mongst them; whereupon, being apprehensive left his Guards and Servants, if they continued afhoar, might come to Blows with the Malavars, whom he faw fo much difpofed to Quarrel, he Commanded them all aboard except two Priests, who were to assist at the Offices.

The Arch-Bifhop having put on his Pontificals, and given his Bleffing to the Congregation, made a long difcourfe to them, fhewing them, That there was but one true Religion, which was the Roman, and that all Chriftians were under an indifpenfable obligation to fubmit themselves to the Pope. After he had done his Sermon, which lafted an hour and an half, and explained to them the Doctrine of the Sacrament of Confirmation, and then called upon them to come to it; the Congregation, tho' they had heard him till then very quietly, began to cry out with great fury, That they would never be. Confirmed by him, that being a thing that none of their Prelates had ever used, and that it was no Sacrament of Christ's Inftitution, but an Invention of the Portuguezes to make them their Slaves, by fetting a Mark on their Foreheads, and giving them a Box on the Ear, which is what all the Roman Bishops do in Confirmation, and tho' the Daftards in Vaipicotta had been So tame as to fuffer themselves to be buffeted and enflaved by him, they would never endure it, nor fuffer him to touch their Beards, or their Wives Faces; that he might go home in a good hour to his Portuguezes, and let them alone with their Religion, and if he did continue to disturb them thus, it should

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coft him dear. The Arch-Bishop heard all this with great patience, and fitting down, endeavoured to convince them of the Truth of the Sacrament of Confirmation; but when he perceived that they were the worse, rather than the better for what he said to them, having mustered all his Courage together, he rofe up, and having advanced two steps with his Crofier in his hand, he told them with great heat, That the Faith he Preached to them was the Faith of Chrift and St. Thomas, and was believed by all Chriftians, and that he was ready to die to confirm the truth of it; but they being as ready to die for their Religion as he was, or pretended to be, for his, that Argument had no effect at all upon them. He furthermore challenged all thofe that Talked against the Roman Faith by Night in Corners, to come forth, if they durft, to dispute with him publickly which the Arch-Deacon, who the Night before had affembled most of the confiderable Christians of Paru together, and had made them promise never to throw off the Patriarch of Babylon, taking to himself, he rose up in a paffion, and having asked aloud who they were that taught Herefies in the dark, and that Preached no where but in Corners, flung out of the Church, and going into the Town picked up eight or ten Boys, whom he prefented to the Arch-Bishop to be confirmed by him, pretending, that with all that he was able to do, he could perfwade no more to come: The Arch-Bishop having confirmed these Boys, returned to his Gallies very angry,

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and finding there was nothing more to be done at Paru, he determined to Sail next Morning to Mangate, to fee how those Chriftians stood affected.

When he came to the Church of Mangate, a Town chiefly inhabited by Christians, he found the Church filled with Houfhold Goods and Women, by reason of the War that was then on foot between the Kings of Mangate and Paru. After having comforted the Chriftians for the Loffes they had sustained, and given them his Bleffing, he began to Preach against the Errors they had been Educated in. But having advice that there were fome Amouços coming after him from Paru, he went straightways aboard his Gallies, and rowing away before Night, he arrived next Morn ing at Cheguree, a place belonging to his Friend the King of Cochim; where having fent afhore an Order to the Caçanares and Chriftians to meet him at the Church, he had word fent him,that the Church doors were all fhut, and there was neither Man, Woman, nor Child, to be seen in the whole Village; he was informed at Night, that the Arch-Deacon was in the Town, but that he had shut himself up in a House, and was refolved never to fee his Lordship again.

The Portuguezes that were in his Train, as well Ecclefiafticks as Seculars, were at him perpetually to give over this enterprise, and not to expofe his Perfon and Dignity (as he did) to no purpose; but instead of returning any answer to their Impor

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Importunities, he retired all alone to his Cabin, where he wrote a long Letter to the Arch- Deacon, in which he swore that he remembred nothing that was paft, and that he had no defign of doing him any harm, and if he would but do him the favour to come and speak with him once more, he did not doubt but that he should be able to convince him of his Errors, promifing with all to do great things for him, if he would but entirely fubmit himself to the Roman Church.

This Letter was delivered the fame Night to the Arch-Deacon, who having read it, called the Caçanares together, and told them, that it being a fcandalous thing in them to decline treating with the Arch-Bishop above board, about the Affairs of Religion, he was for their going to wait upon him to hear what he could fay, but with fuch a Guard, that it fhould not be in his Power to make them Prifoners. Having all agreed to this Propofition, they fent to the Arch Bishop to let him know, That if he would be pleased to come afhoar, they would wait upon him: The Arch-Bishop fent them back word, That the Sun was too hot to ftand in, and defired them therefore to come aboard his Galley, which lay with her Stern on ground. The Arch-Deacon and Caçanares feeing the Galley quite furrounded by their People ventured to go aboard; where being come, they were conducted to the ArchBishop's Cabin, where they found him with all his Priests, Jefuites, and several Gentlemen expecting them. After fome difcourfe, the Arch

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Deacon told the Arch-Bishop, That it was true they had not received his Grace fo courteously as might have been expected, nor indeed as they intended to have done, had he not fallen fo foul upon their Patriarch, whom, tho' he had been pleafed to call an Excommunicate Heretick, they knew to be both a Catholick and a most holy Man, and endeavoured to introduce feveral Novelties into the Serra, which they and their Forefathers had never fo much as heard of before. To all which the Arch-Bishop anfwered, That he was fure they were not ignorant of the Patriarch of Babylon's being a Profeffed Neftorian, and not to trouble them with any Arguments to prove that all Neftorians must be Hereticks, he would only ask them one fingle Queftion, which was, Whether they believed the Gospel of St. John? They told him they did, and would die rather than deny any thing that was revealed in it. Well then, faid the Arch-Bishop, pray tell me, how you can reconcile what St. John faith, The word was made Flesh, and dwelt among us, with what your Patriarchs and Bishops have taught you, to wit, that the Word did not make it felf Flesh, and that Chrift was not God, and that God did not make himself Man, for do you not fing in your Churches upon the Feast of the Nativity, that the Word did not make it Self Flesh, as the unbelieving Romans teach, but did only dwell in Christ as in a Temple.

The Arch-Deacon returned no answer to this, but paffing to another point, faid to the ArchBishop, Tour Grace would fain perfwade us likewife, that none can be faved out of the Obedience of the