Qui cum cogniti essent a barbaris quod essent alterius religionis (nam et psalmis semper atque orationibus vacabant, et quotidie sacrificium Deo victimae salutaris offerebant, habentes secum vascula sacra et tabulam altaris vice dedicatam) suspecti sunt habiti, quia si pervenirent ad satrapam et loquerentur cum illo, averterent illum a diis suis et ad novam Christianae fidei religionem transferrent, sicque paulatim omnis eorum provincia veterem cogeretur nova mutare culturam.
And when they were known of the barbarous people to be of another religion (for they continued always in prayer and singing of psalms, and offered daily to God the sacrifice of the saving victim, having with them sacred vessels and a table hallowed instead of an altar), they had them in suspicion that, if they came to the alderman and talked with him, they would turn him from their gods and bring him over to the new religion of Christs faith, and so by little and little the whole country should be enforced to change their old worship for the new one.
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