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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A57997	The history of the Turkish Empire, from the year 1623, to the year 1677 Containing the reigns of the three last emperors, viz. Sultan Morat, or Amurat IV. Sultan Ibrahim, and Sultan Mahomet IV, his son, the thirteenth emperor, now reigning. By Sir Paul Rycaut, late consul of Smyrna.	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.; Knolles, Richard, 1550?-1610. Generall historie of the Turkes. aut; Manley, Roger, Sir, 1626?-1688. History of the Turkish Empire continued. aut; Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700. Memoirs. aut; White, Robert, 1645-1703,	1687 (1687)	Wing R2407; ESTC R8667	720,857	331

esteem amongst the Jews attended a whole day before him with their Eyes cast down their Bodies bending forward and hands cross'd before them which are postures of humllity and service in the Eastern Parts the undecency of the place and present subjection not having in the least abated their high thoughts and reverence towards his person For the Jews in Constantinople were become as mad and distracted as they were in other places all Trade and Traffick forbidden and those who owed Money in no manner careful how to satisfie it amongst which wild Crew some were indebted to our Merchants at Galata who not knowing the way to receive their Money partly for their interest and partly for curiosity thought fit to visit this Sabatai complaining That such particular Jews upon his Coming took upon them the boldness to defraud them of their right and desired he would be pleased to signifie to those his Subjects his pleasure to have satisfaction given Whereupon Sabatai with much affectation took Pen and Paper and wrote to this effect To you of the Nation of the Jews who expect the appearance of the Messiah and the Salvation of Israel Peace without end Whereas we are informed That you are indebted to several of the English Nation It seemeth right to us to enorder you to make satisfaction to these your just Debts which if you refuse to do and not obey us herein know you that then you are not to enter with us into our Joys and Dominions In this manner Sabatai Sevi remained a Prisoner at Constantinople for the space of two Months at the end of which the Vizier having designed his expedition for Candia and considering the rumour and disturbance the Presence of Sabatai had made already at Constantinople thought it not secure to suffer him to remain in the imperial City whilst both the Grand Signior and himself were absent and therefore changed his Prison to the Dardanelli otherwise called the Castle of Abydos being on the Europe side of the Hellespont opposite to Sestos places famous in Greek Poetry This removal of Sabatai from a worse Prison to one of a better Air confirmed the Jews with greater confidence of his being the Messiah supposing that had it been in the power of the Vizier or other Officers of the Turks to have destroyed his Person they would never have permitted him to live unto that time in regard their Maximes enforce them to quit all jealousies and suspicions of ruine to their State by the death of the Party feared which much rather they ought to execute on Sabatai who had not only declared himself the King of Israel but also by Prophecies published fatal things to the Grand Signior and his Kingdoms With this Consideration and others preceding the Jews flocked in great numbers to the Castle where he was imprisoned not only from the Neighbouring parts but also from Poland Germany Ligorn Venice Amsterdam and other places where the Jews reside on all whom as a reward of the expence and labours of their Pilgrimage Sabatai bestowed plenty of his Benedictions promising encrease of their Store and enlargement of possessions in the Holy Land. So great was the confluence of the Jews to this place that the Turks thought it requisite to make their advantage thereof and so not only raised the price of their Provisions Lodgings and other necessaries but also denied to admit any to the presence of Sabatai unless for Money setting the price sometimes at Five sometimes at ten Dollars or more or less according as they guessed at the abilities and zeal of the Person by which gain and advantage to the Turks no Complaints or Advices were carried to Adrianople either of the Concourse or Arguments amongst the Jews in that place but rather all Civilities and Liberties indulged unto them which served as a farther Argument to ensnare this poor People in the belief of their Messiah During this time of Confinement Sabatai had leisure to compose and institure a New Method of Worship for the Jews and principally the manner of the Celebration of the Day of his Nativity which he prescribed in this manner BRethren and my People Men of my Religion inhabiting the City of Smyrna the Renowned where live Men and Women and Families much Peace be unto You from the Lord of Peace and from Me his beloved Son King Solomon I command you That the Ninth of the Month of Ab which according to our account answered that Year to the Month of June next to come you make a Day of Invitation and of great Joy celebrating it with choice Meats and pleasing Drinks with many Candles and Lamps with Musick and Songs because it is the day of the Birth of Sabatai Sevi the High King above all the Kings of the Earth And as to matters of labour and other things of like nature do as becomes you upon a day of Festival adorned with your finest Garments As to your Prayers let the same Order be used as upon Festivals To converse with Christians on that day is unlawful though your Discourse be of matters indifferent all labour is forbidden but to sound Instrument is lawful This 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 Son in 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 Seven-teenth Verse appointing for the reading thereof Five men in a perfect 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 Thirty first Chapter of Jeremiah to your Prayer called the Mussaf used in the Synagogue every Sabbath and sOlemn Festival Instead of the Sacrifice 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 Ninty fifth Psalm And at the first Praises in the Morning after you have sung Psalm Ninty one and just before you sing Psalm Ninety eight you shall repeat Psalm One hundred thirty two 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

expectation to see him so that he no sooner arrived at Adrianople but the same hour he was brought before the Grand Signior Sabatai appeared much dejected and failing of that courage which he shewed in the Synagogue And being demanded several questions in Turkish by the Grand Signior he would not trust so far to the vertue of his Messiahship as to deliver himself in the Turkish Language but desired a Doctor of Physick who had from a Jew turned Turk to be his Interpreter which was granted to him but not without reffection of the standers-by that had he been the Messiah and Son of God as he formerly pretended his Tongue would have been loosed into Eloquence and perfection of Languages But the Grand Signior would not be put off without a Miracle and it must be one or his own chusing which was that Sabatai should be stripped naked and set as a mark to his dextrous Archets if the arrows passed not his body but that his flesh and skin was proof like Armour then he would believe him to be the Messiah and the Person whom God had designed to those Dominions and Greatness he pretended But now Sabatai not having Faith enough to stand to so sharp a tryal renounced all his Title to Kingdoms and Governments alledging that he was an ordinary Cocham and Jew as others were and had nothing of priviledge and virtue above the rest The Grand Signior notwithstanding not wholly satisfied with this plain confession declared That having given publick scandal to the Professors of the Mahometan Religion and done dishonour to his Soveraign Authority by pretending to withdraw from him so considerable a portion as the Land of Palestine his Treason and Crime could not be expiated without becoming a Mahometan Convert Which if he refused to do the Stake was ready at the Gate of the Seraglio to impale him Sabatai being now reduced to his last game and extremity not being in the least doubtful what to do for to dye for what he was assured was false was against Nature and the death of a mad man Replied with much chearfulness that he was contented to turn Turk and that it was not of force but of choice having been a long time desirous of so glorious a profession he esteemed himself much honoured that he had an opportunity to own it first in the presence of the Grand Signior And here was the Non plus ultra of all the bluster and noise of this vain Impostour And now the Reader may pause a while and contemplate the strange point of consternation shame and silence to which the Jews were reduced when they understood how speedily their hopes were vanished and how poorly and ignominiously all their fancies and promises of a new Kingdom their Pageantry and Offices for Devotion were past like a tale or a midnights dream And all this was concluded and the Jews sunk on a sudden and fallen flat in their hopes without so much as a line of comfort or excuse from Sabatai more than in general to all the Brethren that now they should apply themselves to their callings and services of God as formerly for that matters relating to him were finished and the sentence past The News of Sabatai turning Turk and of the Messiah to a Mahometan quickly filled all parts of Turky the Jews were strangely surprised at it and ashamed of their easiness of belief of the arguments with which they had perswaded others and of the Proselytes they had made in their own Families Abroad they became the common derision of the Towns where they inhabited the Boys houted after them coining a new word at Smyrna Pouftai which every one seeing a Jew with a singer pointed out would pronounce with scorn and contempt so that this deceived People for a long time after remained with confusion silence and dejection of spirit And yet most of them affirm That Sabatai is not turned Turk but his shadow only remains on Earth and walks with a white head and in the habit of a Mahometan but that his Body and Soul are taken into Heaven there to reside until the time appointed for accomplishment of these Wonders And this opinion began so commonly to take place as if this People resolved never to be undeceived using the Forms and Rules for Devotion prescribed them by their Mahometan Messiah Insomuch that the Cochams of Constantenople fearing the danger of this Errour might creep up and equal the former condemned the belief of Sabatai being Messiah as damnable and injoyned them to return to the ancient Method and Service of God upon pain of Excommunication The Stile and Tenour of their Letter was as followeth TO you who have the power of Priesthood and are the knowing learned and magnanimous Governours and Princes residing in the City of Smyrna may the Almighty protect you Amen for so is his will. These our Letters which we send in the midst of your Habitations are upon occasion of certain Rumours and Tumults come to our ears from that City of your Holinesses For there is a sort of men amongst you who fortifie themselves in their Error and say Let such an one our King live and bless him in their publick Synagogues every Sabbath day and also adjoyn Psalms and Hymns invented by that man 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 The Jews scruple to say the head of Israel 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 〈◊〉 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 wherefore abstain from this man and let not