In this manner Millions of People were possessed, when _Sabatai Sevi_ first appear'd at _Smyrna_, and published himself to the _Jewes_ for their _Messiah_, relating the greatness of their approaching Kingdome, the strong hand whereby God was about to deliver them from Bondage, and gather them from all partes of the World. It was strange to see how the fancy took, and how fast the report of _Sabatai_ and his Doctrine flew through all partes where _Turkes_ and _Jews_ inhabited; the latter of which were so deeply possessed with a beliefe of their new Kingdome, and Riches, and many of them with promotion to Offices of Government, Renown, and Greatness, that in all parts from _Constantinople_ to _Buda_ (which it was my fortune that year to Travel) I perceiv'd a strange transport in the _Jewes_, none of them attending to any business unless to winde up former negotiations, and to prepare themselves and Families for a Journey to _Jerusalem_: All their Discourses, their Dreames, and disposal of their Affaires tended to no other Design but a re-establishment in the Land of Promise, to Greatness, Glory, Wisdome, and Doctrine of the _Messiah_, whose Original, Birth, and Education are first to be recounted. _Sabatai Sevi_ was Son of _Mordechai Sevi_, an Inhabitant, and Natural of _Smyrna_, who gained his Livelihood by being _Broaker_ to an _English_ Marchant in that place; a person, who before his death was very decrepit in his Body, and full of the Goute, and other Infirmities, but his Son _Sabatai Sevi_ addicting himself to Study, became a notable Proficient in the _Hebrew_ and _Metaphysicks_; and arrived to that point of _Sophistry_ in _Divinity_ and _Metaphysicks_, that he vented a New Doctrine in their Law, drawing to the Profession of it so many Disciples, as raised one day a Tumult in the _Synagogue_; for which afterwards he was by a Censure of the _Chochams_ (who are Expounders of the Law) banished the City.