'Collections of travels through Turky into Persia, and the East Indies. Giving an account of the present state of those countries, as also a full relation of the five years wars, between Aureng-Zebe and his brothers in their father's life time, about the succession. And a voyage made by the Great Mogul (Aureng-Zebe) with his Army from Dehli to Lahor, from Lahor to Bember, and from thence to the Kingdom of Kachemire, by the Mogols, call'd, the Paradise of the Indies. Together with a relation of the Kingdom of Japan and Tunkin, and of their particular manners and trade. To which is added a new description of the Grand Seignior's Seraglio, and also of all the Kingdoms that encompass the Euxine and Caspian Seas, being the travels of Monsieur TavernierBernier, and other great men.' [‎169] (210/1024)

Chap. VII. of Monfieur T AVERNIER.
Of the Religion of the ARMENIANS, and of
iheir Principal Ceremonies.
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CHAP. IX.
How the Armenians Confecrate and Adminifter the Sacrament.
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S ince the Armenians Traded into TLurofe and began to be Travellers, their
Churches are better fet out then they were heretofore. They fpare no coft
to adorn the Choir and the Altar you tread upon rich Carpets, and for the
ftru&ure and embellifbments of it, they employ the bed Workmen and the
choiceft Materials they can meet with. From the body of the Church to the Choir
there is ufually an afeent of five or fix Steps. Nor is there above one Altar in any „
Church, upon which they fet the Confecrated Bread, before they fet the Chalice where
the Wine is. When the Mafe for the Ceremony is faid by an Arch-bi(hop, at the rea
ding of the Gofpel they light an abundance of Wax Tapers, which Tapers are like
Torches. After the Gofpel is read, feveral of the Noviciates take fticks in their
Hands about five foot long, at the end whereof are Fatten Plates with little Bells
hanging about them, which when they are (bak’d, imitate the found of Cymbals.
Other Noviciates there are which hold a Copper Plate in their Hands hung about
with Bells, which they firike one againft another : and at the fame time the Ecclefi-
afticfy and Laity (ing together indifferent Harmonioufly. All this while the Arcfi-
biihop has two BiQiops of each fide of him, who are in the room of a Dean and a
Sub-dean •, and when it is time, he goes and unlocks a Window in the Wall on the
Gofpel fide, and takes out the Chalice where the Wine is. Then .with all his
Mufick he takes a turn about the Altar, upon which he at length fets down the Cha
lice, faying certain Prayers. After that, with the Chalice in his hand, and the Bread
upon the Chalice, he turns toward the People, whoprefently profirate themfelves
upon the Ground, beat their Bretts, and kifs the Earth, while the Arch*bKhop
pronounces thefe words ‘This is the Lord who gave his Body arid Blood for you. Then
he turns toward the Altar, and eats the Bread dip’d in the Winei for they never
drink the Wine, but only dip the Bread in it. That done, the Arch*bi(hop
turns once more toward the people with the Bread and Chalice in his hand,
and they that will receive, come one after another to the bottom of the Choir,
whither it is not lawful for any Lay-perfon whatfoever to afcend i to whom the
Arch-biObop gives the Bread dip’d in Wine that is in the Chalice, which Bread is
without leven, flat, and round, about as thick as a Crown, and as big as the Hoft
of the Mafs, being Confecrated the day before by the Prieft, whofe Office it is.
They never put Water in their Communion-Wine*, affirming that Water is for Bap-
tifm, and that Chrift when he inftituted the Holy Supper drank it pure, without
any mixture of Water.
When the Armenians come to the Communion, the Arch-biftiop or the Prieft
Lys thefe words: I confifs and believe that this is the Body and Blood of the Son of God,
who takes away the ftns of the IVorld, who is not only ours, but the Salvation of all
Manhjnd. The Prieft repeats thefe words three times to the people, to inftrudt
them and to teach them to what end they receive the Sacrament.Every time the Prieft
fays the words, the people fay after him word for word”*, and when the Prieft ferves
the people, he breaks the Hoft into little bits which he dips in the Wine, and
gives to every one of the Communicants. That which I moft wonder at is, that
they give the Communion to Children of two or three months ojd, which their
Mothers bring in their Arms i though many times, the Children put it out of their
mouths again. They never adminifter the Sacrament all the time of their Lent, for
then they never fay Mafs but upon noon,which they call Low-Mafs,at which
time they never fee the Prieft, who has a Curtain drawn before the Altar, and only
reads the Gofpel and Creed aloud. Sometimes upon Lhurfday in the PaflSon week
Y ' they