The First CURIOSITY.The First CURIOSITIE.

The First CURIOSITY.

The First CURIOSITIE.

I. Tis very Remarkable to see what an Impious & Impudent Imitation of Divine Things, is Api••ly affected by the Devil, in several of those matters, whereof the Confessions of our Witches, and the Afflictions of our Sufferers have informed us.

That Reverend and Excellent Person, Mr. John Higginson, in My Conversation with him, Once invited me to this Reflection; That the Indians which came from far to settle about Mexico, were in their Progress to that Settlement, under a Conduct of the Devil, very strangely Emulating what the Blessed God gave to Israel in the Wilderness.

Acosta, is our Author for it, That the Devil in their Idol Vitzlipultzli, governed that mighty Nation. He commanded them to leave their Country, promising to make them Lords over all the Provinces possessed by Six other Nations of Indians, and give them a Land abounding with all precious things. They went forth, carrying their Idol with them, in a Coffer of Reeds, supported by Four of their Principal Priests; with whom he still Discoursed, in secret; Revealing to them the Successes, and Accidents of their way. He advised them, when to March, and where to Stay, and without his Commandment they moved not. The first thing they did, wherever they came, was to ⟨p. 140⟩Erect a Tabernacle, for their False God; which they set always in the midst of their Camp, and there placed the Ark upon an Altar. When they, Tired with pains, talked of, proceeding no frther in their Journey, than a certain pleasant Stage, whereto they were arrived, this Devil in one Night, horribly killed them that had started this Talk, by pulling out their Hearts. And so they passed on, till they came to Mexico.