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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A58002	The present state of the Greek and Armenian churches, anno Christi 1678 written at the command of His Majesty by Paul Ricaut.	Rycaut, Paul, Sir, 1628-1700.	1679 (1679)	Wing R2411; ESTC R25531	138,138	503

Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin 26. The Arch-Angel Gabriel APRIL 23. Saint George 25. Saint Mark the Evangelist MAY. 8. S. John the Evangelist which we keep the 26. of December 20. Constantine and S. Helena JUNE 19. S. Jude Alpheus with us observed the 28. of October 24. The Nativity of S. John Baptist. 29. The Apostles Saint Peter and Saint Paul JULY 20. Elias the Prophet 25. S. Anne 26. S. Parascheve and Panteleemon who were Martyrs in the time of Dioclesian AUGUST 6. The Transfiguration of Christ. 15. The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin 29. The Martyrdom of S. John Baptist. But because that the observation of so many Holy-days would be grievous to the poor who live by their day-labour many of them are retrenched and are made obligatory only to the Religious such as Priests and others in holy Orders the which I have marked thus * for the better distinction of them from those which are kept by all sorts of people but hereof I have set down very few the foregoing being almost all to be observed and every day in the year hath some relation to a Saint which the Kaloires who have nothing else to do keep with a particular devotion The Rule for canonizing Saints is still observed in the Patriarchal See at Constantinople for though as we have said their Menology is already so filled that one day is assigned to two or three Saints yet not to suffer good men and Saints now so rare in the world to lose their esteem amongst men who have their reward with God they sometimes even unto our days enter such into the Canon whose Miracles and sanctity of life have raised into the seraphical Order of holy men which after their death are to be testified by a 1000 Witnesses● who have either seen them or heard their actions recounted by the undoubted Testimonies of credible persons of which a diligent Examination being made by the Patriarch and Archbishops in a full Synod they admit him or them into the Kalendar and say his Mass on the day appointed for his Festival adjoining thereunto Hymns in honour of that Saint reading a Relation of his Miracles and Good Works entering the History of his life into their Synaxarion or Book of Saints but this Canonization is now seldom practised because it cannot be purchased without much Money and the Greeks being wicked and poor in these days few or none are either so good or have Friends so piously rich as to procure their Enrolment into the Golden List of Saints and Martyrs After the Commands of the Church we are next in order to treat of the Mysteries which are seven and answer to those which the Roman Church calls Sacramenta First Baptism second Chrism third the Holy Eucharist fourth Priesthood fifth Matrimony sixth Repentance seventh 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the Oyl of Prayer CHAP. VII Of Baptism and the sealing of Infants called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 IN imitation of Christ's Presentation in the Temple and the blessing of old Simeon when he sang his Nunc dimittis the Greek Church hath from long Antiquity practised on the eighth day to present their Children at the Church-Porch to receive the blessing of the Priest who signs them on the Forehead Mouth and Breast with the sign of the Cross as a Seal of the Divine Grace and a disposition to receive the Holy Baptism which they call The sealing of infants and afterwards says this Prayer O our God we beseech thee to infuse the light of thy person on this thy Servant and seal the Cross of thy only begotten Son in his heart and in his thoughts that he may fly the vanities of this World and the snares of the Enemy and follow thy Commands Confirm him O Lord in thy name unite him in thy good time to thy Holy Church and perfect him by thy stupendious mysteries that so living according to thy commands he may obtain the Kingdom of Beatitude with thine Elect through the Grace and Mercy of thy only Son to whom with the Life-giving Spirit be Glory now and for ever Amen Afterwards the Priest taking the Child into his Arms before the Gate of the Church elevates it and waves it in the form of a Cross and so ends this Ceremony which is the introduction and preparation to Baptism Baptism as the Greek Church defines it is a cleansing or taking away of Original Sin by thrice dipping or plunging into the Water the Priest saying at every dipping In the name of the Father Amen and of the Son Amen and of the Holy Ghost Amen This thrice dipping or plunging into the Water this Church holds to be as necessary to the form of Baptism as Water to the matter for proof whereof is brought the 50th Canon called Apostolical which says Si quis Episcopus aut Presbyter non trinam dimersionem unius mysterii celebret sed semel mergat in Baptismate quod dari videtur in domini morte damnetur Non enim dixit vobis Dominus In morte mea baptizate sed Euntes docete omnes gentes in nomine Patris Filii Spiritus sancti In like manner they produce the 42 Chapter of the Apostles Constitutions wherein they have these words Ter mergite vos Episcopi in unum Patrem Filium Spiritum sanctum If any Bishop or Presbyter shall not use a three-fold dipping in this one mystery but only dips once in Baptism let him be condemned c. In farther favour hereof are quoted the Homilies of St. Chrysostom who rhetorically discoursing of the Vertues and Efficacy of Baptism he symbolizeth it with the Life Death and Resurrection of a Christian for the first plunging into Water as he saith buries the old man of sin the second regenerates and revives him to a new Creature and the third raises him to the perfection of life Eternal according to that of S. Paul We are buried with Christ through Baptism that we might rise with him so that the Greek Church which receives the whole number of the 85 Canons which for their Antiquity are called Apostolical as made by the Apostles themselves or the next succeeding Apostolical men doth believe them to carry very great force with them and therefore the Ter mergite is as constantly practised as if it had been the interpretation of Ite Baptizate The which Canon being very ancient was first ordained against certain Hereticks who denyed the Holy Trinity Baptizing only in the name of Jesus on those words of the Apostle before quoted We are buried with Christ by Baptism c. in opposition to whom these three Immersions were used for they cannot deny the Trinity who in Baptism distinguish three persons in the Divine Nature Wherefore though nothing is essential to Baptism nor other Precept than to be dipped or sprinkled in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost yet to make a more exact Test to say who were Hereticks and who were not