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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

the faith of Iesus Christ He is about 40. yeares of age as he saith himselfe born at Nigropontus of olde called Chalcides a Citie of great fame in the Isle Euboea belonging sometime vnto the Dukedome of Venice but taken and subdued by the Turke through the treason of one Thomas Liburne maister Gunner of Nigropontus in the yeare 1471. This Turke was taken captiue by the Spaniard where he continued in great misery the space of 25. yeares whome the moste worthy knight S. Frauncis Drake found at Carthaginia God shewed great mercy vnto this poore Turke in calling him home with the prodigall childe in the Gospell by misery slauery and captiuity in sending him a deliuerer not onely for the present sorrowes and miserye but to his endlesse ioy solace in Christ Iesus blessed be his name therefore This Saracen beyng reasoned withall what should moue hym at this presente to receyue the Christian fayth made answere that experience of the wicked world at Nigropontus his natiue cuntry his misery and captiuitie vnder the Spaniards his trauaile hither and the view of this lande had beaten into him as he saide the knowledge of the true God And further he faide that if there were not a God in England there was none no where Two things he did confesse moued him to the Christian faith The one before his comming to England y e other at his arriuall Before his comming the vertue the modestie the godlines the good vsage discrete gouernment of the English Christians among others as he chiefly noted he was most beholden vnto the Right worshipfull knight S. Frauncis Drake and the worhty captaine W. Haukins tearming them most worthy Christians After his arriual he saw curtesie gentlenes frendly salutations of the people succour for him his cuntrimen pitie compassion of the English men withal he learned that the poore the aged the impotent y e sicke diseased Christians were prouided for wheras in his cuntry wher he had bene in captiuitie y e poore sicke diseased were scorned despised accoūted of as dogs These things moued this sillye Saracene to the Christian faith and thereupon it is that I haue chosen for my text the wordes of our Sauiour tending to y e same purpose Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good woorks and glorify your Father which is in heauen Hee was demaunded why for the space of 25. yeares beeing the time of his captiuitie in Spayne hee receiued not the Christian fayth His aunswere was that hee had beene by a Frier sollicited thereto that he heard no more of him but the name of Christ without instruction or opening to his comfort any poynt of the faith as he hath bene here comfortably instructed And againe that there were two things which he vtterly misliked in the Spaniard which disswaded him from the faith his cruelty in shedding of bloud and his Idolatry in worshipping of Images He that will haue a view of the crueltie of the Spaniard let him reade The Spanish Colonie written in the Castilian tongue by a Fryer afterwards Byshop one Bartholmew de la Casas and lately trālated into english As for his idolatry I refer y e shame therof to the founder y e Antichrist of Rome I am not odiously to note any Christiā nation more then other with any particular vice If there rise any iar betwen man wife let son daughter look that they make it not worse if discord happē betwene maister mistres y e seruantes may not blow y e fire of hatred if vnkindnes grow betwene Christian kings and Princes as at this day betweene England Spain It is not the part of subiects to aggrauat y e displeasure but in al dutifulnes to obey their own princes pray vnto God to establish peace among thē we see what y e Saracen cōmendeth and moueth him to glorifie the God of the Christians and what he discommēdeth and disswadeth him from the faith Mahomet himself confessed as it is alleadged and therein highly commended the christian faith That Iesus was borne of the Virgin Mary that he liued without sinne among men that he was a Prophet more then a Prophet and that he ascended into the heauens Moreouer what time the sage and learned among them came to Ierusalem and required the Gospell and new Testament to be shewed them they kissed the booke and had the puritie cleannes of the doctrin which Christ had taught in admiration and specially the Gospell after Luke The Angell Gabriell was sent c. the which the learned sort of them doe reade and often report The Nigros in the kingdome of Senega beeing of the faith of Mahomet saith Aloysius Cadamustꝰ are not malicious nether stubbornely bent against the Christians They are delighted with the behauiour of the Christians and they gather our faith and religion to be the holier and the better in that we are welthier and richer then they are drawing their reason from temporall to eternall things they adde further that wee are highly beloued of our God and they are so perswaded for that our God geueth his people such great riches beatifieth them with so many ornamentes and giftes of body and mind and that such a law cannot possibly be but of a good law maker The king of Senega was in maner throughly perswaded to renounce the lawe of Mahomet but he feared his Nobility and the losse of his Crowne A nephewe of the kings earnestly intreated Cadamustus to deliuer there the word of God so was he in loue w t the puritye thereof Cham the Emperour of the Tartarians confesseth Iesus to be the power and spirite of the great God Musda fa Beg secretary to the great Turke of Constantinople y t now is writing to the Queene of England as appeareth by his letters bearing date the 15. of March and in the yeare of great Iesu so hee writeth 1579. sheweth the great affection his maister the Turke togeather with himselfe beareth to this lande and of our religion as it is interpreted he saith thus We know that your soueraigne Maiesty among al the Christians haue the most sound religion and therefore the Christians thoroughout the world enuy your highnes whō if they could they would hurt Wee heare what the enemye reporteth of our God of Iesus our Sauiour and the worde of God which wee professe Satan is driuen mauger of his bearde to confesse y e truth the maiesty of our God is so great that the celestiall terrestriall and infernall powers vowe thereto the light and shine of this godheade is so cleare that Satan with his mist and darkenesse canne not ouershadowe it the worde of God is so cleane and pure that the very enemye canne not stayne it What shall wee saye of the Professours of the same we know what is required at our hands it is often repeated in holy Scripture be you