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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

holy for I am holy saith the Lorde learne of me saith our Sauiour Again Let your light shine c. Peter writeth shew forth the vertues of him that hath called you out of darkenes into his maruelous light Paul exhorteth walke wisely toward them that are without Againe wee are councelled to bee quiet medling with our owne busines working and getting our liuing with our owne hands to what ende That ye maye behaue your selues honestly towarde them that are without Hee also that will bee Pastor and gouernour ouer the people must warely walke least the enemy note any bleamish in him Therefore the Apostle writeth He must bee well reported of euen of them that are without So that neither Iew nor gentile Turke nor Saracen neither Hereticke or false Christian whatsoeuer may iustly charge the Christian faith with the life of the professor Saint Paul exhorteth the Philippians Doe all things without murmuring and reasoning that ye may be blamelesse pure and the sonnes of God without rebuke in the middest of a naughtie and crooked Nation among whom ye shine as lightes in the world This kinde of Christian conuersation shall bringe foure notable thinges to passe First the Heathens Turkes and Saracens seeing this holinesse of life will fall to a great wonder admiration therof writeth Peter It is sufficient for vs that we haue spēt the time past of the life after the lust of the gentiles in wantōnes lustes drunkennes in gluttony drinkings abhominable Idolatries wherin it seemeth to thē strange that ye run not with them vnto the same excesse of Riotte Secondly wee shall stop the mouthes of sclaunderous people as it is written For so is the will of God that by well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men A little before Haue your conuersation honest among the gentiles that they which speake euil of you as of euil doers may by your good works which they shall see glorifie God in the day of the visitation Thirdly wee shall win them that are without as by example this seely Saracen which walked of a long time without knowledge of the true God without the light of the glorious Gospell of Iesus Christ the onely sauiour of the world and now hauing behelde the shine thereof most willingly embraceth y e same blessed be God for it Saint Peter exhorteth the wiues to obedience his reason is to great purpose That euen they which obey not the worde may without the worde bee wonne by the conuersation of the wiues Fourthly God the giuer of all goodnes who with his holy spirite guideth man into all felicitie and godlines is thereby blessed and glorified This ende our Sauiour pointed vs to behold when he inioyned vs saying Let your light so shine before men that they maye see your good workes and glorifie your father which is in heauen For wee are the workemanship of God saith Saint Paul created in Christ Iesus vnto good workes as I saide before which God hath ordained that wee shoulde walke in them But more is the pittye there are byrds which defile their owne nests there are loose Christians Gospellers in word but Atheistes in deede Quali pudore suffūditur ecclesia what a shame is this to the Church Sayth Cyprian there is pride ambition coueteousnes dissention debate simonye vsurye oppression crueltye bloudshedding schisme heresie Idolatrye crept in among Christians The enemy standeth without pointing at the Christians w t y e finger laughing them to skorne Froissart writeth of the Turkes Tartarians in y e time of Clement 7. Vrban 6 saying They doe mocke the Popes whereof one is at Rome an other at Auignion they say that the two Gods of Christendome warreth each against other wherby they affirme our law to be the more feeble and the lighter to be destroyed condēned they lay therto a reasō in that they that should exalt the Christian faith are the first that minisheth it destroy it The Earle of Neuers sonne to y e Duke of Burgoine cōming from Turkie deliuered vnto the frenche king y e Lords of Fraunce this newes from Lamorabaqui y e Turke his intent is to see Rome to make his horse eate otes vpon Saint Peters altar also hee saide howe our christian faith was nothing worth but corrupted by the headdes that ought to gouerne them whereat the Turks made but a mock wherfore he said it should bee the destruction of Christendome It made Fraunce amazed and some of the Nobility then brake out and said of the Popes It was time to abate their pompes to bring them to reason In the time of Henry the 3. y e christians had geuen the Turks a great foile The Turke offered peace w t most fauorable cōditiōs saith Mathew Paris It was then saide and affirmed for truth that the Soldane with his Nobilitie was fully determined to renounce the Law of Mahomet which is knowne to be most filthy and faithfully to cleaue to the christian faith which appeareth most honest so that they might quietly enioy their lands and possessions The Pope by his Legate most arrogantly refused it Being denied the Turke gathereth a great power and saith Nunc demum spero quod pro superbia eorum confundet Christianos Dominus ac Deus eorum Iesus Christus amator modestiae humilitatis Now at length I am in good hope that for their pride their Lord and God Iesus Christ will confound the Christians for he is the louer of modestie and humilitie The Turke preuayled the Christians went to wracke Fridericus the Emperour wrote to Henry 3. bitter letters against the pride ambition crueltie exaction vsurie with many other enormities of the Church of Rome calling the same the roote and fountaine of all mischiefe the Popes Insatiabiles sanguisugas Insatiable bloud suckers concluding they are to be knowne by their fruites Cham the Emperour of Tartarie would not receiue the Christian faith offered vnto him by Innocentius 4 for that the Embassadours of the Turke alleadged the same to be Religionem otiosorum imbecillium Idolatrarum imagines colentium The religion of idle persons of faint and weake people and of Idolatrers worshipping of Images This is the credite these Images haue brought into the Church this was a stumbling blocke in the waye of this Saracen that he would not be baptized in Spain Fie vpon Idolatry filth and abhomination Let the Church of God bee swept then will the Heathens the Iews the Turks Saracens the sooner come in About the yeare 1237. the Greeke-church fel from the church of Rome vpon such an occasion A certaine Archbishop orderly elected in Greece came to Rome to be confirmed he could not be dispatched afore he hadde paide a certaine summe of money the which hee refused to doe at his returne hee made reporte vnto the Grecians of the abuses of Rome The two Churches iarred the

Shordich the xii of October 1586. Yours in the Lord Meredith Hanmer Math. 5. Verse .16 Let your light so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorifie your Father which is in heauen THe present occasion heere offered hath mooued mee good people beloued in our sauiour Christ among other places of holy Scripture at this time to deliuer vnto you the wordes of our Sauiour Christ written by the Euangelist Sainct Mathew in the fifth Chapiter which putte vs in remembraunce of our way our walke our workes our lights and Christian fruites a meane to winne them that are without and to mooue men to sounde forth the glory and prayse of God It is high time to speake the matter concerneth the Maiestie of God the good successe and furtheraunce of the Christian faith Fulgentius writing vnto Trasimund king of Vandals of the misterie of the incarnation and mediatorshippe betweene God and manne then called into question sayth Cum de Deo res agitur non leuis reatus est si ꝙ ad salutem pertinet taceatur When the matter concerneth God it is no small offence to be silent in that which toucheth saluation Wee are created sayth the Apostle in Christ Iesus ad bona opera to shewe forth good workes to the honour and glory of God I haue iust cause togeather with you laying other thinges aside greatlye to prayse God whose watchefull eye beholdeth continuallye the wretched wights of the world who calleth into the vinearde agayne and againe the idle persons standing in the market place of the world who graffeth of his meere mercy and fauour the wild Oliue in the true and naturall Oliue who fetcheth home with his power and carieth home as it were vpon his shoulder the wandering and lost sheepe into the folde and at this present this silly Turke and poore Saracene vpō his confession to be matriculated in the booke of the faithfull and by Baptisme to bee sealed vp for the childe of God and inheritour of the kingdome of heauen I haue againe to commend for example to others of christian light and conuersation certayne worthy persons of this land whome this Saracene termed most worthie christians whose light and behauiour this sillye Turke beholding was as he confesseth the rather moued to be of their faith and religion but of them in the end when I shall open vnto you the things that moued this Turk to receiue the christian faith Moreouer by occasion that the Sacrament of Baptisme is presently to bee ministred the time requireth I shoulde speake of the principles of christian religion the rocke and foundation of this spirituall building and the corner stone that closeth vp the whol our Lord Iesus christ But for y t my speache is to bee directed vnto you good people that are therein as I hope sufficientlye perswaded and that this Saracene vnderstandeth not the english tongue but as hertofore vppon priuate conference and at this present also by an interpretor in the spanish tongue hee is readie and shall deliuer before you all a true confession of the faith in Iesus Christ therefore happelie of these thinges by the waye in the sowing of the seede of Gods word And at this time I haue purposed by Gods helpe to lay before you first the originall of Mahomet that false Prophete with the nations of Mores Saracens and Turkes secondly their false doctrin and wicked religion wherewith they haue bewitched infinite soules with a briefe confutation thereof Lastly that which concerneth our selues howe wee may please God with the way meane to winne them that are without according vnto the rule of our Sauiour Let your light so shine before menne that they may see your good workes and glorifie your father which is in heauen That this may be done to the glorie of God and comforte of our soules and consciences I beseech you ioine with me in prayer c. Our father c. According vnto promise I am to laye before you these three partes 1 The originall of Mahomet the false Prophet of the Turke with the nations of Moores Saracens and Turkes 2 The false doctrine and wicked religion of Mahomet and these erring nations with a briefe confutation thereof 3 The way to please God meane to win them c. Let your light so shine c. In the yeare of our Lord 597. sayth Mathaeus Palmer Massaeus Drechslerus in the raigne of Mauricius the Emperour when as Gregorius magnus was Bishop of Rome one Mahomet was borne of the line of Ismaell the sonne of Abraham by Agar the bondwoman hauing to his father one Abdara and to his mother one Emma being very obscure and base Parentes in Mecha a Citie of Arabia His Parents deceased and left him a very yong Orphane who in shorte time by misaduenture was taken captiue this beeing knowne vnto his kinred one Abdemonaples saith Volaterran an Ismaelite bearing him great good will for his fauor forwardnes of wit paid his raunsome made him his seruaunt and factor in all his marchaundize Not long after his maister dieth without issue his seruant Mahomet matched w t his mistres a widowe of 50. yeares of age called Eadigam saith Paulus Diaconus his own kinswoman so y t his maister being of great credit substance his mistres afterwards his wife of no lesse accōpt also shortly after departing this life he succedeth thē both in credit all their substāce by this means grew of great power Sabellicus doubteth though hee were borne in Arabia whether he were an Arabian or a Persian he affirmeth y t both is receiued and y t his father was an heathen his mother an Ismaelite and consequently not ignorāt in the hebrew tōgue not only this but I find it reported by Ludouicꝰ Carrettꝰ a cōuert Iew y t India Aethiopia y e kīgdō of Presbyter Iohn Arabia hath many Hebrewes since y e time y t king Solomō furnished y e Queene of Saba into her country with twelue thousand of all the tribes of Israel which being dispersed throughout these countries multiplied and increased exceedingly retaining for remembraunce amonge them the Standard and Ensigne of their seuerall Tribe and familie Paulus Diaconus and Mathew Paris deriueth his pedegree lineally from Ismaell the recital wherof I will omitte This Diaconus saith further that this Mahomet for the space of tenne yeares gaue him selfe secretely by perswation to bewitch the people other ten yeares after together with Rognes and Vagabonds that repaired vnto him with force of Armes with Sworde and shedding of blood hee spent in subduing of Countries And lastly nine yeares he openly and manifestly inioyed as a deceiuer a false Prophet and King ouer those whom he had already infected and conquered throughout Arabia and the adioyning Regions his raigne began in Arabia the 15. yeare of Heraclius the Emperour about the yeare of our Lord 617. y