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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

this life is to be infinitely preferred before any such considerations of such worldly and temporary losses and that the one true living God which Right Reason teaches is the Author of all good things Temporal and Eternal and All-sufficient to make good to us any thing we lose for his sake and is most certainly the rewarder of them that seek out the true Religion and honestly follow it when they finde it Also when you began any discourse about Religion we took it for granted on both sides that they are most unworthy to hear or make any such discourse who are not resolved to adhere to the Truth whatever worldly inconvenience come thereby Also I now inform you of one part of the Revelation made by Jesus Christ viz. That there is no man who forsakes Father or Mother or Brethren or Sisters or Houses or Lands for his sake and the Gospels but he shall receive in this world an hundred fold however in spiritual benedictions and consolations with persecutions and in the world to come everlasting life Having food and rayment we are bid therewith to be content and that he hath promised to our prayers and honest endeavors having left us this assurance that the godliness of Christian Religion hath the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come But tell me Signior is it not everlasting life and the true Religion which leads thereto concerning which you desired to discourse with me Sig D. Yes that that only is considerable whatever becomes of my Body But tell me I pray Sir may I not hold this Religion which you have taught me without being baptized which is the onely thing will bring danger to me from my Country-men Mr. G. Nay you must as believe so also confess the Faith of Jesus Christ and set to your seal that this is the True Religion and receive the seal of Gods Covenant and not be ashamed to renounce that shameful Imposture of Mahomer and own the Faith of the Lord of Glory Jesus Christ whom we teach and preach unto you Sig. D. But where is that in your Books required that I must needs be Baptized Mr. G. Hear me read out of that Book of God I pray you (f) Joh. 3.6 5. Amen Amen I say unto thee except any one be born of Water and of the Spirit he cannot enter into the Kingdom of God that which is born of the flesh is flesh and that which is born of the Spirit is Spirit (g) Mark 16.15 16 And another place Go ye into all the world and preach the Gospel to every creature He that believes and is baptized shall be saved he that believes not shall be damned (h) A 22.16 And in another place Arise and be baptized and wash away thy sins calling on the name of the Lord. Sig. D. To morrow to morrow I will be baptized Mr. G. Nay our Religion and Discipline permits not that hastiness in this weighty matter you must first be more fully instructed in the necessary works of Repentance and Articles of Faith and Vows to be made in your Baptism all which we will immediately go about and within convenient time through the mercy of God you shall receive holy Baptism Sig. D. But what if I should die in the mean time of this deferring Mr. G. God will accept your present will and desires for that deed which it is his will should not be performed but upon due preparation in the mean time let us humbly address our selves to prayers unto God through Jesus Christ and call upon him on whom you have believed that he will fit you for Baptism by perfecting in you true Repentance and a lively faith and vouchsafe you remission of all your sins and renewing of the Holy Ghost in the Laver of holy Baptism PETER GVNNING THE Happy CONVERT OR THE TVRK Baptised GOD having been pleased of his great goodness to give a blessing unto the poor endeavors that have been used for the Conversion of a Soul from the errors and delusions of the Mahumetan Infidelity to the holy Truth of the saving Gospel of Christ Jesus whereby a comfortable access hath been made unto the afflicted Church of England notwithstanding all the discouragements that are upon such designs in these evil times I suppose it may be conducible to the glory of God and to the comfort of his faithful people that desire the advancement of the Kingdom of Christ Jesus and for the stiring up of others to the employment of their labours for the bringing home of such and others that are misled unto the Fold of the Lord Jesus Christ that there may be some account given unto the people of this Nation and that some publick Record may be left unto Posterity of the gracious dispensation of the Almighty in this matter I have therefore thought good to set forth this brief declaration thereof in hope that it will be no unacceptable service to God and his people CHAP. I. Of the Name Linage and Country of this Convert THe name of this person whom God hath thus graciously brought home unto his Church was before his Baptism Rigep or in our Language Joseph Dandulo derived by six or seven Generations or Descents from a noble Family of the Danduli of Venice Of this Name and Family I find divers in the Catalogue of Grimstone who have been advanced to the great Dignity of the Dukedom of that famous and antient Common-wealth The first Henry D' Andule in whose time Constantinople was taken and the Empire of the East gained wherein he assisted the Princes and Barons of the French This Henry D' Andule died General of all the Christian Armie Another Dandule chosen in his absence in whose time the City was afflicted with Water and Earthquakes he made war in Istria against the Patriarch of Aquileia and the Count Caritia at the instance of Pope Nicholas he succoured with Twenty five Galleys the Arch-Bishop of Tripoly The third Francis D' Aridule by whose intercession casting himself at the feet of the Pope with a chain of iron about his neck the Excommunication of the Pope had been formerly taken off from Venice In the time of his Dukedom they of Pola and Valese submitted themselves to the Commonwealth Padua was taken he was of the League of the Christian Princes against the Turk and in his time there were Threescore Ambassadors at once in Venice he governed ten years and ten moneths The fourth Andrew D' Andule who caused the dearth to cease by bringing Corn from Sicily he obtained of the King of Babylon free Navigation into Egypt Zura having rebelled the seventh time was recovered War was made against the Genuois and the City was troubled with Earthquakes and Pestilence he governed about twelve years Besides these that enjoyed the excellency of the Dukedom there is mention also of one Matthew Dandalo who was sent Ambassador together with Nicholas de Ponte from Hierom Prioli then Duke

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