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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

of an innumerable company of heavenly Angels or with the testimony of many and great miraculous operations that standeth opposite to the dictates and revelations and rules of God and his Holy Spirit in the Scriptures or intendeth to add any thing thereunto as a way or means to attain unto salvation is to be utterly rejected and abhorred as an accursed delusion as likewise whatsoever tends to the discharging of us from any duty or to move us to any impiety impurity or to uncharitable or evill thoughts of others without ground or to any kind of wickedness whatsoever or to any thing that exceeds the bounds of our peculiar Callings unless in some extraordinary case or necessity See Deut. 13 1 2. Deut. 13.1 2. and that notable Scripture that all Quakers and pretended Enthusiasts may do well to ponder and study Gal. 1.8 9. Gal. 1.8 9. Though we saith St. Paul or an Angel from heaven preach any other Gospel unto you or as it is in the original 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Preach any other thing unto you besides what ye have received 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 Let him be accursed which is repeated again at vers 9. with such an earnest reduplication as I think will hardly be found again in all the Book of God or at least very rarely which should admonish all to take the more notice of it it being a Scripture of that weight and force that is able if rightly understood and embraced to over-throw all pretence of Apostolical Authority whsch the Church of Rome boasteth of and of Angelical authority or divine Revelation which is the delusion of the Enthusiasts of our days to inforce us to admit of any thing that is contrary to that saving Truth of the Gespel which is registred in the Scripture and was of old embraced by the people of God or that proposeth any other way unto salvation then that which is to be found therein Eighthly which will follow upon the former All Dreams and so likewise all pretended Enthusiasms Inspirations and Illuminations whatsoever are to be tried and judged approved or controuled by the revealed will of Almighty God in his holy Word Isa 8.19 as also by the rule of sound Reason and Prudence and if they bring not a testimonial of conformity thereunto they are by no means to be received See Isa 8.19 And here by the way give me leave to take notice of a very evil and unwarrantable course that hath been taken up if I be not mistaken by too many in these days and hath received too much countenance from those that are very highly obliged to the contrary so that it hath been made the colour of great miscarriages whilst some have taken upon them to seek unto God by fasting and prayer for his direction and counsel in weighty affairs and concernments and neglecting to consider or embrace what advice God hath laid down for their case and purpose in his Law they have sought and expected a return or answer by extraordinary motions and suggestions or inclinations which may sort better with their perhaps evill interests and designs And so whilst they have carried the Idol or stumbling block of an evil interest in their heart and in just judgment from God are left to receive an answer agreeable thereunto either from their own erring spirit or the delusion of Satan they have taken his evill suggestions or those that have proceeded from their own corruptions or at least have seemed to take them for the holy counsel of the Almighty I am perswaded it would be little less if at all less pleasing to God for them to go to an Heathen Oracle then to go to enquire of God upon such terms I wish that the serious reading and meditation of the eleven first verses of Ezek 14. Eze. 14.1 to 11. might be rightly understood and made good use of for the reformation of this and such-like great miscarriages Ninethly As all wicked Dreams are to be abominated and some to be earnestly repented of which flow from our own corrupt inclinations and affections So vain and foolish impertinent confused Dreams such as Dr. Jackson saith arise from the Garboiles of the fantasie Dr. Jackson in his ΜΑΡΑΝΑΘΑ or Commentaries upon Christs session at the right hand of God c. Sect. 3. ch 9. sect 11 Eccles 34.1 2 3. and of which he thinks that of Ecclesiasticus 34.1 2 3. is most true are to be sleghted and those that move unto superstitious fears that would discourage from trust in God or from our chearful walking with him in duties But yet lastly Those Dreams that without affectation offer themselves unto us in a sober and calm temper and are of a wise and orderly of a just and pure of an holy and religious frame and method not contradictory but consonant to the holy word of God and sound Reason and tend to nothing but that which is just and holy within the bounds of our Vocation and to the glory of God especially when they come so clothed with opportunity and circumstance as that they conduce to the encouragement or promotion of any good work that belongeth unto us or that God hath undertaken or is doing upon us or by us upon others or of any good and gracious design in hand or to the taking us off from any sinful doubts sloth or impediments that lie opposite thereunto and lie open to any such holy and prudent interp●etation as they may well be presumed to come from God especially falling out in extraordinary matters or for the setting forward of more then ordinary designs so they are to be prudently regarded and weighed so as to take encouragment and admonition from them and sometimes they may intimate unto us things that are to come CHAP. IX An Application of what hath been said unto the Converts Dream together with the Interpretation thereof IF we now compare what hath been last spoken with the Dream we have in hand we shall finde it to be of good and warrantable consideration for our purpose it being such as first came in the transaction of a rare and extraordinary matter or business The conversion of a Turk being such as hath been rarely seen I mean of one that hath been born and bred in that religion Secondly It hath no stamp but of sobriety purity prudence and holiness upon it Thirdly It came not upon any superstitious expectation or preparation thereunto Fourthly it excellently complieth with the holy Word and sound Reason Fifthly It exactly answereth in all the parts thereof unto that holy business that was then in hand and had been in motion the very evening before for the conversion of the soul of him that dreamed it to God and for his admission to the Ordinances Priviledges and graces of the Gospel Sixthly The interpretation thereof is clear and easie for the most part yea wholly indeed without any unreasonable straining or crossing of any one part of it against another it is