370 CONf RIBUTION TOWARDS THS 



tended to found a univerlity, with Boeotia and the citf 

 of Gonna in ThefTaly, together with the paradifaic&I 

 vale of Tempe : but likewife, in purfuance of an an- 

 tient cuftom of oriental princes, when they were 

 obliged to fly for fuccour to thofe of roman catholic 

 perfuaflon, vowed to all chriftendom that he would 

 raife the catholic church in the empire he was to con- 

 quer, to the utmofl: of his power, and rule the eaftern 

 empire by humane and rational laws, without any mix- 

 ture of defpotifm. The diploma is written in the 

 kalian tongue ; which I tranflate as follows : 



6i We Sultan Jactrfa, by the grace of God lawful 

 heir of the empire of the Eafr, give you, Cafpar Sciop- 

 pius, our dear friend, hereby to know, how muck 

 fatisfacHon and comfort we have drawn from medita- 

 ting, lince your departure from us fome days ago, on 

 your pious converfations, founded on reafon and holy 

 fcripture, upon that fentence of the apoftle Paul, where 

 he boafts, with fo much truth : Signa apoftolatus mei 

 facia funt fupra vos in omni patientia, in fignis et pro- 

 digiis et virtutibus, femper mortiflcationem Jefu ia 

 corpore meo circumfero, et vita Jefu Chrifti manifef- 

 tatur in carne mea. Stigmata domini Jefu in corpore 

 meo porto. And yet he promifed himfelf no happy 

 effects of his pains and preaching, without the concur-r 

 rent prayers of holy perfons ; as he teaches us in the 

 following paffages : Fratres orate pro* nobis ut fermc* 

 Dei currat et clarificetur ■*. — Vigilate in omni inffan- 

 tia et obfecratione pro me, ut detur mihi fermo in 

 apertione oris mei cum fiducia notum facere myfterium 



* z Theft*, iii, 



. crangelii, 



