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A02614	The baptizing of a Turke A sermon preached at the Hospitall of Saint Katherin, adioyning vnto her Maiesties Towre the 2. of October 1586. at the baptizing of one Chinano a Turke, borne at Nigropontus: by Meredith Hanmer, D. of Diuinitie.	Hanmer, Meredith, 1543-1604.	1586 (1586)	STC 12744; ESTC S103823	33,234	90

his part Sabellicus writeth that to flatter the Christians he was baptized of Sergius and that of these Heretikes hee learned with the Sabellians to denie the Trinitie with the Manichees to establish two beginnings with Eunomius to deny the equal power of the father and the sonne with Macedonius to call the holy Ghost a creature with the Nicolaites to allow the number of wiues and wandering lust Sergius the Monke saith Antoninus perswaded Mahomet in his Alcoran so is the booke of his law tearmed to commend the humilitie of Christian Monks and priests He made him deliuer the Saracens a monks coule which they vse vnto this day Also Instarmonachorum multas genu-flexiones Many duckings and crouchings after the maner of Monks which is seene in their kind of salutation Mathias â Michou addeth that the sect of Mahomet vse also shauing and this no doubt was the Monks doctrine Laonicus the Athenian reporteth that the Turks cōfesse God to be y e gouernour of all thinges and that Iesus was the Apostle of GOD begotten by the Aungell Gabriell vppon Marie the Virgine which neuer knew man and that hee was greater or woorthier then manne Sabellicus addeth they commende the blessed Virgin they allowe the myracles and approoue the Gospell as farre foorth as it agreeth wyth the Alcoran This is but a shadow of Religion and a cloake couering a number of blasphemies In confessing a God they denie the trinity of persons in speaking of Iesus they most wickedly with the Arrians denye his Godhead and that he is the Sonne of God Al that is spoken of the virgin the miracles and the Gospell by those blasphemous Turkes though to seeme a praise yet is it a dispraise when as the truth is not plainely and absolutely deliuered but maymed mingled with falshood The Apostle S. Iames sayth Whosoeuer shall keepe the whole Lawe and yet fayle in one poynt he is guilty of al. The Saracens iest at the Christians for affirming that Iesus the great frende of God would suffer coutumely reproche and endure death by the handes of the Iewes they denie that hee suffered or that hee died but that hee ascended into heauen and that the Iewes tooke an other in his stead executed him which is an olde heresie so write Nauclerus and Antonimus with others Mahomet forgat here to deliuer vnto his people the testimonie of the Prophet Esay which opened the truth of Christ He was oppressed and hee was afflicted yet did he not open his mouth hee is brought as a sheepe to the slaughter as a sheepe before the shearer is dumbe so hee opened not his mouth It followeth And who shall declare his age It passeth mans reach for he is God from euerlasting Our Sauiour testifieth of himselfe the willing minde he had to suffer and to die that sinners might liue The bread which I will giue is my flesh which I will giue for the life of the world Again I am the good shepheard the good shepheard giueth his life for his sheepe I lay down my life for my sheepe Therefore doth the Father loue me because I lay downe my life that I may take it againe No man taketh it from mee but I lay it downe of my selfe S. Paule yeeldeth testimony also to the truth saying Hee offered vp himselfe without spotte to God When Peter went about to withstand such as came to apprehende him he forbadde him saying What thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father and hee will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels how then shal the scriptures be fulfilled that it must be so Heere hee sheweth his yeelding and consenting mind That another suffred in his stead is an old damned heresie which Mahomet reuiued after the death of Cerinthus Basilides He hath forbidden his followers al pictures images in their temples mingling saith Mathew Paris some hony with his poison y t rather to deceiue the drinker He receiueth the old testament correcting therin so presumptuous is this spirit certain errors hee alloweth after his manner of three Prophets Moses Christ Mahomet whome he calleth Razales Yet immediately he is found contrary to himself The Christians pray toward the East the Iews saith Iacobus de Voragine towards the West Mahomet cōmandeth his people to pray toward y e south he might haue turned himself for al his religiō to y e deuil towards y e north The christiās haue sunday for their sabaoth the Iews Saturday Mahomet Friday as Laonicus writeth to dissent frō y e Hebrews Christians as Volateran writeth for y t he was made king vppon that day or as Antoninus writeth in y e honour of Venus the Goddesse of Arabia therby the rather to win that country people and so it may verie well be for most of his religion standeth vppon venerie as I shal deliuer vnto you anō He taught Circumcisiō although saith Antoninus it is not found y t he himself was circumcised He forbad y e eating of swines flesh bloud strangled he commaunded washings purifyings ad similitudinem Iudaeorum after the maner of the Iews He called himself a Prophet that he was sent of God to supply y e imperfection of al lawes to lace y e remisse to mittigate the seuere lawe The Iews hearing the name of Moses y e abādoning of pictures y e receiuing of y e old testament y e using of purifications y e doctrine of circumcisiō swines flesh that he said vnto them as Flores historiarum writeth he was y e promised Messias they flocked about him 10 of thē continued w t him to his dying day as Paulus Diaconus writeth When they had heard his doctrine seen y e maner of his diet conuersatiō they espied that he eate Camels flesh therby perceiued he was not the man they looked for Then they imagined what was to be done to bee driuen to forsake him his religion for altogether y t they iudged a disgracing vnto them They kept him company fearing least the Christian religion by the meane of Sergius should take much root after their olde maner shewing whose children therein they were they continually pricke him forwards against the Christians Ther are six points chiefly wherein the Iews differ from the Christians Ludouicus Carettus a Iew conuerted to the christian faith shall indifferently reporte them for both sides for there-upon hee stood afore hee was throughly perswaded in the truth The first is the trinity which they denye acknowledging one God but denying y e three persons The seconde the incarnation of the worde which is the diuinitie of Christ which they confesse not Thirdly the manner of Christs cōming as they dreame to destroy kingdoms to raigne here vpō earth but he came poore meek riding vpō an Asse accounted among the wicked whose sins he bare for his kingdom was not of this

world The fourth is in the obseruation of the law of Moses y e ceremonies traditions of the elders in the which they are too much superstitiously addicted The Christians affirme the law to be fulfilled in Christ the ceremonies which were but for a time to bee abrogated that there are no more precepts to bee kept then concerne the loue of God their neighbor The fifth consisteth in the saluation of the soule The Iewes say that man is to be saued by good works that God wil rewarde euery man according vnto his works The maner they mistake heere the Papistes shew whose children they are The Christians confesse no saluation but by Iesus Christ and that the iust liueth by faith in him that they are taught when they haue doone all which they are commanded to say they are vnprofitable seruants that y e vertues workes which God crowneth or rewardeth in them are not theirs but his that gaue them whē he crowneth them he extolleth his own mercy wher by they are saued The sixt the last is the time of Christ the Messias his comming The Iews alledge many prophesies at his comming not to haue beene fulfilled the reduction of y e exile the reedifiyng of the temple the restoring of Sodome Samaria into their former state y e whole earth to be filled with his glory with many other things The Christians iustifie them all to be fulfilled that the Iewes vnderstanding all the promises grosely earthly literally do therin erre deceiue themselues For the letter killeth but the spirit it is that giueth life Mahomet espied the blindnes of this natiō among other things rebuked them for denying that Iesus was borne of the Virgin Marie as the prophets had foreshewed Suidas reporteth an historie which hee learned of a Iew that the pharises at Ierusalem called a counsell to finde out the father of Iesus They inioined certaine women to search his mother y e women affirmed they found her a virgin then was it recorded in y e famous register book of the temple Iesus the sonne of God and of Mary the Virgin This condemneth both Iew and Saracen furthermore this false Prophet ioyneth with the Rechabits he forbiddeth the drinking of wine yet I finde that he dranke him selfe drunke therewith his people do it by stealth If they bee taken they are sette alonge vppon a planke with a gagge in their mouth a ladell of boyling leade poured therein After the example of our sauiour Christ the Christians drinke wine but according vnto y e rule prescribed wherin there is no excesse It is permitted the Saracens by this law to haue fowre wiues though they be of nigh kin saith Iacob yea fiue saith Laonicus marrying them virgins to take beside as many emptitias captiuas Of them which they haue bought taken captiues as their ability will serue to maintaine cōtrary to y e ordināce of God there shal be two in one flesh Volaterran writeth Voluptates corporis futurae foelicitati minime officere arbitrātur They think that the pleasurs of the body hurt not nether hinder at all the foelicity of the life to come This doctrine is the sinke of Sodome the flesh is the matter y e burning lust is a preamble of the fire falling from heauen the iustice of God threatneth euerlasting fire torments for such Mahometical Sodomits They are ielous ouer their wiues whose faces when they go abroad are couered least these fiery people be therewith inflamed Mahomet saith Coelius had 40. wiues further he gloried of himselfe y t it was giuen him from aboue to exceede saith Clenard 10. mē saith Antoninus 50. men in carnall lust venerie An other abhominable fact he cōmitted y t which a Christian pen is loth to write and a chast mouth loth to vtter modest ears are loth to heare yet y e filthines of this false Prophet may not be concealed he cōmitted buggerie with an Asse Bonfinius writeth it Again he cōmitted adultery with another mans wife which was vpō displeasure frō her husband fearing y e murmur of y e people he fained y t he receiued a paper frō heauē wherin it was permitted him so to do to y e ende he might beget prophets worthy mē And herevpō the foolish law of diuorce vsed this day among the Saracens is groūded that a man may put away his wife three times and so many times receiue her again after that she hath been so many times known by an other man The Paradise this prophet deuised for his people bewraieth his lewd disposition He promiseth them garmentes of silke with all sortes of colours bracelets of golde and Amber parlours and banqueting houses vpon flouds and riuers vessels of gold and siluer Angels seruing them bringing in gold milk in siluer wine lodginges furnished cushings pillows down beds most beutiful women to accompany thē maidens virgins with twinckling eies gardēs and orchards with harbors fountaines springs al maner of pleasant fruit riuers of milk hony spiced wine al maner of sweet odors perfumes fragrāt sents to be short quicquid carnes ad edendum concupiscunt whatsoeuer the flesh shall desire to eate Thus fleshly people haue a fleshly religiō a fleshly paradise to inhabit One thing I may not ouership which I referre to your selues either for the strangenes thereof to cast you into a dumpe or wonder or else at the follie of the Prophet to moue you to a laughter he saith they shal see in Paradise goodly Angels and these shall haue goodly eies and one Angell shall haue as muche space betweene both his eies as is in y e heauens betweene sunne rising and sunne setting I haue not as yet saide any thing of their fasting the same is continued the space of one moneth in euery yeare and precisely kept from morning to night the Starres no sooner appeare but they fall to feasting they sitte vp all nighte they geue themselues to surfeting drunkennes venerie this is to wash saith Bernard Laterem crudam a greene tile the more water ye poure thereon the more durt ye make To bee shorte least these extreame follies bee ouer tedious vnto you this false Prophet dieth such seruice ceremonies and superstition he inioyned his people the same they obserued Hee that succeeded him commaunded Mahomets Tombe to be adorned the corps to be worshipped his anniuersary or yerely remembrance to bee solēnized pilgrimage from all places to be made to the temple of Mecha where he lieth chested the Saracenicall pilgrims haue promise of santitye and righteousnesse by visiting his Sepulchre Putantes se saith Laonicus hinc maxime colligere Religionē Thinking that by this chiefly they gather Religion Many repaire thither yearely from Asia Affricke and Europe for to worship and many others staying at home deliuer them money