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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

onely by vnderstanding and therefore the wise and sages of olde had a greater desire to expresse the felicity of the soule then of the body the which bodely felicity though it were graunted them yet they regarded not neither esteemed it in comparison of the felicitie which is coupled with the principall veritie His loose doctrine of marriages his abuse of fasting and his description of Paradise spoken of before deliuer vnto vs that there is herein small difference between Epicurisme Atheisme Mahometisme The glutton in the gospel that was cloathed in purple fine white and fared delitiously euery day sheweth vnto vs how God fauoureth accepteth of such people The kingdome of God saith the Apostle Is not meate nor drinke but righteousnes and peace and ioy in the holy Ghost for whosoeuer in these things serueth Christ herein the true felicitye consisteth is acceptable vnto God and approoued of men Satan the schoolemaster of Mahomet shewed a glotonous disposition when he would haue had the stones to be made bread His disciple must content himself w t the answer made vnto y e maister Man liueth not by bread onely but by euery worde that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord. Our sauiour saith the true worshippers shal worship the father not in corporal delights pleasurs In spirit truth this is y e maner For the father requireth euen such to worship him Again an argumēt reduced of y e nature of God God is a spirite and they that worshippe him must worship him in spirit truth And y t I maye deliuer the whole vnto you in few wordes perfect felicitie consisteth in knowing of God in beleeuing in God in louing of God and enioying of God warraunted by the wordes of our Sauiour This is life euerlasting that they knowe thee to bee the onely very God and whom thou hast sent Iesus Christ. Thirdly y e law of Mahomet was established through wiles deceit subteltie lies therfore y e law of Mahomet is a most wicked religion First he hauing y e falling sicknes perswaded his wife others y t it was the power of God the presence of the Angel Gabriell that fel him Sergius the hereticall Monke was at hande bare false witnes to y e same saith Zonaras He told them y t the tame Doue which hee taught to feede at his eare was sometime an Angell sometime the holy ghost He had three leude companions to deuise face out lies w t him Whē he perceiued y e mē gaue eare vnto him he framed that the Angel Gabriell had caried him to Ierusalem and thence to haue lifted him vp to heauen there to haue learned the secrets of his law He made y e Saracens beleeue saith Antoninus y t before God made y e world there was written in the throne of God there is no god but y e god of Mahomet whē he had framed his Alcoran boūd it vp faire he caused secretly a wild Asse to be takē the book to be bound about his necke as he preached vnto y e people vpon a sodain he stood amazed as if some great secretie were reuealed vnto him from aboue He brake out tolde y e people Behold god hath sent you a law from heauen go to such a desert there ye shal find an Asse a book tied about his neck The people ran in great hast they found it so as he had said They take the Asse they bring the book they honor the prophet Touching diuorced seperated wiues he tolde y e Saracens he had receiued a paper from heauē He vsed south-saying diuination the which at Fessa a Citie of Mauritama vnto this day is called Zarragia He persuaded his folowers that at y e end of y e world he should be trāsformed into the forme of a mightie Ram full of lockes long fleeces of wool And that all that held of his Law shoulde bee as fleas shrooding themselues in his fleeces and that he would iumpe into heauen and so conuay them all thither These and suche like were his sleightes and vntruthes without warrauntize of Gods word without reason and probable shew of truth Satan being coniured to deliuer the truth of the Alcoran of Mahomet saide that therin were comprised twelue thousand lies and the rest was truth by all likelihood very little In the like respect God threatneth Israel saying The Prophet that shall presume to speake a word many name which I haue not commaunded him to speake or that speaketh in the name of other Gods euen the same Prophet shall die And if thou thinke in thine heart how shall we know the word which the Lord hath not spoken When a Prophet speaketh in the name of the Lord if the thing follow not nor come to passe that is the thing which the Lord hath not spoken but the Prophet hath spoken it presumptuously If we apply this rightly vnto Mahomet wee shall not finde any one thing in veritie and truth the whiche hee spake that came to passe but whatsoeuer hee wroughte was thorough wiles fraude and subteltie let his prophecie of his assention after his death bee a president for all whiche was not performed Fourthly the law of Mahomet was thrust in by secular power force of armes by battels bloudshed therfore the law of Mahomet is a most wicked religion Paulus Diaconus writeth y t he spent ten yeares in Armes subduing to his raigne compelling to his religion thereof writeth Mathew Paris in this sort The law of the Saracens the deuill inditing the same by the ministery of Sergius the Monke heretick Mahomet wrote in the Arabike tōgue taught them A gladio cepit per gladium tenetur in gladio terminatur It began of the sworde it is helde by the sworde it is finished or ended in the sword Mahomets own words vnto y e Saracēs are these Non sum cū miraculis aut indicijs ad vos missꝰ sed in gladio rebelles puniturus c. I am not sēt vnto you with miracles signs but with the sword to punish suche as resist me If any therefore receaue not my prophecy precept wil not willingly enter into this our faith if he be vnder our iurisdiction he shall die or be cōpelled to pay tribute the price of his incredulity so liue They that are not of this faith dwel in other countries I charge commaūd that opē warrs be proclaimed armor taken against them vntill they bee cōstrained to turne vnto the faith They that will not consent vnto our doctrine shall die the death their wiues and children shalbee committed to perpetuall slauerie to our Gallies The Scythians from whence these Turkes came are an impatient kind of people Whē they warred vnder Heraclius the Emperour against the king of Persia they were too too ernest for their pay

The Clark of the band in their greedines called thē doogs thereof rose a mutine they made their mone vnto the better sort of their coūtry they forsook their Emperor This was their first fall from Christiā kings Emperors wherof ther ensued great mischief This furious cruel dispositiō an other of y e same name with this false prophet an Emperor of y e Turks shewed at Cōstantinople Missing an aple vpō a certaine tree in his Orchard he gaue commandement that the bowels of three pages that were about him should be ript that it might be knowne which of them had eaten it The time at this present will not serue to shewe the infinite streames of Christian and Innocent bloude these enemies of God most cruelly shedde There commeth to my remembrance among other histories their doings in Poland where at one battell they slewe of Christians as many as their single eares did fill nine greate sackes These people are wild sauage and cruel Mahomet made them a law accordingly saying He that slayeth his enemie or is slaine of his enemie lette him enter and possesse paradise This is contrary to Gods word in the old and new testament this is contrary to the rule of charitie which slayeth not but forgiueth the enemie The Paradise of Mahomet must then be the bottomles pitte of Hell Of the contrary the true word of God and the Gospell of Iesus Christ was not plāted neither by force of arms neither by eloquence of words neither by enticing speach of mannes wisedome but by the worke of the blessed spirite and power of God S. Paule putteth the Corinthians in remembraunce thereof saying Brethren you see your calling howe that not many wise men after the flesh not many mighty not many noble but God hath chosen the foolish things of the world to confound the wise God hath chosen the weake thinges of the world to confound the mightie things And vile things of the world and things which are despised hath God chosen and things which ar not to bring to nought things that are that no flesh should reioice in his presence It might seeme very strange that 12. men the seruants of any king or emperour beeing abiect persons without weapon or armour shoulde subdue vnto themselues from the king or emperour the whole dominion It might seeme very strange that a few vnlearned vnlettered men shoulde confound put to silence all subtil Logitians al sage philosophers al skilful Astronomers profound Diuines It might seeme verye strange y t a few men naked frendlesse should conquer the whole world The 12 Apostles are sent forth to preach according vnto the institution of our sauiour cōmanded they shall possesse neither gold nor siluer nor money in their purses nor a scrip for their iurney nor two coats nor shoes nor a staffe being simple men vnlearned of one language yet haue they cōfounded the wise cōfuted the learned cōuerted all languages conquered y e whole world vnto their master Christ This is it which Chrysostom calleth Maximū miraculū the greatest miracle orbē terrarū absque miraculis à duodecim pauperibus illiteratis hominibus attractū That the whole world should be caried away without miracles alone by 12. poore vnlearned men They woar no armor they proclame no warres they were authors of no seditiō our sauiour bequeathed vnto thē peace they preached peace whē they came to city or house their salutatiō was peace be in this house y e spirit of peace was resiant amōg thē They cōpelled no man as Mahomet his disciples did Tertullian writeth Sed nec religionis est cogere religionem quae spōte suscipi debeat nō vi cū hostiae ab animo lubenti expostulētur But it is not the nature of religiō to cōtrain religiō which ought to be receiued willingly not by cōpulsion whē as sacrifices are required of a willing mind Lactantius hath y e like reasoning w t y e infidels y t cōpelled y e christiās to sacrifice Nō opus est vi iniuria quia religio cogi nō potest Ye need not vse force violēce for religiō may not be cōstrained He sheweth y e practise of y e Christians and the reason thereof Nemo à nobis retinetur inuitus invtilis est enim Deo qui fide ac deuotione caret Wee holde no man against his wil for he is vnprofitable to God that wanteth faith and deuotion This compulsion is to be vnderstood of Christian toward Heathen or Heathen towards Christian but when as any receiue the Christian faith vowe their seruice vnto the onely true GOD matriculate their names in the congregation of the faithfull and afterwardes decline giuing themselues vnto carnalitie raising of schisme broaching of heresies and falshoode the whippe of Christ must be taken in hand to purge the house of God the ●●●●e of discipline and correction must be vsed the magistrate must draw the sworde and execute Iustice according vnto the lawes of God Christian Princes established and decreed for the aduauncing of pietie and rooting out of sinne and all iniquity Augustine discourseth hereof at large and sheweth how heretikes and schismatikes by imperial lawes and constitutions are forcibly to be reformed Of olde the Christians gaue almes and reliefe vnto the poore of themselues charitie dieth they are now taxed and seased of olde Christian deuotion moued men to fast deuotion dieth they haue now daies times assigned them of olde they repaired to the Church of great zeale zeale dieth they are now enioined by penal Lawes of olde being mindfull of Christs death they frequented sundrie times to the Lordes Table forgetfulnes is come in place they are now called vpon certain times in the yeare of olde Christ was sincerely faithfully serued his worde purely taught Christian Princes dutifully obeyed the feare of God was before their eyes but nowe a daies there is corruption crept in papisme idolatry treason conspiracie practised by false Christians They fall within compasse of the Lawes they haue iustice shewed them they are seuerely punished chastised this is no persecution this is no compulsion to the faith but correction for falling from the faith this is the rule of godlinesse which Mahomet obserued not Fifthly the lawe of Mahomet is not witnessed and confirmed by signes wonders and miracles therefore the Lawe of Mahomet is a must false religion He said vnto the Saracens of himselfe Non sum cum miraculis aut indiciis ad vos missus I am not sent vnto you with myracles and signes There was no diuine power shewed in all his practise This Lawe was not reuealed vnto himselfe he confessed himself to be altogether vnlearned hee had three helpers as I saide before hee called himselfe a prophet when as the Law and prophets ende in Iohn the baptist And after him we are to looke for no mo Prophets