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A52346	An embassy from the East-India Company of the United Provinces, to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China deliver'd by their excellencies, Peter de Goyer and Jacob de Keyzer, at his imperial city of Peking : wherein the cities, towns, villages, ports, rivers, &c. in their passages from Canton to Peking are ingeniously describ'd / by Mr. John Nieuhoff ... ; also an epistle of Father John Adams their antagonist, concerning the whole negotiation ; with an appendix of several remarks taken out of Father Athanasius Kircher ; English'd, and set forth with their several sculptures, by John Ogilby Esq. ...; Gezantschap der Neerlandtsche Oost-Indische Compagnie aan den grooten Tartarischen Cham, den tegenwoordigen keizer van China. English	Nieuhof, Johannes, 1618-1672.; Goyer, Pieter de.; Keizer, Jacob de.; Kircher, Athanasius, 1602-1680. China monumentis. Selections. English.; Ogilby, John, 1600-1676.; Schall von Bell, Johann Adam, 1592?-1666.; Nederlandsche Oost-Indische Compagnie.	1673 (1673)	Wing N1153; ESTC R3880	438,428	416

in the same quoted place of Antonius unto St. Lewis King of France who was also at the same time intent on the War undertaken against the Mahumetans in the Island of Cyprus in which Epistle he ardently exhorteth him to accomplish the same Enterprize together with him and because it is worthy of consideration I thought it requisite here to insert it This is the Exemplar or Transcript of the Letter which Ercaltay Prince of the Tartars sent unto King Lewis and by his Command Translated into Latin word for word THe Words of Ercaltay sent by the Power of the High God from the King of the Land of Cham unto the Great King the Strenuous or Victorious Conqueror of many Provinces the Sword of the World the Victory of Christianity the Defender of the Apostolical Religion Son of the Evangelical Law King of France let God increase his Dominion and preserve it for many years and fulfill his Desires in the Law and in the World now and in the World to come by the Verity of his Divine Power that leadeth all Men and all the Prophets and Apostles Amen A hundred thousand Salutes and Benedictions and this I request That he will accept these Benedictions and that they may appear great in his sight God grant that I may behold this magnificent King who hath approached so near unto us Now the most High Creator grant this our Meeting may be in Charity and cause us to assemble together in Unity After this our Salutation That in this our Epistle we intend nothing but the advantage of Christianity and to strengthen the Hands of the Christians and I beseech God to render the Christian Armies successful and that they may become triumphant over their Adversaries that contemn the Cross. Now on the part or behalf of the Great King let God advance him let God increase his Magnificence in the Presence of Cyochaym We come with Power and Command that all Christians be free from Servitude and Tribute from Force Compulsion and the like that they be Honor'd and had in Reverence and that none take away or deprive them of their Possessions and that their demolish'd Churches be re-edifi'd their Tables founded and that no Person may restrain them to Pray with a quiet Conscience and free Mind for our King We have sent hither by our faithful Servant the venerable Person Sabaldi David and Mark and they declare those good Reports and relate by word of Mouth how Matters are carried with us now the Son may receive their words and may concredit them and in our Letters the King of the Earth may be exalted His Magnificence commandeth that in the Law of God there be no difference between the Grecian and the Roman the Armenian Nestorian and Iacobite and all those that adore the Cross for they are all one with us and so we desire that the Magnificent King would not be divided or be contrary amongst us but that his Piety may be shewn upon all the Christians and that his Goodness and Clemency may continue Thus far the Example of the Epistle which was sent to the King of France in Cyprus from Ercaltay Prince of the Tartars unto which other Letters are sufficiently consonant which a little before were Presented unto the same King from the King of Cyprus and the Count of Ioppa a Transcript of which also together with the Transcript of the aforesaid Letter of Ercaltay were sent by the venerable Legate unto Pope Innocent the Fourth This I have transcrib'd our of Antonius Also St. Lewis sent unto the foremention'd Ercaltay and to the Great Cham Ambassadors of the Order of St. Dominick with rich Gifts or Presents one whereof was that which they call A Baldachin a most magnificent Present in which the whole Life of Christ was beheld interwoven in Tapestry-work by a wonderful Art together with a piece of the Cross But concerning this see more at large St. Antonius in the fore-cited place as also Vincentius Bishop of Bellay in his Speculum Historicum or Historical Looking-Glass all which hapned about the Year 1256. and are consonant to what we a little before alledg'd out of Paulus Venetus and Haython St. Antonius asserteth in the place quoted That some Tartars came unto the Council held under Innocent the Fourth At length Anno 1300. as Vadingus relateth in the Life of Odiricus many Religious Persons of the Order of St. Francis were sent unto the Great Cham into the greater Cathay and Tartary and remain'd in the Cities of Cambalu and Nanchin which they call The City of Heaven as also the Kingdom of Tebeth Converting many of the Infidels and Pagans unto the Faith of Christ. This St. Odiricus above-mention'd was a Person of the same Order who being inflam'd with a zeal of gaining all the People of those Kingdoms unto Christ is reported to have travell'd thither as is shewn at large by the Reverend Fathers Bollandus and Hoenschenius in the splendid Work of The Lives of the Saints unto which I refer the Reader where in the first Tome on the fifteenth day of Ianuary they at large demonstrate the same in their Learned Commentaries And therefore by this occasion the Gospel of Christ being spread throughout all Tartary and the Kingdom of Cathay which is China was in every Place much augmented But as we have often said before what through the defect of the Cultivators of the Vineyard of Christ or by the various Successors of the Empire very little addicted unto the Christian Faith or from some other causes the Tartarian Church reduc'd unto its Chaos partly adher'd unto the Superstition of the Gentiles part●ly unto the Law of Mahomet or else to the Heresie of the Nestorians who in the Year 1300. undertaking an Expedition or Voyage from Chaldea into Tartary to ●sow their Tares infected the Minds of the Christians there yet remainining with the Venome of their impious Opinions and also taught them who were ignorant of Writing before the use of the Chaldean Characters which the Tartars use unto this Day But how the Tartars became Mahumetans read in Matthias Micheu in his first Book of the Asiatick Tartary And this is that which in brief I esteem'd requisite to acquaint the Reader with concerning the Change of the Christian Religion in China Tartaria and the other Regions of India CHAP. VII Of the last Introduction of Christianity into China THe Church of Christ continuing thus from Anno 636. in which the Syro-Chinesian Monument was erected in China and making great Progress behold the Enemy of Mankind by the Assistance of wicked Men threw down at one shock or storm whatsoever the Church of God had perfected in many years the Preachers of the Christian Faith out of the hatred and envy of the Bonzii being some put to death and the rest banish'd whence the Faithful at that time persever'd in the constancy of the Faith receiv'd even unto the Death but their Posterity in process of time