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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

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