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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

say that the name of Mahomet was in the Law and in the Gospel And in their Histories they say that his name was also in the Psalms and this they say a certain Monk confessed and that Jesus foretold the coming of Mahomet and his people They say that Abraham professed their Religion under the name of Islamism long before the Law and the Gospel and that he was neither Jew nor Christian They deny that Christ truly died but they say that he was without death translated into Heaven See their impudence against so manifest a truth They say indeed that the Jews were deceived and thought they had slain Christ but they slew him not but that God took him up unto himself And that when the Jews were about to kill Christ he asked his Companions Which of you will be content to have my likeness put upon him that so he may go into Paradise and that one of them said I will and that God presently put the Image of Christ upon him and that he was slain and crucified instead of Christ and that after this the Associates of Christ fell at dissention about this and that some said Christ was God and could not die others that he was killed and crucified others if Jesus were crucified where is our Companion if our Companion was crucified where is then Jesus Others said he was taken up into Heaven They hold that Jesus shall descend from Heaven in the last days and that there shall be no people to whom the Book comes i.e. I conceive the Alcoran which they call 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 as we the Scriptures the Bible but they shall believe in it So that there shall be but one Religion to wit Islamism and God at that time shall slay the false Messiah and there shall be safety so that the Lions shall eat with the Camels the Leopards with the Oxen Wolves with the Sheep and Children shall play with Serpents And they say Christ shall stay and dwell upon earth Forty years and that then the Muslins or Mussel-men i.e. the Mahometans shall pray over him They say moreover that when Christ shall descend he shall frame himself according to the order of Mahomet and shall poure out prayers turning toward him as he were one of his followers Nor shall the last day appear say they until the descending of Jesus go before They hold also that other dreadful signs shall go before the last day The false Christ or Messiah Gog and Magog and the rising of the Sun in the West Hence that irreligious or prophane Jest whereby the witty Persian deciphereth the manners of a libidinous Judge bringing in the King thus bespeaking the Judge and the Judge replying to the King The King said to the Judge Rise I pray you for the Sun is now risen the Judge said In what part of the world did he rise The King answered in the East as he is wont Then said the Judge Blessed be God for the door is yet open to repentance I wish there were no such presumptuous scoffers amongst Christians CHAP. XIII An account of the Arguments used for the conversion of the Turk with some illnstration and enlargement and of his Baptism WHosoever shall take but a view of those things that have been discovered concerning the madness and vanity of the Mahometan Religion they would have cause enough to wonder that a meteor made up of such earthy and corrupt exhalations should last so long have such a powerful influence upon the minds of such multitudes of those creatures that have principles of Reason and Religion in them but that the terrors of the World and carnal apprehensions and interests have so embased the hearts and dazled the eies of poor mortals that most men worship a flaming Sword especially when the Hilts of it are enchased with transitory delights and advantages And the greatest part of the world may seem to have their Religion cut out unto them by the weapons of their conquering Subduers rather then commended unto them by the force of convincing Arguments And indeed were not the souls of those that profess the Mahometan religion wrapped up in a dark vail of ignorance under the cloud whereof they are purposely kept it might seem almost incredible that they should not easily disclaim such impious errors the falshood and impiety whereof are abundantly convinced by the very display and discovery of the very tenets and practises themselves and yet a very rare thing hath it bin to hear of one bred up in that imposture of Turcism converted to the glorious light of the Gospel It may easily be perceived by what hath been delivered what great advantages there lie before us even in the great absurdity of their opinions where they are at opposition unto us and in those approaches that they make toward Christianity in some other things that they hold as hath been shewed for the undertaking and promoting their conversion which will render it the more unanswerable and unexcusable that there have been no more adventurers to that purpose Since the Church which is the illuminated part of the world as it hath a charge of the great work of the conversion of the rest thereof unto that truth which God hath revealed unto her not onely for her own salvation but also for the guidance and direction of others according to that Commission which is yet in force and hath in it the power of a command or heavenly injunction from Christ Go and teach or make Disciples of all Nations baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and the Holy Ghost and if there had been but the tenth part of those lives ventured upon a suffering account for the propagating of Gods truth that have been hazarded and lost in the bloody quarrels of Ambition Covetousness and Revenge and for the propagating of Dominion by invading of the rights of other Princes and people in the way of bloody and active violence in all probability the world ere this time might have been reduced unto the holy Gospel of Christ Jesus and that Prophesie fulfilled which we yet hope for and God may promote it even from such a beginning as this that in the last days the mountain of the Lords house shall be established in the top of the mountains Isa 2.2 and set above the hills and all Nations shall flow unto it But this is like to be the work rather of the cross then of the Sword In hoc signo vinces is still the Christians Motto Our Victories are to be obtained under the Banner of the cross But that I may draw to a Conclusion The more then ordinary knowledge that our Convert seemed to have obtained not onely of the Turkish Religion but also in some measure of the Christian by means as it may be conceived of his Christian Mother gave some good advantage to our work The first attempt whereof was an endeavor to bring him into some good sense of the great

for that your own Religion doth confess and witness that already and if Jesus Christ were not a true Prophet come from God Mahomet must confess himself a false Prophet It remains therefore as I told you and now this second time expect your deliberate Answer viz. That you bring some proof that Mahomet hath received from God any such supernatural Revelation for the founding of his new Religion I askt you if it can be well proved concerning any supernatural Miracles which he wrought or any Prophecy concerning him that had been known or affirmed by any before his affirming it himself Sig. Dandulo I told you that Christ Jesus himself did foretell of Mahomet to come Mr. G. If this can be proved you say well and beleive well for I having proved the Truth of Christianity from the Confession of Mahometanism if you can prove the Religion of Mahomet from the Prediction of Christ then you have also the confession of Christianity But now I Convene your Conscience and require you before Christ Jesus whom you call The Spirit of the living God and we the Word and Son of the living God to whose Prediction you now appeal and to which we Christians must certainly be most obliged and willing to stand to alledge and assign if you can through all that six hundred years that past 'twixt Christ and Mahomets time any words witnessed to have come from Jesus Christ by any Disciple of his or any deriving from them or any Book extant before Mahomets birth written by any of the followers of Jesus Christ or by Jesus Christ himself or thirdly any Company or communion of men that profest Religion in Jesus Christ who lived in that six hundred years 'twixt Christ and Mahomet that ever witnessed that any such prediction or promise was made by Jesus Christ concerning Mahomet or held any such Tradition amongst them If you are able to name any let us hear the Author of such words or Books or such company or communion of men where or when they lived or who ever heard of them In sum shew any thing of Christ's or Christians speaking concerning Mahomet before Mahomets first saying it of himself Or else if nothing can be shewed then tell me what could an Impostor have done other then Mahomet hath done in this viz. either himself onely to witness of himself without doing any supernatural Miracles which might bear witness to him or to alleadge a witness for himself which none ever heard speak nor ever said that he so witness'd except and before himself If to this you are still unable to reply any thing we are both willing to put our selves upon that issue for the tryal of our grounds of our beleiving in Christ which Jesus Christ himself offered his Adversaries for the proof of his Doctrine (a) Joh. 10.25 The works that I do they bear witness of me (b) Joh. 10.37 38. If I do not the works of my Father beleive me not but if I do though you beleeve not me beleeve the works (c) Joh. 15.24 And in another place if I had not done among them the works which none other did they had not had sin And secondly We are ready to alledge numberless Volumes written by the followers of Jesus Christ within that six hundred years betwixt Christs Ascension and Mahomets coming and living Societies of Christian Professors throughout the World and throughout those six Ages which witnessed to certain Books as containing the Doctrines and Institutions and Precepts and Predictions made by Jesus Christ in all which Books according to any Copies in any Language extant within those 600 years there is not any word of mention concerning such a Prophet as Mahomet to come nor any Tradition ever heard of amongst those Christians concerning such a Prophet to come Whereas we fetch our witness concerning the Prophesies of the coming of Jesus Christ from Books written many Ages before Christs coming which our bitterest Adversaries the Jews keep and attest and own as the Oracles of God confirmed to be such at first by supernatural miracles and which Books our other Adversaries the Pagans had read and acknowledged to be extant before the coming of Christ Indeed whereas Jesus Christ prophesied that after his departure he would send the Holy Ghost the Paraclete to lead his Apostles into all truth and so it must needs be whilst the Apostles were yet alive he having promised it to them Simon Magus first about the fortieth year of Christ gave out himself to be that promised Holy Ghost or Paraclete among the Gentiles and about the year 220. after Christ (d) Epiph. Haeres 48 Aug. Haeres 20.86 Montanus pretended that he was that Paraclete and that Jesus Christ had prophecied of him and about the year 278 after Christ (e) Epiph. Haeres 66. Aug. Haeres 46. Manes or Manicheus gave out himself to be that Paraclete and that Jesus Christ had prophesied of him all which could shew in the Books of Jesus Christ a Paraclete foretold should come but no reason of their blasphemous affirmation that they were that Paraclete Then 600 years after Christ Mahomet pretends that Jesus Christ had prophesied of him as a great Prophet that should come into the world but he not able so much as to shew any such Prophesie of any Prophet now this Imposture being so gross what can your Conscience have to answer before God to follow longer and to transmit to posterity by your adhaesion such a cousenage in so great a matter concerning the Religion of the most High God and the eternal woe or welfare of your own and others immortal Souls contrary to the Religion both that which the light of Nature and right Reason I told you taught us both and that which he whom you call the Spirit of God and we call the Word of God by and from whom all Prophets if Prophets of God must speak hath taught the whole world and which Prophets cannot speak contrary one to another nor to the Spirit of God by whose inspiration they are prophets nor to the Word of God who speaks by them Sir I pray tell me need I further to prove to you Christianity or need I further explain to you the Articles of Christianity then has been done Sig. D. No They are true Mr. G. If so you beleive will you be baptized into that Faith Sig. D. How think you I can do that without danger to my life except I should resolve never to see more my Country and Parents and Friends and all that is in this world dear unto me Mr. G. I know well and consider that you cannot without suffering that loss for Christ his sake and yet for your own sake also for you must remember that we took the rise of our discourse from what we were both agreed in viz. the Light of Nature and Right Reason which teacheth us and hath taught many Heathen Philosophers that the eternal concernment of our immortal Souls after

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