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A67490 A brief account of the rebellions and bloudshed occasioned by the anti-Christian practices of the Jesuits and other popish emissaries in the empire of Ethiopia collected out of a manuscript history written in Latin by Jo. Michael Wansleben, a learned papist. Wansleben, Johann Michael, 1635-1679. 1679 (1679) Wing W710; ESTC R15140 23,426 44

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together with the rest of the New Testament in his Mother-tongue imprinted at Rome in the year of our Lord 1548. affirms that his Soveraign's Ancestors were in times past Lords of 62 Kingdoms but their Empire is now reduced to a Third part of its ancient Dimensions A vast Region which though concealed in those inward Recesses of Africa neither well known nor oft frequented by us of Europe yet may claim a just precedency among all the Nations of Christendom not only for the large extent of its Dominions but likewise for the prime Antiquity of its Conversion to the Christian Faith or at least its early Notice and participation of that Gospel whereby it hath been propagated in the World For shortly after the Glorious Ascension of our Lord into Heaven an Eunuch of great Authority under Candace Queen of the Ethiopians whom the aforementioned Tesfa Zion without expressing by what Authority he doth it names Lacasa and the place of her principal Residence Tigra upon his return from Jerusalem whither he had come to worship met with Philip the Evangelist in the Desart of Gaza who after he had preached unto him JESUS in the Exposition of what he then read in the Book of Esaias the Prophet baptized him in the next Water they came to as they went on their way whereof we have an authentick Record in the 8th Chapter of the Acts of the Holy Apostles And since the Spirit of Truth in the same Scripture tells us He went on his way rejoycing doubtless at his journeys end he expressed that Joy and its just occasion in making a publick declaration to his Countrey-men of all that befel him in the way and so he became the first Preacher of the Gospel to that part of the World though he was not fully qualified to convey all the priviledges that might compleat the Foundation of the Christian Church among them For Vid. Spondan An. Cbr. 35. N. 9. 15. the Eunuch wanting the Authority of conferring Holy Orders in regard he receiv'd both his Baptism and Instruction from a Deacon only and returned home without any Imposition of the Apostles hands the Abissins remained destitute of Priests or Bishops till such time as one Abà Seláma arrived in that Countrey whereof * Lib. 10. c. 9. Ruffinus in his Ecclesiastical History writes to this effect Meropius a certain Tyrian Philosopher determining to visit India took two Youths to accompany him in his Travels the one named Aedesius the other Frumentius In his Return he unhappily fell into a Port of Africa where a barbarous people surprized him and his whole Company and slew them all except the two Lads whom they found Conning their Lessons under a Tree near the inhospitable Harbor and of these they made a Present to their Soveraign Aedesius was raised to the Office of his Cup-bearer but he advanced Frumentius to be one of his Privy-Council After that Monarchs death Frumentius became Protector to the heir during his minority in which time he made diligent Inquiry among the Roman Merchants that drove a Traffick in those parts for such as were Christians and these he directed and authorized to build divers magnificent Structures for the publick exercise of the Christian Religion in more solemn Assemblies than had there been usual afore-time But when the young Prince arrived to such years as qualified him to assume the Government he no sooner took the Scepter into his own hands but Aedesius returned to his Kindred at Tyre Frumentius travelled to Alexandria in Egypt where after he had related the State of the Countrey from whence he came to the Patriarch advising him to send some sitperson thither endued with Episcopal Dignity and Power upon a Motion made by Athanasius then newly entred into the Order of * An Ethiopick History written by P. Almeyda saith be was Patriarch at that time Ex Chron. Auzumensi Priesthood the same Frumentius was sent back invested with the Authority of a Bishop who not only encreased the number of Believers by the Apostolick Miracles which he wrought but established also a Succession of Ecclesiastical Officers in those Countreys Whereupon the Abissins in memory of the singular Benefits they received by his Ministry styled him Aba Seláma i. e. The Father of Peace and have ever since honour'd the See of Alexandria with the Consecration of their successive Metropolitans According to the Abissin Chronologies this came to pass in the Year of Christ 356. when two Brothers whom they name Abriham and Azbiha raigned together but * An. Chr. 327. N. 4. Spondanus disagrees in the Computation of the time accounting their Raign nine and twenty years sooner From this Aba Seláma to Abuna Simon who died in the year 1618. they reckon up Ninety five Metropolitans in a continued Succession But the Church of Ethiopia thus planted and established in the Orthodox Profession of the Gospel did not long retain the Catholick Faith in its Purity for soon after the Council of Chalcedon which was convened in the year of Christ 451. had condemned Dioscorus of Heresie from whom being then Patriarch of Alexandria or rather from Jacob Syrus his Scholar according to their own Confession the Abissins receiv'd the corrupt Opinion of Eutyches they did not only separate from the Churches of Europe but proceeded so far as to pass sentence of Excommunication against them the form whereof my Author out of an Ethiopick Manuscript which he found somewhere in England translates in these words Maledicta sit impia Synodus quoe Chalcedone habita est Maledictus sit qui cum illis communicat omnesque qui in eâdem side cum illis permanent Nos autem non obedimus Congregationi istoe hoereticoe unquam In English thus Let the wicked Synod held at Chalcedon be accursed Cursed be he that is of their Communion and all those that continue in the same Faith with them But we own no Obedience or conformity to that Heretical assembly From that time till the year 1177. our Ecclesiastical Historians make little mention of the Abissins or any affairs of that Church except Galvisius in his Opere chron an Chr. 451. fol. 462. But in the forementioned year 1177. Pope Alexander the III. was informed by one of his Physicians named Peter then newly returned out of Ethiopia that the Abissin Emperor expressed himself very well inclined to the Church of Rome and desirous of being reconciled to her Communion for which purpose he requested his Holiness to entertain some of his subjects in Rome where they might conveniently be brought up and instructed in the principles of the Roman Faith This proposal was readily embraced by the Pope and the better to promote and encourage the designed Union he appointed them a certain house with a Chappel dedicated to S. Stephen scituate behind the Quire of S. Peter's for their Accommodation As soon as the Popes Letters brought Tidings into Ethiopia of the kind Reception allotted for them in Rome many of