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B21024	A voyage to Mount Libanus wherein is an account of the customs, manners, &c. of the Turks : also a description of Candia, Nicosia, Tripoly, Alexandretta, &c. : with curious remarks upon several passages re[l]ating to the Turks & Maronites / written originally in Italian by the R. F. Jerome Dandini.; Missione apostolica al patriarca de' Maroniti del Monte Libano. English	Dandini, Girolamo, 1554-1634.	1698 (1698)	Wing D168	76,284	146

is ordinarily called the future Contingent cannot be known of God by the Principles of Aristotle That that which is not cannot be known The Socinians who make profession of so refin'd a Philosophy and according to which they regulate all Religion are but the Disciples of these Mahometan Doctors They are moreover divided amongst themselves about the Alcoran I will not touch upon the ancient Disputes touching the reading of that Book which was very different and which obliged them to rest contented at last with the Limitation of certain Pricks which serve for Vowels as the Jews have done with the Hebrew Text of the Bible and who have also compos'd their Grammar according to that of the Arabic I shall speak only of certain Sects which Abraham Ecchelensis reports to be unwilling to receive all the Surates or Chapters of the Alcoran as canonical pretending that the Surate of Joseph which contains the History of that Patriarch is in their esteem Apocryphal And the Persians receive not for authentic certain Verses of the Alcoran which are received by the Turks Besides their Alcoran they depend much upon Tradition and they have an Assonna which is the same thing as the Misna of the Jews however you may find a sort of Puritans amongst them who take the Alcoran alone for their Rule not believing that the Words of Men can oblige them to any thing in Conscience and under pain of Sin As to their manner of expounding the Alcoran some conform themselves entirely to the Letter others fall upon Allegories believing it cannot be literally understood but that there are diverse meanings conceal'd under the Letter which they do in imitation of the Jews who say that the Scripture hath seventy-two Panims or Faces In short some follow the literal sence others the moral and others confine themselves principally to the mystical sence they add moreover that Religion cannot subsist without some Author authenticly to decide all the Difficulties that occurr others finally are of that opinion that without their Sect there is no Salvation They have moreover a kind of Canon-Law wherein they distinguish a Divine Right from that which is but a positive Right They have also a great number of Casuists of all sorts of Sects but the most judicious Turks have no esteem for all these Casuists from an Opinion they hold that they ought to have recourse to the Ancients They prefer amongst others a certain Doctor whom they call Abuhasine for that they pretend that that same person hath followed more exactly than others the Text of the Alcoran and Tradition whereas the greatest part of the new Doctors separate themselves from it through too much reasoning I might have here many things to say touching their Morals but I perceive I have already too far digressed one may see more at large a part of that which I have related touching the Theology of the Mahometans in a Book of Abraham Ecchelensis entitul'd De Origine nominis Papae and in the Notes which Pocock hath joyned to that which he caused to be printed of Abel Fararius I have taken the other part from the Books of the Mahometan Doctors from whence one may easily judge that the Followers of Mahomet are not so ignorant in their Religion as is ordinarily imagin'd 'T is true that they are beholden to the Arabians for all the Subtilty of their knowledge in Theology but they have now very learned Books written in the Turkish and Persian Languages The Catechisms also which they teach their Children at Constantinople speak of God in a very sublime manner and to the end the Reader may judge hereof I will relate here the Words of the first Chapter of a Catechism composed in Turkish by Mahomet Ben pir Ali That Worship is due to God alone who hath no Companion nor any like unto him that He hath no need of eating drinking nor sleeping and that 't is altogether impossible he can be subject to these sorts of Infirmities and Imperfections that he is neither in Heaven nor in the Earth nor on the right nor on the left nor above nor below nor behind nor before for he takes up no place that he hath also neither form nor manner of being neither Head nor Ear nor Tongue nor Mouth nor Hand nor Foot that his Essence hath neither beginning nor ending that he exists of himself and that his Being is always in the same estate Moreover That God hath created the World out of nothing that he can annihilate it in a moment by his only Will that nothing is hard for him to do that it is as easie for him also to create seven Heavens and seven Earths as the least Crumb of the World that the Creatures bring him neither Loss nor Profit In the two following Chapters the Author speaks extraordinarily well of the Life of God of his knowledge of his Will in what manner those places are to be explained wherein it is said He speaks and understands The Persians also expound in the same manner all that regard the Divine Perfections they speak very exactly of the Unity of God of his Eternity Independance Knowledge Power Life Will how he sees all things without Eyes how he understands without Ears that he always was is and always will be that he is neither Body nor Substance In a word most part of the Mahometans whether Turks or Persians treat of these matters almost in the same manner as we see them treated of by the learned R. Moyse and others Remarks upon the Ninth Chapter THE Patriarch of the Maronites complained that the Pope had sent him but a simple Brief instead of a solemn Bull and gave him not the Title of Patriarch of Antioch as the other Popes his Predecessors had done I know not why Clement the Eighth followed not in this the Example of his Predecessors for the Court of Rome seldom differs from its usage and when they have once conferred a Title they are not afterwards accustomed to refuse it for they do nothing there but upon good deliberation It might happen that Pope Clement acted thus with that Patriarch out of the Uncertainty he was of his Belief founded upon the relation that had been lately made him at Rome Paul the Second writing in the Year 1468 to Peter Patriarch of the Maronites gave him the Quality of Reverend Brother Peter Patriarch of the Maronites entituled of Antioch The Jacobites assume also the same Title of Patriarch of Antioch and it is at this day no extraordinary thing to see in the Levant divers Patriarchs of the same Church for since the Eastern Nations have been divided into so many Sects every Sect would have its own Patriarch the Patriarch of the Maronites takes ordinarily the Name of Peter for that Saint Peter was Bishop of Antioch and perhaps they affect that Name the more since they have been united to the Church of Rome As to the two Deacons mention'd by our Author these apply themselves solely to the