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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A02730	The tragicall life and death of Muley Abdala Melek the late King of Barbarie With a proposition, or petition to all Christian princes, annexed therevnto: VVritten by a gentleman imployed into those parts.	Harrison, John, fl. 1610-1638.	1633 (1633)	STC 12860; ESTC S116606	16,742	32

forced and are daily taken perforce I say and circumcised yea made Eunuches and so disabled at once both from being men and Christian men othervvise most shamefullie abused by those filthy sodomites not to be vttered Quis Italia fando c. temperet a lachrymis Indignities I say maiora lachrymis don not onlie to those poore Christians but euen to Christ Iesus himself and his vvhole Church and so to be apprehended vvithout any Nationall difference vvhose members vve all are and ought to haue a fellovv-feeling of one an others miseries or els vve are no Christians at all nor vvorthy that name I say hauing been an eye-vvitnes of those great miseries and indignities don to the poore members of Iesus Christ and consequently to himselfe as a poore member of his bodie I could not but be sensible thereof And present the bodies and soules of those poore members of Christ like that Leuite in the booke of Iudges dismembred cut in peeces and quartered to the eyes likevvise of all the tribes of Israel that is to say the vvhole church of Christ both Prince and people of vvhat nation soeuer all members of that his mysticall bodie all alyke interest therein obliged like the Israelites to ioyne together as one man to right and revenge euen vvith the hazard of their liues estates these so great injuries and indignities consider of it take aduice and speake your mindes Open thy mouth for the dumme in the cause of all those that are appointed to destruction Those poore sheepe appointed for the slaughter the slaughter both of bodie soule bought vvith so deare a price vvhose blood els vvill be required required I say at the hands of all those to vvhom God hath giuen power meanes For to vvhom much is giuen of him much shall be required but vvant hearts and mindes to right and redresse it speak your mindes Consider of it noble Princes and States by your Embassadors one vvith an other both for the present hovv to relieue all those poore soules that are in miserie both vnder the Turks and Moores and hovv to prevent the miseries of others for the time to come like to be taken by their ships at sea more and more and made slaues that is to say more than miserable if not preuented VVhich a fevv good ships had Christian Princes considered of it all this time and been so minded that is to say of one minde hinc illae lachrymae might haue prevented and may yet for the time to come To youe I speak most noble Princes and States that are of one minde consider of it take aduice speak your minds And in youe to the whole church of Christ let it be a freevvill offering both of Prince and people to Christ Iesus tovvards this so Christian honourable and charitable a vvorke A seacond redemption of his poore distressed members out of the hands of those infidels verie easie to be tamed and subdued vvith no great chardges to any out of a voluntarie contribution of manie And if I vvere vvorthie to advise and this my proposition and petition to take effect this free vvill offering or contribution to be deposited in the hands of the Lords the States Generall of the vnited Prouinces and the Prince of Orange vvho haue so great store of ships and can most convenientlie manage such affaires by sea and are so noble and so honourable as no doubt they vvould advance it to the vtmost That so this sacred seruice being managed by one vndertaking State consisting of so manie vvise States-men and prudent Senators may by Gods blessing receiue better successe than those expeditions in former times frustrated by the dissention of diuers Princes vndertakers as in the Turkish history may appeare The greatnes of vvhich Monarchie novv dravveth to a period as that of Rome magnitudine laboranssua both the one and the other as I said before novv in these last daies to be finallie destroyed and the Kingdome of Iesus Christ to be erected neuer to be d●stroyed c. I speak not these things of my self neither doe I now come from my self but haue the holy Prophets Apostles and Disciples of my Lord and Sauiour Christ Iesus for my vvarant And in his name onlie and no other euen from the King of Kings doe I novv come I magnifie my imployment more than an Embassadour and yet vvithall a petitioner to treat and entreat in the behalfe of his poore afflicted members vvho are not able buth vvith prayers and teares to treat or entreat for themselues Open thy mouth for the dumme in the cause of all those that are appointed to destruction There is my commission there is my vvarrant And I must in dutie and vvill stand vpon it it standing so highlie vpon the King my maisters honour the King of Kings expecting novv hovv I shall be receiued the successe vvhereof I refer to him And so conclude vvith prayers teares the vveapons of Gods church Quid enim nisi vota supersunt Praying God to put into the hearts of Christian princes vvith one mind to fulfill his vvil for the finall destruction both of that Antichristian this Mahometan tyrannie and the finall establishment of his aeternall Monarchie neuer to be destroyed AMEN AMEN FINIS Isa. 51. 14 P● 46 The 6. Stilo 〈◊〉 in The 1● Stilo novo Zec. 12 12. ●2 18. Isa. 51. A cast is a tribe or kinred Cus-cus a dish of meat in great request with them Gago frō whence al their gold cometh conquered by his praedecessors