Fashion, and that the suffering Hair to grow, to men not accustomed, was heavy, and incommodious to their healths and heads; yet to begin again to renew, as far as was possible, the antient Ceremonies, every one nourished a lock of hair on each side, which might be visible beneath their Caps; which soon after began to be a Sign of distinction between the _Believers_ and _Kophrims_, a name of dishonour, signifying as much as _Unbelievers_; or _Hereticks_, given to those who confessed not _Sabatai_ to be the _Messiah_; which particulars, if not observed, it was declared, as a Menace of _Elias_, that the People of the _Jewes_, who come from the River _Sabation_ as is specifyed in the second _Esdras_, Chap. 13. shall take vengeance of those who are guilty of these Omissions. But to return again to _Sabatai Sevi_ himself, we find him still remaining a Prisoner in the _Castle_ of _Abydos_ upon the _Hellespont_, admir'd and ador'd by his Brethren, with more honor then before, and visited by Pilgrimes from all parts where the fame of the coming of the _Messiah_ had arriv'd; amongst which one from _Poland_, named _Nehemiah Cohen_, was of special note, and renown, learned in the _Hebrew_, _Syriack_, and _Chaldee_, and versed in the Doctrine and _Kabala_ of the _Rabines_, as well as _Sabatai_ himself, one (of whom it was said) had not this _Sevi_ anticipated the Design, esteemed himself as able a Fellow to Act the Part of a _Messiah_ as the other: Howsoever, it being now too late to publish any such Pretence, _Sabatai_ having now eleven Points of the Law by Possession of the Office, and with that the Hearts and Belief of the _Jewes_: _Nehemiah_ was contented with some small appendage, or Relation to a _Messiah_; and therefore to lay his Design the better, desired a Private Conference with _Sabatai_: These two great Rabbines being together, a hot Dispute arose between them; For _Cohen_ alleadged that according to Scripture, and Exposition of the Learned thereupon, there were to be two _Messiahs_, one called _Ben Ephraim_, and the other _Ben David_: the first was to be a Preacher of the _Law_, poor, and despised, and a Servant of the Second, and his Fore-runner; the other was to be great and rich, to restore the _Jewes_ to _Jerusalem_, to sit upon the Throne of _David_, and to performe and act all those Triumphs and Conquests which were expected from _Sabatai_. _Nehemiah_ was contented to be _Ben Ephraim_, the afflicted and poor _Messiah_; And _Sabatai_ (for any thing I hear) was well enough contented he should be so: but that _Nehemiah_ accused him for being too forward in publishing himself the latter _Messiah_, before _Ben Ephraim_ had first been known unto the World. _Sabatai_ took this reprehension so ill, either out of pride, and thoughts of his own infallibility, or that he suspected _Nehemiah_, being once admitted for _Ben Ephraim_, would quickly (being a subtile and learned person) perswade the World