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Show 3 ATHA 451V§ KIRCHER: ett ‘"""‘-__. ‘. themfelves in a great namber Who at length, when again t e Natives recovere and expelled the Tartars, the the whole Empire er out o fear of perfecution, or out of hope o living better amongl(t the Tartars, lef China and followed the Tartars 5 an thofe that remained behind, retain d nothi but {fome external Ceremonies: A d thefe are thofe Chriftians who the Chinefes, by the name of the Adorers o e lived in China 3 ConThe Gofpelof CErning which f{ee what have {aid before. Therefore Chin nroducoe being again accu1tomed unto its Country Worthi ued unto the year 1542, i mehteo FCahtihneers boyf Which a new light of tru fter that Saine Francis Xathe Societoyf @/7er" an Apoftle eleée by God for the falvation of th had fowed th {feed of the Word of Cod through al the unk nown parts of the World w th a grea and incredible gain of Souls, and ha hardly noted to th Thezealand World, unto the Faith of C plyed his mind, inflamed with iFrlancis B Xavi- thirft of oobtain ng Souls unto Chrif}, to the Converfio of the Chinefes5 whenc veerrtfiitotneof otkhe D€ {0 wholly ufed his endea ou fy t! 1at he might become Maft s defires: Bu fafidets it feemed otherwile fit to the divip difpofal of the Heavenly Majeft ; for expe&ing an opportunity of eatering int China, in Santian, an Ile adjoynin Coalts of China, he was feize to th with a Fever, where being repleni thed with MeThe Deathof Tits, a0d now ready to receive lefledne(s for thofe his figna ‘eSvaiinetr.Fra.ncis 1abours performed, e rendred Lis {pirit unto his Creator, an his flight unt Heaven, and what he could not perfor of himfelf, that he obtained with Go b hisinterceflions that his Succeflors, info gre ifh, after th Rlexander va- MANNer that followeth : Alexznd ociety, who Anno 1582 Hignamthse condulted the three Vicero onverted to the Chriftian Faith denooolknat to render obedience to Po Gregory the 1 expedition out of Europe as appointed Vifitor by the Vicar-Ge eral of al] the Indies, and now ha ing pafie over that part of Indis that ison this ide of Ganges, he fet fail to view that hich i lituated on the other fide of Gange s, and a Port of Amg<a, he determined with himfelf t pafls over into Faponia; Hur bein hindre by the Laws of Navigation, he c in our flation o Amtaca, there being wholly in ormed of the Chinefian affairs he kindle the ardency of his Voyage o o lay hidden in th Embers 5 forfrom the magnitud of the Empire, the noblenefs o the Nation their great Peace now enjoyed fo ence of the Magiftrates, as alfo the Political Mod of Gover ment, unto which nope were a mitnall kinds of Literature ; hen he moft rationally concluded, th t the Chinefes being a Nation ubtle, and mof addicted unto the Studies of goo h be wrought upon as to admit of, or tolerate cereaj he fame of Virtye an Learning, to abid or inhabit in their Empire, and. fuch as were no unskilfal in their Country Langu ge and Learning 5 and he feem d ¢o be of tha perfwafion,that in time it migh {o come to pafs, that the Rule or Statutes of th moft holy Chriftian Law migh nfluence on this Nation, feeing that thofe Rules were f ance of the Political or C Adminiftration of the Rep vi blick or Empire highly promoted th {ame 5 whence Ching abomina ing their Heathenifh Vanitie , might concejve a hope or dcfire of the eavenly good things, nd have an €ye unto E Joxat therefore on that atne nt he commanded withou any delay, fome perebwe;l eRergerius fONs., {ent for out of India, t e s, Cl)zne/ian Language and Learn ch shathefit - Rogerius, a|nd Fath : r Matthew Ric czus: whi when that thefe had i of meafure attained, with ver ' they entered the City of Cant n, wit hop |