`reprehended' by the Jesuit, dogmatically remarked, `I shall be saved
in spite of God, for to be saved a man has only to believe,'**
a remark which showed him clearly an honest opponent of the Jesuits,
as they insisted greatly on the doctrine of good works.

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* The word in Brazil is used to designate a half-breed, but the etymology
seems unknown.
** `Me he de salvar a pesar de Dios, porque para salvarse el hombre
no ha menester mas que creer' (Ruiz Montoya, `Conquista Espiritual').
Montoya adds with a touch of humour quite in Cervantes' vein:
`Este, sabe ya por experiencia la falsedad de su doctrina,
porque le mataron de tres balazos, sin confesion.'
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Ruiz Montoya and others tell us that the plan of action of the Paulistas
was either to attack the Jesuit reductions on Sunday, when the sheep
were gathered in the fold listening to Mass, surround the church,
murder the priest, and carry off the neophytes as slaves; or else,
disguised as Jesuits, enter a mission, gain the confidence of the Indians,
and then communicate with their soldiers, who were waiting in the woods.
But not content with this, it seems, so often did they practise singing Mass
to pass as Jesuits, that on returning to San Paulo, in their orgies,
their great diversion was to masquerade as priests. So that the rascals
not only profited by their villainy, but extracted much amusement
from their wicked deeds.* This, in Montoya's opinion, was even more damnable
than the actual crime. And so no doubt it was, and we in England,
by having made our vice as dull as virtue is in other lands,
have gone some way towards morality, for vice and virtue,
both deprived of humour, become not so far separated