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To the Great Turk and his King at Argiers together with a postscript of George Pattison's taking the Turks and setting them on their own shoar.
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Fox, George, 1624-1691.; Lurting, Thomas. 1632-1713. Of George Pattisons taking the Turks about the 8 month, 1663.
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than they have and because they will not lie with your men which is abominable Again Mahomet saith c. 102. p. 319. He that persecutes his Neighbour misery is upon him and persecution shall come upon him and conquer him And therefore if ye believe his Alcoran this will be fulfilled unto you that do such things And again Mahomet saith He that heaps up Treasures and is busie to count them thinks they will make him Immortal he tells such what shall be their misery that their Hearts shall burn in the fire of Hell and therefore what will become of you who get your Treasure by Theft and Robbery and taking Captives and beat them to give more mony for Redemption than they have neither do not think you any harm who are the Subjects of the great God and keep his Commandments surely such that do so will be overwhelmed with the Flames of Hell and bound to great Pillars of the same And again Mahomet saith chap 105. pag. 391. He that devours the Substance of Orphans and the Bread of the Poor Blasphemes against the Law of God and misery is upon him Now are not you men of Argier that devours the substance of Orphans and hinder men to do well and follow their lawful business and so are not only under the Judgement of the Law of God but under the Judgement of your Mahoment who live there by spoyling and robbing your Neighbour that think you no hurt And Jesus the Son of Mary which you confess in your Alcoran was sent to guide and instruct people in the right way whom you confess was a great Prophet and do find fault with the Jews because they did not obey him he commands people that they should love their enemies and do good unto enemies and pray for enemies and do good unto them that despightfully use them And you say in your Alcoran That Jesus shall be a Witness in the day of Judgement against such as obey not his Law then do not you believe he will be a Witness against you for disobeying his Command and Law who hate not only them you think your enemies but those that neither think nor do you harm and take them Captive and rob and spoil them of their Goods and beat them because they will not be defiled with your men and give you more mony for their Ransom than they are able to give And again Mahomet saith chap. 3. pag. 34 That Jesus said Who shall sustain the Law of God in my absence and the Apostles answered him We will sustain the Law of God in thy absence c. And therefore why do not you believe in the Law of God according to Jesus and the Prophets for Jesus Apostles declared against such men as burned in their Lusts one towards another men with men and who knew the Judgements of God was upon them that committed such things and that they were worthy of Death and yet did not only do such things but had pleasure in them that did them and therefore you Turks that do such things are Judged by the great God and all his Holy Prophets and Jesus Christ and his Apostles to Act contrary to Gods pure just holy righteous Law and they are Witnesses against you as is also your own Alcoran And now consider O ye Turks The great and holy Eternal God who made the World and all things therein he is Lord of Heaven and Earth and great King over all and dwelleth not in Temples made with hands but in Temples of Peoples hearts neither is he Worshipped with mens hands he giveth to all breath life and all things that they might serve and worship him and he hath made of one Bloud all Nations of men for to dwell on the face of the Earth and hath determined the times before appointed and the bounds of their Habitations and all should seek after the Lord who fills Heaven and Earth who is not far from any people and now commands all men every where to repent because he hath appointed a day in which he will Judge the World in Righteousness And therefore how can you do any Violence against your own flesh and bloud seeing that God hath made of one Bloud all Nations of men and commands you to do unto all men as you would have them do unto you yea and to love one another and to love enemies and therefore it is the Devil that seduces you and makes you hate both your Friends and Enemies and your own Flesh and Bloud And also the Eternal God of Truth commands That Prayers and Supplications be made for all men who would have all men to be saved and come to the knowledge of the Truth and therefore you ought not to destroy them nor to hurt them which you cannot hurt if you truly pray for them For the Lord hath commanded his Prophet Ezekiel to say unto the People As I live saith the Lord I have no pleasure in the Death of the Wicked but that the Wicked turn from his Wicked ways and live Therefore turn ye turn ye from your evil ways for why will ye Die for I have no pleasure in the Death of him that Dieth saith the Lord God of Truth therefore turn your selves to the Lord and ye shall live for the Lord God that Created the Heavens and the Earth and stretched them out he that spread forth the Earth and that which comes out of it he that giveth breath to the People upon it and Spirit to them that walk therein his Law and Covenant and Light is to be minded and kept that he hath given to the Nations so that every one that hath Breath may praise the Lord in his Covenant of light for in the hand of the Lord is the Soul of every living thing and the Breath of all mankind And the Lord opens unto them that obey him his good Treasure that they have the Blessings from above and also from below and he is the Lord God of the spirits of all flesh and therefore all are to worship and serve him in the Spirit and Truth who is the Lord God of their Spirits And he was the Teacher of Adam and Eve and as long as they kept under his Teachings they were happy but when they forsook Gods Teaching and followed the Devils and Sathans Teaching who led them from God into corruptions filthiness uncleanness and into Divisions and to destroy one another but according to Gods Promises and Prophets the Seed of the Woman is come to bruise the Serpents head and is the Speaker and Teacher again to his People by it as he was to Adam and Eve in Paradice Glory and Praise to the Great and Eternal God for Ever And God by his Prophets said That he would pour out of his Spirit upon all Flesh And Jesus Christ said That God was a Spirit and they that Worship him must Worship him in Spirit and Truth And now all Men and Women in the whole World they must come to the
TO THE Great TURK AND HIS KING AT ARGIERS TOGETHER WITH A Postscript of George Pattison's taking the TURKS and setting them on their own Shoar LONDON Printed for Ben. â—lark in George-yard in Lumbard-street 1680. TO THE Great TURK And his King at ARGIERS IN the Name of the great God and Lord Creator and King of all things in Heaven and Earth do I write unto you And I do take Enoch Noah Abraham and Lot and Isaac and Jacob and Joseph and Moses and David and all the Prophets of the Great and most High Dreadful and Terrible God who is a consuming Fire to the Wicked and John as you say in your Alcoran pag. 30. chap 33. I say John the Son of Zachariah that did affirm Christ to be the Messiah and to be the Word of God that great and chaste just Prophet and Mary the Mother of Jesus Christ with all his Holy Apostles and your own Mahomet that writ your Alcoran to be Witness against you and some of your practises that is practised amongst you at the dreadful day of Judgment of the great God when you shall all give an Account of your Words Deeds and Actions and be rewarded who will reward every man according to his works whether they be good or evil For I say of a Truth That the great God and Lord of Heaven and Earth and all things therein is no respecter of Persons but in every Nation he that fears God and worketh Righteousness is accepted of him And now O great Turk and the King of Argier I have something here to present before you And my desires are That you may read hear and fear the Great and Terrible Righteous Holy and pure God And here as followeth you may see the Impiety and unchastness and the cruelties of some of your People at Argier against honest chaste People that serve and fear and worship the most high God which you have taken Captive I say you have taken their Ships their Goods and some you keep Slaves some till they have died and others you have sold for Slaves many people of the most high God in scorn called Quakers besides great numbers of other English people and people of other Nations cruelly Opprest and inhumanely used by you Did ever Mahomet give you Authority to rob spoil and take the Goods of them that do you no harm and keep Captives the bodies of them and sell them or to beat upon the feet belly or back them which are so taken to make them promise more money for their Ransoms than they are able Or to beat upon the feet with one or two or three hundred blows and hang up by the heels and beat them which you have taken Captives because they refuse to lye with your men as a man lyeth with a Woman And is it not contrary to your very wild Bulls Horses Rams and He Goats and other wild Creatures and bruit Beasts And is it not declared against by the Mighty and Eternal God by Moses and all his holy Prophets who saith It is an Abomination to lie with mankind as with Woman kind and such men as commit these Abominations have defiled the Land and God will spue them out And such Emperours Kings and Magistrates as wink at and suffer such wicked Abominations and Impieties the great God will bring his Judgments and Vengeance upon them For the Eternal Holy Lord God Almighty saith who is of purer eyes than to behold Iniquity If any man lyeth with mankind as he lyeth with Women both of these men have committed Abomination they shall surely be both put to Death their Blood shall be upon them for all such defile Gods Land and Earth and for such Iniquities will the mighty God visit your Land For he is the mighty God to see all your actions ways and doings and hears all your words and sees all your thoughts and you can turn your selves no way from the eye and face of God nor from his hearing your words nor seeing your thoughts Now would you to wit the Great Turk and the King of Argiers or any of your Subjects be so served your selves if you should be so taken Captive to be hanged up by the heels and beaten with two or three hundred stripes because you esteem Vertue Piety and Chastity and not be forced to lye with other men as you lye with Women could you undergo such punishment as you inflict upon some of our Chast people because they will not submit to such abominable impieties as some of your Subjects would force upon them that you have now in Captivity And would you think it were just according to the Law of the great God and your own Alcoran if you were taken Captive and your Goods spoiled and to be beaten upon the belly back on feet to get more mony than you are able to be give for the Redemption out of your Captivity and is not this contrary to the Just Law of the great and holy God and contrary to his Prophets yea and contrary to Mahomet that gave forth the Alcoran Or did those which took Lot Abraham's Friend and his company Captive beat them because they would not lye with men as with Women Or where did ever David or any of the Prophets of God force any that they had taken Captive to lye with man as with Woman as you have done And do not you remember that when some of your Men of War took George Pattison Captive who was a Quaker and his Ship and his Men and after they conquered them again without hurting of them and took them Captive and when they had done set them on the Turkish Shoar without hurting of them as may be seen in the Postcript And where did ever any of the Turkish Men of War do so to the English or to the Quakers but on the contrary you beat them to get more mony than they are able to give you and because they will not lye with your men as they do with Women and this practice of yours is neither moral nor humane but worse than Beasts and so do contrary to the Law of the great God in that you do that to others which you would not have others do unto you Now Mahomet saith in your Alcoran chap. 15. pag. 161. When the Messengers of the great Eternal God were sent to destroy the Infidels of Sodom which came to Lot's House and the Inhabitants of the City came to Lot's House to see the Messengers And Lot said unto them I beseech you defile not your selves with my Guests Fear God and dishonour not your selves and how that Lot said behold my two Daughters take them and the Inhabitants said we do not hinder thee to lodg thy Guests and how that the Inhabitants remained confounded in their Drunkenness and that God overthrew the City and turned it upside down and caused it to Rain with Stones and Fire which utterly destroyed it who were so impious And this shall serve for an Example to