r I • [459 ] ' , § 9: Againfr what I have proved again!l: 1ok·n- • . fon alias Terret, that Councils were GenerJI, b4t as to the Orbu Rqmanw,(as National) I nevet· heard I but one Objettion regardable, and that is, our of Tl!f.rrians or Pi(anm Arabick Canons of the Couq– dl ofNice,which place Ethiopia under Alexandria: But, r ~ Dr. Beveridge and m:my others have wld us how little credit is ro be given ro tho[e Canons, lately vended by ignorant unlearned Men. · And is it credible that all the E1!tern and Wefiern Churches {hould be ignorant of them ? 2. Ludolphus in his new Ethiopick Hlfiory Ta– bours to prove that, the firH planting ofRelfgion in Haba(Jia \Vas by' FrumentiUJ and ' Edefim, and · that the old Writers mifi:ook JJ'aba.!Jifl for India : And i£fo Habaf!ia could. have no Bif11op at Nice (and certainly had none there, nor any to be filb– jeet to Alexandria, fave Fntmentim whom Ath::t- · najimordained, and fo by a voluntary Submiffion depended on him, as a Child on his Father. · But whereas Ludo!phm thinks Chrii1ianity was not.in Haba.!Jia till Frumentitr,~ d~ys,. beca.n[e they had no Bi!11ops or Pafiors befOre; I anf~ver,, r. His Conjed:ure that it was Haba(Jiv"! )that Frume,;tim went to, and is called India, is uncertain. 2. He coofeffeth the erhiopick Tradition is that Cbri– fiianity was there before. 3· And it is not impro· bable that. both agtee,viz.. That the Eunuch,4u.8. brought ChriHianity thither, but being a Lay man ~rdained no Pafiors, and fo they had none before Frumentitu. 4· But whoever well confiders the whole Hill:ory of the Southern and Eall:ern Chur– c.hes,, may eafily difcern rha·t Haba[Jia was never fubjeet before to the Imperial ALexandria, b~,tt ,began . their fubjection voluntarily eo Diofcorm, F f 4 • \vho ·'
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