Abassian

Did the Eunuch converted by Philip, Act. 8. or the Jaylor and Lydia converted by Paul, Act. 16. or the 3000 converted by Peter, Act. 2. receive faith on the authority of the Catholick Church? Or the Indians when converted by Frumentius and Edeſus? or the Abaſſian Empire that till lately knew nothing of the Pope and his pretenſions?

The chief Abassian tribes in the northern parts of the Caucasus, and south of the Kuban, lie from east to west; […]

And there behold the lakes wherein the Nile is born, a truth the ancients never knew; see how he bathes, ’gendering the crocodile, th’ Abassian land, where man to Christ is true.

Adea payeth tribute to the Abaſſian. In this Kingdome is Magadazzo [i.e., Mogadishu], being it ſelfe a pettie Kingdome of the Moores, which are of an Oliue colour.

And the Abaſſians that received the Goſpel from the Eunuch and St. Matthew, being before too much addicted to ſome Jewiſh ceremonies and never cured of them, retain them as by Tradition to this day.

The Abassians have occupied their present seats on the Black Sea at least since the Christian era.

The Abassians [Abyssinians] say that they have more territory above the source of the Nile than below, that is, toward us.