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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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Spirit and the Truth in their own hearts which they have from the God of Truth if they do serve and worship the holy and eternal God of Truth in his Spirit and Truth and these are the true Worshippers that Worship the Eternal God of Truth in his Spirit and Truth which the Devil which is the foul corrupt Spirit is out of who abode not in the Truth and there is no Truth in him therefore he is not to be followed nor worshipped but the God of Truth and the Grace of God which brings Salvation hath appeared to all men which teacheth us his people to deny Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts we living Soberly Righteously and Godly in this present World Now all men must come to this Grace of God in their hearts which appears to them in their hearts which shews them their Ungodliness and Worldly Lusts and their unrighteousness and it will teach them to forsake it and bring their Salvation but if that you do turn this Grace of God into wantonness and walk despightfully against the Spirit of Grace you walk in despight of that which should bring your Salvation then you bring the Wrath and Indignation of the great God against you who abuse his Grace and Favour and the Messiah and you and Mahomet do consess that John declares Christ the Messiah to be the Word then you are to obey him Moreover John saith That he was not that Light but sent to bear Witness of that Light and that was the true Light which lighteth every man that cometh into the World Now you all being enlightened with this true Light which Light lets you see all your evil deeds and actions that you do and all your evil words and thoughts that you speak and think And every one of you that doth Truth cometh to the Light that your Deeds may be manifest they are wrought in God from whom they have this Light in whom there is no Darkness but every one of you that doth evil hateth the light then you hate Jesus Christ and the Eternal God neither will you come to the light lest your Deeds should be reproved by the light and this is the Condemnation That Light is come into the World and men love Darkness rather than Light because their Deeds be Evil. Now if you would do the Truth and come to the Light and love it it shines in your hearts and would give you the Light of the knowledge of the Glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ and then you would know this Heavenly Treasure in your Earthen Vessels and the excellency of this power to be of God and not of your selves And you do confess That Jesus Christ was not begotten by the Will of man who was Conceived of Mary and that she should Conceive and bring forth without the touching of man and he being Conceived by the Holy Spirit then whose Son can he be but Gods who taught him the Scriptures and the mysteryes of the Laws of the Old Testament and the Gospel who was a Prophet to the Children of Israel as you confess in your Alcoran chap. 3. pag. 34. So he was declared to be Gods Son in the power according to the Spirit of Holiness by the Resurrection from the Dead for all Died in Adam and he tasted Death for every man and is risen for the Just fication of all that believe in him the true Light of the Eternal God And now all ye Turks and all People upon the earth God who is Immortal Eternal and Invisible he has poured out of his Spirit upon you all but if you do grieve it and vex and rebel and err from and against his good Spirit then you go from Gods Law and that which doth Witness for him which is his Spirit in your hearts which is a Witness for the King of Kings yea the great King of Heaven and Earth I say this Witness doth Witness for the great God who will Judge the World in Righteousness according to this Witness and the Secrets of every mans heart he by his Spirit doth shew unto man his Thoughts and the Imaginations of his heart and searches the Heart and tryes the Reins and all things are naked and open to him who is a Consuming Fire to the Wicked Now this Spirit of the God of Truth which he hath poured upon all flesh of men and women it is a Witness against you for the pure God for all your unrighteous and ungodly impious actions and your bad Thoughts and Words and whatever you do or act that is unjust and unholy and for what you do to others you would not have done to you the Holy Spirit of the great God of Truth is a Witness against you It was a Witness against Adam and the Old World that disobeyed him it was a Witness against the Jews and it is a Witness against all Christians that walk not in it and Turks and all people upon the earth and they that are led by the good Spirit of God are his Children Sons and Daughters and therefore prize your time while you have it ye Turks and others and mind Gods good Spirit and his Light and Grace which will bring your Salvation that you may come into favour with the God of Truth From him whose Love is to God and Jesus Christ the Just and Holy One and all his Holy Prophets and Apostles and all People upon the Earth for their Salvation and desires their Eternal Good and Happiness and not any mans Destruction G. Fox Kingston upon Thames the 16 of the fifth month 1680. POSTSCRIPT Of George Pattisons taking the Turks about the 8 Month 1663. Dear Friend THine I have received In Answer to thy request I have given thee an Account as well and as near as I can but as to the exact time I cannot for I have not my Books I was George Pattisons Mate and coming from Venice being near a Spanish Island called May-York we were Chased by a Turkish Ship or Patah as sometimes before we had been and thinking by our Vessels well Sailing might escape But Providence Ordered it so That by carrying over-much Sail some of our Materials gave way by which means the said Turk came up with us and commanded the Master on Board who accordingly went with four men more leaving me and three men and a boy on board our Ship and so soon as our men came on Board the Turk they took them all out of the Boat and came about 14 Turks in our Boat All which time I was under a very great Exercise in Spirit not so much for my self because I had a secret hope of relief but a great stress lay upon me for the men in this very Juncture of time for all hope of outward appearance being then gone the Master being on board of the Turk and four more and the Turks just coming on Board I being as one even as if I were or were not only desiring of the Lord for patience in such
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