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Show PP A st e e R- s E m':s-_‘m&ff S e towards the North ; and t ence he is faid to hav pailed the Mountains of Theb r in a long compafs of Lan towards Bengala through the Kingdom of De an, to have arrived at Meliap I is certainly related, that Letters writee moft ancient Parchment ar yet preferved in the Librar or Repofitory of the Churc of Meliapor, in whic Saigr Thonas is {aid to have co vocated the Bithops confecra ed by him in th forefaid Kingdmp, that is fr m Candabar, Cabul, Capburftan the lefier Guzarata and the other adjoyning Pr vinces, unto the Council] o liapor; which if it b {o, it is very much to be lamente , that there have no perfons b might have tranflate treafury of fo great Ecclefiaft ntiquity into Lgtine Butlet it be what it w e eth unto thefe, that the preachin and rece ans Perfians, Medes, Grachmans Indians, and the bordering N tions, ought to b alcribed unto Saint Thomas 5 a d Nicephor ; Lai 3 i 4 i _‘--‘;" mp- " / lfo, that he came unto Typraban, now called Sumatra which feeing that it is not remo e from the Empi of China, it cannot but appear ery probable unto any one tha he came, or vifited them in his own perfon ; ‘a y one, I fay, who rightly u derftandech what have above related concerning he Voyages of Saint Thoysas th Apofile, whic 1sat large handled by Oforins Bi hop of Syl Indian Hiftory : When bul, Caphurftan, Tiber, Mogul, h hops his Succeflors propagate the facred Gofpel of Chrif into the remoteft Provinces an Kingdoms, eve unto the utmoft bounds of Tar ary: This Ortelins openly c nfirmeth, who fajt arT chaeoKinneg- that the Kingdom of Are or (ituated in the ue mo Angle or corner of the North rywhere . Wasconverted unto the Chriftia Faith by Saint "MN S v oif s Succeflors {o tha he #as: you muft underft by this account there js no par or corner of the world with the light of the Golpel, b his care an which hath not been fille Nicephorus alfo relateth in hi Seatie the Gofpel in the uppe Afiz 5 now the upper Afi {pace of 4fia Minor, which the Anc and beyond Inrans 5 and they re all thofe Regions ed inthe extream Limits of th gia S. Thomas diligence 39. that Sain Philip preache is nothing elfe bue that vaf which are bot aboyr the Cafpian Sea, as Geop Lberia, Albanior, Micrelia, rmenia, and part of the Tr nfmarine Afiatick Tartary: from whence in cour e of time the Gofpel o urSaviour by a farther {p ing, was tranfplanted in to the multitude of the {pread aboy far an wide, as Theber, Lndoftan, Tanc Chryfoftome {aith, thap Saint B S. Bartholo- - tholomies inftruGe rthe people of the Greater A menia in the Chriftian Fait e " 4% bhronizs (aith. tha ; Sohe taught the Albanians 5 an that he preached to th hithermoft Indians Panthenys a Chriftian Phi her faith, that when h velled to the Indians, he traound Chriftianit y yet Hou Bartholomew the Preaching o e that is curious to kno more Concerning this, le him have re courf <) [ E - ‘ 8 A 45 105 K IRCH E e quettion there was yet the hab tatidn of Chriftians althoug much degenerated which he had alfo confirme by report elfewhere. Whic matter was fo manjfeft unto others of our Fachers the Propagators of the Chri tian Faith in th Kingdom of che Mogul, tha no perfon from hence forwa ds ought to doubr o the truth of the fame; when e unto this very day they re called the Chriftian of Saint Thomas, and queftion efs they had long fince bee Church of Chrift, if ther had not wanted Labourers Moreover, Saint Thoma is {aid to have departed fro Caphurftan unto the leffer G zarata, not far fro the Kingdom Cafinir, of whi h we have treated above, w ich is fituated diftan from Lahor three days Voya i R S "ov ett Sm-v -- -, e A p " |
