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Show ATHAN ASIVS KIRCHE ett e e e A---- et g where having related the Preachers of the Fai h of Chrift at that time amongf the Chinefes, mentioneth not Saint Thomas o any other Apoftle, which yet i Infculped, would have been of confiderable oment unto theijr purpole, wh erected the Stone, wix. Thatthe Preachers of t e Faith again Preached the {am Law that Saint Thomas or fome other Apofil Preached amongft the Chinefe moreove AP fi, 1t is evident, that thofe Preachers of Tacyn had n Thomas or any other Apoftles Preaching the La o Chrift unto the Chinefes and a conjefture may be made, that peradventur S i o other Apofile introduced the Golfpel amongft th Chinefes ; and that I may {pea moft moderately, nothing can be certainly de uced or drawn concerning thi matter from the footfieps here found ; and th paflages above alledged are onl able to prove, that thofe Priefts were fen from the Church of Saint Thomas, o Babylon, which then Coverned the Malbra Church De Serra, belonging unt the Chriftians 6f Saint Thowas (‘asthe Portugal afterwards found) to ere& a Epilcopal Seat, and to introduce the Fajth amongf t that this is teftified by the Antient Syrian Langua e called Effrangelo, which i now retained in that Church, and was in forme times in ufe in Babylon and Syria And as for the Orations compoled in the Praile o Saint Thomas the Apoftle, the may well be underftood how that by the Merits o Saint Thomas the Apoftle,an from his Church the Priefis perchance introduce firft of all the Faith whic they had received from Saint Thomas the Apoltl amongft the Chinefes; an therefore defervedly their converfion ought to be ttributed unto Saint Thomas wherefore feeing that there is no mention o Saint Thomas to be foun 1nthe paths of the Faith Preached, hitherto d fcovered, we cannot for a certain aflert that Saint Thomas or any other Ap ftle Preached the Gofpel unto th Chinefes;but I rather think that many Ages after t e Chriftians of Presbyser Fobn' Coantrey (‘whofe Emperour, Marcus Panlus Ven tus calleth Ufan Can) who ar mhe chrifii- termed the Worfhippers of the Crofs, were thof that entered into China eithe et 7o with the Tartars, or a little before : For thofe from Irdia o t S ae wortie- yian Chaldea, or thofe of Malabar, as the are far more Antient then the Tarfa Crofs Chriftians, fo would they have called their Difciple that were followers of more clear Dorine Kin Kiao 5 but I beljev that thof by bi V{l'fd . 5,‘ub & " ("\' e Kis the the H ther c gether hc‘f"d Unive felf, o natc a 2, infecte he was Peace) and dif dred fi themfe Preachers came not on of the of ludia, for the Syrian Language and Names tefti ieth them to be Syrians, an they termed themfelves Fews, or of India, b realon that they Preached that La or Doctrine which had its Original from Indie But from what place thole Syrian Priefts came, as alfo their S (to thi that th fubtile rian Subfcriptions, thefeI {ay we leave to th i duftrious difquifitions of the Reverend Father thanafius Kircher, a Petfon highl tive Prj real a meriting of all Antiquity ; which chat he may accomplif t f d lity and folidity, unto that end and purpofe we hav prefented allo the fam Writing, Tranf{cribed in the Chinefe out of th Book, by the new labour an the {ole and only hand of Don Chin Andreas, a Nob e Chinefian Youth, the infeparable companion of my Voyage to Rowe unto th Apoftolick See (which Boo might Other all thei fubferyi bour, f Woul'd was Imprinted and divulged throughout the whol Empire by the Chinefian Dotors, Men both of great Fidelity and Authority with my Latine Tranflatio tendered for word 5 and I have laid up the Boo that is altogether confonant t the Original Monument, in the {ftudy of the fame Fa her indee 'l l by c whichis a certain ric Magazine of Curiofities, together with an Att ftation of the Fa&, by the Subfcription of my own Hand ture and the Hands of thofe that were Nat o the 4. of Nowember, Auno 1653 Michael Boim Eye-witnefles of the Monument the Original ]e&gdwa Andreas Don Sin a Chinefe Matthew a Chinefe as alfo the Tranfcribers of this Table fro this f; the Le W OrId. "Undri |