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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

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

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

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

bosom such poor sinners returning unto him and of the great treasures of his goodness and Bowels of his mercy that he is ready to open and pour out unto them And by way of Application I shewed him that he was in the several parts of that Chapter he was the lost sheep that Christ was even now seeking in the endeavors of his Ministers for his Conversion that he might bear him upon the shoulders of his heavenly strength and mercy unto the Fold of his Church He was the lost peece that had been trodden under the feet of the spiritual adversaries and defaced by the filth and pollution of error and sin which the Lord was now about to recover into his treasury He was that wandering and wretched Prodigal that had been feeding upon the husks of error and vanity and that was brought unto great misery whom the tender Father though he saw him afar off at the great distance of the errors and imperfections that were in him yet would run to meet if he would but turn to him with sincerity and would entertain him with great love mercy and joy would fall upon his neck and kiss him with thckisses of divine love would put the Ring upon his finger would marry him unto himself and give him the pledge of his everlasting love would put the best Robe upon him even the Robe of the righteousness of Christ for his justification and of the ornaments of the holy and heavenly graces of his Spirit for the sanctification of his soul Would kill the fatted Calf would feast him with the mercies graces and comforts of the Gospel in Christ Jesus who died for his salvation Would refresh him and solace him with the heavenly musick and harmony of Divine Peace and his heavenly love c. And thus the Lord was pleased to fasten another chain of his Divine Providence upon his Soul and added unto that dream in his sleep another testimony of that watchful care that he had over that business we had in hand for his good CHAP. XI A Discourse concerning this last Observation and for the justification thereof by the proposal of divers examples of Admonitions given and taken from Providential occurrences of the like sort out of Scripture and other Histories BUt this observation will perhaps be accounted frivol us and superstitious by some and may be abused by others and therefore I crave leave a little to say something for the vindication of it from the first and to give some cautions for the prevention of the second And first That it may not be thought frivolous or superstitious that we have taken notice of that Providential occurrence I shall give you some warrant for the justification of our observation both out of the Scripture and other approved Authors First We finde the divine providence in a kinde not much unlike this commended unto our consideration in the holy Book of God such was that that fell out unto the Eunuch when the like work of conversion was drawing near upon him and that in order to the promoting of that like gracious design that God had upon him Act. 8.27 to 34. Act 8.27 to 34. where it was so ordered by the divine wisdom and Providence that that place of Scripture Isa 53.7 Isa 53 7. was then in reading by the Eunuch when St. Philip was sent by the Spirit of God to draw near unto his Chariot by the explication whereof from the mouth of St. Philip he was converted to the Faith of Christ and was baptized in the way as he went God making use of that Providential occurrence to promote his commersion to the Gospel-truth meeting him in his passage Act. 9. as he met St. Paul in his journey In the Fourth of Luke Luke 4.16 17 18 c. we read that our blessed Savior being in the Synagogue at Nazareth there was delivered unto him the Book of the Prophet Isaiah and when he had opened the book he found the place it may not improbably imply that upon the opening of the Book he found that excellent place of Scripture Isa 61.1 2 Is 61.1 2 c. wherein is contained our Saviors annointing and commission for the sulfilling of that great Office of the Savior of the World offered it self by Providence first unto his view that it might give him the occasion of that holy discourse that he made then unto the people shewing how that very place was fulfilled in him that day before their eyes Whether he looked for it or fell upon it by providence is uncertain saith one of our late Commentators I confess it is not very certain but yet the words do unto me seem most probably to imply so much that he fell upon it by Providence especially in the Original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 c. In the opening or upon the opening of the Book he found the place where it was written I am sure enough we may safely think so for as all things that seem most casual even to the falling of a Sparrow nay of an hair from the head are under the care and guidance of the divine providence Mat. 10.29 30. Matth. 10.29 30 so we may assure our selves that that Divine Providence is especally watchful for the ordering of all things even the smallest matters that can be thought of in the world to serve that great design of the bringing of Gods people to salvation by Christ Jesus That Greek sentence is excellent which Mr. Down hath he telleth us not from whence in his Treatise about Lots in gaming 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 They that speak of the laying of stones tell us that the great stones cannot be well placed without the smaller So saith he also in the Government of the world for the better erdering of the greatest things God takes care of the smallest also Something very observable of a nature near unto our case we may find in the sixth of Esther ver 1. where we finde a multiplied Providence in the ordering of matters in esteem casual for the diversion of that cruel design that Haman had for the procuring of the death of Mordecai when the Gallows was made for poor Mordecai and the next morning that great Favorite that thought he had the key and the stern too of the Kings heart in his mouth intended to sue out the Commission for his execution whose life was the blast of all his comforts God orders the matter so by the ministry of an Angel as one supposeth that the King could not sleep that very night for we may assure our selves no man can at any time sleep when God hath any thing to do with his waking for the good and benefit of his people not the softest beds not the darkest night nor the weariest journeys or labors in the day nor the plentifullest cups nor the warmest cloaths nor the quietest heart nor the strongest opium can prevent or disappoint such a purpose of the Almighty God kept Ahasuerus waking