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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57996	The history of the Turkish empire from the year 1623 to the year 1677 containing the reigns of the three last emperours, viz., Sultan Morat or Amurat IV, Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the XIII emperour now reigning / by Paul Rycaut, Esq. ...	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1680 (1680)	Wing R2406; ESTC R7369	530,880	457

shall be the method of your Prayers on this day of Festival After you have said Blessed be thou O Holy God then proceed and say Thou hast chosen us before all people and hast loved us and hast been delighted with us and hast humbled us more than all other Nations and hast sanctified us with thy Precepts and hast brought us near to thy Service and the Service of our King Thy Holy Great and Terrible Name thou hast published amongst us And hast given us O Lord God according to thy love times of Joy of Festivals and times of Mirth and this Day of Consolation for a solemn Convocation of Holiness for the Birth of our King the Messiah Sabatai Sevi thy Servant and first-born Sonin love through whom we commemorate our coming out of Egypt And then you shall read for your Lesson the first second and third Chapters of Deuteronomy to the seventeenth Verse appointing for the reading thereof five men in a persect and uncorrupted Bible adding thereunto the Blessings of the Morning as are prescribed for Days of Festivals And for the Lesson out of the Prophets usually read in the Synagogue every Sabbath you shall repeat the 31 th Chapter of Jeremiah to your Prayer called the Mussaf used in the Synagogue every Sabbath and solemn Festival Instead of the Sacrisice of Addition at the returning of the Bible to its place you shall read with an audible Voice and clear Sound and with holy Harmony the 95 th Psalm And at the first Praises in the morning after you have sung Psalm 91 and just before you sing Psalm 98 you shall repeat Psalm 132 but in the last Verse where it is said As for his enemies I shall clothe them with shame but upon himself shall his Crown flourish in the place of upon himself you shall read Upon the Most High after which shall follow the 126 th Psalm and then the 113 th to the 119 th At the Consecration of the Wine upon the Vigil or Even you shall make mention of the Feast of Consolation which is the day of the Birth of our King the Messiah Sabatai Sevi thy Servant and sirst-born Son giving the Blessing as followeth Blessed be thou our God King of the World who hast made us to live and hast maintained us and hast kept us alive unto this time Upon the Eve of this Day you shall also read the 81 Psalm as also the 132 and 126 Psalms which are appointed for the Morning Praises And this Day shall be unto you for a remembrance of a solemn Day unto eternal Ages and a perpetual Testimony between me and the Sons of Israel Audite audiendo manducate bonum Besides which Order and Method of Liturgy for Solemnization of his Birth he prescribed other Rules for Divine Service and particularly published the same Indulgence and priviledge to every one who should pray at the Tomb of his Mother as if he had taken on him a Pilgrimage to pray and sacrifice at Jerusalem The Devotion of the Jews towards this pretended Messiah encreased still more and more so that not only the chief of the City went to attend and proffer their service towards him in the time of his Imprisonment but likewise decked their Synagogue with S. S. in Letters of Gold making for him on the Wall a Crown in the Circle of which was wrote the 91 Psalm at length in a fair and legible Character attributing the same Titles to Sabatai and expounding the Scriptures in the same manner in favour of his appearance as we do of our Saviour Howsoever some of the Jews remained in their Wits all this time amongst which was a certain Cocham at Smyrna one zealous of his Law and of the good and safety of his Nation and observing in what a wild manner the whole people of the Jewswas transported with the groundless belief of a Messiah leaving not only their Trades and Course of Living but publishing Prophecies of a speedy Kingdom of rescue from the tyranny of the Turk and leading the Grand Signior himself captive in Chains matters so dangerous and obnoxious to the State wherein they lived as might justly convict them of Treason and Rebellion and leave them to the mercy of that Justice which on the least jealousie and suspicion of matters of this nature uses to extirpate Families and subvert the Mansion houses of their own People much rather of the Jews onwhom the Turks would gladly take this occasion to despoil them of their Estates and condemn the whole Nation to perpetual Slavery And indeed it would have been a greater wonder than ever Sabatat shewed that the Turks took not advantage from all these extravagancies to drain the Jews of a considerable Sum of money and set their whole Race in Turkie at a Ransome had not these passages yielded them matter of pastime and been the subject of the Turks laughter and scorn supposing it a disparagement to the greatness of the Ottoman Empire to be concerned for the rumours and combustions of this despised people With these Considerations this Cocham that he might clear himself of the blood and guilt of his Countrymen and unconcerned in the common destruction went before the Kaddee and there protested against the present Doctrine declaring That he had no hand in setting up of Sabatai but was an enemy both to him and his whole Sect. This freedom of the Cocham so enraged and scandalized the Jews that they judged no Condemnation or Punishment too severe against such an Offender and Blasphemer of their Law and Holiness of the Messiah and therefore with money and presents to the Kaddee accusing him as disobedient in a Capital Nature to their Government obtained sentence against him to shave his Beard and commit him to the Gallies There wanted nothing now to the appearance of the Messiah and the Solemnity of his Coming but the presence of Elias which the Jews began to expect hourly and with that attention and earnestness that a Dream or Phantasm to every weak head was judged to be Elias it being taught and averred that he was seen in divers Forms and Shapes nor to be certainly discovered or known before the Coming of the Messiah For this Superstition is so far fixed amongst them that generally in their Families they spread a Table for Elias the Prophet to 〈◊〉 they make an invitation of poor people leaving the chief place for the Lord Elias whom they believe to be invisibly present at the Entertainment and there to eat and drink without diminution either of the Dishes or the Cup. One person amongst the Jews commanded his Wife after a Supper of this kind to leave the Cup filled with Wine and the Meat standing all Night for Elias to feast and rejoyce alone and in the morning arising early affirmed That Elias took this Banquet so kindly that in token of gratitude and acceptance he had replenished the Cup with Oyl instead of Wine It is a custom amongst the Jews on the

for certain days with Rules and Methods for Prayer which ought not to be done and yet they still remain obstinate therein And now behold it is known unto you how many swelling waters have passed over our souls for his sake for had it not been for the mercies of God which are without end and the merit of our Forefathers which hath assisted us the foot of Israel had been rased out by their enemies And yet still you continue obstinate in things which do not help but rather do mischief which God avert Turn you therefore for this is not the true way but restore the Crown to the ancient custom and use of your Forefathers and the Law and from thence do not move We command you That with your Authority under pain of Excommunication and other Penalties all those Ordinances and Prayers as well those delivered by the mouth of that man as those which he injoyned by the mouth of others be all abolished and made void and to be found no more and that they never enter more into your hearts but judge according to the ancient Commandment of your Forefathers repeating the same Lessons and Prayers every Sabbath as hath been accustomary as also the Collects for Kings Potentates and Anointed c. and bless the King Sultan Mahomet for in his dayes hath great Salvation been wrought for Israel and become not Rebels to his Kingdom which God forbid For after all this which is past the least motion will be a cause of jealousy and you will bring ruine upon your own persons and upon all which is near and dear to you wheresore abstain from this man and let not so much as his name proceed out of your mouths For know if you will not obey us herein which will be known who and what those men are who refuse to conform unto us we are resolved to prosecute them as our duty is He that doth hear and obey us may the blessing of God rest upon him These are the words of those who seek your peace and good having in Constantinople on Sunday the 5th of the Month Sevat under-wrote their names Joam Tob Son of Hanania Ben Jacar Isaac Alnacagua Joseph Kazabi Menasse Barudo Kaleb Son of Samuel Eliezer Casti. Eliezer Gherson Joseph Accohen Eliezer Aluff During the time of all these transactions and passages at Constantinople Smyrna Abydos upon the Hellespont and Adrianople the Jews leaving their mercantile course and advices what prices Commodities bore and matters of Traffick stuffed their Letters for Italy and other parts with nothing but wonders and miracles wrought by their Messiah As that when the Grand Signior sent to take him he caused all the Messengers immediately to die upon which other Janizaries being again sent they all fell dead with a word only from his mouth and being desired to revive them again he immediately recalled them to life but of them only such who were true Turks and not those who had denied that Faith in which they were born and had professed After this they added that he went voluntarily to Prison and though the Gates were barred and shut with strong Locks of Iron yet that Sabatai was seen to walk through the streets with a numerous attendance and when they laid shackles on his Neck and Feet they not only fell from him but were converted into Gold with which he gratified his true and faithful Believers and Disciples Some Miracles also were reported of Nathan that only at the reading of the name of any particular Man or Woman he could immediately recount the story of his or her Life their sins or defaults and accordingly impose just correction and penance for them These strong reports coming thus confidently into Italy and all parts the Jews of Casal di Monferrato resolved to send three persons in behalf of their Society in the nature of extraordinary Legates to Smyrna to make enquiry after the truth of all these rumours who accordingly arriving in Smyrna full of expectation and hopes intending to present themselves with great humility and submission before their Messiah and his Prophet Nathan were entertained with the sad news that Sabatai was turned Turk by which information the Character of their Embassy in a manner ceasing every one of them laying aside the formality of his Function endeavoured to lodge himself best to his own convenience But that they might return to their Brethren at home with the certain particulars of the success of these affairs they made a visit to the Brother of Sabatai who still continued to perswade them that Sabatai was notwithstanding the true Messiah that it was not he who had taken upon him the habit and form of a Turk but his Angel or Spirit his Body being ascended into Heaven until God shall again see the season and time to restore it adding farther that an effect hereof they should see by the Prophet Nathan verifyed now every day expected who having wrought Miracles in many places would also for their consolation reveal hidden secrets unto them with which they should not only remain satisfied but astonished with this only hope of Nathan these Legates were a little comforted resolving to attend his arrival in regard they had a Letter to consign into his hands and according to their instructions were to demand of him the grounds he had for his Prophecies and what assurance he had that he was divinely inspired and how those things were revealed unto him which he had committed to Paper and dispersed to all parts of the World At length Nathan arrived near Smyrna on Friday the 3 d of March towards the Evening and on Sunday these Legats made their visit to him but Nathan upon the news of what success his Messiah met with began to grow sullen and reserved so that the Legats could scarce procure admittance to him all that they could do was to inform him that they had a Letter to him from the Brotherhood of Italy and Commission to confer with him concerning the ground and foundation of his Prophecies but Nathan refused to take the Letter ordering Kaim Abolafio a Cocham of the City of Smyrna to receive it so that the Legats returned little contented but yet with hopes at Nathans arrival at Smyrna to receive better satisfaction But whilst Nathan intended to enter into Smyrna the Cochams of Constantinople being before advised of his resolution to take a Journey into their parts not knowing by which way he might come sent their Letters and Orders to Smyrna Prussia and every way round to hinder his passage and interrupt his Journey fearing that things beginning now to compose the Turks appeased for the former disorders and the minds of the Jews in some manner setled might be moved and combustions burst out afresh by the appearance of this new Impostor and therefore dispatched this Letter as followeth TO you who are the Shepherds of Israel and Rulers who reside for the Great God of the whole World in the City of Smyrna