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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