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A42086	A late voyage to Constantinople containing an exact description of the Proportis and Hellespont, with the Dardanels, and what else is remarkable in those seas, as also of the city of Constantinople ... : likewise an account of the ancient and present state of the Greek Church, with the religion and manner of worship of the Turks, their ecclesiastical government, their courts of justice, and civil employments : illustrated ... in fourteen copper-plates ... / published by command of the French King by Monsieur William Joseph Grelot ; made English by J. Philips.; Relation nouvelle d'un voyage de Constantinople. English	Grelot, Guillaume-Joseph, b. ca. 1630.; Phillips, John, 1631-1706.	1683 (1683)	Wing G1934; ESTC R5793	148,879	261

power by this Abdest And also that their Prayers put up in that state of impurity would rather draw down the wrath of Heaven upon them than procure the blessings of God without the assistance of Abdest For which reason they never erect any Mosquee without the convenience of Fountains as I have shew'd already It will be needless therefore to relate in what manner this Abdest is perform'd All people know well that they wash the best part of the head and neck the arms to the Elbows their feet the end of the Priapus and the posteriour Orifice However I must needs tell ye that these severe injunctions of washing so often are very troublesome to those that live in dry places far remote from water and to those that live in the Northern cold Climates which is the reason that several Turks could wish with all their hearts that they might be permitted to change their Religion which tyes them to so many inconvenient slabberings To this purpose I will relate what I heard said by one of those Turks who they call Raphasis-ler these are a sort of Mahometan Hereticks very numerous in Syria and several parts of lesser Asia This person in obedience to some Religious Vow had oblig'd himself to undertake a journey to Mecca to which the honest Musselmen are bound at least once in their lives He being in the same opinion with the rest of the Caravan that they should meet with water at such a certain Well or Cistern upon the Road which the heat of the Sun had dry'd up contrary to their hopes had made use of the best part of his provision of water as the rest had done upon this Ceremony of Abdest which the devotion of that Pilgrimage frequently requires By which means finding themselves in the midst of the Sands Deserts and Heats of Arabia they knew not what course to take in that extremity of drowth which tormented them to impatience Nor was he of the number of those who had over much Gold to purchase of those who had been more provident And indeed they had too much need themselves for him to hope they would be perswaded to give gratis to others So that the poor Raphasis found himself reduc'd to endure a scorching drowth and ready to be buried alive in the stifling Clouds of Sand which the Wind raises in that miserable Road. The remembrance of this extremity from which nothing but the natural strength of his Body had preserv'd him inspir'd him with more execrations of Mahomet and his accursed errours than the most zealous of the Eastern Christians could have invented for him He said He did not wish the Devil had taken him for he did not believe him so unjust as to let that Impostor scape his fury who being the sole cause of the death of so many Millions of people as perish'd in going to Mecca justly deserv'd to suffer as many deaths in Hell as he had caus'd poor creatures to suffer torments in his infamous cruel Pilgrimage but he wish'd with all his heart that Heaven had Thunder struck from above and that Hell had then swallow'd in flames the first contrivers of that accursed Alcoran and the unfortunate Propagators of the Law of Mahomet or that it had been his fortune to have been a Christian like us I was strangely surpriz'd to hear a Turk Blaspheme his own Religion in that manner before two Christians and therefore fearing he had some treacherous design upon me could he have but heard me speak any words upon which he might lay hold I ask'd my Companion who that Raphasis was and wherefore he talk'd after that fashion He told me the reason was because those Raphases being neither Christians nor Turks had not the liberty to declare themselves for the one nor the other That outwardly they conform'd to all the exercises of the Mahometan Religion but that in their hearts they believ'd not one tittle of it and that moreover they were all at this lock that if any among them renounc'd his Raphaisme to become a sincere Mahometan they receiv'd his abjuration but pursu'd him afterwards to death with no less malice than if he had turn'd Christian. The fifth sort of Turkish washing is that which they call Eulu-iak maghi or the washing of the dead of which I shall say nothing till I have done with their Ceremonies before Prayer this not being in practice till after the decease of the party Now therefore after a true Musselman has perform'd all his purifications it behoves him to go to Church with his eyes fix'd upon the ground and to bear in mind the profound reverence which he ought to pay to that place and to make his entry bare foot or only cover'd with his Trouses Which necessity of pulling off their shoes so often has caus'd the Eastern people to invent a sort of shoes or slippers which they call Papouches with one single sole and the upper leather of Goats skin tann'd and dy'd yellow red violet or black The Turks and Franks usually wear them yellow the Armenians red the Jews black and the Greeks violet But none of these Nations are permitted to wear them green in any part of the Turkish Dominion which they may do in the Persian Territories It would be a great crime for a Christian to wear upon his feet a colour which the Mahometans look upon as sacred in regard it was the colour which their Prophet so much affected and which the Turks therefore never put but with great respect upon their heads as serving to distinguish their Emirs who are allow'd to wear a green Bonnet as a mark of their being ally'd to their great Prophet and Legislator Which puts me in mind of the witty answer that the great Sha Abbas gave to the Grand Signors Embassadour This Elchi or Embassador from the Ottoman Port being very much troubled to see the Christians as well as Turks over all Persia wearing green shoes and Trouses in the name of his Master requir'd Sha Abbas to forbid his Subjects any longer to prophane a colour which all true Mahometans ought to have a greater veneration for that he very well understood that it being the Prophets peculiar colour it did not behove the happy observers of his Law to cover any other part of the body with it than the head or at least the more decent parts of the body above the wast and that it became him not with such an insupportable contempt to trample under foot a colour so sacred as his Subjects not only did but also the Giaurs the Chifoutlers or Jews and all other Mordars or impure Nations over all his Dominions unpunish'd Sha Abbas who was the most accomplish'd Prince in all the East whose noble qualities gain'd him the affection of all the world perceiv'd hereby the injustice of the Ottomans which was to hinder all men if it were in their power to make use of that colour of which Nature it self had made them a Precedent and set

stratagem to milk their Parishioners by means of their Sphragides or mark'd Loaves The secular Priests carry every one of them to Church a Houshould loaf and the Clerks and Deacons having cut it into small pieces the Priest blesses them as he distributes to all the Congregation This is observ'd upon all Holy-days and Sundays toward the people But the Priests having thus engag'd the Multitude and unwilling to lose by their charity and benedictions put this trick upon 'em the first Sunday in every Lent to reimburse themselves For then every Family covetous of the Papa's Blessing Bakes and brings to Church a little Loaf made in the form of a Cross of which the four extream parts are like a Lozenge and the middle part round and every part mark'd with the name of Iesus thus 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 These Loaves the Priest takes and having blest them breaks one Loaf into five parts and gives them to five several people Now in regard those pieces being thus blest are presently endu'd with secret vertues equal to all the Charms Antidotes and Amulets in the world therefore the people are oblig'd to pay for every mark'd piece six blanks by which means one blessed Bun which costs them nothing in regard every Family provides their own Loaf produces them being divided to five persons no less than Twelve or Thirteen Sous which is a very good blessing-interest Yet notwithstanding all these petty cheats and several others which the Priests impose upon the people to pinch mony out of their pockets those poor Christians are the most zealous to obey their orders and injunctions of any people in the world and to give them whatever they demand They firmly believe that a Papa can never tell a lye and that no Oracle spoke such truth as what a Greek Priest utters whatever his ignorance and how low and self Interested soever his soul may be It is impossible to make a Levantine acknowledge that the Bishops Priests and other Ministers of their Church being so lumpishly dull and sottish as they are are uncapable of instructing them in matters of Faith which are above their reach And therefore they choose rather blindly to obey their commands than to suffer themselves to be better taught or convinc'd of their errours Of their Faith AS for what concerns their Faith they neither know what they believe nor what it is they ought to believe Their Papa's never speak a word of Catechisms Articles of Faith of Hope or Charity or if at any time a Papa mounts the Pulpit 't is not so much to make a pious exhortation to the people nor to direct them how to lead their lives like Christians nor so much as to read a good Homily which is more easy but to gain the Two Crowns which is generally given to the Preacher for his Sermon which as the people do not understand so neither do the Papa's know what they say And which is more they draul out their words at such a distance one from another that though they stand a full hour in their Pulpits yet they hardly utter Four Hundred words in all the time Nevertheless they are in high esteem and the poor people that understand not nay some that heard not a word the Papa said cry one to an other as they go home Psila Emiliseno Didascalos What a rare Preacher was this what wonderful things has he said Thereupon I once ask'd some of their Adorers what it was they so much admir'd and what it was their Parson had told them that was so charming to their ears But when I found that not one of them could remember the least tittle of what they so highly commended I made answer Psila Emiliseno Didascalos diatiden heptases Most certainly your Preacher spoke Mysteries for I find that none of you know what he said Of their Sacraments COncerning the Administration of the Sacraments they are by them administred after a manner so different and disagreeing from the first Institution of the sacred Mysterie that you would swear they either believe not in what they do or else that they take little care of what they are about They number Seven Sacraments but to make short work of it they administer but Three Baptisme Confirmation and the Eucharist they give them all together to Infants Forty days after the birth sometimes later sometimes sooner at the pleasure of the Parents or as necessity requires Penitence Extream Vnction and the Eucharist they make use of all together likewise five times a year at Easter Saint Peter's St. Paul's the Assumption of our Lady and Christmas the Order and Marriage they confirm both together and upon the same person Concerning Baptisme when the Child is in a condition to be Baptiz'd they make choise of a Godfather and Godmother if it be a Boy if a Girl they many times content themselves with a Godmother only Then the Infant is carry'd to Church where he is plunged over head and ears in the Colymbitra or Font of Baptisme Which done the Godfather carry's the Child Midwife-like to the great door of the Sanctuary where they anoint the Childs head neck stomach shoulders armpits hands elbows leggs and feet Which done they put upon the Infant a white shirt and wastcoate and such other accoutrements as are requisite which they never put off in eight days after At what time the Godfather and Godmother carry the Child again to Church there to have all the Childs swaths and linnen wash'd which he has foul'd during the eight days All which is done in a little stone Vessel bored through in the middle lest the sacred Oyls that besmear'd the Infants Cloaths should be profan'd by powring away the water that wash'd them upon the Ground This Oyl is highly esteem'd among the Eastern Christians especially among the Armenians who some while since had a great dispute in Law upon this very subject Their Patriarch who generally resides in the upper Armenia lives in a large convent which the Armenians in their Language call Echemiazin the Turks in regard of its three Churches Vscha Klisia and the Europeans the Three Churches It is seated in a large Plain at the foot of the famous Mountain Ararat This Patriarch was wont always to make the Myron for so is the holy Oyl call'd and sent it from time to time to all the Armenian Bishops as well those in Persia and Turkie as to all the rest who had not permission to make this Oyl which was a priviledg only belonging to the Patriarch But it happen'd that about Ten years since the Bishop of Ierusalem having an Ambition to make himself Patriarch for that Iacob Vartabiet the present Catholicoës or Patriarch of Armenia had given over his trade by an immediate power from the Grand Signor fell to work himself and made such a quantity of the holy Oyl as 't is thought would suffice all the Armenians in Turkie for several years which new Ierusalem Myron has caus'd such a