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Show ATHANASIU e e KIRGHE se -- e --- ced the cight Beatitudes, turned mundane things into eternal, opened the gate o the three Theological Virtues, and gave Life by deftroying Death : He defcende into Hell in perfon, and brought confufio t th Devi and bis Angels g- for tr H that 1 dorint wafted good men to Heaven in the fhip of his Picty, and gave Salvation to th Souls of the Juft. Thefe things finifhed about noon, by his wonderful powe he alcended into Heaven, leaving feven and twenty Tomes or Volumes of hi Minifi for en Dotrine to open a way for the converfion of the World : He inflituted Bapti(i by Water and the Spiric, for the wafthing away of fins and cleanfing the World He mad of the ule of the Crofs, that he might take in all without cxc ption, flirrin that 15 holy G up all by the voice of Charity, commanding to worfhip towards the Eaft, tha the fa they might proceed in the way of a glorious life The Apofiles 4. His Minifters or Priefis for outward ornament fake nourifh theijr beards bu mtsan joniftthei cxa&l Figure fhave the crowns of their heads, that they may (hew they are inwardly incline ¢t no evil : They ufe no Servants : In Profperity and Adverfity they thew wonderful humility, making themfelves equal to the meaneft : They heap not u Riches, but make them ail common : They obferve Fafts as well for mortifica tion of their Paflions as oblervation of the Divine Precepts : They bear all awe ful reverence to their Superiours gcnt in 6. Hiftoria on th of Pear but I who are equally as themfelves retired from th World 5 feven times 2 day they pray as well for the Living as the Dead ; an one of feven days they keep holy, to purge their Souls from fin, and reftore the TheExcellen- to purity. . And becaule this infallible and well-grounde La placc Ci fire (pe is {o excellent ChiffanLawit, is 2 very difficult thing to appropriate to it a congruous name ; for the effe& of it are to illuminate and find out all things with the cleereft perfpicacity:whereupon as neceflary it was inticled Kim kiao, that is, The Great and Per{picuou Law and Car Sea, w derers, - the King 5. The Law, where there are no Royal Perfons, is neither extended nor dila ted 5 yet Perfons Royal without the Law are not worth of efteem mefitin dom 1s fa The La therefore and Princes concording and as it were meeting in one, forthwith th The Lass s Woerld s illuminated. In this famous time a King named Tai cum ven buamsi chins With fingular Prudence and Sanétity governing China, came out of Tudes a Ma of very great virtue, ftiled Ol puen, who brought as it were from the Cloud .7 Da year of otherwil his Gran this true Dodtrine : And driven by the winds, by the help of Hydrographica Maps (having {uftained many dangers and much labour) at length in the Yea Chin quon &~ jen fie, that is, Six hundred thirty fix, he arrived at the King Palace. - When the King heard thereof, he commanded the famous Colso calle Fam Kieu Lym, that he thould ride to meet this new Gueft towards the ‘Weft that 1s, towards the Suburbs of the City, and fhould bring him to the Palac withall kindnefs and refpect ; then he direfted him to declare his Dotrine there whenat once he fearched out the truth of the Law ; whereof being fatisfied, h s prexchea i€rioufly commanded the {ame to be preached and.publifhed with efficacy and resirovghchina. yerence - through his whole Kingdom: And in the fame Year 12 Cinguo (which 1s 636.) he wrote back in this manner (The tenour of the Promulgation is as follows. The true Law hath no determinate name, nor have the Saints any limite place where they remairi ; they run to all Parts that they may inftru& cfie World being intent with might and main to do good and fuccour the affliGed people nobly t builein a ofBifl)o the Law Kingdo and the 8. Int the Bon clamour inthe Pro afwers g aflcieflt Pal Vinee of X Outsand feem) Atbtblsthi Out of this Kingdom of Tancin (or Fudea) Olo phen, a Man of moft eminen virtue, from fuch remote places brought and prelented his Doftrine a d gertai Thevenerati- [mages to our Princely Palace : Whofe intentions to inftru& us, w h v n e acnokImages. -sodd tozhe bottom, do find his Doé ine moft excellent, without any exterjo clamour, and taking its original from the Creation of the World : This Do&rin Kie Lie, wk t‘he'fl flmc, t I CVi Vé and [ confifts not in multitude of words, nor doth it lay only a fuperficial foundatifo o W.hiCb by d t"" f 40 w, officers tbi Mereg |