consult him But to prevent all sinister interpretations of the Turks he thought fit to doe it openly having first given the Vizir notice of it There was a longer demurr about working at the Press it being very obvious to foresee how liable they were to be accused by the jealous Turkish Cadyes and Imams that is Justices and Priests of printing Books against their Religion The Embassadour would by no means be perswaded by the Patriarch to permit this to be done in his house but advised them to take a house in the neighbourhood promising them his assistence It was impossible that this should escape the knowledge of the French Embassadour and the Jesuits who hearing that the Press was set up and all things ready for their work grew strangely dissatisfied at it as if the design had been chiefly to print Books against the Church of Rome and by publishing Catechisms and Rudiments of Learning spoil the trade of the Jesuits who had set up a School in their Convent and taught Greek Children gratis and by these means oftentimes made Proselytes of their Parents They first tried to win Mataxa by fair means but this way not succeeding they called him Heretick and Lutheran and soon after it was told him that they had designs upon his life which put the poor man into such a fright that he made it his earnest request to the Embassadour that he might be permitted to lie in his house not daring to adventure to stay in the night in his own lodgings where he worked in the day-time for fear of having his throat cut The Patriarch to vindicate himself from the aspersions cast upon him by the Jesuits as if he had introduced new and scandalous Doctrines in the Greek Church sent a little Book to the Press concerning the Faith and Doctrine of that Church which some years before Mataxa arrived he had composed and designed to have sent into England to be printed there and to dedicate to King James but now he inscribed it to his Son and Successour Charles the First of blessed and glorious memory They look'd upon this as such a bold Defiance of Rome and France that they were resolved not onely to destroy the Press but to sacrisice the Authour and Printer to their revenge And having procured a copy of a Book written by Cyril and printed in England in defence of our B. Saviour's Divinity which he chiefly intended against the Jews and finding some few passages in it against the Opinions of the Mahometans they gained a Buffone who was a cunning Rascal and in esteem with the Vizir by promising him twenty yards of Sattin to acquaint him that Mataxa was a Souldier and sent to stir up the Greeks to mutiny that under a pretence of printing Books for the use of Children he had disperst others of a quite different argument and such as opposed the Alcoran meaning this little Book of Cyril's several copies of which he had brought over with him that the English Embassadour protected him that the Patriarch was the Authour and that great numbers were sent into Vkrain to perswade the Cossacks to invade the Empire upon the absence of the Grand Signor who then designed an expedition into Asia The Vizir upon the first notice without examining whether the accusation were true of false or so much as likely which I intimated before to be the rash and heady practice of the Turks sends a Company of Janizaries no less then one hundred and fifty commanded by a Captain to seise upon Mataxa and this at the instigation of the French Embassadour who contrived that the designed assault should be deferred till Twelfth-day having learned that our Embassadour had invited the Venetian Bailo a Roman Catholick but a man of a more mild and Christian temper then the French Count and with whom he maintained a friendly and intimate correspondence notwithstanding their different sentiments in some few poiâ—â— of Religion no way essential to it the Patriarch and several other persons to an entertainment But Mataxa very happily absent at Galata with the Embassadour's Secretary in his return to Pera not knowing that his house was beset passed unknown through the Souldiers being in a hat and though pointed at by some as the man yet others saying that he belonged to the English Embassadour he escaped at last and got into the Palace half dead with the fright he was put into The Captain missing his chief prey binds his Servants rifles his Chests empties the Room and carries all away with him as the goods of a Traitour to the value of seven thousand Dollers The Patriarch lying under the accusation of a Crime so capital and fearing the sad effects of Turkish fury upon the first impressions before the fit is over durst not go home to his own house that night The next day the Book was examined and the particular place in which was the supposed Blasphemy against Mahomet interpreted by two Greek Renegado's in the presence of the Vizir and several Churchmen but no great matter upon their examination could be made of it Cyrillus himself relying upon his innocency appearing the same day against whom several crimes were objected but without the least proof The day following the Embassadour thought fit to demand audience of the Vizir to expostulate the case with him and to satisfy him in several particulars relating to Mataxa which he did with an admirable success the Vizir confessing with shame that he had been over-credulous wondring at the impudence of those who had abused him by false informations and promising to see restored all the goods which had been taken away three days before in that great hurry And to wipe off the prejudice out of the minds of the Turkish Priests he thought â—it and condescended to go soon after to the Mufti to satisfy him also Upon these heinous provocations the Embassadour and the Patriarch were so justly offended the Embassadour for that they endeavoured to ruine his reputation in the Turkish Court and had spoken not onely reproachfully of him which he generously slighted but of the King his Master whom Rossi in a discourse with the Patriarch the day after the Turks had seiz'd upon the Press had called the Head of the Hereticks the Patriarch for that they conspired against his life that they were resolved to shew their resentments upon the Authours and Contrivers of the Plot and prevailed so far notwithstanding the reiterated instances of the French Embassadour as to have Cannachio Rossi and the Jesuits thrown into prison The Turks designed to strangle them as having contravened the Laws of their Government but at the intercession of the English Embassadour chiefly they forbore to execute this bloudy sentence and banisht them and the rest of their Order the dominions of the Grand Signor as disturbers of the publick peace Soon after Sir Thomas Row leaves Turkey succeeded by Sir Peter Wych a Gentleman of great worth and rare accomplishments and every way fit
his good will and tear his reputation in pieces by most reproachfull language and slanderous imputations to gratify at this distance of time not so much their Passion as a little base paltry worldly interest as I have just reason to suspect and believe I have added a short account of the state of the Greek Church under his Government which I have drawn out of authentick Papers and Memorials After all these triumphs gained over the poor Greeks who now declare so fiercely for a 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 let it be remembred however that besides their ignorance of the true state of the Controversy the consequences of which they never thoroughly studied nor yet understand as appears by their silence and stupid amazement when they are urged with them they do not expose it publickly to be adored that they have no fête di Dieu or Corpus Christi Festival which to me was the most mortifying sight in the world for who would not be confounded to see the most Holy Institution of our B. Saviour turned into a pompous piece of Pageantry and lastly that they do not as yet sing in their Churches any thing like that which the Romanists teach their people to sing in the solemn Procession of that day Non est panis sed est Deus homo salvator meus not to mention the other differences at present in the matter of the Sacrament between the Greek and Roman Church as communion in both kinds communicating Infants and the like which I chuse rather to leave to the Readers judgment and observation upon his perusal of the following Discourse Notwithstanding these errours and defects we preserve a great charity for this distressed part of the Catholick Church and wish and pray heartily for their deliverance from Turkish slavery and that in the mean while they may see from what purity of Doctrin and Worship they are faln and may be restored to their ancient integrity and splendour This Christian compassion obliges us to doe We leave it to the Jesuits and to the other fierce Religionaries of the Church of Rome to ascribe the ruine of the Empire to their Heresy as they term it about the Procession to their Schism and defection from S. Peter's See Next to the justice and all-wise Providence of God in the disposal of Empires and putting periods to Governments we can assign other more probable causes of their oppression and among them chiefly the want of timely assistence from Italy though two or three of the Emperours had been there in person to beg it But this is properly the work of a Civil Historian and is besides the intent of this Preface which I shall soon put an end to after I have added this one thing That I cannot reflect without horrour upon what I have read in Cardinall Pole's third Book pro defensione Ecclesiasticae Unionis where he says that if Charles the Fifth had been at that time unde sail with his Fleet and steering his course toward Constantinople he would never be at rest how great soever the difficulties of the Journey were till he had found him out and then being brought into his presence he would importune him to leave off that design and employ his Armies against the Germans and against King Henry the Eighth his natural Liege Lord and Sovereign as being a far more glorious work And all this out of a pretended love to his Country and charity for the Church infused into him as he speaks by the Son of God And the more to encourage the Emperour in this eloquent harangue he tells him that several Legions lay hid in England that had not bowed their knees to Baal that the English for lesser crimes then Heresy and Injustice to Catholicks had deposed their Kings as for mispending the publick Treasure that they still retain'd the same inclination and that nothing was wanting to execute their design but his Imperial Presence Soon after he addresses to King Henry himself and tells him in downright terms that if the King of France would suppress his designs against the Church that is the Church of Rome it would be no less glorious to him then if Caesar had recovered Constantinople out of the hands of the Turks At what a high pitch of indiscretion and fury do men arrive by their intemperate heat and bigotry They forget themselves not onely to be Subjects but even Christians at the same time they would appear extraordinary zealous Catholicks and care not how far the great Turk prevails provided that a pretended Heresy which consisted onely in a recovery of the essential Rights of the Crown from the usurpations of the Papal See which was the onely case at that time here in England had been extirpated and the Germans reduced to the same subjection to Rome they were in before the appearing of Luther which had been the readiest amd most effectual way to have made Solyman Master of Vienna which was one of his earnest wishes if the Emperour and his Council had not been persons of greater Policy and more Moderation and had not foreseen the fatall consequences of such Catholick advice Certainly it is a more innocent and Christian wish that there were a happy end put to the differences now on foot which disturb the quiet and peace of Christendom that so some of the powerfull Princes of it may turn their Forces Eastward upon the great enemy of their Faith and Saviour and restore the poor oppressed Christians there to their ease and liberty This indeed is too great a good to be hoped for at present and as things now stand not to be effected without a miracle And may this miracle be wrought in our days O Christ hear us Amen T. S. Magdalen College Oxon. Febr. 23. 1679-80 The Reader is desired to mend the following Errata most of which have hapned by reason of the hasty transcribing the Authour's Copy for the Press PAge 25. lin 4. for call reade style p. 26. l. 5. Panteelemon So p. 128. l. 10. p. 38. l. 3. and Patriarchs adde in the matter of images p. 41. l. 26. blot our being p. 55. l. 21. Tophana p. 82. l. 5. for recovers reade renews p. 83. l. 10. He will l. 24. expose p. 88. l. 8. Tzia p. 97. l. 21. Sheichler p. 127. l. 2. reade life and salvation p. 136. l. 13. fanned them p. 150. l. 27. for pag. 145. reade A. 1645. p. 179. l. 24. penance p. 211. l. 17. little less p. 241. l. 5. Pegas p. 242. l. 8. 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to infuse jealousie into the Turks of his conspiring against their Government and Religion thereby to render him and his followers obnoxious to their implacable rage and cruelty whereby the Christian name and Religion were in great danger of being extinguished in the East A brief account of these Troubles which befell the Greek Church in the beginning of his Patriarchate was written at Galata in Latine in the year 1628. by an eye-witness and printed in 1633. at the end of a little Book entitled Mysteria Patrum Societatis Jesu This Book indeed which containing a declaration of matter of fact states the caâ—e very much to the disadvantage of the Jesuits is rail'd at by Allatius after his usual manner which is an easy way of confutation but there is nothing in it but what I can confirm by an uncontrollable testimony with the addition of several circumstances and particulars which escaped that Authour and this out of a large Relation written by Sir Thomas Row in Constantinople July 1627. at that time Ambassadour at the Port where he arrived 22. December 1621. Of whom I cannot forbear to say this little for I do not pretend to write a full Character out of gratitude to his memory both as a Member of the famous University of Oxon to which upon his return into England he made a noble Present of excellent Manuscripts both Greek and Arabick and by whom Cyrillus presented to King Charles the First that incomparable monument of Piety and Antiquity the Bible in Greek supposed to be written by the hand of Thecla and as having lived sometime in Constantinople where to this day our Nation enjoys the happy effect of his Negotiation that he was a Gentleman of excellent parts and of great honour and integrity and one who served the interests of his Prince and Country in Turkey with great courage and fidelity and with an agreeable success before whose times the affairs of our Merchants were in great disorder and little regard had to the Capitulations and Privileges accorded by the Grand Signor either to our Nation or to any other he having to his immortal reputation recovered the Respect due to Ambassadours which had been utterly lost for several years before by a succession of insolent Vizirs and that he deserved most highly not onely of the Greek Church by his generous protection of it against those who endeavoured as much as in them lay to destroy its very being but of Christendom in general and particularly of Poland which King Sigismund acknowledged with great respect and thanks in a Letter to his Excellency written from Warsaw Sept. 1622. which I have had the good fortune to peruse I shall here give an Extract of it out of Papers now in the possession of the Right Honourable William Earl of Denbigh whose Lordship 's generous favour shewed to me herein I do here as it becomes me most thankfully acknowledge February 1622. The Jesuits who bore Cyrillus a grudge for his former zealous opposition of their Designs as well as present laboured openly by the help and assistence of the French Ambassadour to have him deposed in order to their preferring Gregorius Bishop of Amasia who had submitted already to the Pope and was very willing to truckle under them Cyril's intimacy with the English and Dutch Ambassadours and those under their protection heightned their malice and indeed was the goodly pretence they made use of to justifie their proceedings against him as one tainted with Heresy which forced him in his own defence with the assistence of four Archbishops and the rest of the Clergy assembled in the great Church to excommunicate the ambitious Pretender This Ecclesiasticall Censure made them the more outragious and to effect their purpose better they accuse Cyrillus to the Vizir whom they had gained of a design of delivering up an Island in the Arches to the Duke of Florence whose Gallies used to rove in those Seas Whereupon he was seized deposed and banished to Rhodes and the excommunicated Bishop was advanced to the Patriarchall dignity upon promise of paying twenty thousand dollers a certain summ more or less being usually paid to the Turks from the time of Symeon of Trapezond preferred by Bribery in the nature of an acknowledgment upon every new advancement The Greeks upon this grew discontented and refused to contribute towards the levying this summ and no supplies coming from Rome as were expected Gregorius after ten weeks sitting was willing to give way to Anthimus Archbishop of Adrianople whom they knew to be rich and had prevailed upon to accept of the Resignation He making his Covetousness veil to his Ambition pays part of the promised summ down in hand and the rest being armed with the authority of the Vizir he forces from the Christians in what proportion he pleases * ⎠* The news of this victory which they had gained so basely quickly flew to Rome and the service done the Catholick Cause in the Levant by the French Ambassadour the Count de Cesi was highly magnified and afterwards taken notice of and acknowledged by Vrban the Eighth in a Letter sent to him from Rome dated July 1624. not long after his assumption to the Pontificate in which his Holiness breaks out into very opporbrious languages against poor Cyrillus whose name now grew more and more odious at Rome calling him Son of darkness and Champion of Hell Quid autem Constantinopoli egeris as he complements the Embassadour jampridem plaudens laudibus pietatis tuae Romana Ecclesia audivit Filium illum tenebrarum Inferni athletam Pseudopatriarcham scimus quae calamitates perculerint quantúmque Haeresi vulnus inflictum sit dum venerabilem Patrem Antimum isti Ecclesiae praefici curâsti This triumphing did not long last for Sir Thomas Row having received Orders from King James in favour of the oppressed Greeks to oppose these violent courses of the French Embassadour and the Jesuits happily stept in and countermined them and by his assistence chiefly Cyril obtained his liberty and returned to Constantinople in September following Whereupon Anthimus now grown conscious of his Simony and of having invaded his See waited upon him privately and submitted himself to him acquainting him with his readiness to resign to him as being the rightfull Patriarch This so alarmed the French Embassadour now grown warm in the quarrell as well out of a point of honour as of bigotry that he sends for Anthimus to his house over the water at Pera and what by promises of protection from the Pope and his Master the French King and to spend forty thousand dollers in his defence and what by threats he prevailed upon the weak man to make good and retain his Title and Charge But notwithstanding this encouragement and assurance Anthimus being afraid of the evil consequences of his obstinacy in case Cyril should be restored by a high hand came in the night and humbled himself and begg'd his absolution for the miscarriage he
seven 107 N. Nicene Fathers 34 O. Oblation of bread and wine how blessed 129 Offerings of the Greeks 29 Vpon recovery from sickness 216 For the dead 209 Offices long and tedious 27 Holy Orders 93 176 Oyl onely made and blest by the Patriarch and Bishops 118 The Composition of it 119 P. Painting mean 63 Palm Sunday 39 Particles of bread pag. 127 171 205 208 Old Paschal Cycle still made use of 31 Passion-week 39 Day 42 Patriarchs four their jurisdictions limits and titles 2 Particularly prayed for 6 Inauguration 70 Judges in Civil affairs 77 Patriarchs of other Communions 7 Patriarchal Church at Constantinople 59 Penances 178 Pictures admitted in their Churches and reverenced 211 Pillar to which our B. Saviour was tied part of it remaining 60 Pope not mentioned in the publick prayers of the Greeks 6 Prayer to Saints 231 Posture and behaviour in their Churches 214 Priests 90 177 Praesanctificatorum Liturgia 123 125 175 Procession of the H. Spirit 197 Processions used in their Churches 130 133 Purgatory Whether the Greeks believe Purgatory 204 R. Readers 93 176 Renegado's 15 S. Sacraments or Mysteries seven 107 Sacrament but once celebrated the same day on the same Altar 155 Vpâ—â— Holy-days 156 Received four times a year 157 And Fasting 158 At what time of the day celebrat 157 In Lent not till the afternoon 158 Their posture at receiving 159 Reserved for the uses of sick persons 162 Sacristy 69 Salutations at Easter 32 Singing mean 216 Slaves Christian 16 Sub-deacons 93 177 Sunday how called 31 Sundays after Easter 32 Before Easter 36 Superstition of the Greeks 231 Swearing upon a Cross 236 T. Communion-Table 68 Table called Prothesis 68 Transubstantiation a novel Doctrine 146 Triangular piece of Bread in honour of the Virgin 233 Turkish Empire how supplied 16 V. Veneration of the unconsecrated Elements 134 Vestments 237 Vigils 27 Of Good Friday 42 Of other Festivals 49 Vnion of Christ Princes desired 13 W. The ceremony of Washing the Feet of twelve persons 40 War The Holy War defended 13 Water poured into the Chalice 127 140 Waters when blest 23 49 111 The same Water not used a second time in Baptism 114 No Holy Water at their Church-doors 216 Women Profest 106 FINIS A Catalogue of some Books Printed for and to be sold by Richard Davis in Oxford IN FOLIO DR Hammonds Works the 1. Vol. Containing a Collection of Discourses chiefly Practical with the Life of the author 1674. His Paraphrase and Annotations on the New Testament the fourth Edition 1675. On the Psalms His Sermons Lucian's Dialogues made English from the Original by Jasper Mayn D. D. Mereator's Atlas Englished by W. Saltonstall A Poem to the Duke of York on our late Sea-fight with the Dutch by J. M. C. C. Oxon. Five New Plays The Siege of Urbine Selindra Love Friendship Pandora Imperiale a Tragedy By Sir William Killigrew Vice-Chamberlain to Her Majesty 1666. An Elegy on the Death of the Duke of Glocester by M. Lluellin Dr. in Physick The History of the Pretended Saints by Hen. Foulis the second Edition 1674. The Works of Mr. William Pemble Songs for 1. 2. and 3. Voyces to the Thorow-Bass with some short Symphonies Collected out of some of the select Poems of the Incomparable Mr. Cowley and Others And Camposed by H. Bowman Philo-Musicus Engraved upon 85 Copper Plates The 2d Edition corrected and amended by the Author 1679. A Letter of all the Lay. Nobility of England to the Pope 1300. then denying his Suppremacy in things Temporal in the Kings Dominions in Latin with the same in English and all the said Nobilities Names with their Coats of Armes being 104. Engraved on a large Copper Plate to which is adjoyned a brief account of the Pope's Pretences to the Crown of England and an Answer thereunto With a Dedication of All to the present Nobility Printed on two broad sheets of Royal Paper 1679. Annalium Mundi Vniversal Origines Rerum progressus sacras juxta ac Seculares ab Orbe condito tradentium Lib. XIV Authore Hug. Robinsono olim Wintoniensi Archididascalo postea Archidiaâ—â—o Jussu Regio Recognovit emaculavit lacunosum explevit multaque nocte adopertum in lucem edidit THOMAS PEIRCE S. T. P. Decanus Sarisburiensis 1677. Jamblichi Chalcidensis de Mysteriis Aegyptor Tho. Gale Anglus Graece nunc primum eddit Latine vertit notas adjecit 1678. è Theatro Provinciale seu Constitutiones Angliae c. Auctore Guliel Lyndwood J. V. D. Cui adjiciuntur Constitutiones D. Othonis D. Othoboni Cardinalium Annotationibus Johannis de Athona Huic editioni nunc primum accesserunt Constitutiones Provinciales antedictorum Archiepiscoporum aliorum sine Glossematis in ordinem digestae Omnia ab innumeris quibus undique scatebant erroribus atque mendis purgata ac restituta 1679. IN QUARTO A Collection of severall Replies and Vindications of the Church of England by H. Hammond D. D. in 4. Vol. The hurt of Sedition or the true Subject to the rebel by Sir John Cheek with a Preface of D. Langbane's A Funerall Sermon on Phil. 1. 23. by John Millet The Vaulting Master or the Art of Vaulting illustrated with sixteen brass Figures by W. Stoaks Christ and his Church or Christianity explained in 7. Evangelical and Ecclesiastical heads by Edw. Hyde D. D. sometime Fellow of Trinity College in Cambridge late Rector of Brightwell in Berks. Cheerfull Ayres or Ballads for three Voices by J. Wilson Dr. in Musick late Professor of the same in the University of Oxford and one of the Gentlemen of His Majesties Chappel in 3. Vol. Hosanna a Thanksgiving Sermon on the Kings Return on Psal 118. v. 22 23 24 25. by Jo. Martin A Sheet of directions for Daily Examination of Sin by Bishop Vsher The Throne of David or an Exposition on the second Book of Samuel by W. Guild Howel's Vocal Forrest the First part Davenant Morton Drury c. Good Counsel for Peace Sicily and â—aples or the Fatal Union A Play Some Considerations touching the Usefulness of Experimental natural Philosophy propos'd in Familiar Discourses to a Friend by way of Invitation to the study of it by the Honorable Robert Boyle Esquire The 2d Edition Considerations of the Usefulness of Experimental Philosophy the 2d Vol. 1671. The 2d Vol. of his Experiments of Air with many Figures engraved on 8 Brass Plates Also his Treatise of the Atmospheres of consistent Bodies 1669. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society Numb 6 7 8. 1666. Nehemiah or the Excellent Governour A Sermon Preached at Dublin Aug. 69. before the Right Honourable Thomas Earl of Ossery then Lord Deputy of Ireland by Jo. Parry D. D. and Dean of the holy Trinity in Dublin 1670. 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