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Fapus. 
Colours for it ; but they may v;ear of all other colours, or of mixt colours, provided- 
tliofe who are j-hg^e be no Green among them ; though flill it be dangerous to wear all Red, 
unsf ' Yellow, becaufe the Soldiers affed thofe colours. Neither dare the Chri- 
ftians ( who are Subjeds to the Grand Signior) wear yellow Paboutches, upoa 
pain of feveral Bailonadoes , but only Red j Strangers however may wear 
Yellow. The P^p^^, or Greek Priefts, are always clad in Black, and wear a' 
black Cap, with a lift of white Cloth aboutit, having a piece of black Cloth 
faftened to it within, which hangs down upon their back. They wear long 
Hair,and fo do their Monks alfo. As for their Religion,the chief point wherela 
they differ from the Church of Rome^ is, that they maintain that the Holy Qhoit 
proceeds only from theFather,and not from the Father and Son together. They 
acknowledge not the Pope for Head of the Church,but have four Patriarchs who 
are Chief, and have equal Authority in their feveral Patriarchates. The firil 
is, the Patriarch of Co?ijianttnofle \ the fécond,- of Antioch j the third, of 
Alex.indrin ^ and the fourth,of Jeriifalem : All the four are confirmed in that Dig- 
nity by the Grand Sifjnor, or by his Officers. at leait ; to wit, he oî.Conjhimim^le 
by the Gra72d Ft fur , and the reft by the Ba^lhis of the Countrey : He that 
receives them, gives them a Caftan or Veft the day of their Confirmation. 
They admit not of Purgatory, but yet allow a Third Place, where they will 
have the BleiTed to be, in expedation of the Day of Judgment: - And neverthe- 
lefs, though they believe not that the Saints are in Paradife, into which f they 
fay) they are not admitted before the Day of Judgment y yet they pray to them, 
that they would intercede for them with God. At Mafs they Confecrate with 
Leavened Bread, fuch as we commonly eat j they Communicate under both 
kinds, afwel Laicks as Priefts, and afwel Women and Children as Men. They 
The Grech ^^^^ Lents, and begin the Firft fix weeks before Enfter^ which they con- 
Lents, tinue till EafierDay. The Second, fifteen daies before the Feaft of St. Per.r 
and St. Paitl^ until the Day of thatFeaft. The Third, the Firft of JaguFt^ 
until the AlTumption, which is the Fifteenth day. The Fourth, from the"nrft 
Sunday of Advent, ViWlAChftflmas day ; and all this according to their Calendar, 
which is the ancient. During thefe three laft Lents, they may eat Fiihand 
Ti G OyU but in the firft Lent, they eat neither Oyl nor Filh, nor any thing that 
Lent o?the J^a^h blood, but only Herbs and Shell-filh, and that which they call Cefpia, and 
Greeh. vve Cuttle- fifil, whofe blood is as black as Ink ; and certainly vihzt Bushequius 
fays, That the Gm^^ never eat Oyfters, is not true, for they hardly eat any 
thing elfe during Lent,- and at all times they are great Eaters of Filh. The 
The Lent of Lent of the Armenians is ftrider than that of the Greeks -, for during their 
the Amaii- Lent, they eat no kind of Filh, not fo much as Shell fiih nor Oyl ; nor do they 
drink Wine, but live only on Bread, Water, Herbs and Roots. 
But to return to the (jrM'f, their Churches are like ours, fave that the High 
Altar is divided from the reft of the Church by a wooden partition with three 
doors in it, and that makes a kind ofSatiHum Sandontm. They have no Images, 
The Greels but in flat Pldure, and not in Relief. The Greeks kneel not in their Churches, 
kneel not. no not at the Elevation of the Sacrament, but all lean upon Crutches, and for 
The age of '^^^'^ purpofe the Gml^ Churches are always well provided with them. A Man 
Gnft Priefts. with them cannot be a Priefr, if he be not full thirty years old. Their Priefts 
Priefts mar-' may have been Married once in their life to a Virgin, and keep their Wives 
'after they are Priefts ; but being dead, they cannot take other Wives. The 
Cakym. Caloyers or Religious Greeks can never Marry. Thefe Monks eat no Flelh. I 
ftial] not here fpend time in defcribing their way of celebrating Mafs, which is 
in fubftance the fame with ti at of the Latins ; nor ftiall I fpeak of their Sacer* 
dotal Veftments, which have their Myfteries, afwel as the Candleftick with 
three Candles, that fignifies the Holy Trinity ; and the other with two, which 
lignifies the two Natures in Jefis Chrift^ to wit, the Divine and Humare Na- 
tures. Every one knows alfo , that in giving the Bleffing, they make the 
fign of the Crofs from the right to the left ; whereas the make it from 
the left to the right. But let us fay fomewhat of their Marriage. 
The Marr' Maids Ihew not themfelves before they bs married, nor yet a long while 
atre^of the' ^^^^"^i avoiding the fight even of their Relations, and go not to Church for 
Grcds. fear of being feen. I fa w a Maid married at who had two other Maiden 
Sifters, who were neither prefent at the Ceremony, nor Rejoycings of the 
Wedding, 
