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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

Spirit and with Himself without any defect or division the Son of the Father the Son of the very Father without any beginning and at first the Son of the Father without a Mother the Secret and Mystery of whose Nativity is known to none but the Father Son and Holy Spirit This Son in the beginning was the Word and the Word was the Word with God and God was the Word The Spirit of the Father the Holy Spirit the Spirit of the Son the Holy Spirit and the Holy Spirit it s own Spirit without any diminution or augmentation That Holy Spirit is the Comforter of the living God who proceedeth from the Father and the Son and who spake by the mouth of the Prophets and descended in a flame of fire on the Apostles in the gate of Sion and who preached the word of the Father which Word the very Son was all over the World wherefore as the Father is not first notwithstanding he is the Father nor the Son last notwithstanding he is the Son so likewise the Holy Spirit is neither first nor last but they are Three Persons in One God who seeth and is seen by no-body and who by his only Council created all things The Son did of his own accord the Father being willing and the Holy Ghost consenting descend from his highest Habitation and was incarnate by the Holy Spirit in the Womb of the Virgin Mary who was adorned with a double Virginity the one Spiritual the other Carnal he was born without any Corruption his Mother Mary remaining a Virgin after her delivery and by a Miracle and a secret Flame of the Divinity brought forth her Son Jesus without blood and without pain who was perfectly Innocent and without Sin being perfect God and perfect Man and having only one Aspect he grew by degrees as an Infant sucking the Milk of the Virgin Mary his Mother and coming to Thirty Years of Age he was baptiz'd in Jordan and did walk and was weary and did hunger and thirst as other men do all these things he suffered voluntarily and of his own accord and wrought many Miracles restoring by the power of his Divinity sight to the Blind curing the Lame cleansing the Lepers raising the Dead after all which he himself was apprehended and whipt and scourged and crucified He languished and died for our Sins and by his Death overcame Death and the Devil and by his lively Agony dissolved our Sins and bore our Infirmities By the Baptism of his Blood that is his Death he baptized the Patriarchs and Prophets and descended into Hell where the Souls of Adam and his Sons were as also his own Soul which was from Adam which Soul Christ received from the Virgin Mary who by the power and splendor of his Divinity and the strength of his Cross broke the brazen fiery Gates of Hell binding Satan with Iron Chains and rescuing Adam and his Sons All these things Christ did because he was full of the Divinity and the Divinity it self was with his Soul as it was also with his most holy Body which Divinity gave virtue to the Cross and was what he always had and will have for ever in Trinity and Unity in common with the Father Neither did Christ during the time he was in the Flesh ever want the Divinity and Dignity thereof for one moment He was buried and on the third day Jesus Christ himself the Prince of the Resurrection the most sweet Jesus Christ Jesus Christ the Prince of the Priests Jesus Christ the King of Israel did with great power and strength rise and after having finished all things which were foretold by the holy Prophets he ascended with glory into Heaven and sitteth at the right hand of the Father and will come with glory carrying a Cross before him and in his hand a Sword of Justice to judge the quick and the dead of whose Kingdom there shall be no end I believe one Holy Catholick and Apostolick Church I believe one Baptism which is the Remission of Sins and I do hope for the Resurrection of the Dead and the Life of the Age to come Amen I believe the holy Lady Mary to be a Virgin both in Spirit and Flesh and do reverence her as the Mother of God the Charity of all Nations the Holy of Holies and the Virgin of Virgins I believe in the holy Wood of the Cross the Bed of the Agony of our Lord Jesus Christ the Son of God who is our Salvation for thorough him we are saved which notwithstanding it is an offence to the Jews and to the Gentiles foolishness we do preach believing it to be the power of the Cross of our Lord Christ as our Doctor St. Paul hath commanded I do believe St. Peter to be the Rock of the Law which Law is built upon the holy Prophets and the Foundation and Head of the Catholick and Apostolick Church of the East and West where the Name of Our Lord Jesus Christ is the Power of which Church is in St. Peter as is also the Kingdom of Heaven with which he can open and shut bind and loose and who shall sit with the other Apostles his Companions upon Twelve Seats with honour and praise together with our Lord Jesus Christ who upon the Day of Judgment is to pass Sentence upon us which will be a day of joy to the Saints and of sorrow and gnashing of teeth to Sinners when they shall be thrown into the flames of Hell with their Father the Devil I do believe the holy Prophets Apostles and Martyrs and Confessors to have been true Imitators of Christ whom together with the most holy Angels of God I do venerate and honour and do in the same manner embrace and reverence all their Followers I believe there ought to be an Oral Confession of all Sins made to a Priest by whose Prayers thorough Our Lord Jesus Christ I do hope to obtain the salvation of my Soul I do furthermore acknowledge the Roman Pontiff to be the first Bishop and Pastor of all the Sheep of Christ I do likewise observe and obey all Patriarchs Cardinals Archbishops and Bishops of whom he is the Head of the Ministers of Christ This is my Faith and Law and the Faith and Law of the People of Ethiopia who are under the Empire of Precious John which Faith and Love of Christ are so established among us that neither Death nor Fire nor Sword relying on Christ's assistance shall ever be able to oblige me to deny it this being the Faith we are all to carry on the Day of Judgment before the Face of Our Lord Jesus Christ I come now to explain the Discipline Doctrine and Law which the Apostles assembled together at Jerusalem did lay down in the holy Books of Synods and Canons called by us Manda Abethlis those Books of the Law of holy Church are Eight in number concerning which having had some discourse with several Learned Men here in Portugal I never met

to yield Obedience to your Holiness in that King's Name and in the Name of all his Subjects We have detained him here for some time being willing for divers Reasons that he should accompany our dear Nephew Martin de Portugal our Councellor and Ambassador whom we have ordered to present the said Francis Alvarez Ambassador of the said King of Ethiopia to your Holiness to yield Obedience to you as also to acquaint you with what the Ambassador of the said King that was sent to us has laid before us together with the Copies of that King's Letters to us wherefore your Holiness will do a thing that will be very acceptable unto God if in all this Affair you do give entire Credit to the said Martin our Ambassador for certainly great thanks ought to be returned to God for having in the time of your Pontificate done so great a favour to your Holiness that a Portion of Christians who as to the largness of their Country are nothing inferior to this of ours should consent to the Catholick Faith and to the Roman Church by yielding Obedience to it We for our parts are very thankful to God for having made use of our Ministry in the Reduction of this King There being nothing more for the praise of true Piety than to behold Ethiopia joyned with Europe in the Unity of the Christian Profession May our Lord God be pleased to encrease and preserve the Felicity of your Holiness according to your own desire Dated at Settuval the 28th of May 1532. King John having made the Habassin Emperor's Complements in his Letters to the Pope to amount to a formal submission of himself his Church and Empire to him must make his having detained an Embassage of that Moment and which he himself Magnifies so much so long at Lisbon to be the more wonderful But what it should be that after having slighted this Embassy for five long Years induced him to trump it up thus if it were not to do his Nephew Honor is a Mystery I shall leave to the Reader to unriddle having only observed that there were two Creations of Cardinals soon after it came to Rome The Portuguese and Habassin Ambassadors being arrived at Bononia The Portuguese and Habassin Ambassadors had their Audience of the Pope at Bononia where the Pope and the Emperor Charles the Fifth were together at that time they had the 29th of January given them for the Day of their publick Audience When being introduced into a publick Consistory at which the Emperor was present the Portuguese presented his Master's Letters to the Pope together with the Copies of those which had been sent to him and his Father by the King of Ethiopia When the Portuguese had done the Habassin presented his Master's Letters to the Pope and with them a Gold Cross that weighed about a Pound And having made the submission of the Emperor of Ethiopia and of his whole Church and Empire to his Holiness he was afterwards admitted to kiss his Foot and after that his Hand and at last his Mouth and having delivered the following Speech in Portuguese it was spoke aloud in Latin by the Secretary of the Portuguese Embassy MOST Holy and Blessed Father The Habassi● Ambassador's submission to the Pope the most Serene and Potent Lord David King of the Great and High Ethiopia who is commonly called Pretegya and who is no less glorious for the veneration he has for the True Religion than for his Empire Wealth and Kingdoms has sent this Ambassador to your Holiness with the Letters he has delivered to you commanding him to yield obedience and subjection to your Holiness in his Name and in that of his Kingdoms as Christ's Vicar and St. Peter's Successor and the Chief Pontiff of the whole Church and to present you with a Gold Cross which he hopes your Holiness not regarding the value thereof which is but small but the veneration that is due to it for Christ's having suffered thereon for our sakes will be pleased to accept of beseeching your Holiness in the name of the said Prince to accept of all that he has offered with a pious affection of a Father for your most devout Son To which Harangue the Pope's Secretary return'd the following Answer OUR most holy Lord doth receive you The Pope's Answer to the Habassin Ambassador my Lord Francis Alvarez the Ambassador of the most serene David King of Ethiopia together with his Obedience Gift and Letters with a good Will and Paternal Affection and doth return Thanks to God that such Letters and such an Ambassador should come in the time of his Pontificate from so great and remote a Christian Emperor he hath heard what you have said with Attention and great Joy and has with his Venerable Brethren the Cardinals graciously accepted of your Master's Obedience as also of his Gift both for the Honour that is due to the Holy Cross and the good Affection of the Donor And he doth furthermore highly extol in the Lord the most serene King of Portugal who besides the other great Services done by himself and Progenitors to the Common-wealth and Christian Faith has likewise deserved well of King David by having entred into an Alliance with him and having procured your being sent with these Letters to the Pope What remains is his Holiness will endeavour to the utmost of his Power so far as the great distance that is betwixt their Countries will permit so to satisfie the desires of the said King as to make him sensible of his being in the Place of a most dear Son in Christ and in the Affection and Esteem of his Holiness and the Holy Apostolical See no less than other Christian Princes And his Holiness will treat with the Ambassador of Portugal and you concerning these Affairs and will by his Letters and Nuncio's Return an Answer to all that your King has desired Zaga Zaba having nothing else to do at Lisbon Zaga Zaba's the Habassin Ambassador at Lisbon Account of the Religion and Customs of his Countrey and being willing to ingratiate himself with that Court by representing the Habassin Church as agreeing with the Roman in the Chief Doctrines wherein the Reformers contradict her did put Pen to Paper and drew up the following Account of the Religion Customs and Rites of his Countrey An Account of the Habassin Religion and Customs composed by Zaga Zaba the King of Ethiopia's Ambassador and written with his own Hand at Lisbon In the Name of our Lord Jesus Christ Amen WE believe in the Name of the Holy Trinity Father Son and Holy Ghost who are One Lord and Three Names One Divinity and Three Faces though but One Similitude and are an equal conjunction of Persons equal I say in Divinity One Kingdom One Throne One Word One Spirit the Word of the Father and the Son and the Word of the Holy Spirit and the Son is the same Word the Word with God the Word with the Holy

him in his pretentions to the Empire to the utmost of his power Suseneus was too sensible of how great advantage it would be to him to gain such a popular man as Selasse to his party to deny him any thing that he desired and so notwithstanding his terms were extravagantly high he granted them all without making any words about them knowing that whenever he should come to be possessed of the Empire Selasses's turbulent Spirit would undoubtedly furnish him with pretences to justifie his not making good his promises to him in any particular that should not be for his honour or safety to grant to him Za Selasses's Courier being returned to him with a full grant of all that he had desired of Suseneus and that not only under his own hand Jacob's General goes over to Suseneus but confirmed with the solemnity of an Oath he withdrew himself privately from the Emperor's Camp and having got into the Kingdom of Gojam of which he had been made Viceroy a little before by Jacob he there in a short time got together a considerable body of Men with which he Marched and joyned Suseneus who received him with all possible demonstrations of joy and affection as one sent from Heaven to help him to the Empire which he had set his heart so much upon that he did not care to outlive the hopes of attaining it Suseneus judging himself with this Reinforcement strong enough to fight Jacob Marched out of the Mountains to meet him intending to decide their Quarrel by a pitch'd Battel but when he came near Jacob's Camp finding him much stronger than he thought he had been he changed his measures resolving to act only upon the defence But Jacob having now got his Enemy out of his Fastnesses and knowing himself to be much superior to him in number for he is said to have had Thirty to One determined to fall upon him in his Camp and having got between him and the Mountains he commanded the Signal for a general Assault to be given which being observed by Suseneus he called all his Officers together and told them That since it was not now possible for them to avoid a Battel they must either resolve to make themselves Lords and Princes by fighting manfully or be content to be Slaves so long as they lived That for his part he was resolved either to Conquer or not to survive the Battel desiring them to Fight no longer than they saw him facing the Enemy That if they would Sally out of their Trenches and fall upon the Enemy which he took to be the best course it being what the Enemy did not expect he would lead them on in Person The Officers and Soldiers being strangely animated by this brisk Speech gave a shout Jacob and Suseneus come to a Battel and said They were ready to follow him wheresoever he should lead them or to go wheresoever he would Command them Suseneus glad to see his men in such a heat did not give them time to cool but marched or rather rushed like a torrent upon the Enemy disordering them so by the violence of the first shock he gave them that they dispersed immediately so that it was much more like a Slaughter than a Fight the Conqueror having lost but Three Men in the Action for where-ever Suseneus appeared the Enemy according as his Historian Timo reports fell before him as so many dry leaves off a fig-tree before the wind or like a swarm of Locusts when they fall into the Sea Jacob not caring it 's like Jacob is Killed fighting to live to be Deposed a second time was killed fighting as was also the Abuna whom Jacob had carried with him to fulminate his Excommunications against his Enemies Raz Athanateus who had stuck to Jacob to the last having made his escape shut himself into the Monastery of Dina where he continued till he had obtained his Pardon which was procured by the New Emperor's Brother Raz Sela Christos the Heroe as we shall see hereafter of the Jesuits Histories Suseneus whom hereafter we are to call Seltem Saged having Pardoned all that were in Arms against him excepting the Mahometan Mahurdin who had killed the Emperor Za Danguil with his own hand had all the Grandees instantly at his feet and the acclamations of the common People as loud as his Predecessor The Fathers during all the time of this broyl kept close at Fremona expecting to see to whom the Crown would fall at last and having received certain advice of Seltem Saged's great Success and of his being proclaimed Emperor every where they sent two of their number to wait upon him and Congratulate him upon his late Victory Father Peter who had been so very intimate with Jacob not being looked upon as so fit a Person for to carry this Complement The Two Fathers Two Fathers are sent from Fremona to Congratulate Suseneus who took the Name of Seltem Saged whose Names were Lawrence Romano and Antony Fernandez were graciously received by the Emperor who to do them the greater Honour commanded his Purveyor to send their Supper to them and was afterwards so mindful of them as to ask him whether he had sent them any Wine and being told that by reason of the Wines being distributed among the Nobles before he was ordered to send them any thing he had not the Emperor was very angry asking him How he durst be guilty of such an Error commanding him to go presently and carry his own portion of Wine to them saying I will drink Water rather than they shall When the Fathers judged it proper they went to wait upon the Emperor a second time who after some Complements asked them Where they resided And being told by them That they had no certain Habitation in Habassia He thereupon appointed them a Residence in a place near the Lake of Dembea The Fathers having thanked him for his kind offer told him That they would be better satisfied if he would be pleased to order their former Residence at Gorgora which had been taken from them after they had built a Church there to be restored to them again which he ordered to be done presently commanding them to write to Father Peter The Emperor sends to Father Peter to come to him of whom he said he had heard great things to come to him but not being satisfied with having bid them do it he sent an express to him himself to come to Court immediately The Father when he came was most graciously received by the Emperor who every time the Father waited upon him which he did daily entered into a discourse with him about Religion Father Tellez though he would not take upon him to decide who had the best Title to the Crown Jacob or Suseneus sets down what was to be said on both sides Jacob saith he was undoubtedly nighest to the Crown in the Royal Line in being the Son of Malac Saged who was Emperor he had besides