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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49450	A new history of Ethiopia being a full and accurate description of the kingdom of Abessinia, vulgarly, though erroneously called the empire of Prester John : in four books ... : illustrated with copper plates / by ... Job Ludolphus ... ; made English, by J.P., Gent.; Historia Aethiopica. English	Ludolf, Hiob, 1624-1704.; J. P., Gent.	1682 (1682)	Wing L3468; ESTC R9778	257,513	339

of the Jews Error who were learned in the Books of the Mosaic Law Most Nations have a particular Dyet some by custome some through superstition Not to speak of the Mahumetans who abstain not only from Swines flesh but from Wine is not the custom of the Bannians not much different from the ancient Pythagoreans to be strangely admir'd who onely feed upon Herbs and Meats made of Milk which we hardly believe sufficient to sustain Nature Others there are that devour all sorts of Creatures which the flesh consuming Beasts themselves refuse and otherwise nauseous to the most part of Men. The Oriental Tartars feed upon Camels Foxes and all sorts of wild Beasts Some of our Europeans indulging their appetites please their palats with a sort of Dyet abominated by all other People as Frogs Cockles and I know not what sort of Insects Gregory had an utter aversion to Lobsters Crabbs Crayfish and Oysters which we accompt our chiefest Delicacies and it turn'd his stomach to see Turkies Hares and several other Dishes to which he was unaccustom'd brought to our Tables Being ask'd why he abstain'd from Swines flesh he retorted still and why we from Horse-flesh And most certainly were we to banquet with the Tartars there are but very few of us that would easily be induc'd to eat Horse-flesh with an Appetite tho it be one of their principal junkets Nay their Embassadors to our Princes desire fat Horses for their Kitchins However they abstain from blood and things strangl'd not out of any observance of the Mosaic Law but an Apostolic Decree always in force in the Eastern Church which was also for many Ages observ'd in the Western Church and reviv'd in some Councils They also rebuke us for that we suffer'd that Decree to be laid aside Nor do they allow the Jews Sabboth out of a respect to Judaism or that they learnt it from some certain Nations that kept the Seventh day holy But because the ancient Custom of the Primitive Church who observ'd that day perhaps out of complacency to the Jews being long retain'd in the East was at length carry'd into Ethiopia For thus we find it written in some ancient Constitutions which they call the Constitutions of the Apostles Let the Servants labour five days but let them keep the Holydays the Sabboth and the Lords Day in the Church for the sake of Pious Instruction The Council of Laodicea decreed that the Gospels with other parts of Scripture should be read upon the Sabboth when before the Paragraphs of the Law of Moses were onely read upon the Sabboth and the Gospels upon the Sunday the Texts of the old Law being thought most agreeable to the Old Sabboth and the Texts of the New Testament to the New Sabboth Socrates also farther testifies that the People us'd to assemble at Church upon the Sabboth and Lords Day And Gregory Nyssen whose Writings the Ethiopians have among them saith With what Eyes dost thou behold the Lords Day who hast defil'd the Sabboth Know'st thou not that these two days are Twins and that if thou injur'st the one thou dost injury to the other But Claudius makes so much difference between both days that he prefers the Lords day before the Sabaoth But as to what pertains to our Celebration of the ancient Sabaoth we do not celebrate it as the Jews did who Crucify'd Christ saying Let his blood be upon Us and our Children For those Jews neither draw water nor kindle fires nor dress meat nor bake bread neither do they go from house to house But we so celebrate it that we administer the Sacrament and relieve the Poor and the Widow as our Fathers the Apostles commanded Us. We Celebrate it as the Sabaoth of the first Holiday which is a new day of which David saith This is the day which the Lord made let us rejoyce and exult therein For upon that day our Lord Jesus Christ rose and upon that day the Holy Ghost descended upon the Apostles in the Oratory of Sion And in that day Christ was incarnated in the Womb of the Perpetual Virgin St. Mary and upon that day he shall come again to reward the Just and punish the Evil. Gregory also testify'd That the Habessines abstain from no sort of Labour upon the Sabaoth but from the most servile sorts of Labour This Custom continu'd long in the Church till it was abrogated by degrees for by the 22d Canon of the said Council of Laodicea the Christians are forbid to work upon the Sabaoth Nevertheless the Sacred Lectures were continu'd for a time as appears by the Canon above mention'd till at length those were also left off perhaps because that the People having a licence to work there were but few that repair'd to Church Moreover according to the Custom of the Jews it is lawful in Abessinia to marry the Widow of the Brother deceas'd as Alvarez testifies Adding That the Habessinian defend their so doing by the Laws of the Old Testament But Gregory positively deny'd that it was lawful but onely conniv'd at by the Magistrate However that such Wives are also prohibited from coming to the Holy Communion wherein Alvarez agrees with him However it does not therefore follow that this Custom was translated from the Jews to the Habessines no more then if any one should assert that the Laws of Polygamie and Divorce were deriv'd from the Jews And yet this is somewhat strange I must confess that they abstain from that Muscle which the Hebrews call Ghid Hannesheh or the Sinew mutilated the Ethiopians Sereje Berum the forbidden Nerve the Amharies Shalada Which very probably they might learn from the Jews in their own Country of which Nation there are several Colonies in Ethiopia But as to what is reported concerning Queen Candaces Eunuch we have already shew'd that she was not Queen of Habessinia but of the Ethiopians that inhabited the Iland of Meroe and if the Eunuch were a Jew it does not follow that his Lady the Queen shall be so too Others there are who tell us That Menilehec's Successors in a short time return'd to the worship of Idols Which if it be true the assertion of the Continuation of the Jewish Religion till the time of the Apostles will prove altogether vain tho in Europe most certainly the Habessines were long suspected of Judaisme and so are many to this day Which King Claudius observing by his Disputations with Gonsalo Rodriguez and the Writings which he compos'd to refute the Errors of the Habessines set forth a Confession of which we have already cited several parcels as they related to our business The chief Scope of which was to remove that Suspition of Judaism from himself and his Subjects which in my opinion he very effectually did CHAP. II. Of the Conversion of the Habessines to the Christian Faith The Conversion of the Habessines attributed to Queen Candace's Eunuch but contrary to authentic Histories Candace no Habessinian Other Traditions nothing better Demonstrated when and by

following words Let the Holy Ghost descend and come and shine upon this Bread that it may be made the Body of Christ our Lord and that the taste and savour of this Cup may be chang'd that so it may be made the Blood of Christ our Lord. And when I ask'd him withal the Exposition of the words Majete vat valto to be chang'd or converted and then demanded of him Whether he did not think that the substance of the Bread and Wine was not chang'd and converted into the Substance of the Body and Blood of Christ He made answer That no such sort of Transubstantiation was known or understood by the Habessines That his Countrymen were not so scrupulous nor us'd to start such thorny Questions Nevertheless it seem'd to him probable and like that the vulgar Bread and Wine was chang'd into the mysterious Representation of the Body and Blood of Jesus Christ and so was alter'd from Prophane to Sacred to represent the true Body and Blood of Christ to the Communicants Tellez confesses his dissatisfaction touching their Consecration it being their Custom to say over the Body of Christ This bread is my Body and over the Wine This cup is my Blood Which words have not in them the true force of Consecration For the Doctors of the Roman Church are of Opinion That whoever speaks those words does nothing These words This is my Body being only of Efficacy to operate a true Transubstantiation Which being true no man can pretend that the Abessines acknowlege Transubstantiation especially seeing they do not attribute those Divine Honours to the Sacraments which the Consequences of real Transubstantiation require Concerning the state of the Soul after Death there are several Opinions among the Habessines every one having free Liberty of Opinion in those things that do not directly concern Eternal Salvation So that it is no wonder that so many various Sentiments of private persons are brought away by our Doctors as the publick Opinions of the Habessines Some of them believe that the Souls of Men piously deceased shall not behold the Beatifical Vision of God before the Resurrection of the Body which is also the Opinion of many of the Ancient Latins as if the Soul remain'd in Expectation of the Body in some certain third place Others convinc'd by the Authority of the Scripture acknowledge only two Mansions of the Souls Heaven and Hell believing no Damnatinn to those that are in Christ and dye in his Faith Which they gather from the Example of the Penitent Thief and the words of Christ thus Translated by the Ethiopians Verily I say unto thee firmly believe that thou shalt be with me in Paradice Therefore as for those that Piously sleep in Christ they believe them not to be in a worse Condition than this Thief who at the point of Death was sav'd through Penitence actuated by Faith without any satisfaction given for his Thieveries Now to prove that the Soul of Man is not created they produce this Argument That God perfected the whole Work of his Creation upon the Sixth day Nevertheless they believe it to be in its own Nature immortal as being inspir'd into Man by God at his first Creation But on the other side they think it very absurd that God should be ty'd to create new Souls every day for Adulterate and Incestuous Births However the first Opinion seems to be the more vulgarly receiv'd among them in regard of their Prayers for the Dead As for example Remember Lord the Souls of thy Servants and our Father Abba-Matthew and the rest of our Fathers Abba-Salama and Abba-Jacob And a little after Remember Lord the Kings of Ethiopia Abreha and Atzbeha Caleb and Gebra-Meskah c. Then they add Release O Lord our Fathers Abba Antony and Abba Macarius Remember Lord the Soul of thy Servant our Father Tecla-Hajmanot with all his Companions From whence it may be fairly justify'd that the Abessines admit of a Purgatory And yet Gregory constantly deny'd it And Godignus confesses That there are no sacred Services said for the deceas'd among the Habessines The same thing Tellez confirms However he derides them as not constant to themselves for that to pray for the Dead and distribute Alms to the Poor is no other than to assert Purgatory Nor do I see how they can reconcile their Praying for the Rest of happy Souls and at another time their imploring the Intercession of the same Souls But they nothing mov'd with these Arguments and Inferences affirm them to be the Pious Conception of their good wishes and only a Commemoration of the happy Estate of the deceas'd and that it is none of their business to make any farther scrutiny into the Traditions of their Ancestors Gregory added That many Prayers of the Christians were so conceiv'd that many times those things were Petition'd for which were already perform'd and answer'd That the Lord's Prayer contain'd Petitions of that kind For that it would be a thing but badly inferr'd that the Name of God was not Hallow'd or that his Will was not done both in Heaven and Earth because we daily put up those Prayers besides we all begg every day for Daily Bread when most of those that make that Prayer do generally live in wealthy abundance He had heard perhaps among us our general good Wishes for the departed That God would vouchsafe to grant the Interr'd Body a Quiet Repose and at length a joyful Resurrection And thereupon said he Do not you your selves wish the same good wishes for the Dead Do not you believe that the Carkasses of the Dead may be vexed with Spiritual Evils or that a happy Resurrection may be obtain'd by your Prayers And he took so heinously the suspition of his belief of Purgatory that he cry'd out Would it not be an irreverent Injury to so many Kings and Fathers should we interpret the Commemoration of their Souls to that height as to think they should be tormented for so many Ages in Purgatory and want the aid of our indefatigable Prayers to release them after so long an Imprisonment For those Kings and Fathers were men among the Habessines most Innocent and had bin dead above a Thousand years since or more So that whether they be in Paradice or remain in any other place expecting the Resurrection of their Bodies in both cases Prayers of that Nature seem superfluous Besides were there any Question to be made of the happy Condition of Men Piously deceas'd we should rather pray for those whose lives were more loose and vain than for those whose Conversations were without blame And therefore what has bin deliver'd about the Opinions of the Habessines concerning Purgatory leans rather upon Conjecture than any sufficient Authority they being ignorant of the very Name Insomuch that Jacob Wemmers the Carmelite in his Ethiopic Lexicon was constrain'd to forge a Word by calling it Mantzehi Hatate the Purger of Sin But we are to understand that it was the most Ancient Custom of