hearts of his people, who now needed no further Miracles to confirm them in their faith. And thus was _Sabatai_ exalted, when no man was thought worthy of communication who did not believe him to be the _Messiah_: others were called _Kophrim_, infidels or hereticks, liable to the censure of excommunication, with whom it was not lawful so much as to eat: every man produc'd his treasure, his Gold and Jewels, offering them at the feet of _Sabatai_; so that he could have commanded all the wealth of _Smyrna_, but he was too subtil to accept their money, least he should render his design suspected by any act of covetousness. _Sabatai Sevi_ having thus fully fixed himself in _Smyrna_, and filled other places with rumors of his fame; declared that he was called by God to visit _Constantinople_, where the greatest part of his work was to be accomplisht; in order whereunto he privately ships himself, with some few attendants in a _Turkish Saick_, in the Moneth of _January_ 1666. least the crowd of his disciples, and such who would press to follow him, should endanger him in the Eyes of the _Turks_, who already began to be scandalized at the reports and prophesies concerning his person. But though _Sabatai_ took few into the Vessel to him, yet a multitude of _Jews_ travell'd over land to meet him again at _Constantinople_, on whom all their Eyes and Expectations were intent. The wind proving northernly, as commonly it is in the _Helespont_ and _Propontis_; _Sabatai_ was thirtie nine days in his voyage, and yet the Vessel not arriv'd, so little power had this _Messiah_ over the Sea and Winds, in which time news being come to _Constantinople_ that the _Jews Messiah_ was near, all that people prepared to receive him with the same Joy and Impatience as was exprest in other parts where he arrived; the great _Vizier_ (then also at _Constantinople_, being not yet departed on his expedition for _Candia_) having heard some rumors of this man, and the disorder and madness he had raised amongst the _Jews_; sent two Boats, whil'st the _Saick_ was detained by contrary winds, with commands to bring him up Prisoner to the Port, where accordingly _Sabatai_ being come, was committed to the most loathsom and darkest Dungeon in the Town, there to remain in farther expectation of the _Viziers_ sentence: The _Jews_ were not at all discouraged at this ill treatment of their prophet, but rather confirmed in their belief of him, as being the accomplishment of the prophesie of those things which ought to precede his glory and dominion; which consideration induc'd the chiefest persons amongst the _Jews_ to make their visits and addresses to him with the same ceremony and respect in the Dungeon as they would have done had he then sat exalted on the throne of _Israel_: several of them, with one _Anacago_, by name, a man of great esteem amongst the _Jews_, attended a whole day before him, with their Eyes cast down, their bodies bending