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A42562	The church-history of Ethiopia wherein among other things, the two great splendid Roman missions into that empire are placed in their true light : to which are added, an epitome of the Dominican history of that church, and an account of the practices and conviction of Maria of the Annunciation, the famous nun of Lisbon / composed by Michael Geddes ...	Geddes, Michael, 1650?-1713.	1696 (1696)	Wing G444; ESTC R21773	296,122	524

with one that had ever heard of them before The Observances prescribed in those Books are as followeth 1. That we are to fast upon all Wednesdays in memory of its having been decreed by the Jewish Council upon that day That Christ should be put to death We are commanded likewise to fast upon all Fridays because Christ was crucify'd and died for our Sins on that day upon which two days we are commanded to eat nothing till Sun-set During the 40 days of Lent we are commanded to fast with Bread and Water and to be employed seven hours in the day in Divine Service by the same Edicts we are commanded to Administer the Sacraments in the Evenings of Wednesdays and Fridays because our Saviour expired at that time on the Cross We are furthermore commanded to assemble together unanimously on the Lord's Day in the Church three hours after Sun-rising to read and hear the Books of the Prophets and afterwards to preach the Gospel and Administer the Sacrament they have furthermore appointed Nine days to be observed as Festivities in honour of Christ to wit the Annunciation the Nativity the Circumcision the Purification or Day of Candles of Baptism of Transfiguration Palm-Sunday until the Octaves of Good-Friday which are twelve days of the Ascension and Pentecost with their Festivities according to these Books We are without exception to eat Flesh every day from Easter to Pentecost neither are we bound to fast till after the Octaves of Pentecost which is observed for the greater honour and veneration of the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ they command us likewise to celebrate the Days of the Death and Assumption of the Virgin Mary with great honour But besides the Precepts of the Apostles a certain Precious John whose name was Zara Jacob ordained 33 days in every year to be kept in honour of the said Blessed Virgin and a day in every Month in honour of Christ's Nativity which is always the 25th of the Month and a day likewise in every Month to be observed in honour of St. Michael Furthermore in obedience to the said Synod of the Apostles we do celebrate the day of St. Stephen and other Martyrs and are bound by the Institution of the Apostles to observe two days to wit the Sabbath and Lord's-Day on which it is not lawful for us to do any work no not the least on the Sabbath-Day because God after he had finished the Creation of the World rested thereon Which Day as God would have it called the Holy of Holies so the not celebrating thereof with great honour and devotion seems to be plainly contrary to God's Will and Precept who will suffer Heaven and Earth to pass away sooner than his Word and that especially since Christ came not to dissolve the Law but to fulfil it It is not therefore in imitation of the Jews but in obedience to Christ and his holy Apostles that we observe that Day the favour that was shewed herein to the Jews being transferred to us Christians so that excepting Lent we eat Flesh every Saturday in the Year but in the Kingdoms of Barnagaus Tigre and Mahon the Christians according to ancient custome do eat Flesh on all Saturdays and Sundays even in Lent We do observe the Lord's-Day after the manner of all other Christians in memory of Christ's Resurrection But as we are sensible that we have the observation of the Sabbath-Day from the Books of the Law and not from those of the Gospel A Falsehood so we are not ignorant that the Gospel is the end of the Law and the Prophets On those forementioned Days we believe the Souls of the Just departed this Life not to be tormented in Purgatory which ease will be granted by God to them upon those two most holy Days until the term of their suffering for their Sins is expired and they are entirely delivered to the shortning and mitigating of which Torments we believe the Alms that are given for the relief of the Souls in Purgatory do contribute much towards the remission of which Souls the Patriarch grants no Indulgences The Abuna never grants any Indulgences which we believe belongs to God only and that he only constitutes the time of their punishment neither does the Patriarch grant Indulgences on any occasion The Gospel obligeth us to observe only the Six Precepts which Christ with his own mouth has explained as follows I was hungry and you gave me meat I was thirsty and you gave me drink I was a stranger and you entertained me naked and you covered me sick and you visited me in prison and you came unto me which are all words that will be spoke by Christ at the Day of Judgment For the Law as St. Paul says sheweth us our sins which Law without Christ The Habassins believe Original Sin none is able to keep Paul witnesseth likewise that we are all born in sin by reason of the Transgression and Curse of our Mother Eve Paul saith furthermore that we died thorough Adam and do live thorough Christ who of his infinite mercy gave us these Six Precepts that when he comes in Majesty to judge the Quick and Dead we may be saved With which Words and Precepts he will on the Tremendous Day of Judgment allot everlasting Glory to the Righteous and to the Wicked Fire and Everlasting Damnation We do reckon only five mortal Sins as they call them which are gathered out of the last Chapter of the Revelations where it is said Without are dogs and witches and unclean persons and murtherers and idolaters and every one who loveth and maketh a lye It is constituted by the holy Apostles Clerks may marry in the Book of Synods that it is lawful for Clerks to marry and that even after they have some knowledge of Divine Matters who after they are married are received into the Order of Presbyter to which none are admitted before they are 30 years of Age neither are Bastards ever admitted to it Holy Orders are conferred by none but the Patriarch and after the death of their first Wives neither Bishops nor Presbyters are permitted to marry a second time unless the Patriarch shall think fit to dispence with them which he does sometimes to eminent Persons and when it is for the Publick good Neither are they suffered to keep Concubines unless they do voluntarily give over officiating after which they must no more meddle with holy things and this is so strictly observed that the Presbyters who marry a second time must not presume so much as to take a consecrated Candle in their hands and if any Bishop or Clerk is found to have had a Bastard he is deprived of his Orders and all his Ecclesiastical Benefices and his Goods if he dies without Children lawfully begotten do all go to Precious John and not to the Patriarch That it is lawful for Presbyters to have Wives we have received from St. Paul who would rather have both Clergy and Laity

one day in discourse to ask the Father Why after seven years captivity he did not think of returning home to his own Countrey meaning Armenia the Father told him That there was nothing that he was so desirous of as to see Armenia but that he was afraid to venture himself again in the Turkish Territories Aga thereupon did frankly undertake to put him in a way to get home with safety offering to carry him along with him to Matzua and Suaqhem and from thence to Cayr from whence he promised to send him with a Pass to Jerusalem from which place he might return home without any danger The Father having thanked Aga for his kind offer told him he would accept of it provided he would give him leave when he was at Matzua to make a step into Ethiopia to negotiate a little business he had to do there desiring him withal not to let the Governor of Dio know any thing of his design of returning home for that he would certainly stop him if he came to hear of it Aga who did not know but that he might have occasion to return to Dio again and for that reason being unwilling to do any thing whereby he might disoblige the Governour told the Father That though he should be very glad to serve him in taking him along with him yet unless he could obtain leave of the Governour to go he must pardon him for not doing it The Father being well pleased with this scruple of Aga's did promise since he would not carry him without it to try to obtain leave of the Governour to go with him And with such Engano's or Tricks saith a Jesuit Father Peter cheated the Devil The Father having communicated the whole Farce to the Governour he was so well pleased with it that he helped to carry it on by shewing Aga extraordinary Civilities for the kindness he intended to do to the good Armenian On the 22d of March 1603. Aga and his Armenian set sail from Dio and on the 26th of April they arrived safe at Matzua where the Bashaw being in the Countrey the Father upon Aga's recommendation was treated very kindly by Mustadem the Lieutenant-Govournor who at the first word granted him leave to go for some time into Ethiopia to negotiate the business he pretended to have there Father Peter notwithstanding his civil treatment was in pain till he was got from Matzua and having notice of six Christians that were bound for Ethiopia he took the opportunity of their company and having fixed his Journey on the 5th of May he went to take his leave of his Patron Aga who promised to wait two months for him at Matzua by which time the Armenian assured him he would be with him again In seven days the Father and his Company got to Deboran where he was waited on by Captain John Gabriel Father Peter a Spanish Jesuit steals into Ethiopia with several other Portugueses who did all accompany him to Fremona where Father Sylva resided and the Patriarch and most of his Companions had been buried The first thing he did after his coming to Fremona was to acquaint the Emperor whose name was Jacob with his arrival and to offer him his service the Emperor returned him a kind Answer telling him That after the Winter was over he should be glad to see him at his Court. This Jacob was a Natural Son of the last Emperor Malac Sagued Jacob the Natural Son of Malac Sagued was then Emperor who having left no Male-Children by his Empress Mariam Cima had named this Jacob at his Death his Successor in wrong to his Nephew Za Danguil the Son of his Brother Lepena Christo For notwithstanding it is in the power of the Habassin Emperor to name his Successor he is by the Laws of the Land tied to nominate a Male of the Royal Blood born in Wedlock Jacob was but an Infant when his Father died which was perhaps the chief reason why the Empress and Grandees of the Court were so zealous for his nomination hoping during his long Minority to have the Government wholly in their own hands And so the first thing they did after the old Emperor's breath was out of his body was to secure Za Danguil that he might give them no molestation which they reckoned they had done sufficiently by making him a close Prisoner in the Island of Deck in the Lake of Dembea For Seven Years the Government was entirely in the hands of the Empress and her Two Sons-in-law Ras Athanateus and Calfunde the Viceroy of Tigre who had been the chief Promoters of Jacob's Nomination to the Crown and who having tasted of the sweet of Sovereign Authority were very unwilling to part with it to Jacob now he was of Age according to the Custom of the Empire to take it upon himself and to prevent that they had given him an Education which they reckoned would have rendred him both unfit to govern and have disposed him to have been satisfied with the easy and gawdy Title of Emperor without troubling himself with the exercise of its Authority But they found themselves mistaken Jacob so soon as he was Fifteen declaring He was now of Age to govern both Himself and the Empire and that he would be no longer under Pupilage nor be kept a Minor all his days out of gratitude to those who had helped him to the Title of Emperor but with a design of keeping the Sovereign Authority in themselves The Empress and her two Sons resented this Treatment from a Creature of their own making so highly that they resolved to try to unmake him again and that they might do it with the better grace they pretended to be troubled in Conscience for the Injury they had done to Za Danguil in having persuaded the late Emperor his Uncle to lay him aside who was his true Heir And having with this and some other Popular Pretences brought most of the Grandees of the Court into a Conspiracy to depose Jacob and advance Za Danguil to the Crown they so order'd the matter Jacob is Deposed and Za Danguil made Emperor that Za Danguil appeared in the Camp and was proclaimed Emperor by them before Jacob ever so much as dreamt of their having any such design Nevertheless being advertised thereof by the Acclamations of the Camp he put himself on Horseback not to fight but to make his escape which he did only with eight of his Servants But as he was posting towards the Mountains the Countrey rose upon him and brought him back a Prisoner The new Emperor though advised by several of his Counsellors to cut off his Ears and Nose would not consent to it the Habassins as we shall see hereafter until their Princes came to be influenc'd by Jesuits being very merciful in their punishments so he contented himself with sending him into the remote Province of Narea ordering the Governor thereof to keep him a close Prisoner This Revolution happening the Winter after