Irenicum, to the lovers of truth and peace heart-divisions opened in the causes and…

Epiphanius tells of a sect of the Jews, the Nazarites, who continued the Customs and Ceremonies of the Jews, but acknowledged Christ also; and the Jews in hatred to them cursed them solemnly three times a day, morning, noon, and evening, when they went into their Synagogue to pray.

Epiphanius tells of a sect of the Jews, the Nazarites, who continued the Customes and Ceremonies of the Jewes, but acknowledged Christ also; and the Jews in hatred to them cursed them solemnly three times a day, morning, noon, and evening, when they went into their Synagogue to pray.

The Turks have a honourable esteem of Christ, which the Tartars have not; yet they say, that the Tartars turn. Christians sooner then the Turks: The Turks and Persians are both Mahometans, ⟨p. 241⟩they are both circumcised, but the Turks follow the way of Ebubezer, and the Persians are of the School of Haly; they detest one another more then they do the Christians; they will both tolerate Christians to live amongst them, but they will not tolerate Mahometans, who are in a different order from themselves.¹

The Turks have a honourable esteeme of Christ, which the Tartars have not; yet they say, that the Tartars turn. Christians sooner then the Turks: The Turks and Persians are both Mahometans, ⟨p. 241⟩they are both circumcised, but the Turks follow the way of Ebubezer, and the Persians are of the Schohle of Haly; they detest one another more then they do the Christians; they will both tolerate Christians to live amongst them, but they will not tolerate Mahometans, who are in a different order from themselves.¹