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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 faith of Iesus Christ He is about 40. yeares of age as he saith himselfe born at Nigropontus of olde called Chalcides a Citie of great fame in the Isle Euboea belonging sometime vnto the Dukedome of Venice but taken and subdued by the Turke through the treason of one Thomas Liburne maister Gunner of Nigropontus in the yeare 1471. This Turke was taken captiue by the Spaniard where he continued in great misery the space of 25. yeares whome the moste worthy knight S. Frauncis Drake found at Carthaginia God shewed great mercy vnto this poore Turke in calling him home with the prodigall childe in the Gospell by misery slauery and captiuity in sending him a deliuerer not onely for the present sorrowes and miserye but to his endlesse ioy solace in Christ Iesus blessed be his name therefore This Saracen beyng reasoned withall what should moue hym at this presente to receyue the Christian fayth made answere that experience of the wicked world at Nigropontus his natiue cuntry his misery and captiuitie vnder the Spaniards his trauaile hither and the view of this lande had beaten into him as he saide the knowledge of the true God And further he faide that if there were not a God in England there was none no where Two things he did confesse moued him to the Christian faith The one before his comming to England y e other at his arriuall Before his comming the vertue the modestie the godlines the good vsage discrete gouernment of the English Christians among others as he chiefly noted he was most beholden vnto the Right worshipfull knight S. Frauncis Drake and the worhty captaine W. Haukins tearming them most worthy Christians After his arriual he saw curtesie gentlenes frendly salutations of the people succour for him his cuntrimen pitie compassion of the English men withal he learned that the poore the aged the impotent y e sicke diseased Christians were prouided for wheras in his cuntry wher he had bene in captiuitie y e poore sicke diseased were scorned despised accoūted of as dogs These things moued this sillye Saracene to the Christian faith and thereupon it is that I haue chosen for my text the wordes of our Sauiour tending to y e same purpose Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good woorks and glorify your Father which is in heauen Hee was demaunded why for the space of 25. yeares beeing the time of his captiuitie in Spayne hee receiued not the Christian fayth His aunswere was that hee had beene by a Frier sollicited thereto that he heard no more of him but the name of Christ without instruction or opening to his comfort any poynt of the faith as he hath bene here comfortably instructed And againe that there were two things which he vtterly misliked in the Spaniard which disswaded him from the faith his cruelty in shedding of bloud and his Idolatry in worshipping of Images He that will haue a view of the crueltie of the Spaniard let him reade The Spanish Colonie written in the Castilian tongue by a Fryer afterwards Byshop one Bartholmew de la Casas and lately trālated into english As for his idolatry I refer y e shame therof to the founder y e Antichrist of Rome I am not odiously to note any Christiā nation more then other with any particular vice If there rise any iar betwen man wife let son daughter look that they make it not worse if discord happē betwene maister mistres y e seruantes may not blow y e fire of hatred if vnkindnes grow betwene Christian kings and Princes as at this day betweene England Spain It is not the part of subiects to aggrauat y e displeasure but in al dutifulnes to obey their own princes pray vnto God to establish peace among thē we see what y e Saracen cōmendeth and moueth him to glorifie the God of the Christians and what he discommēdeth and disswadeth him from the faith Mahomet himself confessed as it is alleadged and therein highly commended the christian faith That Iesus was borne of the Virgin Mary that he liued without sinne among men that he was a Prophet more then a Prophet and that he ascended into the heauens Moreouer what time the sage and learned among them came to Ierusalem and required the Gospell and new Testament to be shewed them they kissed the booke and had the puritie cleannes of the doctrin which Christ had taught in admiration and specially the Gospell after Luke The Angell Gabriell was sent c. the which the learned sort of them doe reade and often report The Nigros in the kingdome of Senega beeing of the faith of Mahomet saith Aloysius Cadamustꝰ are not malicious nether stubbornely bent against the Christians They are delighted with the behauiour of the Christians and they gather our faith and religion to be the holier and the better in that we are welthier and richer then they are drawing their reason from temporall to eternall things they adde further that wee are highly beloued of our God and they are so perswaded for that our God geueth his people such great riches beatifieth them with so many ornamentes and giftes of body and mind and that such a law cannot possibly be but of a good law maker The king of Senega was in maner throughly perswaded to renounce the lawe of Mahomet but he feared his Nobility and the losse of his Crowne A nephewe of the kings earnestly intreated Cadamustus to deliuer there the word of God so was he in loue w t the puritye thereof Cham the Emperour of the Tartarians confesseth Iesus to be the power and spirite of the great God Musda fa Beg secretary to the great Turke of Constantinople y t now is writing to the Queene of England as appeareth by his letters bearing date the 15. of March and in the yeare of great Iesu so hee writeth 1579. sheweth the great affection his maister the Turke togeather with himselfe beareth to this lande and of our religion as it is interpreted he saith thus We know that your soueraigne Maiesty among al the Christians haue the most sound religion and therefore the Christians thoroughout the world enuy your highnes whō if they could they would hurt Wee heare what the enemye reporteth of our God of Iesus our Sauiour and the worde of God which wee professe Satan is driuen mauger of his bearde to confesse y e truth the maiesty of our God is so great that the celestiall terrestriall and infernall powers vowe thereto the light and shine of this godheade is so cleare that Satan with his mist and darkenesse canne not ouershadowe it the worde of God is so cleane and pure that the very enemye canne not stayne it What shall wee saye of the Professours of the same we know what is required at our hands it is often repeated in holy Scripture be you