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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53493	Politicall reflections upon the government of the Turks ... by the author of the late Advice to a son.	Osborne, Francis, 1593-1659.	1656 (1656)	Wing O518; ESTC R23027	74,574	208

Church then in improving any temporall Power or raising banks that might stop such an inundation as so great a Snow-ball was likely to cause upon the face of that Earth where ever it came to refund 3. His Followers were owners of no vaster Understandings then might render them plyable to Labour and Discipline Who being of a brutish and wilde employment did not onely undergoe the hardship of Warre but were ready to yeild all awfull Obedience to such marks of Worship or religions Observations as he was pleased to impresse upon their yetunsuborned imaginations Not so easily obtained from acuter heads who are apt to pretend a sufficiency in determining the truth or falshood of that Authority hath allotted for an unquestioned Creed The more to be avoided by all new Legislators because known so pernitious to established Common-wealths and Monarchies as the promoters of Sedition are seldome found to take horse at any other block then what they perceive the People aptest to stumble at in relation to Gods Worship No Colony having been observed for to dilate it selfe that held not at least so long constant to one Profession in Religion till Time and Successe had estated them in a power able to resist any Enemy by nothing easier brought about then a confident Report of some Miracle which once riveted into the Opinion of the People by Custome and Education cannot after be removed without the hazard of all This made him professe a daily Commerce with Angels and pretend the terrible Fits incident to his Disease as holy extasies in which God did mind him of the way and meanes how to lead his People And according to this Patterne a Law was founded so suitable to the highest Taste of humane Sensuality and obvious to a carnall apprehension that it was swallowed by this Rabble for the undoubted and pure Will of God and he looked upon for his most holy Prophet To the advancement of which Beliefe their Ignorance did mainly contribute found by experience the strongest assertor of what she confidently believes though in it selfe never so improbable And after some farther commerce had throughly estated their Consciences in this perswasion they grew zealous that is affectionate and desirous to propagate where ever they came such opinions as their Governors had contracted them to out of no higher sanctity at first then to keep them entire and chast in their worldly obedience 4. Neither were the Proselites of this new Prophet checked in the earnestnesse of their pursuit after Empire by the confluence of contrary Accidents and the number of rubbs the unsteady hand of so contingent a Warre could not choose but cast daily in their way but the more enflamed as taking them rather for incitements to further cruelties towards others then any stop to the unjust encroachments they made upon the Principalities of their Neighbours looked upon by them as Enemies to God and so like the Canaanites fit only to be eradicated for the better ease and advantage of themselves Or if any crosse event was apprehended relating to them they put it off as if it onely concerned their Remisnesse in the intended Worke of the Lord which was to spoile others and enrich themselves This abates the wonder of their Victories who have the Art to draw encouragement from the best or worst of successes For through the clashing of these contrary events Mahumet kindled such a blinde zeale amongst their over-heated Ignorance as it consumed all before them without the least consideration had of things Sacred or Prophane 5. And to preserve this childe of his Ambition from being stifled in the swadling cloaths through an overlaying of Neighbours who were called in prudence to the crushing of such designes had they not been rendred deafe by the janglings between the Greek Latine Churches he gathers the chiefest ingredients of his Institutes out of the Gardens both of the Jewish and Christian Religion Leaving his Sectarists in grosse to their more loose and acceptable primitive Heatheuisme inserting few Novelties but what respected his owne person which he doth not stile a God though he arrogates to himselfe a Supremacy over all his Prophets 6. Yet did he not only forbid the use of Images as may be thought in imitation of Moses who by that bred such a hatred in the Jewes against all Nations as hath kept a considerable part of them from mingling to this day but out of as deep a Reason of State in relation to continuance Since it is impossible if a Nation once attaines an universall prudence but that the deceitfull knack of such a carnall adoration must needs grow loathsome or lye obvious to their Reproofe that shall make it their full employment to finde faults and after an opportunity is easily gained to foment a change by discovering to the people absurdities in their Worship which is better prevented in one directed as his is to the onely invisible and omnipotent Creator whose Nature and Power is so far remote from the weake apprehensions of men as the sharpest reason is not able to batter a Faith built solely upon it 7. And by this prudent election he hath so far prevailed against the corruption of Innovation a Rust all other Professions have contracted in lesse time as no considerable Schisme hath yet broke out amongst them For that between the Turke and Persian lies rather in the Genealogie of their Prophet then the body of the Beliefe he first founded At such time lest Novelty and want of Proofe should detect him too apparently he takes Abraham into his Party whom he ownes for the Father-of himselfe and his Followers giving a no lesse honourable Character of Christ and his Mother to please the Christians then of Moses to amuse the Jewes yet hath no milder designe then the destructiō of them both And by this universall complyance he rendered his detestable Errors more glib to the wide swallow of that Ignorance the world did then gape withall The cause his Doctrine was embraced by as unquestion'd a beliefe as that of the Jew or Christian whom they looke upon as owners of more improbable Opinions then theirs and lesse tending to the honour of that universall Goodnesse which respects the profit and well-being of his Creatures 8. In relation to whom the Turks Sabbath no lesse then the Jewes was without doubt instituted to give a comfortable relaxation to the poore Beast as well as Slaves whom Moses observed to lead a life in AEgypt worse then death it selfe Therefore he derives the Institution of the Sabbath from the mouth of God to be of no lesse antiquity then the Creation And on this day men were suffered to doe no labour but to keep a holy rest unto the Lord by which a Terror was strook into the contemners of the Law and a great Love and mutuall Confidence infused among Neighbours no small promoters of Conquest such staning closest in time of danger as are of nearest relations in Religion and Friendship Besides these