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banos, or the high church ; while Hannes, his father, had 

 done every thing in his power to inftil into his fon a pre- 

 pofTemon in favour of thofe of Abba Euftathius. 



To thefe opinions, therefore, fo widely different, as well 

 in religion as tbe things of the world, 1 attribute the young 

 prince's difmclination to live with his father. This feems 

 confirmed by the firfl ftep he took upon his mounting 

 the throne, which was to make an alteration in the 

 church government from what his father had left it at his 

 death. 



It was on the 7th of July 1680 he was proclaimed king ; 

 the next day he depoled the Acab Saat Conflantius, and 

 gave his place to Afera Chriftos. He then called a coun- 

 cil of the clergy on the 27th of September, when he de- 

 pofed Itchegue Tzaga Chriftos, and in his room named Cy- 

 riacus. 



It was now the time that, according to cuftom, he was 

 to make his profeffion in regard to the difference I have 

 formerly mentioned that fubfifted between the two parties 

 about the incarnation of ChrifL But this he refufed to do 

 in the prefent ftate of the church, as there was then no> 

 certain Abuna in Abyffinia. For Hannes, before he died, 

 had written to the patriarch of Alexandria to depofe both 

 Abuna Chriftodulus and Marcus, who, in cafe of death,. 

 was to have fucceeded him, and this under pretence that 

 he had varied in his faith between the two contending 

 parties. 



Hannes j, 



