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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 Nigro
By MEREDITH HANMER, D. of Diuinitie.
Printed by Robert Wal
Iudaea, certified the Emperour Tiberius, & the Senate of Rome, of the fame of Chriſt, and ePalaeſtina. Leaſt I ſhould ſeem forTurke, borne at Nigropontus, hertofore by profeſſioSaracen, addicted vnto the ſuperſtitious lawe of Mahomet, but now by the miniſteKatherine, (where the diuine prouiAſia in greatZambei of Arabia, the king of Narſinga, greate Cham of Tartaria, and the Indian IMarcus Paulus Ʋenetus) amounting to the numMahomet, ioyning with the Turke in falſe worſhippe, yet not fearing his power: the which places haue beene of olde acquainted with the voice of Chriſt, and with the ſounde of the Apoſtles feete. Affrike (excepting the dominiPresbiter Iohn the greate king of Aethiopia, who profeſſeth the faith in Chriſt, though not ſo purely as it is to be wiſhed) hath many Infidels, the reſt are Moores, Saracens, Nigroes, Barbarians, addicted to Mahomet, and oTurke. In theſe countries there are fewe Chriſtians ſeene. This triangle of Eaſt, South, & Weſt, haue ſhaken off the faith, which of olde hath there beene profeſſed. Europe remaineth, though more peoAffrike, neyther is this part cleare from Mahomet. The great Turke hath taken Greece awaye, and ſeated himſelfe at Constantinople. Chriſtian religion is now couched in the North partes of the world, and ſo far that it ſeemeth (if we looke for fruits) all frozen. The profeſſors (according vnto the words of our Sauiour) are now a little flock. It is high time wee ſhould earneſtlie pray vnto God, that hee wil enlarge his kingdome, that hee will open the eyes of Infidels, that he will direct Iholy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth. And here withal I ſupTurk to becom a ChriſtiaF. Drake that worſhipful knight, & W. Haukins that worthy Captaine. The tree is knowne by the fruits, Gods children are known by their holines, the true profeſſors are knowne by their loue. Hereby (ſaith our Sauiour) ſhall all men knowe that ye are my diſciples, if ye loue one another. The Iews gloried they were of God, their behauior declared theAbraham, their works denied them to be ſuch. This is the courſe that Chriſt tooke with the Scribes & Phariſes for the ſtay of his credit: If I do not the workes of my Father, beleeue me not. Agayne:
though ye beleeue not me, beleue the works, This is the rule that Iewe and Gentile. that Turke & Saracene, & euery good ChriſtiaAffrike, Aſia, and the hid treaſures of the far Indies, we ſhoulde no doubt prouoke them out of the ſaid couTurk is won, ten thouSpaniard. Presbiter Iohn in Affrike crieth out vpon the Chriſtian Princes for their diuiſion & diſcorde. The great Turk at Co ̄ſtantinople laughShordich the xii. of October, 1586.
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.
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 concerFulgentius writing vnto Traſimund king of Vandals, of the miſterie
Cum de Deo res agitur non leuis reatus eſt, ſi ꝙ ad ſalutem pertinet, taceatur. When the matter conad bona opera to ſhewe forth good workes to the honour and glory of God. I haue iuſt cauſe togeaTurke and poore Saracene vpoSaracene termed moſt worthie chriſtians, whoſe light and beTurke 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 vnTurk to receiue the chriſtian faith. Moreot 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 vpMahomet, 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, accorLet 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 com
Our father &c.
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 PaAbdemonaples (ſaith Volaterran) an Iſmaelite, bearing him great good will for his faMahomet, matched wt his miſtres a widowe of 50.
Eadigam & (ſaith Paulus Diaconus) his own kinſwoman, ſo yt his maiſter being of great credit & ſubſtance & his miſtres (afterwards his wife) of no leſſe accoSabellicus doubteth though hee were borne in Arabia, whether he were an Arabian or a Perſian, he affirmeth yt both is receiued, and yt his father was an heathen, & his mother an Iſmaelite, and conſequently not ignoraLudouicꝰ Carrettꝰ a cot
India, Aethiopia,
e kiPreſbyter Iohn, & Arabia hath many Hebrewes ſince ye time yt king Solomo ̄
furniſhed ye
Saba into her country with twelue thouſand of all the tribes of IſPaulus Diaconus and Mathew Paris, deriueth his pedegree lineally from Iſmaell, the recital wher
This Et taliter ex foe
Eum long à domibus proijecêrunt,
Diaconus ſaith further, that this Mahomet for the ſpace of tenne yeares, gaue him ſelfe ſecretely by perArabia, and the adioyning Regions, his raigne began in Arabia, the 15. yeare of Heraclius, the Emperour, about the yeare of our
617. ye
Iſmaelites of which line he was, inhabited the wildernes of Madian, feeding of cattell, & lying in Tents.Iſidor writeth that the couIſmaelites was called Nabathaea, of Nabaioth the ſonne of Iſmael, ſcituate beIudaea, and Arabia, & commonly accompted for part of Arabia, of ye ſame opinioSabellicus. He had the falling ſickenes, which tooke him extremely, ſo that he groueled along the grounde, and fomed piteouſly at the mouth, his wife beeing of great honor and ſubſtance beDiaconus writeth. But he toGabriel, in the forme of a Doue came to his eare, and reuealed him ſecrets, whoſe preſence he was not able to abide, therfore he proſtrated him
Mahomet was a Prophet.
This once beeing broched they flocked vnto him from all parts of ſayth Diaconus) perueand ſo by women menne came to know thereof.
Arabia. He being throughAuentinus. The Romans,
Perſians, warred toMahomet, with his Arabians, taking at the firſt, part with the Romans (for the Emperor had graunZonaras, a Region to inhabite) forſooke them, and thereby weakened that ſide. In a while after he eſpied the Perſians goe to wracke, and hauing diſpiſed the Romans, hee ſetteth leſſe by the Perſians, and ſetteth him ſelfe forth with might and mayne
Amiraei, to ſubPalaeſtina,
Arabians, Et omnes extimuerunt: And all men trembled for feare
) in the time of Ebubezer, and Haumar that ſucceſſiuely raigned after him in Arabia, the Region of Gaza, the Citie Boſtra, in Arabia, Damaſcus, Phoenicia, Aegypt, Palaeſtina, the Citie Ieruſalem, all Syria, Antioch, Edeſſa, Meſopotamia, all Perſia, (Choſroes the King beeing driuen aAſia, was ſubdued by the Arabians, in the Raigne of the EmHeraclius. I maye not forMahomet. About fortie and odde yeares of his age, and in the yeare of our Lorde Ieſus 632.
Sigebertus and Sabellicus this falſe Prophet departed this life after a ſhamefull maner. Mathew of Weſtmonaſter writeth, that this Mahomet in an euening ſitting vp late in his pallace, and hauing taken his fill of wine wherein one of his comGabriell, and goe aſide leſt his glorious preſence would bee an occaſion of their death. Forth hee went and remembring that a ſoft place was beſt for his falling ſickenes, downe hee went vpon a dunghill, groueling along with great paine, foming at the mouth, & gnaſhing with the teeth. And whereIewes, forbade the eating of ſwines-fleſh, the ſwine about the donghill, fell vpon him, wounded him ſore, and had eaten him vp: had not his wife, and others of his houſe, heard the noiſe of the Hogges, and reſcued the falſe Prophete.Antoninus reporteth that hee was not without ſundry diſeae ſpace of 14. daies at length he departed this life, his belly hadde ſuche a ſwelling, that it ſeemed ready to burſt, and his little finger boe wicked ſpirit therin failed him. They kept him with a watch aboue grounde the third & fourth day:Flores Hiſtor. the ſpace of 30. daies, in great hope he wold riſe, and aſcend according to promiſe but they ſaw nothing, ſauing that they felt, an intollerable ſtinche ſo yt in great diſdaine (ſaith Antoninus)
In a while after, his companions ſuche as concealed his falſhood and treachery, remembring themſelues, and iudging
They caſt him farre from any dwelling.
Mahomet would be their diſcredite, and the fall of his ſect their foyle, and ſhame, and the beaſtly end and death of him their deſtruction, they fetch him againe,Sabellicus, and Nauclerus) they bringe him to the faMecha, in which Citie he was borne, with great ſolemnitte as if he hadde neuer beene ſcared vpon the dunghill with ſwine, they conuey to the roufe of the temple mightie lodeſtones, they lift vp the Iron Cophin, where the lodeſtones according to their nature draw to them the Iron, and hold it vp & there hanges Mahomet on high. Ludouicus Romanus,
Moores, the Saracens, & the Turkes, but al of Mahomet. Now good people heare their original. The Moores called Mauri inhabite Mauritania in Affricke, they are (ſayth Iſidor) of the progenie of Cham,
Noe accurſed, and no maruail
Mahomet.
Sabellicus writeth there were ſome which thought that Mauri was corruptly readde for Medi, but I take that a corrupte opinion. Theſe people inhabiting Mauritania in Affricke, are becauſe of their hewe and colour of the Latins called Nigritae, in our vulgar ſpeach Nigros, and of the Grecians in the ſame ſenſe for their aduſt, and blacke colour called Moores. Theſe receaMahomet, are called Saracens, and why ſo, I am reaStephanus thinketh that the people in Aſia are called Saracens, of Sarracca, a countrye in Arabia: This maye ſtande for a bare coniecture and no more.Mahomet it was, that firſt founde out the name of Saracen, to aduaunce hys faith and profeſſion. Hee knewe himIſmaell, the Sonne of Agar, the Bonde-woman, yet bare hee the worlde in hande that hee came of Sara the
Abraham, and called himſelf & his followers Saracens. Sabellicus writeth:
The Grecians of ſpite are wont to call the Saracens, Agarens, for that they came not of Sara, but of Agar.
But Poſt Solymannum extinctum duce aliquo inſigni diu ipſi Turcae caruerunt.
Mahomet (ſaith Drechſlerus)
The like hath Seducing the Arabians and the people of Aſia called them Saracens.
Nauclerus:
In this ſence all Nations who ſoeuer that embrace the lawe of The Perſians hauing receaued the Law of Mahomet, at his commandement laide aſide their olde wonted name and were called Saracens.
Mahomet are called Saracens. Laſtly it remaineth that we ſpeak of the Turkes.
Theodorus Gaza, is of opinion with Strabo, that theſe whom wee call Turkes, were of olde called Cyrtij, and Curti, a Scythian nation about the mount Caucaſus. Laonicus ye
Athenian, who wrote at large the hiſtorie of the Turkes, alleadgeth ſundry opinioTartarians, and the reaſon yt lead them therto is, that they vſe the ſame maners and haue the ſame language, for they all
Volatteran) ſpeake the Arabike tongue.Parthians. Again, there are that affirme them to be of Caeloſyria and Arabia. And others, that they iſſued forth of Turca a greate and a wealthie Citie of Perſia. But all confeſſe that at theyr firſt breaking forth they were rude, ſaSolymannus the Tartarian gloried (ſayth Andreas â Lacuna) that hee came of the Troian bloud. Hereby ſome gather, that whereTroians were called Teucri, the worde might be corrupted, and the poTurci, Turks,
The conſee beſt hiſtoriographers is, that theſe Turks came froe vpper Scythia, being (as it hath bene alwaies noted of them) an vnquiet nation, liuing vpon ye ſpoile breaking foorth in great troupes to rob and ſteale, and ſeeke aduentures. So writeth Mathias â Michou of them,Scythian nations. Laonicus ſayth, that Turca ſignifieth a SaOtho Friſingenſis reporteth, that in the yeare 760. long after the death of Mahomet, there
Scythia, a greate number into Aſia and Arabia, & beeing heathens, they ioyned with the Saracens in league, and receiued the Lawe of Mahomet. After theſe came others, ſo that the Saracens by their ayd grew to a wonderfull power, and the greate terrour of all Chriſtendome. There raigned from Mahomet the falſe ProArabia, to the number of 25. Amiraei, ſo are their Princes calAmiras, being the 25. calMahumet, beeing king of Perſia & Media, in the yeare 870. conceiued diſImbrael prince of Babylon, a Saracene of his owne ſect and wickedneſſe, ſo that hee endeuoured to ſubdue him, and conquere his countrie. Heere Sathan againſt Sathan, Saracene againſt Saracene, the kingdome diuided within it ſelfe is ready to come to naught.Mahumet, or (as Volateran writeth) Maugmet, ſent to Scythia for ayde againſt Imbrael, but it turned to his owne confuſion, for hee prouiding ſorrowe for an other, enduScythia one Muchulet, with an infinite number of Turkes, rude and ſauage people, ready of themſelues to any miſImbrael of Babylon, and immediately after they ſette vppon him that ſent for them, namely Maugmet king of Arabia, Perſia, and Media, they conquere his counSaracens ſubdued, and became ſubTurkes of Scythia. In a while after they wanted a gouernour, they woulde no Perſian or Arabian ouer them: So that in the yeare 900.
Andreas â Lacuna writeth) one Solymannus a valiaunt and mightie warriour, choſen by conſent of them all, leauing his natiue ſoyle, brake foorth with a great hoſt out of Scythia, inuaded Perſia, and Aſia the leſſe. In the ſame place againe hee ſayth:
After Solyman was deade, the Turkes of a long time were wythout any famous gouernour.
fatali quadam ambitione de ſe, Regnum Turcicum appellauerunt.
Et vt po
Inſtarmonachorum multas genu-flexiones:
Voluptates corporis futurae foelicitati minime officere arbitra
quicquid carnes ad edendum concupiſcunt,
Pu
Iohannes Ramus writeth,Turks or Scythians there were 4 families, called Aſambici, Candelori, Caramini, Othomanni, in the yeare 1280. which after the wearing out of the auncient houſes and nobilitie, cont which preuailed, was one Othomannus, which in the yeare 1300. began to beare rule. He was the firſt Emperor of the Turkes, of him lineally vnto this day the Emperours of the Turkes deſMahomet, and raigne of the Saracens, theſe Turkes (ſaith Ramus) hauing receiued the Lawe of Mahomet:
So that nowe the By a fatall kinde of ambition, called it of themſelues the kingdome or empire of the Turkes.
Calipha or Amiras of Babylon, the Soldan of Aegypt, the Sophie of Perſia, with the Tartarians, and ſundrie other nations, together with the great EmTurkes (whoſe ſeate is at
Conſtantinople) doe worſhip the falſe Prophet Mahomet. And this greate Turke at this day (whome God ſuffeAffrike (excepting the doPresbyter Iohn) a greate parte of Aſia, and a piece of Europe ſubiect vnto him. Thus muche of theſe nations. Now in the ſecond place according vnto promiſe (beloued in our Sauiour Chriſt) of the falſe doctrine & deteſtable religion of Mahomet, and theſe erring nations. We muſt be wiſe as ſerpents, and ſimple as doues,Mahomet,
Shiboleth from Siboleth (as the Apoſtle Iude writeth) diiudicantes, putting difference,
Salomon,
a wiſe & an vnderstanding heart to diſcerne betwene good & bad. This falſe Prophet Mahomet, haSabellicus writeth) receiued nor the one law nor the other throughly,
And to the end his law might be the more fauored, hee borrowed ſomewhat of euerye ſect.
Satan furniſhed him with three inſtruWer nerus Roleuinke) was a Iew, a great Aſtronomer, & a Magitian, who opened vnto him at large the Iewiſh follies. The ſecond, one Iohn of Antioch. The third, one Sergius a Monke, both abhoSabellicus writeth, that to flatter the Chriſtians, he was baptized of Sergius, and that of theſe Heretikes hee learned with the Sabellians to denie the Trinitie, with the Manichees to eſtabliſh two beginnings, with Eunomius to deny the equal power of the faMacedonius to call the holy Ghoſt a creature, & with
Nicolaites to allow the number of wiues, and wandering luſt.Sergius the Monke (ſaith Antoninus) perſwaded Mahomet in his Alcoran, (ſo is the booke of his law tearmed) to commend the humilitie of Chriſtian Monks and prieſts. He made him deliuer the Saracens a monks coule, which they vſe vn
which is ſeene in their kind of ſalutatiMany duckings and crouchings after the maner of Monks,
Mathias â Michou addeth,Mahomet, vſe alſo ſhauing, and this no doubt was the Monks docLaonicus the Athenian reporteth that the Turks coe goIeſus was the Apoſtle of GOD, begotten by the Aungell Gabriell vppon Marie the Virgine, which neuer knew man, and that hee was greater or woorthier then manne. Sabellicus addeth:Alcoran. This is but a
Ieſus, they moſt wickedly with the Arrians denye his Godhead, and that he is the Sonne of God. Al, that is ſpoken of the virgin, the miracles, and the Goſpell, by thoſe blaſphemous Turkes, though to ſeeme a praiſe, yet is it a diſpraiſe, when as the truth is not plainely and abſolutely deliuered, but maymed & mingled with falſhood. The Apoſtle S. Iames ſayth:
The Whoſoeuer ſhall keepe the whole Lawe, and yet fayle in one poynt, he is guilty of al.
Saracens ieſt at the Chriſtians, for afIeſus the great frende of God, would ſuffer coutumely, reproche, and endure death by the handes of the Iewes, they denie that hee ſuffered, or that hee died, but that hee aſcended into heauen, and that the Iewes tooke an oNauclerus and Antonimus, with others. Mahomet forgat here to deliuer vnto his peoEſay,
It followeth:
He was oppreſſed, and hee was afflicted, yet did he not open his mouth: hee is brought as a ſheepe to the ſlaughter, & as a ſheepe before the ſhearer is dumbe, ſo hee opened not his mouth.
It paſſeth mans reach, for he is God from euerlaſting. Our SaAnd who ſhall declare his age?
Again:The bread which I will giue is my fleſh, which I will giue for the life of the world.
S. I am the good ſhepheard, the good ſhepheard giueth his life for his ſheepe, I lay down my life for my ſheepe. Therefore doth the Father loue me, becauſe I lay downe my life that I may take it againe. No man taketh it from mee, but I lay it downe of my ſelfe.
Paule yeelHee offered vp himſelfe without spotte to God. When Peter went about to with
Heere hee ſheweth his yeelding and conſenting mind.What thinkeſt thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and hee will giue me moe then twelue legions of Angels? how then ſhal the ſcriptures
be fulfilled, that it muſt be ſo?
Mahomet reuiued after the death of Cerinthus, & Baſilides. He hath forbidden his followers al pictures & images in their temples, mingling (ſaith Mathew Paris) ſome hony with his poiſon,t rather to deceiue the drinker. He receiueth the old teſtament correcting therin (ſo preMoſes, Chriſt, & Mahomet, whome he calleth Razales. Yet immeIacobus de Voragine) towards the Weſt, Mahomet coe ſouth, he might haue turned himſelf for al his religioe deuil towards ye north. The chriſtiaMahomet FriLaonicus writeth) to diſſent froe Hebrews & Chriſtians (as Volateran writeth) for yt he was made king vppon
Antoninus writeth) in ye honour of Venus, the Goddeſſe of Arabia, therby the rather to win that counAntoninus) it is not found yt he himſelf was circumciſed. He forbad ye eating of ſwines fleſh, bloud, & ſtrangled, he comad ſimilitudinem Iudaeorum, after the maner of the Iews.
He called himſelf a Proe imperfection of al lawes, to lace ye remiſſe, & to mittigate the ſeuere lawe. The Iews hearing the name of Moſes, ye abae receiuing of ye old teſtament, ye uſing of purifications ye doctrine of circumciſioFlores hiſtoriarum writeth) he was ye promiſed Meſsias, they flocked about him, & 10 of thet him to his dying day,Paulus Diaconus writeth.) When they had heard his doctrine, & ſeen ye mat they iudSergius, ſhould take much root (after their olde maner, ſhewing whoſe children therein they were) they continually pricke him forwards againſt the Chriſtians. Ther are ſix points chiefly, wherein the Iews differ from the Chriſtians.Ludouicus Carettus, a Iew conuerted to the chrie three perſons. The ſeconde: the incarnation of the worde, which is the diuinitie of Chriſt, which they confeſſe not. Thirdly the manner of Chriſts coMoſes, ye ceremonies & traditions of the elders, in the which they are too much & ſuperIewes ſay, that man is to be ſaued by good works, & that God wil rewarde euery man according vnto his works. The maner they miſtake: heere the Papiſtes ſhew whoſe children they are.e verMeſsias his comIews alledge many prophee exile, the reSodome & Samaria into their former ſtate, ye whole earth to be filled with his glory, with many other things. The Chriſtians iuſtifie them all to be fulfilIewes vnderſtanding all the promiſes, groſely, earthly, & literalFor the letter killeth, but the ſpirit it is that giueth life.
Mahomet eſpied the blindMarie, as the prophets had foreſhewed. Suidas reporIew, that the phariſes at Ieruſalem calIeſus. They inioined certaine women to ſearch his mother, ye women affirmed they found her a virgin, then was it ree famous regiſter book of the
Ieſus the ſonne of God, and of Mary the Virgin. This condemneth both Iew and Saracen,
Rechabits, he forbiddeth the drinking of wine, yet I finde that he dranke him ſelfe drunke therewith, & his people do it by ſtealth: If they bee taken they are ſette alonge vppon a planke with a gagge in their mouth, & a ladell of boyling leade poue rule preſcriSaracens by this law to haue fowre wiues,Iacob) yea fiue (ſaith Laonicus) marrying them virgins, & to take beſide as many, emptitias & captiuas. Of them which they haue bought & taken captiues,
as their ability will ſerue to maintaine coe ordinaVolaterran writeth.
They think that the pleaſurs of the body hurt not nether hinder at all the foelicity of the life to come.
Sodome, the fleſh is the matter, ye burning luſt is a preamble of the fire falling from heaMahometical Sodomits. They are ielous ouer their wiues, whoſe faces, when they go abroad are couered, leaſt theſe fiery people be therewith inflamed. Mahomet (ſaith Coelius) had 40.
t it was giuen him from aboue to exceede (ſaith Clenard) 10. meAntoninus) 50. men in carnall luſt & venerie. An other abhominable fact he cot which a Chriſtian pen is loth to write, and a chaſt mouth loth to vtter, & modeſt ears are loth to heare, yet ye filthines of this falſe Prophet may not be concealed, he coBonfinius writeth it. Again, he coe murmur of ye people, he fained yt he receiued a paper froe ende he might beget prophets & worthy meSaracens, is grou
Thus fleſhly peowhatſoeuer the fleſh ſhall deſire to eate.
e heauens betweene ſunne riſing, and ſunne ſetting. I haue not as yet ſaide any thing of their faſting, the ſame is continued the ſpace of one moBernard) Laterem crudam, a greene tile,
the more water ye poure thereon, the more durt ye make. To bee ſhorte (leaſt theſe exMahomets Tombe to be adorned,
Mecha, where he lieth cheſted, the Saracenicall pilgrims haue promiſe of ſantitye and righte
Many repaire thither yearely from ſaith Laonicus) hinc maxiThinking that by this chiefly they gather Religion.
Aſia, Affricke, and Europe, for to worMecha, with all manner of Officers and Prieſtes to praye for the founders Soules: The manner of their worſhippe you ſhall alſo heare. The Arabians receiued and learned of the Indians, to worſhip the Goddeſſe Venus, Mahomet conVenus, the Saracens, to this day (as I ſaid before) keepe friday
Indians worſhipped Venus naked, ſo Mahomet commanded the Saracens, men and woMecha all naked, excepting a brieth or apporne to couer that which nature commaunded to bee kept in ſecrete, and therin to carry ſtones to throw about ye temple, & to ſtone the deuill. Omitting theſe heatheniſh abhomination and not forgetting the ſuperſtition mentioned a little before. I woulde haue the church of Rome to beholde here in the lawe of Mahomet her founder in ſuperMahomet, or of the Heathens his aſſociats. The flocking to Tombs & ſepulchres, ye worſhipping of dead corpe viſiting Limina Petri, diriges, anniuerſaries, or yearely ſeruice ouer the dead, praying for ſoules pilgrimages to ſaintes, and ſhrines of the dead, ſending of money in their abTurkiſh and Mahometicall. And to the end they may be therLaonicus, Antoninus, & Cuſpinianus with others that write thereof.
Alſo as in the yeare one thouſand fiue hundred and three, one Ludouicus Romanus with a great number of MarMecha, founde the experience of Mahometicall Illuſions, for when the Idolatrous Prieſtes of Mahomet vnderſtood of the numbre of paſſingers which harbored not farre of (to the end there might be an opinion of holineſſe conceiued of this falſe Pro
In like ſorte of late yeares, wee haue been acquainted with faigned miMahomet the Prophet of God is a riſing, O Prophet: O God. Mahomet will riſe. Pardon me O God.Bernarde came to a Church of Spire in Germany, whereas
e Image of our LaGood morrow Bernard, He perceiuing (ſaith the hiſtory) Praeſtigias Demonis, the falſhood of Monkes by the inſtigation of the Deuill, made this aunſwere:
Paule forbiddeth a woman to ſpeake in the Congregation.
Saracens vſe inuocation of mediatours to make interceſſion for them. They call vpon Abraham, and Iſaac, They honor Nabi, Bubacar, Othomar, Aumar, Fatoma, the followers of Mahomet with others. They haue Herenutes, and ſoMahomet, in whom there is great opinion of holines, but what is holines, and chaſtitie, without knowIeſus Chriſt? all without Chriſt is to no purpoſe,
Now (good people, and beleued in our Sauiour Chriſt) as the deare chil A gladio cepit, per gladium te
Non ſum cu
Maximu
No
Ieſus Chriſt, and that is vnremoueable. Lett your faith be fixed in Ieſus Chriſt, the true and onely Sauiour of the world,Mahomet vnwiſely hath builded vpon the ſand, his doctrine hath no ſure warrant, hee hath reiected the true corner ſtone, that cloſeth the building, Ieſus Chriſt, he hath lewdly mingled together his lome, and morter of Heathens, Iewes, and falſe ChriſtiIeſus Chriſt, and to proue that Mahomets law is no true religion. Firſt Mahomets lawe is not warranted, or grounded vpon the only true & pure word of God, therefore
Mahomets law is no true religion, hee patched togeather his Alcoron of the lawes and doctrines of Heathens, Indians, and Arabians, of ſuperſtitious Iewes, of Rechabits, of falſe ChriſtiNeſtorians, Sabelliās, Manichees, Arrians, Cerinthians, Macedonians, Eunomians, and Nicolaits, of illuſions, and inuentions of his owne braine: and laſtly for furIſraell in this ſort: and he con
Ye ſhall not doe euery man what ſeemeth him good in his owne eies. Whatſouer I commaund you take heede ye doe it, thou ſhalt put nothing thereto, nor take ought therefrom.
Wee haue commandement not ſo eat the paſcal Lamb, Thou ſhalt not plough with an Oxe and an Aſſe togeather, thou ſhalt not ſow thy Vineyard with diuers kindes of ſeedes, thou ſhalt not weare a garment of diuers ſortes, as of wollen, and linnen togeather.
boyled or ſodden in water:
Chriſt Ieſus is our paſcal Lamb,
ſerue God and Mammon. What fellowſhip (ſaith Syrach) hath Hyena with a dogge.
ſaint Paule aduiſeth the Corinthians:
By reaſon he ſheweth this may not be:
Bee not vnequally yoaked with the Infidels
Our Sauiour rebuketh the For what felowſhip hath righteouſnes with vnrighteouſnes, and what communion hath light with darkenes? and what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath the beleeuer with the Infidel? and what agreement hath the temple of God with Idols? for yee are the temple of the liuing God.
Scribes and Phariſees for tranſgreſſing the commandements of God,Euery plant (yt is all maner of doctrine) which my heauenly father hath not planted ſhalbe rooted vp. Secondly the religion of Mahomet
Mahomet is a moſt wicked & falſe
e rule of naturall reaſon haue found this an abſurde opinion.Auicenna one of Mahomets owne ſecte hath miſliked with this, ſaying,
His looſe doctrine of marriages, his aThe law which our Mahomet hath geuen vs ſheweth the perfection of felicity to conſiſt in thoſe things which concerne the body but there is an other promiſe which is comprehended 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:
Epicuriſme, Atheiſme, & Mahometiſme,
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 conſiis acceptable vnto God, and approoued of men.
Mahomet ſhewed a glotonous diſpoſit the anſwer made vnto ye maiſter:
Our ſauiour ſaith:Man liueth not by bread onely but by euery worde that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord.
Again an argumethe true worſhippers ſhal worſhip the father (not in corporal delights & pleaſurs) In ſpirit & truth, (this is ye maner) For the father requireth euen ſuch to worſhip him.
e nature of God God is a ſpirite and they that worſhippe him muſt worſhip him in ſpirit & truth. And yt 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.
e law of Mahomet was eſtae law of Mahomet is a moſt wicked religion. Firſt he hauing ye falling ſicknes perſwaded his wife & ot 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 ye ſame, ſaith Zonaras.
t the tame Doue which hee taught to feede at his eare was ſometime an Angell, & ſomet him. Whee meGabriell had caried him to Ieruſalem, and thence to haue lifted him vp to heauen, & there to haue learned the ſecrets of his law.e
Saracens beleeue (ſaith Antoninus) yt before God made ye world there was written in the throne of God: there is no god but ye god of Mahomet. wheAlcoran & boue peoe 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,e
Saracens he had receiFeſſa, a Citie of Mauritama vnto this day is called Zarragia.
e end of ye world he ſhould be traAlcoran of Mahomet ſaide, that therin were compriſed twelue thouſand lies, and the reſt was truth, by all like
If we apply this rightly vnto 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.
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 thoMahomet was thruſt in by ſecular power & force of armes, by battels & bloudſhed, therfore the law of Mahomet is a moſt wicked religion, Paulus Diaconus writ he ſpent ten yeares in Armes ſubMathew 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 to ̄gue, & taught them.
It began of the ſworde, it is helde by the ſworde, & it is finiſhed or ended in the ſword.
Mahomets own words vnto ye
Sarace ̄s are theſe
The I am not ſe ̄t 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 cō
pelled 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.
Scythians from whence theſe Turkes came, are an impatient kind of people.Heraclius the Emperour againſt the king of Perſia they were too too erneſt for their pay. The Clark of the band, in their greedines called thee ſame name with this falſe prophet, an Emperor of ye
Turks ſhewed at Co ̄
ſtantinople. Miſſing an aple vpoPoland,
Mahomet made them a law accordingly, ſaying:
This is conHe that ſlayeth his enemie, or is ſlaine of his enemie. lette him enter and poſſeſſe paradiſe.
Mahomet muſt then be the bottomles pitte of Hell. Of the contrary, the true word of God,Ieſus Chriſt was not plaPaule putteth the Corinthians in remem
It might ſeeme very ſtrange, that 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.
12. men, the ſeruants of any king or emt a few men naked & frendleſſe, ſhould conquer the whole world. The 12 Apoſtles are ſent forth to preach accor
being ſimple men, vnlearned, & of one language, yet haue they cothey 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,
e whole world vnto their maſter Chriſt. This is
Chryſoſtom calleth:
They woar no armor,the greatest miracle: orbeThat the whole world ſhould be caried away without miracles (alone) by 12. poore & vnlearned men.
peace be in this houſe, & ye ſpiMahomet & his diTertullian writeth:Sed nec religionis eſt cogere religionem, quae ſpo ̄te ſuſcipi debeat, nō vi: cū & hoſtiae ab animo lubenti expoſtulētur.
hath yBut 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.
Lactantiuse like,t ye infidels yt coe chri
He ſheweth yYe need not vſe force & viole ̄ce, for religiō may not be cōstrained.
e practiſe of ye Chriſtians, and the reaſon thereof.
Nemo à nobis retinetur inuitus, inv
Non ſum cum miraculis aut in
Vnde credo quod ſi hodie viueret, multos inue
This compulſion is to be vnderſtood of Chriſtian toward Heathen, or Heathen towards ChriſtiWee holde no man againſt his wil, for he is vnprofitable to God that wanteth faith and deuotion.
Auguſtine diſcourſeth hereof at large, and ſheweth how heretikes and ſchiſmatikes by imMahomet obſerued not. Fifthly, the lawe of Mahomet is Mahomet is a muſt falſe reliSaracens of him
There was no diuine power ſhewed in all his pracI am not ſent vnto you with myracles and ſignes.
Iohn the baptiſt. And after him we are to looke for no mo Prophets, 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 deliueMoſes receiued, was deSinai, there was fire, there was thunder, there was lighChriſt, the preaching of the Goſpell, the ſealing vp of the ſame with his bloud after moſte ſtrange & marueilous ſightes, declared him to be ye only true Meſsias, & ſauiour of the worlde, authoriſed his doctrine, & confirmed ye faith of ye Chriſtians. A virglory, ſhepheards rue holy ghoſt deſcethis is my Son, Iohn
ye baptiſt pointing wt ye finger, Beholde the lamb of God: The blind, ye deafe, ye dumb, the lame, the ſicke, all cured, & the deade raiſed to life. Theſe deliuer vnto vs the
Mahomet is a confuſed kinde of doctrine, patched together of contraMahomet is a moſt wicked Religion. Sergius the Monke, Iohn of Antioch, and the ſuIewe, patched together, acMahomet (ſayth Antoninus) the diſciples of this falſe Prophet
Alcoran. Some added, ſome diminiſhed ſome maymed, and ſome corrupted the Lawe. The Iewes put in what pleaſed them beſt, the Heretikes vrged their oAlcoran was deElehege 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 aMahomet to woorke miſchiefe. Heraclius the Emperour, and Choſdroes Kyng of Perſia, were at deadly enmitie, warScythian Nation fell from them both, and founde Mahomet to theyr ringe-leaPeter ArchConſtantinople, 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 ſuffeMahomet followed. So that the Church was troubled with Neſtorians Iacobites, Monothelits, and the MonBenedicts order, which then bee 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
Mahomet
Mathew of Weſtmonaſter writeth:
Whereupon I beleeue if Mahomet lyued at this day hee ſhoulde finde many Diſciples.
1246 Innocentius 4. ſent to great Cham the Emperour of the Tartarians, perſwa
At that time alſo came the Embaſſa pro
Sine audientia occidatur,
Qua ſanctio
Saracens, pleadynge and vrgyng hym to the Lawe of Mahomet, alleadging that it was eaſiCham liked of the
Mahomet vnto this day. ThirdMahomet continued, being knowne to bee wicked,Mahomet made it death to diſpute thereof. If any ſpeake againſt me (ſaith he)
Againe: Let him be traiterouſlye put to death,
let him be put to death without comming to his aunſwere.
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:Sabellicus) palam fecit, niBy 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.
When as our light ſo ſhineth before men, that they ſeeyng our good woorks, may glorifie our Father which is in heauen.
Saracen to ſerue the true God in 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 DukeVenice, 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 merTurke, in calling him
Chriſt Ieſus, bleſſed be his name therefore.
This Quali pudore ſuffu
Nunc demum ſpero quod pro ſuperbia eorum confundet Chri
Religionem otioſorum imbecillium, & Idolatrarum, imagi
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 cunSpaniards, 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 conEngland, ye other at his arriuall. Before his comming, the vertue, the modeſtie, the godlines, the good vſage, & diſcrete goEngliſh Chriſtians, & aS. Frauncis Drake, and the
W. Haukins, tearming them moſt worthy Chriſtians. After his arriual, he ſaw curteſie, gentlenes, frendEngliſh men, & withal he learned that the poore, the aged, the impotent, ye ſicke & diſeaſed Chriſtians were prouie poore, & ſicke, & diſeaſed were ſcorned, deſpiſed, & accouSaracene to the Chriſtian faith, and thereupon it is that I haue choſen for my text, the wordes of our Sauiour tending to ye ſame purpoſe.
Hee was demaunded why for the ſpace of Let your light ſo ſhine before men, that they may ſee your good woorks, and glorify your Father which is in heauen.
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
Spaniard (which diſſwaded him from the faith) his cruelty in ſhedding of bloud, and his Idolatry in worſhipping of ISpaniard, let him reade The Spaniſh Colonie, written in the Caſtilian tongue by a Fryer, afterBartholmew de la Caſas, and lately trae ſhame there Antichriſt of Rome. I am not odiouſly to note any Chriſtiae ſeruantes may not blow ye fire of hatred: if vnkindEngland & Spain) It is not the part of ſube diſpleaſure but in al dutifulnes to obey their own princes, & pray vnto God to eſtabliſh peace among
e
Saracen coMahomet himſelf confeſſed (as it is al
The 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.
Nigros in the kingdome of Senega,
Mahomet (ſaith Aloyſius Cadamuſtꝰ) are not malicious nether ſtub
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.
Senega was in maner throughly perMahomet 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,t the puritye thereof. Cham the Emperour of the Tartarians confeſIeſus to be the power and ſpirite of the great God. Muſda fa Beg, ſecreTurke of Conſtantinople yt 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 him
Wee heare what the enemye reporteth of our God, of 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.
Ieſus our Sauiour, and the worde of God which wee profeſſe, Satan is drie truth, the maieſty of our God is ſo great that the celeſtiall terreſtriall and infer
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:
Againe wee are councelled to bee quiet medling with our owne buſines, worwalke wiſely toward 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 AThat ye maye behaue your ſelues honeſtly towarde them that are without.
So that neither He muſt bee well reported of, euen of them that are without.
Iew, nor gentile, Turke, nor Saracen, neither Hereticke or falſe ChriSaint Paul, exhorteth the Philippians:
This kinde of Chriſtian conDoe 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.
Heathens, Turkes, and Saracens, ſeeing this holiPeter:
It is ſufficient for vs that we haue ſpe ̄t 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.
A little before:
For ſo is the will of God that by well doing ye may put to ſilence the ignorance of fooliſh men.
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
Saracen which walked of a long time without knowIeſus Chriſt, the onely ſauiour of the world, and now hauing behelde the ſhine thereof moſt willingly embraceth ye 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.
But more is the pittye there are byrds which defile their owne neſts, there are looſe Chriſtians, GoſLet 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:
Atheiſtes in deede.
there is pride, ambition, couetewhat a ſhame is this to the Church. (Sayth Cyprian)t ye finger,Froiſſart writeth of the Turkes, & Tartarians
e time of Clement, 7. & Vrban. 6 ſaying:
The Earle of 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.
Neuers ſonne to ye Duke of Burgoine, coTurkie deliuered vnto the frenche king, & ye Lords of Fraunce this newes from Lamorabaqui ye
Turke:
It made 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.
Fraunce amazed, and ſome of the Nobility then brake out and ſaid of the Popes:
In the time of It was time to abate their pompes & to bring them to reaſon.
Henry the 3. ye chriſtians had geuen the Turks a great foile. The Turke offered peace wt moſt fauorable coMathew Paris.
The Pope by his 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.
Legate moſt arrogantly refuſed it. Being deniTurke gathereth a great power, and ſaith:
The 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.
Turke preuayled, the Chriſtians went to wracke. Fridericus the EmpeHenry 3. bitter letters againſt the pride, ambition, crueltie, exRome, calling the ſame, the roote and fountaine of all miſInſatiabiles ſanguiſugas, Inſatiable bloud ſuckers,
concluding
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:
This is the credite theſe Images haue brought inThe religion of idle perſons, of faint, and weake people, and of Idolatrers, worſhipping of Images.
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 aGrecians of the abuſes of Rome. The
300. yeares vntill the late councell of Baſill, where there was but a colourable reGermanus Archbiſhop of Conſtantinople telleth Gregorius 9. the cauſe of their departure, in this ſort:
A little after:
That, great diſcord, contrarietie of doctrine, ouerthrow of Canons, alteration of rites which the fathers deliuered are cauſes of this particion which ſeperateth thoſe things which at firſt were vnited and ioyned with the coniunction of peace and concord, let the whole world being made one language confeſſe &c.
Hee writeth the like vnto the Cardinalls, &
And that we may touche the marrowe of the truth: Many mighty and noble parſonages would obey you vnleſſe they feared your vniuſt oppreſſions, your inſolent exactions of riches, your vnlawfull ſeruitude, the which you extort of them that are ſubiect vnto you. Here hence are crueel battailes one againſt the other, deſolation of Cities, ſealing vp of Churchdores, ſchiſme of the brethren, the prieſtly function ceaſing, and a ſtay that God according vnto our duetye bee not praiſed vnder the Climate of the Grecians.
Aethiopians, Syrians, Hyberians, Lazians, Alanians, Gothes, Chazarians, all Ruſſia, & Bulgary, hold with the Greeke-church, and becauſe of the aforeſaide enormities, haue did Rome farewell. The ArchAntioch about the ſame time calling vnto him a great number of BiGreece excommunicated the Pope, and the Clergye of Rome. The Patriarch of Conſtantinople complaiLions to Innocentius 4. face, what a great number of Churches there were in Greece that reiected the Churche of Rome for the abhominations thereof. Papa tacuit: The Pope ſaid not a word.
Hee might bee iuſtly aſhamed, who glorying in the keyes locketh vp all, ſhutteth out ſuche as would come and receaue the chriſtie ſhameHeathen, or Iew, or Saracen, ſpeake of the chriſtian faith, imRome in his mouth. Rome cannot be excuſed. And for that
Turkie they may not call into queMahomets law it is death: vnder the dominion of the Pope, they may not profeſſe what they know for truth. much like them of whoAuguſtine ſpeaketh,Rome: O what bleſſinges hath God poured vppon England? bleſſed bee his name therefore. We maye ſaye, as it is in the Goſpell: Many Prophets,
and Kinges haue deſired
ſee thoſe things which Engla ̄d hath ſeen, and haue not ſeene them. It is to be feaIewes, Turkes, and Saracens, bring into the folde all loſt and wandering ſheepe, make of all nations one ſheepefolde, vnIeſus Chriſt, to whome with the Father and the holy Ghoſt, bee all honour and glorie nowe and for euer. Amen
INprimis, that hee was verie ſorie for the ſinful life which he had lead in times paſt, in ignorance and blindIeſus Chriſt.
Mahomet the falſe Prophet of the Moores, Saracens and Turkes, with al his abhoIeſus Chriſt.
Ieſus
Chriſt was and is the ſonne of God, & God from euerlaſting, the onely true Meſsias, & ſauiour of the worlde, that he ſuffered for the ſinnes of al that beIeſus Chriſt.
¶In the middeſt of the congregation, there was a comely Table ſet, couered with a faire linnen cloth, and thereon a Baſen with water. After the congregation had bleſſed God for his great mercies, and after ſundry godly Praiers and Collects, according vnto the reuerend order of holye Church, ſuche as broght him thither, deſired his name might be William, ſo was he baptized: In the name of the Father, and of the Sonne, and of the holie Ghoſt.