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Show His Defeription of C 1 1x a A Paraphraftical Declzfra'tion of a Chinefe Infeription, Tranflated word for wor rft out of the Chinefe Language into the Portuguefe, ont of that into Italian and from the Italian into the Latine Tongise The Declaration of Xiu Piu, or as the Commentator bath it, tiade by a Prieft of th Kingdom of Jud=a, that was called Kim Lim HI thereforeIfay That he who was always true and undifturbed,bein without any beginning, of a moft profound Intelle& and eternal Effence and by his divine the creasio Wifdom made the Saints : This is that Divine Effence, Three in Perfon, but One ! thines in Subftance, Our Lord, who being certainly infallible without beginning, 0/6 yu (which in the Chaldee fignifies the fame with Eloba) made the four Parts o the World in form of a Crels, gathering together the Chaos : He formed tw by his moft excellent Power out of nothing created all things Kis (that is, two Virtues or two Qualities called Inyam, the Commentator names ;, wiaci % Chinefer; an lOSilnthoma: 7 to be foun nnot for 2 cer e e et ii-cotc-coaiibaioa T TGS i S R S ke . i x P ett ;A s e ey e e T e et i ce f thi 'rjbk f[Ol e TP n " 5," 2 Cb‘"fi | Boim. s of China. Ron g‘ by the Suble ---- < 2 certai jer confonan stin would firike fire out of an earthen vefiel, they adde darknefsto darknefs, and f indeed onge leaving the true path, they can never return to the way of life 3. Then one of the divine Perfons of the moft Holy Trinity,called the Me(f2a5, 116 tacaina by contra&ting and hiding his Majefty, and accommodating himfelf to humane na- b ture, was made Man Wherefore for the declaring thefe joyful tidings he feA great Star proclaime leGed an Angel, and was born of a Virgin in Judes this felicity, {o that Kings feeing its brightnels came and offered Prefents, tha the Law and Prophefies of the 24 Prophets might be fullilled. He governed th World by One great Law, founded the divine and {piritual Law without an thundring of words, and confirmed it with the {eal of a true Faith. He pronoun eS D e Chineia Tranflatio all their skill and induftry therein, yea making all cheir diligence and intention fubfervient to their affeftions: But in vain and wichout any profic did they labour, ftill making their progref(s from bad to worle; as it happens to thole tha See (which Boo Others took a pride to deceive men under the {pecious fhew of goodnefs, ufin an Jabou pe Youth, the iofe might eafily be comprehended by fenfe : Some did feek happinefs by Sacrifices yer, 2 Perfon highfidegreate th th J allo the fam inth t e Jeav tive Principle. But the Learned fay, that thesPrinciple of things is not onl real and pofitive, but moreover that it was of fuch afigure and corpulency a b place thole Syri themfelves as many as they could delude; {ome reverencing the Creature inftea of the Creator; others made an empty Principle of all things,-and a real Ens (to this alludes the Sect of the Pagodi and Learned Chinefes) becaute they aflert that the Principle which produced all things was void ; that the fame is to them {ubtile and undifcernable to the fenfes, although in it felf ic be areal and pofi reached that La and difcord fraudulently introduced : From whence in procefs of time three hun- 365 Scls dred fixty and five Selts having one after another {prung , each of which drew t e y it y be Syrians, an infeCted whatever was before naturally and in its felf pure and perfeét5 that is, 4%m he was the caufe of fowing the feeds of malice (that general difturber of th Peace) in his heart, whereby the equal temper of his uprightnefs was altered i i then the Tarta ere followersof hers came not o 2, But afterwards by cunning deceits the Devil brought it to pafs, that Adans vy ray o cicind b ther from the §y it i o China eithe nate appetite Golpel unto th FPreshyter Fobn' m Can ) who ar them two Principles) changed the Abyfs, that is, he took away the Darknefs,and g;‘j;‘:jf‘ffi"" the the Heavens and the Earth appeared. He formed. the Sun and Moon, that by Tensue their continual motions they (hould diftinguith the night and the day : He fet together and built all things. But when he created the firft Man, befides his Bein he endowed him with original righteoulnefs, appointing him Lord of the whol Univerfe 5 which at firft of his own nature was empty and vile, filled with him{clf, of a plain and equal Underftanding, and having no mixture of any inordi |