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A42564	The history of the church of Malabar from the time of its being first discover'd by the Portuguezes in the year 1501 giving an account of the persecutions and violent methods of the Roman prelates, to reduce them to the subjection of the Church of Rome : together with the Synod of Diamper celebrated in the year of our Lord 1599, with some remarks upon the faith and doctrine of the Christians of St. Thomas in the Indies, agreeing with the Church of England, in opposition to that of Rome / done out of Portugueze into English, by Michael Geddes ...	Geddes, Michael, 1650?-1713.	1694 (1694)	Wing G446; ESTC R2995	279,417	508

Learning having never been taught that the Devil tempted Christ before his Fast of forty days which is contrary to the Gospel that St. Joseph to be satisfied whether the Virgin had committed Adultery carried her before the Priests who according to the Law gave her the Water of Jealousie to drink that our Lady brought forth with pain and parting from her Company not being able to go farther she retired to a Stable at Bethlehem that neither our Lady nor any other Saint is in Heaven enjoying God but are all in a Terrestrial Paradise where they are to remain till the day of Judgment with other Errors too many to be related But it is the Synod's pleasure to instance in some of the chief Errors contained in the Books that it condemns that so all may be satisfied of the reason why they are prohibited to be read or kept upon pain of Excommunication and that all may avoid and burn them with the greater Horror and for other just and necessary respects Also the Book of John Barialdan wherein it is said in divers places That there were two Persons a Divine and Humane in Christ which is contrary to the Catholick Faith which confesses one only Divine Person It is also said That the Names of Christ and Emanuel are the Names of the Humane Person only and for that reason that the most sweet Name Jesus is not to be adored that the Union of the Incarnation is common to all the Three Divine Persons who were all Incarnated that our Lord Christ is the adopted and not the Natural Son of God that the Union of the Incarnation is accidental and is only that of Love betwixt the Divine and Humane Persons Also the Book intituled The Procession of the Holy Spirit wherein it is endeavoured to be proved at large that the Holy Spirit proceedeth only from the Father and not from the Son which is contrary to the Catholick Truth which teaches that he proceeds from the Father and the Son Also the Book entituled Margarita Fidei or The Jewel of Faith wherein it is pretended to be proved at large That our Lady the most Holy Virgin neither is nor ought to be stiled the Mother of God but the Mother of Christ that in Christ there are two Persons the one of the Word and the other of Jesus that the Union of the Incarnation is only an accidental Union of Love and Power and not a substantial Union that there are three distinct Faiths which is divided into three Professions the Nestorian Jacobite and Roman that the Nestorian is the true Faith that was taught by the Apostle and that the Roman is false and Heretical and was introduced by force of Arms and the Authority of Heretical Emperors into the greatest part of the World that to Excommunicate Nestorius is to Excommunicate the Apostles and Prophets and the whole Scripture that they that do not believe his Doctrine shall not inherit Eternal Life that they that follow Nestorius received their Faith from the Apostles which has been preserved to this day in the Church of Babylon of the Syrians That Matrimony neither is nor can be a Sacrament that the sign of the Cross is one of the Sacraments of the Church instituted by Christ that the Fire of Hell is Metaphorical not real that the Roman Church is fallen from the Faith condemning it likewise for not celebrating in leavened Bread according to what the Church has received from the Apostles for which it is said the Romans are Hereticks Also the Book of the Fathers wherein it is said That our Lady neither is nor ought to be called the Mother of God that the Patriarch of Babylon of the Nestorians is the Universal Head of the Church immediately under Christ that the Fire of Hell is not real but spiritual that it is Heresie to say that God was born or dyed that there are two Persons in Christ Also a Book of the Life of Abbot Isaias commented by a Nestorian wherein it is said That the Union is common to all the Three Persons that St. Cyril of Alexandria who condemned Nestorius was an impious Heretick and is now in Hell for having taught that there is but One Person in Christ whereas as often as Nestorius Theodorus and Diodorus are named they are stiled Saints and blessed by whose Authority it is there proved that the Saints shall not enjoy God before the day of Judgment and that till then they shall be in an obscure place which they call Eden near to the Terrestrial Paradise and that by so much the worse as any one has been he is tormented * The less for it in Hell This of fixing something that is justly abominable to all Mankind upon her Adversaries has been the constant practice of the Church of Rome So the Emperor Michael Balbus because he was an Enemy to Image-worship is said to have laughed at the Prophets not to have believed there were any Devils and to have placed Judas among the Saints the Templars upon the Pope and the French Kings conspiring together to destroy their Order are said to have obliged all their Novices to blaspheme God to renounce Christ the Virgin Mary and all the Saints in Heaven to spit and trample upon the Crucifix and to declare that Christ was a false Prophet the Albigenses are said to have held it lawful to deny their Faith when interrogated upon it by a Magistrate to have held that promiscuous Venery was lawful but that Matrimony was Hell and Damnation that the Souls of Men were as Mortal as their Bodies that the way of choosing their chief Priests was by tossing an Infant from one to another and that he in whose hands the Infant expired had that Office and that the Devil was unjustly thrown out of Heaven the less for it in Hell by reason of his greater conformity and friendship with the Devils that the Word was not made Man and that it is Blasphemy to affirm it that Christ conquer'd all the Passions of Sin by a Power derived from God and not by his own strength that St. Cyril was a Heretick in teaching that there was but One Person in Christ that the Divine and Humane Nature were united in Christ accidentally by Love that the whole Trinity was incarnated that God dwelt in Christ as in a Rational Temple giving him power to do all the good things he did that the Souls of the Just will be in a Terrestrial Paradise till the day of Judgment that the Wicked when they dye in Mortal Sin are carried to a place called Eden where they suffer only by the sense of the punishments they know they are to undergo after the day of Judgment Also the Book of Synods wherein there is a forged Letter of Pope Caius with false Subscriptions of a great many other Western Bishops directed to those of Babylon wherein it is acknowledged that the Church of Rome ought to be subject to that of Babylon which with

they saw their Clergy Persecuted respected them the more and grew every day more zealous for their ancient Doctrines and Rites The Arch-Bishop being much encouraged by the Success of this diligence laid the matter of the reduction of this Church to the obedience of the Roman much more to Heart than any of his Predecessors had ever done The first he applied himself to was Jacob whom Mar Simeon had left his Vicar General to whom he writ a long Letter passionately entreating him to throw away the Commission he had from Mar Simeon who was Convicted at Rome of not being in Holy Orders and to submit himself to the Papal Authority making him large Promises of what he would do for him if he complied with his desires But Jacob who died presently after was deaf to all the Arch-Bishop could say to him making it his whole business to enflame his Flock against the Latins and their Doctrines The Arch-Bishop did not neglect at the same time to write earnestly to Mar Abraham as also to the Arch-Deacon who is the only Dignitary in that Church under the Bishop and who is employed by him as his Vicar General calling upon them to purge their Diocess of the Errors wherewith it had been so long infected and to reduce it to the Roman Obedience St. Francis about this time destroyed a whole Fleet of Jores to the Portugueze who tho' he was not seen by any of the Portuguezes in the Fight which was very bloody on both sides yet a Cook who belonged to a Capuchin Convent not far off having hid himself in the Ruines of their Church saw a Friar in his own Habit Board the Fleet of Jores one after another whom he so terrified with his very look as to put them all to flight immediately and pursued them out of sight This formidable Friar was afterwards discovered to be St. Francis but tho' the Historian has not been pleased to tell us how it came to be known certainly he tells us it was an Action very proper for St. Francis who was the lively Image of Christ to appear thus and confound the Enemies of Christianity by saying It is I. Now if this Story did not rebuild the Capuc●● ●●uined Church the Portuguezes were not s●●●atef●● 〈◊〉 they use to be in such cases But 〈◊〉 was ●●●●ing to what their own St. Anthony did for them five or six Years afterwards in a Land Battle wherein he was seen by several where the greatest fury of the Battle was Mowing down whole Squadrons of the Enemy and at the same time extinguishing the Fire of the Enemies Artillery with the Sleeve of his Sacred Habit. There were several Portuguezes its true fell in this Fight but they must have been killed by something else than Fire-Arms or at least than Cannon In the Year 1584. there came a famous Amazon to Goa who had been drove out of her Country by the Hidalcaon her name was Abehi she had Fought in several Battles to admiration and tho' when she came to Goa she was 62 years of Age she is reported to have had a great deal of Wit and the ruines of an exquisite Beauty she pretended to have business of great moment to communicate to the Viceroy but the Inquisition no body knew why put a stop to the Negotiation which after having kept her Prisoner for some time banished her to Ormus from whence having made her escape she went to the Great Mogul's Court. In the Year 1593. the Bull of Cruzada was first brought into the Indies by Francisco Faria a Dominican Friar and indeed considering how great a Revenue that Bull is to the Pope in Spain and Portugal it is very much that it did not find its way into the Indies sooner When the Arch-Bishop was visiting the City of Damaon he received Letters of the 16th of Feb. 1597. from the Viceroy Matthias Dalbuquerque advising him of the Death of Mar Abraham On the same day he received this news he in obedience to the Pope's Brief constituted Francisco Roz a Jesuite and who was afterwards made Bishop of the Serra Governour and Vicar-Apostolical of the said Diocess The May following the Arch-Bishop being returned to Goa a Consultation was held about the Affairs of the Church of the Serra where it was unanimously agreed that notwithstanding the Pope in his Brief had commanded none to be made Governour or Vicar Apostolical of the Diocess but what was of the Roman Communion it was convenient to nominate the present Arch-Deacon to it which they did joining Francisco Roz and the Rector of the Jesuites-College of Vaipicotta in Commission with him But it being required of the Arch-Deacon that he shou'd subscribe the Profession of Faith made by Pius IV. before he had his Patent he declined doing it pretending he was not satisfied with having two joyned with him in Commission The Arch-Bishop tho' he was sensible that it was the Subscription that stuck with him chiefly thought fit to dissemble so far as to seem to believe him and by a new Patent constituted him the sole Governour of the Bishoprick The Arch-Deacon accepted of this Patent but at the same time declared That it gave him no Authority but what he had before but when he was called upon to Subscribe the forementioned Profession of Faith he desired four Months to consider of it hoping by that time a Bishop might be sent them by the Patriarch of Babylon when the four Months were expired Being urged a fresh to Subscribe he told them flatly that he would never do it nor submit to the Roman Church which he was sure had nothing to do with the Apostolical Church of St. Thomas no more than that of St. Thomas had to do with the Roman And not being satisfied with having made this Declaration as to himself he furthermore assembled a Synod of most of the Priests and most substantial Christians at Angamale the Metropolis of the Diocess where they all swore to stand by their Arch-Deacon in the defence of the ancient Faith they and their Fore-fathers had been bred up in so as not to suffer the least alteration to be made therein nor ever to admit of any Bishop but what should be sent them by the Patriarch of Babylon of all which they made a publick Instrument and having Sworn to maintain it with their Lives and Fortunes ordered it to be published thorow the whole Diocess After the meeting of this Synod the Christians of St. Thomas came to be so far enraged against the Latins for what they had done to destroy their ancient Faith and for their having treated so many of their Arch-Bishops so barbarously as they had done that they would suffer no Latin Priest to officiate in their Churches nor so much as to live among them Two Jesuites one at Angamale and another at Carturte having very narrowly escaped being murdered by them The Jesuites and other Latin Priests were so far intimidated by the fury that Synod had put that