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in their hearts, they went ftill further, and were very loth 

 to believe, if they did believe it at all, that the body of the 

 Virgin Mary and St Anne were perfectly human. 



Not to trouble the reader further with thefe uninterefting 

 particulars and diftinctions, I fhall only add, that the Jefuits, 

 in the account they give of the herefies, ignorance, and ob- 

 ftinacy of the Abyffinian clergy, have not mifreprefented 

 them, in the imputations made againfl them, either in point 

 of faith or of morals. Whether, this being the cafe, the 

 million they undertook of themfelves into that country, 

 gave them authority to deflroy the many with a view to 

 convert the few, is a queftion to be refolved hereafter ; I 

 believe it did not ; and that the tares and the wheat mould 

 have been fuffered to grow together till a hand of more 

 authority, guided by unerring judgment, pulled them, withu 

 that portion of fafety he had pre-ordained for both. 



The Proteftant writers again unfairly triumph over their 

 .ulverfaries the Catholics, by afking, Why all that noife a- 

 bout the two natures in Chriit ? It is plain, fay they, from 

 pauages in the Haimanout Abou, and their other tracts up- 

 on orthodox belief, that they acknowledge that Chrift was 

 perfect God and perfect man, of a rational foul and human 

 flefh iubfifting, and that all the confeflions of unity, co- 

 equality, and inferiority, are there cxpreiled in the cleareft 

 manner as received in the Greek church. What neceihty 

 was there for more ; and what need of difputing upon thefe 

 goints already fo fully fettled? 



This, I beg leave to fay, is unfair ; for though it is true 

 $Ut,,at the time of. collecting the Haimanout Abou, and at- 



the 



