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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
duty_n	day_n	lord_n	week_n	2,075	5	9.7497	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A30860	The late travels of S. Giacomo Baratti, an Italian gentleman, into the remote countries of the Abissins, or of Ethiopia interior wherein you shall find an exact account of the laws, government, religion, discipline, customs, &c. of the Christian people that do inhabit there with many observations which some may improve to the advantage and increase of Trade with them : together with a confirmation of this relation drawn from the writings of Damianus de Goes and Jo. Scaliger, who agree with the author in many particulars / translated by G.D.	Baratti, Giacomo.; G. D.; Góis, Damião de, 1502-1574.; Scaliger, Joseph Juste, 1540-1609.	1670 (1670)	Wing B677; ESTC R11736	63,785	282

him the Abuna of our Church with all the rest of our Ecclesiastical and Civil Magistrates and Superiours but no other We religiously believe that there is a place where the less Regenerate persons do go after this life which is neither Hell nor Heaven what it is and what the souls do suffer in it we are not able to define We believe that none can be saved without the bloud of Jesus Christ that it is sufficient to cleanse us from all our sins without any other assistance and that we are not to trust upon the Merits of the Apostles and Saints that were but sinful men as we were We believe that there shall be a day of Judgement where Christ shall appear in glory to Judge all men that we must all appear before him to give an account of our actions and that after that we shall all either go to hell or heaven the wicked to everlasting burning and the Righteous to eternal bliss Amen This is the faith that the subjects of Precious Giam which we are to maintain until the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ God grant us grace that we may never forsake it notwithstanding all the persecutions and perswasions of the enemies of Christianity This addition was lately made since the Portugueses and other Europeans have travelled into those parts for when some Religious men did endeavour to perswade the Emperour to submit to the See of Rome and joyn with the other Christian Princes in their obedience to the Popes power He would never do it not would never suffer the divulging the opinions which we do embrace in Italy They do believe whatsoever is in their Books called Manda and Abetil as the Gospel it self they do fancy that the Apostles and Disciples being assembled together at Jerusalem did cause them to be written for the benefit of Christianity In them are contained these precepts To fast every Wednesday in remembrance of the wicked resolution of the Jews made upon that day to crucifie Christ To fast every Fryday because on that day Christ was crucified for our sins on these days it is commanded to fast untill the evening To observe forty dayes Lent especially the Passion week and then to feed upon nothing but bread and water To meet together on the Lords day and then to hear the Reading of the holy Writings of the Apostles and Prophets which are to be expounded by some appointed for that purpose To meet also upon the sabbath-Sabbath-day and then to spend the time in prayer and holy duties in which days it is not permitted to do any servile work The Saturday they keep because God on that day had finished the great Work of the Creation of the world The Lords-day is also set apart for Religious duties because Christ on the first day of the week did rise from the dead Several other days of the year are kept holy some are those that are observed in our Church others are particular days appointed to continue the Memory of some great deliverances and particular favours which that Church and Empire have received They do believe that in their Festival days and in the Sabbath and Lords-day the souls of the damned are released from their torments until the Evening but that they can never come out of that place of darkness Some thoughts they have of Purgatory but not as we in the Catholick Church they do not think that Masses Prayers or any other pious actions can convey any benefit to the miserable souls that are there frying in the subterraneous ovens therefore they never bestow their Estates for the dead but when they are departed they leave them to their fortunes as they do us to ours One thing is very commendable amongst them when any are dead that have left some visible estate they send for the poorest persons of that place offer unto them gifts in the name of the deceased they make a Feast for others better qualified and spend two or three days in Mirth and jollity at the expences of the dead a custom derived from the Scythians who did thus rejoyce when their friends departed out of the world and did celebrate their entrance into it with the effusion of tears or rather this practice is derived from the belief of a Resurrection and the assurance that the party that is dead is free from all the sense of misery and affliction unto which the living are exposed daily They do not believe that Masses can redeem the souls of men from the punishments unto which they are liable by their miscarriages therefore they never see the Priest to huddle up before the Altar any prayers for them nor do the dying persons leave any annual rents for Masses to be said in remembrance of him or to fetch him out of the flames of Purgatory The Sacrament of the Eucharist they do administer sometimes every Sunday or Sabbath-day but as it was anciently practised by the the Christians of Primitive times in both kinds They are not afraid of that inconvenience that the wise men of our latter days have thought upon of profaning the bloud of Christ upon every unhallowed lip or by spilling it on the ground therefore the people do receive with the Priest in a most humble manner almost prostrate to the ground before they take it into their hands they make three bows to express the sacred Trinity of persons and then with lifted up eyes and hands they eat the wafer or the bread and drink of the cup kissing it before they part with it out of their hands They have as much reverence for that Sacrament as we in Italy but they do not think the bread to be Transubstantiated into flesh nor the wine into bloud nor do they pay any respect unto it but only when they do receive it I did enquire of some of them why they did eat it with that reverence seeing they did not fancy it other than our ordinary bread the answer was that it was consecrated to a holy use and that some respect was therefore due unto the Elements of Bread and Wine but when that should not be the most humble posture was most decent for those that received from Almighty God so great a favour as the signs of Christ Crucified They do not preserve either the Bread or Wine upon their Altars that are much like ours to another day nor do they send it to comfort the sick that custom they do not approve of because they may so frequently receive it every where that they do not stand in need of it in so short a time as their sick persons do continue in their crazie estate This custom they have amongst them that when any hath received the Bread and Wine he never ventures to spit all that day but retains all the humidity that flows into his mouth and swallows it for fear of casting to the ground any part of that Cup that was intended for to increase their faith This custom is kept so