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A57667	Pansebeia, or, A view of all religions in the world with the severall church-governments from the creation, to these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.; Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1972_pt1; Wing R1944_pt2; ESTC R216906	502,923	690

Masse must be said on festival days for the dead except the body be present And although in the Masse for the living incense is burned to shew that their prayers like incense ascend before God yet in the Masse for the dead incense is not burned because their prayers are of no efficacy for do the dead praise thee saith David The corps may not be brought into the Church whilest Masse is saying for the living but must be set in the Porch till Masse be done and the Mass for the dead be begun in which Masse the kisse of peace must not be given because there is no communion between us and the dead neither can they answer us the dead corps is washed and anointed then it is carried to the Church but by the way the bearers rest three times to signifie Christs three days rest in the grave Holy water and Frankincense is put in the grave with the corps to keep off evil spirits thence and to shew that the deceased party hath offered to God the incense of his prayers and good life whilest he lived He is buried with green bayes to shew that his soul is alive and that it doth not ●ither with the body and with his face upward and his feet towards the East to shew his expectation of Heaven and his readinesse to meet Christ in the Resurrection whose appearance is believed shall be in the East Every Christian that is buried out of the Church or Church-yard hath a Crosse set at his head to shew he was a Christian. C●ergy men that have taken orders are buried in the habit of their orders all are wrapt in linnen because Christ was so yet some are buried in sackcloth to shew their repentance Antiently the names of holy men departed were registred in scrolls or ●olding tables called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which word Diptycha the Latin Church retained these were kept by the Bishop and the ●ames publickly read in time of divine service to shew that the just shall be had in everlasting remembrance The prayers that are made for the dead are not for the Saints in Heaven for they need not our prayers but our praises to God for them nor for the damned in Hell seeing our prayers can availe them nothing but onely for those who dying in venial sins unrepented make satisfaction in Purgatory Lastly there is neither Gloria in exce●sis nor Hallelujah sung in the office for the dead Of these passages see Alcui●us de divin offic Amalar. Fortunat. de Eccles. officiis Stephanus Durantus de ritibus Eccles. Cathol Guliel Durandus in rationali c. The Contents of the Fourteenth Section Of the Eastern Religions and first of the Greeks 2. Of the Church dignities and discipline in the Greek Church at this day 3. Of the other Nations professing the Greek Religion chiefly the Moscovites and Armenians 4. Of the Monks Nun● and Eremites of Moscovia 5. Of the form of service in their Chu ches 6. How they administer the Sacraments 7. The Doctrine and Ceremonies of the Russian Church at this day 8. Of their Marriage and Funeral Ceremonies 9. Of the profession of the Armenians 10. Of the other Greek Sects namely the Melchites Georgians and Mengrelians 11. Of the Nestorians Indians and Jacobites 12. Of the Maronites Religions 13. Of the Cophti 14. Of the Abyssin Christians 15. Wherein the Protestants agree with and dissent from other Christian Churches SECT XIIII Quest. 1. HAving taken a view of the differences in Religion among the Romanists and Anti Romanists in the West what Religion do the Christians in the East professe A. In the East the Greek Religion prevaileth in many places chiefly in those Countries of Europe namely Greece Macedon Epirus 〈◊〉 Thr●ce Servia Basci● Moldavia Walachi● Bosnia Podolia and Moscovia In the Islands also of the Aegean Sea and in some parts of Poland Dalmatia and Croatia in some parts also of Asia namely in Natolia Circassia Mengrelia and Russia The Greek● place much of their devotion in the worship of the Virgin Mary and of painted but not carved Images in the interces●ion prayers help and merits of the Saints which they invocate in their Temples They place justification not in faith but in workes School-divinity chiefly the works of Thomas Aquin●s which they have in Greek are in great request with them The Sacrifice of the Masse is used for the quick and the dead and they use to buy Masses they do not hold a Purgatory fire yet they believe there is a third place between that of the blessed and the damned where they remain who have deferred repentance till the end of their life but if this place be not Purgatory I know not what it is not what the souls do there Though they deny the Procession of the Holy Ghost from the Son yet they baptise in the name of the Three Persons Priests among them may marry once but not of●●er That marriage is unlawfull which is contracted within the seventh degree of Consanguinity and Affinity They use leavened bread in the Sacrament and administer in both kinds they have four L●●ts in the year they deny the Popes supremacy abstain from blood and things strangled observe the Jewish Sabbath with the Lords day They use neither confirmation nor extream unction and will not have either the blessed souls i● Heaven to enjoy Gods presence or the wicked in Hell to be tormented ●ill the day of judgement preaching is little used amongst them but Masses often therefore one of their Monks whom they call Coloieri for preaching sometimes in Lent and at Christmasse and Eastet was accused and banished to Mount Sinai by the Patriarch of Constantinople as Chytraus witnesseth They esteem equal with the Scriptures the Acts of the seven Greek Synods and the writings of Basil Chrysosto●e 〈◊〉 and their traditions They believe that the souls of the dead are bettered by the prayers of the living They are no less for the Churches authority and for Traditions then the Roman Catholicks be when the Sacrament is carried through the Templ● the people by bowing themselves adore it and falling on their knees kisse the 〈◊〉 Q. 2. What Ecclesiastical Dignities and Discipline is there in the Greek Church at this day A. They have their Patriarch who resides at Constantinople who is elected by his Metropolitans and Arch-Bishops but is confirmed by the great Turkes chief Bassa who upon promise of some thousand Duckets from the Patriarch do●h ratifie his priviledges He hath no more authority with the great Turk then any Christian Embassadour who thinks it a great honour to be admitted to fall down at the Seigniors feet and to kisse his cloak Next to the Patriarch are the Metropolitans who are placed according to their antiquity Of thes Metropolitans are 74. under whom are Arch-Bishops and Bishops The Metropolitan of Thessalonica hath ten Bishops under him he of Athens hath six Corinth hath foure Bishops and one hundred Churches Mitylena had five

The Penitents being received into the Church cut their Haire and Beards and lay aside their penitentiall garments and put on clean cloathes after the example of Ioseph when he was delivered out of pris●n This casting off their old cloathes puts them in minde of putting off the old man In Extream Vnction the Priest first besprinkleth the sick person and the whole roome with holy water then he anointeth the organs of the five senses because by them sin infecteth the soul the reines also and feet are anointed to expiate the sins that are in the concupiscible and motive faculties They onely must be anointed of whom there is no hope of recovery Of the Ceremonies used in Sacred Orders we will speak hereafter In Matrimony the Priest blesseth the married couple with prayers and oblations if they were never married before but they are not to blesse the second marriage The Woman is covered with a vaile after the example of Rebecca and to shew her subjection to the man she is united to the man by a Lace or Ribband tied in a knot by a Ring also put on the fourth finger of the left hand because of the veine that reacheth from thence to the heart signifying the mutual love that ought to be between them but marriages are not to be celebrated in Lent and other times of humiliation Q. 7. What are their Tenets concerning the Saints in Heaven A. They register their names in their Calendars after the Pope hath canonised them or given a testimony of their Sanctity and decreed honours for them namely publick Invocation dedication of Altars and Temples to them oblation of Sacrifices celebration of Festival days setting up of their Images and reservation of their Reliques The honour they give to God is called by them Latria that of the Saints is Dulia but the honour which they give to Christs humanity and the Virgin Mary is Hyperdulia 2. They say that the Saints make intercession for us not immediately to God but through Christ they obtain their requests 3. That we ought to invocate both Saints and Angels 4. That their Images are to be worshipped that the Images of Christ and of the Saints are not Idols because Idols are representations of that which is not and in Scripture the word Idol is spoken onely of Heathen Images that it is not unlawful to represent God by such Images as he hath described himself therefore they pain● God in the form of an old man the Holy Ghost in the form of a Dove That though the Images of Christ and the Apostles are to be honoured in relation to the persons which they represent yet we must not think there is any Divinity in them or that they can help us or that we ought to aske any thing of them 5. That the Images of Christ and the Saints should be placed in Churches because the Images of the Cherubims were placed in Salomons Temple and before in the Tabernacle 6. That the Reliques of Christ and of the Saints are to be honoured and kissed as holy pledges of our Patrons yet not to be adored as God nor invocated as Saints 7. That the true Crosse of Christ the Nailes the Thornes c. by way of of analogy and reduction are to be worshipped with the same kind of worship or Latria that Christ is that the signe of the Crosse in the forehead or in the aire is a Sacred and venerable signe powerful to drive away evil spirits 8. That Pilgrimages ought to be undertaken to those holy places where the Images and Reliques of Christ and of the Saints are kept 9. That days should be kept holy in memory of the Saints the observation of which is a part of divine worship Q. 8. What is their Doctrine concerning the Church A. They teach that the government of the Church is Monarchical as being the most excellent form of government That the government of the Church was founded on the Person of Saint Peter That Peter was Bishop of Rome and so continued till his death That the Pope is Peters Successor and Christs Vicar by whom he is made head of the Church Militant That the Pope is not Antichrist but that the great Antichrist shall be a particular man of the Tribe of Dan who shall reign in Ierusalem three years and a half and shall be acknowleged by the Iewes as their Messiah whom he will make believe that he is of the Tribe of Iuda and descended of David 2. They hold that the Pope is the supream Judge in controversies of Faith and manners that his judgement is certain and infallible that he can erre in particular controversies of fact depending upon mans testimony and that he may erre as a private Doctor in questions of right as well of faith as of manners but that he cannot erre when with a General Council he makes decrees of faith or general precepts of manners and that the Pope is to be obeyed though either by himself or by a particular Council● he erre in some doubtful matters but they generally now believe that though the Pope were an Heretick yet he cannot prescribe or define any Heretical Doctrine to be believed by the whole Church That the Pope hath a spiritual coactive jurisdiction in making Laws to bind the conscience by his sole authority without the consent of Priests or people and that he can judge and punish the transgressors of his Laws That as the Apostles had their immediate authority from Christ so the Bishops have the same immediately from the Pope That the Pope hath a supream power over the temporal estates of Christians to depose Kings and dispose of their Kingdoms in order to spiritual things and so far as it is necessary to the salvation of souls That it is not repugnant to Gods word for the same man to be both a Political and Ecclesiastical Prince seeing Melchisedech Moses Eli Samuel and the Macchabees exercised both powers 3. They believe that the true Church of Christ is onely that Society which acknowledgeth the Pope to be head thereof and Christs Vicar upon earth That they which are not baptized and the Catechumeni are not properly and actually members of the Church but onely in possibility That Hereticks Schismaticks and excommunicate persons are not members of the Church That reprobates are members of the militant Church Because in Noah's Ark were unclean beasts in the same Net are good and bad fishes at the same Wedding-feast many were called but few chosen in the same Sheep-fold are same Goats in the same house are vessels of dishonour Judas was one of the Apostles c. That the true Catholike Church is always visible for it is compared to a Mountain to a Candle to a City on a Hill c. That the true visible Church can never fail totally Because it is built on a Rock against which Hell Gates cannot prevaile c. That the true Church cannot fall into errour Because it is the Pillar