THE SOURCE OF THE NILE, 333 
nobody ever took it into their heads to tax either Greek or 
Armenian with a repetition of baptifm. 
Monsizur DE TourRNEFORT*, in his travels through the 
Levant, gives you a figure of the Greek prieft, who bleffes 
the water in a peculiar habit, with a paftoral ftaff in his 
hand. 
But, befides this, various falfehoods have likewife been 
propagated about the manner of baptifm practifed in Abyf- 
finia, all in order to impugn the validity of it, and to ex- 
eufe the rafh conduct of the Jefuits for re-baptifing all the 
Abyfiinians, as if they had been a Jewifh and Pagan people 
that never had been baptifed at all. . The violation of this 
article of the creed, or confeffion of Nice, was a caufe of 
great offence to the Abyflinians, and of the misfortunes. 
that happened afterwards.. The whole of the Aby/ffinian. 
fervice of baptifm is in their liturgy. The Jefuits had plenty 
of copies in their hands, and could have pointed out the 
part of the fervice that was heretical, if they had pleafed ;. 
they did not pretend, however, to do this, and their filence 
condemns them. . 
As for the idle ftories that are told of the words pronoun- 
eed, fuch as,—“ I baptize you in the name of the Holy Tri- 
-nity,’— In the name of Peter and Paul,’—“I baptize you: 
in the water of Jordan,’—“ May God baptife you,’—*“ May. 
. God wath you,” and many others, they are all invented by- 
the Jefuits, to excufe the repetition of baptifm in Abyflinia, 
which: 
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