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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

with the other part of these discourses Relating vnto you their manners life customes gouernment and Discipline with some other matters of good and necessary obseruation All which being ioyned in one will represent vnto you at full the whole Policie of the Ottoman Empire and so shall you haue the Title of this Booke made perfect which till then may seeme to remaine vnperfect THE POLICIE OF THE Turkish Empire The first Booke Containing the State and summe of the Turkes Religion Of the first begining of the Turkish Religion and of the establishment thereof amongest the Sarracens by their Prophet Mahomet Cap. 1. THat the Religion of the Turkes was first forged and inuented by their false Prophet MAHOMET And that the Sarracens and Arabians his owne people and countrimen were the first to whome he published it and that they being seduced by his diuelish doctrine and illusions did first entertaine the same and make profession of it There is no man eyther of learning or iudgement in matters of historie that will in any sorte make any question of it Notwithstanding touching the manner and time how and when it began and vpon what occasion and how the Turkes being a distinct nation from the Sarracens came to embrace and professe it is not perhaps a thing so commonly knowne vnto the world but that the discouerie therof may of some be accepted And therefore it shall not be amisse briefly to lay it open In the yeare of our redemption 591. MAVRITIVS then Emperour of the Romanes raigning in Constantinople was MAHOMET borne in Arabia in a village called Itrarip His parents were of diuers nations and different in religion His father AB DALLAS was an Arabian his mother CADIGE a Iewe both by birth and profession His parentage according to most histories was so meane and base that both his birth and infancie remained obscure and of no reckoning Till that his riper yeares bewraying in him a most subtile and craftie nature and disposition did argue some likelihood that the sharpenes and dexterity of his wit woulde in time abolish the obscuritie and basenes of his birth And soone did hee make shew and proofe thereof for being trained vp of a ladd in the seruice of a most rich and wealthy marchant by his great industrie and diligence hee so insinuated and wrought himselfe into the good fauour liking both of his master and mistres that when his master dyed and had left all his wealth and riches vnto his wife she made choyse of her seruaunt MAHOMET for her husband making him Lord and master both of her person and of her substance The man being thus raysed from base and lowe degree to great wealth and possessions and hauing a working and aspiring heade did from thenceforth plot imagine how hee might raise himselfe in honour and reputation presuming that the greatnes of his wealth would be a fitte meane to worke his higher fortunes Neither was he deceyued in the expectation of his hope For consorting himselfe with one SERGIVS a fugitiue Monke a notable Heretique of the Arrian sect whome hee had made bounden vnto him by his great liberalitie ther grew so strict a league of amitie and secreat familiarity betweene them that they had many times priuate conference howe and by what meanes MAHOMET might make himself way to rise in honour and estimation After much consulting and debating of the matter the best course which they conceyued to effect their purpose was to coyne a new kinde of doctrine and religion vnder colour whereof the times being then troublesome the people full of simplicity and ignorance religion also waxing cold and neglected they thought it an easie matter to draw many followers vnto them and by that meanes to grow great in the eye and opinion of the world Herevpon these two helhounds one of them being an arch enemie to Christ and the truth of his religion and the other seeming a meere Atheist or prophane person neyther perfect Iew nor perfect Christian patched vp a particular doctrine vnto themselues out of the olde new Testament deprauing the sence of eyther of them and framing their opinions according to their owne corrupt and wicked affections They brought forth a monstrous and most diuelish religion sauouring partly of Iudaisme partly of Christianitie and partly of Arrianisme This new doctrine after they had digested and put it downe into some rude and confused forme MAHOMET began priuately and in secret to set it abroch making it knowne first vnto his wife and some others that were his followers and made them beleeue that the same was commanded and deliuered vnto him by diuine reuelation and that many times he had secret conference with the Angell GABRIEL purposely sent vnto him as he pretended from God himselfe out of heauen With these and many other cunning sleights and illusions he abused the simplicity of diuers and drew men to haue him in great admiration Insomuch that albeit hee durst not at the first openly publish his new deuised religion for feare of the magistrate Yet within a while his followers hauing caused the same vnderhand to be spread abroade more and more and the common rumours which they gaue out of many miraculous acts done by him brought the barbarous Arabians deuoid of true knowledge and religion into such a blind conceite of his holines and worthines that multitudes began to adheare vnto his new religion And the common people seduced by his impostures and iugling deuises did not onely repute and esteeme him for a Prophet but they attributed vnto him reuerence more then humane with diuine honours The magistrates of Mecha a chiefe Citie in Arabia hauing intelligence of these practises of MAHOMET and perceyuing that the contagion of this wicked doctrine did so mightely increase that it was like to indanger both the publikc safety of their estate and the purity of the Christian religion they thought to haue surprised the ringleader and to haue executed him according to his demerites But he hauing some aduertisements of their intent and purpose did not onely very cunningly auoide their traines laide to intrap him but gathering together a great number of his followers and disciples he armed them against the power of the magistrate And after some bickeringes past betweene them he withdrew his company for a time into the desertes and by-places of Arabia where hee stoode vpon his guarde still enlarging his forces by the continual preaching and publishing of his new found doctrine By means whereof in processe of time the most part of the Arabians seemed to cleaue vnto him to imbrace the profession of his damnable religion And they were the rather induced so to doe for that the time it selfe seemed to fauour him in his proceedinges by reason of the sundry troubles and tumultes wherewith the Romane empire was as then pittifully distracted and sore distressed The which hauing at the first animated and encouraged him to proceede in his seditious