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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

what was Evil in their Faith and Manners or at least what we thought to be so for herein we follow'd the Dictates of our Education But now in our Riper Years if we shou'd call over our former Thoughts perhaps we shou'd be of a different Judgment and find Matter to condemn even in our own past Censures For whatever we might then think of the Nazarenes upon a maturer search I cannot find them to be altogether such gross Idolaters and Infidels as we and all Mussulmans are apt to believe That which gives me the greatest Scandal is That their Doctors entertain some Unwarrantable Speculations about Three Subsistences in One Essence and are too venturous in their Thoughts concerning the Eternal Generation of the WORD and Emanation of the BREATH by which they say All Things were Created and are conserv'd in their Beings They teach a Doctrine Repugnant to the Alcoran when they say That God has a Companion Equal to Himself As to the Incarnation of Jesus the Son of Mary the Nazarenes assert nothing but what is suitable to the Alcoran which teaches us That he is the WORD of God In the History of his Life they indeed come short of the Mussulmans There being not the least mention made in the whole Book of the Gospel of many Passages in his Infancy and tender Years wherewith the Alcoran with other Holy Books and Traditions of the Ancients acquaints the True Believers The Messenger of God tells us That Jesus spoke in his Cradle resolv'd Doubts clear'd up Mistakes and preach'd the Vnity of the Divine Essence Other Writings also inform us That while he was Young he formed the Figures of divers Birds and Beasts of Clay and his own Spittle and having breath'd on them they became Living Creatures and prostrated themselves at his Feet They relate also That he made a Pigeon which flew up and down through divers Regions and brought him News of whatever was done in the Courts of Foreign Princes and that from the Day of his Birth to that of his Translation Twelve Angels waited on him and brought him down Food from Paradise Of these Things the Christians are ignorant and of many other Passages So that in the whole it is Evident that the Mussulmans have a more Particular Relation of the Life of Jesus than the Christians themselves have since we recount those Miracles and other Actions of his whereof the Gospel is silent But then on the other Side they believe Things concerning his Death whereof neither the Alcoran nor any other of our Writings or Traditions make any Mention unless it be to confute the Error of the Nazarenes in that Point I have heard the Arguments of their Learned Doctors and comparing them with our Objections I know not well what to conclude They insist much on the Publick Signs and Wonders that fell out at the Time of the suppos'd Crucifixion of the Messiah The Rending of Rocks opening of Graves Resurrection of many Dead and the Preternatural Eclipse of the Sua when the Moon was in Sight in the other Part of the Horizon at the same Moment Which made a great Philosopher then in Egypt cry out Either the Frame of the World is dissolv'd or the God of Nature suffers They tell a Story also of a certain Ship that was on that very Day sailing in the Archipelago and that as they pass'd by certain Rocks the Mariners heard a Voice calling Thamus Thamus very often and loud Now there being one of that Name on Board the Vessel he answer'd to his Name Upon which the Voice said When thou comest to the Island of the Palodes proclaim it aloud That the Great Pan is Dead Which he did accordingly and there follow'd a horrible howling and roaring from the Shore of that Island This Passage was afterwards made known to the Senate of Rome who thereupon at the Instance of some Noble Romans sent to enquire in the Provinces Whether any Remarkable Person had died on that Day and they were inform'd That the Jews had on the same Day put to Death Jesus the Son of Mary And Tiberius the Emperour on the Credit of this Passage being also inform'd of the Miracles which Jesus wrought among the Jews conceiving an immediate Veneration for so Divine a Person caus'd his Statue to be set up in the Capitol and wou'd have had him number'd among the Gods but in this he was oppos'd by the Senate because they had before decreed That no new Deities shou'd be added to the Kalendar In these Things I rely on the Account which the Christians give of the Death of Jesus though they bring Authorities also and Testimonies of their very Enemies and inveterate Persecutors the Gentiles who therefore one wou'd think cannot be suspected of Partiality In a word I know not what to think of these Things For if it be true that Jesus died on the Cross for the Sins of the World as the Christians believe and that there is no other Way to be saved but by believing this then in what a sad Condition are all the Jews and Mussulmans the one glorying in having murder'd the Saviour of the World and the Other not believing that he was murder'd The First seem to merit most of Men since though the Act was Cruel in it self yet according to this Doctrine it brought Salvation to all our Race And therefore there were a sort of Christians in Former Times who worshipp'd the Serpent that tempted Eve because according to their Faith that Temptation was the first Step to Mankind's Happiness after Adam's Fall And they plac'd Judas who betray'd Jesus to the Jews among the Saints for having been so particular an Instrument in the World's Redemption If Jesus be the Saviour of Men it is absolutely necessary to believe in him But whether he be or be not the Faith of the Christians in that Point cannot hurt them since our Holy Prophet himself has taught us That Christians shall be sav'd as well as the Mussulmans Whereas the Christians say it is impossible for any to be saved who follow the Law of Mahomet So that they have our own Grant for their Salvation which they deny to us This is a great Advantage on their Side in the Controversy betwixt us For my Part I tell thee ingenuously were I convinc'd that Jesus was the Son of God and that he suffer'd Death for the Sake of Men I cou'd readily embrace most of the other Tenets of Christianity without Scruple I shou'd not be frighted at their Invocation of Saints since 't is the same as we our selves practise nor wou'd their Images and Pictures startle my Faith I shou'd look upon these and a Thousand more as things indifferent in themselves and onely made Lawful or Unlawful by the Sanction of Divine Authority I shou'd be most puzzl'd to know what Church to fix in among so many all pretending to the Right Way I have examin'd their Different Opinions and find Reason or something very like it

Avarice and a Thousand black Infernal Vices which take Root in Humane Souls at our Nativities and growing up with us in time bring forth the fatal Fruits of Death The ugly Race of Dragons Serpents Crocodiles and all the Reptile Generations with every Thing that 's Hideous Cruel and Destructive on the Globe derive their Natures Qualities Forms and Dispositions from some Malignant Stars or Constellations if Astrologers say true So do the Scaly Monsters of the Vast Abyss and every Bird of Horrible Figure flying in the Air. They 're all the Brood the Emissaries Spies and Agents of the Powers Above sent down on Thievish Errands to prey on other Animals more innocent than themselves There is an Eternal Chace in Nature whilst every thing is either on the Hunt or Flight Thus Heaven purloins from Earth and that from Heaven again When we are first conceiv'd our wandring Souls are catch'd as in a well-baited Trap. And when we dye 't is but the Soul's Escape from One Snare to be soon trapann'd into Another Perhaps a Humane Body may be our Prison again or we may be attracted by some more agreeable Embryo This Magnetick Star may draw us up to Heaven or the wide Jaws of all-devouring Orcus may swallow us down into the Hungry Paunch of Hell which God avert Learned Hali let not thou and I be too sollicitous about these Things For all our Timorous Forecasts are in vain But considering the secret Magnetisms dispers'd throughout the Universe and that every Thing attracts its Like let us take care to qualify our selves with Celestial Habits and Dispositions and then we cannot fail of being drawn up to Paradise Paris 2d of the 9th Moon of the Year 1671. LETTER XIII To the Mufti IN Obedience to thy Commands I shall now proceed in relating the most Memorable Transactions of Former Ages during the Four Great Monarchies observing thy Instructions not to be prolix or over-curious in tracing down the particular Successions of Kings and Princes but rather to relate the Actions of Famous Men the Wise Sayings of the Ancients with such other Remarks as may be at once Delightful and Instructive 'T will be no Breach of this Rule to begin where I left off in my Former Letter with the Death of Darius and Succession of Xerxes his Younger Son there being something of Nicety in the Plea between him and his Elder Brother Artabazanes for the Crown For this laid Claim to it on the Account of his Primogeniture But in regard he was born before Darius was made King the Succession was determined in favour of Xerxes who had a Double Advantage in being begot by a Crowned King and born of Atosh the Daughter of Cyrus who first Established this Monarchy As soon as Xerxes was setled in the Throne he lead an Army into Egypt and suppressed the Insurrections in that Countrey Then he fitted out a Fleet of 4200 Ships on Board of which were above Five hundred thousand Men. He had a Land Army also consisting of Two Millions and Five hundred thousand Soldiers of several Nations With this vast Multitude he march'd against the Graecians and to facilitate the Voyage of his Fleet he caused one Part of his Army to dig a Passage through Mount Athos whereby the Sea was let in and the Ships might sail Two a-brest whilst another Part of the Soldiers were employ'd in building a Bridge of Boats over the Hellespont No sooner was this done but there arose a vehement Tempest which so discompos'd those Narrow Seas that between the Winds and Waves the Boats which made this Bridge were all dispers'd broken and cast away This so incens'd Xerxes that he commanded the Sea to be scourg'd with Whips and a Chain to be thrown into it as a Mark of its future Subjection He also Beheaded those who built the Bridge and caused others to make a new One Here one of Xerxes's Eunuchs and a Particular Favourite of the King sent for a Graecian of the Isle of Chios who had formerly depriv'd him of the Evidences of his Virility And the Old Man coming with his Sons to wait on this great Courtier the Eunuch caus'd him first to Castrate his own Sons and afterwards forced them to do the same by their Father in revenge of his own Loss and Disgrace From hence Xerxes marching with his Army by the Place where once stood the Famous Town of Troy went in Pilgrimage to the Tomb of King Priamus where he sacrific'd Ten Hecatombs of Oxen to the Ghosts of the Ancient Heroes and to the Divinity of the River Scamander which his Soldiers drank dry and yet half of them had not quenched their Thirst After this he came to the Hellespont where taking a Survey of all his Land and Sea-Forces which cover'd the Hellespont and all the Neighbouring Shores and Contemplating the Shortness of Man's Life and that of so Innumerable a Multitude not one should be alive at an Hundred Years End he Wept bitterly Then having sacrific'd to the Sun for the good Success of his Expedition he caus'd all his Army to pass over the Hellespont by his Bridge of Boats after which they drank their Way through another River which had not Water enough to satisfie half his Men and Cattle For his Army encreas'd all the Way by the Accession of Soldiers out of every Nation through which he pass'd Yet Leonidas King of Sparta with a small Body of 4000 Lacedaemonians gave Battle to the whole Army of Xerxes And in a Sea-Fight at Salamis the Persians lost 500 Ships with a considerable Part of their Army which with other Disasters of Sickness Famine c. so terrified this Great Monarch that he posted back again as fast as he could by the Way of the Hellespont which he crossed in a poor Fisher-Boat all alone leaving Mardonius to pursue the Wars in Greece But an ill Fate attended their Arms for at Platea the Graecians set upon them under Pausanias their General and routed the whole Army Killing above Two hundred thousand of them upon the Spot and Burning their Camp and Navy Xerxes hearing these ill Tydings fled towards his own Country and by the Way set Fire to the Temples of the Gods at Babylon and other Parts of Asia sparing none but that Magnificent Fane at Ephesus which was Renowned throughout the whole World About this Time dyed Pagapates the faithful Eunuch of Darius who had passed Seven whole Years Mourning at the Tomb of his Master I must not omit the Treachery of Pausanias the Lacedaemonian General who held a Private Correspondence with Xerxes And having been Twice accused of Treason and as often acquitted was the Third time discovered by a Boy whom he kept as his Minion and by the Sentence of the Ephori was starved to Death Thou hast forbidden me to augment the Bulk of these Historical Letters with Glosses or Remarks of my own or else it were a proper Occasion to put thy Holyness in Mind how great a Value ought