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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

Gods Providence proved useful for the clearing of him from those false accusations and disparagements so was it also for the hastening us on in the prosecution of the work of his Conversion we had in hand in order whereunto I made speed unto the pursuance thereof the day before-mentioned And whereas many good undertakings it may be feared come short of an happy issue through that evill selfishness which is in too many whereby they seek to get the glory of the work unto themselves together with that evil confidence and self-conceit which some men have of their own abilities which render them averse from either desiring or admitting that help that they might have from the Association of others which the holy Apostles themselves disdained not to make use of That therefore this work might not want either countenance or assistance nor fail through the weakness or miscarriage of my endeanors of which indeed I was very fearful whereby I might have become answerable for the loss of his Soul and for the disappointment of that glory which hath since by his conversion accrued unto God I prevailed with reverend Dr. Bernard and Dr. Gauden to accompany me that day unto Chelsey who willingly complied with my desires therein and sent withal to desire Mr. Gunning and Mr. Samois the Interpreter to meet us there When I with those two reverend Divines first mentioned had arrived at the place Signior Dandulo was prevailed with to give us a meeting at my house but Mr. Gunning and the Interpreter being not yet come and the reverend persons that were with me being unwilling to stay long by reason of some occasions which it seemeth called them back unto London We as well as we could without the Interpreter entered upon some discourse with him which although it was but short and much disadvantaged for want of Language yet we prevailed so far that it obtained some kinde of consent unto the truth of those things which were offered unto him in order to his imbracement of the Christian Religion An account of the Arguments and discourses that passed in this business from the beginning to the end I have thought good to make the business of a Chapter by it self to avoid the trouble of repeating over and over the same things again both unto my self and to the Reader And although we could not as yet obtain of him a declaration of his full resolution to be baptized which as he had manifested in former communications he desired not to be over-hastily pressed unto but that he might be allowed good time to deliberate and consider of so weighty a business as that was and that was to be resolved on no other terms but the deserting and forsaking of so many earthly comforts as of Parents Country Inheritance and Marriage intended which were all to be drowned unto him in the water of his Baptism yet we obtained this expression of approbation and consent at least unto the main of our discourse E Buono that is to say This is good or true But after our departure back to London the same day it pleased God to send reverend Mr. Gunning and the Interpreter unto him who in my absence accosted him with some fresh discourses at the Lady Lawrences where was his usual abode in Chelsey and after some strugglings obtained from him at length as if some violent beam of light and grace had broken in upon his Soul and had upon the sudden captivated all his contrary imaginatious and scattered the mist of all his waverings and doubtings not onely a consent to be baptized into Christianity but also so earnest a desire and inclination thereunto that over-powered all his former thoughts of deliberation and was so impatient of delay that he cried out upon the sudden De main that is to say Let it be done to morrow and when for the solemnity of the performance and for the obtaining of some convenient space and opportunity for his further instruction and preparation to that great work it was made known unto him that it was not thought convenient to perform the celebration until the Lords Day he seemed to be something troubled at the delay The happy and joyful news of this blessed success was carefully and very respectfully sent by Mr. Gunning unto me at Westminster which drew me from thence unto Chelsey very late at night that I might be a joyful witness of so happy an issue which God had given unto that gracious work he had begun by so weak and inconsiderable an instrument as I acknowledge my self to be And that I might be serviceable by such advice and further assistance as God should enable me to give in order to the accomplishment of this so comfortable a product of the admirable and excellent mercy of the Lord to whom be all the glory of this and all the works of his gracious goodness And if we glory in any thing let it be in this that God is pleased to be glorified by us or in us that so if we glory we may glory in the Lord. CHAP. XII Of the Advantages found even in the Religion of the Mahometans and in the Turks own acknowledgements for the carrying on of his Conversion ALthough we have obtained one great end of our Narrative in that declaration which hath been already made of that blessed success which God gave unto our endeavors in that ready consent and earnest desire which was wrought in the Soul of our Convert in so little a time as was that of very few weeks to renounce that great Impostor Mahomet with his delusions and to devote and marry his Soul unto Christ Jesus the great and true Prophet of the Church and onely Saviour of the World which is a matter that chalengeth the joy both of Angels in Heaven and all good men upon Earth yet forasmuch as there is an holy and not onely harmless but profitable curiosity that doth usually possess the hearts of Gods people to search as God is pleased to allow them into the great and gracious works of the Almighty and not onely to put that question Num. 23.23 What hath God wrought That they may solace themselves with the spectacle of the sweetness of his mercy but to look also into the ways and means the manner and method whereby the Lord carries on his performances that they may delight and edifie their Souls by the contemplation of his divine wisdom and power shining forth through the weakness and simplicity of the instruments that he is pleased to make use of The holy study of Gods works being the great Philosophy of Gods people and their great learning to understand the loving kindness of the Lord That this knowledge may be the fuel and furniture of their praise and devotion which is the great end of their Creation and Redemption which is the study that they are invited unto in this Treatise the design whereof is to present unto them a great and new work and fresh frame and platform

Family and care and upon the search having found that character upon him she and her Husband too as we may well imagin received him with great joy into their mutual bosoms and embraces as we use to do those comforts that come beyond our expectations even as if they had had him new born unto them or had received him from the very grave of death which must needs stir up great endearments in their hearts and raise up great joy and solace in their souls whilst they might say in the litteral sence as the Prodigals Father did in the spiritual It is meet that we should rejoyce for this our Son was lost and is found he was dead as to our enjoyment or knowledge of him and is alive again And this was the first remarkable return of our Convert from his Moorish pilgrimage unto his Fathers house But in this he was but his own Parable as it were This was but the dark type and figure of that more blessed return that he hath now lately made unto his heavenly Father and to his Mother the Church I conceive I may well call this a return too because though he sprang immediately from a Turkish Father yet he was not onely derived from Christian Ancestors as is before declared and God hath mercy for thousands but he received his conception and birth in and from the Womb of a Christian Mother and so according to the Apostles decision who allotteth the Title not unto the stronger in respect of Nature but unto the better principle in respect of Grace or the Christian profession he was born into the world an holy Childe and in the bosom of the Catholick Church of Christ from whence though he was ravished for a time by those evil principles which his bad Education infused into him yet the Lord hath now in mercy restored him thereunto Yet he did not presently attain unto this blessing but was carried through divers other Providences unto that happy time and place to which God had reserved him for the receiving of so great a mercy Being received again into his Fathers Family about the age as he relates of 15 years he there continued for some certain time But after some years having both person and gifts to encourage him and render him acceptable for the service of the Wars He was engaged in several Expeditions against the Christians and was himself employed in that late Battel between the Turk and Venetian and was a witness and partner in that defeat which fell on the Mahumetans side and by swiming through part of the Sea unto the Land escaped that destruction which so many others of the Mahumetans recieved in that defeat that befel the Turkish Army And God made his deliverance a happy means of the escape of a poor Christian Slave whom he met withal delivered from his hard Master by that storm This poor Christian he met with when he was gotten to Land and although he might have made good advantage unto himself by returning him again to his Master Yet having received a command from his Mother to be kind and merciful unto Christians and that loving and ingenuous disposition that appears to be in him inclining him to compassionate one that had been under so great a misery he was willing to venture his own safety in assisting him to make his escape away Another Christian as it is averred he redeemed at another time at the rate of fourty and six Dollars of which he wanting the odd six in money to make up the ransom of the poor Captive he pawned his Garment to make it up and surely as this compassion of his whilst yet a Turk towards those that were then so adverse to him in their profession may shame here and will condemn hereafter that uncompassionate bowelless cruelty that Christians now exercise one towards another amongst whom every difference in judgement or practice is not onely taken for a discharge of love but an engagement unto hatred and cruelty which may well make our and other Christian Nations as red with blushing as they are with the blood of one another So we may well conceive that God that loves all goodness and every thing in every creature that beareth any resemblance of himself hath graciously rewarded the pitty and mercy of this then Mahumetan unto poor Christians by pouring out that flood of mercy and compassion upon him in the illumination of his soul with his heavenly truth and his ingrafting into the mystical Body of Christ Jesus yet not of any merit but of his free goodness I think not fit to forget though perhaps I have not remembred it in its due place that whilst he was conversant with his Parents at home it being one of the Mahumetan Laws that all shall take upon them the state of Marriage at the age of Twenty five years old at the furthest one or both of his Parents proposed a Wife unto him The treaty whereof was even yet on foot when he came lately out of those parts and good endearment of affection was entertained on both sides which yet he is now content to sacrifice in the fire of that holy love which hath been since kindled in his brest toward the Lord Jesus and his holy Gospel CHAP. III. Of the Age Stature and Qualities of the Convert HIS Age is now about Twenty four years his Stature tall his Body very slender his colour something swarthy and of the die of those Climates wherein he hath lived his feature comely and his deportment very loving and courteous he is very temperate in his diet sober and orderly in his conversation of a chearful and ingenous disposition of extraordinary understanding and knowledge for one that hath been bred up in those parts and amongst those people where Arts and Learning are under restraints and prohibitions he is of a pregnant wit and of good and elegant expression adorned with handsom rhetorical flowers and illustrations he is one that dislikes debauchery of life and hath complained before his conversion of miscarriages of that kinde which he observed in some that walk under the name of Christians particularly of some whom he met with at Wapping which should admonish both them and others that live in an irregular course of life and conversation to consider seriously of the great dishonor that they thereby do unto Christ and the profession of the Gospel and the great danger that is upon them to become answerable unto the dreadful judgement of God not only for their own souls whom they ruine by their wickedness but of the souls of many others whom they may ruine by their scandals whilst they draw some into the like wickedness by their evil and contagious examples and hinder others from embracing that truth the profession whereof they finde accompanied with such vile debauchery of life and conversation and so confirm them in their errors to the ruine of their souls which are like to be laid to their charge at the last