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 Commenúuiet. BooK l. to preach it with fervour and cbiriry towards their Neighbours, and wirh due re- fµeet: cowards God, who hath fhewed them fuch greac and miraculous works. And indeed we may aver it for a truth; that it could be no lefs than miraculous, That a Spaniard or tWo fhould ·t~avell alone ~w9 or three hundred Leagues in an Enernies Councrey , and ee carr1et'f through 1t er1 M~ns Shoulders, and al! Re- fpe8: and ·Adoration paid to them, as if chey had been Gods, whenas they might have chrown them ov~r foi:ne. Bridge, or d?wn fome precipice, or by other means have eafüy de'íl:royed tbem, 1S íl confe1·vat1on above al! humane V,Vifedom and Dírection , <tnd ought to be folely attríbuted to the Divine Ptovidence, by fu ch as profeís themfelves good Chriíl:ians, and Preachei;s of the .Gofpel of Jefus Chrill. Orhers improving this confideration and Argumenc farther, did fome times in prefence of the Governour difcourfe ro this effeét. That in regard Ata- hualpa had received Baptiíin, it had been more conducing to the quiet of thac Kingdom, .an.d propagation of cine Catholick Faith, r-o :have c-pnf~r~d him alive, and páid 1-iim aH Honour and flefpeet. requirir¡g o( .hirn, that fmce he himfelf \1,1as become a Ghrill:i'an, that ·be -íbould pab!Hh an Ediét in favou,r of that Reli- gion, commanaing aill ·his Subjeéts and V:aílals '\Vi'thiR a certain time to be bap- tized·; 'Certamly 'this ~ourfe would haye been ·exrrertJely prévalent for three or fout mofr pm1gent R:eat0ro, every one of...which1 fingly~ ~igbt have •been fufficient to have converted thé '~oi~ Nation, how muoh more, _when they all concurred co- gethe1·. · · · ,A-sfa.a, The Command·of th'e I11ci1,, to w.hich in the moíl: trivial matcers Obe- dience is yfolded . as 'to ~he Law ofGod; tiow mud~ more -wo1ald it be in the Cafe of Rdigion, delivered by t11ofe whorn they ih cheir own Minds efieerned co be Gods. Sec_-0nclly, tbe Natutál Obediencélwhich they always yielded tó their lncM. 'Thhrid!Ys, The Exatnple which the ffGng had given in being baptiud, would eafily lhave begootena conformity in bis People. Aod, Fourthly, That which would have ~ppeared moíl: fper1ous and obliguoty, and which comprehends tbe force of ali rogether, would have been che Precept 0f A r-ahHálJfti, declarJng, That in purfuance of che Pro2hecy of his Father Huqyna '"C""" pac, delivered in his lafl: Will and Teíl:amenr, figi;iifying che Obedieace they were w yield to thofe11ew-Gneíl:s, wbo were to -enter into their Counrrey, whofé Law anti Religion was much better, and more excellent than theirs. Had ( I fay) the Preachers taken advanrage of chis convincing Merhod of Ar- gurnenrs., certainly che Gofpel would have entred and fpread without oppofirion; but God in his focret fodgmenc would not admit of thefe Merhods, that fo chofe macrers might come aQ>,p~, which afterwards fucceeded. ·CH A P.