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entire, and uiuletUod to my last biealli; and eonstantly to hold 

 and protess, and to procure its being- lielil, professed, preaehed^ 

 and tauL;ht by all that are subject to me, or that shall be any ways 

 under my care. I. N. do promise and vow to God, and swear to 

 this holy Cross of our Lord Christ; so help me God, and the 

 contents of this Gospel. 



I do also promise, vow and swear to God, this Cross, and these 

 Holy Gospels never to receive into this Church and Bishoprick 

 of the iS'c/ Trt, any bishop, arehbishop, prelate, pastor or gover- 

 nor whatsoever, but what shall be immediately appointed by the 

 Holy Apostolical see, and the bishop of Home, and that whom- 

 soever he shall appoint, 1 will receive and obey as my true pas- 

 tor, without expecting any message, or having any further depen- 

 dance upon the patriarch of Babylon, whom 1 condemn, reject 

 and anathematize, as being a Nestorian heretick and schismatic, 

 and out of the obedience of the holy Roman Church, and for that 

 reason out of a stale of salvation ; and I do swear and promise, ne- 

 ver to obey him any more, nor to communicate with him in any mat- 

 ter. All this that I have professed and declared, I do promise, vow 

 and swear to Almighty God, and the holy Cross of Christ : so help 

 me God, and the contents of these Gospels. Amen." 



On the third day it was decreed that an exposition of faith in 

 distinct chapters, should be published for the instruction of the peo- 

 ple at large. It was ordered tliat those books or verses of the scrip- 

 ture which were wanting in the Syriac manuscripts, should be trans- 

 lated into Syriac by Francisco de Roz, and their copies thus com- 

 pleted. The deficiencies were the following; the beginning of 

 the 8th chapter of St. John's Gospel ; seventy disciples said 

 to be sent by Christ instead of seven/y two^ in the 10th chapter 

 of St. Luke ; the Doxology in the Lords Prayer omitted Mat. 5 ; 

 the second Epistles of St. Peter; the second and third Epistles of 

 St. John; that of Jude ; and the Revelation of St, John; in the 



4 chapter of St. John's 1st Epistle the words, cj7ii solvit Jesurrty 

 ex Deo non est ; and in the 5th chapter the famous text of the 

 three witnesses. In the Old Testament the book of Esther, and 

 in the Apocrypha those of Wisdom and Tobit were wantin^'. 



Corrections of certain other texts were also ordered, where the 

 Syrian copies seemed to favour the doctrines of Nestorius. Three 

 errors attributed to the christians of St. Thomas were condemned 

 — the transmigration of souls after death int.o other bodies either 



