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

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

very full of harmony and concent and yet above and beyond the knowledge of him that dreamed it as the cafe was then The Interpretation thereof is clear and easie for the most part The Table with the Vessell upon it like a Bason or Font The Interpretation of the Dream doth very well represent the two Sacraments of Baptism and the Supper of the Lord the two great Pledges and Seals of the Christian Religion and communion the one of our admission or initiation the other of our confirmation or growth in the fellowship of Christ and the Church and in the Graces of the Gospel The two men standing by The two Ministers that were especially emploied in the work of his conversion to bring him to the fruition of the blessing of these Ordinances The filthy stinking puddle stream whereby he stood The impure profession of the Religion of Mahomet wherein he was as yet held which he had a desire to continue in but it could give no purgation but rather pollution unto his soul The dead Hen cut about the head and dead of that wound lying in the filthy stream which a woman came and took out of that puddle and set it upon her feet so that it ran away alive we could not very well tell what to make of but he himself after he was baptized which may I conceive without offence be taken for a special work of the Spirit in him he himself I say the evening after his Baptism as near as I can remember the time interpreted it thus or to this purpose Sure saith he that dead Hen that lay in the filthy stream was my Soul that lay dead in the puddle of my errors The Woman was the Church of God which is presented as a woman in the Scripture which hath taken my dead Soul out of the puddle of my errors and restored me to life even to the life of grace which having recovered he now runs from that filthy stream of the Mahometan delusions Let me add this That as that Hen lay dead of a wound in the head so he was dead in the blindness and errors of his Vnderstanding or Minde which is as it were vulnus in capite a wound in the head that being held to be the seat of the knowing or judging Faculties or Powers The full and fair stream that gushed out suddenly and brake in with great force upon that current of corruption and drove it clean away and presentied it self in the place of it which he entred into at first with some timorousness and by degrees and afterward washed himself in it and swam over it The holy water of Baptismal regeneration or the stream of the Truth and grace of the Gospel which hath suddenly through the goodness of the Lord and very powerfully broken in upon his Soul and driven away the puddle of his former corruptions which he was fearful to enter into at the first but hath now washed therein for the cleansing of his soul and will we hope swim through it unto the Haven of eternal happiness The thirst that was upon him after his washing The desire which he expressed after the Lords Supper or an holy longing after spiritual things and the comforts of the Gospel or after happiness which Thirst can finde nothing upon earth to quench it the showre from Heaven the showre or dews of heavenly blessing or of divine illumination and grace which he could not tell how to receive of himself The poor house that he knockt at The habitation of the Church now in a poor afflicted condition destitute of earthly magnificence and glory The woman that came forth That afflicted Church The dish she gave him The Ordinances and means of grace whereby the heavenly dews we hope will be more and more conveyed into his soul to the quenching of all evil thirsts after transitory things and to the eternal refreshing of his Spirit CHAP. X. Of some further progress made in the conversion of Mr. Dandule and of another remarkable passage of Providence that fell out for the promotion and encouragement thereof THis strange dream having made some impression upon the heart of this Convert as we may reasonably beleeve whereby the bars of his soul were something shaken and loosened for the setting open of the gates for the admission of that Gospel light wherewith God hath been pleased now to illustrate his soul we renewed our attempts with some earnestness and diligence that morning and prevailed at length so far by the divine assistance as to obtain of him to joyn with us in prayer for the assistance and direction of Almighty God in the carrying on of the work of his conversion and afterwards he was with us in the performance of the service of the Church for that morning at my house and kneeled down joyned with us when we used the Lords Prayer in this we made use of the help of his Interpreter that he might repeat it after us And in this holy business I cannot think fit to omit one remarkable passage of the divine Providence which fell out in the performance of divine Worship at that time whereby the Lord may seem to have seconded that of his Dream and it was this It pleased God which we neither designed nor foresaw so to order the matter in that holy plot that he had laid for the bringing home of this soul into his bosom and for the reducing of this lost sheep into his fold of this lost peice of silver into his treasury and of this Prodigal childe from his Mahometan empty husks unto his Fathers house The holy Church of Christ That in the ordinary course of the Church the Second Lesson which we read appointed for that very morning in the disposition of the Church Calender fell out to be the Fifteenth Chapter of the Gospel of S. Luke where we have the parable of the poor lost wandering sheep brought home upon the shoulders of the good Shepheard unto his flock of the silver piece that was lost and found again and of the Prodigal childe returned unto his Fathers house and Bosom and there entertained with great love melody and rejoycing where also at the seventh verse I found my Text upon which God directed me to preach at the time of his Baptism When in the reading of that Chapter I observed that gracious Providence I could not pass it by without some notes upon it and therefore by his Interpreter I communicated unto him that he might therein have a taste of Gods care of his soul that was pleased so wisely and carefully to order things that we thought not off for the speeding and promoting of the work of his Conversion Withal I offered him some observations upon the Chapter tending to the discovery of the wretched condition of one that was straied and lost from God in the wandrings and wilderness of sin and error and of the wonderful and tender mercy of the Lord in seeking after and receiving into his