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A51901	The seventh volume of letters writ by a Turkish spy who lived five and forty years undiscover'd at Paris : giving an impartial account to the Divan at Constantinople of the most remarkable transactions of Europe, and discovering several intrigues and secrets of the Christian courts (especially of that of France) continued from the year 1642 to the year 1682 / written originally in Arabick, translated into Italian, and from thence into English, by the translator of the first volume.	Marana, Giovanni Paolo, 1642-1693.; Bradshaw, William, fl. 1700.; Midgley, Robert, 1655?-1723.	1694 (1694)	Wing M565DC; ESTC R35023	159,469	386

and Abdalla unless we cou'd produce Authors of unquestionable Authority who liv'd in Mahomet's Time and so could give a more exact Account of his Life than those that came after them However if we consult common Reason we shall find it very improbable That Three Men of such Contrary Principles as a Jew a Christian and a Pagan should all voluntarily agree and jump in one Design of brewing their several Religions together and drawing such an Extract from them as could suit with neither of their Parties singly and was like to have all of them together for its Enemies and Persecutors There was no Ground for them to expect the Conversion of any Jews so long as the Alcoran asserts Jesus the Son of Mary to be the True Messias the Word and Breath of God Worker of Miracles Healer of Diseases Preacher of Heavenly Doctrine and Examplary Pattern of a perfect Life denying that he was Crucify'd but affirming that he Ascended into Paradise Whereas the Jews call him an Execrable Impostor Magician Seducer of the Nations and finally by way of extreme Derision they term him the Man that was hang'd on a Tree Neither was the Alcoran like to find any better Entertainment among the Christians for this last Reason In that it denies the Crucifixion of the Messias which is the Basis whereon all the Superstructure of their Religion is built 't is the Angular Stone of Christianity Besides they cou'd never be reconcil'd to Polygamy Circumcision abolishing of Images and Pictures nor to a great many other Things which the Mussulman Law enjoyns Especially they could never brook the Denial of the Trinity And for the same Reason this suppos'd patch'd Form of Religion would have been as little welcom to the Gentiles in that it took from them the Multitude of their Gods and asserted the Vnity of the Divine Essence So that all Circumstances being weigh'd it appears that the Alcoran since it has had such Success in the World could not be forg'd by those Three nor compos'd by any Humane Pen but is of Divine Original Besides had there been such a Triumvirate known in the Case the Coraei's of Mecca and other Mortal Enemies of Mahomet and his Doctrine would not have spar'd to upbraid him with it And if they were not known to the Arabians who were conversant with him how come the Christians to be inform'd of this private Cabal who were altogether Strangers to Mahomet at that Time Consider well these Things and thou wilt have no Reason to give Credit to the Calumnies and lying Aspersions cast on the Apostle of God by Vnbelievers but being more and more confirm'd in the Vndefiled Faith wilt glorifie God who has guided thee into the Right Way and not into the VVay of Infidels and of those with whom he is displeas'd Orchan as thou art endu'd with great Learning I counsel thee to employ it in defending the Cause of the Prophet who cou'd neither Write nor Read Paris 15th of the 6th Moon of the Year 1672. LETTER VII To Hamet Reis Effendi Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire HEre has been hot Work this Summer in the West The King of France has made such swift and large Conquests on the Hollanders that they have hardly had Time to consider their Losses and the Number of their Towns fallen into their Enemies Hands It always falls out so when this Monarch goes in Person to the Campaign as he did this Year In a very little Time he took Burich Orsoy Rimberg Vezel Rees Emmerick and many other Places Yet this Success was allay'd with the Death of the Duke of Longueville who fell a Victim either to his Dullness or Temerity in not hearing or not receiving the Cries of the Enemy who demanded Quarter as the French were passing the Rhine He was shot with a Musket-Bullet and the Duke of Enguien his Cousin verry narrowly escap'd for they were both jointly engag'd in the same Action The Death of this Prince is much lamented not only by those of his Family but by the whole Court and City as being the Flower of his Time having signaliz'd his Valour at the Siege of Candie the Conquest of the Franche-Comptè and other Warlike Expeditions And they discourse as if he had been design'd to stand Candidate for the Polish Crown I am the more particular in this Relation because the Enterprize of the French King in passing the Rhine is look'd upon as one of the most hardy and bold that ever was taken in Hand In all the Histories of these Parts there is not one Example of so surprizing an Expedition And the Success answer'd their Expectations For the Hollanders were extremely daunted and disheartned by the News of these Exploits In a little Time Arnheim and Nimeghen were reduc'd to the King's Obedience with the Fort of Skin and Towns of D'Oesburg Bomel Zutphen Deventer the Metropolis of a Province with Weifet Tongres Maseick Dortemein Elbourgh Woerden Arnham another Capital City with many more Places too tedious to be rehears'd In a Word such are his Expeditions Marches his Sage Counsels his Never-failing Success That the People think it no Flattery to call him a Second Alexander the Great Timurleng Scanderbeg Scipio Hannibal and all the Great Heroick Names in the World To speak the Truth the Kings of France have all along made an Illustrious Figure in the World And their Famous Exploits in War with their Heroick Actions in Time of Peace afford sufficient Matter for the highest Panegyricks without an occasion of Hyperbole's Which made one of the Roman Mufti 's in a Letter to the King of France thus express himself By how much the Royal Dignity transcends the State of other Men so far is the Monarchy of France exalted above all the Kingdoms in the World Pope Vrban IV. said That the King of France was as the Morning Star in the Firmament of Princes brighter than all other Kings a perfect God on Earth 'T is asserted by another Author That by the King of France's Shadow the whole VVorld is rul'd And such was the Esteem which Pope Clement had for this Monarchy that he granted a Hundred Days Indulgence to every one that pray'd for the King of France to which Pope Innocent IV. added Ten Days more 'T is a Maxim in the Salick Law That the King of France never dies But this indeed is altogether as True in Spain Great-Britain and other Hereditary Kingdoms till the Succession fails For then it degenerates to an Elective Monarchy or otherwise into Aristocracy or last of all into Democracy or a Republick But France is yet free from these painted Forms of Slavery Her Kings are Masculine and Vigorous her Queen 's Chast and Fruitfull There never wants an Heir apparent to the Crown And this secures the Nation from a Thousand Calamities which atten Elective Monarchies and more Popular Forms of Government What Injustices Cruelties Massacres and all manner of Publick Grievances were complain'd of in Rome after Claudius

the State of Humane Greatness Sage Hamet the Favour of Princes is like a Reed of Egypt which either transpierces him that leans upon it or flinches from the Burden and so gives him a Fall which most Times plunges him o'er Head and Ears in the choaking Mire of Popular Hatred God grant thou may'st never be crush'd to Death from Above by the Weight of the Sultan's Displeasure or undermin'd from Beneath and swallow'd up in an Earthquake rais'd by the Multitude Paris 18th of the 7th Moon of the Year 1669. LETTER X. To Hebatolla Mir Argun Supeior of the Convent of Derviches at Cogni in Natolia THou wilt not be displeas'd to hear of a Mighty King that laying aside his Diadem and Scepter and abandoning the Height of Humane Glory has consecrated himself to a Private Religious Life vowing Perpetual Poverty Chastity and Obedience Yet this is true of John Casimir late King of Poland who from a Sovereign Monarch is become an Humble Subject and having forsaken the Pleasures and Magnificences of his Royal Palace voluntarily confines himself to the Narrow Circumstances and Austerities of a Monastick Life He chose France for the Place of his Retreat from his own Kingdom and the Abby of St. Germains near Paris as his Sanctuary from all Worldly Affairs He was magnificently receiv'd and entertain'd in every City through which he pass'd And on the 4th of the 11th Moon he made his first Entry into the Mosque or Church of the Convent where he made his Vows in Quality of Abbot or Superior of that House For which they solemnly sung their Te Deum or a Song of Praise to God And the Court of France seems to be proud of the Honour this Prince has done it in retiring hither and making it the Theatre of such Pious Resolves the last Stage of his Pilgrimage on Earth where he will bid Adieu to the vain Pageantries of Honour Wealth and Empire and having shaken off the Glittering Burden of a Crown with all the other Clogs of elevated Mortality he will the easier climb to Paradise Abstracting from the Particular Superstitions of the Nazarenes I cannot but commend the Sage Undertaking of King Casimir who in this seem to outgoe the noisie ostentous Action of Adrian one of the Roman Emperors For he only once celebrated in outward Pomp his own Funerals by way of Type or Figure making a splendid Cavalcade before which his Coffin was carried in a kind of Mock-Triumph As if after all his other Victories at last he had lead Death himself Captive Whereas this hinder'd not but that he return'd again to the Vanities which in this Publick Emblem he seem'd to despise And from a Dramatick Conqueror he became a real Slave His personated Mortification in the Streets ended in his ordinary Passions at Home And he had a stronger Inclination to the Bed of Voluptuousness at Night than he seem'd to have by Day to his Grave But this Heroick King of the Poles is really gone into his Sepulchre For no better is a Monastery in my Opinion He has translated the Seat and Throne of his Kingdom to a Tomb not for Three or Four Hours to make a shew but there really to lead a dying Life or living Death and reign in Funeral Majesty all the Rest of his Days For to be thus Recluse from the World is to be buried alive O Venerable and Benign Dervich pardon the Favourable Opinion I have of this Christian Monarch I do not patronize his Errors in applauding his Vertue Besides it is the General Faith of Mussulmans That let a Man be a Christian a Jew or Pagan provided he lives up to the best Light he has he shall be saved And the Holy Prophet himself gave us Encouragement to believe so Thou wilt at least conclude this King to be more Pious and worthy of Praise than one of his Predecessors who usurp'd the Polish Crown This was Vladislaus V. who having enter'd into a solemn League with one of our Former Sultans living in his Time and taken an Oath thereupon giving also the Eucharist or that which they esteem the Body of Christ in Hostage yet soon after broke the Articles that he had Sign'd Seal'd and Sworn to and for the Performance of which he had pawn'd his God This so provok'd the Grand Signior that he had recourse to his Arms for Justice and invaded Poland with a Mighty Force To repell which Vladislaus also levied an Army and met him in the Field But just as they were going to give Battel the Sultan took out of his Bosom the pawned Eucharist with the Capitulations agreed upon and sworn to between ' em Then holding the Wafer in One Hand and the Articles in the Other he cryed out in the Hearing of both Armies O thou Crucify'd God of the Christians behold thy Perfidious Adorers who have given thee to me as a Pledge of their Faith and Truth in what they have sworn yet in a most Impious Manner they have violated their Oath If thou art a God chastise them now by my means for their Abominable Perjury and Prophanation of thy Name His Prayer was heard of Heaven For the Victorious Osmans gave a Total Overthrow to the Infidels and that Blasphemous Prince was himself kill'd in the Battel Whatever various Forms of Religion there be in the World we know there is but One True God Creator of Heaven and Earth Conservator and Governour of Men. He connives at the Invincible Ignorances Frailties and Infirmities of our Mortal Race He accepts the Good Works and Sincere Vows of Pagans and the Vncircumcised as well as those of the True Believers and Followers of the Prophet But he abhorrs and punishes all Injustice Perjury and Treason both in the One and the Other For he has no Partial Regards for This Nation or Person more than for That They are all equally the Works of his Hands and his Care is alike over them The Sun runs from the East to the West In his daily Circuit he Illuminates and Warms this Hemisphere and by Night our Antipodes enjoy his Favours and welcome Influence At one Time of the Year he comforts the North at another he revives the South There is no Part of the Globe which in due Season does not rejoyce in his all-chearing Beams The Moon never slacks or deviates from her wonted Course but from the Cresent to the Wane observes the Laws of him that made her She is exact in timing the Flux and Reflux of the Sea And she guides the wandring Mariners by Night The Inhabitants of the Artick and Antartick Circles wait for her Light when the Sun absents himself for Half the Year As soon as they see the Chariot of Diana appear on the Road of their Heaven every Man claps his Hands for Joy They rouze from their Domestick Dulness and Melancholy they come out of their Dens and Caves VVith Dances and Songs they welcom the Approach of the Beautiful Goddess Knowing that She is but

trample on it in Disdain spreading their Armies far and wide and boasting that their Empires have no Bounds each do's but hasten to be shut up himself within a little obscure and putrid Hole not much surpassing the Limits of a Mole-Hill Great Bassa Let not the Honours and Dignities thou possessest make thee forget the Miseries to which thou art liable each Hour But remember thou art a Man Paris the 6th of the 11th Moon of the Year 1669. LETTER XIII To the Kaimacham HEre is arriv'd a Muta-faraca call'd Solyman Ismael with Expresses from the Grand Signior 'T was no small Refreshment to see his publick Entry which appear'd like a little Epitome of the Mussulman Grandeur and Magnificence The Young Rabble were as curious to be Spectators of this Eastern Cavalcade as the Romans were fond of beholding the Secular Plays which were exhibited but once in an Age. Nay People of all Ranks Ages and Qualities fill'd the Streets the Windows and Battlements of their Houses Some because they never saw such a fight before others despairing that they should live long enough to be Witnesses of such another Yet with all their Curiosity none but the Ministers of State are able to dive into the least Secret of his Instructions These willing communicate the Titles which the Great Arbiter of the Earth gives the French King That so not only his Subjects but Neighbouring Nations may conceive the profounder Veneration for him without penetrating the Measures he takes This is an Artifice common to all States to turn the best Side outermost only the Hollanders excepted who in the Days of their Revolt from the King of Spain cou'd not so much as put a good Face on a bad Matter But were forc'd to expose their Poverty and Nakedness as well as suffer under it addressing themselves to Elizabeth then Queen of England in the Character of The Poor Distressed States of Holland and so begging her Assistance However Solyman has faithfully imparted to me his Affairs as I have reason to believe He 's too well born and bred possesses more Reason and Wit than to amuse the Old Man in the Cassock so they call me here in the Streets who know me not by any other Character so Private is Mahmut in Paris at this Hour notwithstanding all his publick Sufferings I esteem Ismael as one fit to represent the Grand Signior's Person among better People than Infidels Yet I tell thee the French are the most refin'd of all the Western Giafers Ismael understands the Force of the Civil Laws which he learn'd from Justinian's Code and other Books For he is perfect in Greek and Latin and has bestow'd some Years in reading their Book both Prints and Manuscripts He makes a very Personable Figure being Tall Full-body'd Well-shap'd and not of an ugly Face which is enough to be said of a Man design'd for Business and not only for Love He 's never in danger of falling under Cato's Censure who seeing Two Embassadors sent from Rome to a Foreign State one of which had his Head so little that it could hardly be distinguish'd from that of an Owl and the other such a Cripple that he cou'd not walk without a Cripple that he cou'd not walk without Stilts cry'd out Here 's an Embassy which has neither Head nor Tail And then our Muta-faraca is rich He supports the Charges of his Commission with extraordinary Munificence His House is already become the Sanctuary of all the distress'd Levantines whether Greeks Armenians or Followers of the Prophet and he speaks French as readily as a Native Yet he Dissembles his Expertness in that Language to keep up the State and Reservedness of the Ottoman Empire which disdains to condescend to any other Speech than Turkish or Arabick Besides he has the Advantage by thus artificially shutting his Ears that he can at one time both hear and be deaf understand and be ignorant of whatsoever is said by the Spies of the French King And this is no small Gift in a Man of his Character and Trust For he had need of an Angel or a Devil at 's Elbow that thinks to over-reach this Court. Above all I believe our Solyman will never be guilty of the Error committed by the Embassadors sent from Tenedos to one of the Roman Emperors I 'm sure he is not yet For those Gentlemen had seen the Death of the Emperor's Son Eleven Moons and Fourteen Days as the Story says before they knew 't was their Duty to make an Address of Condolence Or at least before they call'd it to mind for they were drown'd in the Roman Luxury So that when they came to perform that Devoir the Emperor cou'd not forbear to Scoff at them in these Terms I much lament said he the Fate of the Renowned Hector your Country-Man and Champion whom Achilles the Grecian kill'd above a Thousand Years agoe I speak this in a particular Regard to Solyman's Deportment here For when he first came to this Court he found them all in Mourning for the Death of the King's Aunt the late Queen of England and of other High Personages particularly those that were slain in the late Action at Candia whereof I have already given an Account to the Sublime Port in another Letter Without Instructions he very demurely accosted the King and told him There cou'd be no Dunalma in the Ottoman Empire for the late Success at Candia so long as the French Court were Mourners This was a sensible Touch to those that understood it and from that Moment the Grandees and Ministers of State have made a Difference in their Entertainment of this Ingenious Muta-faraca and that which they us'd to give to the Chiauses formerly sent from the Port. I can assure thee he is at the same time very Blunt and very Elegant in his Discourse There 's Fire in every word he utters to warm and refresh if they take it at a due Distance but if they approach too near he scorches their Spirits and puts them into a Choler they dare not shew They consume inwardly in their own Despight yet cannot help themselves Doubtless the King of France is the Greatest Monarch the most Powerful and Victorious Prince in Christendom the only Invincible Emperor of the Western Franks Yet he veils to our Majestick Sovereign Lord of the whole Earth And our Eunuch will not part with a Tittle of his Master's Honour or give any Advantage by an Easiness worthy of Blame in a case that may be turn'd to a Precedent He is very happy in his Repartees as thou wilt perceive by the Answer he gave to a French Lord yesterday when he ask'd him Whether he thought it not a Violation of the Civil Law for Embassadors to be Imprison'd as they often are at the Ottoman Port No says Solyman it is not where the Embassador is guilty of Treason or Crimen laesae Majestatis But if it were you French men have the least Reason to accuse us of it since we

Caesar had bought the Empire of his Souldiers VVhat Bickerings between the Senate the People and the Armies Each Party would have an Emperor of their own chusing one Province was Emulous of another So that sometimes there have been Twenty or Thirty Emperors together all claiming the Sovereignty And when there were but Two such was the Obstinate and Strong Dispute between them That they have been forc'd to share the Empire equally as the only Means to prevent its utter Dissolution Hence sprung the First Institution of Colleagues in the Empire And this was the Root of those Factions and Divisions which encreasing and growing up with Time branch'd forth into smaller Schisms till at length by the Ambition of some the Misfortune or Carelessness of others or at least their want of Power and Courage that Mighty Empire was Cantoniz'd rent in Pieces and dwindl'd into that narrow Dominion which it now possesses under the Tutelage of the House of Austria And there appear no hopes of its ever being restor'd again to its pristine Grandeur unless the Bourbons with their growing Fortune shall Crown the Eagle with a Chaplet of Flower-de-Lys's and change the Seat of the Western Monarchy from Improsperous Vienna to All-conquering Paris In a Word Henry IV. began the Design Lewis XIII carried it on and this present King has so far improv'd it by his Matchless Fortune and Courage that in all Probability this or the next Age will see it brought to Perfection Accomplish'd Minister I bow my self with Abundance of Interior Veneration to the Dust of thy Feet I affectionately kiss the Border of thy Robe and bid thee a devout Adieu Paris 14th of the 8th Moon of the Year 1672. LETTER VIII To William Vospel a Recluse of Austria THy Letters make me very restless and inquisitive They awaken New Doubts and Scruples in my Breast instead of removing or satisfying the Old Ones Fresh Queries start in my Mind and the more thou labourest to fasten me in thy narrow Superstition and bigotted Zeal for the Infallibility of the Pope and the Roman Church the looser I grow My Soul is like a Wild Colt of the Wilderness that tosses up his Head snuffs the Air in Indignation and scorning the Bridle of Servitude neighs for Joy at his Native Liberty scampering at large through the solitary VVaste nor can he be wheedl'd by Humane Craft to lose his beloved Freedom or change it for a Tame Captivity I have revolv'd in my Mind the Ages that are Past and the Years of Untraceable Origin I have examin'd the Times and Seasons of the VVorld recorded in History from Adam to Moses from Moses to Jesus and from Jesus to these present Days wherein we live After all I find that the Memoirs of Former Transactions are cover'd with great Darkness yet there are not wanting some Glimmerings of Light to direct a diligent Mind an Impartial Lover of Truth Jesus the Son of Mary was of the Stock of Abraham Isaac and Jacob. He was educated in the Law of Moses which he observ'd in all Things to a Tittle And in his Life time he said Think not that I come to destroy the Law but to perfect it His Apostles observ'd the same Rule and in all Things were strict Observers of the Stated Precepts So were the Primitive Christians even to the keeping of the Jewish Sabbath besides the First Day of the Week appointed for the Publick Celebration of their own Mysteries They abstain'd from Blood and from Things strangl'd and from all Vnclean Meats and such as were Sacrific'd to Idols They had no Images or Pictures in their Churches Chapels or Oratories In fine they observ'd all the Necessary Purifications and Ador'd One God with Unity of Heart a Lively Faith and Good VVorks VVhereas thou seest the present Roman Church follows quite contrary Maxims They give the Lye to our Lord 's own Declaration and positively say That he came on purpose to Abolish the Law and introduce an Vniversal Liberty That we may now as freely banquet on the Blood of slain Beasts as on the Milk of the Living and Eat of Swines Flesh and other Abominable Food with as little Detriment to our Souls as on the Flesh of Lambs or other clean Creatures allow'd by the Law of God How can this hang together or be credited by any Rational Man 'T is no wonder there are so many Libertines and Atheists in the VVorld when they find Christianity to be a mere Heap of palpable Contradictions To this thou wilt answer according to the common Rule of Divines That during the Primitive Times the Apostles and all other Christians observ'd the Law of Moses for fear of giving Scandal to the Jews of whom great Numbers were converted to the Christian Faith when they saw that the Followers of Jesus did not deviate from the Institutions of the Seniors the Statutes of the House of Jacob But that afterwards when the Gospel was preach'd far and wide on the Face of the Earth and that many of the Gentile Nations were brought over to the Church it was no longer necessary for the sake of so Contemptible a People as the Jews to scandalize all the Rest of the World and impose on them a Yoke which they were not accustom'd to bear and which wou'd tempt them to shake off Christianity it self rather than submit to so Intolerable a Burden Therefore the Church to facilitate as much as in her lay the Conversion of the Roman Empire which then extended it self over the Greatest Part of the Earth accommodated her Injunctions Precepts Manners and Ceremonies of Religion to the present Humour and Mode of those Times And whereas the Gentiles eat of all Meats Indifferently so they were taught that this was agreeable to the VVill of our Lord Jesus who came to rescue Men from the Slavery and Bondage of Mosaick Superstitions By the very same Rule they introduc'd the Use of Images and Pictures in their Churches And the Vestments of the Priests the Ornaments of the Altar the Tapers Lamps Incense Flower-Pots and other Religious Gayeties were fashion'd according to the Patterns they receiv'd from the Priests of Jupiter Apollo Venus Diana and the rest of the Heathen Deities Hence the Festivals of the Gods and Goddesses were turn'd to Holy-days of Saints and Temples before consecrated to the Sun Moon and Stars were afresh Dedicated to the Apostles and Martyrs Thus the very Pantheon it self in Rome or Temple of All the Gods in Process of Time by an Ecclesiastick Dexterity was Converted to the Church of All-Saints In a word Christianity in all Things seem'd no other than Gentilism in Disguise And it must be thought a Pious Fraud thus to wheedle so many Millions of Sinners into the Bosom of the Church whether they wou'd or no. Oh! Father William dost thou not blush at these Trivial Excuses for the manifest Violation of the Laws of God Can Man be wiser than the Omnipotent Or will he presume to correct the Ways of

overflow all Christendom like a mighty Torrent that has over-top'd its Banks In those Days there shall be great Desolation in Hungary Poland Germany France and other Regions of the West Only Denmark Sweden Muscovy and other Countries of the North shall remain untouch'd But above all other Nations he says Italy will be made a perfect Wilderness her Cities laid in Ashes her Immense Wealth plunder'd and carried away by the greedy Tartars Arabians and Turks who will spare neither Age nor Sex putting all to the Sword especially the Ecclesiasticks none of which shall escape the Publick Vengeance save Three Cardinals sincere and Holy Persons who shall fly into England for Sanctuary by the way of the Sea That Island he says shall become the Refuge of all such who can escape the Calamities involving the adjacent Countries Thither they shall flock with their Wives and Children and all their Wealth when they shall hear of the approaching Terrors the present Devastation of Italy and the Universal Conquests of the Osmans The King of the Country shall receive those distress'd Fugitives with open Arms and shall assign them certain Portions of Land where they may build Houses and Habitations for themselves and their Families there being Abundance of waste Ground in that Island which they may manure and improve to their Own and the Publick Advantage After this says he shall arise a certain Man in England from his Obscure Center a Person fill'd with all Manner of Divine Knowledge and Wisdom endu'd with the Spirit of Prophecy of a Graceful Aspect and Elegant Speech of a Compos'd Gravity and Calm Address a Man Mild Innocent Temperate Chaste and Merciful above the Rest of Humane Race People shall let their Eyes fall on the Ground when they meet him in the Streets even before they know what he is overcome by the Lustre of Modesty Grace and Vertue which shines in his Countenance A Person highly beloved of God and Man This Man shall meet the Three Fugitive Cardinals in an Hour of Destiny Then that which lay long smothering shall suddenly burst forth into a Flame The Light of God shall be diffus'd through his Soul his Heart shall be like a Lamp and his Tongue shall utter marvellous Things When he opens his Mouth in divulging the Mysteries of God his Words shall be like the Sparks of an Eternal Fire kindling Flames of Love in the Breasts of the Hearers The Cardinals shall rise from their Places and run to embrace him A Council of the Chief Bishops and Priests of the Land shall be assembled by the King's Order where the Three Cardinals also shall be present and after mature Deliberation with Unanimous Consent they shall call for the Holy Oyl of Consecration and shall anoint him They shall proclaim him the Great Father and Patriarch of the Faithful The Directer of such as would go to Paradise He shall shew them a new Pattern of the Law of Jesus the Son of Mary or rather the Old and True One freed from the Corruptions and Errors which have been superinduc'd for many Ages Their Hearts shall yield as to an Oracle and the King of the Country shall approve of their Council So shall all those of the Noble and the Vulgar whose good Fate is written in their Foreheads As for the Rest they shall remain in their Incredulity This Holy Person shall reform the Errors of all the Christian Churches utterly abolish the Use of Images and Pictures convince the Jews of their Infidelity and chase away the Darkness of Superstition from Earth He shall argue with Reasons so forcible and cogent so clear and demonstrative that none but the wilfully obstinate ●…ll resist the Truth which he divulges or oppose his Authentick Missions Thousands shall be converted by the Dint of his Word and Ten Thousands by his Exemplary Life For he shall go up and down preaching and doing Good Works throughout Great Britain till the Number of his Proselytes is complete Then he shall send Apostles and Messengers into Swedeland Denmark Moscovy and other Parts of Europe who shall likewise convert an Innumerable Multitude to his Law Foreign Princes shall send their Embassadors to the King of Great Britain and to him for he shall be at the King 's Right Hand They shall enter into Leagues and Covenants and all the Christian Princes shall be at Unity Mighty Armies shall be rais'd in the North who shall come down and give new Courage to the oppress'd Nazarenes of the West They shall all take up Arms and chase the Osmans back again to their own Country recovering the Wealth which they had taken from them After this by an Universal Agreement of the Christians this Holy Person shall be proclaim'd the Great Pastor of the Church a prodigious Army shall be gather'd together out of all the Christian Nations to conduct him to the Holy Land and to crown him in Jerusalem They shall vanquish and exterminate the Osmans out of Palaestine and all the adjacent Regions Then shall Jerusalem be re-built Gloriously and the Temple of Solomon with Saphires and Emeraulds That City shall be the Seat of the Christian Mufti 's this New Patriarch and his Successors to the Day of Doom Then shall the Eyes of the Jews be open'd They shall acknowledge Jesus the Son of Mary to be the True Messias whom they have so frequently Cursed In a word he says Both Jews and Gentiles People of all Nations shall resort to Jerusalem or send thither their Gifts and Presents It shall become the Mistress of the whole Earth Sage Cheik This is the Substance of what my Cousin Isouf acquaints me with concerning the Wandring Jew and his New Doctrines The Censure of which I leave to thee who hast a discerning Spirit and art able to distinguish Truth from an Imposture God only knows what is hid in the Womb of Futurity Every Age is pregnant and brings forth strange Events Yet when 't is over all sounds like a Dream The World it self is no better and I that write this am but methinks the Shadow of a Vision or Trance I hardly know whether I 'm asleep or awake whilst my Pen seems to move Therefore it being very late I lay it aside and bid thee adieu Praying that thou and I may have the Happiness even in this Life to taste the Sweet Slumbers of Paradise Paris 7th of the 12th Moon of the Year 1672. LETTER XIII To Hamet Reis Effendi Principal Secretary of the Ottoman Empire I Think all the sensible World are inquisitive into the Life of Cardinal Richlieu He was the Pole-Star of Statesmen whilst living and now he is dead his Memoirs and Maxims serve as a Chart and Compass by which the Politicians steer their Course to avoid the Rocks and Shelves which threaten a Kingdom or Commonwealth both in the Tempests of War and the Serene Calms of Peace Thou hast formerly receiv'd some Remarks from me on the Life of this Great Minister Yet I am not surpriz'd