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THE SAY PAPERS ,
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No . XIX . EXTRACT FROM MU . SAY S JOtTRNAt OF A VOYAGE T 6 HOXXANB , ' . j-i , ; „ DATEB MAI l $ Oi 17 I « .
, After waiting some days in expecta * t } on ofsailing , 1 wa % cabled on Uo ^ rd of the X . a HoUaud trader , thtis corning , about tiree .. The ; vessel lay in the roads . We came on board about four , and immediately weighed anchor for Rotterdam . Wind at W . * S .
, Jiic ^ nd , aboard of her ^ a Grecian , and saluting of him xptff * &vpu , he addressed me % tpt or xfipe K . lpts . He talked common Latin , together with an equal stock of the learned Greek he had picked up in his travels , for hardly any man in all Greece understands either of
them , not the Patriarch of Constantinople , who he pretended was personally knowato him . Yet he pronounced the Creek after the manner of the modern Greeks , i . e . n «< u 01 *>* , &c . were all sounded as t . 'I hus avQpwn ' e and avQpwoi were the same with him .
He observed the accents , but for the rest , though I gave him a chapter in the Acts to read , of which I knew the contents , yet I understood nothing that he read , an > longer than while I kept my eye on the book . He was of M acedonia , and pretends that thcGrecians there still preserve their own
tongue , though corrupted ; and that the Christians there , and even throughout the Empire , are three times the number of the Turks . They are very poor , both priests and people , a » d for that reason very ignorant ; enjoying the liberty of their religion , but deprived of all places of trust or pro £ t ^ The y pay for evsry head in their families to the Turk ten
Dtu . And if he were to return into Turkey after twelve . years absence , he is obliged to pay all arrears ^ but the wife and family pay nothing in the absence of the husband . His subsistence was by making and selling Hungaiy water . He had lived
in Holland six years , three in Poland , and three in Germany ; and spoke , after his manner , twelve languages . He had been about six months in England , and had learned hardly any thing of it , having spent great part of his time at Oxford and Cambridge , where he pretended Co have met with many who were
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friendly to him , and that he left England with the greatest regret oi any country into which he had travelled . He asked me of which University ^ was , " and when I answered of neither , but of a private academy , he asked me the reason why ? This led us into a discourse bTthe Church
of England , and , of the Dissenters from it , and of the reformed churches in general . * He agreed with me , that a bishop an < 4 a presbyter were the same by divine constitution , and that the meanest priest was equal in office to a bishop , an archbishop , a patriarch ; all were the same . But when I observed to him , that if a
person came over to the Church of England from the Reformed Churches , in which he had been & presi > yter , he was obliged to be re-Ordained , he answered me it was because lUh nultum est Saierddtium . ; that & ( ueftlrfitiin erat Mysterixm > that is , as he explained himself , Sacramentumy of whith lie said the Greek ^ as wejl as the . Latin church ,
acknowledged seven , though there were two only generally necessary to salvation , by which I perceived he had not been at Oxford and Cambridge to no purpose , where he had found learned mien , as he said , who explained themselves on this head after the same manner . I
answered him that , properly speaking , there was no priesthood at ail { tt the Christian religion , and that if * fey this word he meant a regular authority of preaching th ^ gospel and administering the sacra * ment » , -the presbyters or bishops of the Reformed or Calvinistic churches were duly invested with this authority > but if by the word Mysferitm * he-meant ^ iorne chimera of which Jesas Christ an 4 the Holy S # knew nothing , tfre Protestant churches would leave it to those wha
wcre fond of it . \ After this discourse , as we sailed up the Maese , we diverted ourselves in reading Virgil and Horace ^ the / former or which he deemed to . uuciierstaad by the emotion ne ^ xpress ^ d at some beautiful passages , but J ^ prace was too ; difficult for'IMm , by reason of , htefrct quent allusions tp the customs andbitfo-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1810, page 530, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2410/page/6/
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