The Natvrall And Morall Historie of the East And West Indies
The Natvrall And Morall Historie of the East And West Indies
Jos De Acosta
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And therefore they finac in the hie wayes great hcapcs offtones x offe- *?* red, and fuch other things . The like follie did the An- tientsvie, of whome it is fpoken in the Proverbs, Like runto him tkdt offer eth flams vnto Mercuric, fitch a ont is bee that honoured fortes, meaning that a man fhill reape no more fruit nor profit of the fecond than thefirft, for that their God Mercury, made of ftone, dooth not ac knowledge any offering, ney ther doth a foole any ho nour that is doonc him. They v...fed another offring no letTe pleafint and ridiculous, pulling the hairefrom the cyebrowes to offer it to' the Sunne, hi\\s, 4pacbittas 5 to the winds, or to any other thing they feare. Such is the miferies that many Indians have lived inland do to this day, whom the divell doth abufe like very Babes, with any foolifh illufion whatfoever : So dooth Saint ckrj- Z 4 foflomc The ^(aturall and Mor all fojlwe in one of his Homilies compare them, butthc icrvants of God which labour to draw them to falvati- on, ought not to contemne thefe follies and childifli- nefle, being fufficicnt to plunge thele poore abufed creatures into eternallpcrdition 5 but they ought with good and cleere reafons, to drawe them from fo great ignorance.
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