. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . tances, rites, manner of presence, and somemore abstruse points then whereof the vulgar is capable)these by a generall name called Protestants, may beereckoned for a third part, perhaps not all so great in[I. i. 147.] multitudes as either of the former, but more flourishingthen the first in splendor of power and learning, onelyby an Inquisition inferior to the second ; and in numbersas many as all other professions of Christianitie, herereckoned a fou
. Hakluytus posthumus, or, Purchas his Pilgrimes: contayning a history of the world in sea voyages and lande travells by Englishmen and others . tances, rites, manner of presence, and somemore abstruse points then whereof the vulgar is capable)these by a generall name called Protestants, may beereckoned for a third part, perhaps not all so great in[I. i. 147.] multitudes as either of the former, but more flourishingthen the first in splendor of power and learning, onelyby an Inquisition inferior to the second ; and in numbersas many as all other professions of Christianitie, herereckoned a fourth part. 402 k CHRISTIAN RITES Chap. XIIII. Relations of divers Travellers, touching the diver-sities of Christian Rites and Tenents in diversparts of the World. §. i- Tecla Maria an Abassine, his answeres to ques-tions touching the Religion of the Abassinesand Cophti. Ou have read in Alvares, Bermudez, andthe Jesuites Relations, large Relations ofthe Abassine Faith, and of the Portugallsremaining in Habassia, as also of threePatriarchs sent thither from the Pope,but refused by the Abassine. ThesePortugalls dwelling there sent one Tecla. Maria, an Abassine Priest in their behalfe to Rome, whobefore the Cardinalls made answere as followeth July The Reverend Brother Tecla Maria, sonne of TeclaNebiat, of the Citie Henza Mariam, of the Province ofXena, of the Kingdome of Ethiopia Priest and Monke,of the Order of Saint Antonie, and of the MonasteryLibanus of the same Province, aged fortie five yeeres,at the command of the most Illustrious, and mostReverend Lord Cardinall of Saint Severine Protector ofthe Ethiopian Nation, to certaine interrogatories madein the Arabike to him, thus answered. Being asked what the Ethiopians beleeve of God andthe holy Trinitie, he answered; Wee beleeve in oneGod and three persons, the Father, Sonne, and HolyGhost. The Father is unbegotten, the Sonne begottenonely of the Father, the Holy Ghost proceeding fromthe Father and the Sonne. Being ask
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