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Show 6 ATHAN 45105 KIRCHE ":V s him!ic]f, confefling the only bftac] ¢ of his Converfion was Pol amie; whic o rnde PDo&rine being fo dif ontao nt he Cuftoms and Nature of the He rinces o1 ccoming Made them boggfe;_g't.fi;fi, and the fro tha tru Fait the wer Chidlian ready t receivey to the perdition of thei 'Soul Bur to return to our purpofe From' this moft ardent Fropenfity o Religion, immeNowblecon- diately there fuicceeded a gr at converfion of the Ladies of Hono uchs the Goort. 1] Mandorines the hrif¥iah 14w being fpread abroad in the e, there" were gathered 1nto the Bofom of th ¢ Churc bageA sAl fand Con."But all this flourifhing and bl oomin i he bud by th auchs fudden death of tlie Emperout, *hen ot btaining that eternal falvation hich h fo much defired on the behalf'o others 3 and although oftentime he requefte the ghoftly affiftance of Fathet A um, yet by the craft and {ubtlet The Deathof 7745 and Bonsiiy whe ftood the laft confliG of life an FEEMPCION: Feaths it fo fell-dur thar 11 addrefs ' was obfiru@ed unto him, u ril it was too late for'being fruftrated of liis"%iqpe;" }ihom he thought alive, he to his i credible {orThe dead TOW; found'd.e‘gd-. Nowwhen Empcrou ed, a'pile bein made of precious wood, ‘the Treaf res of {o Wealthy a Prince were aft into th DA deRerhes flames wich the dead Corip o his Imperial Magnificence an rich wreafures, Grapgdeur. Howin o 0T ';‘; B "His Son a Youith'of 14'yedrs of a e fucceeded him in the Governmen , who a hie was under t?-he"c'fifcipl‘in'é?éfi&_ tuiti wholly committed unto his caré'by'the Empetolr fohe dévefted not him(eIf of that nnate affe&tion which he had to ‘the €hrift an Faith and our Religious Fath rs how much the Chiriftian Cori¢erhé d under thefe Emperours in re{pect of former times, 15 evide tly thewn by the Infcriptio of this new ereGe and confecrated Chsirch at'P ' § i : ‘1 11 TH fhall her .jnc'}nrfiription o1 th Church of th Saners o fusevgrave in Marble fub}oy a i"fif?di;ifé‘?(:onclufion worth of confideratcioran.tion, INSCRIPTION'OF THE CHUR EKIN BELONGING'UNTO THE SOCI TY OF JEsUs AF ter the Faith introducedl by S Thomas the Apoftle, and after the J again and that more largely propagated b the Syrians in the tim. of the Reig of the Emperour Yam. And third time the {ume bein & agai divulged in the tip of the Regency of the Emperon F ather Matthew Riccius of t e Society of Tefus, both by pre ching and Books publifbed inthe Chinefian Tongue performed with great fudy and abonr, bt by reafo - of the inconftancy of the Natio nor altogether with equal Juccefs The Empire bein now devolved unto 1he Tarcars, he fume Society for 4 conclufio of their libonrs o reftoring the Calendar called the X I of Hien Lie, hath publickly pl ced and dedicate this Temple to the moft bigh God at Peking the Royal City and Pal ce of the Empe‘ronrs of China Anno 1650, and the 7" Yea Chi Father John Adam Schall of ¢l] 4 German, Profe(fsor of th and Author of the forementio ed Calendar, ous of the labour f bis bands bequeathe:h this Temple and bis Patience un o poftersty CHAP |