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 248 triarck of Æthiopia Don Alphono Mendez wrote from Goa to the Cardinalls of the Congregation de propagandâ fide; who for his Learning, Authority, and Vertue, and above all, for his experience on Miions, wherein he laboured and uffered much, doth very much deerve to be believed. He aith thus:

But at the end of this Letter I do judge it not from our purpoe to bemind your Eminencies, that God hath formerly commanded, that a vine-yard hould not be owed with divere eeds; nor that a garment ought to be woven of Linnen and Woollen, with which the Queen and Spoue ''is to be cloathed, wherein is implied, That the everall intitutions and different manners of living of Religious Orders, ought not to be entruded upon young and tender Churches, uch as are but yet a manner ucklings; but only to be introduced into uch Churches, as are come to their full trength, and are fortified by a long continuance of years. For many times, emulation growing among them, and many wanting prudence, and others abounding in an indicreet zeale, they many things, which tend rather to ruine than edification'' &c. The Lord Blee your Eminencies &c. From Goa the eleventh of November 1638.

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