to obey the Jefuites, whom his Holiness had fent to cultivate that Vineyard in all things, and to be fure to follow the Doctrines that they taught, which were the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; after which Charge he is faid furthermore to have befeeched and conjured the Rector, by the love of Chrift, and the great friendship there had been always between them, to take care of the Government of his Church after his Death, and to have ordered an authentick inftrument to be made of all this to remain as a Teftimony of his laft Will, and of the Faith he died in.

The fame History furthermore tells us, That this Church was fo far reconciled to the Pope, in the Year, 1596. that when the bile of Clement VIII. was published among them by the Jefuites, they gave his Holiness a thousand Blef-fings for it, and took a fingular pleafare in pronouncing his Name; and that during the whole time of the Jubile, they were at Church from Morning to Night, without taking any refection, and were fo zealous to confefs themfelves to the Fathers, that they waited in the Church till Midnight in great Crowds to do it. Now according to this report of things, the Arch Eishop, when he came into the Serra, had little more to do than to open his Arms to embrace a People, who, being before hand prepared by the Jefuites, were ready to throw themselves into them.

But to leave Romance, and return to Hiftory, having only obferved by the way, that it is VIfible from this grofs mifreprefentation of those

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Souls, rather than difplease the Jefuites. But the Jefuites, who facrifice all Interefts and Obligations to the Honour of their Order, have requited the Arch-Bishop but very ill for this his great kindness for them, in having reported this Affair fo here in Europe, as to rob him of that which he esteemed his chief Glory, to wit, the Reduction of this Church to the Roman Faith.

For in the History of the Jefuites in the Indies, published by Pieire du Farri, a Jefuite, and printed at Bourdeaux, in the Year 1608. we have all that is faid by the Portuguezes of Mar Abraham, and his Arch-Deacon's great averfion to the Roman Church, and particularly to the whole Order of Jefuites, flatly contradicted; for in that Hiftory we are told that Mar Abraham had fuch an extraordinary kindness for the Jesuites, that for fome time before his Death, he put himself fo entirely into their hands, as to be governed by them in all things; and that the Arch-Deacon George had fuch an high Opinion of their worth, as to declare to all the World, that without their aid and affistance, he should not know after the Arch-Bishop's Death, how to Govern the Diocess. It is furthermore faid, that Mar Abraham, when he was upon his Death-bed called the Rector of the College of Vaipicotta to him, and having all his Clergy about him, declared, that he commit ted his Flock to the Bishop of Rome, as the chief Paftor and Prelate of the whole Church, and Commanded the Arch-Deacon, and all his Priests,

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to obey the Jefuites, whom his Holiness had fent to cultivate that Vineyard in all things, and to be fure to follow the Doctrines that they taught, which were the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; after which Charge he is faid furthermore to have befeeched and conjured the Rector, by the love of Christ, and the great friendship there had been always between them, to take care of the Government of his Church after his Death, and to have ordered an authentick inftrument to be made of all this to remain as a Teftimony of his last Will, and of the Faith he died in.

The fame History furthermore tells us, That this Church was fo far reconciled to the Pope, in the Year, 1596. that when the Jubile of Clement VIII. was published among them by the Jefuites, they gave his Holiness a thoufand Blef fings for it, and took a fingular pleafare in pronouncing his Name; and that during the whole time of the Jubile, they were at Church from Morning to Night, without taking any refection, and were fo zealous to confefs themfelves to the Fathers, that they waited in the Church till Midnight in great Crowds to do it. Now according to this report of things, the Arch Eishop, when he came into the Serra, had little more to do than to open his Arms to embrace a People, who, being before hand prepared by the Jefuites, were ready to throw themselves into them.

But to leave Romance, and return to Hiftory, having only obferved by the way, that it is vifible from this grofs mifreprefentation of those

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Affairs, how little regard is to be had to the Jefuites Reports of their Feats in the Indies; Bace to fupport a Story purely invented for the Honour of their Order, they do not boggle to pretend to have an authentick inftrument of the truth of it, and that drawn up by the Order of a dying Prelate.

But a thing happened at this time, which, tho in it felf not confiderable, did abundantly ma- · nifeft how little difpofed the Clergy of this Church was to fubmit to the Pope.

A Boy, that went to School to the Jefuites at Vaipicotta, having been taught by them to name the Pope in his Prayers before the Patriarch of Babylon,being over-heard doing it in the Church by feme of the Malabar Priests, was,after they had beat him feverely, turned out of the Church; they fpoke alfo to his Father to whip him out of praying for the Pope, who, they said, was none of their Prelate, nor had any thing to do with them. The Arch-Bishop being informed thereof, writ immediately to the Arch-Deacon, commanding him to make Examples of thofe impudent Hereticks, for what they had faid and done to the Boy: which the Arch-Deacon was fo far from doing, that he Honoured them the more for it. By the way, the Jefuites, teaching their Scholars to pray for the Patriarch of Babylon, tho' after the Pope, is one inftance, among others, of their Conscience, in thofe Parts, being fubfervient to their Policy.

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But the World continuing ftill to blame the Arch-Bishop for not putting the Affairs of the Serra into fome other hands than thofe of the Jefuites, against whose order that whole Church was fo much incenfed, he was obliged at laft, tho' contrary to his Inclination, to fend a Franciscan Friar to the Arch-Deacon, with authority to take his Subscription to the Roman Creed, and to require him to punish the Priests, who had beat the Boy for naming the Pope in his Pray

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The Arch-Deacon having nothing to object against the Franciscan Friar, and being extreamly defirous, if it was poffible, to keep the ArchBishop from coming into the Serra; tho? he refufed to Subscribe the Creed of Pius IV. yet condefcended to Subscribe a Confeffion of Faith, wherein he profetied himself a Catholick, and that he believed as the Church believed, but without naming the Roman, or acknowledging the Pope as univerfal Pastor of the Church; he is furthermore faid, upon the Arch-Bifhop's figmifying his diffatisfaction at the ambiguous Profeflion he had made, to have given his confent publickly to that of Pius IV. being read to him in Portugueze, of which he did not understand a Syllable. But let that be as it will, it is cer tain that he continued ftill to teach, that the Pope was the head of his own Church, but had nothing to do with that of St. Thomas.