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Page 44 - He can change any religious ordinances as he may think advisable, and kings have to submit to his authority. These monks brought the gospel, and mentioned to the emperor their proofs for the Trinity. His Majesty firmly believed in the truth of the Christian religion, and wishing to spread the doctrines of Jesus, ordered Prince Murdd 3 to take a few lessons in Christianity by way of auspiciousness, and charged Abulfazl to translate the Gospel.
Page 45 - Qutbuddin came, the Emperor brought him to a conference with some Christian priests, and rationalists, and some other great authorities of the age. After a discussion, the shaikh exclaimed, ' Let us make a great fire, and in the presence of His Majesty I shall pass through it. And if any one else gets safely through, he proves by it the truth of his religion.
Page 59 - Pahari, a boy of 13 years of age, who is learning the Portuguese language and therewith the things relating to our faith, and who shows himself well disposed thereto and who is of great natural genius and has good inclination. Father Monserrate was his teacher and now I am. 3. We have discovered a new nation...
Page 56 - ... he is near to adopting it. At the court some say he is a heathen and adores the sun. Others that he • is a Christian. Others that he intends to found a new sect. Among the people also there are various opinions regarding the Emperor: some holding him to be a Christian, others a heathen, others a Muhammadau.
Page 42 - The behaviour of these reptiles certainly does not appear to afford support to the belief that the butterflies, at any rate, usually considered nauseous, are distasteful to them.
Page 64 - ... provincial officers, who were asked to give safe conduct to the Christian envoy, " I am summoning the most learned and most virtuous of the Fathers that they may help me to a true knowledge of the Christian law and of the royal highways by which they travel to the presence of God. I, therefore, command my officers aforesaid to bestow great honour and favour both on Dom Leo Grimon and on the Fathers for whom I am sending " To the Fathers of the Society, he wrote : — " In the name of God. The...
Page 65 - India and its neighbourhood] several Fathers of great prudence and learning, and if this be so Your Reverences will be able immediately on receiving my letter, to send some of them to my Court with all confidence, so that in disputations with my doctors I may compare their several learning and character, and see the superiority of the Fathers over my doctors, whom we call Caziques,7 and who by this means may be taught to know the truth.
Page 46 - ... reasoning. Their statements were torn to pieces, and they were nearly put to shame; and then they began to attack the contradictions in the Gospel, but they could not prove their assertions. With perfect calmness and earnest conviction of the truth, the Padre replied to their arguments, and then...
Page 65 - In the name of God. The exalted and invincible Akbar to those who are in God's grace and have tasted of His Holy Spirit and to those that are obedient to the Spirit of the Messiah and lead men to God. I say to you learned Fathers, whose words are heeded as those of men retired from the world, who have left the pomps and honours of earth : Fathers who walk by the true way ; I would have your Reverences know that I have knowledge of all the faiths of the world both of various kinds of heathen and of...