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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A24128	The true history of the Jacobites of Egypt, Lybia, Nubia, &c. their origine, religion, ceremonies, laws, and customs, whereby you may see how they differ from the Jacobites of Great Britain / translated by a person of quality from the Latin of Josephus Abudernus ...; Historia Jacobitarum seu Coptorum in Aegypto, Lybia, Nubia, Aethiopia tota, & parte Cypri insulae habitantium. English	Abudacnus, Josephus.; Sadleir, Edwin, Sir, d. 1719.	1692 (1692)	Wing A157; ESTC R7172	21,679	45

if any Jacobite having forsaken his Religion does embrace that of the Greeks Papists or Armenians then he may and even ought to call him to an account but if he be turned Mahometan then he cannot for they are Masters and it is not lawful for Christians to contend with those whom they serve but if he lives in those Countries which are not subject to the Turk as in Aethiopia he may call him and require a reason why he did forsake his Religion nay indeed pronounce an Anathema against him but this is rarely done in these times the Patriarch fearing least he that is so used should turn Mahometan amongst whom there is no Salvation the Mahometan not caring to be saved by or in Christ And this only Power he now possesses for he is not secure as to the things belonging unto the Church such as Tythes First-fruits Marriage-fees or Alms which are given by Christians at or near their Death-beds or those things used to be given by such as receive the Sacraments of Ordination and Confirmation c. for concerning these things he can move no Controversie with the Subject For whether he can give or not give perform or not perform what is appointed it is the same thing he must wait upon his charitable disposition and kindness and so much for the Spiritual Government of those who are under the Dominion and Empire of the Turk CHAP. IV. Of the Election of the Patriarch Archbishops c. WHen the Patriarch who held the Keys in Spiritual Matters is dead and buried the Canons of the Church do publickly exhort every one to pray to God that he would please to assist each one with his Holy Spirit that a new Governour of the Church may be chosen which may be acceptable to his Divine Majesty and to Men and presently Convoke by their Letters the Arch Bishops and Bishops who as soon as they are come together into the Cathedral Church choose one of the ancientest Monks of the Hermites who seems to be a truly Penitent and to have strictly exercis'd Fasting and Continency and all other Vertues belonging to the Mortification of the Flesh But when any one is chosen they do not declare who it is for as soon as any of them knows he is chosen to that Dignity he flies and does not willingly accept but they take and lead him by force into the Town and intreat him with many supplications that he would vouchsafe to be Pastor of their Church since he was chosen by the Arch Bishops and Bishops conducted by the Holy Ghost He opposes with many Words and Tears professing himself insufficient for so great a Charge but at last overcome as it were by their importunity he accepteth Then he is brought to the Bacha or Vice-Roy for that time in Aegypt by whom he is constituted Patriarch of the Jacobites and from whom he receives a Grant of his first Petition which is That he may Govern the Church according to the Institutions of their Ancestors And so much for the Election of the Patriarch let us now speak of the Bishops They are chosen almost in the same way as the Patriarchs for they are taken by force and conducted to the Patriarch who admonishes them not to wave any longer so sacred a Function but to submit themselves to it remembring that they are both Elected and Called by the Holy Ghost who can render facile to them what they think hard and difficult to whom as soon as consenting to take on them the Office is given either by the Patriarch or the Bacha after the same manner a Faculty that it may not be lawful for any Person under their Charge to disobey or contend in any thing As to the Election of the Arch-Bishop the Patriarch together with the Canons assemble in the Church and having chosen him he receives Authentick Letters from the Patriarch and Vice-Roy or Bacha and such a Power as is usually given to an Arch-Bishop and so after his Consecration is sent into the Province which is allotted him The same way are chosen Prebendaries Priests and Superiours of Convents who all refuse at the first but at last overcome as it were by entreaty do accept Of which number none receive this Authority from the Turk nor his Confirmation but Abbots and Priors of Convents the others requiring not such a one because under either the Patriarch or some Bishop CHAP. V. Of the Consecration of the Patriarch Arch-Bishops and Bishops SInce it is not a daily but a rare thing to Consecrate a Patriarch we will in few words give some account of that Ceremony The Election of the Patriarch being made as we said before in the Cathedral Church and Notice being given to all People of the certain Day of his Consecration all the Citizens and Inhabitants of Memphis and many Strangers come flocking into the Church where the Consecration is to be solemniz'd and not only many Christians but many of the principal Turks and Mahometan's flock thither for as this Ceremony is seldom to be seen so when it is they husband the opportunity This then is the Order of Consecration At Midnight after Mass is begun and the Introit is over one of the Seven Bishops who begun it leaves all the rest and goes into the Sanctuary The Second goes on with the rest of the Mass to the Second the Third suceeds who also takes his turn as to the Celebration the Fourth to the Third and so to the Seventh who after he has sung the Preface gives over the rest of the Mass and goes with the other into the Sanctuary as we shall see in the next Chapter which is encompassed with seven steps and in which is in the middle an Altar where the Mass is celebrated upon which steps stand the seven Bishops upon every step one upright in his Pontifical Habit and Mitre at which time the Canons of the Church and other Ministers of the Sanctuary there assisting having on a Linnen Surplice and a Girdle of which we spoke in the third Chapter and a woollen Ephod on their Heads call the Patriarch and when he is come to the first Bishop who stands upon the first step he reads to him a certain Period of the pontifical-Pontifical-Book placed near his Head and encouraging him to hope that God will endue him with his Grace whereby he may Govern his Church after which he breathes in his mouth saying Receive the Holy Ghost which done he takes the Mitre from his Head and the same does the second third and fourth Bishop and so to the seventh on the seventh and last step and when he is come to the seventh step seven Canons of the Cathedral bring to him the Pontifical Habit each tendring him that part of the Garment which he is to put on the first a sort of Linnen which he wears about his Shoulders the second the Surplice the third the Girdle c. adding some special words appointed to each part of the Garment when he is