Book digitized by Google from the library of Harvard University and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. I. The replies of the humble Nicon, by the Mercy of God patriarch, against the questions of the boyar Simeon Streshneff and the answers of the metropolitan of Gaza, Paisius Ligarides.--II. Testimonies concerning the patriarch Nicon, the tsar, and the boyars, from the Travels of the patriarch Macarius of Antioch, written in Arabic by his son and archdeacon Paul of Aleppo.--III. History of the condemnation of the patriarch Nicon by a plenary council of the Orthodox Catholic eastern church, held at Moscow A. D. 1666-1667: written by Paisius Ligarides of Scio.--IV-VI. Services of the patriarch Nicon to the church and state of his country, and their requital by the creation of a merely national or state church in Russia; with some account of those punishments, personal and public, which were foretold by Nicon, and which have actually ensued