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Show A Relation of tile Spaniih Voyager and Cmelties in the Welt-Indies; have Laws that award capital Punilhments for four: Confcience, becaul'ei they had no right to declarc Crimes of lelTer confequence : That their Policy has its particular Rules :, that upon 'all thefc Accounts their pretehded Barbarity is not a fuflicrent Reafon for any to declare War againft 'em,- but would be a could not lawfully deprive 'em of their Liberty nor were they ever authoriz'd by their Prince to make War upon 'em. Now there are but two Motives 160 x61 War againit 'em 5 for it follows by confequence they that can render any War juft, namely, fome righteous Caufe, or the Authority of one's Prince. And what jult motive then could the Spaniards have to de- piece of vifible Tyranny and Infilfllce‘, and that this Courfe would be f0 far from pro‘motingfhe Gofpel, that 'twould be the very way to cut oft all hope of el'cablilhing Chriftianity among them That clare War againit the Indians, who never did 'em therefore the belt expedient would be to fend any wrong, nor ever gave 'em any diiturbance? They were people they had never feen', they had never made any defcent into any Country that belong'd to the Spaniards, to fpoil and ravage it; they had never profefs'd Chriltianity as the .Mom of Africa had Preachers into the Indies, to endeavour to convince fome of the principal Indians of the truth of our Religion ; and to make Treaties of Peace With 'em, to favour the entrance of the Europeans into the Indies by inch a gentle and peaceable Method as this: that if any danger lbould arife after this, we might build forne Forts upon the Frontiers, and To treat 1,. with'em with the greater Security, and inane 'eni gradually relilh our Religion, by fettitg 3cm goon Examples. The Royal Council for the Indies having t Difpute, between the Bifhop of Chiapr: and D1215:puluedcz, concerning the manner in which the" 172mm ought to be treated, order'd the Bilhop to draw up his Thoughts of this matter in \Uriting; yxl‘erebl' they fnould be the better able to determin this qttfil- on, Whether they might lawfuiiy inflave the ladmm, done, who were Chriltians in the time of St. Ann guflm; or as the Kingdom of Granada, the Empire of Conflantinople, and the Kingdom of jerufalem did formerly. Nor can we jultly reproach the Indiamas declar'd enemies to our Religion, or that they ever attempted to deftroy it by open Perfecutions, or fe- cret Perfwafions, by Prefents, or any other manner whatfoever, that can be ufed to engage Chriltians to renounce their Faith, and turn ldolaters: For nei- ther the Law of God, nor that of Nations ever permitted War to be made againfl: any People mereIV to el‘tablilh Chriltianity among 'em. llnlel's any one Will pretend that the Gofpel of Chrift, which an bounds With Char~ity,Meeknel§,and Humanity, ought or were oblig'd to fetat lihcrty all they ind hitherto reduc'd to flavery. ‘ in anfwer to their defire, the toheintroduc'd into the World by Force like the Billrop farther expiain‘d his Sentiments after 1:113th The Spaniards can't fay, that they had no other Religion of Mabomet. end than that of proteé'cing the Innocent, feeing lowing manner. {hell have made it their whole bulinefs to rob, pil- All the Inciimzs taken in the Indies fince thedifcoe' age, and murder the poor Indians", taking upon 'em very of the New World to this day.) have blr1 "i" t0 ul‘urp their Goods and Lands. Belides, if the ar they undertook had bin in defence of thofe poor - ~ -. 1 . e 7 " g ' 9 p 1 III! ly mild'v'di, and the Spaniards who retain Cull: burrlage 31'ainft their wills; ten": in i; ":Jitl‘l 3 Effie: fetches the Indians unjuftly put to death for SaM crifices, |