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heaven_n	body_n	earth_n	spirit_n	6,743	5	5.1226	4	true

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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

the full he took a Journey to Adrianople and there informed the chief Ministers of State and Officers of the Court who by reason of the gain the Turks made of their Prisoner at the Castle on the Hellespont heard nothing of all this concourse of people and Prophecies of the Revolt of the Jews from their obedience to the Grand Signior And taking likewise to his Counsel some certain discontented and unbelieving Cochams who being zealous for their Nation and jealous of the ill consequences of this long continued and increasing madness took liberty to inform the Chimacam who was Deputy of the Great Vizier then at Candia that the Jew Prisoner at the Castle called Sabatai Sevi was a lewd person and one who endeavoured to debauch the minds of the Jews and divert them from their honest course of livelihood and obedience to the Grand Signior and that therefore it was necessary to clear the World of so factious and dangerous a Spirit The Chimacam being thus informed could do no less than acquaint the Grand Signior with all the particulars of this mans condition course of life and Doctrine which were no sooner understood but a Chaouse or Messenger was immediately dispatched to bring up Sabatai Sevi to Adrianople The Chaouse executed his Commission after the Turkish fashion in haste bringing Sabatai in a few days to Adrianople without farther excuse or ceremony not affording him an hours space to take a solemn farewel of his Followers and Adorers who now were come to the vertical point of all their hopes and expectations The Grand Signior having by this time received divers informations of the madness of the Jews and the pretences of Sabatai grew big with desire and 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 reflection 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 of his own chusing which was that Sabatai should be stripped naked and set as a mark to his dextrous Archers 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 vertue 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 owne 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 Turkie the Jews were strangely surprised at it and ashamed of their casiness 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 Poustai which every one seeing a Jew with a finger 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 Constantinople 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 Rumors 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 Errour 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 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