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spirit_n	abide_v	able_a	matter_n	26	3	4.9781	4	false

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A07871	A briefe collection and compendious extract of the strau[n]ge and memorable things, gathered oute of the cosmographye of Sebastian Munster. Where in is made a playne descrypsion of diuerse and straunge lavves rites, manners, and properties of sundry nacio[n]s, and a short reporte of straunge histories of diuerse men, and of the nature and properties of certayne fovvles, fishes, beastes, monsters, and sundrie countries and places; Cosmographia. English. Abridgments	Münster, Sebastian, 1489-1552.; Eden, Richard, 1521?-1576, attributed name.	1572 (1572)	STC 18242; ESTC S107531	75,351	206

runnagate found a filthie priuy and dungeon of all wickednes Whom his vnhappy maister taught Nestorians madnes and perswaded him to expulse and remoue the christians and their priestes from Damascus Syria Arabia and so to corrupte the Iudaicall lawe and depraue the Christian fayth it cannot wel be rehearsed by howe manye craftye and subtile meanes this most vnfaythfull Apostata and runneagate hath deceiued and seduced the people Nowe Mahumet beinge taughte al kinde of vngraciousnes of his detestable Maister throughe intemperant liuinge and continuall drunkennes fell at the length into the fallinge sicknes the whiche his wife could not wel suffer for the often cōming therof Wherfore the olde dissemblinge knaue to deliuer himselfe from that infamie doth hide and cloke his disease sayeinge it to be the meruailous brightnes of Gabriell the aungel messenger of God of whom he being put in that traūce did receiue and learne most secret straunge thinges and that hee was not able to abyde the presence of him with a manifest lye be affirmed it O my deare and wel-beloued wife he sayth marueile not that this commeth to me when I conceiue the spirite of God himselfe who suggestethe to mee thinges to come and to make mee priuye of many matters he commeth often to mee The fame hereof was spred abroade immediatlye and he was openly called the prophet of God the which opinion he encreased with a newe art craft by the instruction of his maister Sergius For he accustomed and taught a Doue to be fed and fetche meate at his eares the whiche doue his most subtile and craftye maister called the holye ghost He preached openlye and made his braggs lyke a most lying vil●en that this doue did shew vnto him the most secrete counsel of God as often as the simple fowle did flye vnto his dares for norishment His wife being now dead left him her heyre and all that she had so that he encreased in wealthe authoritie daylye and began to make a ne●● Lawe by the healpe of his mayster S●●g●●s and certayne Iewes his companions borowing s●me thinges of the Hebrewes and some thinges of the christiās discipline he did write in a certayne vo●ume all the lawes of his new sect that whiche ●ookes name is Alcoran that koke no● manye yeares ag●e hathe come into p●int A●d that he might the more craftelye deceyue hys people and nacion geeuen ●o the bellyeane to sleape he brought vp ●nd fed a certayne Bull whych was vsed ●nely to take foode at the handes of Ma●●met he bounde a booke betwyxte hys ●ornes and the simple people lookynge a●oute with an highe voyce he called the Bull out of a ●ecrete place and when hee with hys bablyng tonge had vttered madye thyngs concerning hys lawes sodenlye the Bull start forth and ouerthroweynge manye in hys hast ye comminges he ●ayeth downe the booke in the handes of Mahumet as it had bene a gift sent from heauen The whiche he receiuing withe much honour did immediatly interprete many thynges out of it to the people and wyth this forged and subtyle deuise hee named hym selfe a Prince and Sergius a prophete For the doue brought a paper about her necke written with golden letters in this maner Whosoeuer shal put the yoke on the buls necke let him be king Sergius broughte the yoke and gaue it to Mahumet who did easly put it on the bul and by and by hee was called kinge of the simple people thinking these thinges to be done by Gods prouidence and that he tooke the booke no other wise In thys booke they are commaunded to be circūcysed not for anye religyon but for mere supersticion or els as some saye that no filth shoulde remayne vnder the skyn of the yearde when they did washe and bath thē There was also commaunded abstinence of wine and fleshe that he might the more easlye cloake his disease who felt himself oppressed with wine of late for wyne taken more excessiuelye and intemperantly in stopping the passages of the brayne that no respiracion may be had doth breede norishe the fallynge sickenes and swynes fleshe maketh grosse humors wherewith obstruction of the brayne cōmeth quickelye and manye other diseases springethe thereof The Booke of Alcoran commaunde●● also the fasting of one moneth wherein a man may eate at the night lōg so the daylye abstinence is recōpensed with night surfeting Mahumet appoynted also because he would haue his law to disagree from the Christians and Hebrewes that the Frydaye should be consecrate as holy day because he was made kynge vp on that ●aye and also would not agree with any other sect For the same cause do the Turkes also tourne them into the south at their prayers against the maners of other nacions He hath also graunted to euery man four wiues ●f his own kinred but concubines and bond women bought it is lawfull for euery man to haue as manye as he can kepe so that they maye forsake them and make a diuorce as often as they list and this was done to drawe the cōmon sort and rude multitude vnto him more easly He taught also that the pleasures of the bodye did not hinder the happye lyfe to come and hee promised to the ●bseruers of his lawe a paradise gar●den of al pleasures wherein they shoulde ●se their most desired ioyes and all kinde of pleasures as maydens most beautiful adorned and the embracinges of Angels and al other kindes of pleasures that any man would desyre with the which subtil ●raftines be ledde the people flexible of their owne nature whyther hee woulde because he promised al kind of libidinous pleasures He reprehended the Iewes for that they denyed Christe to bee borne of the virgin seing that the prophet through deuine inspiracion did prophecie the same He reproued the Christians of foolishnes because they did beleeue Iesus to bee borne of the virgin and to haue suffred al contumely and punishment of the Iewes paciently for asmuche as that body conceiued by Godds inspiracion was made vnpassible and also seing that Christ dyd ascend into the heauens and Iudas was crucified in his place The Turkes admit onely three prophets Mahumet their lawe geuer Moyses the prophet of the Hebrewes Christe whō they denie to be god Mahumet made a ●●rsed lawe that if anye man should dispute against his misteries that he should suffer death for it in the whiche lawe hee hath manifestly taught that there is no sin●ere or goode thynge in Alcoran the whiche he goeth aboute to defende by the sworde onelye Thus withe Sergius hee made this booke full of wickednes corrupted the true scriptures with counterfait interpretacions and that he mighte be accompted the prophete and conseruatour of both Testamentes he flattered the christians in this that he was baptized o● Sergius and commaunded his people to be washte often for the expiacion of theyr offences He folowed also the Iewes in that that he appointed circumcision and abstinence