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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 prophets of olde arrogated not any such name or title vnto themselues but by long tract of time their holinesse of lifs the wonders they wrought and the truth of Gods word which they deliuered declared them to bee no lesse As for this false prophet his beastlines of life his want of testimonie from aboue his vntruthes and absurdities deliuer his doctrine to be most damnable The law of God which Moses receiued was deliuered after a most wonderful manner God stood vpon mount Sinai there was fire there was thunder there was lightening there was darkenes there was the sounde of the trumpetes heard the voice of the Lord was mighty the foundations of the earth shooke the mountaine smoaked and the people trembled The prophets and seruants of God successiuely in the times and ages following confirmed their message and embasies with straunge signes tokens The birth of our Sauiour Christ the preaching of the Gospell the sealing vp of the same with his bloud after moste strange marueilous sightes declared him to be y e only true Messias sauiour of the worlde authorised his doctrine confirmed y e faith of y e Christians A virgin to bring forth Angels singing glory shepheards rūning to search a strāg star appearing wisemen cōming frō far the heauēs opening y e holy ghost descēding the father soūding this is my Son Iohn y e baptist pointing w t y e finger Beholde the lamb of God The blind y e deafe y e dumb the lame the sicke all cured the deade raised to life These deliuer vnto vs the power of the moste high and mightie God Againe at his passion palpable darknesse the vaile of the temple renting the earth shaking the rockes cleauing the graues opening the deade rising and yeelding testimonie to the liuing of the truth in Christ Last of all his rising from the deade his instructing of the Apostles his visible Ascension into the Heauens and his sending of the holy Ghost according vnto promise perswadeth sufficiently in all respectes that his doctrine is the moste sacred truth of the onely true and euerlasting GOD. Sixtly and lastly the Lawe of Mahomet is a confused kinde of doctrine patched together of contraries dissenting and varying within it selfe therefore the Lawe of Mahomet is a most wicked Religion Sergius the Monke Iohn of Antioch and the superstitious Iewe patched together according vnto their variyng mindes diuerse doctrine but in this they agreed in setting downe lies and falshood After the death of Mahomet sayth Antoninus the disciples of this false Prophet could not agree in the reading pointing vnderstanding and expounding of the Alcoran Some added some diminished some maymed and some corrupted the Lawe The Iewes put in what pleased them best the Heretikes vrged their opinions the Heathens also pleaded for themselues so that the Alcoran was despised and of no reputation and woorthely In processe of time after greate dissention one Elehege beeyng chosen to rayne ouer them commaunded all coppyes shoulde bee brought vnto hym of them all he made one booke which is the Alcoran that they haue at this day and the rest he caused to be burned to ashes There are yet three thinges to bee considered in this false Religion which I will briefly runne ouer First what was the occasion of the beginning therof Dissention among Prynces and diuision among those that called themselues Christians Sathan espyed it and put foorth his Seruaunt Mahomet to woorke mischiefe Heraclius the Emperour and Chosdroes Kyng of Persia were at deadly enmitie warring one against the other The Scythian Nation fell from them both and founde Mahomet to theyr ringe-leader Againe the Church of GOD was then lamentably diuided Peter Archbishoppe of Constantinople fell into a detestable heresie sucked out of the schoole of Valentinus Marcion Manes the Heretikes Iacobus Syrus of him haue the Iacobits in the East their name tooke part with Seuerus he held that Christ neyther dyed neyther suffered but an other for him which opinion Mahomet followed So that the Church was troubled with Nestorians Iacobites Monothelits and the Monkes of Benedicts order which then began to swarme like locustes vppon the earth Not onely this but also y e Church of Rome beganne to lift vp her selfe in pride abhomination the Pope calling himselfe vniuersall Bishop God was highly displeased with this wickednes and suffered Mahomet to rise as a rod or scourge to whippe his people Wee are nowe to pray that GOD at length will be reconciled with his people and that hee will cast the rodde into the fire The second thing we haue to consider is why this false religion of Mahomet is so vniuersally receyued Carnalitie and fleshlinesse is the cause It intreateth of venerie fleshlie delightes and temporall pleasures therefore it is become plausible to manie Mathew of Westmonaster writeth Vnde credo quod si hodie viueret multos inueniret discipulos Whereupon I beleeue if Mahomet lyued at this day hee shoulde finde many Disciples In the yeare 1246 Innocentius 4. sent to great Cham the Emperour of the Tartarians perswading him to receyue the Christian faith to leaue shedding of Innocent bloude and to serue GOD in Spirite and truth At that time also came the Embassadoures of the Saracens pleadynge and vrgyng hym to the Lawe of Mahomet alleadging that it was easier more tollerable full of pleasures and more fitte for Warriours then the Christian fayth Cham liked of the conditions he was carnally giuen embraced Mahomet vnto this day Thirdly and lastly why is the Religion of Mahomet continued being knowne to bee wicked carnall and fleshly Mahomet made it death to dispute thereof If any speake against me saith he proditoriè occidatur Let him be traiterouslye put to death Againe Sine audientia occidatur let him be put to death without comming to his aunswere Qua sanctione saith Sabellicus palam fecit nihil sinceri in ea lege esse c. By which decree hee made manifest that there is nothing sounde in that Lawe the which he couered as an hidde mysterye and forbadde to bee reasoned of that the vulgar sorte shoulde not knowe what was decreed or established I am nowe comming to that which I haue lastlye promised to deliuer vnto you to wit that which concerneth our selues the way to please GOD and meane to win those that are without When as our light so shineth before men that they seeyng our good woorks may glorifie our Father which is in heauen And I will bee the shorter herein for that I doubt not but you haue bene here tofore by mee out of this place often exhorted thereto I feare mee béloued in our Sauiour Christ least that I haue beene ouer tedious in the premisses I haue the longer waded therein not hauing at othertimes the like occasion offered me to discourse of the like matter Christian lights Christian fruits holy cōuersatiō hath now moued this Saracen to serue the true God in