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3. That he should make before the Archbishop the same con- 

 fession of Faith, which he sent to him from Goa, when he made 

 him Governor of the diocese, after the death of Mar Abraham, 



4. That he should deliver up all the Sy viae books of the dio- 

 cescy whether his own property or left by former Bishops, in 

 order thr^t such as require correction maybe revised^ and the 

 rest burned. 



5. That he should promise and swear obedience to the Pope, 

 the successor of St. Peler, the Vicar of Jesus Christ upon earth, 

 the supreme Head of the Church, the Father, the Master, the 

 Doctor and the Prelate of all Christians, of all Bishops, Arch- 

 bishops, Primates and Patriarchs in the world; that he should 

 confess that all men owed him obedience, and that such as refuse 

 are excluded from eternal salvation. 



6. That he should anathematize the Patriarch of Babylon, as 

 CL Nestorian Heretic, a Schismatic, separated from the obedience 

 of the holy Roman Church; that he should swear not to obey 

 hvn in any thing, to have no intercourse or communion with him, 

 not to receive his letters or to answer them. 



7. That in like manner he should swear never to receive any 

 Bishop or other Prelate into the diocese, that was not sent by 

 the Roman Pontiff, and recognized by the Archbishop of Goa, 

 and that all such he would obey as his true Pastors. 



8. That he should acknowledge the Archbishop Menezes as his 

 Bishop, delegated by the Apostolic See; that he would in all 

 things be subject to his orders as long as the diocese should be 

 without a Bishop of its own. 



9. That he should dispatch letters to convene a Synod of the 

 diocese in a place which should appear most suitable to the 

 Archbishop, to discuss matters of Faith ; that all the Priests 

 and all persons chosen by the different churches should attend, 

 and that the Archdeacon should swear to consent to whatever 

 should be there determined. 



10. That he should accompany the Archbishop wherever he 

 went, and that peaceably, and without other armed attendants 

 than his own domestics, that he should embark with him and at- 

 tend him in all his visits to the Churches. 



The Archbishop sent these Articles by a Cataiiar ; but to assure 

 himself of the fidelity of the messenger, he exacted from him sub- 

 scription to the profession of faith and a vow of obedience to the 



