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‘¢ universally applauded than that of iv'adur., and none is said to have produced more abundant and 
‘‘ permanent fruit. It was undertaken‘an executed.-by Rosrenr De Novus,* an Laban Jesuit, wi 
s took a very singular method of renderidg his minisery successful. Considering, on the one hand, that 
“the Indians beheld with an eye of prejndice anc Aversion all the Europeans, and on the other, that 
“© they heid in the highest veneration the order of Bracimans as descended from the gods; and that, 
“ impatient of other rulers, they paid an implicit and unlimited ‘obedience to them alone, he assumed 
“ the appearance and title of a Brachmaz, that had come from a far country, and by besmearing his 
countenance and imitating that most austere and painful method of living that the Suncdnes t or 
“ penitents observe, he at length persuaded the credulous people that he was in reality a meimber.of 
¢ that venerable order.{ By this stratagem, he gained over to Christianity twelve eminent Brachmans, 
“¢ whose example and influence engaged a prodigious number of the people to hear the instructions, and 
« to receive the doctrine of the famous Missionary. On the death of Rosert, this singular mission was: 
sé for some time at astand, and seemed even to he neglected. But it was afterwards renewed, by the 
“ zeal and industry of the Porteguese Jesuits, and is still carried on by several Missionaries of that 
“ order from France and Portwgal, who have inured themselves to the terrible aasterities that were 
‘6 practised by Rozerr, and that are thus become, as it were the appendages of that mission. These 
“ fictitious Brachmans, who boldig deny their being Exropears or Franks, and only give themselves 
“ out for inhabitants of the northern regions, are said to have converted a prodigious number of Indians 
* to Christianity ; and, if common report may be trusted. to, the congregations they have already 
“ founded in those countries grow large and more numerous fromm year to year. Nor indeed, do these 
*¢ accounts appear, in the main, unworthy of credit, though we must not be too ready to receive, a3 
‘© authentic and well attested, the relations that have been given of the intolerable liardships and sufferiags 
‘© that have been sustained by these Josuit- Brachmans in the cause of Caaist. Many imagine, and not 
_* Orirers call this famous missionary Roper? De Noutnipus, 
+ Ssouxp be Sanyiisis, 
t+ Urpan Cerr}, Etat present de l’Eclise Romaine Page, 173. 
ft Nonttr, who was looked upon by the Jesuits as the chief apostle of the Indians after Francois Navrer took incre- 
dible pains to aequire a knowledge of the religion, customs, and language of Madura, sufficient for the purposes of bis 
ministry. But this was notall: for to stop the mouths of his opposers and particularly of thoxe who treated his character 
of Brachman as an imposture, he produced an old, dirty parchment in which he had forged, in the ancient Indian charac- 
ters a deed, shewing that the Brackmans of Rome were of much older date than those of India and that the Jesuits of Rom: 
descended, in a direct line from the god Brava. Nay, Father Jouvencna learned Jesuit, tells us, in the history of his 
order, something yet more remarkable; even that Roserr pz Nopiut, when the authenticity of his smoky parchment was 
called in question by some Endicn unbelievers, declared, upon oath, before the assembly of the Brachmans of Fladura, that 
he (Nosttt) derived really and wuly his origin from the god Brama. Is it not astonishing that this Reverend Father 
should acknowledge, is it not monstrous that he should applaud as apiece of pieus ingenuity this detestable instance of 
perjury and fraud? 
Sxrxz Jouvence Histoire des Jesutts, 
Norwert Memoires Historiques sur les Missions de Malad. tom, li. Page, 14s. 
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