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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

of Venice to the Council of Trent From this noble Stock of the Venetian Commonwealth was this our Convert it seemeth sprung so that he is derived as we see from Christian Ancestors The corruptions of whose blood have now as I may so speak been restored and purified in him by the water of holy Baptism which he hath now lately through Gods mercy received Some of the braches of that generous Stock have been it seemeth transplanted probably in the various events of those Wars which have been so frequent between the Turk and the Venetians of whom the Father of this our welcome Christian is at this time a silk Merchant of good Estate in the Island of Tzio not far from Smyrna a professed Turk but his Mother is a Christian of the Greek Church whose Christian profession as it did invest him unto a just title unto Baptism even in his infancy for the unbeleeving Husband is sanctified by the Wife and therefore the Childe was holy 1 Cor. 7.14 so it may be the prayers of this Christian Mother like the tears of Monica for her Augustine have ministred unto the good providence of Almighty God for the bringing home of this straied sheep unto the holy Fold of Christ Jesus This happy Convert her Son was the subject of the Divine Providence in many notable passages of his life hitherto through which the Lord hath at last brought him to this happy period of his wandrings and change of his Profession into the bosom of the persecuted English Church CHAP. II. Of his Education and Travails IN his infancy he was bred up with his parents but according to the way of the delusions of his Father whose authority prevailed against thepious inclinations and desires of his Mother which yet now at length God hath blessed with the Victory and with a success even beyond her desires having brought him into a more pure profession of the Christian Religion then that which she embraceth even into that which is embraced by the old and Orthodox part of the Church of England then which I hope we may be allowed to say there is none in the world that doth more soundly embrace the Christian Doctrine and is glorious even in the rubbish the very stones and dust of the ruins which she is under and whom God hath so graciously owned even in this time of her trouble and contempt by giving this extraordinary access unto her Body About the sixth year of his age he was stoln away by the Moors amongst whom he lived for the space of about Nine years and in that time he visited the great City of Grand Cairo in Egypt the place where God was pleased to deliver his people of old that he might bring them into the land of Canaan And so God hath called even this his Son his newly adopted Son from Egypt The Moor with whom he lived had a great desire to have detained him with him and for an inducement thereunto offered him his Daughter But God who had another and far more happy marriage in store for him would not suffer him to lay hold upon that bait but made use of the natural desire that he had to see his Parents and his Country to bring him from thence that at length he might arrive at a better Country even a Heavenly one which is the Church of God and come home unto better Parents even God himself and the Catholike Church And so as Saul sought his Fathers Asses and found a Kingdom he might by the desire that he had unto a natural blessing be set in the way to the obtaining a supernatural Inheritance So that God that in his wise Providence ordereth all things and motions of the World to the advancement of his Kingdom and for the good and salvation of his People and that maketh Nature it self serve the designs and purposes of his heavenly grace drew this person from his Moorish entertainment by the cords of those inclinations that were in him towards his friends and his native Soil unto his Fathers house where he arrived back again at the age of about Fifteen years But his long absence having dismissed the hopes and discharged the expectation of his Parents to see him again he was become now nowhere a greater stranger then at home The impressions of natural relation were in a great degree worn out and those characters that were yet left almost starved for want of that nourishment which they usually receive from the enterview of presence or entercourse of intelligence even these it seems were so far out-grown by him that there could be little or no compliance found between the species or forms he left behind him in their minds and the favour and garb wherein he returned unto them so that when he came to his Mothers door and renewed his claim unto the Womb that bare him and to the Brests that gave him suck the Mother fulfilled the word of God by the Prophet and had forgotten her own sucking childe she was hardly brought to own him for her Son though she had no other childe of that sex to supply his room in her heart For it is not to be omitted that he is the onely Son of his Parents so that his retirement into the bosom of Gods Church cannot reasonably much less charitably be looked upon as an earthly refuge but as a gracious and heavenly choice since he had so strong an interest as is that of an onely Son both in the affection and care of those parents that were and are so well able to provide for him And indeed though it be true that it is the wonder of the Divine Mercy that the Lord is pleased not to refuse the very rejections and refuses of the world and to take up those whom their Fathers and Mothers forsake To receive a poor returning Prodigal that is driven unto him by the disappointment of the very trough and husks of the Swine and take up even out-casts into his fatherly bosom And though the same most gracions God thinks good to make the unhospitableness and ill entertainment of the Relations and usage of the World a means to bring in many sincere Converts into his House and Family yet it is such an Argument of sincerity as may well advance both our confidence and joy in this our late received Fellow-Christian that he comes unto us upon more noble generous and free inducements then the want of an interest in those earthly friends that were well able to maintain him in that profession that he was in Neither was he long shut out either from the doors or from the bowels of his rechallenged Parents for although at the first he was not acknowledge yet as Mothers are curious speculators of their Children she had it seems laid up in her memory against this time of need a certain mark that she had observed in the body of her Childe to which she thought good to refer the trial of his plea for his restitution unto her

satisfied for the sins of the World and so became the Saviour and Redeemer of Mankinde He was acquainted therefore by me with some passages of the Fifty third of Isay and as I remember with that wonderful Prophesie of the Ninth of Daniel where the death and satisfaction of the Messiah or Christ are so clearly and evangelically expressed Mr. Gunning pursued the work that was begun with great industry ability and diligence shewing him that his Religion had no warrant of truth in it having neither the testimony from reason not from heavenly revelation made known by miracles or any such heavenly evidence which give abundant witness to the truth of Christianity and when he vainly pretended as it seems he had been informed that there was a Prophesie in the Scripture that another people should come to inform the World after the Christians which it seems was a misprision of that place in Daniel 9.26 The people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the City and the Sanctuary c. we shewed him as I remember the true interpretation of the place that it was a Prophesie of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian and the Roman people And having obtained of him that Christ was a true Prophet and that all that he spake was truth and that the Gospel of the Evangelists was true The Divinity of Christ and his being the Son of God was proved unto him out of the first of John the first verse c. if my memory fail not and out of the words of our Saviour who declared himself to be the Son of God But that that especially prevailed with him was drawn from that acknowledgement that the Mahometans have of Christ that he was the Spirit of God from whence it was shewed him that since the Spirit of God could be none other then God himself that Christ then must needs be God as the spirit of man is principally the man himself which although it is to be warily understood and so as not to make any confusion between the persons of Christ and the Holy Ghost yet it was Argumentum ad hominem ex concesso and he seemed thereby to be convinced of the truth of his Divinity and of the falshood and contradiction of the Mahometan Religon that acknowledged Christ to be the Spirit of God and yet denied him to be God And two persons being granted it was now easie to prove the third which Mr. Gunning laboured in by setting forth the divine reason of the Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the Essence After these things he seemed to be left without reply or contradiction in a sort and therefore was earnestly sollicited to be baptized by urging the command of Christ for that purpose which he seemed not to deny but was held off by delays and some reluctancies of spirit which we endeavored to remove by shewing him the great danger that hung over him if he should refuse to yield to those convictions that were upon him and urged the examples of divers in the Scriptures that were speedily baptized upon their conversion At last he was perswaded so as with great earnestness to desire it as hath been before declared And now nothing remained but to prepare him for the blessed work of his solemn admission into the Christian Church To which purpose he was committed to me at Chelsey for his instruction and that he might be commended to God in prayer with the help of Mr. Samois who did the Office of an Interpreter amongst other discourses I had with him I pressed him hard to look to his sincerity and shewed him that if he should deal falsly with God he might provoke him to great judgments And I drew up an Exposition of the Apostles Creed for him which I intend if it shall be thought fit to publish for the good of him and others Upon the Friday before the Lords Day on which he was to be baptised I brought him into Mr. Gunnings Congregation at Excester-house and after that delivered him unto him for some further preparation of him When the day came and the holy and solemn business of his Baptism was to be performed in Excester house Chappel I having been before this work of conversion turned out of my interest in the Parish Church of Westminster upon the occasion of my being so bold as to give the Congregation and the Parliament-men a Sermon in the Abby where after two Psalms sung out in the expectation of a Minister none came to supply the place that I saw or knew of a full and chearful Congregation being there assembled Mr. Gunning officiated and after the first part of the Service ended the Convert came in in his Turkish Habit and at his enterance into the Congregation desired several times that he might be admitted to the Baptism of the Christian Church which being granted him and these honorable and worthy persons the young Countess of Dorset the Lord Gorge and Mr. Philip Warwick being Witnesses at his Baptism He having made confession of the Christian faith in the Apostles Creed and having answered the questions concerning the Christian Covenant and Profession for himself which have been usually answered by the Godfathers and Godmothers at the Baptism of Children and being commended to Gods Grace and Mercy in the prayers of the Congregation with such alterations as were necessary for the extraordinary case he being stripped of his Garment to his Waste received his Baptism upon his knees with great humility and was named Philip. The Baptism being performed by Mr. Gunnings permission I preached upon the occasion and took my Text out of the Fifteenth Chapter of St. Luke at the Seventh Verse being the words of our Saviour I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven for one sinner that repenteth more then for ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance Of which Sermon it may be there shall be a further account given hereafter And if God and Angels rejoyce surely it is the duty of all good Christians to keep consort with them and by the loving and charitable entertainment of this our Convert to give enconragement to others to come in unto Christs fold In the afternoon of the same day he came in another Habit after the English fashion which was charitably provided for him by reverend Doctor Bernard of Grayes-Inn and then Mr. Gunning preached a learned Sermon upon Psal 68. Vers 31. as it is in the Liturgy translation The Morians land shall soon stretch on t her hands unto God And so the comfortable solemnity of that happy day was ended Our new Convert having since declared that he found extraordinary joy and solace in his soul at the time of his Baptism He for the present lives in Holborn at the house of the honourable and vertuous Lady Hatter and is I conceive much improved in the Christian knowledge as appeared by a discourse he had lately at Chelsey and I hope will prove an eminent Christian

Glory to God on high on earth peace good will towards men Psalm 45.4 5 6. And gird thee with thy sword upon thy thigh O thou most mighty according to thy worship and renown Good luck have thou with thine honor ride on because of the word of truth of meekness and righteousness and let thy right hand teach thee terrible things Thine arrows are very sharp and the people sholl be subdued unto thee even in the midst among the Kings enemies Psal 67. vers 1. God be merciful unto us and bless us and shew us the light of his countenance and be merciful unto us 2. That thy way may be known upon earth thy saving health among all nations 3. Let the people praise thee O God yea let all the people praise thee 4. O let the nations rejoyce and be glad for thou shalt judge the folks righteously and govern the nations upon earth 5. Let the people praise thee O God let all the people praise thee 6. Then shall the earth bring forth her encrease and God even our own God shall give us his blessing 7. God shall bless us and all the ends of the world shall fear him Ecclesiasticus 36. ver 1. Have mercy upon us O Lord God of all things and behold us and shew us the light of thy morcies 2. And send thy fear among the Nations which seek not after thee that they may know that there is no God but thou and that they may shew thy wonderous works 3. Lift up thine hand upon the strange nations that they may see thy power 4. As thou art sanctified in us before them so be thou magnified among them before us 5. That they may know thee as we know thee for there is none other God but onely thou O Lord. 6. Renew the signs and change the wonders shew the glory of thine hand and thy right arm that they may shew forth thy wonderous acts 8. Make the time short remember thine oath that thy wonderous works may be praised 10. Smite in sunder the head of the princes that be our enemies and say There is none other but we 11. Gather all the tribes of Jacob together that they may know that there is none other God but onely thou and that they may shew thy wonderous works and inherit thou them as from the begining 12. O Lord have mercy upon the people that is called by thy name and upon Israel whom thou hast likened to a first born son 13. Oh be merciful unto Jerusalem the city of thy sanctuary the city of thy rest 14. Fill Sion that it may magnifie thine oracles and fill thy people with thy glory 15. Give witness unto those that thou hast possessed from the beginning and raise up the prophecies that have been shewed in thy name 16. Reward them that wait for thee that thy Prophets may be found faithful 17. O Lord hear the prayers of thy servants according to the blessings of Aaron over thy people and guide thou us in the way of righteousness that all they which dwell upon the earth may know that thou art the Lord the eternal God The Paradise of Mahomet which he promifeth unto his Follewers THey shall be saith he in a Paradise watered with fair and delicate Fountains which shall run so clear as if they were melted Christal They shall rest in the shade or refreshing coolness of beautiful trees full of leaves and branches which by their motion shall cause a pleasant tune They shall eat of all manner of sweet and pleasant fruits in all seasons and shall be solaced with the chanting of Ten thousand little Birds which shall warble amongst their branches and this shall bemingled with the consort of most harmonious instruments and of most melodious voices Their Robes shall be most magnificent and triumphant as of silk wrought with gold and chased with the richest stones and pearls They shall lye in Beds embroidered with gold and hung the corners and Pillows with great Pearls and the Curtains adorned with inestimable and innumerable precious stones That every one shall have his marvellous beautiful women with their Breasts wantonly swelling and Eyes like jet enchased in silver whiter then snow as big as good big eggs That with these they shall feast every day and use all manner of sports and recreations possible and shall be served in their Feasts with fair and great vessels of gold and christal which shall be set with most precious Jewels and shall be ministred unto by the hands of fair Boyes more polished then the pearls themselves and more sweet then Amber-greece or the most oderiferous Perfumes of Arabia c. Two Books of great esteem amongst the Turks besides the Alcoran THe first hath the description of the Voyage of Mahomet in Paradise by the guidance of the Angel Gabriel He went say they into the first heaven mounted upon Alborach a Beast a little bigger then an Ass having the face of a man and found that first Sphear was of fine Silver and so thick as the space that a Footman can run in Five hundered years There he found an Angel as tall as the space of the journey of a Thousand years with Seventy thousand other Angels every one of which had Seventy thousand Heads and every Head seventy thousand Horns every Horn seventy thousand Knots and from one Knot to another the space of the jouruey of forty years And every Head seventy thousand Faces and every Face seventy thousand Mouthes and every Mouth seventy thousand Tongues and every Tongue spake a thousand Languages with which they praised God every day seventy thousand times The second Heaven was made all of burnisht Gold where he saw a great multitude of others greater then these and amongst them one that had his feet on the earth and his head in the third Heaven But all these were Pigmies to one that he found in the third Heaven which was so monstrously great that he held the world in the palm of his hand and yet it hindered him not from shutting it In the fourth Heaven every one had seventy pair of Wings in every Wing seventy thousand feathers to flie with and every feather seventy thousand cubits long In the fifth Heaven the Angel that opened the Gate to them had seven thousand Arms and every Arm seven thousand Hands In the other Heavens they found not any Angels of such an unmeasurable stature but in the eighth Sphear they tossed the Globe of the Earth and Sea as easily as a little Ball. In the other Book is recited the History of a discourse between a Turk and a Jew who asked him concerning the principal points of his Doctrine he said that God created a Paper and a Pen of so fair a Fabrick that the Pen was Five hundred days journey long and Fourscore thick and that with this Pen that hath Fourscore points or nebs is written perpetually all that hath been is or shall be in the world That the Sun and Moon had equal light in the beginning so that the day and night could not well be destinguished but that the Angel Gabriel flying put the end of his wing into the Moon and made her lose half her light There is mention made of a Cow that had forty horns and between two of her horns the space of a thousand years journey and yet that this Cow was under the earth Of a Fish that had his Head in the East and the Tail in the West that beareth upon his back the Earth the Sea and the Mountains That Rats were begotten in the Ark of the sneezing of a Sow or Boar and Cats of the sneezing of a Lion That Seraphiel in the day of the resurrection shall sound a Trumpet Five hundred years journey long and that then all the souls of the dead shall seek out their bodies That the Mahometan Religion cannot be a true Religion 1. NO new Religion can be a true Religion 2. No cruel and bloody Religion can be a true Religion 3. That Religion that hath no testimony from heaven but is grounded meerly upon the invention and authority of man cannot be a true Religion 4. That Religion that contradicteth it self and those authorities which it approveeth and alloweth cannot be a true Religion 5. That Religion that affordeth no remedy for sin no satisfaction to the Conscience nor any certain way to salvation cannot be a true Religion 6. That Religion that setteth not down a perfect Rule of holiness and righteousness cannot be a true Religion 7. That Religion that countenanceth and alloweth impurity cannot be a true Religion 8. That Religion that is carried on not by spiritual but worldly and carnal ways cannot be a true Religion 9. That Religion that proposeth a felicity consisting in carnal and impure delights cannot be a true Religion 10. That Religion that confoundeth the difference between righteousness and unrighteousness cannot be a true Religion 11 That Religion that dischargeth from the prudent use of the means of safety and blessing and teacheth people to tempt the Lord cannot be a true Religion 12. That Religion that proposeth rewards to violence and unrighteousness cannot be a true Religion FINIS