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ALuares of the Ethiopians.p 1.1 They minister Baptis∣me to their male children, when they are fortie dayes olde, and to the female when they are threescore dayes olde: the infants not arriuing to that age die with∣out Baptisme. The which thing being come to my knowledge, I could not detaine my selfe from publish∣ing in many places, the great fault and error which was
committed against the Gospel, where it is written: That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh, and that which is borne of the spirit is spirit. Whereunto they answered me, that for that matter, the faith of the mother sufficed, toge∣ther with the communion which shee receiued being withq 1.2 childe. They baptize not in Fonts as wee doe, but in the Porch of the Church, with a potte full of water, and that the fortieth day.
Theuet.r 1.3 The King of Maitachasi receiued the Gos∣pell at the perswasion of King Cephalian, which was a Christian, and established in his Churches eight Bi∣shoppes, a notable company of Priests, and other Mi∣nisters: there was also established an Alcaide or Ismiel, that is to say, in their language a Priest aboue all the o∣ther Priests: which within sixe daies preached a thou∣sand heresies. Amongst the rest, that if a woman be de∣liuered, and the child die, it was depriued of eternal be a∣titude; and on the contrary side, it was decreede by a Synod holden at Quiticoi, that if a woman being ready to be deliuered, came to receiue the Sacrament, after their vsage, law, and faith, and that afterwards her childe should be borne dead, by this Sacrament only the child was baptized, and freede from punishment and dam∣nation.
Cap. 5.
Idem. cap. 5
Cosm. l. 4. 2