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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 prieft in the pool, on the feiti- 
val of the Epiphany, was fo fond of the proper words as even, 
at that time, to fay, “I baptife you in the name of the Fa- 
“ ther, of the Son, and of the Holy Ghoft,’ the words he 
quotes to. fhew this immerfion in water on the Epiphany, 
is a real baptifm, I cannot comprehend why they fhould 
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 prefent, as I have above a hundred times been 
at the baptifm both of adults and infants, aye, and of apo- 
ftates too, I 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 
{mall quantity of oil of olives, in the form of a crofs. 
Tue Abyffinians receive the holy facrament in both kinds 
in unleavened bread, and in the grape bruifed with the 
hufk 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 itis in, unlefs the dried clufter is frefh 
bruifed juft 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 ftones and {kin 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 tafted a flavour that 
was not natural to the grape itfelf, 
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