Brethren, and my People, men of _Religion_ inhabiting the _City_ of _Smyrna_ the renowned, where live men, and women, and families; Peace be unto you from the Lord of Peace, and from me his beloved son, King _Salomon_. I command you that the ninth day of the Moneth of _Ab_ (which according to our account answered that year to the Moneth of _June_) next to come, you make a day of Invitation, and of great Joy, celebrating it with choice meats and pleasing drinks, with many Candles and Lamps, with Musick and Songs, because it is the day of the Birth of _Sabatai Sevi_, the high King above all kings of the Earth. And as to matters of labour, and other things of like nature, do, as becomes you, upon a day of Festival, adorned with your finest garments. As to your Prayers, let the same order be used as upon Festivals. To converse with _Christians_ on that day is unlawful, though your Discourse be of matters indifferent, all labour is forbidden, but to sound instruments is lawful. This shall be the method and substance of your Prayers on this day of Festival: After you have said, Blessed be thou, O holy God! then proceed and say, Thou hast chosen us before all people, and hast loved us, and hast been delighted with us, and hast humbled us more than all other Nations, and hast sanctified us with thy Precepts, and hast brought us near to thy service, and the service of our King. Thy holy, great, and terrible Name thou hast published amongst us: and hast given us, O Lord God, according to thy love, time of Joy, of Festivals, and times of Mirth, and this day of Consolation for a solemn Convocation of Holiness, for the Birth of our King the _Messiah, Sabatai Sevi_ thy servant, and first-born son in love, through whom we commemorate our coming out of _Egypt_. And then you shall read for your Lesson the 1, 2, and 3 Chapters of _Deut._ to the 17 verse, appointing for the reading thereof five men, in a perfect and uncorrupted Bible, adding thereunto the Blessings of the Morning, as are prescribed for days of Festival: and for the Lesson out of the Prophets usually read in the _Synagogue_ every _Sabbath_: you shall read the 31 Chapt. of _Jeremiah_. To your Prayer called _Mussaf_ (used in the _Synagogue_ every _Sabbath_ and solemn Festival) you shall adjoyn that of the present Festival; In stead of the sacrifice of Addition, of the returning of the _Bible_ to its place, you shall read with an Audible Voice, Clear Sound, the _Psalm_ 95. And at the first Praises in the Morning, after you have Sang _Psalm_ 91, and just before you Sing _Psalm_ 98, you shall repeate _Psalm_ 132 but in the last Verse, where it is said, _As for his Enemies I shall cloath them with shame, but upon himself shall his Crown flourish_; in the place of (_upon himself_) you shall read _upon