APPENDIX, (No. 1.) JOURNAL OF JOANNES LAZARIDES. (See p. 123.) JULY 8, 1828-I arrived at the Point of Andros, from whence I made a tour of the neighbouring villages. I found a young Cephalonian, with whom I conversed, at length, on religious duties, on Regeneration, and that by the works of the Law no one can be justified (Rom. iii. 20); and that God hath given us eternal life, and this life is in His Son (1 John v. 11). In the end, he became pleased, and professed his need of reformation. I sold a considerable number of Gospels (i. e. New Testaments) and Tracts; and presented copies of the latter, gratis, to many poor Children. From thence I went to the Kastro of Andros. July 12-Conversation with a learned Latin (i. e. Roman Catholic). He expressed the opinion, that the English take the words of the Gospel according to the letter; and brought forward, as an example, 1 Tim. iii. 12, i. e. " they marry:-but the Wife of the Latin Priests is their Church." I read to him 1 Tim. iv. 1-3: The Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith-forbidding to marry, &c: and he remained without answer. I also proved to him concerning the Bread and Wine, that they are not changed, but remain in their original substance: and that the Scripture nowhere speaks of the Mediation of Saints, Angels, and the Holy Virgin: and even concerning the danger of Idolatry; and that they teach their people according to their own Tradition, and not according to the Gospel : (Matt. xv. 8, 9.) He was almost persuaded by my words. July 18, 1828: Lamyra-Conversation with Hadji Papas Elias, concerning the Seven Mysteries. I pointed out to him two only as more essential, Baptism and the Communion, but with extreme friendship;—and spoke of the Traditions of their Fathers, who have handed down things at variance with the Gospel; and the injury resulting from them ;-and concerning the new Forms of Prayer, and Uncanonical Books, which ought not to be read in the Church, but only those which are Canonical, and which these are ;-and that the modern Idolatry |