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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A51901	The seventh volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M565DC; ESTC R35023	159,469	386

and suppress'd by thy self have yet made a forcible Eruption and fill'd the Mussulman Kingdoms with the fragrant Odour of thy Incomparable Piety and Vertue Even these Remote and Infidel Regions of the West are edify'd by thy sacred Rules and Institutions of a Spiritual Life The Nazarene Priests and Doctors begin to harbour Emulations of thy Sanctity since they have seen no fairer Draught of true Acceptable Religion than what the Chaplains to the French Embassadors at the Port have copied from thy Principles and recommended to their Friends among the Clergy of France Insomuch as Francis Malevella a Blind Ecclesiastick but an Argus in the Sciences has publickly espous'd thy Theorems and Practices having in Print now lately undertaken the Patronage of a Contemplative Life so much insisted on by thee to which the College of Sorbonne have also given their Approbation That Excellent Man tho' he has lost the Use of his Corporeal Eyes yet has a Soul transform'd all over into Light by which he clearly can survey the vast Mysterious Horizon of the Invisible World and penetrate the most recluse and hidden Secrets of Eternity The Age is ravish'd with the Book he publish'd He has Ten thousand Proselytes among the Roman Priests and Derviches None but the Jesuits and Dominicans oppose him The former of these Orders is grown odious throughout Christendom for the Impious Doctrines they maintain and the Enormous Crimes they have committed being notorious Boutefeu's Traytors Hypocrites and Secret Libertines Their Colleges are esteem'd the Shops and Forges of Sedition Faction Publick Animosities Broils and Wars with all the Mischief that is done in Europe The Latter are not lov'd in France because they are generally chosen Officers of the Inquisition Which inhumane Judicature was first projected by St. Dominick their Founder in order to exterminate the Moors from Spain There is a Natural and Irreconcilable Antipathy between the French and Spaniards They mutually abhorr each others Customs Laws and Humours But above all the French can ne'er be reconcil'd to that Infernal Court which tyrannizes o'er the Souls of Men and punishes them for Thoughts It is an equal Crime to speak or to be silent to pray or not to go to Church or stay at Home provided you are Rich. 'T is Wealth the Inquisitors aim at not the pretended Safety and Deliverance of the Church from Enemies and Rebels Therefore the Dominicans and Jesuits being look'd upon as Favourers and Patrons of the Inquisition and for that Reason hated by the French in vain they argu'd against Malevella's New reform'd Model of Interiour Religion which is but a Translation of the Original Dogmata laid down by thee Thy refin'd Sentiments are Prolifick as the Solar Beams which by Ineffable Encreases propagate themselves without diminishing the Illustrious Fountain Each bright and fertile Atom by a miraculous Emanation begets another they multiply by an Admirable Progressive Issue and Expansion from every Point of the Refulgent Center till every splendid Particle becomes a Ray of equal Length and all together produce an entire Orb of Light Thus thy serene Idea's of Religion dilate themselves through this dark Side o' th' VVorld as fast as they illuminate the Moselman Hemisphere The Honester Sort of Western Franks are already by a Demi-Metamorphosis grown half Mahometans capitulating with their Pre-possessions Prejudices and the Force of Education for the rest They go to Church but not to babble o'er a Thousand vain Tautologies which are taught 'em by their Priests and to ensure their Memory are printed in their Pocket-Manuals or Books of Prayer Nor do they number a long Series of the same repeated Oraisons on Beads or use any other Exteriour Form of blind and lame Devotion But with inward Recollection Silence Purity and fervent Application of the Spirit they address themselves to God or rather by a certain gradual Passiveness Oblivion of Outward Things and dying to themselves they prepare and fit their Souls for the Divine Approaches Thus having barricado'd up their Senses and made Retrenchments round the Center of the Mind to secure it from the last Invasion and Assault of Mundane Objects thither they retire desiring Death rather than to take Quarter by a faint Cowardise or timorous Apostacy and surrender to the VVorld These People undergoe at certain Times strange Drynesses Desertions and Sterilities of Spirit which are the Torments that compose the most severe and painful Martyrdoms A common Death or any violent Dissolution of the Body is but the Recreation Sport or Play of Nature when compar'd with these Tremendous Tragical and Dark Annihilations of the Soul A Man at such a Season seems to be reduc'd to an Eternal Catastrophe His Spirit descends and is engulph'd in the Abyss of Hell or Hell comes up to him and yawning with its horrid Dragons-Jaws Murders the Soul with Baneful and Infernal Breath Yet this they find to be the only near directest VVay to Heaven This is the Mystick Fence the Ditch Bastion and Counterscarp of Paradise He that would scale the VValls or enter by the Gates of Eden must first pass through these terrible Out-works This is the streight and narrow Bridge o'er which each Soul must pass that would attain Immortal Life Moses Jesus Mahomet and all the Messengers of God have pointed at this as the only VVay to our supreme Felicity Neither was it unknown to the Ancient Poets and Philosophers among the Gentiles Orpheus and Hesiod recommended it in their Mysterious Verse Empedocles Theophrastus Plato Plotinus Porphyry Jamblichus with many others improv'd the Sacred Revelation adding new Lights unto the Blest Discovery And if we take the History in a right Sence unless I am deceiv'd Socrates died a Martyr to this Important Truth Many of the Learned Hebrew Rabbi's have asserted it The Persian and Arabian Doctors before and since the Holy Flight have been its Advocates And let not Envy refuse to give some of the Christian Priests their due Acknowledgment who preach'd this Doctrine in the Primitive Assemblies taught it in the Publick Schools and ensur'd it to Posterity in Learned Manuscripts Such were Origen and Ammonius Clemens of Alexandria Simplicius Chrysostom Tertullian Augustine and in more modern Times Thomas of Aquin Marsilius Ficinus Bonadventure with many others And 't is esteem'd the Height of Indian Religion to this Day the Bramins delivering it as an Hereditary Article of Faith and Point of Practice from Immemorable Ages Since therefore all Religions in the World agree in this notwithstanding their other Ceremonial and Speculative Differences Doubtless it is the Voice and Will of God not the Contrivance or Innovation of Man Reverend Effendi It is a common Proverb among the Christians That wheresoever God has a Temple the Devil has a Chappel That cunning Spirit like a Serpent winds himself into outward Forms and Ceremonies of Devotion But he that builds a Mosque in the Center of his Soul may bid Defiance to Tagot For that 's the Throne of God near which the