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meet the procession, they perceived first, a banner surrounded by a disorderly multitude of men and boys; then a line of men in good order, who seemed deeply affected by the ceremony; women afterwards all in tears; the Bishop next, half naked, scourging himself and bleeding, and surrounded by his Clergy. Two of the Jesuits made way to him, and on their knees besought him to desist; but he appeared, they say, as if he neither saw nor heard any thing, being wholly absorbed in God. The procession

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youth of the city, saying, that he superseded the Jesuits in this charge by the King's order, and for the service of God. His next measure was to interdict all the Regulars from preaching and giving absolution, and to restore this power to all except the Jesuits. Sobrino went to the Grand Vicar, and requested him to examine all the Priests of his Convent; that if they were found competent to their office, they might be restored, like the Priests of the other orders, to the use of their sacred

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with them, and whom the Jesuits supplied with plenty of wine and with all other things, he sent the Guardian of the Franciscan Convent at Corrientes with a letter to Hinostrosa. The letter purported, that in obedience to the sentence of the Metropolitan Judge, which had been confirmed by the Royal Audience, he was coming to take possession of his Church once more, to absolve the excommunicated, to bless the fields, and to implore the divine grace, that God might be pleased to extend his mercy

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that the ship would touch at Madeira, and land him there: Ribeiro, however, and another Jesuit who was with him, dissuaded him from his intention, but Ribeiro argued like a man who spake against his own inward judgement: they represented to him the danger of his losing the King's favour; he reasoned that the more he risqued it for the service of God, the more reason was there that the King should continue it towards him, and the more confidently might he expect its continuance, as deserving it

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CHAP. XXVI. 1653. Cartas de Vieyra. 1. viii. Pzalm 33. v. 16. gal, and from your Highness as Prince of Brazil. I do not ask for appointments, I do not ask provision for those who come, .. God will provide; .. what I ask is that they may come, and that they be many, and of great zeal; for though we who are here are doing and will do all that we can, without sparing toil or peril, the harvest is great, but the labourers are few; and as Christ hath said, Ask ye therefore the Lord of the harvest

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price, chuse to condemn their own souls and go to Hell! After pointing out the temporal and spiritual benefits of such an arrangement, he exclaimed, What man can there be so mistaken, what man can there be so forgetful of God, so blind, so devoid of faith, so much his own enemy, as not to be contented with what is so just and useful, as not to like it, not to approve it, not to embrace it? Christians, by the reverence which is due to Jesus Christ, and by the love with which [page] 48

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brought from the Azores, who told him, that of her nine children five had died of want in the course of three months; and when he attempted to console her for the death of these five, she replied, Father, it is not for them that I weep; it is for the four who are left, whom I have no means of supporting, and whom I daily pray God to take also! The principal and only talent requisite for a Governor there, he said, was conscience; and if a Governor could not be found with that qualification, as

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CHAP. XXVII. 1655. the truth is, said he, that the lad is free, and that God has brought the Governor to this country for the salvation of our souls. But villainous as these men-stealers were, some of the judges by whom their claims were to be determined were not less so. It was notorious that the excessive cruelties which the Portugueze had long exercised upon the Indians in these parts, had completely terrified this unhappy race: under the impression of fear the prisoners said whatever their

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addressed them through an interpreter, explaining the duties to be incurred and the advantages to be obtained by submitting themselves to the King of Portugal, and receiving the faith of the true God; and asking them if they would accept those advantages, and perform those duties. All answered in the affirmative, except a Chief named Piy , who replied, that for his part he would not promise thus; .. the question ought to be put to the Portugueze, not to the Indians; for it was the Portugueze who had

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, the King declaring that he did this as Master of the Order of Christ, in whom the right of presentation was vested, and in proof of his satisfaction with their good conduct and zeal for the service of God. A slaving party cut off by the natives. An epidemic disease raged at this time among the reduced Indians with fatal violence, and they who perished were more fortunate than the survivors. The Portugueze consoled themselves with the hope that there would be no longer any restriction upon their

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CHAP. XXX. delayed, so long would the faithful be deprived of great benefit, and God himself of glory! Life of F. Joam d'Almeida. 1593. 7. 3. 2. 3. 8. 8. The same author who has collected and attested all the fables which credulity and ignorance had propagated concerning Anchieta, has produced a far more extraordinary history of F. Joam d'Almeida, his successor in sanctity. It was written immediately after Almeida's death, when the circumstances of his life were fresh in remembrance, and too

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; it prolonged his mortal existence to the extraordinary term of fourscore and ten: the latter years were indeed sorrow and pain; .. his sight was almost extinct, his hearing dull, and he had to endure slow fever, and long nights of sleeplessness and suffering. The last pleasures which he was capable of enjoying were those of reading, and contemplating the sacrament, in which, according to the doctrine of the Romish Church, he believed that his God and his Redeemer was present: but he was now no

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CHAP. XXXIII. 1716. 1718. 1719. Reconcave to examine the forts, and gave orders for erecting new works and strengthening the old wherever it was needed; and he built three ships, the names of which may exemplify the curious state of feeling with which the Portugueze regard sacred things; one he called, Our Lady of the Palm and St. Peter; another, the Mother of God and S. Francisco; and the third, the Eternal Father! After holding the government something more than four years, he was succeeded

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first person), that one of those Angels appeared to one of the sufferers, told him the disease was sent instead of the death which they would otherwise have received from the hands of the infidels, bade him and his brethren trust in God, and assured him that they should all recover. F. Cavallero, who seems, on this occasion, to have had less faith than he demanded from his readers, and who was a desperately bad practitioner, gave them a medicine, the strength of which he did not know, and which

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Zapata wished to make all the Indians happy, and instruct them in a good law, given by a good God, whose will it was that men should love one another like brothers, do good to all, and evil to none. Savages as they were, this was language which they could understand and feel; and its effect was such, that they immediately offered to follow the Jesuit. No other tribe, however, seem to have persisted so madly in cannibalism; for, in the Reductions, they would steal children, and even cast lots

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Manoel stood in a pious meditation upon the mercy of God who, he says, had wrought such a miracle as to bring him to that spot, the old Jesuit, being naturally desirous of some conversation with a civilized being, proposed to adjourn to his house, and told him he might say his prayers at leisure. Manoel Felix de Lima. MS. State of the Reduction. To the Jesuit's house accordingly he went, and presently the doors and windows were blocked up with the heads of the Indians, .. so eager were they to

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expected such a change, found that the rapid ended. To his still greater joy, he discovered a canoe caught between two large stones near an island in the middle of the river, the prow resting upon one and the poop upon the other, and the body suspended in the air, .. he says, like Noah's Ark. He shouted for joy, and cried out to his companions, that God in his mercy had succoured them when they must else inevitably have perished. Manoel Felix de Lima. MS. They find a canoe. There yet remained a

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, respected these, and acknowledged their own inferiority; but they attributed it to the greater skill of the Guaycuru conjurors. Their tradition of their own origin is, that in the beginning God created all other nations as numerous as they are at present, and divided the earth among them. Afterwards he created two Mbayas, male and female; and he commissioned the Caracara (Falco Brasiliensis) to tell them, he was very sorry that there was no part of the world left for their portion, and therefore he had

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they forsook it and returned to the woods: being followed and asked the reason why they had departed, they said, we do not chuse to have any such God as yours, who can see and know every thing that we do in secret; and we are determined to enjoy our old liberty of thinking and doing as we please. When they became equestrians, they perceived the tremendous power which they had acquired; and made full use of it. They possessed the country between the Uruguay, the Plata, and the sea; and committed

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to consider implicit obedience to their spiritual teachers as the first duty. When the Father reached Yapeyu, a Reduction upon the right bank of the Uruguay a little below the spot where it receives the Ybicuy, he found that a spirit of resistance had shown itself. It began among the S. Nicolites, who were dissatisfied with the situation which had been chosen for them: it was unhealthy; .. the land, they said, which they had received from God and their fathers, was better; they had good pastures

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incredible that it should be required. When, with the Holy Gospels in our hand, we promised and vowed fidelity to God and the King of Spain, his Priests and Governors promised to us on his part, friendship and perpetual protection; .. and now we are commanded to give up our country! Is it to be believed that the promises, and faith, and friendship of the Spaniards, can be of so little stability! Dobrizhoffer. 1. 19. Perilous situation of the Jesuits. Apologia. MS. 45. Andoanegui felt the iniquity of

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CHAP. XXXIX. 1752. Chapel. They had an interview there: and according to the statement which the enemies of the Jesuits published, when he was exhorted not to oppose the King's orders, he replied, that King was a long way off, and the Guaranies acknowledged no other authority than that of their holy Fathers; they were acting in obedience to the instructions of the Superior and the Rector; God and St. Michael had given them the lands which they possessed; if the Spanish Commission and the

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CHAP. XXXIX. 1756. that it would be impossible for the enemy to discover it till they should be completely exposed to its fire. And here, the Portugueze officer says, the army must have suffered a severe loss, if God had not been pleased to work a miracle in their favour, perhaps through the intercession of St. Teresa, to whom Gomes Freyre was particularly devoted. The miracle was, that the Guaranies who had made these works, being too cowardly to defend them, took flight as soon as they saw