The royal commentaries of Peru : in two parts / written originally in spanish by the Inca Garcilasso de la Vega; rendred into english by sir Paul Rycaut.

Royal Commentarin. BooK l. ro make no other reply, than that he feemed to be a Captain or Guider of che Word, ( he might mean perhaps a Preacher) or Miniíl:er of the fopreme God, . or Meílenger of che Pachacamac, and that he was of different qualicy to tbe others. Then Friar Vicente having made a low Obeifance and Reverence, according to the manner ofReligious Men, with permiffion of the King, he made him chis following Speech. The Firft Part of the Speech of Friar Vicente de Va/verde. I T ü necef{ary for you to k?;ow, (moft f amom and powerfull King) and alfo for ali you1· Subjefls, who are dejiro;u to /earn the Catholick._Faith, thatyou and they both hear and believe the thi~gs which follow. Firff that God, who is three, andyet O/U, created Heaven and Earth, añd a/l the things wbich are in thu World. That he gives the Reward of Eternal Life to thofe that doe we!!, and p1tnifhes thc evill ~ith ~er/afting Torments. That thú God at tbe beginning of. the World made Man oJ the Duft of the Earth, and breathed into him the Spirit of Lije, which we ca/l the Soul, which God made afrer hu own lmage and lik!nefs; by which it appear1 1 that tbe wholc Man conjijfs of Body, and ·a rational SoHl. From the firft Man, whom God callea Adam, ali Mankfnd, which is in thu World, ú defcendd, and from him we ta~e the original and beginning of our Nat11re. That thú Adam finned, by breakjng the Commandment of hu Creatour, and in him a/l Men that have becn born fince hú time are Hnder fin, and fo fhall be to the end of the World; fbr nei- their Man, nor Woman, ú free from thu original Sin, nor can be, e:~cepting onely oHr Lord fefm Chri(f, who being the Son of the onely true God, defaended from Heaven, and M born from the Virgin Mary, that fo he might redeem and free all Mankfnd (rom the Subjellion of Sin; and final/y he dyed for our Sa!v11tion upon the Crofs, which WM a piece of Wood, in form of thu which I ho!d in my Hands, for which reafon, we that are Chriftians do adore and reverence it. Thu {efm by his own power arofe from the dead, and f orty Days efter he afcended into Heaven, where he now fits at the right hand of God the Father Almighty. After which he left his Apoftles upon the Earth, who were his Succef{ours, who by their Words and Adma- nitions, and other holy means, tnight bring men to the Know!edge 11nd Worjhip of God, and Obfervation of hi1 Laws. Of thefe Apoft!es St. Peter wM conftituted Chief, M are alfo his Succef[ours of ali other fucceeding Apoft!es, and of all Chriftians, and M St. Peter WM God's Vicar, or Vicegerent, fo a[ter him werc al! the Popes of Rome, who are endued with that fapreme Authoriry which God hath give;¡ them; and which they have, and do, and fha/L for ever C).:ercife with much fanllity and carc, for propagation of the Gofpell, and guiding Men according to the Word of God.. ' The