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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

〈…〉 y beginning he was the son of his Father without Mother no body can know the Mystery of his filiation unless it be the Father the Son and the Holy Spirit Now this Son was in the beginning the Word and this Word was the Word with God and the Word was God The spirit of the Father the holy Spirit the spirit of the Son is the ●ame divine Spirit the holy Spirit is without diminution or increase this Divine Spirit is called the Comforter a living God who proceeds from the Father and the Son he spake by the mouth of the Prophets he descended in a flame of fire upon the Apostles in Sion They published all over the world and preached the word of the Father and this word is the Son Besides the Father is not first because he is the Father nor the Son the last because he is Son so the Holy Ghost is neither the first nor the last They are three Persons and one God that sees all and is seen of no body he hath by his own counsel created all things afterwards the Son for our Salvation with the consent of the Father and of the divine Spirit descended from the highest Heavens ●● incarnate by the Holy Ghost of the Virgin Mary who was adorned with a twofold Virginity with a spiritual and carnal He was born without an● corruption his Mother Mary remaining a Virgin after his Birth fo● by a great miracle she brought her Son Jesus Christ without effusion of bloud or pangs He was a just man without sin perfect God and perfect man having but one Person whe● he was a Child he grew up by degrees sucking the Milk of his Mother the Virgin Mary and when he came to be thirty years of age he was baptized in the River Jordan As other men he walked sweat hungred thirsted and was weary He suffered all things willingly and shewed many miracles By the power of his Divinity he restored sight to the blind he healed the lame cleansed the lepers raised the dead at last of his own accord he was taken prisoner whipt buffeted crucified he languished and dyed fo● our si●s by his death he did overcome death and the Devil by his sufferings he satisfied for our sins and bore our infirmities with the Baptism of his bloud which is that of his death he baptized the holy Patriarchs and Prophets he descended into Hell where were the Souls of Adam and of his Sons and of Christ himself which is of Adam This soul of Adam Christ did receive from the Holy Virgin Mary by the power and Authority of his Divinity and efficaciousness of his Cross he broke the strong gates of hell and of death he confined Satan to his chains and redeemed Adam and his Sons All this Christ did because he was filled with the Divinity and the Divinity itself was with his soul and with his most holy body which Divinity hath granted vertue to the Cross this Divinity he enjoys common with the Father as he ●● ways did At last he was buryed 〈…〉 the third day Jesus Christ the f 〈…〉 of the Resurrection our greatest delight the chief Priest Jesus Christ the great King of Israel rose ●● from the dead by his own strength and power And when all was accomplished that had been fore-told by the holy Prophets he ascended into Heaven with glory and is sate down at the right hand of the Father he shall come again with glory having before him a Cross and in his hand the Sword of Justice to judge both the quick and the dead of whose Kingdom there shall never be any end We believe one Catholick and Apostolick Church we believe one Baptism for the remission of sins we hope ●or the Resurrection of the dead and the life of the World to come Amen This is their Creed they often do repeat it in their Churches especially every new Moon with many gests which they have retained of their former Religions The Priest that officiates says it alone and three or four times the people do repeat these words This is our Faith Since they have had knowledge of the Roman Catholick Religion they have added something to their Creed by the consent of one of their general Assemblies for they were careful to hinder their people from receiving any other Opinions than those that they had formerly embraced for when they saw that our Priests and Jesuits were busie in drawing them to the faith of the Church of Rome they published a little addition to their Creed to inform every one of their judgments hinder them to receive any opinions which they do not approve of We believe that the Virgin Mary is a pure Virgin before and after the Birth of Christ as she is the Mother of God she ought to be loved and respected accordingly but we neither worship Her nor pray unto Her We believe that the Cross of Christ is a useful sign it was upon it that he suffered for our sins and purchased unto us Salvation with his own bloud His Cross is a scandal to the Jews and a folly to the Gentiles but to us Christians it is in much esteem and honour we believe that the Cross of Christ is sufficient to redeem us as S. Paul hath taught us but the outward sign and use of it we employ more for distinction than out of duty And that we may never think it a scorn to wear the badge of our Profession We believe that S. Peter was the first of the Apostles that the Stone that Christ mentions upon which his Church is built is his Law and Faith which Law is established upon the Prophets and Apostles unto them was granted the power of governing the Church of binding and loosing and to them was committed the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven But we do not acknowledge the Superiority that his Successors the Popes of Rome do derive from S. Peter nor do we believe that he ever had any priviledge which the others did not enjoy We believe that the holy Apostles Saints and Martyrs that are in glory did follow the foot-steps of our Saviour Christ and that they have received from him the pardon of their sins as we do We believe that we must honour them with the holy Angels but we do not approve of prayers made unto them nor of the sufficiency of their Merits to benefit us or the Church of Christ We believe that it is well done to confess our sins before the Ministers of the Church for by their prayers we may be assisted and comforted We receive all the books of the Old and New Testament as they were delivered unto us by S. Thomas without any addition or innovation We believe that our Clergy have liberty to Marry as the Apostles and Disciples of our Saviour were but that it is not lawful for a Priest to have two Wives or a Concubine We believe that we are bound to obey in Conscience cur Supream Lord ●iam Belul and under

but their daily labour Were our Fryers our Franciscans Mendicants and the other Orders of Religious men of this disposition in his Holiness dominions the people would honour and respect them and they would gain much credit to the Roman Church by such practises and to themselves These Fyers that are thus retired out of the great concourse of the towns and people are of several fraternities some are called the Moncks of St. Anthony these are the most numerous Their founder was an Anachoret of Egypt that spent his latter days in the desart places in tilling and dressing the ground He drew unto him such numbers of people that were weary with the toil and troubles of the great world that he saw many thousands imitate his example before he dyed The other fraternities are those of St. Paul of St. Maconius whose employment is the same with the Monks of St. Anthony they differ only in their names In every Covent they elect every year a Superintendant whom they call Loucana he is to keep good orders and to answer all the miscarriages that are committed by the Society if he allows of them These blessed places are to pay no Revenue to the Emperour but of their prayers All other Lands are at his disposal by the Statutes of the Empire he is the Lord of them but these that belong to the Fryers are none of his and free from all impositions So are all the other Lands and places that belong to the Clergy for we may take notice that the tythes of all things belonging to the Emperor the Clergy and those that attend in the worship of God have a maintenance appointed unto them out of certain Lands and territories which they must see manured as well as the rest of the people do theirs for they receive little or no benevolence from the Country they depend not upon them for their maintenance so that by that means they are highly honoured of all men and beloved because they rather give to them than take from them and although they are well rewarded for their pains from the Lands allotted to them their good Offices look as favours and kindnesses done to the people because nothing proceeds from their labours or Estates to reward the Priests instructions and Attendance The Churches are separated into three distinct places or rooms according to the manner of the Jews At the entrance of the Temple about six paces there is a Curtain drawn that makes the first separation every body may go into the Church but none but those that have been sanctified by the Abuna have liberty to go into that place and pass the first Curtain This was wisely enacted to oblige all the Nobility and Persons of Quality to receive that benefit from the High-Priest and by tha● means to endear him unto them Next to this place before the Altar-table is drawn another Curtain beyond which none hath liberty to pass but the Priests themselves when the Communion is administred These curtains are drawn but the people keep themselves in their several distinct places until the time of the Communion The Churches are very neatly adorned with Pictures which these people do not worship but only as Ornaments to their Religious Houses they place them there The Churches are built of Lime and Stone which they use not in their common buildings for they think it decent that the places set apart for the Service of God should have no common materials None therefore but some select houses of the Emperour are built in this manner and with the same substance When the Priest hath lost his Wife by death he may not marry again unless he wil lose the power of executing his function yet the Patriarch may give a License to marry again but without that License it is altogether unlawful They bury their dead with the greatest ceremony imaginable they cloath them in all their most gaudy attire and carry them in a Chair with their faces and hands uncovered if the dead hath been a Souldier he hath the honour to go armed into the grave before march the Priest and the Religious men saying some good sentences advising the people to prepare to depart then comes the Corps seated in his Chair of State trimed with Garlands and Flowers and with some white Feathers if he be young with yellow if he be of a middle age and with black if he be old The sight is so pleasant that it would almost give every one a mind to be in the room of the dead the Parents follow with a badge of mourning upon their heads a handful of ashes the next come their friends and acquaintance thus they proceed to the Grave in order where the first ch of the Gospel of S. John is read the noble Actions vertues of the dead are rehearsed all hearing with much devotion then the Priest as they put the body in the Grave pronounceth these words Dust thou art and to dust thou shalt return The next day they give alms and send gifts to their friends in the name of the deceased and bring upon his Grave a banquet according to the Quality of the Persons And every day for a moneth they continue to visit the Sepulchre of the dead and to offer up some prayers for him to Almighty God for they imagine something of purgatory and of the unsealed estate of the Soul immediately after its departure out of this life which obliges them to intreat for them that they may enter into the joys of the blessed THE DESCRIPTION OF THE Several Kingdoms Subject TO THE NEGUZ Of Barnagasso THis Kingdom is as fruitful as it is large and populous It is limited on the South by a pleasant River called Abagni that discharges it self into Nilus on the West it hath an Island called by the Inhabitants Souhador by our people Gueyter● which Island the River Nilus formeth as it runs through Ethiopia towards Egypt on the North is the Kingdom of Dafila and on the East the Red Sea where there is a very convenient Port for Ships now possessed by the Turks and Moors called Erc●cc● This Kingdom is full of little towns the most considerable places are Finash Carne Timei Bara Barvo there is over it a Lord or a King that commands in chief and hath it by inheritance he that is there now is called Ishmael he pays tribute both to the Turks and to the Neguz the Country abounds in Silk Cloath of Silver that is made by the Inhabitants and in Cottons It is fruitful of Dates Pomgranates Peaches Apricocks Corn of all sorts especially Oats the people make of it a drink very pleasant Here are also many Vineyards the Wine they make by stealth as in other places of the dominions of the Neguz The Country is for the most part Champaign unless it be towards the Red sea there a ridge of hills stretches it self all along the Coast and encloseth many lakes and pools of water enriched with excellent fish that which is