Notwithstanding the Disciples of _Sabatai Sevi_ were not so numerous, but many opposed his doctrine, publiquely avouching that he was an _Impostor_, and Deceiver of the people, amongst which was one _Samuel Pennia_, a man of a good estate and reputation in _Smyrna_, who arguing in the _Synagogue_, that the present signs of the coming of the _Messiah_ were not apparent, either according to Scripture, or the doctrine of the _Rabbins_, raised such a sedition and tumult amongst the _Jews_, as not onely prevailed against arguments, but had also against his life, had he not timely conveyed himself out of the _Synagogue_, and thereby escaped the hands of the multitude, who now could more easily endure blasphemy against the _Law_ of _Moses_, and the prophanation of the _Sanctuary_, than contradiction, or misbelief of the doctrine of _Sabatai_. But howsoever it fell out, _Pennia_ in short time becomes a convert, and preaches up _Sabatai_ for the _Son_ of _God_, and _deliverer_ of the _Jews_: and not onely he, but his whole family; his daughters prophesie, and fall into strange extasies; and not onely his house, but four hundred men and women prophesie of the growing kingdom of _Sabatai_, and young infants who could yet scarce stammer out a syllable to their mothers, repeat, and pronounce plainly the name of _Sabatai_ the _Messiah_, and Son of God. For thus farr had God permitted the devil to delude this people, that their very children were for a time possessed, and voices heard to sound from their stomacks, and intrails: those of riper years fell first into a trance, foamed at the mouth, and recounted the future prosperitie, and deliverance of the _Israelites_, their visions of the _Lion_ of _Judah_, and the triumphs of _Sabatai_, all which were certainly true, being effects of _Diabolical_ delusions: as the _Jews_ themselves since have confessed unto me. With these concomitant accidents, and successes, _Sabatai Sevi_ growing more presumptuous, that he might correspond with the Prophesies of greatness, and dominion of the _Messiah_, proceeds to an election of those Princes which were to govern the _Israelites_ in their march towards the _Holy-Land_, and to dispence Judgement and Justice after their Restoration. The names of them were these which follow, men well known at _Smyrna_, who never (God knows) had ambition to aspire to the title of Princes, until a strange spirit of deceit and delusion had moved them, not onely to hope for it as possible, but to expect it as certain.