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[English Translation] considered that it would be a worthy field to sow piety and Christian self, a necessary state that those who wish to make some fruit in Religion, having been first subjected under the rule of reason and good laws, inasmuch as it is a ladder to climb to higher knowledge, Religion and self being only a goal to which all other virtues must tend, so that whoever has not reached there, cannot climb further, although they are drawn by all sorts of admonitions, as we we see that we have not benefited at all from the conversion of the savages who are in the woods having no civility. This is why our Byrachil is heading towards the Kingdom, passing first by Taprobane and the great Jave: But finding spirits rude and not at all disciplined, he can do little there, which caused him to stay there for a short time and to pass from the port of Bandan, city of Iava, to Sangil, where having arrived, he began to preach by the houses, places and entrances of the temples of the Idols; For this people were Pagans and Idolaters, recognizing however a sovereign God principal Monarch, of the sky and of the earth, first mover and factor of the universe |
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