THE SOURCE OF THE NILE. _ gar 
ture to.common and material cafes, perhaps we had done 
better.’) Neither of them hath ever yet been tranflated into 
the Abyflinian, fo as to be underftood to mean the fame 
thing in different places. This for a time was, in acertain 
«degree, remedied, or underftood, by the free accefs.they had, 
for feveral ages, both to Cairo and Jerufalem, where their 
books were revifed, and corrected, and many of the princi- 
pal orthodox opinions inculcated... But, fince the conquef 
of Arabia and Egypt by Sultan Selim, in 1516, the commu- 
Mication between Abyflinia. and thefe two countries hath 
been very precarious and dangerous, if not entirely cut off; 
and now as to doctrine, | am perfectly convinced they are 
in. every refpect to the full as great heretics.as ever the Je- 
 fuits reprefented, them. AndI am confident,if any Gatholic 
miffionaries attempt to inftruct them again, they will foon 
lofe the ufe of letters, and the little knowledge they yet have 
of religion, from ‘prejudice only, and fear of incurring a 
‘danger they are not fufficiently acquainted with to follow 
the means of avoiding it. 
THe two natures in Chrift, the two perfons, their unity, 
their equality, the inferiority of the manhood, do@trines, and 
definitions of the time of St Athanafius, are all wrapt up in 
tenfold darknefs, and inextricable from amidf&t the thick 
clouds of herefy and ignorance of language. Nature is of- 
ten miftaken for. perfon, and perfon for nature; the fame of 
the human fubftance. It is monflrous to hear their reafon- 
ing upon it. One would think, that every different monk, 
every time he talks, purpofely broached tome new herefy. 
‘Scarce one of them that ever I converfed with, and thofe of 
the very belt of them, would fuffer it-to-be faid, that Chriit’s 
body was perfectly like our’s.. Nay, it was eafily feen that, 
Vor. Il, Sf in 
