to a Reprobate
Sense, not undrestanding (or at least not willing to do so) that the
Cause of the _Indians_ is most Just, as well by the Law of Nature, as
the Divine and Humane, they by Force of Arms, destroying them, hacking
them in pieces, and turning them out of their own Confines and
Dominions, nor considering how unjust those Violences and Tyrannies
are, wherewith they have afflicted these poor Creatures, they still
contrive to raise new Wars against them: Nay they conceive, and by Word
and Writing testifie, that those Victories they have obtain'd against
those Innocents to their ruine, are granted them by God himself, as if
their unjust Wars were promoted and managed by a just Right and Title
to what they pretend; and with boasting Joy return Thanks to God for
their Tyranny, in imitation of those Tyrants and Robbers, of whom the
Prophet _Zechariah_ part of the Forth and Fifth Verses. _Feed the Sheep
of the slaughter, whose Possessors slay them, and hold themselves not
guilty, and they that sell them say, Blessed by the Lord, for ye are
rich._

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_Of the Kingdom of _JUCATAN.

An Impious Wretch by his Fabulous Stories and Relations to the King of
_Spain_ was made praefect of the Kingdom of _Jucatan_, in the Year of
our Lord 1526; And the other Tyrants to this very day have taken the
same indirect Measures to obtain Offices, and screw or wheedle
themselves into publick Charges or Employments, for this praetext, and
Authority, they had the greater opportunity to commit Theft and Rapine.
This Kingdom was very well peopled, and both for Temperature of Air,
and the Plenty of Food and Fruits, in which respect it is more Fertile
than _Mexico_, but chiefly for Hony and Wax, it exceeds all the
_Indian_ Countries that hath hitherto bin discover'd. It is Three
Hundred Miles in Compass. The Inhabitants of this place do much excel
all other _Indians_, either in Politie or Prudence, or in leading a
Regular Life and Morality, truly deserving to be instructed in the
Knowledge of the true God. Here the _Spaniards_ might have Erected
many fair Cities, and liv'd as it were in a Garden of Delights, if they
had not, through Covetousness, Stupidity, and the weight of Enormous
Crimes rendred themselves unworthy of so great a Benefit. This Tyrant,
with Three Hundred Men began to make War with these Innocent People,
living peaceably at home, and doing injury to