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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

to God And directing us unto this glorious Goal or prize in the holy road or way of the holy commands of God encouraging and facilitating our obedience thereunto by gracious promises outbidding all that the World or the Flesh or the Devil can offer to hire us or move us to sin or wickedness and so by another great and holy policy engrafting our interest into all our duty so that we cannot sin against God but we must sin against our own felicity nor advance in holiness but we must also advance in happiness making holiness and happiness upon the matter one and the same thing though they seem two unto us by the weakness of our sight as one Candle seemeth two unto a distempered or weak eye It hath the stamp of Gods Meekness and Mercy upon it not onely in revealing it unto us and pouring it out upon us in the wonderful works of Redemption and Salvation by Christ Jesus at which the Angels and host of Heaven stand amazed whilst wicked and unthankful mortals despise and contemn it but in the holy conformity which it enjoineth unto all and worketh in the hearts and practices of true Christians thereunto forbidding all manner and every degree of cruelty and violence of hatred malice envy and revenge both in the root and the fruit thereof and enjoining all acts of Mercy and compassion towards others even our greatest adversaries and strangers however different from us in judgment or affection allowing no hatred unto any thing but sin thereby opening a door of love unto the whole world for their edification and bringing in unto Christ Jesus and to the Truth Grace and Salvation of the Gospel which is too little thought on and less practised by the new and strange Christians of our days whom God will convince either to condemnation or to conversion as may be hoped by such as this our Convert and others whom he shall bring home unto his truth and love making even them to provoke us to jealousie and to be not onely Professors with us but Reformers of us And these Rules of Love Compassion and Mercy are established in an excellent and most exact and perfect order and method both in regard of the objects and operations thereof they being first to be regarded that are nearest and dearest to God and us or whose preservation and good is of greatest or most general concernment And the operations to be exercised as in none but just and pure and holy so chiefly and specially in spiritual ways And this mark of love and tender compassion amongst Christians was that that made them antiently as glorious in the eyes of God and Man as the contrary cruelty and unmercifulness hath rendred inglorious and ignominious the degenerate and false Christians of our days So that the very Heathens are said to have fallen into an admiration of their mutual mercy with an Ecce quam se invicem diligunt ecce quam pro se invicem mori parati sunt Behold how these Christians love one another Behold how these Christians are ready to die for one another As now Turks and Heathens may cry out with abomination against the Christians and self Canonizing Saints of our days Ecce quam se invicem oderint ecce quam se invicem interficere parati sunt it is translated in letters and language of blood and written all over our age and Nations Behold how these Christians hate one another behold how these Christians are ready to kill and destroy one another This and other wicked practises of those that walk under the names of Christians so diametrally opposite unto the holy and merciful rule and constitution of Christ Jesus are those that have cast reproach upon the name of Christ and have clouded up the beauty and splendor of the Gospel and the Christian Religion and do continually blast and hinder the conversion of Jews Turks Heathens and others thereunto who are thereby confirmed and encouraged in their evill ways For the love of God and our own souls let us think upon it The wicked lives of Christians will answer for and be charged with the destruction of the rest of the world as well as for their own and theirs amongst whom they live But God is true though every man be a lyar Christian Religion hath upon it the stamp and testimony of the great and unblemished innocency and piety of Christ Jesus in the holiness of his Life and Doctrine acknowledged by the Turks themselves Of the great power of God in his wondrous Incarnation and miraculous conception and birth whereby he was a miracle himself above all other miracles whatsoever The latter whereof to wit his wonderful conception and birth is acknowledged by the Mahometans themselves In the many and great wonders that he wrought which they themselves also confess it is testified unto As also by his Resurrection from the dead and his Ascention ineo Heauen which to wit his Ascention they aver though they deny his Death and Resurrection By the voice from Heaven at his Baptism and transfiguration By the descending of the Holy Ghost both upon himself in the form of a Dove and upon his Disciples in the form of fiery cloven tongues after his ascention upon the day of Pentecost to the enduing of them with those wonderful gifts of all Languages which they exercised in the presence of many witnesses of several parts and Nations who by Gods providence were then at Jerusalem which was then made as it were the Representative of the World that it might be the Theater of so glorious a spectacle To this may be added the great efficacy and power of the Gospel grace shining in the lives of true Christians and in the glorious sufferings of the Martyrs The spiritual and heavenly proposals of the Gospel And the spiritual wayes contrary to humane wisdom and carnal interest without humane force whereby it hath been carried on And the standing testimony that is unto this day in the dissipation and afflicted and wretched and hateful condition of the banished Jewish Nation scattered over the world having been under that judgement for the space of One thousand six hundred years and upwards as was foretold by Daniel and our Blessed Saviour himself that they may be witnesses to the world in the several Nations where they are scattered and against themselves of the truth of the Gospel and the glory of Christ whose blood is upon them to this day according to that dreadful curse that they laid upon themselves I have been bold to enlarge something more upon this then I did in the pressing of it upon the Turk I hope it may be for the good of him and others Now because we found that he acknowledged the Law and Prophets and the holy Evangelists we had recourse unto them for the conviction of him in the Three great points of Christianity which he opposed viz. The God-head of Christ and that he is the Son of God and that he died and

away from him in their sins Courting those with the kinde tokens and large presents of his love that continue in a perverse resolution of war and enmity against him begging at the doors of poor and indigent people with great importunity that they may receive the free almes of his riches bearing many and many repulses and affronts offered unto his kindness by proud and wilful dust and ashes and after much long-suffering vindicating the honor of his despised goodness by turning all his contemned clemency into rage and fury against them that reject it And there we may solace our souls with the sweet operations of his most dear and melting mercies and compassions as in the present case unto poor lost sinners fetching them home from their errors and wickedness upon the Shoulders of his strength and in the Bosom of his love carrying his Lambs in his arms and gently Tremelius in the Translation of the Old Testament That he was not converted to be heartily a Christian untill the first words of St. Johns Gospel were offered unto him by a strange Providence as he conceived These things I hope may serve for the justification of our fore-mentioned Observation CHAP. XI Of some succeeding Passages after this forementioned work of Providence in order to the Turks Conversion and of his consenting and earnest desire to be Baptized GOd having put the Dream and that work of his Providence which have occasioned so large a Discourse as two wheels as it were unto the Chariot of our motions and endeavors after some little pause caused by the business of the Lords Day wherein I was employed as I have been sundry times by the favourable admission of reverend Dr. Bernard in the honorable Society of Grayes-Inn in London which gave a seasonable opportunity to Mr. Dandulo to ruminate upon the former passages and to digest those admonitions and instructions which he had received Upon the Monday following I thought good to endeavor some farther promotion of the Work that we might not suffer those heats which God had raised to cool in his heart nor those impressions which our Convert had received to languish or grow dull in his Soul but that we might make a seasonable advantage of those encouragments which God had given unto the business and strike as they say which the iron was hot and press in upon his Spirit at that door which God had now begun thus far to open unto us and that not onely because constancy and prudent speed that alloweth as little delay or intermission as may stand with convenience are a great means to secure the success of a good enterprize operations being then most strong and vigorous when they are carried on in a sort together so that they communicate mutual strength unto one another and those that succed become powerful whilst they make advantage not onely of their own strength but of the force and impression of the former that have gone immediately before them Upon which account it cometh to pass that so many great and good undertakings in the World and in the Church have been lost by interruptions and procrastinations opportunities once lost being usually with much difficulty or not at all to be recovered but besides these considerations we had reason enough to believe that the Devil who is very watchful to take all advantages for the blasting of those purposes that are good and holy would be ready and diligent to make an evil use of all the time that should be given him for spoiling and disappointment of that business we had in hand whereby God was like to be so eminently glorified if it should obtain our happy and desired success And that which was indeed very urgent in the requiring a speedy and vigorous prosecution of the work was the danger that seemed to threaten an entire overthrow both unto our endeavors and hopes if not speedily encountred by reason of those inclinations that appeared in him of a suddain departure not onely from the place where the work was now begun upon him but out of this Nation by a return into his own Country to which purpose as it hath been since suggested with some apprehension as it seemed to me of disparagement to him and his Conversion though I cannot see upon what reason or ground and as he himself hath confessed being put unto the question upon occasion of the aforesaid suggestion unto me he had attempted an address by way of petition unto the Protector for a Pass and some provision to convey him over into his own Country again And give me leave to take notice of it by the way because as I formerly in some discourse that I had with a worthy person concerning the care that ought to be taken of this new Convert upon the assurance of the great malice that Satan bears unto such performances against which he rageth in himself and his instruments as a Bear robbed of her Whelps did take upon me to conjecture and aver that it would fall out there have been various endeavors both to corrupt and to blast the credit of the Work that hath been by Gods mercy wrought upon this our Convert One having reported and he a Minister of these times as I am informed most falsely and uncharitably that he was hired to become a Christian Another that he staieth here and becomes a Christian because he dares not return home for fear of being put to death for violating the Laws of Mahomet in drinking wine before his conversion for which he was reproved and threatned by the Agent with whom he came hither from Algeir Another that he was baptized heretofore elsewhere But I would advise all men to take heed how they go about to disparage the gracious works of the Almighty through the envy that they bear towards the instruments which God is pleased to use and own in such matters or to discourage young Converts that are brought home into Christs Bosom lest they prove themselves thereby to be worse Christians then he and render themselves liable to that condemnation of our Saviour Matth. 18.6 Who so shall offend one of these little ones that beleeve in me which may be understood of those that are children in grace as of those that are children in years also it were better for him that a milstone were hanged about his neck and that he were drowned in the depth of the Sea But indeed this intention of his return which he manifested so clearly by his attempt of petitioning the Protector for the purpose as is before declared which hath been also urged against him as a disparagement doth confute the most of these suggestions and doth render it improbable that he was either afraid to return or that he was baptized before at any other place which if it had been true he could not have returned without an eminent danger of being put to death And indeed this intention and inclination of his to a sudden return home as it hath by

concernment of his Soul in the embracement or rejection of the truth no less then in his eternal greatest good or evill and to bring him into dislike or at least into a doubt of that erroneous and impious way that he embraced as being uncorrespondent and unsatisfactory to that which is and needs must be the aim of every wise and serious man in the choice or embracement of any Religion which is a well grounded hope and succeeding attainment of the salvation of his Soul in another world and here in this life the peace of a good Conscience next to the glory and honour of God which as it was shewed him could not be found without a remedy for sin which exposed unto Gods wrath and to eternal death and condemnation And that there could be no remedy for this deadly disease but by a satisfaction to Gods Justice That Mercy and Truth might meet together and Righteousness and Peace might kiss each other which remedy or satisfaction was not at all offered in that Religion that he embraced He said that God gave pardon upon repentance but it was shewed him that his repentance and the repentance of all others was imperfect and no man was so cleared thereby from sin but that there would still need a satisfaction for the failings even of repentance and of the best ordered life that is to be found amongst men in this life That this satisfaction is clearly and fully offered in the Christian Religion in the blood and sufferings and righteousness of Christ Jesus who being God and Man and the eternal Son of God became a fit Mediator between God and Man and offered himself a sufficient Sacrifice unto the Divine Justice for the sins of the whole World The benefit whereof as it is proposed in the Gospel unto repentance and to all true penitent sinners so it is to be received onely from and in Christ Jesus and by the true faith of the Gospel Upon this discourse or to this purpose with some other which I cannot well now remember he seemed to be something startled and to doubt whether the ground whereon he stood was sound or no And as I remember expressed some desire that God would direct him to the Truth Some further Argumenrs were used to discover yet further unto him not onely the insufficiency but the impiety and vanity and great uncertainty of that Religion he had embraced as that which countenanced cruelty and oppression was carried on by violence and carnal ways and proposed low and carnal delights for the reward below the excellency of the spiritual Soul of Man Countenanced wickedness as Impurity and Revenge and proceeded from a person of a carnal and lascivious temper and conversation who pretended a more then ordinary Commission and allowance for lust as a priviledge belonging to him as the great Prophet That pretended indeed revelation from Heaven but had no testimony from God to commend it to the Souls of men but depended upon the bare assertion of Mahomet which if he be considered in the singleness of his person being a man subject to error as well as others especially if he be considered in his lascivious and wicked quality and condition is too sandy a foundation and of more then much too weak a credit that the venture of the eternal good and safety of one single Soul should be committed thereto much less of many millions or of the whole world That it was a Religion stuffed with monstrous lies and legends as may be seen by those things that have been set down Whereas on the other side the Christian Religion hath upon it the very stamp of Gods image which is his seal in the high excellent mysterious and spiritual wisdom too high for humane Imposture in any likelihood to invent since it is so far too high for humane Wisdom or Understanding even since it is revealed to conceive which is exactly answerable and uniform and correspondent to it self in all the members and parts thereof which all make up a sweet and excellent tune and harmony amongst themselves without any jar or discord between them and all the Writers thereof though being many and living in many and several Ages and places were forbidden thereby to conspire in falshood with one another wherein there must needs have been much boggling in matters so high above humane reason and comprehension if there had not been an infallible rule of divine Light and Truth to guide and unite them together at so great a distance Besides the wonderful and excellent consent that is between the Types and Prophesies and the fulfilled events thereof The former whereof are for the most part consigned over unto us by the Jews professed enemies unto the Christian Truth who maintain themselves and have delivered over unto us the predictions the completions whereof yet themselves now deny And so it is fulfilled of that blinded Nation of the Jews that is said by one I know not whom of them that it is Asinus portanus vinum bibens aquam An Ass that carrieth wine and drinketh water They carry the wine of the holy Prophesies and drink the water of their own foolish and malicious mis-interpretations and traditions It hath the stamp of the Divine wisdom and goodness upon it in that holy policy established in the bond of Divine and Christian Love whereby it unites all in the love of God and in a mutual love unto and a mutual charge of one another and of all men even greatest Enemies in all their concernments and in holy peace providing for all and carrying on all things with a heavenly and publick spirit so that if it were but generally embraced it would make the world happy and establish a kinde of Heaven upon Earth when every man should have a care of another as of himself in soul and spiritual good in matter of Life Estate Health Reputation and all other matters wherein their good is concerned whereby that wicked voice of Cain which crieth so loud in the hearts and practices of the world would be silenced and excluded out of the society of mankinde Am I my Brothes keeper since it maketh all men keepers of one another and teacheth all to take care of the publike good of all and thereby enlargeth the riches and content of all particulars teaching them to joy and delight in the good and blessing of others as well as their own It hath the stamp of Gods Holiness and Righteousness upon it in the utter opposition that it hath unto all sin in the admirable and perfect rules of Justice and Piety and purity which it establisheth both in regard of inward motions thoughts and affections and in outward carriage and conversation of life setting up the right mark before us which is Gods glory and eternal happiness in him to be pursued by all in all thoughts words and actions in all their Offices Trades and Vocations so bringing in the whole life of man to be an holy sacrifice