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A67626	The baptized Turk, or, A narrative of the happy conversion of Signior Rigep Dandulo, the onely son of a silk merchant in the Isle of Tzio, from the delusions of that great impostor Mahomet, unto the Christian religion and of his admission unto baptism by Mr. Gunning at Excester-house Chappel the 8th of Novemb., 1657 / drawn up by Tho. Warmstry.	Warmstry, Thomas, 1610-1665.	1658 (1658)	Wing W880; ESTC R38490	72,283	176

for that your own Religion doth confess and witness that already and if Jesus Christ were not a true Prophet come from God Mahomet must confess himself a false Prophet It remains therefore as I told you and now this second time expect your deliberate Answer viz. That you bring some proof that Mahomet hath received from God any such supernatural Revelation for the founding of his new Religion I askt you if it can be well proved concerning any supernatural Miracles which he wrought or any Prophecy concerning him that had been known or affirmed by any before his affirming it himself Sig. Dandulo I told you that Christ Jesus himself did foretell of Mahomet to come Mr. G. If this can be proved you say well and beleive well for I having proved the Truth of Christianity from the Confession of Mahometanism if you can prove the Religion of Mahomet from the Prediction of Christ then you have also the confession of Christianity But now I Convene your Conscience and require you before Christ Jesus whom you call The Spirit of the living God and we the Word and Son of the living God to whose Prediction you now appeal and to which we Christians must certainly be most obliged and willing to stand to alledge and assign if you can through all that six hundred years that past 'twixt Christ and Mahomets time any words witnessed to have come from Jesus Christ by any Disciple of his or any deriving from them or any Book extant before Mahomets birth written by any of the followers of Jesus Christ or by Jesus Christ himself or thirdly any Company or communion of men that profest Religion in Jesus Christ who lived in that six hundred years 'twixt Christ and Mahomet that ever witnessed that any such prediction or promise was made by Jesus Christ concerning Mahomet or held any such Tradition amongst them If you are able to name any let us hear the Author of such words or Books or such company or communion of men where or when they lived or who ever heard of them In sum shew any thing of Christ's or Christians speaking concerning Mahomet before Mahomets first saying it of himself Or else if nothing can be shewed then tell me what could an Impostor have done other then Mahomet hath done in this viz. either himself onely to witness of himself without doing any supernatural Miracles which might bear witness to him or to alleadge a witness for himself which none ever heard speak nor ever said that he so witness'd except and before himself If to this you are still unable to reply any thing we are both willing to put our selves upon that issue for the tryal of our grounds of our beleiving in Christ which Jesus Christ himself offered his Adversaries for the proof of his Doctrine (a) Joh. 10.25 The works that I do they bear witness of me (b) Joh. 10.37 38. If I do not the works of my Father beleive me not but if I do though you beleeve not me beleeve the works (c) Joh. 15.24 And in another place if I had not done among them the works which none other did they had not had sin And secondly We are ready to alledge numberless Volumes written by the followers of Jesus Christ within that six hundred years betwixt Christs Ascension and Mahomets coming and living Societies of Christian Professors throughout the World and throughout those six Ages which witnessed to certain Books as containing the Doctrines and Institutions and Precepts and Predictions made by Jesus Christ in all which Books according to any Copies in any Language extant within those 600 years there is not any word of mention concerning such a Prophet as Mahomet to come nor any Tradition ever heard of amongst those Christians concerning such a Prophet to come Whereas we fetch our witness concerning the Prophesies of the coming of Jesus Christ from Books written many Ages before Christs coming which our bitterest Adversaries the Jews keep and attest and own as the Oracles of God confirmed to be such at first by supernatural miracles and which Books our other Adversaries the Pagans had read and acknowledged to be extant before the coming of Christ Indeed whereas Jesus Christ prophesied that after his departure he would send the Holy Ghost the Paraclete to lead his Apostles into all truth and so it must needs be whilst the Apostles were yet alive he having promised it to them Simon Magus first about the fortieth year of Christ gave out himself to be that promised Holy Ghost or Paraclete among the Gentiles and about the year 220. after Christ (d) Epiph. Haeres 48 Aug. Haeres 20.86 Montanus pretended that he was that Paraclete and that Jesus Christ had prophecied of him and about the year 278 after Christ (e) Epiph. Haeres 66. Aug. Haeres 46. Manes or Manicheus gave out himself to be that Paraclete and that Jesus Christ had prophesied of him all which could shew in the Books of Jesus Christ a Paraclete foretold should come but no reason of their blasphemous affirmation that they were that Paraclete Then 600 years after Christ Mahomet pretends that Jesus Christ had prophesied of him as a great Prophet that should come into the world but he not able so much as to shew any such Prophesie of any Prophet now this Imposture being so gross what can your Conscience have to answer before God to follow longer and to transmit to posterity by your adhaesion such a cousenage in so great a matter concerning the Religion of the most High God and the eternal woe or welfare of your own and others immortal Souls contrary to the Religion both that which the light of Nature and right Reason I told you taught us both and that which he whom you call the Spirit of God and we call the Word of God by and from whom all Prophets if Prophets of God must speak hath taught the whole world and which Prophets cannot speak contrary one to another nor to the Spirit of God by whose inspiration they are prophets nor to the Word of God who speaks by them Sir I pray tell me need I further to prove to you Christianity or need I further explain to you the Articles of Christianity then has been done Sig. D. No They are true Mr. G. If so you beleive will you be baptized into that Faith Sig. D. How think you I can do that without danger to my life except I should resolve never to see more my Country and Parents and Friends and all that is in this world dear unto me Mr. G. I know well and consider that you cannot without suffering that loss for Christ his sake and yet for your own sake also for you must remember that we took the rise of our discourse from what we were both agreed in viz. the Light of Nature and Right Reason which teacheth us and hath taught many Heathen Philosophers that the eternal concernment of our immortal Souls after