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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

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 Printed by Robert Walde-graue dwelling without Temple-barre To the Right Worshipfull RAPHE ROKEBY Esquier Maister of the Hospitall of S. Katherine and also one of the Maisters of her Maiesties Courte of Requests health wealth in the Lord Iesus IT hath bene the maner of olde Right worshipfull that if any strange or new thing happened within anie mans charge the same as auncient histories record was immediately shewed vnto the superiors The Lieuetenant of Iudaea certified the Emperour Tiberius the Senate of Rome of the fame of Christ and especially his reion then rife in the mouthes of most men throughout Palaestina Least I should seem forgetfull of good maners being of diuers intreated to publishe this exercise I haue thought good to shew vnto you the good newes here hapned throgh the mercy goodnes of our gratious God which hath brought home to his folde an erring sheepe by birth a Turke borne at Nigropontus hertofore by professiō a Saracen addicted vnto the superstitious lawe of Mahomet but now by the ministerie of our handes not of worthines but of fauour called to the function after publike confession of his true faith in Iesus Christ receiued into the congregatiō of the faithful marked by Baptisme for a vowed professor and sealed vp in your Hospital of S. Katherine where the diuine prouidence hath alotted you vnder her Maiestie heade gouernour for the childe of God Maners being not forgotten and duetie thus remembred the beholder and hearer haue ioynte cause to bee ioyful for the pearle espied in the field for the coyne found after searching for the sheepe called home from straying according vnto the parables in the Gospell and to praise our God whose mercie endureth for euer Of the other side wee haue cause to sorrowe when wee behold the face of the earth in manner all couered with heathens idolatrers and false worshippers Asia in greatnes halfe the world though of olde reckoned for the third part with the most famous gouernours Zambei of Arabia the king of Narsinga greate Cham of Tartaria and the Indian Ilands if we may credit Marcus Paulus Venetus amounting to the number of twelue thousand seauē hundred all at this day excepting a few Christians here there scattred are either Infidels liuing as brute beastes without God or followers of Mahomet ioyning with the Turke in false worshippe yet not fearing his power the which places haue beene of olde acquainted with the voice of Christ and with the sounde of the Apostles feete Affrike excepting the dominions of Presbiter Iohn the greate king of Aethiopia who professeth the faith in Christ though not so purely as it is to be wished hath many Infidels the rest are Moores Saracens Nigroes Barbarians addicted to Mahomet and obedient to the great Turke In these countries there are fewe Christians seene This triangle of East South West haue shaken off the faith which of olde hath there beene professed Europe remaineth though more peopled yet a lesser parte then Affrike neyther is this part cleare from Mahomet The great Turke hath taken Greece awaye and seated himselfe at Constantinople Christian religion is now couched in the North partes of the world and so far that it seemeth if we looke for fruits all frozen The professors according vnto the words of our Sauiour are now a little flock It is high time wee should earnestlie pray vnto God that hee wil enlarge his kingdome that hee will open the eyes of Infidels that he will direct Idolatrers in the true woorship that they which call vppon him in worde maye followe him in deede that his name may be glorified vpon earth that al may be gathered together into one fold to sing holy holy holy Lord God of Sabaoth And here withal I suppose it needfull to certefie your worship what moued this Turk to becom a Christiā not holie words but workes not the name of faith but the viewe of fruites not the learning of Clarks but the liues of certain good Christiās whose loue kindnes did so rauish him as he saide of himselfe that he cōfessed the God of the christians to be the onely true God And among others he named Sir F. Drake that worshipful knight W. Haukins that worthy Captaine The tree is knowne by the fruits Gods children are known by their holines the true professors are knowne by their loue Hereby saith our Sauiour shall all men knowe that ye are my disciples if ye loue one another The Iews gloried they were of God their behauior declared thē our sauiour gaue sētence to be of the deuil they said they were of the seede of Abraham their works denied them to be such This is the course that Christ tooke with the Scribes Pharises for the stay of his credit If I do not the workes of my Father beleeue me not Agayne though ye beleeue not me beleue the works This is the rule that Iewe and Gentile that Turke Saracene euery good Christiā now marketh beholdeth but at this day nothing rifer thē sayyng nothing rarer then doing Wher be the almes-houses Hospitals Colledges and Churches nowe a daies founded builded No doubt God hath his people and they haue their fruites though the same be very few If wee were so desirous to haue our lights I mean our fruits so shine vpon the earth in these North partes of the world where Christianitie is professed as we are gredily bent to gette the earthly commodities of Affrike Asia and the hid treasures of the far Indies we shoulde no doubt prouoke them out of the said coūtries to seek after our God and to bee rauished with the conuersation and steppes of the Christians as they allure vs wyth fame of their commodities to seeke after their forrain riches And wheras now one silly Turk is won ten thousands no doubt woulde receiue the faith The heathens in far coūtries do wōder at the couetousnes of the christiās the cruelty among other nations of the Spaniard Presbiter Iohn in Affrike crieth out vpon the Christian Princes for their diuision discorde The great Turk at Cōstantinople laugheth the pope his prelats to scorn for their pride the Christian churches he reuileth and not without cause for their idols images Reformation is to be sought for of al men not onely in Religion wherein some ouer-busie themselues neuer satisfied vntill they haue ouerthrowne all but in liues maners that they which are without seeing our good workes may glorifie our father which is in heauen Thus occasioned by these circumstances my pen hath ouer-ruled me I feare lesse ouer tedious Maye it please you to accept this remembrance proceeding from a willing mind though other-wise not furnished to gratifie your kindnes From

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