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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
spirit_n	ghost_n	holy_a	trinity_n	7,211	5	10.1332	5	false

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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

hope of saluation consisteth chiefely in the pietie and merite of their vertuous life and good deedes And that they doe not much differ in that point from the opinion of some Christians who do attribute their saluation vnto their merites But of this we shall haue occasion to speake hereafter in the particular discouerie of their opinions For being now to shewe what those precepts are which bee commaunded in their law we will here set them downe in such order as they are reported out of their Alcoran THe commaundements of the Turkes law are eight in number The first of which in their language is thus written La Illa Eillala Mehemmet Resullala That is to say There is but one God alone and Mahomet is his Prophet Their second Commandement is Honour thy Father and thy mother with all possible loue reuerence and fidelitie And attempt not any thing against the good will and liking of thy parents Their third Commandement is That which thou wouldest not should bee done vnto thee doe not thou to any other Their fourth Commandement willeth That euery man at the time limitted and appointed therevnto doe repaire vnto their Mosche or Temple to publique prayers Their fift Commandement is That each man doe within the compasse of euerie yeare orderly consecrate and spend one Moneth in abstinence and fasting The sixt Commandement exacteth That euerie man according to his estate and calling doe giue Almes liberally out of his goods and substaunce The seuenth Commandement requireth That each man doe embrace and frame himselfe to marriage And that he doe diligently obserue all such solemnities rites and ceremonies as are ordained and required in the solemnizing therof which are hereafter expressed in the exposition of this Commaundement The Eight Commandement chargeth That no man kill another in any case by no meanes what so euer but vpon violent compulsion or by order of lawe and publique iustice The Exposition of the first Commaundement of the Turkes law containing the summe of their beliefe Cap. 5. THese Eight Commaundementes in the Turkes law do containe as it seemeth two especiall matters In fower of them namely in the first fourth fift and sixt precepts is set downe their faith and dutie towards God And in the other foure is contained their dutie towards man Their first precept consisteth of two partes For it comprehendeth their faith and beliefe which they haue of the Godhead and their opinion or beliefe which they haue of their Prophet MAHOMET Touching the Godhead they acknowledge both with the Iewes and Christians that there is one onely God Wherein they differ from the Gentiles who had their multiplicitie of Gods And they hold that God alone is to bee worshipped And all adoration to Saints Idols Images they abhorre and condemne as being an honour proper and peculiar to God alone contrary to the traditions of some Christians Howbeit this their knowledge of the Godhead is but in a generall confused and grosse manner and only as it were by conceite and imagination For what God shoulde bee and what is the nature and Essence of the Deitie they knowe not Neither doe they acknowledge any distinction of persons in the Godheade either of Trinitie in Vnitie or of Vnitie in Trinitye as doe the Christians Albeit they doe acknowledge that there is a holy Ghost and they do confesse that the Spirite of God doth inspire good motions into the heart of man incite vs to good and holy deedes And yet do they not acknowledge it to be a distinct person in the Godhead but they doe by a grosse conceit imagine it to be onely a bare power and vertue in God working by a secret kind of inspiration Likewise touching Christ although they doe hold him for a great and holy Prophet as shalbe elsewhere declared yet with the Iewes they deny him to bee the Sonne of God and the Messiah and Sauiour of the world For they say that God hath no sonnes and with the Arrians they deny his diuinity and the coniunction of his diuine nature with his humanity Notwithstanding they do in a sort acknowledge the power wisedome and iustice of God as also his goodnes his mercy and his prouidence For they belieue that he made the heauens and the earth That hee created all things and that by his prouidence he ruleth gouerneth all things That he hath ordayned a heauen or Paradise for the rewarde of those that liue well and godly and a hell for the wicked and vngodly All this they doe constantly confesse and belieue yet so as they seeme to conceyue of them by a grosse carnall outward consideration and by contemplating of the Godhead onely in the externall workmanshippe of his creatures and measuring the diuine bounty goodnes onely by the multitude of his corporall blessinges and benefites bestowed vpon mankind and not by his spirituall graces they doe honour serue and prayse him onely for his prouidence in prouiding for their earthly bodies And therefore as they doe hold it notable impiety any way to doubt of the grace fauour of God So doth their faith altogether rest and depend vpon this confidence and opinion That God hath appointed vnto euery man the manner meanes and certainty of his liuing and sustentation forty yeares before his birth And because man is made after the image similitude of God that therefore God hath made certaine and sure prouision for him For this cause they do teach that God is to be honoured and worshipped in a decent and comely manner with praise and thanksgiuing To which effect these words of their Alcoran are accounted of great reuerence and solemnity Acta Alla Bisigus Verdi Colarc Verdi Diuerdi Agfluerdi The meaning of which wordes is thus There is no other cause why God did endue and adorne mankind with reason and vnderstanding aboue other of his creatures but onely to the ende we should diligently and effectually consider in our mindes the infinite largenes of the diuine grace and bounty and the omnipotencie of the eternall Deity And for this cause onely did he place the eyes in mans body that hee shoulde behold and acknowledge his admirable works and creatures which he hath made in great aboundance by his diuine power and omnipotencie And therefore also did he fasten eares to the head of man that hee shoulde attend and hearken to the wordes of the heauenly law and that hauing heard and well vnderstoode them hee shoulde diligently keepe and obserue them Moreouer God hath distributed diuerse and sundry tongues and languages amongst men to th' intent one should instruct and teach another in the knowledge of the diuine law Besides they do obserue also these words of their Alcoran with great solemnitie Acta Alla Bisi Sagluc Chuerdi That is God hath giuen vnto men health of body as one not the least of his gifts and graces to the intent we should not suffer slouth and sluggishnes so to take roote and to bee