the Virgin and St. George, at their Coming in, and Going out of the Church.

4. THEY do not hold Purgatory-fire: neither is it a Point of our Faith. But they hold, as an Article of it, a middle State of Souls (declar'd in the Council of Florence) wherein they fuffer, and are eafed, by the Prayers of the Faithful; and from which, after the Divine Juftice is fatisfied, they are admitted into Heaven. Hence, they enjoin the People to pray for all Souls Departed in the Catholick Faith, fays the Atlas, p. 1718.

They reckon Seven Sacraments, the fame with the Church of Rome, pag. 1724, 2. In Baptifm, the Prieft makes the Sign of the Cross, on the Child's Month, Forehead, and Breaft bows three times upon him, to Difpoffefs the Difpoffefs the Oil on the Devilsst Water, in Form of a Cross Croffes the Child with Oil on the Forehead, Breaft and Reins and it is Condemn'd as Incest, if the Child's Godfather or Godmother marry, within the prohibited Degrees of Confanguinity, as if they really stood in the fame Relation to one another, p. 1719-3

.sw.cb 6. THEY Confirm the Party Baptized. They anoint them with a particular Oil, made on Purposes with a great deal of Ceremony, bid,

7. THE Greeks of Note, are Obliged to Confefs four times a Tear: their Clergy, once a Month, and the Labouring People once a Year: The Priests oblige them to Confefs every thing, faying, they cannot otherwife release them, Idem.

8. THEY have leven Orders. For fome Ages, they have admitted no Married Men to be Bishops and Patriarchs, p. 1724. Iu at

9. THEY have four Liturgies [or Maffes] St Fames's, S. Chryfoftom's, S. Bafil's, and Gregory the Great's, p. 1722.2. The last is the fame that we Ufe.

10. But,

TO. BUT,that they may not all hold Tranfub- The Greeks stantiation; we are told, that thofe, who have bold Tran their Education abroad, hold it: and that thofe, fubftantia who are Educated in Greece, deny it. It feems they are fo peaceably inclin'd, that they can vary thus, without Quarrelling. How then came Our Reformers to be fo Eafy, about the Real Prefence under the Sacramental Signs; and to have fuch an implacable Zeal againit Tranfubftantiation? Was Cyril of Berrhea, Metrophanes of Alexandria, Theophanes of ferufalem, Parthenius, Dofitheus, &c. with all the other Bishops in their Synods an. 1639, 1642, 1668, 1671, 1672, bred in Italy?

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11. THE Reasons, Sir Paul alledges, are Thefe fays he, When they carry the Sacra-: ment to the Sick, they do not Proftrate themselves before it: What then? Did the Apostles only Believe in Chrift, when they were upon their Knees ?

2dly, NEITHER do they carry it in Proceffion Did Chrift ufe to be carried fo by his Difciples?. Or, did the Latin Church ufe the Ceremony, till of late?

3dly, Nor have they any particular Feaft, in Honour of it: Neither had we; till it was appointed by Urban IV after the middle of the 13th Century, anno 1262. But did not the Latin Church hold Tranfubftantiation long before: when it Condemn'd Berengarius fo many times over, for Denying it?

4thly, THEY do not Expofe it to be Adored; unlefs in the Act of Administration. But, 1. Are we not Affured, that after the words of Confe- : cration, and a Prayer, and fome Soliloquies which! finish the Confecration, the Priest fays, "Thou art

cr my God, Thou art my King, I adore thee, "pioufly and faithfully: Then covering the Chalice, he Elevates it, and the People worship, P 1720, 2? 2dly, How could they ever Expole the Sacrament to be Adored, if they thought the Adoring of it were either Idolatry, or Superfti tion? 3dly, Since Buser was never in Greece, to Cheat them out of their Religion: I cannot but think that what Sir Paul confeffes, will rather Convince a Judicious Reader, that Tran fubftantiation is the conftant Doctrine of all the Greeks, Who never yet Imagin'd, that the Con fecrated Hoft, referv'd for the Sick, is not as truly Chriff's Body, as that which is Adminiftred in a publick Affembly..

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12. BUT the Liturgy of S. Chryfoftom, plainly Afferts it to be Bread and Wine after Confecration, fays Sir Paul. Now indeed the Knight fays fomething. But when this was Objected to the Greeks, in the Council of Florence, their Anfwer was:) We fay, that, by the Words of Confecration, the Bread is by Tranfubstantiation changed into the Body of Chrift. But, as the Latins, after Confecration, fay, Bid thefe be car-s ried, by the Hands of thy H. Angel, upon thy High Altar: So we pray, that the H. Ghaft may defeend upon us, and make it us this Bread the precious Body of Chrift, and that which is in the Cha lice his Blood, &c.

(3)Dixerunt Gract per hæc verba (Confecrationis) tranfubftantiari facrum panem & fieri corpus Chriftic fed ut Latini dicunt, jube hæc perferri per manus fancti Angeli tui: Nos quoque oramus dicentes, ut Spiritus S., délcendat fuper nos, & efficiat in nobis panem hunc, pretiofum corpus Chrifti tui, & quod in Calice ifto eft, pretiofum fanguinem Chrifti tui, f.

13. ALEXANDER

13. ALEXANDER Refs, A Proteftant Writer, in his View of Religions, pag. 479,480, gives us a Relation of the Belief of the Greek Church, fomewhat more Exact than Sir Paul; tho' he also has an Overfight or two. He fays, they do not use Confirmation, and Extreme-Uniti on; but this is certainly wrong. As appears, 1ft. By the Greek Bishops and Councils. quoted in the Beginning. 2ly. By their Divines, in their Treatifes of Sacraments. To which we may Add the Anfwer of Jeremy, Bishop of Conftantinople, to the Lutherans, We hold, fays (1) he, that in the Orthodox Catholick Church, there are feven Divine Sacraments, Baptifm, Chrism, H. Communion, Orders, Matrimony, Penance, and Holy Oil, or Extreme-Unction. In this Point, therefore, we muft needs grant, Sir Paul has the Advantage. As for his Addition, that the Greeks had this Doctrine of feven Sacraments from us when they own it, we fhall certainly be of his Mind. In the mean time, whether must we believe Him, or Them?

ALEXANDER Rofs, fays the Greeks, buy Maffes, But, I do not find that they confefs it who are much liker to know the Truth.

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He fays, They do not Worship carved Images. I add, nor Pictures, with the Honour due to God. But the Reafon for Painted or Carved Images, being evidently the fame, and both approy'd by the 7th General Council; their not Uling the Latter fo much, muft neceffarily be a Point of Difcipline only. In other respects,

• (1) Cap. 7 Tὰ δὲ ἐν αὐτῇ Εκκλησία Καθολική τι όρθος δόξων χρισιανῶν μυσήρια καὶ αἱ τελεταὶ ἐπλά ήτοι Βάπλιστ μα, χρίσμα, Θέια κοινωνία, χειροτονία, ΓαμΘ, Μελάνια Αγιον ἔλαιον.

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Alexander's Account deferve the Readers Attention.

Ift. The Greeks, fays he, place (1) much of their Devotion, in the worship of the B. Virgin Mary; and of painted, but not carved Images: in the Interceffion, Prayer, Help, and Merits of the Saints, which they Invoke in their Temples.

2ly. THE Sacrifice of the Mafs, is used for the Quick, and the Dead.

3ly. THEY do not hold a Purgatory-Fire: Yet they Believe there is a Third Place, between that of the Bleffed, and the Damn'd: where they remain, who have Deferr'd Repentance till the End of their Life. But, if this Place be not Purgatory, I know not what it is (fays he) nor what the Souls do there.

4. They Efteem equal with the Scriptures, the Acts of the feven Greek Synods, and the Writings Bafil, Chryfoftom, Damafcen, and their Tra ditions.

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5. THEY Believe, that the Souls of the Dead, are better'd by the Prayers of the Living.

6. THEY are no lefs for the Church's Authority, and for Traditions, than the Roman Catholicks be.

7. THEY have their Monks, who are all of St. Bafil's Order. These have their Archimandrites, or Abbots. The Patriarch, Metropolitans and Bishops, are of this Order, and Abstain from Flesh: But in Lent, and other Fafting-days, they forbear Fish, Milk and Eggs.

(2) This may likely disappoint the memorable Project of Mr. St towards bis Greek Communion, which he takes to be the only true Catholiek Communion in the World. Obfers. Upon an Effay in Pag. 202,

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