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Show 1 ATHAN 45105 KIRCHE \\M\M-‘M h-‘---- - G bim Tuchanes Belul; that is to {ay, Precions 7obn : Ot ers b'y no improbable con jecture do aflere, that in honour of the Prophet Fonab, who is high y ref{peéte among(t them, all that governed the Empire w re {o:denominated Byt yetv i others thefe Weftern parts of the Latine Church he is termed ob# with the addition o the word Presbyter not becaufe that he was a Prieft, but by realon that af the mode or cuftom of a chief Archbifhop, he had a Crofs arried before him, b v.vhic-‘h‘ he declared himfelf a Detender of the Chri tian Religion. ~ Whence S‘Q {:ger luppoleth him to. be (o caljed from the Perfia word Pfeflegiam‘ Which {,‘ fieth Apoflolical 5. which the Weftern People mif-unde fianding ,f"of the wg r P"-‘?/ff'g_wm, they write P resbyter Fobn I will adde his words fily 1ot Fache clegant Jes, the ~ e;;aifl CAfl)irs Empero I)n tiuth I Igo uatéd f very ofien gduiired, 1hat o Nation 'dltogefbft_;gnorant i nld bea potent both at Land.and Sea, 45 1o extend he Bounds of their Empz'ré from Athi P12 ewen unto Chin for from thofe very times. we bawe bad a klzowled & Emperonr, but.that under _the name of Pre tegiani, which. in the'Perfiagn Ton ;; n'blfl).dllflofl B common over all Afi ; h?f th ! Afri ;glwa , a5 the Latine 7 with, us in the Weft fi m‘;&g 't;)' Apofip]ical; by which name it 35 am'fe_‘/? that they ;i;:zc!grfiazzd a I'-ri: '} Chriftian: and Orthodoe for in.the Perfian, Préficgia'ni in the Plu al N;z;;zber fign .fif'-tb APORI@S; aurl Preftegiani, APOfiDliCa], a n A 0%01 !m:{ Ja%{. | ;{o s un o d Pmceo IEmg; in the Arabick, Melek Arcefuli iz the ZE:.Z':iop:Z‘k I\)Ic us I-P;av? rfl' That the Ewpire of the Athiopians was extended dent Ly the Athiopian Croffes, which are feen in Japan and wz'd;"i}z P%fi ne;z Tm" China, and.other plac;.r & e; aud. the Te_;ffple of S. Thomas, the Apoftle fitnated in i), R gian» ‘of Maab;r]z} wholly Athiopick, as the Croffes, the Structure, and taisy other ihin i es and what yon will moft wonder at, the fz)er}' nape. . ‘Th s far Scaliger T o From which Difcourfe we may well: collect e fem out from Zithiopia into India, China, and other parts f Afia, which propagated. thcy;tf therea oftt {ha.l d rever mo" the Chriftian Faith in thofe parts, which we now endeayvour to fhe - Bfifig tbelt 4fiica. mainin he faith that Preshyter Fobn was ariginall an African, or that being fofced "a‘t f'f Afia he fthould fet down in Aithiopia and th re rule and govern, is altop t(}::u' zmpfobable, and withoat any foundation, as we fhall {ce anon. f\j w thie thffr e O awnd his henc African and Afiatick Emperour were diverfe, is confented unto B 1 part of the beft Authors. And the Empire of the dfiatick fourifhed fog ma'n blufhn years, until that it fell unro one David, who as Panlus Ven overcome or vanquifhed by a certain Commander amed Cingis Cublais his Uncjf 1n a great Battel ( who was ele@ed Emperou by the Scyi-bszzf and,infiead ‘ f Fresbyter began to be called ‘Uncam, or N iam) unto the gréaf lofs of Chrifiiancl ty put an end both to the Glory of the Empire, and the N me of Presbyter 70});; as.we hav Dec henog vilche ey may be fhewed itrelated abave in the Hiftory of Marcis Panlus V. netu Whth e Em- NOW I (hall declare by what miftake he Name of Presbyter "fi!m Was given un; th alled prect- Fnp erour.o.f the Aby[Jines, or thiopians. At that time in which the Portugal ter Fim. . DY a Maritime Voyage fought after new name o Fresbyter Fohn was very famous throughou Europe, for he was repc,)rted to be molt potent Emperour, Lord of many Kingdoms, a Chriftian by Religi n ; bu 10 what-place he ruled, it was altogether unknown : Theref re when that ,Pete Conillan was (ent by Fohau the Second King of ‘Portugal, ficft th ough the Medj terranean Sea, and afterwards by a Land Voyage to find ut this Prince : hc hearq 1 the dfiatick India, 'unto which he bad arrived, that i that ,E,]fl'; that 1s beqeath Agypt, there was a certain Prince ver powerful, who meegé the Chriftian !)\e]igion; he betook himfelf unto h m, and when. that he ha found many things there with him, which were onformable unto the conftan Fame that was reported amongft the Europ ans, he believed that that was the B;fex())'ier Fobn o called He thercfore was the fuft perfon wh began to call th clandef ther, th to be.tr The Re Mobies And the other pe theyare now ipgl they we {0 at, ¢ Godgn‘ 1629, dued th Was o] Uthe P |