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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. ’ 
Nor 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 herefi¢s, ignorance, and ob- 
{tinacy of the Abyflinian clergy, have not mifreprefented 
them, in the imputations made againtl them, either in point 
of faith or of morals...-Whether, this. being the cafe, the- 
miffion they undertook. of themfelves into that ‘country, . 
gave them. authority to deftroy the many with a view ‘to. 
convert the few, is a queftion to be refolved ‘hereafter ;' 1. 
believe it did not; and that the tares and the wheat fhould: 
have been fuffered to grow together till a hand of more. 
authority, guided by unerring judgment, pulled them, with. 
that portion of fafety he had pre-ordained for both, . 
Tue Proteftant writers again unfairly triumph over their - 
adverfaries the Catholics, ie afking, Why all that noife a-. 
bout the two natures in Chrift? It is plain, fay they, from 
paflages in the Haimanout Abou, and their other tracts up-- 
on orthodox belief, that they acknowledge that Chrift was 
perfect God and perfectman, of a rational foul and human, 
flefh fubfifting, and. that all the confeflions of unity, co-. 
equality, and inferiority, are there cxpieffed im the cleareft: 
manner. as received in the Greek church. : What neceflity 
was there for more; and what need of difputing upon thefe - 
points already fo fully fettled? 
Tars, I beg leave to fay, is unfair; for though it is true. 
that, at tthe time of collecting the Eada cal ous Abou, and at 
the» 
