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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A96362	A true relation of the conversion and baptism of Isuf the Turkish chaous, named Richard Christophilus In the presence of a full congregation, Jan. 30. 1658. in Covent-Garden, where Mr. Manton is minister. Imprimatur, Edm. Calamy.	White, Thomas, 1628-1698.; Dury, John, 1596-1680.	1659 (1659)	Wing W1807; Thomason E2141_1; ESTC R204020	32,885	117

his commands they ought to render obedience of Faith unto him and to believe in the Name of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost according to the scriptures of the Prophets and Apostles upon which the Believers are built Jesus Christ being the chief Corner stone the scriptures are the word inspired by God to make men wise unto salvation by the Faith which is in Jesus Christ to make them perfectly instructed unto every good work for Doctrine Correction and instruction in Righteousness Moreover I believe that Baptism ought to be administred in the name of the Father of the Son and of the holy Ghost to shew forth that the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost are the only true God in whom we ought to believe and whom we should obey I believe also that all believers are baptised by the holy Ghost into one Body and that every one of them being members of this Body in his place become members one of another The washing which is instituted in Baptism doth signifie the washing of Regeneration by the renewing of the holy Ghost which is shed abroad by Jesus Christ upon believers I believe also that this washing is a sign of the new Covenant established in the blood of Jesus Christ into which we are received by the Testimony of a good Conscience towards God in giving our selves wholly over unto him according to the tenor of his Covenant to be taught and governed by him in all things as his Disciples in this washing which is common to all believers to be received all they who are joyned to Jesus Christ as to their Master or head to become his members are baptized by him into one Spirit to become one Body and to behave themselves the one towards the other as his members in the Communion of Saints I believe that the Spiritual and inward Baptism of the Souls which doth purifie the Conscience from dead works makes believers carefull to keep all the Commandements of God and gives them access to call upon the name of the Lord at the throne of grace to be helped in due time I believe that that the Commandements which ought to be observed are given by Moses and confirmed by Christ and the prayer by which we should make our requests known to the Father is taught by the Lord Matth. 6. 9 10 11 12 13. I believe that the Church of God is made use of in this world to hold forth the word of life and the Ordinances of Truth which are appointed to the things which beget and increase grace and to reform vices and scandales I believe that the Ordinances of the publick administration of the Word and Prayer for those that are Ministers or Pastors whose office is to prophesie and pray in the Church are the Organes by which God doth beget faith in men and to make them compleat in all other graces as Saints for the building up of the body of Christ I believe that the Ordinances of the Church and Government of Discipline ought to be administred by the office of Elders and are Organs to prevent and reme the spiritual adultery and evill which is incident unto the society of Saints by an equal administration of Charity for the comforting of the weak and supply of the necessities of the poor as also for order and decency to proceed in all publick concernments and for the correction of a Brother and of those that are in any disorderly way I believe that the Government of God and the Administration of his Providence in the World to come is universal towards all and particular towards the Elect By his universal Providence he will raise up the dead at the last day both great and small and shall call the quick and the dead as well Men as Angels unto Judgment this sentence shall last eternally wherein the Angels shall be judged by the Saints and by his particular Providence over the Reprobates they shall be destroyed from the presence of the Lord with everlasting torments in Hell with the Devil and his Angels but the Elect shall be received into everlasting glory with Christ being made heirs of all things in the presence of God for ever I believe that the Scriptures of the old and New Testament are the true Word of God containing evidently infallibly and perfectly his revealed Will and Truth to be a rule of our Faith and obedience a Judge of our lives a touch-stone of all Doctrines and an Organ to make all believers perfect unto Salvation My Spiritual Father This evening I have made a general confession before my Lord Jesus Christ of my Faith as his slave with a good heart as yet it seems to me that I have great need of Baptism which our Lord Jesus Christ hath ordained for those that believe in him with a good heart Sir I pray you for the love of God to sollice it that I may be baptized for you know that we are subject to die and if I should dye without Baptism I shall not dye having my heart contented I am inclined to pray my Lord Iesus Christ for all faithfull Christians who bear love unto him Isuf Chaous the Slave of my Lord Jesus Christ The Confession being read and the fulnesse of it being taken notice of the Minister went out of the Pulpit down to the Font at which he sate and standing by him asked him three Questions First whether he did not renounce before God and this Congregation the Mahometan Sect whereunto he answered yea he hid renounce it utterly Secondly whether he did not desire to make profession of the Christian Faith and to be Baptized in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost as a disciple of Christ whereunto he answered yea it was his earnest desire Thirdly whether he was not resolved in the future course of his life to submit himself to all the Ordinances of Christ and to walk unblameably under Christian Discipline whereunto he answered yea it was his sincere Resolution These Questions his Answers were made in the Italian tongue and interpreted afterward unto the Congregation in English Then a Prayer was made for a blessing upon the Ordinance to be administed unto him desiring the Lord to be present with his Spirit to seal and exhibite the thing signified thereby that being made partaker of the Promises of the Covenant his walking may be answerable thereunto and he may be delivered from all the Temptations of the evil one henceforth to be filled with joy and comfort by the Holy Ghost and other requests to this effect Which being done the Minister dipt his head into the water of a large Font and poured water upon it saying Richard Christophilus I Baptize thee in the name of of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Ghost Then the Minister returning to the Pulpit exhorted the Congregation to observe to the Glory of God the freedom of his Grace and Election that he did out of the midst of a most damnable Sect call this soul to himself in a way more than ordinary and that we should praise God for the work of Grace bestowed on him and that we might hope that God was preparing by such meanes a way to bring in the Conversion of the Jewes and the Fulnesse of the Gentiles amongst which the Turks should be comprehended of whom this man and some others being the first fruits we might expect hereafter a full Harvest They were also exhorted to rejoyce with and for him that he was now in the bosom of the Church that they should embrace him in their hearts through the Communion of Saints and pray for him These Exhortations being ended the Action was concluded with a Prayer and the singing of a part of a Psalm And this Relation is thus made publick that all those to whose hands it may come should be edified therby and stirred up to consider Gods works to give him due praise for the mercy which he shewes to any sinners and to pray that he would dayly add such as belong to his Election unto his Church till all flesh see his glory together And that this Proselyte may be made instrumental to advance his Glory towards his own Nation in due time being delivered from the Temptations and Assaults which Satan hath made upon him in a way not ordinary wherein the Lord hath hitherto graciously supported him and whereof hereafter in due time some more particular account may be given In the mean time this is offered to the ingenuous and true-hearted Christian that various and uncertain Reports may be prevented concerning this Action which we hope will redound to the Glory of our gracious Lord Jesus Christ in whose name it hath been performed and to him with the Father and the Holy Ghost be all Honour Praise and Thanksgiving rendred from all his Creatures and in all his Congregations for evermore Amen FINIS Rom. 9. 15. The Estry 1. Of God 2. Of the Holy Trinity 3. Of the Creation of the world 4. Of Adam and his falling from God 5. Of the Restauration of man by Christ 6. Of the ten Commandements 7. Of Christs office of Mediation between God and Man 8. Of the Doctrine of Faith 9. Of good works 10. The Creed 11. The Lords Prayer 12. Of the Sacraments 13. Of the Lords Supper 15. Of Baptism 14. Of the Church Ordinances 16. Of the last Judgment 17. Of the Holy scripture

much importuned to believe that Jesus Christ was the Son of God the onely true Prophet greater than Mahomet And although for a long time he would not hearken to the speeches of the Slave but reproved him for speaking to him of that matter and when the slave would not be silent he did beat him and kick him and caused him to be bastonadeed for his importunity which the slave endured with much patience and declared that although he should kill him he would not be silent concerning that matter yet at last by some special Providences whereof a particular account may be given hereafter he was moved to believe that in very deed Jesus Christ whom the Jewes put to death at Jerusalem was the Son of God and now alive in Heaven having all power in heaven and earth Whereupon he took a secret resolution within himself to retire from among the Turks his Countreymen and live among Chistians to learn the Lawes of Jesus Christ and make profession of his name for the saving of his soul being fully convinced that all the enjoyments and pleasures of this world whereof he had no want could not make a man happy in this life nor deliver him from death nor bring him to the assurance of obtaining glory in the world to come but that the owning of the name of Jesus Christ by Faith and Obedience would procure all this And after that he was convinced of these Truths and fully resolved to come among Christians he was two whole years before he could contrive the way how to depart from his own Kindred and Nation with safety because the danger for a Turk to turn Christian or to renounce the Mahometan Religion is by their Law to be burnt alive Therefore being wary lest he should be discovered and having attempted some wayes to transport himself which proved ineffectual at last by the address of some whom God stirred up to be serviceable unto him he transported himself from Constantinople to Smyrna where other providence did guide him to find a way of being transported unto Ligorn Having past the Quarantana he was honourably received by one of the Duke of Florence his Cousins and there they would have Baptized him but because he was recommended to the Arch-Bishop of Paris and was to be conducted thither by some who went from Smyrna with him he would not receive their favour So from Ligorn he went to Marselles and from Marselles he was conducted to Paris At Paris he was received with respect as being conceived to be a Person of quality and lodged in St. Lazaro a place appointed for the instructing and entertaining of Proselytes for which charitable use it is largely endowed There the Priests who were appointad to instruct him and fit him to be Baptized according to their Profession and he could not agree concerning several things which they would perswade him to believe and practice as Essentials to their Religion viz. That Christ was in the Hostie that the Agnus Dei had Divine vertue that the Crucifix is to be worshipped that the Pope is a Saint and Christs Vicar that Images and Saints are to be respected in the worship of God Upon all which and some other points he did so argue with them that they found no way to convince him but were forced to let him alone And he was much troubled to find himself yoked with men of such a belief so that he could have found in his heart to have returned again to Constantinople if the way had been open for him Whiles he was in this perplexity Providence did direct two Arabians who were become Protestants to see him By their means he did get notice that there were besides the Papists amongst whom he was other Christians in Paris whose faith and worship was free from Superstition whereupon he resolved to be brought unto the Protestants of Paris and contrived a way with these Arabians how he might come to be acquainted with them which took effect For under a pretence of walking abroad to take the air he shifted himself of the company which attended him from St. Lazaro and went with the Arabians to a Protestant house and became acquainted with the Ministers of Paris who took special care of him for the space of 43. days in which time they did instruct him carefully in the Truth which he heartily did imbrace But great search being made for him to find him out and they not being able to protect him from the power of those that would have taken him out of their hands they consulted with the chief of their Friends what to do with him that he might be in safety The Result of which Consultation was that he should be sent away into England where he arrived in March last and being recommended to his Highness of blessed memory he was received with much kindness by him and after some time a livelyhood was appointed unto him and about the same time Mr. Secretary Thurloe did recommend him to the care of Mr. Durie that he should consider him and advise what should be done with him further Mr. Durie having conversed familiarly with him and finding him a man of parts and for the main well principled in point of knowledge both in the grounds of Faith and in the practice of Christianity he made enquiry of his life and conversation amongst all those with whom he had dwelt and with whom he had been acquainted since he was come into England and finding that they all gave him a very good testimony he made a Report to Mr. Secretary whereof the chief Substance was as followeth By all that I have been able to observe in this Turkish Chaous I cannot judge otherwise but that he is a sincere Convert to the name of Jesus Christ believing in him for the salvation of his soul and post-posing all other things for the attainment thereof For although his notional knowledge is weak and doth not much exceed the common Articles of the Creed so far as yet I do discover yet I judge it saving in him because I find his faith sincere and his love to God in Jesus Christ fervent and well grounded I discern the sincerity of his Faith not only by the profession of his love to Christ upon the account of that which Christ hath done for us but by the sense which he hath of Gods Truth and Faithfulness in his promises to those that trust in him which by pretty familiar comparisons he hath expressed upon several occasions much to my comfort wherein he sheweth a generosity of spirit to give up himself unto Christ without reserve The sincerity and fervency of his love to Christ I perceive by his desire to know his will that he may obey his Commandements for in this he hath appeared unto me earnest and single-hearted declaring that he finds himself obliged in thankfulnesse to God for Christ to become his servant and to obey him in all conditions because saith he God hath bestowed upon