Chap.XX. Malabar and Coromandel. 
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the famous Heretick Maron ( as iViUiam 
Tyrius and Prateolus falfly imagine) but 
from a certain Holy Man, in certain an- 
tient Records, mention being made of 
the Convent of St. Maron^ the Friers 
whereof were call'd Maronites : Some of 
them inhabit in Aleppo, Damafcus, Tripo- 
lisj Syriay and Cyprus ^ but their chief 
rfe ^/o«n^ Seat is the Mount Libanw^ whofe whole 
\nhah]tld ^o^ip^^"^ being computed of 700 Leagues, 
bytheVid.- but in moft places rocky and barren, is 
ronites. inhabited by about i 2coo Families of the 
Mcfron'ites^ who pay to the Grand Seigni- 
or feventeen Crowns per annum apiece for 
every Head that is above twelve years 
old •, and a Grown a year for each piece 
of Ground of fixteen Spans in the Square. 
The Mountain is of fnch a height, that it 
may be difcovered at 40 Leagues diftance. 
The Patriarch of the Maromtes has eight 
or nine SufFraganean Bifhops, he himfelf 
being always a Frier of the Order of S. 
jinthony^ and refides fometimes near the 
Mount Libanuf^ in a Convent of S. An- 
thony, fometimes at Tnpol'vs. The Ma- 
ronites are at prefent under the Jurifdidi- 
See Will, on of the See of Rome ^ and Pope Gregory 
Tyriusde XIII. (the fame who caufed the Altera- 
Bel.Sacr. j-jon of the New Stile to be inferted in 
I.22.C.2. the Almanack) ereded a College of the 
Maronites at Rome. The Maronites agree 
with the Greek Church in this Opinion, 
That the Holy Ghoft proceeds only from 
the Father, that every Soul was created in 
the beginning. They look upon a Female 
Infantas unclean for eighty days after its 
Birth, and the Males for forty, which is 
the reafon they don't baptize them before 
that time •, and adminilter the Sacrament 
to the Children foon after they are bap- 
tized. They don't carry the Sacrament 
in Proceflion, and allow not of a fourth 
Marriage ; but don't ordain any Prieits 
or Deacons without they are married be- 
fore ; and allow a Parent the power of 
annulling the Marriage of his Son or 
Daughter, if the fame be done without 
i his confent. Beatitude they don't believe 
till after the Day of Judgment. For the 
reft they follow the Opinion of the Mo- 
nothelites, that there is but one Nature in 
Chrift. The A/^rom^ei had united them- 
felves 400 Years ago with the See of 
Rome i but when Saladyn King of Egypt 
and Syria did conquer thofe Parts, the 
Maronites relinquifli'd the Roman Commu- 
nion, till they were reunited to them a 
fecond time under Gregory XIIL and 
Clement VIIL Of the S. Thomas Chrifti- 
ans we have fpoken before. 
Among all thefe Eajlern Sects, there 
arc few who teach any Points contrary to 
Vol. IIL 
Salvation, except thofe of Nejtorius and ^yv^ 
Eutycbes ^ for they execrate the Adora- BakUus, 
tion of Images, rejed Purgatory, allow '^^'~y\j 
Marriage to the Clergy^ adminilter the 
Sacrament to the Laity in both kinds, de- 
ny Tranfubftantiation, and don't acknow- 
ledg the Jurifdidtion of the See of Rome. 
Maffaui relates, that the Patriarch TheY.xi- 
of the Abyffines being deli red by their 7^"^?-""'" 
King to difputewith iht ]dmt Roterigio^]'^'^ c;,"'^!^,, 
told the King, That be would not enter into mucynjthe 
Difpute with an Heretick., and charged the Roman 
King, under pam of Eternal Damnation, 
not to read their Writings. It is beyond llf'^^f^^ 
all difpute, that the Coprw avoid the La- 'n^ays%e 
tin Church as much as the Jews. Cardinal Jays be- 
Baronius tells us indeed, tliat Aiarcus Pa- Z^*"^ Eaf- 
triarchof Alexandria., did fend his Depu- *° 
ties to Pope Clement VIII. in order to [TtTTh'e 
fubjeft himfelf and all Egypt to the Fope. 
Papal Chair ^ but the fame proved abor- 
tive, and proved no more than a Com- 
plement in the end. See Thomas a Jefuit, 
/. 7. c. 6. Whence it is evident, thatfet- 
ting afide the Dodrine of the Holy Ghoft 
proceeding from the Father only, they 
are fubjed to not near fo many Errors as 
the ^ow^wCatholicks, 
The Eajlern Chriftiarts exercife their ^" ^^^^ 
Religious Worftiip in different Langua- f^^'i"^^' 
ges : Some are of opinion that all the Pri- chrifthns 
mitive Chriftians, for 120 Years after 
Chrift's Nativity, viz.. till the Reign of Goa'. 
Hadrianus the Emperor, ufed only one 
Language, viz.. the Hebrew^ but without 
any certainty : Certain it is, that the y^r- 
menians have a Tranflation of the Bible 
into their own Language ; which by fome 
is attributed to Cbryfoftom while in ex- 
ile, Alvares affirms that the Abyjflnes have 
tranflated the Bible in their own Lan- 
guage, and fo have the Rujftans., or Muf- 
covites., contrary to what is pradtifed by 
the Romans \ for Pope Pirn IV. put the 
Bible among the prohibited Books. And 
Erafmus in his Letter to Charles Vtenhofer 
tells him, that Lewis Berquin was 1529. 
burnt at Par'vs., for no other reafon, but 
his having afferted, that the Bible might 
be tranflated into the Vulgar T mgue., and 
read by the common People ; notwith- 
ftandingSt. Jerom and Chryfoftom had em- 
ployed themfelves in the Work. 
The other Eaftern Chriftians perform • 
their Religioils Service in the Greek, La- 
tin., and Chaldean Languages i and ufe 
divers Liturgies, as thofe compofed by 
Petriii, Jacobus., Sixtw, 6cc. Whence it 
is evident that it would be no very dif- 
ficult task, to fettle a good mutual Cor- 
refpondence betwixt them and the Pro- 
teftant Churches of Europe^ which has 
Oooo been 
