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Show L ATHAN 45108 KIRCHE e e ett e e ett s e - d the Ch prove of nothing but what they have {cen themfelves, and account nothing t be believed bu what their own brain hat they that like troublefom Flefh-flies, that flyin which is fincere and untainted, and defift not t dcfiled and Thrafonick blaflt : Amongft whic who blufhed not with all his might, and indee diGtated unto them Thefe ar it app at any obvious fatnefs, foil tha befpot that which is pure with was a certain Modern Writer with an infolent {coff to quefti matiOfl ]abyrifl him b felf, th on the truth of this Monument, whilft that fometimes he afferteth it to be jntroduced by a Jefuitical Cheat, and other whiles that it was a flat and plain forger of the Jefvits, feigned both to deceive the Chinefes, and allo to defraud them o their Treafures. I fhall conceal the name of the perfon, partly out ofa tendernef to Chriftian Charity, and partly becaufe in the judgment of Prudent and knowing Men he feemeth unworthy of any anf{wer; fecing that the truth of this Mo butfl"O our Sav is, fro Chinefe trance nument 15 eftablified and confirmed by the Eye-witnefs of fo many [lluftriou Authors by fo man Books concetnin this metho cerning tisfacito divulged throughout th whole Empire by the Chinefian Colais themlclves Leoand Paule, Petlons o great quality, and withal inftruied in the Chriftian Religion (thefe Books ar commonly exhibited to the {ight of Strangers in the Library of the Roman Colledge, with the Authentick draught of the Monument it {eIf fent from China and laltly, approved by the whole Chrifitan World ; fo that it is of little concernment what an obicure Bragadocio barketh forthin'the utmoft quarter of th World whoif that he had abftained fro Triganti and man the fitoa the Reg and laftl ethnot t explain ¢ render t and alfo and fecre Calumnies and Scoffs, and had pru dently propofed the matter with fome Scrupulofity, peradventure he had bette have faved hisown reputation and the credit of his Work;but fo it hapneth by th jult judgment of God, that tho{e who endeavour to traduce the Glory of the Divine Majefty by Cavilsand Scoffs; both contrary to Confcience and Charity, fo Jacent, f1 themoft part at length fuffer the Shipwrack of their own Fame and Labours Moved therefore by thefe reafons, left that a Monument of {o great concer deprived of its Credit, fhould run the hazard of being caft away ; I fhall labou Nature a CHI itmoft b {o by the divine affiftance to eftablifh the truth of the Monument in this under altogethe taken work, (beingmy contexture from the very bottom of the matter) confirmed not only by the grear atteftation of the Fathersof our Society, whic ~ Paulits V fhall be have feen it with their ewn eyes, but alfo from the Teltimony of the Chinefe themf{elves, that from hencefort on the there may no place of doubting be left, an covered b - are in {om whitherit the Heterodox themfelves may bé forced to confefs (‘the Interpretation of thi Syro-Chinefian Infcription being confidered) that no other- Dodrine was taugh Th Do tr n a o t o f n ye r pa b th P e c e o th G f e w i i no al odelivered i this Monugether confonant and conformable 5 yea, the very fame with the Orthodo ment conforprofefied, and thercfore the Gofpel Preached formerly in Chin mable to the Doctirine no Orthodo i th f m w t th t, which the Univerfal Catholick Roman Church enjoinet Church to be believed at this day, as I (hall afterwards prove by manifold firength o Argument A twofold InN th th m t e m b t e t o in re ui it O d a M t o terpreratio Ppains it w thought good firft of all to annexatwofold, and that a perfeét and fincere Inter ltalign i pretatioofn this Stone, expounded by the Chinefian Learned Men themfelves from a Book printed in Chinefian Chara&ers, and exprefled werbatim in the Ge fonfifieth 0 nuine Pronunciation of the Chinefian words, by Father Michael Boim, a Perfo excellently skilled in the Chinefran Language, as it will appear anon from hi with the Schoour Ears, an the Table ; an which the Mo And by reafon that fome on ma fence upgq of the adjoj tients) a draz,en § Cd fhonof "théflcge ; 5 T - R nument might receive the greater Illuftration the MathEm Epiftle to the Reader I have allo adjoined another Expofitio liafts, avoiding of the Chinefian Phrafe, not o accuftomed unt that for the more futable apprehending of the Genuine fenfe o this I did the rather that I might not feem to omit any thing b 1 the forg, - Ment limits of ¢ Onthe partly a Latly, op Cochinehiy - and exten of this Monu |