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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

buried But if the partie be poore then is there a collection made for money wherewith to pay the priests and to discharge the expences of the funeralles This also is not to be pretermitted that the Turkes do vse at their funerals to weare Blackes notwithstanding that they doe not continue the wearing of them aboue eight dayes And those that are of great accompt and estimate doe not vse to weare them anie longer than for three daies at which time all the kinsfolkes and friends of the dead do assemble themselues together and hauing vsed some comfortable speeches and wordes of consolation ech to other they do from thencefoorth clothe themselues in their woonted habite and apparell Howbeit the friendes of such as are departed do not forbeare for all that oftentimes to visite their sepulchres especially their mothers sisters wiues and some other women of their kinred and familiar acquaintance who do oftentimes make repaire to their toombes and frequent them of purpose to weepe and lament ouer them in token and remembrance that the like lot and fortune is one day to befall and happen vnto themselues Of the opinions of the Turkes touching the state of the soules departed out of this life and of the generall iudgement and resurrection of the dead as also of the ioyes of Paradice and the paines of hell Cap. 23. THe faith and beleefe of the Turks concerning the Godhead and by what meanes they do hope and expect the saluation of their soules hath sufficiently beene expressed in the precedent discourses It now resteth that wee deliuer their opinions touching the estate of the soule after it is departed out of this life and what they thinke of the generall Iudgement and resurrection of the dead as also what kinde of ioyes they imagine to be reserued in Heauen for such as liue well and godly and what torments be prepared in Hel for the wicked and vngodly For they doe generally beleeue and confesse that there is a time wherein the world shall haue an end and that there is a day ordained for the general iudgement of all mankinde wherein the bodies of the dead shall be raised and reuiued by the power of God and that ech man shal then appeare before the maiestie of God both with their soules and bodies to receiue the reward of their good and euill deedes done in this life with an endlesse recompence either of eternall blisse or euerlasting vnhappinesse In al which points of their religion albeit the Turkes be to be esteemed farre better than the Epicures and the Atheifts who deny the immortalitie of the soule and doe acknowledge neither God nor Deuill heauen nor hell And though they goe farre beyond the heathen Philosophers and all the Gentiles and pagan Infidelles who thought the world to be eternall and held the resurrection of the bodie to be an idle dreame and fable yet for that their opinions in this behalfe do notwithstanding differ in most points from the doctrine and traditions both of the Iewes Gentiles and Christians and are ful of most grosse absurdities and fantasticall toyes and vile impieties farre differing from the trueth and sinceritie of true religion we will therefore briefly set downe how and in what maner they do imagine of these matters First this is one opinion and vain perswasion of the Turkes that when any dead person hath laien and rested about the third part of an houre in the sepulchre God doth then send and put into it a new spirite and that therevpon also there doe repaire vnto him by the appointment of God two Angelles of the which one as they say is called Nechir and the other Remonchir who being of a most terrible aspect and fearfull countenance hauing burning fire-brands in their hands do examine the dead man of his fore-passed life in this world Which if they finde to haue bin verie wicked and sinful they do then scourge him with fiery whips But if his life were good and godly they doo then transforme him into the shape of a goodly and beautifull Angell and they giue him good and comfortable speaches telling him that hee shall rest and remaine there accompanied with all his good deedes vntill the last Day of the Generall Iudgement The manner whereof according to the Tradition of the Mahometists is as followeth It is an opinion generally embraced and constantly affirmed by the Turks That there is an angel aboue in heauen named Israphill who hauing a Trumpet in his hand is appointed to stand always in the presence of God and to be in a readines when God shall commaund him to sound his Trumpet and to make an ende and consummation of the world As soon as this Trumpet shalbe sounded all those that are then aliue vpon the Earth shall in a moment fall downe dead to the ground and the Angells also which are in Heauen shall die likewise And this theyr Opinion they doo confirme out of these words of their Alcoran Culumen Alleiafan ve geb tab vegei roebic tull gela li velle I cheram that is God hath spoken it with his mouth That all mankinde is mortall and that all creatures shall haue an end either by age or by some accident Hereof the Turkes conclude that not only men but that the Angels also are mortall And although manie of their doctours and such as are best seene in their religion do oppose themselues against this opinion and do contradict it vpon good reasons and with no absurd arguments yet when those words are alleadged against them they are soone put to silence and do subscribe to this opinion For that no man must gainsay or deny any thing contained in their Alcoran But whosoeuer shall dare eyther to dispute against that booke or to doubt of any article therein written he shall be sure eyther to haue his tongue pulled out of his head or else his bodie to be burnt and consumed with fire But to our purpose They holde also that immediately vpon the sound of the trumpet by the Angell there shall be so great and terrible an earthquake that the whole frame of the world both earth and heauen shall be ruinated insomuch as the rockes and mountaines shall fall and tumble together with such force and violence that they shall be broken into powder and dissolued into dust and heapes of sand and that then God wil create a newe Light and newe Aungelles equall in glory and dignitie to the former After which hee will cause to fall a pleasant and svveete raine which they call Rehemet sui that is The raine of mercie with the which the earth then lying in dust shall be watered and so shall it remaine for fortie dayes together Howbeit they say that those dayes then shall be longer than are the dayes at this present And manie of them hold also that from thenceforth there shall not be anie darkenesse of night as is nowe vsuall but that the night shall be most cleare and

and licentious libertie The Opinion of the Turkes touching the sinne of Gluttonie Cap. 17. THe sinne of Gluttonie they do repute nothing inferiour to anie of the other dead-sinnes For they hold the same to be verie odious in the sight of God because as they say this was the first sinne that man committed after his Creation and therefore they teach that the same ought to be auoided and that men ought to abstaine from it with al their studie and endeuours For seeing the first Parents of mankinde Adam and Euah were expelled out of Paradice for the sinne of gluttonie in eating of the forbidden fruite where they had abundance of other frutes to haue satisfied both their hunger and appetites they doo therefore firmely beleeue That the same punishment is prepared for all those that are giuen to surfetting gurmandize or to excessiue feeding They haue a Tale also in theyr Alcoran of a certaine Hermit who liuing a solitarie life in a place farre remoued from anie Cittie or resort of men did seeme in regard of his hard austere life to be more like a beast than a man and yet he was so addicted to continuall praier and deuotion that hee was held to be a verie holy and religious man Thys Hermit hauing vppon a time fedde vppon certayne hearbes and rootes more greedily than he was accustomed hauing filled his belly with more thē ordinary he fell into a sound heauie sleepe During the which he dreamed that he had the companie of a certain woman with whom he committed sinne and folly Afterwards awaking from his sleepe which had been longer than his wonted vse a little before Sunne set he beheld aloft in the ayre aboue him a certaine Deuill or Fiend of hell making a great noyse in the ayre and carrying a great Bundle or Roll of writings Wherevpon the Hermit hauing coniured the Spirite to aunswere vnto that he should demaund vsed these words vnto him Bremelcon vecchialer Durchini Indumirsin That is O thou Enemie of our Faith what writings are those which thou carriest there with thee Whereunto Sathan answered These quoth hee be the sinnes which haue been committed this day within the compasse of this place and I haue been licensed to collect them together to record them Whereupon the Hermit his conscience somewhat touching him as beeing in doubt of himselfe demaunded the Spirit if hee had found and obserued anie fault that he had cōmitted Yea quoth the Deuill this daye hast thou sinned in Gluttonie in eating hearbes more greedily licentiously than thou wast wont which was an occasion that thou hast also exceeded in thy sleepe and hast offended in sloath and sluggishnes Therof also it hath insued that thou hast polluted thy selfe with vncleannesse and hast abused thy bodie in lust with a Woman Last of all thou hast all this while neglected and left vndone thy Prayers and Deuotion whereunto thou oughtest earnestlye to haue betaken thee Wherefore holde on and continue still in thy sinne of Gluttonie and then it will be easie enough for mee euerie day to register not onely one sinne but many committed by thee Hauing thus saide the Deuill departed from him with great noise and furie After which the Hermit bethinking himselfe of his fault became verie pensiue and penitent and praied earnestly to God to pardon and forgiue him this errour wherein hee had offended Now out of this tale or olde wiues fable the Turkes doe gather this doctrine That if the Hermite did sin so grieuously in eating of a few herbs drinkinge of a litle water more then ordinarie howe much greater care and regard ought those men to haue who feede vsually vpon other meates and drinks more delicate and delicious least they fall into this dangerous sin of gluttonie and gurmandise which will indaunger their soules bodies to euerlasting death damnatiō Of the opinion of the Turkes touching slouth or Lazinesse Cap. 18. COncerning slouth they say it is a secreate and vnknowen sin caused and engendred by a certaine diabolicall and filthy Idlenes which maketh men both forgetfull and negligent in all their affaires not onely in those that concerne both their publique and priuate estate but euen in their seruice dutie towards God making men altogether secure and carelesse of the saluation of their soules And inducing the mind of man to a most wicked prophane contempt both of God himselfe and of all his creatures To this effect they haue in their Alcorā a fable not much vnlik to y e others aboue recited of a certaine King that liued in the time of MAHOMET and was altogether drowned in this sin of slouth and securitie In so much that he did not only neglect all the matters and affaires of his estate and kingdome but he was growne to that excessiue Lazines that he was loth to take the paines or to imploy any time in obseruing the necessities of nature till at length it happened that hee was brought to see the enormitie of this sin to perceiue what holde the Deuil had gottē of him by meanes of this security wherin he had of a long time held him tied enchayned For one morning as this King lay Idle in his bed and loath to arise Beating his braines and deuising vpon many vaine toyes and light fantasies as he was alwaies accustomed He chaunced to espie an Angel in the shape likenes of a man running and coursing hither and thyther about the house top and still remouing from one side of the house to another At last seeing him somewhat neere him hee demanded him what hee ment in that maner to run vp and downe Vnto whom the Angell presently made answere That he had the charg keping of certaine Camels some of which he had lost and that he did goe to seeke them out and to see if hee could possibly discerne them in any place ther abouts The King replyed Truely I thinke that either thou art mad and out of thy wits or else thou art a theefe purposely come hither to rob and steale For how is it possible for any Camels to be going or walking vpon the top of the house And yet I do not so much maruell at the folishnes of thy speech as to see how thou couldest get vp thither so high without the helpe of any ladder The Angell speedily answered Much more difficult impossible a thing it is to flie into Paradise without wings And hauing so said he vanished sodenly out of sight The King being both astonished at the strangenesse of this sight and musing also at the manner of his speach continued a long time in a deepe profound studie what shuld be meant by that which he had seene and heard At length considering that the persons who had thus spoken vnto him did not in all things resemble a humane shape and confering both his person his speeches together hee began to imagine and coniecture that it should be some Angell come from