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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
B21024	A voyage to Mount Libanus wherein is an account of the customs, manners, &c. of the Turks : also a description of Candia, Nicosia, Tripoly, Alexandretta, &c. : with curious remarks upon several passages re[l]ating to the Turks & Maronites / written originally in Italian by the R. F. Jerome Dandini.; Missione apostolica al patriarca de' Maroniti del Monte Libano. English	Dandini, Girolamo, 1554-1634.	1698 (1698)	Wing D168	76,284	146

Apparel serves for a second Proof They wear but a pitiful unvaluable ill-shaped Coat wherein they wrap themselves with a black Cowl upon their heads and this Vestment descends only from the shoulders to the girdle without any thing to cover their shoulders withal neither is there any other Habit cut according to the fashion of these that are used amongst all the Community of their Religious Their manner of Living furnisheth us with a third Proof They live only upon that which the Earth it self produceth and never eat any Flesh tho' they be sick and in danger of death As for Wine they very rarely drink any They have no particular Rules nor written Constitutions for to be observed by every one as may be seen in all other Religious Houses who are established to live in Community They make no express Profession of the three Vows of Religion to wit Poverty Chastity and Obedience but when they are received into the Monastery where they make Profession one holds a Book in his Hand and reads only something that belongs to them advertising them That they ought to live in Continence and adds many the like things These Advertisements are sufficient to make them keep a perfect Chastity You shall never hear any sca●dalous or ill report of them altho' they cont●●ually go alone up and down and stay oftentimes many days tog●ther out of their Monastery They have Goods and Money of their own and can dispose thereof at their death If they have no longer a Mind to stay in the Monastery they go into another without the leave of their Superiours In the fourth place They are never permitted to Exercise any Ecclesiastical Function they have no Spiritual Exercise in common for the good of their Neighbour and have no Power either to Preach or Confess so that they are only for themselves In the fifth place They give to their Superiours and Chiefs the Name of Abbot as the Hermits did of Old Finally I shall take for the sixth and last Proof the name they bear of the Monks of St. Anthor●y and 't is this that ought to make some impressions upon the spirits of those who would search out the cause why these Religious are so called Has this good Man ever founded any Religious House for to live in Community Did he not live a Solitary and Hermitical Life in the Desarts of Aegypt exercising the Function of Abbot in regard to those that lead the same Life of himself There is therefore reason to believe that this was the true Original of the Monks which are at this day in Mount Libanus and which are called the Monks of St. Anthony Many have imagined that they were reduced to that poverty they live in through the continual Oppression of the Turks who obliged them to Labour and Cultivate the Earth but I do not doubt but that was the end of their Constitution for so much as the holy Hermits and Servants of God for to shun Idleness and gain their Living by the Industry of their own hands accustomed themselves to Labour for a good part of the day these same had many Persons under them whom they employed to the hardest Labours and they contented themselves to carry on the same and render it less painful As to their Hospitality the use whereof perhaps they have preserved since their Foundation they highly exercise it especially in the Monastery of Cannubin where there is kept an open Table for all the Year round admittance being never forbid not only to the Maronites and other Christians but also to the Turks and all Comers who are welcome to eat what they please which is the cause of vast expence unto them for as 't is the ordinary Residence of the Patriarch 't is incredible what multitudes are drawn thither daily either through Necessity Curiosity Business or some other Matter CHAP. XIV Of the Errors that have been imposed upon them I Discovered with much evidence the Abuses whereof I am about to speak and some others of the same nature which made me open my eyes and apply my self with all Industry to every thing that might regard their Belief not only because these matters were of very great importance being the foundation of all Religion but also because I had learn'd that some years past they had been attributed unto them amongst other Errors 1. That there was in Jesus Christ but one Nature to wit The Divine 2. That the Holy Ghost proceeded only from the Father 3. That all the Trinity was Incarnated died on the Cross and rose again And those that attributed these errors unto them said That that was the reason why they added to the Trisagion which is Sung by the Angels Qui natus es pro nobis qui Crucifixus es pro nobis qui surrexisti ascendisti in coelum pro nobis miserere nobis as if they retained the ancient Errors condemned in the fifth Council of Constantinople 4. That an Husband might put away his Wife and take another if she committed Adultery or far other reasons 5. That there is no Original Sin 6. That the Souls that departed from their Bodies saw not Heaven for to be there rewarded nor Hell for to be there punished but that they attended for that till the Universal Judgment And that in the mean time they remained in a place where there was neither grief nor joy 7. That 't is Lawful to deny ones Belief outwardly and also by Words provided it be treasured up in the heart 8. That the Sacrament of Confirmation was not distinct from Baptism 9. That they gave the Eucharist to young Children Altho' I used all my own Industry to be informed of these Errors and imploy'd others for that purpose yet I could never discover but two of them to wit The repudiation of their Wifes and the Communion which they gave to Children I am very well satisfy'd that the first is not an error whereof the whole Nation ought to be accused as if it approved of this Divorcement but an accident that happened two or three times which had been fomented through the violence and tyranny of the Turks who favoured the designs of some Profligates who had put away their Wifes for to marry others of whom they were enamoured Those sort of People being not able to obtain the consent of the Patriarch for to marry them had recourse to the Emir who gave them for their Money permission to do it giving them his Letters to the Patriarch for to excuse them who dissembled his resentments thereof upon just considerations 'T is certain that the like case happening at the time of my being there the Patriarch would no ways consent thereto but not being able to remedy it he was obliged to pass it by In regard to the second Error 't is common to all neither can it be esteemed for an Error nor Heresie since the Church hath heretofore practised the same thing for a long time As for the other Errors

I understood very well that they had been falsly charged with them however having read in one of their Books I know not what concerning one Will and one Operation in Jesus Christ and some other impure things I resolved to put all these Articles separately into writing and to propose each in particular to the Synod when it should be assembled before it came to the reformation of Abuses CHAP. XV. Of the assembling of a Synod and of the Profession of Faith that was made there AFter I had informed my self of all things as well as possibly I could I applied all my cares to give notice forthwith of the Synod for which I had such a desire to the Bishops two Deacons and to the most understanding Clergy They assembled the 28th of December which is the 18th according to the supputation of the Maronites who have not received the reformation of the Calendar of Gregory XIII The Patriarch then and those which were summoned finding themselves together read publickly the Pope's Brief which contained my Mission and the Authority I had from his Holiness and as every one remained silent I exposed unto them at large the Reasons that had moved me to convocate this Assembly I represented unto them the importance of it entertained them at the same time with the great care and affection his Holiness had towards them then I spoke a few words to the Bishops in particular touching their Duty and the Charge they had of the Church I divided the Matters to be treated of into three Heads the first whereof regarded to their Belief the second to the young Maronites that were to be sent from that Country to Rome and thirdly To those that would be sent back again from Rome unto them As I was ready to open the Synod with the Matters that regarded the Belief and Conformity of their Religion to the Church of Rome I was interrupted by the Patriarch who testified his having received much displeasure about a Synod that had been held some years ago from Rome protesting that neither he nor his Predecessor had done nor approved of what was transacted whereupon he detested and anathamiz'd the Errors which had been imposed upon them and the Nation He anathamiz'd all those that held them or had ever held them assuring us That he had always followed and would still for the future the Church of Rome to which words the prime Deacon being transported with zeal added these Yes we will follow and never separate in any part from it whatever misery may befall us Indeed I conceived much joy to see that the beginning was accompanied with so firm a resolution and such great stedfastness of spirit so that it incouraged me in such a manner that I believed I had no further search to make for to render me certain of my Enquiries However for to be more assured and also to justifie them I applied my self to examine all the Errors one after another and that every one in particular should declare his Belief all with one consent agreed without any dispute or controversie and made Profession together of the following Articles I. That there is in Jesus Christ but one Person which is Divine with two Natures two Wills two Operations one of which is Divine the other Humane It was a great comfort to me to see in all their Books very ample testimonies of this truth I found also particular Works composed upon this subject which was well handled and filled with a great number of Authorities drawn from the Old and New Testament as well as from the Latin an● Greek Fathers II. That the Holy Ghost proceeded from the Father and Son as from the only Principle that which is read not only by them in divers places of their Books but also such as is rehearsed by them in the Creed Qui est patre filio procedit III. That the Son alone was Incarnated and not the whole Trinity as also who was born died who rose again and who ascended into Heaven and for that reason they took the word Trisagion two manner of ways applying it sometimes to the whole Trinity sometimes to the second Person only but when they took it for the first they added it not at all but when for the second they added it by coherence to the Incarnation Birth Death and other the like things which truly agreed with Jesus Christ IV. That it might be judged by their Actions that they acknowledged a place of Purgatory and Original Sin that the first was sufficiently set forth by their Alms and Prayers V. That the second proved it self plainly by the Baptism they gave to little Infants to the end that being washed and cleansed of their sins they might obtain eternal Life altho' they had committed no Actual Sin that required their being washed and cleansed by that Sacrament knowing that St. Augustin made often use of that argument to prove that same truth against the Pelagians of his time VI. That Souls generally speaking when they depart from the Body go straight to Heaven for to enjoy Blessedness or to Hell for to be there eternally punished or for a time to Purgatory VII That 't is never Lawful for to deny ones Faith in words as Jesus Christ himself manifestly declared He that denies me before men him will I also deny before my father which is in heaven VIII Finally That in Marriage they permitted sometimes a Separation of Living but that nothing but Death was able to dissolve the Bond of Matrimony in such a manner as that it was lawful for the Husband to Espouse another conformable to those words of Jesus Christ which are so express Whosoever puts away his Wife and marries another commits Adultery I failed not to object and lay before them those Books wherein I found some Errors They made answer That they were not their true Books but that they had been maliciously contrived by the Jacobins and dispersed amongst their Nation that as to the rest their Books were very different and that the Pope had received false information of them which satisfied me so much the more because in their Actions I discovered that it was so in effect I saw in their Books which they acknowledged for true nothing but what was Catholick and as others have not made that distinction with exactness enough one ought not to be astonished if they returned to Rome with such contrary Informations Wherefore having received by what is here demonstrated and by many other Enquiries and Circumstances transacted in this Synod plenary satisfaction of the firmness of their Belief we made several Canons for to reform the Abuses amongst them and to confirm the Profession they made here of their Faith and added what other things we thought necessary for to oblige them to a firm constancy therein CHAP. XVI Of the Maronites that were to be sent to Rome and of those that should return from thence into their own Country I Had yet said nothing of two