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A57667	Pansebeia, or, A view of all religions in the world with the severall church-governments from the creation, to these times : also, a discovery of all known heresies in all ages and places, and choice observations and reflections throughout the whole / by Alexander Ross.	Ross, Alexander, 1591-1654.; Haestens, Henrick van.; Davies, John, 1625-1693.	1655 (1655)	Wing R1972_pt1; Wing R1944_pt2; ESTC R216906	502,923	690

Bishopricks but now none Chalcedon hath a Metropolitan and sixty Churches but no Bishops The Metropolis of Nicaea hath fifty Churches but no Bishop at this time Ephesus hath fifty Churches but no Bishop Philippi the Metropolis of Macedonia hath one hundred and fifty Churches Antiochia of Pi●idia is Metropolis of fourty Churches Smyr●a is Metropolis of eighty Churches but fourty or fifty persons make a Church in Greece Most of the Metropolies in Asia are ●●ined The Greeks at Constantinople are distributed into certain Churches where they meet on Sundays and holy days their greatest congregations scarce exceed three hundred persons Their chiefe Feast is that of Maries assumption every Lords day in Lent the Patriarch sayeth Masse sometimes in one Church sometimes in another where he collects the almes of well disposed people They have no musick in their Churches the Women are shut up in their Churches within latises that they may not be seen by the men In the Patriarchs own Church are to be seen the bodies of Mary Salome of Saint Euphemi● and the Murble Pillar to which Christ was bound when he was scourged They have also in the Greek Church Hieromonachi and Priests whom they call Popes 〈◊〉 may consecrate and say Masse They have the● Lay-Monks Deacons and Sub-Deacons and their Anagnostes who read the Dom●nical Epistle and other things The Monks who are all of Saint Basils order have their Archimandrithes or Abbots Their Monks are not idle but work they are called Caloieri the Patriarch Metropolites and Bishops are of this order and abstain from flesh but in Lent and other fasting times they forbear fish milk and egges the Greeks celebrate their Liturgies in the old Greek tongue which they scarce understand On festival days they use the Liturgy of Basil on other days that of Chrysost●me They have no other tran●lation of the Bible but that of the 70. Q. 3 What other Nations professe the Greek Religion besides those al●eady named A. The Moscovites and Armenians ●s for the Moscovites they with the Russians were converted by the Greeks and are with them of the same communion and faith saving that they differ from the Greeks in receiving children of seven years old to the Communion in mingling the bread and wine in the chalice with warm water and distributing it together in a spoon besides they permit neither Priest nor Deacon to officiate or take orders except they be married and yet when they are actually in orders will not allow them to marry they dissolve marriage upon every light occasion the Arch-Bishop of Mosco their chief Metropolitan was wont to be confirmed by the Patriarch of Constantinople but is now nominated by the Prince or Great Duke and consecrated by three of his own Suffragans whereof there be but eleven in all that Dominion but the Bishops of South Russia subject to the King of Poland have submitted themselves to the Pope and whereas the Russian Clergy were wont to send yearly gifts to the Patriarch of Constantinople residing at Sio or Chios now the Gr●at Duke himself sends him somewhat yearly toward his maintenance the Bishops of Moscovia besides their Tythes have large rents to maintain them according to their Place and Dignitie and they have as large an Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction as any Clergy in Christendome they do so highly esteemthe Scriptures and four General Councels that they touch them not without crossing and bowing Besides their Patriarch and two Metropolitans of Novograd and Rostove they have 4 Arch-Bishops and six Bishops besides Priests Arch-Priests Deacons Monks Nuns and Heremites The Patriarch of Mosco was invested in his jurisdiction by Hieronymo the banished Patriarch of Constantinople or Sio because in the Isle Chio or Sio was the Patriarchs seat after he was banished by the Turk from B●zantium The Bishops in their Solemnities wear rich Mitres on their heads embroydered copes with Gold and Pearle on their backs and a Crosiers staff in their hands when they ride abroad they blesse the people with their two fore-fingers All Bishops Arch Bishops and Metropolites are chosen by the Great Duke himselfe out of their Monasteries so that first they must be Monks before they can attain these dignities so they must be all unmarried men The Ceremonies of the Bishops inauguration are in a manner the same that are used in the Church of Rome Preaching is not used in this Church onely twice a year to wit the first of September which is their new years day and on Saint Iohn Baptists day in the Cathedral Church a short speech is made by the Metropolite Arch-Bishop or Bishop tending to love with their neighbours obedience and Loyalty to their Prince to the observation of their Fasts and Vows and to perform their dnti●● to the holy Church c. Clergy there keep out learning to keep up Tyranny The Priests crowns are not shaven but shorne and by the Bishop anointed with oyle who in the Priests ordination puts his Surplise on him and sets a white crosse on his breast which he is not to wear above eight days and so he is authorised to say sing and administer the Sacraments in the Church They honour the Images of Saints their Priests must marry but once the 〈◊〉 people pray not themselves but cause the Priests 〈◊〉 pray for them when they go about any businesse or journy Every year there is great meetings to solemnise the Saints day that is Patron of their Church and to have prayers said to that Saint for themselves and friends and so an offering is made to the Priest for his pains for he lives on the peoples benevolence and not on Tythes once a quarter the Priest blesseth his Parishioners houses with persume and holy water for which he is paid but whatsoever benefit the Priest makes of his place he must pay the tenth thereof to the Bishop The Priest wears long 〈◊〉 of hair hanging down by his ears a gowne with a broad cape and a walking staff in his hand He wears his surplise and on solemne days his cope when he reads the Liturgy They have their Regular Priests who live in Covents In Cathedral Churches are Arch-Priests and Arch-Deacons every Priest hath his Deacon or Sexton Q. 4. Are there any store of Monks Nuns and Ere●ites in Moscovia A. Every City abounds with Monks of St. Basils order for many out of displeasure others out of fear in avoid punishment and others to avoid taxes and oppression do embrace this life besides the opinion of ●●●rit they have thereby When any is admitted he is by the Abbot stript of his Secular Garments and next to his skin is cloathed with a white Fl●nnel shirt over which is a long Garment girded with a ●road leathern belt The upper Garment is of Say of a ●ooty-colour then his crown is shorne to whom the Abbot sheweth that as his haires are taken from his head so must he be taken from the world this done he anoints his crown with

taken up about these things that is in the following year M.D.XXV. the countrey people throughout Swedland and Franconia and divers other places rise up against their Magistrates forced away a great part of the Nobility plundered Towns and Castles to be short made an absolute devastation by fire and sword The Landgrave Henry being moved at these things raises a warre and fought the countrey people the first time near Franken●usium the fourteenth day of May which done he prepared himself for a second fight to be fought the next day which Muntzer having intelligence of said by way of animation to his followers What are those Cannon-bullets I will receive them in my gloves and they shall not hurt me whereby the countrey people being encouraged were the next day beaten by the Landgrave five thousand slain and three hundred taken who had all their heads cut off so that while they were ambitious of Liberty they lost even the liberty of life it selfe And herein was the ancient Proverb verified Warre is most delightful to those that had never experienced it The discreeter part of the countrey people having laid down their arms put their hands to the golden plough to hold which they had been designed rather than to mannage Lances and Pole-axes Muntzer escapes to Frankenhusium and hid himself in a house near the Gate where a certain Nobleman had taken up his quarters This mans servant going up into the upper roomes of the house to see how they were accommodated findes one lying upon a bed of whom he enquired whether he were of those who had escaped the fight which he denied averring that he had lain some time sick of a fever whereupon looking about he perceives a little bag lying carelessely near the bed side he opens it finds letters from Albert Count of Mansfield wherein he dehorted Muntzer from his wicked purpose and from promoting the tumult already raised Having read them he asked him whether they were directed to him who denying he threatens to kil him whereupon he cried quarter and confessed himself to be Muntzer He is taken and brought before George Duke of Saxony and the Landgrave whereupon they having made him confesse that he was the cause of the popular insurrection and sedition he answered that he had done but his duty and that the Magistrates who were opposers of his Evangelical doctrine were by such means to be chastised To which the Landgrave made answer and proved it by several testimonies of Scripture that all honour is to be given to the Magistrate and that all tumult raised in order to a mans particular revenge was by God forbidden Christians Here Muntzer being convinced held his peace Being laid upon the rack while he cried out aloud and wept the Duke of Saxony spoke to him to this purpose Now thou art punished Muntzer consider with thy self by what unspeakable wayes thou hast seduced and brought so many to destruction whereat Muntzer broke out into a great laughter saying This is the judgment of the countrey people But when being brought to his death he was thrust into a close prison 't is wonderful how faint-hearted he was and stood extreamly troubled in mind not being able to give any account of his Faith but as the Duke of Saxony pronounced before him and which he told him he was to make a confession of before God Being surrounded with souldiers he openly acknowledged his wickednesse and withall addressed these words to the Princes that were present shew mercy and compassion ye Princes lest hereafter you incurre by my example the punishment I now suffer Read and attentively consider the holy Books of the Kings Having said this his head was struck off and fastened to a stake for a monument and example to others JOHN MATHIAS Primus hie è Batavis Muntzeri dogma sequutus Turbavit mitis Westphala regna modis THE CONTENTS IOHN MATHIAS repaires to Munster his severe edicts he becomes a malicious executioner of Hubert Trutiling for contumelious expressions touching him his own desperate end IN the year of our Lord God M.D.XXXII at M●●ster which is the Metropolis of Westphali● a certain Priest called 〈…〉 undertook to preach the Gospel of Christ which being done with great successe certain messengers were 〈◊〉 to Marpyrgum a place in Has●ia whose businesse was to bring along with them some men of learning and good conversation who should be helpful in the propagation of the Gospel From 〈◊〉 were their 〈◊〉 dispatched who arriving at M●nster reduced the principall heads of Christian Religion into thirty nine Articles which they proposed to the Magistrate being ready as they pretended to make good and prove the said heads by places of the holy Scriptures which was effected The Religious and as they are called the spiritual who were possessed of the chiefest Church could by no means digest this so that departing the City they caused much trouble to the Citizens Upon this weighty businesse the Magistrates and Citizens sate in long and prudent consultations At length there was a certain agreement upon these terms viz. that all injuries committed in those Tumults should be p●●doned and that the Gospel should be freely preached in six Parish Churches and that the Church of our Lord only should be absolutely reserved to them These conditions were readily subscribed to by both sides and thereupon all things laid asleep in peace But this peace was not long undisturbed by the Devill that irreconcileable enemy of peace and vertue and therefore by doing at M●nster what he had done at other places that is by raising up out of the jawes of Hell the seditious and pesti●erous Anabaptists those importunate disturbers and turn-pikes of the Gospel his design was not only to discourage the good and godly but withall shamefully to destroy the Gospel it self For in the same year there rise up at Harlem a Baker called Iohn Mathias a man utterly unlearned yet cr●fty and boldly eloquen● This man being e●cessively lecherous neglected and ●lighted his own wi●e who being somewhat well ●trit●en in years 〈◊〉 so much the lesse fit for the exercises of 〈◊〉 Being therefore over head and ●ars 〈◊〉 love with a certain Virago who was an Alehouse-keepers daughter he could not resolve of any way more advantageous to seduce then by an Angelical carriage and a counterfeit sanctity He made frequent visits to her and entertaining her with his visions and revelations he thereby drew her to his opinion and conveighed her into a secret place in Amsterdam where he professed himself a Doctor and a Preacher affirming that God had revealed certain secrets unto him not yet revealed to others and that he was Enoch the second high Priest of God Upon some he laid hands and sent them two by two as Apostles and messengers of Christ dispatching to Munster one Gerard a Bookseller and Iohn Buckhold the botcher of Leyden others into