TheHtftory of Book 11, 



rors, and a fervile fear of their pretended power, they punHh 

 them if they be not fo forward as they would have them to 

 comply with their wicked fuggeftions and how they charm 

 their Senfes by Millions and ftrange Imaginations , pretend- 

 ing to the Authority of revealing to them things to come, 

 healing them of their Difeafes,revenging them of their Enemies, 

 and delivering them out of all the dangers whereto they (hall 

 be expos'd : All this well confider'd 3 is it to be adniir'd that 

 th^e Barbarians, who knew not, nor in the leaft reflected on 

 the honour which God had done them, in making a difcovery 

 of himfelf to them in the many delightful Creatures he hath 

 fet before their eyes, to conduct them to the light of their in- 

 ftru&ions, mould be deliver'd up to a reprobate fenfe, and that 

 at this prefent they mould be deftitute of all underftanding to 

 perceive the true way of Life, and without hope, and without 

 God in the World? 



We have alfo reprefented. That what indeavours foever they 

 might ufe to fmother all the fentiments of Divine Juftice and 

 its Jurifdi&ion in their Confciences,yet hath there ftill remain'd 

 in them fome fpark of that Knowledge, which awakens them, 

 and raifes in them from time to time divers fears and apprehen- 

 fions of that Vengeance which their Crimes might bring upon 

 them : But inftead of lifting up their eyes to heaven, to im- 

 plore the affiftance thereof, and by confidence and amendme nt 

 of life to appeafe the Sovereign Majefty of the true God, 

 whom they had offended, they defcend to the sbyiTes of Hell, 

 toinvocate the Devil by the facrilegious Superftitions of their 

 Magicians, who after they have render'd them thofe tatal offi- 

 ces, involve them, by thofe infamous Contracts, in the deplo- 

 rable flavery of thofe cruel Tyrants. 



1 hefe poor Barbarians arefo tranfported and befotted by 

 thofe furious paffions, that to obtain fome favour from thofe 

 enemies to all goodnefs, and to appeafe thofe Tygers, they 

 render them feveral fmall Services 5 for they not only confe- 

 cratetothem thefirft of theirr fruits, but they alfo devote to 

 them the moft fumptuous Tables of their Feafts} they cover 

 them with the moft delicate of their Meats, and the moft de- 

 licious of their Drinks 5 they confult them in their affairs of 

 greateft importance, and are govern'd by their wicked coun- 

 sels i.they expect, in their Sicknefs, the Sentence of their Life 

 or Death from thofe deteftable Oracles, which they receive by 

 the means of thofe Puppets of Cotton, wherein they wrap up 

 the worm-eaten Bones of feme wretched Carcafs taken out of 

 the Grave 5 and to free themfelves from the weight of their 

 blows, and divert their rage, they burn in honour of them the 

 leaves of Tobacco 5 and fomtimesthey paint their ugly ftiapes 

 in the moft considerable place of their Veffels which they call 

 Wragas 9 or they wear hanging about their necks a little Image 



reprefenting 



