8oo A Defcripion of G E Y L O N. 
rsA^f^and Patcbiarapalle. The Province of Bel- 
^yi^TNj ^^i.^^^^^^ ^i^s 1 4 Churches,the chief where- 
'mcimfh of is Teltpole a large Strufture, with a dou- 
Tdipole. ble row of Pillars the Houfe thereunto 
belonging is the Work of the Jefuits, 
beautifyed with a pleafant Garden, hand- 
fome Court and moft delicious Vineyards, 
affording moft forts of Indian Fruits, and 
water'd with feveral Springs. 
InAugufi 1558, the Reform'd Religi- 
on was the firft time (as in all other 
Churches of Jafnapatnam and Manaar) 
introduced and taught here by me. The Sacm- 
12th of Jan. 1 55 1, the holy Sacrament ""^"^-f^^ 
was the firft time adminiftred to i ^ jirl7to the 
Communicants of the Natives. The Indians 
i(^th of ylpril in the fame Year their Num- here. 
berencreafed to 1 5, and before my De- 
parture to 30. In the Year 1555, we 
had above 1000 Schoolboys, among whom 
were 480 who could anfwer all the Quef- 
tions relating to the chief Points of our 
Religion. I have fometimes had no lefs 
than 2QOO Auditors in this Church. 
A certain M^iw named Michael Fonfe^ Word Coi, was not only comprehen- 
c^, ask'd me once a very odd Queftion, ded the Father^ but alfo the Son and Holy 
VIZ.. When John bapti^ced Chrijt^ xvhethey Ghoft ; that Jefus Chrifi was the fame in 
he baptised him in the Name of God the efTence with the Father and the Holy ' 
Father^ the Son and the Holy Ghoft ; and be- Ghoft ; and that there were no degrees in 
ing; anfwer'd Tf j, he reply'd that thus the Deity^ for tho the Father was the firft, 
5>/Mi Ck/7?wasbapti7.'dinhisownName, yet were the Son as well and txnly God 
which he could not well comprehend. I SiS t\\Q Father znd. Holy Ghojl : wherewith 
told him, there was not the leaft Abfur- he was well fatisfy'd. For the be- 
dity in the matter, fince Jefus Chrijl was ing generally very ingenious, they will 
not baptized upon his own account, or as ask many acute Queftions, as concernmg 
God alone, nor as a bare Man, but as thtCreation and End of the World, thelm- 
,being endowed both with the Divine and mortality of the Souly Hell^ and fuch 
Human Nature. That the Son of God like. 
fould not be baptized otherwife but in Moft of the Churches here have cer- TheAtefs 
tlic Name of God ; and that under the tain Scaffolds or Theaters near them, ef- 
) pecially 
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