640 
A Dejcripion of the Coafls of 
the Wine ; and that day the Sacrament 
is received ( which is generally once a 
week ) they are forbidden to fpit. They 
baptize both with Fire and Water , be- 
fides which they circumcife their Chil- 
<^U^ nion that the Soul remains with the Body 
Baldaiis, under-ground till the Day of Judgment 
v/V%' and that the Angels are compofed of a 
fiery and lucid Subxtance. 
7. The The feveuth are the Coptes, or E^ypti- 
Coptes. Chriflians, being rather the Name of dren on the 8tfc day, and that both Sexes^ 
a Nation, than belonging to any peculiar not according to the manner of the Jews^ 
Religion: They are the fame with the but after the Mahometan way, whence it 
Jacobites^ the word Copki being the fame feemsasif it were rather a Cuftom than 
with ey££opbti. For notwithftanding the a Point of Religion. And if we deduce 
Doftrine of Eutyches was condemned in their Original from the antient Ethiop- 
the Council of Cbalcedon^ and Diofcorus Pa- ans^ Herodotus tells us, that they ufed to 
g. The A- 
byffines. 
••^ Preftc* 
gin rvoi 
the Title 
cf a- certain 
Afiarick 
Prince ; 
Jome wili 
have It 
a. Pertv.m 
triarch of Alexandria depofed upon that 
fcore, the fame took deep Root in the 
Eaftern Parts, and more efpecially in £- 
gypt. Thefe Egyptians (according to 
Teda Maria an Ahyffine Prieft ) agree in 
Point of Doftrine with the Jby/ftnes^ and 
acknowledg the Jurifdidion of the Pa- 
triarch of Alexandria^ whofe Relidence 
is now at Cairo. 
The eighth Seft is that of th^ Jhyfines, 
or Mediterranean Ethiopians, being gene- 
rally ^ticot/jei, whence their King (call'd 
eironeoufly by fome * Prejler John) is 
ftiled the Prince of the Jacobites. They 
rejed abfolutely the Council of Chalcedon^ 
and will allow it no place in their Writ- 
ings. To their Patriarch they give the 
Name of Albuna, i e. Our Father, who 
muft be a Native oat of the Territories 
of Alexandria, and of S. Antbony''s Or- 
der J for it is obfervable that all the Pa- 
triarchs and Bilhops in the Eafi, are ei- 
ther of the Order of S. Bajil Bilhop of 
Cefaria and Cappadocia, or elfe of the Or- 
der of S. Anthony. The Patriarchs of 
Confiantinople, Antiochia and Armenia, are 
of the Order of S. Bafil ; thofe of Alex- 
andria and Ethiopia, and Ethiopia, as alfo 
thofe of the Jacobites and Maronites, of S. 
Anthonfs Order ; but the Patriarchs of the 
Nefloreans are promifcuofly of either of 
thefe two Orders. The Abyjjines have for 
their Head the Patriarch of£ffe/oi?w.- They 
are rebaptized once every Year, on \ith 
day, as indeed are moft of the other Eaf- 
ternChriftians. They follow the Rules of 
the Old Teftament in reference to clean 
and unclean things. It is obfervable, that 
contrary to the cuftom of all the other 
Eaftern Chrillians (except the Armeni- 
ans) they ufe unlevened Bread in the 
Holy Sacrrment ; tho fome affirm that 
this is only done on TW/iii?)' in the Holy 
Week, and that at other times they ufe 
levened Bread. All Perfons, both Ec- 
clefiaftical and Civil, take and receive 
the Sacrament ftanding, and that always 
in the Church, the King himfelf not be- 
ing difpenfed with in this Point : The 
Prieft gives the Bread, and the Deacons 
praftife the fame in very antient Times ; 
if from the Arabians, the Matter is fuf- 
ficiently evident, the Arabians being de- 
fcended from Ifmael, tho they are gene- 
rally ambitious to trace their Origin ra- 
ther from Sarah than H.igar. For the 
reft, they rejed Purgatory, and Pray- 
ers for the Dead ; as alfo all Traditions, 
looking upon the Word of God as the 
only Rule of Faith •, but with the Jaco- 
bites, allow no more than one Nature in • 
Chrift. Of the Religion of the Abyf- 
fines^ Damian a Goes, Athanaf, Kircher, Al- 
varius, and others, have given a more 
ample account. 
The ninth Seft is that of the Armeni- g.Theht- 
ans, in great efteem among the Mahome- "lenians. 
tans, by reafon of their Traffick and 
Riches ; tho fome alledg another Reafon, 
viz^. that an Armenian did foretel Maho- 
met his future Greatnefs. In the Year 
1656. a certain Armenian Merchant, 
named Goja Salomon, a very grave and 
fober Perfon, travell'd in our company 
to Macajfar, where we were to treat a- 
bout a Peace with the King, and he to 
fetch fome Mony due to him from the 
Dani/J} Company, who gave us feveral 
needful Inftructions concerning both the 
Ecclefiaftical and Political Affairs of the 
Armenians. They antiently belonged 
to the Jurifdiftion of the Patriarch of 
Conftantinople, purfuant to a Decree of 
the Council of Cbalcedon ; but afterwards 
having withdrawn themfelves from the 
Greek Church, fet up two Patriarchs of 
their own, wz.. one in the Greater, the 
other in the Lejfer Armenia. We were 
told that they adminifter the Sacrament 
to the very Infants, whereas the Ru/Jians 
don't allow it to Children under ieven 
Years of Age. They declare pofitively 
againft the Purgatory and Tranfubftan- 
tiation. They rebaptize fuch as turn to 
their Religion from the IVeftem Churches ; 
They don't allow any Happinefs to the 
Souls of the deceafed till after the Day 
of Judgment. 
The tenth Seft is that of the Maro- to.Mar®^ 
nttes, having got their Name, not from 
the 
