anfwer of this Indian agrees well with 

 that we read in the firft Difcourfe, that Fernar/d Cortex 

 fcnttothc Emperour Chtrlcs the fife , wherein heere- 

 portes, that after he had conquered the ^citty of Mexi- 

 fOy being in Cuyoacan, there came Ambadadors to him 

 from the province and commonwealth ofMtcfwac**, 

 . requiring him to (end them his law,and that he would 

 - teach them to vnderftand it, bccaule they intended to 

 leave their owne, which feemed not good vnto them, 

 which Cortez, graunted , and at this day they are the 

 beft Indians, and the trueft Chriftians that arc in New 



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