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A60569	An account of the Greek church as to its doctrine and rites of worship with several historicall remarks interspersed, relating thereunto : to which is added an account of the state of the Greek church under Cyrillus Lucaris, Patriarch of Constantinople, with a relation of his sufferings and death / by Tho. Smith.	Smith, Thomas, 1638-1710.	1680 (1680)	Wing S4232; ESTC R30646	152,931	340

great strugglings and yearnings in his bowels and put up a hearty prayer to Christ our common Saviour that he would be pleased to deliver his poor distressed suppliants out of the hands of these proud and insulting Infidels the enemies of his Cross and despisers of his Godhead The other Festivals are moveable and depend upon the great Anniversary of our Blessed Saviour's Resurrection In the assigning of this they make use of the old Paschal Cycle and limits of it as they were establisht by the Fathers of the first general Council at Nice who taking no notice of the inequality and difference of the true Astronomical year from the Civil then and still in use which admits not of the nice calculation of the supernumerary minutes made no provision for the praecession of the Aequinoxes in the succession of after Ages our account being the same with theirs Easter day is called the holy and great Lord's day or Festival of the Passover or the Passover of the Resurrection and sometimes the Resurrection day hence the Lord's day or Sunday is called oftentimes by the same name as being the weekly repetition and celebration of the Easter Festival Upon this and the two following days at their first meeting whether in the Streets if they can do it conveniently without any great observation of the Turks and hindrance or in their Churches or Churchyards to express their mutual love and joy and belief of this great Article of our Faith the men kiss each other using the old form of words taken out of the Gospell of S. Luke 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Christ is risen to which the answer is 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 He is risen indeed Sometimes it is called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or the bright or white Sunday alluding to the custom and practice of the first Ages the Catechumeni upon their being baptiz'd at this solemn time being cloathed in white the whole week being thence called 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which name is still retained in their publick Offices and in other of their Ecclesiastical writings The Sunday after Easter 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the same with Dominica in Albis the Albs being then left off or the new Sunday or the Sunday of S. Thomas because of the Gospell of the day taken out of S. John Chap. 20. relating to the history of his doubting and of the confirmation of his faith in the Resurrection done as upon this day the eighth day from our Saviour's rising out of the grave vers 26. The second Sunday after Easter the Sunday of the Women who brought the Ointment and of Joseph the Just of Arimathea The third Sunday the Sunday of the man sick of the Palsy cured by our B. Saviour The fourth Sunday the Sunday of the Samaritan woman The fifth Sunday the Sunday of the Blind man restored to sight These four also so called from the several Gospels read upon them The Thursday following is the Festival of our Saviour's Assumption or Ascension into the Heavens The sixth Sunday the Sunday of the Three hundred eighteen divine Fathers who were assembled at Nice They are particularly commemorated and extolled upon this day for their Piety and Zeal in the defence of the true Catholick Faith against the Impieties and Blasphemies of Arius and his followers The Friday following All Souls day The Sunday of the Holy Pentecost The day following the Festival of the most Holy and undivided Trinity The Sunday after Whitsunday All Saints day Another great instrument of preserving the remainders of Christianity among them is the strict observation both of the annual and weekly Fasts They retain them most religiously and think it a grievous sin herein to transgress the laws of the Church in the least partly out of a principle of Conscience and partly through long custome and practice which make the greatest hardships and severities of life tolerable and easy They have gained a perfect mastery as it were over their appetite and are so far from complaining of the tediousness and rigour of these Fasts that they will not hear of any abatement and relaxation but would be the rather apt to entertain strong jealousies and misapprehensions that their whole Religion would be in danger if there were the least indulgence permitted in so necessary a part of it Their solemn yearly Fasts are these four which we may call so many Lents The first great and holy Fast as they speak is that before Easter according to the ancient practice and example and takes up full eight and forty days besides the Sundays all which time unless upon the Festival of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin and Sundays when they are indulged to eat some sort of Fish which they may not upon other days of Lent they wholly abstain from all sorts of Flesh and Fish too except Shell-fish as Cockles Muscles Oysters Scallops and such as have no bloud for of these they may lawfully eat as also from Eggs Cheese and whatsoever is made of Milk and use themselves for the most part to a dry kind of diet On Sundays and Saturdays the use of Wine and Oyl is permitted but the devouter sort of people and especially the Priests and they of the Monkish Order refuse both Some are so strangely devout or rather superstitious that they will not touch any thing that is forbidden so that if by chance a drop of Wine or Oyl should fall upon their Bread or any of their lawfull food they think them polluted and profaned and accordingly throw them away and had rather out of obstinacy and desperateness perish either through hunger or by sickness then be guilty of so grievous a sin as they esteem it The Sunday before Septuagesima is called the Sunday of the Publican and Pharisee from the Gospell taken out of S. Luke chap. 18. Septuagesima the Sunday of the Prodigal Son S. Luke chap. 15. or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and the whole week 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 because notice is usually given at this time of the nigh approach of the Fast Sexagesima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 which we may render Dominica carnisprivii or the Sunday in which they bid farewell to Flesh which no longer becomes lawfull to be eaten White meats being still permitted On the Saturday they celebrate the memory of all who have been famous for their Retirement from the tumults and business and vanity of the world and for their severe and Ascetick lives Quinquagesima 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 so called because to this day inclusively they are indulged to eat Cheese Eggs and White meats and no longer For on Monday the rigid and solemn Fasts begin On this day they reade the History of the Expulsion of Adam out of Paradise which they ascribe to his Luxury and greedy wanton appetite

AN ACCOUNT OF THE Greek Church AS TO Its Doctrine and Rites of Worship WITH Several Historicall Remarks interspersed relating thereunto To which is added An Account of the State of the Greek Church under Cyrillus Lucaris Patriarch of Constantinople with a Relation of his Sufferings and Death By THO. SMITH B. D. and Fellow of S. Mary Magdalen College Oxon. LONDON Printed by Miles Flesher for Richard Davis in Oxford MDCLXXX TO THE Right Reverend Father in God HENRY Lord Bishop of London Dean of His MAJESTIE's Chappel-Royall AND One of the Lords of His MAJESTIE's most Honourable Privy Council My Lord IF I had no particular obligation to your Lordship the very Argument of the following Observations upon a Presumption at least that they are faithfully made and collected would soon have determined my choice and suggested to me where I ought to address my self in a Dedication How highly your Lordship has merited of the Greek Church by taking it into your care and by opening a Sanctuary for the poor distressed Bishops and Priests of that Communion to fly unto is not unknown at Constantinople and whatever the success of it may be They cannot be so unjust as not to applaud your Lordships design as worthy of your great Charity and Piety to relieve the necessities of those whom either curiosity and love of learning shall draw into these parts or Turkish cruelty and persecution shall drive and force out of their own Country and at the same time to reduce them from those errours and corruptions which have of late crept in among them by bringing them into a nearer and more familiar acquaintance with the Doctrin and rites of Worship establisht in the Church of England It cannot be doubted in the least that the most likely way to effect this excellent design was not onely to permit but to encourage the building of a Church in London for their Nation where they might enjoy the free exercise of their Worship in all things that are decent and inoffensive and any way essential to their Religion That this has been done with such Christian generosity and prudence they owe next to His Majesty unto your Lordship whom they must for ever look upon as their great Patron And if the Governours of their Church have not such a grateful resentment of the favour as it highly challenges and deserves or if They who enjoy the happiness and benefit should render themselves less worthy of it yet your Lordship will not lose your reward with God and all good men consider it as the effect of that publick and generous mind which has been so conspicuous in all parts of your Lordships conduct With what a steday courage your Lordship has defended the Church of England in this day of Trial against the furious assaults of her restless enemies the Papists on the one hand and the Giddy Sectaries on the other who both agree in the same designs of pulling down the Hierarchy and overturning the Government in order to her more effectual ruine all her true and genuine Sons who love and pray for her peace and prosperity cannot but most gratefully acknowledge And though the spirit of fury rages still and is not to be charmed or allayed by that mildness and sweetness of temper which is so natural in your Lordship yet they cannot but inwardly admire you against whom they have onely this to object that you are a Bishop It is for the great honour of our Church that we can ballance your Lordship against any of your renowned Predecessours and against the most celebrated Bishops of the Church of Rome as Antonine Borromeo and Sales and it is the great happiness of our Church too that a Person of such Illustrious Birth and Merit is advanced to so high a Station and Dignity in it It will be the proper work of those who shall write the History of our Times to transmit a full character of your Lordships worth to Posterity which when envy and malice are laid aside and an impartial judgment is made of Persons and Things will always pay a great respect and honour to your Name and Memory and therefore it will better suit with my Meanness with my Function and with my Obligations to pray to Almighty God to continue such a publick Blessing to his Church and to profess my self in the highest degree of duty My Lord Your Lordship 's most Humble and most Obedient Servant Tho. Smith TO THE READER HAving obliged my self by Promise in a Letter which I wrote from Constantinople in the year 1669. to an Honourable Gentleman at Whitehall upon my return into England to present him with an account of the State and Condition of the Greek Church as to matter of Doctrine and Rites of Worship and Discipline an inbred curiosity which made me undertake that Voyage at first and afterwards sufficiently exposed me to danger in that barbarous Country where they are so jealous of every inquisitive Franke that appears in any of their inland Towns out of a place of Trade as if he were a Spy and come to view the several places where they might be attaqued with the greatest advantage or rather the duty of my Function inciting me to make use of those happy opportunities which I there enjoyed in order to a full and satisfactory discovery to comply with this obligation and to satisfy the importunity as it is very well known of several excellent persons who were pleased in Discourse and by Letters to mind me of a Promise also which I had made in my Latine Epistles of publishing at some time or other an account of those Observations which I had collected upon this Argument I drew up about five years since a short Scheme of them in Latine and not long after presented it to the Right Reverend Father in God the present Lord Bishop of Oxford one of the greatest examples of the Age for promoting and encouraging Learning and whose merits to the Vniversity will make up a great part of the future History of it who did me the honour to print it at the Theater where so many excellent Books have been by his Lordships direction and care published That I now publish the same in English though with large additions it is more to doe right to the world then to my self who have no private passion to gratify in it my design in the one and the other being to contribute somewhat to the publick good It cannot be imputed to me as a piece of vanity and ostentation that I say that I have taken all imaginable care to represent things truly as I found them and relate nothing but what is confirmed by the Offices used in the Service of that Church and other Ecclesiasticall Writings as Confessions and Catechisms and the like or by notoreity of practice and fact there being a necessity to premise so much to make the following Narrative credible In the contexture of which I wholly aimed at truth without serving any Party