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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

satisfied for the sins of the World and so became the Saviour and Redeemer of Mankinde He was acquainted therefore by me with some passages of the Fifty third of Isay and as I remember with that wonderful Prophesie of the Ninth of Daniel where the death and satisfaction of the Messiah or Christ are so clearly and evangelically expressed Mr. Gunning pursued the work that was begun with great industry ability and diligence shewing him that his Religion had no warrant of truth in it having neither the testimony from reason not from heavenly revelation made known by miracles or any such heavenly evidence which give abundant witness to the truth of Christianity and when he vainly pretended as it seems he had been informed that there was a Prophesie in the Scripture that another people should come to inform the World after the Christians which it seems was a misprision of that place in Daniel 9.26 The people of the Prince that shall come shall destroy the City and the Sanctuary c. we shewed him as I remember the true interpretation of the place that it was a Prophesie of the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus Vespasian and the Roman people And having obtained of him that Christ was a true Prophet and that all that he spake was truth and that the Gospel of the Evangelists was true The Divinity of Christ and his being the Son of God was proved unto him out of the first of John the first verse c. if my memory fail not and out of the words of our Saviour who declared himself to be the Son of God But that that especially prevailed with him was drawn from that acknowledgement that the Mahometans have of Christ that he was the Spirit of God from whence it was shewed him that since the Spirit of God could be none other then God himself that Christ then must needs be God as the spirit of man is principally the man himself which although it is to be warily understood and so as not to make any confusion between the persons of Christ and the Holy Ghost yet it was Argumentum ad hominem ex concesso and he seemed thereby to be convinced of the truth of his Divinity and of the falshood and contradiction of the Mahometan Religon that acknowledged Christ to be the Spirit of God and yet denied him to be God And two persons being granted it was now easie to prove the third which Mr. Gunning laboured in by setting forth the divine reason of the Trinity of Persons in the Unity of the Essence After these things he seemed to be left without reply or contradiction in a sort and therefore was earnestly sollicited to be baptized by urging the command of Christ for that purpose which he seemed not to deny but was held off by delays and some reluctancies of spirit which we endeavored to remove by shewing him the great danger that hung over him if he should refuse to yield to those convictions that were upon him and urged the examples of divers in the Scriptures that were speedily baptized upon their conversion At last he was perswaded so as with great earnestness to desire it as hath been before declared And now nothing remained but to prepare him for the blessed work of his solemn admission into the Christian Church To which purpose he was committed to me at Chelsey for his instruction and that he might be commended to God in prayer with the help of Mr. Samois who did the Office of an Interpreter amongst other discourses I had with him I pressed him hard to look to his sincerity and shewed him that if he should deal falsly with God he might provoke him to great judgments And I drew up an Exposition of the Apostles Creed for him which I intend if it shall be thought fit to publish for the good of him and others Upon the Friday before the Lords Day on which he was to be baptised I brought him into Mr. Gunnings Congregation at Excester-house and after that delivered him unto him for some further preparation of him When the day came and the holy and solemn business of his Baptism was to be performed in Excester house Chappel I having been before this work of conversion turned out of my interest in the Parish Church of Westminster upon the occasion of my being so bold as to give the Congregation and the Parliament-men a Sermon in the Abby where after two Psalms sung out in the expectation of a Minister none came to supply the place that I saw or knew of a full and chearful Congregation being there assembled Mr. Gunning officiated and after the first part of the Service ended the Convert came in in his Turkish Habit and at his enterance into the Congregation desired several times that he might be admitted to the Baptism of the Christian Church which being granted him and these honorable and worthy persons the young Countess of Dorset the Lord Gorge and Mr. Philip Warwick being Witnesses at his Baptism He having made confession of the Christian faith in the Apostles Creed and having answered the questions concerning the Christian Covenant and Profession for himself which have been usually answered by the Godfathers and Godmothers at the Baptism of Children and being commended to Gods Grace and Mercy in the prayers of the Congregation with such alterations as were necessary for the extraordinary case he being stripped of his Garment to his Waste received his Baptism upon his knees with great humility and was named Philip. The Baptism being performed by Mr. Gunnings permission I preached upon the occasion and took my Text out of the Fifteenth Chapter of St. Luke at the Seventh Verse being the words of our Saviour I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in Heaven for one sinner that repenteth more then for ninety and nine just persons that need no repentance Of which Sermon it may be there shall be a further account given hereafter And if God and Angels rejoyce surely it is the duty of all good Christians to keep consort with them and by the loving and charitable entertainment of this our Convert to give enconragement to others to come in unto Christs fold In the afternoon of the same day he came in another Habit after the English fashion which was charitably provided for him by reverend Doctor Bernard of Grayes-Inn and then Mr. Gunning preached a learned Sermon upon Psal 68. Vers 31. as it is in the Liturgy translation The Morians land shall soon stretch on t her hands unto God And so the comfortable solemnity of that happy day was ended Our new Convert having since declared that he found extraordinary joy and solace in his soul at the time of his Baptism He for the present lives in Holborn at the house of the honourable and vertuous Lady Hatter and is I conceive much improved in the Christian knowledge as appeared by a discourse he had lately at Chelsey and I hope will prove an eminent Christian