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which there was no fort of occafion for, as they might have 

 examined the words and form in the liturgies, which are in 

 every church ; and I muft here only obferve, that if, as the 

 chaplain of Alvarez fays, the pricft in the pool, on the fefli- 

 val of the Epiphany, was fo fond of the proper words as even, 

 at that time, to fay, " 1 baptife you. in the name of the la- 

 " ther, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft," the words he 

 quotes to mew this immerfion in water on the Epiphany, 

 is a real baptifm, I cannot comprehend why they ihould 

 vary them to other words, when nothing but baptifm is 

 meant. But this I can bear evidence of, that, in no time 

 when I was prcfent, as I have above a hundred times been 

 at the baptifm both of adults and infants, aye, and of apo- 

 ftates too, 1 never heard other words pronounced than the 

 orthodox baptifmal ones, " I baptize thee in the name of 

 " the Father, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft," immer- 

 ging the child in pure water, into which they firft pour a 

 fmall quantity of oil of olives, in the form of a crofs. 



The Abyiiinians receive the holy facrament in both kinds 

 in unleavened bread, and in the grape bruifed with the 

 huik together as it grows, fo that it is a kind of marmal- 

 ade, and is given in a flat fpoon : whatever they may pre- 

 tend, fome mixture feems neceflary to keep it from fermen- 

 tation in the ftate that it is in, unlefs the dried duller is frefh 

 bruifed jufl before it is ufed, for it is little more fluid than 

 the common marmalade of confectioners ; but it is perfectly 

 the grape as it grew, bruifed Hones and lkin together. Some 

 means, however, have been ufed, as I fuppofe, to prevent 

 fermentation, and make it keep ; and, though this is con- 

 ftantly denied, I have often thought I tailed a flavour that 

 was not natural to the grape itfelf. 



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