A Defiance and Indiction OF WAR Sent by Sultan Mahomet iv TO LEOPALD Emperor of Germany, WHEREBY He does determine the Confusion and Ruin of the Empire, and of the Princes of Christendom, and the Destruction of Vienna the Imperial City.  
BY the sufferance and power of the great God, We Sultan Mahomet, God on Earth, High and Omnipotent Emperor of all the World, Defender of the Mahometan Faith, Patron and Protector of all Christians which submit and give obedience to our Imperial Commands, We send and declare unto thee Leopald, all wrath, calamity and infelicity, and a total Ruin and destruction to all thy Princes, Subjects and Abettors; We Publish, and truly declare unto thee, and to the whole Universe, That we by the sufferance and power of the great God, styled and named the Omnipotent and Universal God on Earth, most High and Mighty Emperor, Sultan in Babylon, Lord of America, the most mighty in Persipolis and Numidia, the great Assistant and helper of God, Prince from the Road of Barbary unto the Mountains of Achaia, King of Kings from the Meridian to the Septentrian of the Earth, from the rising place of the Sun to the setting of it, supreme Commander of all the Seas in the Universe, the first and chiefest placed in the Paradise of Mahomet, the Calamity and destroyer of Christendom and of all Heretics, Infidels and Christians, the keeper and defender of the Sepulchre of thy Crucified God, the only victorious and Triumphant Lord and Sovereign of all the World, and of all the Dominions and Territories thereof, Thou Leopald, which stilest and writest thyself King of our Kingdom of Hungary, which is under our Obeisance, We will visit thee again for that cause, and also with our strength and might of thirteen Kingdoms, with the power and force of our Janissaries, Saphies, Asaphies, to the number of 300000 as well Horsemen and Footmen prepared for War, with all the power and strength of Munition, and with such power as thou nor none of thy Servants have seen, heard, or had knowledge of, even before thy chief City Vienna, and the Country thereabouts. We Sultan Mahomet, supreme God on Earth, against thee with all thy Aiders, Helpers and Abettors which our Warlike strength do pronounce, declare, and protest your uttetmost destruction, ruin and depopulation, as we can by all means possible devise and contrive: And this we do signify unto thee, to the which thou and thy inseparable people may prepare yourselves. With us it is determined, with our men appointed, thee and all thy Germane Kingdoms, Territories and Dominions finally to confound and destroy: This Misery and Calamity we have consented unto against thee and thy Princes; and have thou no doubt but we will come. And We the Almighty God of the whole Universe, do hereby further declare, That all those who shall submit themselves to our Omnipotency, and yield obedience to our Commands, shall not only be protected and rewarded with Territories and Lands according to their respective Merit, but shall have Liberty of Conscience, and a free exercise of their Religion, let them be Jews or Greeks, Otocompadians or Lutherans, or Calvinists, or of any other Persuasion, other than Idolaters, and Jesuits whom we do abhor, and do propose to prosecute with Fire and Sword. In these Resolutions we doubt not of the Concurrence, Affection, and well wishes of all good People.  
Dated in the City of Constantinople, out of which we did banish your Predecessors, their Wives, Children and Friends, and made them most miserable Slaves and Captives, the Year of our Reign Thirty Sixth.   

LONDON, Printed for A. Banks, MDCLXXXIII.