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death_n	apostle_n	sin_n	word_n	4,593	5	4.4164	3	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A69842	An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people : with the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies / by Don Bartholomew de las Casas, Bishop of Chiapa, who was an eye-witness of their cruelties ; illustrated with cuts ; to which is added, The art of travelling, shewing how a man may dispose his travels to the best advantage.; Selections. English. 1699	Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1474-1566.	1699 (1699)	Wing C797; ESTC R21602	188,943	313

Crime that deserves death who deprives him of his Liberty and the greatest part of his Goods who makes a cruel War upon him and inslaves him who seeks all Occasions to kill him and takes away his Wife and Children to inslave 'em who usurps all the Goods of his Relations when they die and unjustly ravishes from him all that is dear to him Certainly such Violences as these are against the Rights both of People and Princes and 't is sufficient to demonstrate the Spaniards to be the declared Enemies of the Indians that they have done 'em all the mischief which we have been relating For they have calumniated and accus'd 'em of the most horrible and infamous Crimes that can be imagin'd meerly to get possession of their Estates and strip 'em of all they had under this pretext whereas the practices they charge 'em with are purely imaginary and such as have never been so much as heard of in the great Islands of New Spain Cuba Jamaica and St. John tho they have been all very populous for after the most exact Enquiries we were able to to make we could never find the least appearance of those abominable Sins to which some few Persians are addicted The Indians of the Kingdom of Yucatan know not what this unnatural Vice is Nor are there any great number of 'em that eat human Flesh They are farther accus'd of Idolatry but Men have no right to punish 'em for this Crime which ought to be left to the Judgment of God Our Ancestors were formerly Idolaters as the Indians are now and the whole Universe was polluted with this Sin before the coming of Christ and before the Apostles had preach'd the Christian Faith For God dispers'd them up and down the World to dissipate the darkness that was spread over the Earth and they did not employ violence and force of Arms to punish Idolatry or other Sins that were the Consequences of Infidelity they made use of nothing but the good Examples of their Virtue and Holiness together with their Doctrin which contain'd the Menaces and Promises of the Word of God and we ought to do that in the Indies which they did in other parts of the World This was the Course which Christ himself first took and then oblig'd his Apostles to follow his Example The Son of God came to seek and to save that which was lost Which of our Ancestors could have been sav'd if they had been put to death for Crimes committed in the time of their unbelief the express Words of the Gospel are contrary to this Method for Christ says to his Disciples Thus it is written and thus it behoved Christ to suffer and to rise from the dead the third day and that repentance and remission of Sins should be preach'd in his Name among all Nations beginning at Jerusalem And ye are Witnesses of these things Luke 24. 46 47 48. which evidently proves that the Gospel ought to be at first preach'd to Infidels by declaring of Peace and the remission of Sins that are past since Christ has given no power or permission to men to punish ' em The Spaniards have moreover presum'd to maintain that the Indians were like brute Beasts utterly uncapable of disciplin and unfit to receive the light of Christianity Your Majesty has good reason to punish those that declare such notorious Falshoods For under this Colour they have obtain'd of your Majesty a power to possess themselves of the Indies as their absolute Property and to do the Indians what mischief they please Thus have they impos'd on the Conscience of the most Catholic King and obtain'd leave to carry away the Inhabitants of the Islands and Countries that lie near Hispaniola and have accordingly forc'd 'em out of their own Country against all Law and Equity so that an innumerable multitude both of Men and Women that inhabited above fifty Islands some bigger than the Canaries have been destroy'd insomuch that there are but eleven Persons left I have been an Eye-witness of this desolation as well as Peter de Lisle who is a man of honor and credit and now a Monk of the Order of St. Francis He built a Brigantine and man'd it with Sea-men to make a review of those once populous Islands and they found in all that vast Country but eleven People as has been said tho they spent two years in making this Voyage 'T is impossible for me to express to your Majesty on the one hand the great meekness goodness of temper and sincerity of the People of the New World and on the other what enormous Ravages and Cruelties the Christians have exercised upon ' em Your Bowels would be mov'd with Compassion and your heart too much affected if an exact description of all this were made you Cruel Wars have been rais'd in divers rich Provinces without any fair occasion but only to gratify the covetous humour of the Spaniards At the same time they flatter themselves that they have Authority from your Majesty to employ force and violence to inslave these People And all the difference they make between those Indians they look upon as their Subjects and those whom they treat as Slaves is that they sell the latter publicly but use a little more formality about selling the former by seeking pretences to hide their Injustice In the unjust Wars they have made with 'em after having kill'd the Masters of Families they have also murder'd their Wives and Children and possess'd themselves of all they had And God is now pleas'd every day to shew us by his severe Chastisements that he has been grievously offended by these Robberies and Cruelties The Welfare of the Indians both as to Body and Soul is in the greatest danger for if they must be subject to the absolute Power of the Spaniards they 'l utterly destroy 'em without sparing any so much as to propagate their Race If the Law of Nature forbids us to commit a Pupil to the charge of one that is a mortal Enemy to him or his Parents or has embezel'd his Estate or set him an ill Example and yet he has been given up to the care of a Person of this Character the Judges would be oblig'd to rectify the matter by taking him from under his Conduct whatever security he offers to give for his fidelity 'T is much the same case with the Indians in respect of the Spaniards for these would have it believ'd that they are the Guardians Tutors and Protectors of the other tho 't is only a fraudulent pretence to ensnare ' em The Indians know well enough how to govern themselves without being beholden to Guardians and the Spaniards are no way capable of instructing 'em in the things of Religion which yet is the main thing the Indians want and the greatest kindness that can be done ' em And 't is easy to see what disposition the Spaniards have towards 'em as to their temporal advantage So that 't is most certain they are