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A96362	A true relation of the conversion and baptism of Isuf the Turkish chaous, named Richard Christophilus In the presence of a full congregation, Jan. 30. 1658. in Covent-Garden, where Mr. Manton is minister. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	White, Thomas, 1628-1698.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1807; Thomason E2141_1; ESTC R204020	32,885	117

his commands they ought to render obedience of Faith unto him and to believe in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost according to the scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles upon which the Believers are built Jesus Christ being the chief Corner stone the scriptures are the word inspired by God to make men wise unto salvation by the Faith which is in Jesus Christ to make them perfectly instructed unto every good work for Doctrine Correction and instruction in Righteousness Moreover I believe that Baptism ought to be administred in the name of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost to shew forth that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are the only true God in whom we ought to believe and whom we should obey I believe also that all believers are baptised by the holy Ghost into one Body and that every one of them being members of this Body in his place become members one of another The washing which is instituted in Baptism doth signifie the washing of Regeneration by the renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed abroad by Jesus Christ upon believers I believe also that this washing is a sign of the new Covenant established in the blood of Jesus Christ into which we are received by the Testimony of a good Conscience towards God in giving our selves wholly over unto him according to the tenor of his Covenant to be taught and governed by him in all things as his Disciples in this washing which is common to all believers to be received all they who are joyned to Jesus Christ as to their Master or head to become his members are baptized by him into one Spirit to become one Body and to behave themselves the one towards the other as his members in the Communion of Saints I believe that the Spiritual and inward Baptism of the Souls which doth purifie the Conscience from dead works makes believers carefull to keep all the Commandements of God and gives them access to call upon the name of the Lord at the throne of grace to be helped in due time I believe that that the Commandements which ought to be observed are given by Moses and confirmed by Christ and the prayer by which we should make our requests known to the Father is taught by the Lord Matth. 6. 9 10 11 12 13. I believe that the Church of God is made use of in this world to hold forth the word of life and the Ordinances of Truth which are appointed to the things which beget and increase grace and to reform vices and scandales I believe that the Ordinances of the publick administration of the Word and Prayer for those that are Ministers or Pastors whose office is to prophesie and pray in the Church are the Organes by which God doth beget faith in men and to make them compleat in all other graces as Saints for the building up of the body of Christ I believe that the Ordinances of the Church and Government of Discipline ought to be administred by the office of Elders and are Organs to prevent and reme the spiritual adultery and evill which is incident unto the society of Saints by an equal administration of Charity for the comforting of the weak and supply of the necessities of the poor as also for order and decency to proceed in all publick concernments and for the correction of a Brother and of those that are in any disorderly way I believe that the Government of God and the Administration of his Providence in the World to come is universal towards all and particular towards the Elect By his universal Providence he will raise up the dead at the last day both great and small and shall call the quick and the dead as well Men as Angels unto Judgment this sentence shall last eternally wherein the Angels shall be judged by the Saints and by his particular Providence over the Reprobates they shall be destroyed from the presence of the Lord with everlasting torments in Hell with the Devil and his Angels but the Elect shall be received into everlasting glory with Christ being made heirs of all things in the presence of God for ever I believe that the Scriptures of the old and New Testament are the true Word of God containing evidently infallibly and perfectly his revealed Will and Truth to be a rule of our Faith and obedience a Judge of our lives a touch-stone of all Doctrines and an Organ to make all believers perfect unto Salvation My Spiritual Father This evening I have made a general confession before my Lord Jesus Christ of my Faith as his slave with a good heart as yet it seems to me that I have great need of Baptism which our Lord Jesus Christ hath ordained for those that believe in him with a good heart Sir I pray you for the love of God to sollice it that I may be baptized for you know that we are subject to die and if I should dye without Baptism I shall not dye having my heart contented I am inclined to pray my Lord Iesus Christ for all faithfull Christians who bear love unto him Isuf Chaous the Slave of my Lord Jesus Christ The Confession being read and the fulnesse of it being taken notice of the Minister went out of the Pulpit down to the Font at which he sate and standing by him asked him three Questions First whether he did not renounce before God and this Congregation the Mahometan Sect whereunto he answered yea he hid renounce it utterly Secondly whether he did not desire to make profession of the Christian Faith and to be Baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost as a disciple of Christ whereunto he answered yea it was his earnest desire Thirdly whether he was not resolved in the future course of his life to submit himself to all the Ordinances of Christ and to walk unblameably under Christian Discipline whereunto he answered yea it was his sincere Resolution These Questions his Answers were made in the Italian tongue and interpreted afterward unto the Congregation in English Then a Prayer was made for a blessing upon the Ordinance to be administed unto him desiring the Lord to be present with his Spirit to seal and exhibite the thing signified thereby that being made partaker of the Promises of the Covenant his walking may be answerable thereunto and he may be delivered from all the Temptations of the evil one henceforth to be filled with joy and comfort by the Holy Ghost and other requests to this effect Which being done the Minister dipt his head into the water of a large Font and poured water upon it saying Richard Christophilus I Baptize thee in the name of of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Then the Minister returning to the Pulpit exhorted the Congregation to observe to the Glory of God the freedom of his Grace and Election that he did out of the midst of a most damnable Sect call this soul to himself in a way more than ordinary and that we should praise God for the work of Grace bestowed on him and that we might hope that God was preparing by such meanes a way to bring in the Conversion of the Jewes and the Fulnesse of the Gentiles amongst which the Turks should be comprehended of whom this man and some others being the first fruits we might expect hereafter a full Harvest They were also exhorted to rejoyce with and for him that he was now in the bosom of the Church that they should embrace him in their hearts through the Communion of Saints and pray for him These Exhortations being ended the Action was concluded with a Prayer and the singing of a part of a Psalm And this Relation is thus made publick that all those to whose hands it may come should be edified therby and stirred up to consider Gods works to give him due praise for the mercy which he shewes to any sinners and to pray that he would dayly add such as belong to his Election unto his Church till all flesh see his glory together And that this Proselyte may be made instrumental to advance his Glory towards his own Nation in due time being delivered from the Temptations and Assaults which Satan hath made upon him in a way not ordinary wherein the Lord hath hitherto graciously supported him and whereof hereafter in due time some more particular account may be given In the mean time this is offered to the ingenuous and true-hearted Christian that various and uncertain Reports may be prevented concerning this Action which we hope will redound to the Glory of our gracious Lord Jesus Christ in whose name it hath been performed and to him with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Praise and Thanksgiving rendred from all his Creatures and in all his Congregations for evermore Amen FINIS Rom. 9. 15. The Estry 1. Of God 2. Of the Holy Trinity 3. Of the Creation of the world 4. Of Adam and his falling from God 5. Of the Restauration of man by Christ 6. Of the ten Commandements 7. Of Christs office of Mediation between God and Man 8. Of the Doctrine of Faith 9. Of good works 10. The Creed 11. The Lords Prayer 12. Of the Sacraments 13. Of the Lords Supper 15. Of Baptism 14. Of the Church Ordinances 16. Of the last Judgment 17. Of the Holy scripture

being fallen into sin and misery could not deliver himself nor could any Creature find or procure a way for deliverance but God found a good Remedy for man I believe that Man was restored from his fall and misery by the Mediation of Jesus Christ who hath undertaken to save Mankind from the Curse of God and to reconcile God to Men and Men to God to destroy all the works of the Devil and all the Enemies of the Salvation of mankind to unite men to God by one Spirit God was moved to appoint and accept this way of Mediation for Mankind only by his free love towards the world and by his Eternal and affectionate compassion towards his Elect in Jesus Christ to the end his grace should be manifested by us The work of Reconciliation between God and Man was effected by the Son of God the second Person of the Holy Trinity who being God from all Eternity took the nature of man in the fulness of time being born by the power of the Holy Ghost of a Virgin and under the Law and so he became Emanuel God with us in one Person I believe that God said with his own mouth I am the Lord thy God who have brought thee out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage Thou shalt have no other Gods before my face c. I believe that the way by which he did bring to passe that admirable work was by the Administration of his three Offices Prophet Priest and King who in the state of his humiliation and exaltation became Wisedom to all Believers and also Righteousness and Redemption to make the work of Redemption and Reconciliation effectual and profitable in us he that did undertake it Jesus Christ is offered unto us with all his benefits in the covenant of grace and to all those to whom the Gospel is Preached this Covenant is published throughout the world by the publick Administration of the Word and of all the Doctrines of Repentance from dead works and of faith towards God and they are obliged every one to take an example by the grace of God which brings Salvation to receive it and to make use of it And the Doctrine of Repentance is applyed unto them that are transgressors of the Law to shew them to renounce wicked works which are first Atheism Idolatry false and Superstitious wayes of worshipping the true God all irreverence and abuse of his Name and all profanation of the Lords Day and neglect of his Solemn Worship and secondly to teach them to renounce all worldly lusts that is to say all disobedience to Superiors Murther and Malice Adultery and Villany False witness-bearing and all Concupiscence desiring things that pertain to his Neighbour I believe that the Doctrine of Faith is to be made use of towards those that have the use of reason to teach them that God is and that he is the Saviour of those that seek him diligently that they may know him and fear him and put their confidence in God the Father who hath made all things and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son who having redeemed us is gone up into Heaven and is sitting at the right hand of God where he makes Intercession for us and from thence he shall come back in glory to give unto Believers their blessed hopes and in the Holy Ghost by whom the Church of Saints is gathered sanctified and governed in this world to be exalted in glory in the world to come I believe that God doth require good workes that thereby he may be glorified amongst men and we must do them that we may shew our love to him and to his glory and our thankfulnesse to his mercy that we may have assurance in our prayers and that we may build up our neighbour in the good way Moreover the Organ by which the Believers do good works is the life of the Spirit of Christ in them which makes the children of grace free from the dominion of sin and leads them in all truth that they may answer the Tenor of the Covenant to observe it also those that are faithful unto God in the Covenant of grace makes use of their graces towards Christ to remain in him and in his word and in his love and to follow him in their affection and actions that in all things they may be conformable to his Image I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of Heaven and Earth and in Jesus Christ his only begotten Son our Lord who was conceived of the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary did suffer under Potius Pilat was crucified dead and buried and descended into Hell the third day he rose from the dead he is gone up to Heaand sits at the right hand of God from thence he shall come to judge the living and the dead I believe in the holy Ghost the holy Universal Church the Communion of Saints the forgiveness of sins the Resurrection of the Body life everlasting Our Father which art in Heaven hallowed be thy Name thy Kingdom come thy will be done on Earth as it is in Heaven Give us this day our dayly bread and pardon us our trespasses as we pardon them that trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from the evil one for thine is the Kingdom the Power and the Glory for ever and ever Amen I believe the Ordinances of Baptism and of the supper of the Lord are Organs to such as are Disciples to increase the Communion of Saints to seal the promises and to confirm the graces of the Covenant to believers and to their of-spring and to distinguish them from the World I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ having eaten the Passeover with his Disciples in the night in which he was betrayed did institute the use of the holy Supper that it should be celebrated afterward to remember his death and to shew it forth till he come again In the institution he took bread and having given thanks he break it and said Take eat this is my Body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me in like manner after Supper he took the Cup saying This Cup is the New Testament in my blood do this as oft as ye drink thereof in remembrance of me he did make use of bread and Wine to let us know that even as the Body is nourished with meat and drink so also the Soul doth receive its spiritual nourishment from him in respect of his Body and blood given to us I beleeve that Iesus Christ did institute the Baptism after his Resurrection and before his ascention into heaven as an effect and a Testimony that he hath received all power in Heaven and Earth and the Disciples are commanded to administer the same to make it appear that all the Nations of the Earth are made subject unto him as to their Saviour and that being subject to

A TRUE RELATION OF THE Conversion and Baptism OF ISUF THE Turkish Chaous NAMED Richard Christophilus In the presence of a full Congregation Jan. 30. 1658. in Covent-Garden where Mr. Manton is Minister Imprimatur EDM. CALAMY LONDON Printed by S. Griffin and are to be sold by John Rothwel at the Fountain in Cheap side and Thomas Vnderhil at the Bible in Pauls Church-yard 1658. ERRATA PAge 12. lin. 17. for surely read sincerely P. 14. l. 15. f. sicerity r. sincerity P. 22. l. 16. f. is be r. is to be P. 30. l. 15. after inclusively add and cumulatively P. 41. l. 4. f. the r. he P. 46. l. 22. f. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} r. {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} P. 48. l. 22. f. heed r. need P. 58. l. 6. f. 29th r. 30th P. 82. l. 3. f. sollice r. sollicit P. 83. l. 11. f. Hid r. did To the Christian Reader A PREFACE CHristian and Ingenuous Reader for to such I would only make this address thou wilt find in this Relation a rare Example of Christianity and Ingenuity which I wish it may affect thee as it hath done me at several times for I must confess that by the zeal and ingenuity of this Proselyte in the profession of Christianity I have been oft-times awakened to many affections and paroxysms of love towards Jesus Christ and been reproved and ashamed within my self that he should in his first beginning of acquaintance with the Lord Jesus outstrip me in many things who have had so long acquaintance with him and manifold experiences of his goodness and providences towards me But as this on the one hand hath convinced me of my failing so on the other hand it hath moved me to a loving admiration and adoration of the free grace and work of the Spirit of God who bloweth where he listeth and sheweth mercy on whom he will have mercy and hath compassion on whom he will have compassion For here we have a clear example of this way of Gods dealing in causing one who lived in the greatness and splendor of the world to renounce all for the love of Jesus Christ to come amongst Christians to live unto him in obedience to his will and being come amongst those first who under the name of Christianity were found by him to be Idolaters although they used all ways of industry and allurements to invite him to live amongst them yet he rather chose to forsake all the enjoyments which he might have had amongst them to embrace the Society of poor Prostants where he could have no hopes of preferment than to be deprived of the meanes of being perfectly joyned unto the Lord by saving knowledge and the conversation of those that are truly Godly wherein we may observe another act of special grace that he was taught by the Spirit to discern the falshood of the by way before he was fully instructed in the Truth and now since he is come to the knowledge of the Truth I find his great grievance and trouble to be this that he can meet with very few who are sincere in their walking answerable to the Rule for of this he doth with much passion sometimes complain that it is a wonder to him and a cause of much affliction that such as have the knowledge of the great love of Jesus Christ towards their soules and have received from him so rich promises and so perfect a Law should have no more respect unto him and his wayes so that oft-times when he hath fallen upon these complaints with some passionate expressions as if his heart were ready to break he hath brought into my mind with more life than ever I formerly could represent unto my self the passions which the Psalmist in the 119. Psalm saith he was in by reason of the wicked who transgressed the Law of God As when he saith v. 53. ror hath taken hold upon me because of the wicked that forsake thy Law And again v. 158. I beheld the transgressors and was grieved because they kept not thy word I say that I never understood the nature of this grief and horror so lively within my self as I have perceived it in him by which evidence of grace in him I confess to the glory of God that I have been much edified and many times have had cause to condemn mine own soul for the sluggish disposition under which I am found when I have perceived so much life and vigorous zeal and sincerity in a new Convert who hath quit all and doth count every thing but dung to win Christ and to find the life of his Holiness amongst Christians For the truth is that in all his Converse with others this is his business to discern who hath this life of love to Christ who it is that walks without worldly interests and is unbyassed in the profession And because he doth meet with so few in whom he can perceive the sincerity and ingenuity of the Spirit of Christ therefore he is oft-times troubled and offended and I am made partaker of his grief and made more sensible of it than at any time heretofore when I have had no such object to converse withall but chiefly I find him in the extremit of passion with anger and grief when he perceives and truly he is very discerning that under any pretence of Religion or of Righteousness men drive on some self-interest when he perceives this he knows not almost with what words of indignation to detest that hypocrisie So that to conclude I must truly say to the glory of God that wch is upon my heart that whiles I have been imployed to instruct and comfort him I have profited more by his conversation than by any that I have been acquainted withall in England and if this man should not prove sincere and upright in the way of Godliness I shall confess that I know no evidence to discern the uprightness of any man henceforth in this world And if thou that art ingenuous and sincere in thy love to Christ wilt converse with him I make no doubt but thou wilt find this to be a Truth which in simplicity of heart to encourage thee to look to thy wayes as in the presence of God is freely attested by Thy servant in Christ JOHN DURIE To the Reader Christian Reader HAving had several conferences with this Noble Convert and being desired to give some short account thereof I thought good to add this to the subsequent Narrative being several passages of private conference between him my self whereof an account could not so well be given by the Author Some of them are these viz. I asked him among other Questions what he thought to be the meaning of these words If thy right eye offend thee pull it out and cast it from thee and if thy right hand offend thee cut it off His Answer was as near as I can remember thus That our Lord Jesus Christ did not intend us any harm

among them but forsook them dispossessing them of their chiefest Cities Jerusalem and Constantinople yet God is still the Governor of the World and provides himself of another Prophet and people raising our Great Mahomet and giving way to our Nation so as no doubt we shall be happy for ever if we can serve this God aright and take example by the fall of others But alas I tremble to speak it we have erred in every point and wilfully broken our first institutions so as God hath manifested his wrath by evident signes and tokens keeping our Prophet from us who prefixed a time to return with all happiness to his people so as there are now forty yeares past by our account Wherefore this strange and fearful Vision is a prediction of some great troubles and alterations For either the opening of this Book in the womans hand doth foretel our falling away from the first intent of our Law whereat these armed men departed as confounded with the guilt of their own consciences or else it signifies some other book wherein we have not yet read and against which no power shall prevail so as I fear our Religion will be proved corrupt and our Prophet an Impostor and then this Christ whom they talk of shall shine like the Sun and set up his name everlastingly Hitherto the company were silent but hearing him speak so boldly they charged him with blasphemy and knowing their Law which makes all blasphemy capital they presently condemned him and having the Beglerbegs consent and warrant they put him to death I have observed his carriage to be very grave and serious he speaks of Christ with much affection and reverence alwayes calling him the Lord Jesus Christ Both his pronuciation and his gestures shew his high esteem of Christ When I was with him he was very temperate in his dyet his civilities such as shew him to be a man of no ordinary breeding and education This brings to remembrance a story he told me of certain Quakers who came to him with their hands in their pockets and using those rude carriages which they are known to use to all though of never so great quality withal telling him that we should not use any titles of honor or civilities to any He told me he was much offended at their demeanour and said unto them that for his part he thought that Worship was due to God and Courtesie to man I bless God for many spiritual advantages that I have gained by those things I have heard of him and from him Doubtless this providence is not to be gazed on but to be improved we must not be like Athenians that love novelties though the thing be never so serious when it ceases to be novell'd it ceases to affect them and if it be new though they account him a meer babler that tells it they long to hear it I fear Religion suffers upon this account And whereas the longer we are acquainted with the truths of God the more we should admire and love them yet it is too evident that novelty is as prevalent in matters of Religion as of the things of this world The Uses that we are to make of this Narrative I conceive to be these First that if we account it as we may justly do so great a mercy that God hath snatcht this Convert as a firebrand out of the fire ought not we to esteem the mercy less that we have enjoyed it so long In some sense we may say that with a great summe of money he hath purchac'd this freedom for he hath been fain to leave a great estate and his Countrey But we are born free had we been born where the name of Christ had not been spoke of or blasphemed we could not without a miraculous providence have been sav'd Now without a stupendious wickedness obstinacy and infidelty we cannot be damned blessed be God for our birth-priviledges and the Lord grant that we may not so abuse them that we shall be afraid to meet them at the day of Judgment I think further that if it be such a just cause of rejoycing that one Turk is Baptized and become a Christian how should we pray and endeavour as much as in us lies that not only they but other poor Heathen Nations may be brought in If there were as great care and wisedom used for the spreading of the Gospel as there is for the vending of our Staple-commodities in other Countreys how wonderful would God bless our endeavours But in stead of propagating the Gospel abroad we despise and destroy it at home I fear divers Merchants and Travellers leave the scandal that their sins cause behind them and ●●…ing the infection and vices of Forein Nations home with them Divers Travellers go abroad with a little Religion and return with none The next Use that I could wish were made should be that all Christians might so live that all should have cause to say as Alexander Severus did of Origen when perceiving some to wonder at the learning of Origen whereby they were induced to embrace the Christian Profession Truly saith he the humility and charity of Christian people which I have heard of and do daily behold doth much more perswade me to believe that Christ is God than all Origens Arguments Surely if Christians lived like Christians it were enough to make Heathens Christians but generally the lives of Christians are such that it is enough to make any but true Christians to say sit anima mea cum Philosophis I will give you a short Narrative of some things that I have heard from this Noble Convert and others of the charity and fidelity of Turks He told me that once a year all the great men of Turky Bashaws and others had their whole estates valued and cast up by their Stewards and they give the tenth part yearly to charitable uses I could wish that this example were followed especially by persons of great estates Those that have many thousands a year that might better spare the third part of their revenue than one of a small estate can the twentieth part of his yet how do they look upon it as a work of supererogation if they give but four or five times a year but twenty pound at a time nay I wish there were not some who have vast estates and not a child to leave it to and yet never make an end of encreasing The Apostle saith If any man be covetous as well as if any man be a drunkard with such a man do not eat For my part if after admonition such a one as I have spoke of did not reform I should vote him to be covetous and upon that excommunicate him There is a story also that I think worth relating because of the good use that may be made of it Two Turks there were that had made a Christian drunk and then put a turban on his head and next day accus'd him to the Musty that he had promised