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A14028	The policy of the Turkish empire. The first booke	Fletcher, Giles, 1549?-1611, attributed name.	1597 (1597)	STC 24335; ESTC S118698	98,012	170

sect and profession hee came in short time to haue so great a name and report ouer all the lesser Asia that by meanes thereof there flocked vnto him daily infinite troopes of Turkes in hope to restore the name honor of their natiō to recouer their former fortune With these forces within a while had OTTOMAN subdued diuerse Prouinces in Asia as the greatest part of Bithynia and al Natolia now named Turkie besides many citties vppon the Euxine sea Through the happy successe of his fortune in these conquests and victories hee purchased so great an opinion both of his wisedome and courage that the Turkes with a generall consent and incredible ioy elected and proclaimed him for their King or Amira And so strangely did they growe in processe of time to affect him that they decreed ordained from thencefoorth neuer to admit nor endure any other to raigne ouer them but such a one as should descend of the line and seede of OTTOMAN Thus was the empire of the Turkes reuiued out of their former ruines by the rare vertue and fortune of this OTTOMAN by the ciuill discordes dissentions which were then rise both amongst the Mahometists and the Christians Since which time it hath so wonderfully encreased by the valure and prowesse of his successors and by the resolution good discipline of that Nation and our owne intestine diuisions the most pestilent poyson and plague of all kingdomes and common-weales that the whole estate of Christendome hath at this day iust cause both to deplore the miserable condition and calamities of the Christians from whome these miscreants haue extorted infinit kingdomes estates and empires and also to feare and suspect the violent course of their fortune the excessiue greatnesse of their puissance and the cruel dispositiō of their courages as being fatall to the christian religion For this people being more eager and zealous than euer were the Sarracens or any others Pagans or Barbarians in the propagation and extending both of their empire and of their damnable sect and profession do openly as it were by nature professe themselues the sworn vowed enemies of Christ and his Gospel And holding it a meritorious deed to tyrannize ouer his members they do bend and employ all their Forces Studies and Counsailes how they may vtterly extirpate the name memorie and faith of the Christians And how they may plant and establish the blasphemous traditions of their prophet MAHOMET in all the regions and kingdomes of the worlde But for the more particular discouery and manifestation of al these matters as also touching the maner of the rising increase and augmentation of the Turkish Empire out of so meane and base a beginning to that glory height and puissance of dominion whereunto we see it now growen and exalted wee will referre you to a Discourse which wee haue written of the liues and actes of the OTTOMAN Kings and Emperours wherein all the former matters are sufficiently and at large layd open In the mean time we wil now proceed to the vnfolding of the sum and secrets of their religion to discouer the qualitie of their law ceremonies traditions Of the Turkish Alcoran and of the great reuerence which the Turkes beare vnto it Cap. 3. HItherto haue we deliuered the inuentiō first beginning of the Turkish religion with the continuaunce and establishment thereof both vnder the Sarracen and Turkish Empire whose original also and increase hath in part been touched Now are we to consider of the substance of their religion wherein first we will speake somewhat of their Alcoran in which their law traditions are contained and deliuered and then wil we proceed to the grounds principles of their religion The whole sum and substance of the Turkish religion laws ceremonies together with the maner and form of their prayers sacrifices almes and whatsoeuer els they do hold needful and necessary to the saluation of their soules is deriued and drawen out of a certaine book which in their language they call Musaph This book is diuided into 30 parts or Tomes The Arabians call the same Curaam which is as much to say as The Beginning and end of the Turkes law And it seemeth to be the very same word which is vsuall amongst other Nations though with some difference it is most commonly called by the name of Alcoran Vpon this Booke as vpon the very groundworke and chiefe foundation doth the whole religion law of the Turks seeme to rely and depend And it is a common and generall tradition constantly helde and affirmed by all Turkes whatsoeuer that the Archaungell GABRIEL and their prophet MAHOMET did by the singular grace and fauour of God first of all publish and disperse this booke throughout al partes of the world And that MAHOMET togither with his disciples did frame put the same in writing in the same maner form as it is now receiued amongst them But howsoeuer the Turkes do dreame of the first writing and inuention of this their Alcoran and attribute the same to their prophet MAHOMET yet it is more thē probable by many cōiectures euen out of their own books writings That neither the religion now professed by the Turks nor that Alcoran out of which they do now deriue their superstitions ceremonies is not the same that was first inuēted written by MAHOMET besides it is apparant by the testimony of many those most approoued Histories that at such time as the Sarracen empire being risen to some strength and perfection was first established vnder their Caliph in Babylon and that the Turkes came to be vnited and incorporated into the societie and religion of the Saracens there was a new Draught made by the authoritie of their chiefe Gouernours and with the aduise and consent of their priests who secretly amongst themselues caused an other Booke to be deuised and written of such traditions rites and ceremonies as were thought requisite and needefull to bee vsed and obserued amongest them And because that forme of religion which had beene at first conceiued and inuented by MAHOMET and his disciples was found in many thinges greatly repugnant in it selfe and ful of contrarieties and absurdities it was in most points either altered or abrogated new traditions and ordinances inserted in their places The which for that it was done in secret and without the notice knowledge of the common sort from whom it was purposely concealed al those that are of the Mahometan sect and religion haue euer bin and are yet still persuaded their Priests and Gouernors still norishing and feeding that conceit in them that it was the same which was first supposed to be written by their great Prophet MAHOMET And that there was no change nor innouation made of any of their auncient traditions lawes or ceremonies but that all things did continue and remaine entire vnaltred in their Alcoran according to the first

to feede mee By this aunswere Moses perceiuing that this Hermite had more confidence in the couetousnesse of his owne wretched humour than in the grace and goodnesse of God of whose largesse and liberalitie he had had so good experience He did soone iudge that there was not any vice more detestable than the sin of worldly couetousnesse In regarde whereof he reputed this Hermit to be a man most detested and abhorred of God aboue all others For this cause do all Mahometists firmely beleeue that all couetous men are vtterly destitute of the grace and fauor of God For that they doe aswel want euen that which they haue as that which they haue not And true it is say they that the philosophers and all such as are held to be wise do not knowe how to wish any greater plague vnto couetous men than that God woulde graunt them to liue long For the longer they liue the greater is their want and misery if not in regarde of their outward wealth and substance yet by reason of their cares and griefe of mind wherewith they are vncessantly perplexed and tormented Of the opinion of the Turkes touching the sinne of Lust. Cap. 16. IT appeereth by the Turkish Alcoran and other Bookes of their lawe That the Mahometan religion doth esteeme the sin of lustor vncleannes to be no lesse hateful and abominable than any other of the deadly sinnes whatsoeuer In regard whereof euery man is precisely commaunded by their lawe to take a lawfull wife and to be married to the intent they may eschew and auoyd all occasions of fornication and vncleannesse Notwithstanding at this day the seueritie and strictnesse of that lawe is vtterly neglected and the memorie thereof seemeth to be altogether abolished or layed asleepe insomuch as that Nation is not more inclined to any one sinne than to this sin of lechery For they are so polluted with the filth of vncleane lustes that they are not contented with the abuse of women for the satiating of their beastly humours but they are so outragiously giuen ouer to the abominable sin of Sodomie that it is impossible without horror to be vttered And albeit the law of MAHOMET doth command that Sodomites shuld be stoned to death yet the contagion of this detestable sin enormity hath so ouerspread all degrees of men and the practise therof is growen so common and vsuall amongest them that this lawe of theirs seemeth eyther to bee abrogated or forgotten or cleane neglected and contemned For they are altogether carelesse to put the same in execution either for the punishing or for the restraining of this abomination neither doe they any whit regarde that which is written in their Alcoran to wit How that those which are polluted with this corrupt filthy vice are sure to be tormented most extremely not onely in this worlde but in the worlde to come both in soule and bodie Besides in one of the Bookes of their Prophet MAHOMET they haue an example propunded and layde downe vnto them by which they are learned and taught as it were by experience how seuere a iudgement is reserued for such offendours and how terribly the diuine iustice doeth plague such vncleane and prophane persons For there it is written That in the dayes of MAHOMET there was one which was very importunate vppon a young youth to haue abused him whom finding vnwilling to yeelde vnto his desire and seeing that by faire meanes and intreaty he could not obtaine his purpose he beganne to presse him by force and violence But the young man still refusing to condescend vnto him at length fledde from him and sought by flight to auoyde the abuse offered him But being hardly followed and pursued by the other and finding little hope or meanes to be rid of him he drew his dagger and sodainely turning about vpon him hee stabbed him into the belly and so hauing giuen him a mortall and deadly wound he saued himselfe from the iniurie intended against him Herevpon the brethren of him that was slain accused the yong man of murther causing him to be apprehended and imprisoned sought to haue had him executed by publique order of Iustice for the death of their Brother Insomuch as being brought to hys triall hee there shewed vppon what occasion hee was drawen to doo that deed Mahomet hauing heard the whole discourse and the manner of the fact presentlye gaue sentence for the yong man and pronounced him to bee guiltlesse and that the other was iustly slaine And he affirmed openly That such men were for euer damned both in soule bodie that were defiled with such damnable lustes and vncleane desires Notwithstanding the Accusers denying that to be the cause of the Homicide did therefore still importune him that the Prisoner might haue the Law Whereupon Mahomet commaunded them presently to see the body of their Brother buryed and that they should set good watch and ward about the graue or sepulture where he should be laid saying that the next day he would giue a finall iudgement vpon the Man-slayer according as the Law required This done the daye following the Accusers came again before Mahomet and pursued the cause against the Prisoner Then Mahomet demaunding of them by what death they would haue the Party executed They answered euen with the same with which he made away their Brother Whereupon Mahomet commaunded them to repaire presently to theyr Brothers sepulture to see how manie wounds their Brother had receiued saying that hee would take order that the Murtherer should bee put to death in the same manner and with the like number They hauing opened the sepulcher found not anie bodie within it but sawe the emptie place all filled with a darke fog or myst and with a most filthie stench Whereat beeing greatly abashed and astonished they returned backe againe to Mahomet and not without horror reported vnto him what they had seene But he demaunding of them if they had thoroughly searched all the corners of the sepulcher And they affirming that they had Then may you plainly see quoth hee you haue iust cause to coniecture that Sathan hath taken away your Brother both bodie and soule as being a most impure and lewd man and that this yong man is guiltlesse of your Brothers blood and is therefore to be dismissed without anie punishment By this example did MAHOMET say they make it euident That without all doubt there is a Plague ordained of God for all those who do defile themselues with anie vncleane filthie lust Notwithstanding because that MAHOMET in this case did commit the punishment of this sinne vnto the diuine iustice and vengeance Therefore do not these Miscreants the Turkes at this day appoint or set down anie paines for that vice but do referre the same to the Iudgement and Tribunall Seate of God not sparing in the meane time to pollute themselues with all kinde of viciousnes and vncleane lusts wherevntoo they doo abandon themselues with all loosenes