JitSTOilY OP THE LEARNED. 



tvangelii, ita ut in ipfo audeam prout oportet me 

 I or/ i # . — Orationi inftate, orantes fimul et pro nobis, 

 ut Deus aperiat nobis oftium fermonis ad loquendum 

 myfterium Chrifti, ut manifeftem illud ita ut oportet 

 me ioqui-f\ Hence we believe, that, to the defired 

 aceomplilhment of our facred and glorious enterprise* 

 the deliverance of Europe from the impious Moham- 

 medans, and the extenfion of the catholic, the alone 

 orthodox, religion of Chrifl, we have need, not only 

 of troops of valiant foldiers, but alfo chiefly of the 

 prayers of holy and religious people, who, with Mofes, 

 lift up their hands to God on the mount of contempla - 

 tion, while we* like Jofhua on the plain, fight with 

 the Amalekites ; and, forafmuch as we know that, for 

 many years, you have fojourned in divers monafteries, 

 and have written, more than any other, in defence and 

 in praife of the monaflic life, whereby yoii have got 

 the acquaintance of many holy and pious monks \ we 

 therefore earneftly intreat you to procure us their affift- 

 ance. To the end that the bulinefs may terminate in 

 fuccefs, We vow to God and you, in the prefent wri- 

 ting, that if God fhal! favour our undertaking, and we 

 lhall obtain of God and juftice our rightful polTeffion 

 of the oriental empire, we will immediately fulfil 

 the following particulars, to the glory of God^ to the 

 exaltation of the catholic and orthodox religion, to the 

 deliverance of fo many millions of fouls, and to the 

 benefit of the whole human race. 



(i I. We will introduce no defpotical, but a fatherly 

 government, which fhall be entirely calculated for the 



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