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Baptized Turk, 
 
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 NARRATIVE 
 
 Of th#4iapj?y Converfion of 
 
 \Signior %igep Dandulo,. 
 ' THE 
 
 Onely Son of a Silk Mer- 
 chant in the Ifle of T z i o, 
 
 from the DelufiQns of thargreat 
 
 Iliipoftor Mahomet , un$o the 
 Chriftian Religion: 
 
 AND <M^f 
 
 Of his Admi/fion unto Baptiftn by 
 M r . G u n N i n o at Excejler-houfe 
 Chappel the 8th Q(Movemb.i6')7„ 
 
 Drawn up by THQ. W ARM STK T, D. D. 
 
 Pfal. 58.31. — -The Morians Land fhall foonftretch out her 
 hands to God. 
 
 London ^tinted for f. Williams, T. ghrthwait in 
 
 St-Panls Church-yard, and Henry Marjh at the 
 
 Princes Arms at the lower end of Chancery-lane 
 
 near the inner-Temple-gate in Fleet fir eeu i $5*. 
 

 •»■ 
 
 To the Right Honoraf le^ ; 
 
 TheCountefsof Dprflt 
 
 The Honorable 
 
 The Lord Qorgey 
 
 And the Worihipful 
 
 WitncflTcs at the Baptifm of 
 
 Signior DaNduio 
 
 the Convert, 
 
 Jiiibt Honorable, Honorable and Worfhipful , 
 
 Rue Honor is the fplen- 
 dorofVermeandho- 
 linefs 3 and where ic 
 hath its juft deriva- 
 tion and place, it is a 
 fhadow of that facred 
 combination of Greatnefs and Good- 
 A % nefs 
 
the Epiftle 
 
 nefs which are originally conjoyned, 
 and even the fame in God himfelf, 
 and which fhould never be feparated 
 in the Creatures •, indeed all true 
 Greatnefs is "the iffue of Goodnefs, 
 if it be rightly begotten, and then 
 like a good Childe it is ordained to 
 be the Nurfe of its own Mother , 
 it being difpenfed by God unto the 
 Sons and Daughters of men , to 
 be an advantage and encouragement, 
 as well as an engagement untover- 
 tuous , honourable and generous un- 
 dertakings. Of which, however the 
 blear-eyed and doating world is mi- 
 ftaken, there are none fo truly and 
 eminently glorious as thofe that 
 are converfant in Religion and di- 
 vine Worfliip , which as it is the 
 higheft end that God did, or could 
 aim at in the creation of Man -, fo 
 it muft therefore needs be the great- 
 eft eminency and perfe&ion, that? 
 the generations of men are capable 
 ©f s for every thing is by fo much 
 
 "more 
 
Dedicatory. 
 
 more excellent, by how much the 
 more it is advanced towards the 
 fcope and defign of its being, and 
 draweth nearer ( if we may fo {peak 
 where there is no comparifon or pro- 
 portion to be found ) unto him who js 
 the fum of all that perfe&ion which 
 is in the accumulation of all Great- 
 nefs and Goodnefs together $ and 
 truly* earthly Honor is then in its 
 increment and exaltation, when it 
 is made the ornament of Religion 
 and Godlinefs, or rather is adorned 
 by it. When the rayes of Eminency 
 of Birth, Place or Reputation where- 
 with God fliines upon perfons of 
 Dignity and Honor, reflect back a- 
 gain in holy gleams of heavenly 
 love to God, and holy beams of il- 
 luftration upon his Worihip and Or- 
 dinances, and when they raife that 
 holy return unto God that was in 
 Davids foul at the dedication of his 
 houfe, ffal. 30.1. I will extol thee, 
 Lord^ hecaufe tho* haft lifted me up, and 
 A 3 n& 
 
The Epifile 
 
 pot made my foes to triumph over 
 me : And certainly this is the great- 
 eft end for which God beftows Ho* 
 nor upon the greateft men, that they 
 may be the more confpicuous 5 and 
 *he more exemplary in the fervice 
 and adoration of God 5 and not be 
 as too many in our Age and Nation, 
 like unthankful clouds, obfcuring the 
 Sun that raifed them $ or like the 
 Moon in the Dragons Tail eclipfing 
 that glory from whence fhe receiveth 
 all her light. It is therefore the great- 
 eft advancement that you can give to 
 your State and Dignity to let it fliine 
 in theSan&uary of the Lord, that 
 you majrby your holy and eminent 
 patterns help to undeceive the befot- 
 tedWorld,that looks upon Offices of 
 Religion as if they were a bufinefs 
 fit onely for thofe that are of a low 
 condition ? that you may make them 
 know that Crowns and Diadems , 
 and Robes of Honor ate never 
 refplendent as when they are caft be^ 
 
 fore 
 
Dedicatory. 
 
 fore the Throne of the great Go J i 
 How amiable was it to fee you of 
 late as fo many Stars in your feveral 
 fphears and degrees of Glory , fhi- 
 ning as a propitious conftellation at 
 the new birth of this our Convert > 
 vyhen you were WitnefTes at his Bap- 
 tifixi! and I hope. you were orient 
 and afcendent at that hour, and then 
 I need not doubt but you had your 
 happy influence, as well in the pro- 
 curement of a fpiritual Welling upon 
 his Soal, as you honorable Madam 
 have been fpecial and noble in taking 
 c£re for his fupportance and encou- 
 ragement. And I wifh you may never 
 want the milk of the divine bread 
 of that God unto whofe new-born 
 Child you are become fo bountiful a 
 Nurfe. wherein you have provided 
 not onely for him, but for the ho- 
 nour of the Chriftian, yea of the 
 poor Engliih Church, and for the 
 encouragement of others to come in 
 to theembracementof Gods Truth, 
 
 in 
 
tb§ Epiflle, &e. 
 
 in the entire reliance upon the divine 
 mercy, which I wilh you may fee ef- 
 fectual in a happy confluence of ma- 
 ny multitudes unto the Gofpel of 
 Chrift, to the advancing of tne re- 
 ward of your piety from his hand 
 whofe abundant bleffing I wifh upon 
 you all, who am, 
 
 Honoured M*d*w> 
 Noble Lord % 
 Worthy Sir $ 
 
 Your humble Servant in 
 Chrift Jefizs , 
 
 Th^Warmstry, 
 
 TO 
 
A postscript/ 
 
 Giving an Account. onttte 
 
 laft Conference betwixt Mr afiyi- 
 ning and Signior Dandnlo, 
 
 After thefe words,pag.9$.lirie 23. After tur 
 departure itpleafed Godtojend reverend 3/r.Guti- 
 ning,w/;o after fome ftrugglings obtained from him 
 at length f d* if fome violent beam of light and 
 grace had broken in upon his foul, &c. not one ly a. 
 tonfent to be baptijed, but an earneft defire that it 
 might be done without delay, faying , Lee it be 
 done to morrow. 
 
 THat the Reader may be fatisfied,who will pro- 
 bably defire to know what that laft Difcourfe 
 was betwixt Mr. Gunning and Signior Dandulo, 
 which obtained from him his confent to be Bapti- 
 K c d, Dr.Warmftry by Letter intreated Mr Gun- 
 ning, that he would be pleafed tofet down that laft 
 Vijcourfe, which df Dr. War mfhry's requeft, Mr. 
 Gunning hath done in the following account. 
 
 My. Gunning. 
 
 \Igmor, You may remember 
 that when I was with you 
 before, \ told you that we 
 rand found our difcourfe 
 coneerning our two different. 
 Religions on that wherein 
 we both are agreed concern- 
 ing Religion; which was this; That the Light 
 of Nature and Right Reafon common to us both, 
 hath confefledly taught us both, that one onely 
 true Gol is to be worffeipped. the Maker, Con- 
 
 ferver 
 
fervor, Governor, and Judge of the world, and 
 that the Dictates of Right Reafon and of the 
 Law of Nature are the Laws of that One God, 
 in obedience whereto, to ferve that One God 
 true Religion. Now whatever Religion fupe adds 
 more then this, which the light of Nature 
 teacheth , pretending fupernatural Revelation 
 for its perfecting, clearing, and repairing what 
 by fin is become maimed,cori upt and obliterate, 
 in the dim light of Nature which needeth medi- 
 cine, £as both Chriftianity and Turcifm do fu- 
 peradd j muft either bring proofs of fuch their 
 fuperaddition, & pretended fupernatural Reve- 
 lation, or mufi juftly be fufpefted of Impofturc 
 The proof of a fupernatural Revelation and Re- 
 ligion made by Jefus Chrift to the world, I 
 having inftantly offered you, you tell me it is 
 unneceflary for that your own Religion doth 
 confefs and witnefs that already, and if Jefus 
 Chriit were not a true Prophet come from God, 
 Mahomet muft confefs himfelfa falfeProphet.lt 
 remains therefore, as I told you, and now this 
 fecond time expect your deliberate Anfwer,i>*\. 
 That you bring fome proof that Mahomet hath 
 received from God any fuch fupernatural Reve- 
 lation for the founding of his new Religion. 
 
 I askt you if it can be well proved concerning 
 any fupernatural Miracles which he wrought, 
 or any Prophecy concerning him that had been 
 known or atfirmedbyany, before his affirming 
 it himfelf. 
 
 Sig. Dandirio. I told you that Chrift Jefus 
 himfelf did foreteH of Mahomet to come. 
 
 Mr.G. If this can be proved,you fay well and 
 beleive well, for I having proved the Truth of 
 Chriftianity, from the Confeffionfof Mahomeca- 
 nifmj if you can prove the Religion of Maho- 
 met 
 
met from the Prediction of Chrift, then you 
 have alfo the confeflion of Chriftianity : But 
 now I Convene your Confcience, and require 
 you before Chrift Jefus , whom you call The 
 Spirit of the living God, and we the Word and 
 Son of the living God, to whofe Prediction you 
 now appeal, and to which weChriftians rauft 
 certainly be moft obliged and willing to ftand, 
 to a Hedge and affign if you can through all that 
 fix hundred years that paft'twixt Chrift and 
 Mahomets time, any words witnefled to have 
 come from Jefus Chrift by any Difciple of his, 
 or any deriving from them, or any Boo^e*xtanc 
 before Mahomets birth written by any ofthc 
 followers of Jefus Chrift, or by Jefus Chrift 
 himfelf} or thirdly, any Company or communion 
 of men that profeft Religion in Jefus Chrift, who 
 lived in that fix hundred years 'twixt Chrift 
 and Mahomet, that ever witnefled that any fuch 
 prediction or promife was made by Jefus Chrift 
 concerning Mahomet, or held any fuch Tradition 
 amongft them. If you are able to name any,let us 
 hear the Author of fuch words or Books,or fuch 
 company or communion of men , where or 
 when^they lived, or whoever heard of them.In 
 fum, fhew any thing of Chri&s or Chrifiians 
 fpeaking concerning Mahomet before Maho- 
 mets firft faying it of himfelf. Or elfe if no- 
 thing can be fhewed, then tell me what could 
 an Impoftor have done other then Mahomet 
 hath done in this ? vix^ either himfelf onely to 
 witnefs of himfelf without doing any fuperna- 
 tural Miracles , which might bear witnefs to 
 him, or to alleadge a witnefs^ for himfelf, which 
 none ever heard (peak , nor ever faid that he fo 
 witnefs'd,except and before himfelf. If to this 
 you arc ftill unable to reply anything, we are 
 * 2 both 
 
both willing to put our felves upon that iffue 
 for the tryal of our grounds of our beleiving 
 in Chrift , which Jefus Chrift himfelf offered 
 his Adverfaries for the proof of his Doctrine. 
 Adh.ioX a -) the worlds that I 'do, theybearwitnefsofme. 
 25 # (b J If I do not the worlds of my Father belrive 
 
 b)oh.io.™e not'-, but if I do, though you beleeve notme, 
 J 7 s%. beleeve the worlds, (c) And in another place, if 
 cl oh«i5« * hadnot done among them the wor^s which none 
 24/ other did, they had not had fin. 
 
 And fecondly, We are ready to alledge num- 
 berlefs Volumes written by the followers of 
 Jefus Chrift within that fix hundred [years be- 
 twixt Chrifts Afcenfion , and Mahomets com- 
 ing, and living Societies of Chriftian Profeflbrs 
 throughout the World , and throughoHt thofe 
 fix Ages which witnefled to certain Books 
 as containing the Doctrines^and Inftitutions, and 
 Precepts, and Predictions made by Jefus Chrift ', 
 in all which Book?, according to any Copies in 
 any Language extant within thofe 600 years, 
 there is not any word of mention concerning 
 fuch a Prophet as Mahomet to come, nor any 
 Tradition ever heard of amongft thofe Chriftians 
 concerning fuch a Prophet to come : Whereas 
 we fetch our witnefs concerning the Prophefies 
 of the coming of jefus Chrift from Books writ- 
 ten many Ages before Chrifts coming, which 
 our bittereft Adverfaries the Jews keep, and at- 
 teft, and own as the Oracles of God, confirmed 
 to be fuch atfirft by fupernatural miracles ; and 
 which Books our ether Adverfaries the Pagans 
 had read and acknowledged to be extant be- 
 fore the coming of Chrift. Indeed, whereas Je- 
 fus Chrift prophefied that after his departure, he 
 ■would fend the Holy Gh oft the Paraclete to] lead 
 hk Apftles into all truths and fo it muft needs 
 
 be 
 
be whilft the Apoftles were yet alive , he 
 having promifed it to them. Simon Magm firft 
 about the fortieth year of Chrift, gave out him- 
 lelf to be that pomifed Holy Ghoft, or Paraclete 
 among the Gentiles \ and about the year 220. af-^ YMt>h 
 ter Chrift (dj Montanus pretended that he was hJJ** 
 that Paraclete^nd that Jefus Chrift had prophe- Au Au^ 
 tied of him \ and about the year 278 after re f 20 
 Chriit (ej Manes or Mankheus gave out himfelf %$ 
 tobz that Paraclete, and that.] efus Chrift had e £*^ # 
 prophefied of him.} all which conld (hew in the jjj; e ( 
 Books of Jefus Chrift a Paraclete foretold $$ m i ^ H - 
 mould come, but no reafon of their blafphe- j£^ re r 
 mous affirmation, that they were that Para-A$. 
 clete : Then, 600 years after Chrift Mahomet, pre- 
 tends that Jefus Chrift had prophefied of him 
 as a great Prophet that mould come into the 
 world, but he not able fo much as to fhew any 
 fuchProphefie of any Prophet j now thislm- 
 pofture being fo grofs,what can your Confcience 
 have to anfwer before God, to follow longer, 
 and to tranfmit to pofterity by your adha?fion, 
 fuch a coufenage in fo grea t a matter, concern- 
 ing the Religion of the moil 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 Reafon, 
 I told you taught us both, and that which he 
 whom you cajl the Spirit of God, and we call 
 the Word of God ( by and from whom all Pro- 
 phets, if Prophets of God, mud: fpeak J hath 
 taught the whole world ; and which Prophets 
 cannot fpeak contrary one to another, nor to 
 the Spirit of God , by whofe infpiration they 
 are prophets, nor to the Word of God who 
 fpeaks by them. 
 
 Sir, I pray tell me, need I forther to prove to 
 
 you 
 
y&h&nMhmty, or need I further explain to 
 you the Articles of Cbrijlianity then has been 
 done ? 
 
 Sig.D. No,They are true. 
 
 Mr.G. If fo you beleive, will you be bapti? 
 zed into that Faith ? 
 
 Sig.D. How thinly you lean do that without 
 danger to my life .«* except J fhould refolve never 
 to fee more my Country, and Parents^ andFriends t 
 and all that U in this world dear unto me * 
 
 Mr.G* I know well and confider that you 
 cannot, without fuffering that lofs for Chrift 
 his fake, and yet for your pwn fake alfo ; for 
 you muft remember that we took the rife of our 
 difcoui fe from what we were both agreed in, 
 *ui^. the Light of Nature and Right Reafon , 
 which teacheth us, and hath taught many Hea- 
 then Philofophers , that the eternal concern- 
 ment of our immortal Souls after this life, is 
 to be infinitely preferred before any fuch con* 
 (iderations of fuch worldly and temporary lof- 
 fes ; and that the one true living God, which 
 Right Reafon teaches is the Author of all good 
 things Temporal and Eternal , and All-fuffici- 
 ent to make good to us any thing we lofe for 
 his fake, and is mod certainly the rewarder of 
 them that feek out the true Religion, and ho- 
 neftfy follow it when they finde it. Alfo when 
 you began any difcourfe about Religion, we 
 took it for granted on both fides, that they are 
 moft unworthy to hear or make any fuch dif- 
 courfe, who are not refolved to adhere to the 
 Truth, whatever worldly inconvenience come 
 thereby. Alfo I now inform you of one part 
 of the R evelation made by Jefus Chrift, vi^. 
 That there is no man who for fakes Father, or Mo- 
 ther, or brethren, or Sifters, or Houfts, or Lands 
 
 for 
 
for bis fake and the Gofpels, but he fljall recehe 
 tn this world an hundredfold^ however in fpiritu- 
 al benediftions and confolations 3 with perfect- 
 tions, and in the world to come everlafting life. 
 Having food and rayment we are bid therewith 
 to be content ; an4 that he hath promifed to oar 
 prayers and honeft endeavors, having left us 
 this afliirance, that the godlinefs of Chriftian Re- 
 ligion hath the promife of the life that now is, 
 and of that which is to come. But tell me Signiqr, 
 is it not everlafting life, and the true Religion, 
 which leads thereto, concerning which you de- 
 fired to difcourfe with me ? 
 
 Sig D. Tes, that, that only is confiderable, what- 
 ever becomes of my Body. But tell me, I fray 
 Sir, may I not bold this Religion which you have 
 taught me without being baptised, which is the 
 onely thing will bring danger to me from my 
 Country-men ? 
 
 Mr.O. Nay, you mull, as believe, fo alfo con- 
 fefs the Faith of Jefus Chrift, and fet to your 
 feal that this is the True Religion, and receive 
 the feal of Gods Covenant, and not be afhamed 
 to renounce that fhameful I mpofture of Maho- 
 met, and own the Faith of the Lord of Glory 
 Jefus Chrift , whom we teach and preach unto 
 you. 
 
 Sig.D. But where is that in your Booths requi- 
 red, that I mufl needs be Baptised ? 
 
 Mr.G. Hear me read out of that Book of God 
 I pray you. ( f ) Amen, Amen, I fay unto thee, T ,. 
 except Any one be born of Water and of the Spirit J J on * 2 ; 
 tie cannot enter into the Kingdom of God; tbat°**' 
 which is born of the flefh is flefh, and that wbich&^* r *° 
 is born of the Spirit is Spirit, (gj And another 'v'^^r 
 place, Go ye into all the world and preach the 
 Gofpel to every ensure 5 He that believes and is 
 
 baptised 
 
baptised fl:all be faved, he that believes not fljall 
 be damned, (h) And in another place, Arife 
 and be baptised, and wafl) away thy fins, calling 
 on the name of th^Lord. 
 
 Sig.D. To morrow, to morrow I will be bapti- 
 sed. - 
 
 Mr.G. Kay, oiir Religion and Difcipline per- 
 mits not that haftinefs in this weighty matter,- 
 you mufl firft be more fully initrufted in the 
 neceftary works of Repentance, and Articles 
 of Faith and Vows to be made in your Baptifm, 
 all which we will immediately go about, and 
 within convenient time, through the mercy of 
 God, you fhali receive holy Baptifm. 
 
 Sig.D. Eur what if I fhould die in the mean 
 lime of this deferring ? 
 
 Mr.G. God will accept your prefent will, 
 and defires for that deed, which it is his will" 
 fhould not be performed, but upon due prepa- 
 ration ; in the mean time, let us humbly ad- 
 drefs our felves to prayers unto God through 
 jefus Chrift, and call upon him on whom you 
 have believed, that he will fit you for Baptifm, 
 by perfecting in you true Repentance, and a 
 lively faith, and vouchfafe you remiiTion of all 
 your fins,and renewing of the Holy Qholt in the 
 taverof holy Baptifm. 
 
 VETER GV NN1NG. 
 
THE 
 
 Happy Cf^Kfk0k 
 
 OR THE 
 
 TVKKi Baptifed. 
 
 iOD having been pleafed 
 of his great goodncfs to 
 give a blefling unto the 
 poor endeavors that have 
 been ufed for the Conver- 
 fion of a Soul from the er- 
 rors and delufions of tfie 
 Mahunietan Infidelity, to the holy Truth of 
 the faving Gofpel of Chrift Jefus-, where- 
 by a comfortable accefs hath been made 
 unto the afflicted Church of England •, not- 
 withftanding all the difcouragements that 
 are uponfuch defigns in thefe evil times ^ 1 
 fuppofe it may be conducible to the glory 
 of God , and to the comfort of his faith- 
 ful people , ehat defire the advancement of 
 B the 
 
the Kingdom of Chrift Jefus, and for the Hir- 
 ing up of others to the employment of their 
 labours for the bringing home of fucb, and 
 others that are milled, unto the Fold of the 
 Lord Jefus drift, that there may be fome 
 account given unto the people of this Nati- 
 on , and that fome publick Record may be 
 left unto Pofterity of the gracious difpenfa- 
 tion of the Almighty in this matter. I have 
 therefore thought good to fet forth this brief 
 declaration thercof,in hope that it will.be no 
 unacceptable ferviceto God and his people. 
 
 CHAP. I. 
 
 of the Name B Linage, and Country of 
 this Convert. 
 
 THe name of this perfon whom God hath 
 thus gracioufly brought home unto his 
 Church, was before his Baptifm Rigep ■ or 
 in our Language fofeph DAndxlo , derived 
 by fix or feven Generations or Defcents from 
 a noble Family of the Dandnli of Venice. 
 Of this Name and Family I find divers in the 
 Catalogue of grimftene, who have been ad- 
 vanced to the great Dignity of the Dukedom 
 of that famous and ancient Common- 
 wealth. The 
 
<3> 
 The firft , Henry jy ArJult , in whofc 
 time Covftjxrinop/e was taken, and the Em- 
 pire of the Eaft gained, wherein he allifted 
 the Princes and Barons of the French. This, 
 Henry *J)' AnAuie died General of all the 
 Cimftian Armte. 
 
 Another 'Dan Jute chofen in his abfence, 
 in whofe time the City was afflicted with 
 Water andEarchquakesjie made war in Ifhi* 
 againil the Patriarch of Aqmltia, and the 
 Count Cay it U ; at the inftance of Pope Nr 
 choLu, he fuccoured with Twenty five Gal- 
 leys', theArch'Biihep of Triply. 
 
 The third, Francis D' Atdkhi bywhofe 
 i'nterceilion (cafting himfelf 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 Fernet. 
 In the time of his Dukedom, they of VqU 
 tfid Frf/f/rfiibmktedthemfelves to "the Com- 
 monwealth • FfidH* was taken-, he was of 
 the League of the Chrifuan Princes againft: 
 the Turk •, and in his time there were Three-, 
 fcore AmbafTadors at once in Venice^ he go- 
 verned ten years and ten moneths. 
 
 The fourth, Andrew D' Anduh^ who caus- 
 ed the dearth to ceafe by bringing Corn from 
 Sicily, he obtained of the King of Babylon^ 
 free Navigation into Epyft. Zttr* having 
 Bar rebelled 
 
(4) 
 rebelled the feventh time was recovered-, 
 
 War was made againft the Qenwi*, and the 
 
 City was troubled with Earthquakes and Pe- 
 
 ftilence; he governed about twelve years 
 
 ., Befides thefe that enjoyed the excellency 
 
 of the Dukedom , there is mention alfo of 
 
 one Matthew Dandah^ who was fent Am- 
 
 baffador , together with Nicholas de Pontr, 
 
 from Hirrrm Prioli then Duke of Vtmcc^ to 
 
 the Council of Trert. 
 
 From this noble Stock of the Venetian 
 Commonwealth , was this our Convert, it 
 feemeth, fprung ; fo that he is derived, as we 
 lee from Chriftian Anceftors. The corrupti- 
 ons of whofe blood have now, (as I may fo 
 fpeak) been reftored and purified in him by 
 the w.acer of holy Baptifm, which he hatn 
 now lately through Gods mercy received. 
 
 Some of the branches of that generous 
 Stock have been it feemeth tranfplanted (pi&~ 
 bably ) in the various events of thofe Wars 
 which have been fo frequent between the 
 Turk and the Venetians, of whom the Fa- 
 ther of this our welcome Chriftian is at this 
 time a (ilk Merchant of good Eftate in the 
 IflandofT*,/*, not far from Smyrna, a pro- 
 fefled Turk, but his Mother is a Chrifti- 
 an, of the Greek Church ^ whofe Chriftian 
 profeflion , as it did inveft him unto a juft 
 tide unto Baptifhv even in his infancy-, for 
 
 the 
 
m. 
 
 the unbeleeving Husband is fa notified by 
 the Wife, and therefore the Childe was 
 holy, i CV.7.14. fo it may be, the prayers 
 of this Chriftian Mother, like the tears of 
 Monica for her Augnftine, have miniftred 
 unto the good providence of Almighty 
 God, for the bringing home of this ftraied 
 fheep unto the holy Fold of Chrift Jefus, 
 This happy Convert her Son, was the fub- 
 jed: of the Divine Providence in many 
 notable pafTages of his life hitherto , 
 through which the Lord hath at laft 
 brought him to this happy period of hi* 
 wandrings, and change of his Profeffion, 
 into the bofom of the perfecuted Englifh 
 Church. 
 
 *_ 
 
 CHAP. II. 
 
 of his Education 5 and Travails . 
 
 I N his infancy he was bred up with his 
 I parents, but according to the way of the 
 delufions of his Father , whofe authority 
 prevailed againft thepious inclinations and 
 defires of his Mother , which yet now at 
 length God hath blefled with the Vifto- 
 ry, and with a fuccefs even beyond her 
 B 3 defires^ 
 
(f) 
 
 defires-, having brought him into a more 
 pure profeflion of the Chriftian Religion 
 then that which (he embraceth •, even in* 
 to that which is embraced by the old and 
 Orthodox part of the Church of England; 
 then which ( I hope we may be allowed 
 to fay)there is none in the world that doth 
 more foundly embrace the Chriftian Bo* 
 &rine, and is glorious even in the rubbifb, 
 the very flones and duft of the ruins which 
 (he is under, and whom God hath fo gfa- 
 ciouQy owned even in this time of her 
 trouble and contempt,by giving this extra- 
 ordinary accefsunto her Body. 
 
 About the fjxth year of his age he was 
 floln away by the Moors, amongft whom 
 he lived for the fpace of about Nine 
 years, and in that time he vifited the great 
 City of Grand Cairo in Egypt • the place 
 where God was pleafed to deliver his peo- 
 ple of old, that he might bring them in- 
 to the land of Canaan: And fo God 
 hath called even this his Son , his 
 newly adopted Son from Egypt. The Moor 
 With whom he lived had a great defire to 
 have detained him with him, and for an 
 inducement thereunto offered him his 
 Daughter. But God who had another and 
 far more happy marriage in ftore for him, 
 would not fuffer him to lay hold upon that 
 
 bait 
 
(7) 
 bait, but made ufe of the natural defire 
 that he had to fee his Parents and his 
 Country, to bring him from thence, that 
 at length he might arrive at a betterCoun- 
 try, even a Heavenly one^ which is the 
 Church of God^ and come home unto bet- 
 ter Parents, even God himfelf , and the 
 Catholike Church. And fo as Saul fought 
 his Fathers Affes, and found a Kingdom - 
 he might by the defire that he had unto a 
 natural bleffing, be fet in the way to the 
 obtaining a fupernatural Inheritance. 
 
 So that God that in his wife Providence 
 ordereth all things and motions of the 
 World to the advancement of his King- 
 dom, and for the good and falvation of 
 his People ^ and that maketh Nature it felf 
 ferve the defigns and purpofes of his 
 heavenly grace, drew this perfon from his 
 Mooriih entertainment by the cords of 
 thofe inclinations that were in him to- 
 wards his friends, and his native Soil, un- 
 to his Fathers houfe , where he arrived 
 back again at the age of about Fifteen 
 years. But his long abfence having dif- 
 mifled the hopes , and difcharged the ex- 
 pectation of his Parents to fee him again, 
 he was become now nowhere a greater 
 ftranger then at home : The impreftions 
 of natural relation were in a great de- 
 B 4 g re€ 
 
(8) 
 
 gree worn out , and thofe chara&ers that 
 were yet left almoft ftarved for want of 
 that nourishment which they ufually re- 
 ceive from tjie enterview of pretence, or 
 entercourfe of intelligence ^ even thefe it 
 feems were fo far out-grown by him, that 
 there could be little or no compliance 
 found between the fpecies or forms he left 
 behind him in their minds, and the favour 
 and garb wherein he returned unto them-, 
 fo that when he came to his Mothers door, 
 and renewed his claim unto the Womb 
 that bare him, and to the Brefts that gave 
 him fuck , the Mother fulfilled the word 
 of God by the Prophet, and had forgotten 
 her own fucking childe ^ (he was hardly 
 brought to own him for her Son, though 
 (he had no other childe of that fex to fup- 
 ply his room in her heart. For it is not to 
 be omitted that he is the onely Son of his 
 Parents • fo that his retirement into the 
 bofom of Gods Church , cannot reafon- 
 ably, much lefs charitably, be looked upon 
 as an earthly refuge^ but as a gracious and 
 heavenly choice, fince he had fo ftrong an 
 intereft as is that of an onely Son J both 
 in the afife&ion and care of thofe parents 
 that were and are fo well able to provide 
 for him. And indeed though it be true, 
 that it is the wonder of the Divine Mercy 
 '- thac 
 
(9) 
 
 fhat the Lord is pleafed not to refufe the 
 very rejections and refufes of the world t 
 and to take up thofe whom their Fathers 
 and Mothers for fake •, To receive, a poor 
 returning Prodigal that is driven unto him 
 by the disappointment of the very trough 
 and husks of the Swine, and take up even 
 out-cafts into his fatherly bofom : And 
 though the fame mod gracions God thinks 
 good to make the unhofpitablenefs and 
 ill entertainment of the Relations and 
 ufage of the World, a means to bring in 
 many rlncere Converts into his Houfe and 
 family • yet it is fuch an Argument of 
 fmcerity, as may well advance both our 
 con'idence and joy in this our late received 
 Fellow-Chriftian, that he comes unto us 
 upon more noble , generous, and free in- 
 ducements, then the want of an intereil in 
 thofe earthly friends, that were well able 
 to maintain him in that profefiion that he 
 was in. 
 
 Neither was he long (hut out either ; 
 from the doors or from the bowels of his 
 rechallenged Parents • for although at the 
 firft he was not acknowledged, yet (as 
 Mothers are curious fpeculators of their 
 Children, ) (he had, it feems, laid up in her 
 memory againftthis time of need a certain 
 mark that (he had obferved in the body 
 
 of 
 
(io) 
 
 of her Childe, to which (he thought good 
 to refer the trial of his plea for his reftu 
 tution unto her Family and care •, and up * 
 on the fearch, having found that character 
 upon him, (he and her Husband too, 
 (as we may well imagin) received him with 
 great joy into their mutual bofoms and 
 embraces ( as we ufe to do thofe 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 muft J needs ftir 
 up great endearments in their hearts, and 
 ratfe up great joy and folace in their fouls, 
 whilft they might fay in the litteral fence, 
 as the Prodigals Father did in the fpiritual, 
 It is meet that we fhouU rejoya, for this our 
 Son was loft and is found, he was steady as 
 to our enjoyment or knowledge of him i 
 and is alive again. 
 
 And this was the firfl remarkable return 
 of our Convert from his Moor i(h pilgri- 
 mage unto his Fathers houfe. 
 
 But in this he was but his own 7**- 
 rtble as it were. This was but the dark 
 type and figure of that more bleffed return 
 that he hath now lately made uuto his 
 heavenly Father, and to his Mother the 
 Church. I conceive I may well call this 
 a return too, becaufe though he fprang 
 
 imme- 
 
r.mcdiately from a Turkilh Father, yet he 
 
 vas not onely derived from Chriftian An- 
 
 eftors, as is before declared, (and God hath 
 
 nercj for thoufands ) but he received hi§. 
 
 onception and birth in and from the 
 
 ^omb of a Chriftian Mother^ and foac- 
 
 rording to the Apoftles decision (who 
 
 tllotteth the Title not unto the fhronger 
 
 n refpecl: of Nature, but unto the better 
 
 principle in refpeft of Grace , or the 
 
 Chriftian profefiion) he was'born into 
 
 the world an holy Childe, and inthebo- 
 
 fomof the Catholick Church ofChrift-, 
 
 from whence, though he was ravifhed for 
 
 time by th®fe evil principles which his 
 bad Education infufed into him, yet the 
 Lord hath now in mercy reftored him 
 thereunto. 
 
 Yet he did not prefently attain unto this 
 blefiing , but was carried through divers 
 other Providences unto that happy time 
 and place to which God had referved him 
 for the receiving of fo great a mercy. Be- 
 ing received again into his Fathers Family 
 about the age (as he relates) of 1 5 years, 
 he there continued for fome certain time : 
 But after fome years having bothperfon 
 and gifts to encourage him, and render 
 him acceptable for the fervice of the Wars, 
 He was engaged in feveral Expeditions 
 
 againft 
 
(ir) 
 
 tfgainfl the Chriftians , and was him* 
 felf employed in that late Battel between 
 the Turk and Venetian , and was a wit- 
 nefs and partner in that defeat which fell 
 on the Mahometans fide^ and by fwinv 
 ing through part of the Sea unto the 
 Land , efcaped that deRruftion which fo 
 many others of the Mahometans reciev- 
 ed in that defeat that befel the Turkifh 
 Army. 
 
 And God made his deliverance a hap- 
 py means of the efcape of a poor ChrifHan 
 Slave whom he met withal , delivered from 
 his hard Mafler by that ftorm. This poor 
 Chriftian he met with when he was got- 
 ten to Land, and although he might have 
 made good advantage unto himfelf by re- 
 turning him again to his Matter: Yet 
 having received a command from his Mo- 
 ther to be kind and merciful unto Chrifti- 
 ans, and that loving and ingenuous dip- 
 pofition that appears to be in him, inclin- 
 ing" him to companionate one that had 
 been under fo great a mifery, he was will- 
 ing to venture his own fafety, in aflifting 
 him to make his efcape away. 
 
 Another Chrilrian, ( as it is averred) he 
 redeemed at another time at the rate of 
 fo'urty and fix Dollars, of which he want- 
 ing the odd fix in money to make up the 
 
 ran- 
 
d3) 
 anfom of the poor Captive, he pawned 
 lis Garment to make it up •, and furely as 
 :his companion of his, whilft yet a Turk, 
 towards thofe that were then fo adverfeto 
 him in their profefilon, may fhame here 
 and will condemn hereafter that uncom- 
 paifionate bowellefs cruelty that ChriPii- 
 ns now exercife one towards another, a- 
 mongft whom every difference in judge- 
 ment or practice, is not onely taken for 
 adifcharge of love, but an engagement 
 unto hatred a- d cruelty, which may well 
 make our and other Chriftian Nations as 
 red with blutTiing, as they are with the 
 bloocf of one another : .So we may well 
 conceive, that God that loves all goodnefs, 
 and every thing in every creature that 
 beareth any refemblance of himfeif, hath 
 graciouflyj rewarded the pitty and mercy 
 of this(then)Mahumetan unto poorChrifti- 
 ans, by pouring out that flood of mercy 
 and companion upon him, in the illumi- 
 nation of his foul with his heavenly truth, 
 and his ingrafting into the myftical Body 
 of Chrift Jefus, yet not of any merit, buc 
 of his free goodnefs. 
 
 I think not (it to forget, ( though per- 
 haps I have not remembred it in its due 
 place,) that whilft he was converfant with 
 his Parents at home, it being one of the 
 
 Mahume- 
 
(H) 
 Mahumetan Laws, that all fhall take up 
 onthemtheftateof Marriage at the age 
 of Twenty five years old at the furtheft, 
 one or both of his Parents propoled a 
 Wife unto him- The treaty thereof was 
 even yet on foot, when he ca'me lately out 
 of thofe parts, and good endearment of 
 affection was entertained on both tides, 
 which yet he is now content to facrifice in 
 the fire of that holy love which rnth 
 been fmce kindled in his breil toward the 
 Lord Jefus and his holy Gofpel 
 
 CHAP. III. 
 
 of the Age y Stature , and Qualities 
 of the Convert. 
 
 HIS Age is now about Twenty four 
 years, his Stature tall, his Body very 
 (lender, his colour fomething fwarthy, 
 and of the dieofthofe Climates wherein 
 he hath lived, his feature comely, and his 
 deportment very loving and courteous, he 
 is very temperate in his diet, fober and or- 
 derly in his converfation,of a chearful and' 
 ingenuous difpofition, of extraordinary 
 undwrflanding and knowledge for one that 
 
 hath: 
 
hath been bred up in thofe parts, and a-- 
 mongft thofe people where Arts andLearn- 
 ing are under reftraints and prohibitions ; 
 he is of a pregnant wit, and of good and 
 elegant exprefiion, adorned with hand - 
 fom rhetorical flowers and illuftrations, be 
 is one that diflikes debauchery of life, and 
 hath complained before his converfion, of 
 mifcarriages of that kinde which he ob- 
 ferved in fome that walk under the name 
 of Chriftians, particularly of fome whom 
 he met with at jvapping; which (houk 
 admonifh both them and others that liv. 
 in an irregular courfe of life and conver- 
 fation, to confider ferioufly of the greac 
 difhonor that they thereby do unto Chriil 
 and the profeflion of the Gofpel, arid the 
 great danger that is upon them, to be- 
 come anfwerable unto the dreadful judge- 
 mentofGod, not only for their own fouls 
 whom they ruine by their wickednefs, but. 
 of the fouls of many others whom they 
 may ruine by their fcandals ; whilft they 
 draw fome into the like wickednefs by their 
 evil and contagious examples, and hinder 
 others from embracing that truth , the 
 profeflion whereof they finde accompa- 
 nied with fuch vile debauchery of life and 
 converfation; and fo confirm them in their 
 errors to the ruine of their fouls which 
 
 are 
 
(16) 
 are like to be laid to their charge at the 
 lad day-, God grant we may all lay this 
 unto our hearts- for I amperfwaded the 
 wickednefs of Chriftians at the Jstft day, 
 will be charged with the lofs and condent- 
 nation of the reft of the world. 
 
 CHAP. IV. 
 
 of the occasion and motive of his com- 
 tng into England. 
 
 RUt that we may make hafte unto the 
 main Buimefs, and fet before you that 
 bl efied work which the Lord hath wrought 
 upon this our Convert, to the praife of the 
 glory of his grace : 
 
 When he had for fome time folaced him- 
 feif with the enjoyment of the comforts of 
 his recovered Parents and their Family, and 
 pafled through fome other varieties of Pro- 
 vidence both in War and Peace, being as 
 it feems of too active a fpirit to be (hut 
 up within the narrow bounds of his Fami- 
 ly-contentments :, he took a journey to 
 Smyrna, where he met with Mr. Lawrenc r, 
 Son to the Lady Lawrence ofCkelfey, with 
 whom he fell into fome acquaintance, 
 
 whereb y 
 
(■7) 
 
 wherebyfthough then it were little dreamt 
 of) God made fome preparations for that 
 happy change that hach bin iince wrought 
 upon him, as will appear anon. 
 
 From Smyrna he departed to Tnyiis ; 
 and from Tunis to v//^>r, where wcfliall 
 finde a gracious experiment of Gods great 
 goodnefs unto his people , and fee how he 
 makes all things work together for good, 
 and for the advancement of thofe gracious 
 defigns which he hath contrived in hise- 
 ternal Councels, for the bringing home of 
 his loitiheep unto him, and for the fpread- 
 ing and exaltation of the Kingdom of his 
 Son •, and how he caufes even the publike 
 interefts of thofe Princes and Nations of 
 the world , and their Politick and civil 
 concernments, (however excentricaKhey 
 are in their purpofes to hi r s end ) yet in 
 their occurrences and events to concenter 
 with thofe his gracious determinations ? 
 and that in order to thofe mercies which 
 heintends to one particular foul- fo watch* 
 fuland careful is God for the advantage 
 and benefit of his people, that defigns of 
 feveral great Nations and Kingdoms, niyj 
 of the bufinefs of the whole world (hall be 
 brought in to ferve and minifter unto that. 
 bleffing which he entendeth to one iingle 
 Soul 5 rat her then he (hall fail of his mercy. 
 C . VVhil'ff 
 
(i8) 
 
 Whilft he was at Algier, being through 
 providence difappointed of another inten- 
 ded journey, there was a difpatch of an 
 Agent from thence into 8ngUnd, that God 
 appointed to be his Convoy to waft him 
 over not onely from that Turkifh Region 
 into this Nation, but alfo ( as it bach 
 proved in the happy fuccefs, which is a 
 good interpreter of Gods intendments, 
 though not fo good for a commentary up- 
 oniiis Laws, nor for the difcovery of his' 
 judgment of our adions ) to convey him 
 from the Turkifh Religion into the bofom 
 of the true and orthodox ChriftianChnrchj 
 hisdefireto fee this ftrange Nation, that 
 is now (upon very fad terms, as we may 
 well conjecture) become the noife and the 
 wonder of the world, -inclined him to com- 
 ply with that opportunity, not knowing 
 yet what God meant to do with him there- 
 in - y and fo hither he came : And that 
 nothing might be wanting to the fulfilling 
 of the gracious purpofe of the Almighty, 
 the forefaid-Mr.Z,^m*r£ , the Son of the 
 Lady LawrerceotChelf.y, was fent over 
 about the fame time to meet him here, by 
 whom he was after fome time brought un- 
 to Che/fey to the houfe of his worthy Mo- 
 ther, where he was kindly entertained, 
 and in du time of hk firft continuance 
 
 there 
 
(19) 
 
 there, I had a fight of him -in his Turkifh 
 Habit ^ hut as yet God had~ nor f:ired up 
 my heart to attempt any thing upon him 
 for his Converfion ^ neither indeed did I 
 well know how to artault him, he being 
 as yet a ftranger to the Engiifh tongue, 
 nor acquainted wkh the Latin, nor any 
 but the vulgar Greek, the Arab , and the 
 Franck, which is a kinde of a baftard Ita- 
 lian j but in the time of his being there he 
 had entered into fonie familiarity with 
 Mr. Lawrence a Turkifh Merchant, 
 
 wh© married the Daughter of the Lady 
 Lawrence before mentioned, who finding 
 him,as he conceived, proper for fomepur- 
 pofes of his , prevailed with him to flay 
 fome longer time in England then he in- 
 tended to have done, and fo became the 
 means of that bleffed opportunity . that 
 hath been fince laid hold on, for his illumi- 
 nation. A while after he came agaiti to 
 the Lady Lawrences of Che/fej , at whofe 
 houfe I happily found him when I came 
 thither one evening to dothofeobfervan- 
 ces which I owe unto that worthy Lady(by 
 whofe favour I enjoy an habitation as her 
 Tenant in the Town of Chelfej) but little 
 did I dream what work the Lord had there 
 for me to begin \ but God having brought 
 me thither began to work not onely by ex- 
 • C ' i (king 
 
(ao) 
 
 citing inward inclinations in me to the 
 undertaking of that bufinefs of his Con- 
 vcriion , but alfo by the encouragement 
 and compliant defires of the Lady her felf, 
 and Mr. Shugborou^h who fojourneth 
 with her- fo in much weaknefs, with the 
 affiftance of Mr. Lawrence the 
 
 Merchant , before-mentioned , who was 
 pleafed to do the part of an Interpreter 
 between me and this Convert, I made an 
 entrance upon the Work of his Conver- 
 sion. 
 
 CHAP. V. 
 
 of the method and manner of his Con- 
 version. 
 
 VPon the firft attempt I found him 
 very averie,. and even ftrongiy. and 
 defperately refoived to venture himfelf 
 upon that Religion which his Father had 
 entertained, and derived unto him, though 
 it fhould coft him his damnation,yet at the 
 Iaft he was brought into fome doubt, whe- 
 ther was the true ■ Religion, the Mahume- 
 tanortheChriftian- and feemed to tend 
 towards a kind of indiffewncyy and fame 
 
 expreP 
 
exprefiions , ( as I remember ) fell from 
 him, intimating a defire that God would 
 dired him to the truth- and as fuch a 
 thought, where it is (incere, I am perfwa- 
 ded, feldom or never returns without a 
 blefling, unlefs we be wanting unto our 
 felves, in the ufe or embracement of Gods 
 offers : fo it is an excellent beginning to 
 a work of Wifdom and Grace upon a 
 Soul, for a man to be brought fo far from 
 his Errors, 2Lsbme dubitarcto doubt well v 
 for mod men perifh in ev il and unground- 
 ed confidences j when therefore I found 
 that this breach was made in that evil For- 
 trefs wherein he had flood , I thought 
 good to make the work as fure as I could ♦, 
 and therefore refolving not to rely upon 
 my own flrength, in a bufinefs of fo great 
 concernment, I made hafte to weftminfler^ 
 and imparted the bufinefs and the progrefs 
 that I had made, and the hopes that I had, 
 unto reverend Mr. Tkurfgcrcft, earneftly 
 defiring his affiftance in a matter that 
 might bring fo much glory to God •, at 
 leait that we might do our endeavors, that 
 we might not be anfvverable to God for 
 the lofs of his foul- withal expreffing fome 
 hopeful confidence of a comfortable fuc- 
 cefs in the uadertaking : He feeing my ear- 
 neftnefs feemed to conjecture that there 
 C 3 was 
 
was fome more then ordinary ftirring 
 of the Spirit in the matter, and (hew- I 
 ed himfelf very ready to give afliftance in i 
 the Work- advifed me to an Interpreter, | 
 which we much wanted , vU. one Mr. 
 SamoU , who had been a Traveller in the* 
 Turkilh parts, and fo knew very well how 
 to accoft him in that Language which is 
 ufually fpoken amongft them in thofe Ter- 
 ritories which is the Frank Language, or 
 baftardJtalian. This Gentleman was but 
 lately returned from his Travels to his 
 Country, and fince that return made ano- 
 ther happier then that, from the errors 
 and Superftitions of Popery to the true 
 Chriftian Catholick, Apoitolick Religion, 
 profeiTed by the Church of England , to 
 which God brought him by the advice and 
 jnftru&ion of his learned and worthy 
 Kinfman Mr. Samov* lately Chaplain to my 
 Lord of Elgin •, andfo as Andrew having 
 found outChrift,brought his brother.Sime* 
 unto hinr 8i as Phi lip found out Nathanael^ 
 fo the Lord was pleafed to honor him,who 
 had been but now very lately converted 
 from his own Errors and Superftitions to 
 the embracement of the Truth, jy making 
 him a very great and active in irument of 
 the converiion of another, even of this 
 our lately baptized Chriftian from the Ma* 
 
 humetan 
 
humettn Delnficns andBlafphemies to the 
 holy Gofpel of Chrift Jefus, 
 
 ' But to the farther and furer promotion 
 of our defigne, Mr. Thirfcrofs with my 
 felf, thought good to engage that worthy 
 and learned Divine Mr. Tetcr Gumng , 
 who hath fhewed himfelf a very able and 
 worthy Champion of Gods Truth and his 
 Church, both againft Pap ifts a ad others, 
 that he might employ his excellent abilities 
 for the bringing of this work begun unto 
 a happy Ififue. 
 
 The motion was no foonermade, but 
 readily embraced by him. 
 
 To this purpofe he with Mr. Samois ad- 
 dreffeth himfelf unto Chelfey, to the houfe 
 of the Lady Laurence, who was pleafed 
 to give a very favourable and courteoufs 
 entertainment to all that came about that 
 holy bufinefs (which I hope will be re. 
 turned in many blcflings upon her Fa- 
 mily.) 
 
 Upon the firft Difcourfe that Mr. 6W 
 inz and my felf together hadwith him, 
 wherein Mr. Guning took great and effe&u- 
 all pains there was yet no conclusion pro- 
 duced in him anfwerable to defire 
 
 But the Lord himfelf the night 
 
 after , it feems , took him in hand, and 
 
 feconded our endeavors , with a very 
 
 C 4 ftrange 
 
ftrange and Wonderful dream, which the 
 Convert himfdf related the next Morning ^ 
 and feemed not a little affe&ed with it. 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 the Relation of a ftrange Dream^ that 
 the Convert had , after fome Dif- 
 courfe had with him> before his Con* 
 
 verfion. 
 
 The Dream was this. 
 
 HE thought htfaw a Table, with a very 
 fair Vejfel like a Bafon , (landing 
 upon it, and two mtnftanding by it* 
 
 And prefect ly after he dreamt that he wot 
 /landing by a (Ireame , wherein he had a 
 great Defire to wafbhimfelflbul the Stream^ 
 tvas fuch a pithy ft inching fttddle water \ 
 that he coulA not wajh himfelf in it : In 
 this filthy fir earn he thought he f aft a Hen 
 lie dead with her head or neckjut , and that 
 a woman came and teohjhis dead Hen out of 
 the puddle water ,and when fhe hadfet it fawn 
 Ufon its leggs 9 it ran away alive. 
 
 *s4fter this at he was troubled , that he 
 could not wajh himfelf in that filthy ft ream 
 
 that 
 
.(*5) 
 
 that was then before him, he thought he faw 
 upm the Juddain a very fair full and clear 
 chryftal ftream break, forth of a certain 
 pLce, whichcame Ki'hgreM force and gujb- 
 ed upon ihe filthy ftream and drove it clear 
 away, andprefented it feif in the place of 
 
 ' Into this pure ftream he entred, {though 
 with feme fearfulnch at the fir ft) and but ! 
 by Degrees ^wafted himfelf in it, and fwam 
 
 over it* ' 
 
 When he was gotten over the ftream , and 
 now as itfeemedatfomediftancefrom it , he 
 bejran to be very thirfy, and knew not how to 
 act water to drink} But i» thu hi* neceftty, 
 there fell a fhowre from Heaven, which when 
 hefale he betook himfelf unto a poor houfe 
 attdk»ocktatthedoor h upon that a woman 
 came on unto him, who upon reqnefr, gave 
 him a little difcwith Vehich he no\^ fomeof 
 the heavenly jhoVert that feU> and therewith 
 quenched his thirft* 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
(25) 
 
 CHAP. VII. 
 
 An occasional Difcour[c concerning 
 Dreams, 
 
 •H E Relation of this Dream raifed 
 fome hope in us, that God had been 
 pleafed to own and fecond our endea- 
 vours ^ So great compliance was then be- 
 tween it and the holy defigne we had in 
 hand, which God was pleafed as it feems 
 to ad: over in the praluMum of thisDream, 
 as afterwards he brought it to pafs in a 
 waking performance •, And indeecf though 
 mariy and mod Dreams may go for the idle 
 arid impertinent ifiues of the wandring 
 and extravagant fantalies of men, and of 
 the impreflions which they receive either 
 from predominant humors in the body, or 
 vein , and evill affections in the mind, or 
 from the reprefentations that are made in 
 the time of fleep, by the fubtile operati- 
 ons of wicked Spirits; and fo are either not 
 to be much regarded, or elfe to be thought 
 upon with humiliation and fbrrow,as thofe 
 Evidences and fruits which break, forth in 
 our very deeps , of our corrupt , vain> 
 and finfull inclinations- yet fome of them 
 are of fuch excellent harmony in their 
 
 frame 
 
frame and Method, and have fuch a ftamp 
 of fobriety and holinefe upon them in 
 their defign and drift , that they ought 
 not to be (lightly paffed over or forgot- 
 ten , but to be diligently weighed and 
 thought upon , that we may receive in- 
 ftru&ions and admonition from them^ 
 efpecially fince we find that this hath been 
 one way whereby God hath been pleafed 
 in very eminent maner, to make known his 
 holy will and plealure to his people,and to 
 admonilh and direct them, both for the 
 avoiding that which is Evill, and for the 
 purfuance and embracement of that which 
 is good and profitable unto them, and 
 well pleafing unto him- as is manifefl: in 
 the notable and weighty Dreams record- 
 ed in the Scriptures, as of Abitnclech, Gen. 
 20, The Dream of facet, Gen. 28. of fo- 
 fepk, Gen. 37. of 'Vharoah, Gen. 41. of 
 &<$Hcha%ez,z**r, Daniel' 2. Daniel 4. of 
 'Daniel, Daniel 7. fee Daniel. 8. &c. Of 
 the man of lfrarl, Judges 7. 1 3 • of Solomon 
 1 Kings 3. 5. 15. of fo/eph, the husband of 
 the Mother of Chriit, Matth. 2. 1.2. 22. 
 And that this is a way wherein God hath 
 heretofore promifed to manifeft himfelf 
 unto his people, you may learn by that 
 which is written, Numb. 12.6. 7^ 3 3 • x 5 • 
 
 frr.M.zf. foci if 2S. t^ff^ti7- Nor. 
 ■ • ■ - dare 
 
(28) 
 
 Cafaub. <kre I condemn that which is faid to be re- 
 ef En- lated by Antoninus that famous Emperor 
 thuf.d,.* concerning cures by Dreams,** onlj( faith 
 a learned Writter of our Church) approved 
 unto him f elf by hisorvn, hut unto others al' 
 fo by frequent experience. Galen is faid of- 
 ten to have had a Dream to Write f*ch or 
 fuch a Book , to go % or forbear fuch a jour* 
 *ey ; which puts me in mind of that which 
 befell St. Paul, ^4ft. \6.g. unto whom a 
 Wan of Macedonia appeared in a Fifien or 
 Dream by night, and prayed him, faying, 
 Come over into Macedonea and help us. 
 
 Ecclefiaflical Hiftory, and other Monu- 
 ments that are left us of the various and 
 wonderful paffagesof the world, afford us 
 many and frequent examples of very re- 
 markable things of this nature. 
 
 ^Alexander the Great, when he was 
 Upon an Expedition againfl: Tyre, thought 
 in his Dream that he faw a Satyre, which 
 upon confutation had, this Interpretati- 
 on, ra TJf©- 9 Ty*e is thine ; The very 
 Syllables of the name of that Monfter 
 which he thought he faw , importing in 
 their fignification the Vi&ory that he ob- 
 tained -, and the Succefs was anfwerable 
 thereunto. 
 
 Another Dream of his is more famous 
 and remarkable t as that which £<^feemeth 
 
 to 
 
(39) 
 
 to have madeufe of as an inftrument of 
 great and gracious Providence^ and it 
 was this : He thought he favv in a Dream 
 orVifion, the form of a man prefenting 
 it (elf unto him in rich and awful Attire, 
 eventhofe very Robes which were ufed 
 by Gods appointment by the High Triefi 
 of the JeVPt^ and fhortly afterwards, as 
 he was riding toward ^erptfaUm, he rget 
 fadtu in a Habit dire&ly anfwerabie to 
 nis Dream, which (truck fuch an awful- 
 nefs into him , that he lighted from his 
 Steed or Chariot , and did him great re- 
 verence^ and by this means his fury was 
 diverted from the fefos. 
 
 It is related of fulltu fa far, that the y. Pluu 
 night before his deftrudion he dreamed in vita 
 that he was placed by the Throne of Ju- Cafar.fy 
 pter, and that by and by afcer he was^r* 
 tumbled down out of Heaven. Lt^cnA 
 
 Siwonides having exercifed his huma- 
 nity and mercy, in buryiag of a dead^ 7 ^ f ' 
 man, and being afterwards determined to fe r ir. 
 take a journey by Sea, thought he faw the iff iuan* 
 fame dead man whom he had buried, ap- uu 
 pearing unto him, and admonifhing L;,n 
 to forbear that Voysg; declaring- unto him 
 that if he (hould undertake it, he fbould 
 wife arrj therein \ and la 1sts4ife\ He took 
 thisadmonition^ and fcckaped that (hip- 
 
 wrack. 
 
wradc- whereby all that went perifti" 
 ed. 
 
 flfts^ The M ^ her of Gri i 6f 7 ® ******* ( as 
 Msonfc. Ea M w }"™ -telateth out of the Hiftory of 
 chcJivi- h* s We) having petitioned <yW, in'ner 
 nathnem prayers /ir * <y^, with a vow to deftinate 
 him to the holy fer vice of <gW, had it re- 
 vealed to her in a Dream, That fie Ihould 
 haves Son born of her, and had his Vtfafe 
 prefented unto her, and h& name declared 
 in her Dream or.Vifion. 
 
 St Augufthic re'lateth in his Third Book 
 of Conftjjion.t , that whilft he was yet a 
 Mamchee , his Mother Monica had a 
 Dream that (he was (landing upon a.jsWf» 
 Rul^ and being very fad, f.nv a glorious 
 JoHKg mm very j yfut^ and of a chearful 
 countenance cowing unto her , and that he 
 as fted he ri he c a tife of her fadnef? and when 
 [he had declared that it was by reafon of the 
 firrow that fit had for her Sen, who was then 
 in the VPay of deft ru 8 ion- he bid her be of 
 goodchear, and wifhed her to mark^andeb- 
 ferve, and that fie Should fee her Son to be 
 vrithhtr where jhe was , and jo fhe faw her 
 Son Handing with her uton the fame 
 Rule. 
 
 The fame Anguftine hath a ftory of one 
 Curmas that lived near unto Hippwhtvz 
 be was Ttifio^ who in hisfleep thought 
 
 he 
 
(3 1 ) 
 
 he few himfeif Saptifcd by Augufilnt , i^ c "j e 
 and that afterwards he was led ir.to Para- caf.co'nf. 
 dife i and as he was difmifTed from thence, «ww 
 he thought he heard a voyce faying unto iP^r** 
 him, Qo and be bxptifed, if thou wilt be in j ' 2 ' 
 this place of the b/ejfed; and that after- 
 wards being admonifhed to b* baptizea by 
 Augufiine^ and returning anfwer that that 
 Vqm already done ( as his Dream had be- 
 fore prefented it to him ) he that fpake un- 
 to birh in his Dream or Vifion replied 
 thus,(7o (faith he) and be baptized indeed, for 
 that was but a Vifion ; Whereupon he went 
 to Hippo, and was amongft others baptized 
 by Aftguftine that knew nothing of the 
 Viiionor Dream. 
 
 Sozomen in the Sixth Book of his {-.s^m, 
 clefiaftical Htftory , and Second Chap, l|U& 
 teileth us, that the death of fulia*** A-^-^- 
 rjoftate was fore-difcovered t^j»* 
 Alexandrinm in a Dream •, S in the 
 Fifth Chapter of the fame £*• that 
 the Tumults of the ArrU * n the 
 Church were difcovered to jf*iw in a 
 Dream. 
 
 lejjius in his Book, De ^ ia ^f^ Le§ m i e 
 c&terifque virtntibm cardinal 9 ***• 2 ;}nfiit3m 3 
 cap*45 • dttbit.S. the title where 15 ? 2*w/-i.2- c 45 
 que divinatio ex fpmnit fit L a > makes****, 
 mention of the Dream of Wrf« , 
 7 r: wherein 
 
(3D 
 
 wherein he being yet a private man, : 
 thought he law himfelfjcrowned by Mtleti- 
 us a tiifiop,\vhen as yet he had not thought 
 of any fuch thing/ nor had any knowledg 
 Jheodor. °* theTaid Btfiop See Theodor. Hift.Ub $. 
 
 c- 6,fo 7. The fame Lefftw alfo, in the fame Chap- 
 ter remembers the Dream of St. Polic&i 
 
 Jeff, ubi f M -> wn0 thought in his deep that hU p*7- 
 
 fupa. low \*a4 alt on fire^ whereby was fignified 
 the manner of his Martyrdom 
 
 It is alfo written in the life c>( Partus j 
 that before the deilru&ion of the Tala- 
 1 'mate, he faw in his Dream HtidltbergQVL 
 fire. 
 
 In the life of Sir Henry Wotton lately fet 
 forth, we hcvve mention of two Dreams 5 
 one of Nicholas Wotton, Dean of Canter' 
 bury Uncle to Sir Thomas Wott*n\ andthej 
 
 TheL -,^ Other of Sir Thomas Wotton himfelf, Sir 
 
 9f Sir H, Henries Father. 
 
 Wotton. u The firft was this, A T ;V W*?.f wotton Dear 
 of Canterbury $ being Ambaflfador in 
 f> ance in the- year, 1555. in the time oi 
 Queen Mary, had a Dream wherein he 
 was admonifhed that Thomas Wott°n his 
 Nephew xvxs inclined to be a party in [tick 
 a *Proje£l, wkich {if Le Were not (peedily di- 
 verted) wonld turn to the lofs and /uint 
 both of his life and Family. Whereupon he 
 
 jrtaemforing 
 
(&5, 
 
 I remembring the Dream of Monica con- 
 cerning St Avguftixie her Son ^ and con- 
 sidering that Almighty God hath even 
 in latter times by a certain illumination 
 of the Soul in (leep, difcovered in Dreamt 
 many things that humane wifdom could 
 not forefee , refolved to ufe fome prudenc 
 remedy-, to this end he wrote to the Queen 
 and befought her, That fhe would cafrfe his 
 Ncpb:w Tho.Wotton to be fent for cut of 
 Kent and that the Lord* of her Council might, 
 interrogate hint in frme fuch feigned 
 que f ions at might give a colour for his amr. 
 rnitwent into a favorable Prifon; declaring 
 that he \\>o#ld dcejuaint her Aftjeflj with 
 the true reafon of his re 'tjm ft , when he fbould 
 next become fo kippj as to fee and ffeuk^ to. 
 her Majeftv. This was done according td 
 his defire, and Thomas Wottfa committed 
 to prifon. And by this means he was pre- 
 vented from an engagement with ivyat 
 and the Kenti(h Rebells •, wherein ( as he 
 afterwards acknowledged to his Uncle,' 
 when he returned into Englandjhc was like- 
 ly to have been involved s and fo they bo th 
 joyned in praiiing God for that admoniti^ 
 on which was given in the Dream for the 
 ^prevention thereof. 
 
 The other Dream was one thatbefel Sir 
 Thomas tvotton himfelf, who ( as it is re. 
 iatbd) had many that' did ufually prove 
 T>" true * 
 
(34) 
 
 true, both in foretelling things to come, 
 and difcovering things paft : That 
 which we now defire to mention was this; 
 Sir Thomas Wotton a little before his death 
 dreamed, That the Treafury of the Vni- 
 verfity of Oxford was robbed bj Townfmtn 
 and pjcr ScholUrs^ and that the number of 
 them was Fi^e-, And being the day fol- 
 lowing to write unto his Son Henry ( be- 
 ing then at Oxford) he gave him a flight 
 notice thereof in a Poftfcript of his Letter, 
 which came to his Sons hands the very 
 morning after the night in which the Rob- 
 bery was committed ( being fent to him 
 out of Kent) and when the City and V- 
 niuerfity were both in a perplexed inqueft 
 of the Theevef, Sir Henry Wot ton produ- 
 ced his Fathers Letter, and by it fuch light 
 was given that the Five Guilty perfons were 
 di [covered and apprehended. 
 Vita cl. Take one more , with which we will 
 Salmafnl conclude our examples of remarkable 
 per Anto. £> reams ^ j t j s that of the learned and fa- 
 ' mous SglmafiH* , related in his Life , fet 
 forth by Antonim CUment'tm , before the 
 volume of the Epiilles of the faid Sal* 
 mafitu. 
 
 Salmaftus having a defire to fee Rome ; 
 and the Monuments that were there, and 
 having provided himfelf for the journey, 
 
 art 
 
<3J> 
 
 and entered himfelf into the company of 
 fome Merchants for that Voyage , the 
 very night before he was to have taken it,* 
 was troubled with a terrible Dream, and 
 thought he he.ird a voice, meft carnejllj dif* 
 f wading him f rem his fttrpofe therein, and 
 withal threatnivjg him, that if hr Vter.t on^ he 
 pmild never return alive : Whereupon he 
 defifted from his intended Travel, and fo 
 prevented that great danger that might 
 very probably have befallen him amongft. 
 thole people , from whom his great fame 
 and learning would not likely have fuflfer •_ 
 ed him to have been concealed, and whom; 
 he had fo much provoked by his learned 
 Labors in the maintenance of that truth 
 which lies fo oppofite unto their evil inte- 
 reft, and efpecialiy by the care that he had* 
 taken for the publifhing and polifhingof 
 Nilm and Bdrlaam, thofe moil: eager E- 
 ncmies of the Papal Monarchy. 
 
 Ke that defires to fee more of this kindy 
 may have recourfe for his further fatif- 
 fadion to Sirozzio de JpiritUtu & incari* 
 tationibw, Witrtu de pxtftigiu ti&moKum % 
 Pe%ceru6 de divinatione, ( tetrode divina- 
 tion* , and others:, as likewife to the fe r 
 veralHiftoriesof the World ; amongft the 
 reft, there is an Hiftory that I have feen 
 Of Henry the Fourth of France, that] 
 D % makes' 
 
makes mention of divers remarkable 
 Dreams chat ufheredin the violent death 
 of that Great Prince , and amongft the 
 reft one of them, as I remember, was this, 
 That his Queen a littlebefore his death 
 dreamed , that all her fnve/t were turned 
 into Pearls-^ which aretheufaal Emblems 
 of Tears. 
 
 All thefe Examples i with many other 
 that the Records of the times will afford 
 us, may lead us fafely unto this Conciuiion^ 
 That God may and doth fome times admonijh, 
 not onely his cwnpeep/e^ but others alfo , as 
 Laban,Abimelech and Balaam by Dreams, 
 and then it will eafily follow , That all 
 Dreams are not to be Aityifed^ but that fome 
 areferionfly to be weighed^ and madeufe of, 
 as admonitions from God* 
 
 CHAP. 
 
(37) 
 
 CHAP. VIII. 
 
 of the Nature of Dreams, their. Caufes 
 and Kinds ; and how far we may 
 proceed in taking observations and 
 Admonitions from them-, and what 
 Rules are to be observed therein. 
 
 HAving gained thus much, That there 
 is fome weight in feme Dreams, and 
 that as the Poet hath it, Somnia fondtu ha- 
 bent, it will be of concernment for us not 
 to leave this matter, until we have given 
 fome Directions concerning the life that is 
 to be made of them ^ the rather becaufe 
 they are things very fubject to be made 
 theinftrumenssof*Z>f//</ze» by Satan, and 
 of Superftition by foolifh, and weak, and 
 wicked men. We need not. go far, I think, 
 from our own Age and Nation tobein- 
 flructed , That there is great mifcheif 
 that proceeds from mifcarriages concern- 
 ing Dreams •, whereby too many,, it may 
 be feared, have been and are at this day en- 
 fnared both in errors of Judgment, and 
 evill and vile Traftifif, in Affection and 
 Converfation, contrary to the Truth and 
 Bolinefs of God : whereby our times are 
 D 3 become 
 
(3?) 
 become the parallel of that evill Charatter 
 
 Iude8 that St. ^fe gave of fome wicked people 
 ,f in his own times, huor^ /u^rot y^lZr-t hv** 
 
 vict'Comv-t, Likfwife ( faith be ) theft Drea- 
 mers dtfite the flfjh, dcfpife Dominion, and 
 Jfieak evil ofDignities : A glafs wherein-' 
 we may very vifibly behold the evill Fea- 
 tures of the Dreamers and En thrift sot 
 our days:, They ar^called Dreamers (as 
 Deodate conje&ureth upon the place ) be- 
 caufe 'they vented their wn Dreams and 
 Jer.23. Fancies inflead of Gods Truth See Jet* 
 2 $•, to 28. 23. 25, to 28. Beza renders the word there 
 S'-S 1 * &'°pi** l am * G ******* obferveth that the 
 y^r wordnW inthe Hebrew, I fa 56. 1-. is 
 Ifa.stf.iotranflated ^tm/ee$tegrw in the Greek •, and 
 it fignifies ( faith he ) ftttlta imaginam?s x 
 ita tit ii qui femniant, Tbofe that imagine 
 vain and fooliflj things , like them that 
 , dream. Indeed as Dreamers rhavbe faid 
 in fome fence to be awake in their fleep ^ 
 fo our Enthnftafts are fleeping Wakers, 
 and their pretended Enthufiafms but 
 waking dreams, the mad and wilde fancies 
 of fouls that are in the dead ileep and (lum- 
 ber of fin-, and though t^oth Infpirations 
 and Dreafis may be good where they pro- 
 ceed from a right principle, and are enter- 
 tained and ufed as they ought to be (as 
 I have already (hewed in that of Dreams) 
 
 yec 
 
(39) 
 yet they are very apt to be miftaken, be* 
 caufe they come very often in the dark, 
 and not lefs apt to be abufed to evill pur- 
 pofes : Infomuch that ( as a Learned Au- cauUb. 
 thor hath already obferved of one ofofEn- 
 them) fo I may be the bolder to fay ofthufiafm 
 both of them together , that thej have 
 been made the colours and countenances of 
 the mo ft eminent mif chiefs that have been in 
 the Vvorld ; And therefore ( as I fhall 
 be bold to fay) that it is the pjrt of a wife 
 man ft confider his Dreams., fo withall I 
 fhall fay, that it is $ point of goal and of 
 great iVifdom ~ to diftin^uijh well of thsm % 
 axa to k? w ho iv to ufe them aright. 
 
 It is therefore a matter of concernment 
 that we ftiould be rightly guided in that 
 flrange converfation which we have with 
 our felves , and spiritual natures in 
 Dreams . 
 
 And as it is of concernment in it felf, fo 
 of the more becaufe it is a matter wherein 
 I think I may fay^we are moft accountable 
 to God for almoft the third part of our 
 lives. I mean all that time which is (pent 
 in fleepiytg. 
 
 And this concernment is attended with 
 
 fome difficulty, not onely becaufe it may 
 
 feem to require fome more then ordinary 
 
 light to difcover thefe matters of d,r><nefs^ 
 
 D 4 which 
 
(*> > 
 
 Which ufually move in the obfcuritiesboth 
 of the greater and leffer world; but becaufe 
 \t is that bufinefs of our life which is lea'ft 
 underfioodby us ? and of which weareleaft 
 the Ma/ten^ and therefore fince, Ars efi de 
 diffici/i & bonc,The proper fubje& of Art is 
 that which is ufeful and difficult. It requi- 
 jretft fome skjti to ftate this qnefticn aright. 
 
 And firft it will be requifite to know 
 what thefe Dreams arc Methinksl may 
 call them certain Meteors of the leffer 
 W*rU y which appear in the huniane night 
 of the Microfm or Jit tig World of man. 
 
 Some kind of ftragglings that the 'far 
 € til ties of Jife have with the chains of {lum- 
 ber under which they are bound, and as it 
 were fomc breakings out from the Trifon 
 o{ jteep^ fome, agitations of the mind with- 
 in it felf, rai fed either by fome ftrong im- 
 prefTions that the Memory hath received, 
 which are fo bright that they break 
 through the c lou d of [lee p, to the iJiumina- 
 t ion and Hiring up of the F *xcy or imagina* 
 ti&fi y or by fome.earneft or a&ive afietlms. 
 that are in the Appetite or Irafcibie Facul- 
 ties of the Soul, which draw as it were the 
 Pictures of thofe things upon the table of 
 |he imagination, wherein they delight, or 
 ivherewith they are moved, clothed either 
 with their hopes or fears \ which make their 
 V . " Dreams 
 
(40 
 
 Dreams either pleafing or terrible, or by 
 fome either natural, or difeafed and^cr- 
 dent.il predominancy of fome humors. The 
 vapours whereof arifing with fome vio- 
 lence and thicknefs difpofe themfelves, as 
 it were, into fome kinde of figure like the 
 cUftJs in the Heavens, according to their 
 feveral tempers and complexions or by the 
 influence of the Heavens ; or temper of 
 the Air , or by the operation of evitl 
 Spirits, or by good Angels, or by the in- 
 fluence of Cjod by his holy Spirit. 
 
 And this will lead us in the fecond place 
 to the consideration of the feveral kinds 
 of Dreams , difttnguifhed by the feveral 
 caufes thereof : 
 
 Which are thus diftinguiihed, and that 
 very well I think, by Lejfim in the Book ? e jT* .i e 
 before cited, de fyfiiw. Some, faith lie; f^* ^ 
 proceed from the fingttlar providence of 'dub. 9. 
 God to which thqfc may fee reduced that 
 are oy the operation bffred Ang-ls. Some 
 from the procuration of the Devil or evill 
 Spirits. Some from the conflitution of 
 the Heavens, or difpofition of the Air. 
 Some from preziom cogitations, in which 
 I fhall include thofe that proceed from the 
 ArTedions or inclinations of the Mind \ 
 ^ndfome from the jffe&ion (as he calls it) 
 or ( as I had rather fay ) from the 
 
 temper; 
 
<4») 
 
 temper and complexion of the 'Body. 
 
 Thofe that proceed from God either im- 
 mediately, or by the mini'ftration of his 
 good *singels , are good , and true, and 
 move to good, and are fentunto^W pur* 
 pofe, and though thefe were more fre- 
 quent and eminent in thofe times that 
 went before the perfecting of the Camn 
 of Scripture, as were alfo Apparitions, and 
 extraordinary hjpirations , yet there is 
 no caufe to doubt but that there may be, 
 and are fometimes ( as extraordinary di- 
 vine ir.fpirations.) So divine Dream^wheVC" 
 by qU is pleafed to impart himfelf either 
 immediately, or by the mini juration of his 
 Angels unto his people, either todifcover 
 fome fecret or future things unto them, or 
 to encourage or give approbation unto 
 fome good things which they have in hand 
 or defign, or th?.t.he would let them upon, 
 or to admonifh them to avoid fome things 
 that would be hurtful unto them, or dif- 
 pJeaung unto him •, and the^e Dreams muft 
 needs be of great concernment and con- 
 f e ^/ e federation • Dstu ( faith Lefiius ) iUannn- 
 / 2 ' T 2 1 mm ^rnmittit nip ad aliquid figmfican- 
 dub.8. ' dum quo hominem monzzt vel i^jlruat- And 
 as they are of great concernment and con- 
 fideration, fo it is a point of great wifdom 
 to know them. 
 
 The 
 
(43) 
 
 The Marks or Characters whereby they 
 may be difcerned, are obferved, andob- 
 ferveable to be thefe. 
 
 i. When they bring with them either 
 fome certain declaration of words, where- 
 by God declareth his will, or that which 
 he wouid reveal or admonifh a man of, 
 or fome certain reprcfentation which hath 
 fome likenefs or analogy unto the things 
 whereof the mind is to be informed, or 
 whereunto it is. to be difpofed thereby, 
 which if it do clearly and perfpicuoufly 
 prefent that which the Dream intends, it 
 is called, faith Lejfiw y lese**- or a Vifion \ if 
 obfeurely and enigmatically, it is called 
 Gfc/pi^, a Dream. So that from hence we 
 may collect indeed three forts of Divine 
 Dreams, 
 
 Firfr, By word or clear decUr*.tio» 9 as 
 was that of Ufeph, wherein he was admo- Mat .i. 29 
 niftied not to forfake the holy Virgin, and Matt* 1 . 2. 
 was warned to fly IntoEgjptjLnd to return 15,19. 
 from thence. 
 
 Secoudly, By clear ptefenratiox of the 
 object, or by fifio^ as was that of Paul, 
 
 jfcl.\6-9' 
 
 Thirdly, By way of Typical or E*ig- Gen ^ 
 watical reprefentation, as were the Dreams Gen ' # 5<£ 
 of Io/eph, Gen- 37. of the Butler and Baker Gen. 41. 
 oipharoahjlen^o. of Pharaoh t Gen*4>i.o{ Dan. 2. 
 NebncbadhettHr 3 Dan.l< t 0'c % In- 
 
(44) 
 Gen. 31- Indeed fome may feem to be compound- 
 * 0, ed of two, or of all thefe, as the Dream of 
 Jacob. Qev.^l. 10. 
 
 And yet this Mark of it felf is fomething 
 too wide to diftinguifh this fort of Dreams 
 from others of the worfer fort. For there 
 is none of thefe ways but Satan and evil 
 Angels may by Divine Permiflion make 
 ufeof^ but this will (hut out con fn fed. bead- 
 le fs , extravagant Dreams from being of 
 this fort. 
 
 2.The fecond- Mark therefore is this,when 
 they move unto that which is~ truly and 
 eminently good, or from the contrary evil! y 
 and have nothing in them that (rands op- 
 pofite to the Truth or Holiriefs of the Word 
 of god, or found Reap* , nor that addeth 
 any thing to Gods w or d, as a new way of 
 righteoufnejs or falvatisn •, nor inclineth to 
 exceed the limits or bounds of a mans Cal~ 
 Ung^rVdc-ti-m ( unlefs in fome extraordi- 
 r.r< -\ cafe} and warranted by fome extraor- 
 di i; nee. I accumulate all thefe to* 
 Act-id.c, gcihc ^for brevity fake. ;See how S.P^/ga. 
 thered hisDream to be from God, 4tT. i 6. g, 
 3. When they are of a wife, fober\ of a 
 juft r arj orderly frame and compofure, with- 
 cm any iir-clnre of lightneft , ging/ipg 0% 
 vanity in th~rn^ or in the analogy thai they 
 have sfnt.Q the -hings which they fiem to imi-> 
 tate or nfrefent* 4-Wfren. 
 
(45) 
 4. When they come unto thofe that Judg.22; 
 are good people, or unto others in thebe-x^. 
 half of them, as they did unto Balaam on ^ n * 2 °* 
 the behalf of Ifrael, and unto Abimelech 2 ,' ' 
 on the behalf of Abraham- and unto L r 
 ban on the behalf of Jacob-, as alfb to 
 fharaib, 7\j.buchadriezz,.ir.&c> Yet I do 
 not fay that this is proprium quarto m J.s , 
 Eut it is that, that when it is prefent con- 
 curs to the probability of the Dreams 
 coming from God, although the contrary 
 is not concluded by the abfence of this 
 Mark ^ for we cannot fay, but that God 
 that fender h bis rain upon tbe jaft and un~ 
 jup, may alfo give admonitions by Dreams 
 tending to the temporal good of thofe that 
 'are- not gracious , or unto the fpiritual 
 good of thofe that are yet wicked, that they 
 may be made gracious by embracing them, 
 or left'inexcufable inreje&ing them, or 
 for fome other ends that are fecret, and 
 known onely unto God, at leaft not unto 
 us ; or bringing unto fuch wicked men the 
 menacesof judgement and deftru&ion, as 
 tbe Dream of Pharaohs Baker, and N'ebtt- 
 chadne^z^ar. 
 
 5 . When they come unto us being in an 
 holy temper and difpofition of spirit, not be- 
 ing in intemperance, or any other (infill' A- 
 fiemper of mind. 
 
 <5-Wben 
 
/ (4<5) 
 
 6 When they come in fbme great ne* 
 ctjfity or ft rait, or in (omc extraordinary- 
 cafe, or to admonilh of fome weighty mat- 
 ter tending to fome end that is clearly ex^ 
 cellent and good • for God doth not ufe 
 ftrtnue mhtl Agere, nor to life txtraordin^r 
 rj means, but to fome great and extraot- 
 dinary pnrpofe, or elfe in fome great nc- 
 eeffity. 
 
 7-When it leaves, as an holy and humble, 
 foa great and ftron? and certain impreffion 
 upon the fil'md* moving it not upon car- 
 nal but [piritpitil Principles &nd motives-,for 
 the Spirit may be known much by the Ar- 
 guments he ufeth. 
 
 8. When the Defign hath nothing in it 
 unmerciful or uncharitable, nothing violent 
 or rdftf\ not tending unto felj ends y or 
 the fatisfa&ion of a worldly or carnal 
 mind 
 
 j o. By the effect and confequent of it in 
 rfie foul, as Leffitti hath it, Vt ft irJe re- 
 maxeat itlnftratio ' mi mi , ccnfolatio five 
 -promptttudo ad, bfeojuium Dei \ If there re- 
 main after, an holy clearness andconfo- 
 lationin the Spirit, anencreafeof vigor 
 and readinefs to godly obedience and ho- 
 Hnefs. A jpritual (feci is a fign that the 
 spirit was attvork^ 
 
 10. It may be known (faith Leflins) by a 
 
 ctrtairt 
 
(47) 
 
 certain inward tafte and relifi in the Swl \ 
 which I conceive is not to be expreffed, 
 rorcanbe underftood by thofe that have 
 it not, nor can well be defchbed by thofe 
 that have it. But this Mark, becaufeitis 
 hard to be difcerned, and may be counter- 
 feited by him that knows how to appear 
 in the form of an Angel of light, is to be 
 attended unto with great humility , fibrie- 
 ry. prudence and caution, and is to be exa- 
 mined by the compliance that it hath with 
 the former Marks. Efpecially we muft fee 
 that that tafte and relifh do not encourage 
 us to any thing that is evil or fmful, or 
 difcharge us from duty, or carry us on in 
 worldly •otcarnd deigns, or things that 
 are frivolous and vain^ but where it a- 
 grees with the reft , it may have the force 
 of a ftrong ajfvrance* A Titer enim ( faith 
 the Author before-named) afficiunt mentem 
 femnia divinitw immiffa % aliter aliunde prar 
 vexientia- 
 
 •ii. When all the reft being agreeable^ 
 it agreeth with feme Vcork^ that God bath 
 in band, and hath fomething in it that 
 feems to be above humane invention^ and 
 hath an excellent agreement in the feeral 
 parts thereof, prefenting the fame, or fe- 
 veral things ^ is" compofed in a wife me- 
 thod and order, agA is approved by the 
 
 evenc 
 
(4$) 
 event arid exaft confequence of things. 
 
 12. And laiily, When in comes nnfouiht^ 
 and unexpected, nor hath any foundation 
 in the fancies or apprehtnfions of him that 
 dreamzth it . but prcfentinv things above his 
 knowledge^ o r abwe his ordinary or vfaal 
 affiHiws. 
 
 filihiCHS Qu&ft. Moral. Tract. 24. c.J. 
 n 12 z 9 \ 2 j, divides the Marks of Divine 
 Dreams into two forts, 1. Thtfe thh 
 may deceive. 2. Thofe that are more cer- 
 tain. 
 
 Of the firft fort are thefe. 1 . The truth 
 of them in the fuccefs • for the Devil may 
 fpeak truth in fome things , that he nuy 
 deceive in a greater matter 2. Thepro- 
 fitabknefs of the matter of them. 3 . That 
 they are of good ads , and feem to induce 
 thereunto > for he doth fometimes tranP 
 form himfelf into an Angel of light. 
 4. That they ftgnifie future contingencies, 
 or internal thoughts or myiteries of Faith •, 
 for all thefe things the Devil maydifcovcr 
 by conjectures, out of the affeft'ions of 
 men, and out of the Scriptures. 
 
 Of the fecondfort are thefe. 1. If no 
 filthy or diOionePt thing happen in the 
 Dream. 2, If it be probable that it pro- 
 ceeded not from natural caufes. 3 If it 
 kavexhe mind well difcofed to devotion: 
 
 4. If 
 
( 49) 
 
 3 ■ If the matter of the Dream induceth 
 not to evill, or to vanity, or curiofity, but 
 to good. 4. If the mind after the Dream 
 be more apt and prompt uato good workSo 
 5 , If it render the mind certain that it 
 is from God. In cafe of doubt he holds 
 it fafe to beieeve it to be from the De- 
 vil. 
 
 Secondly, Thofe that proceed from the 
 Devil and evil *s4ngels are always evilly 
 at leaft in the defign and end of them, and 
 are to be rejected. 
 
 Of thefe Baldwins fetteth down thefe % A u-ww« 
 feveral Marks, whereby he would have /.$. c .6.' 
 them concluded to be from the Devil, or de caf. 
 evil fpirics. conf.circa 
 
 1 .When they tend to the inv eft hat ion or *™"* lu 
 dtjeovery of ttotngs Jecret or jutfire , the ■ 
 knowledge whereof confer reth not to any pro- 
 fit ( or true or f olid good) hut unto vain 
 oftentation of knowledge, or to the cemmif-, 
 tion of fome evil ^ thin ( faith he ) we may 
 weU judgetkatfuch Dreams are infufea by 
 the Devil-, for the vanities of Science, and 
 evildtftgns or contrivances are the Vvorkj of 
 the Devil- 
 
 2. When they tend to the leading of men 
 
 from the holy Word of God to wicked doctrines- 
 
 or opinions f which are painted over -with 
 
 iy pretense or colour of Revelations and 
 
 E dfoiw 
 
(5;0) 
 
 divine Vifions^ when they are indeed the 
 meer deluficni of Satan transforming him- 
 felfintoan Angel of light. Such,, faith he, 
 were,the Dreams of the falfe fPrephets of 
 old , tending to Idolatry •, and of the 
 Axabavtifis who excufed their Seditions 
 and abfurd opinions and pradifesby^y/w 
 and Breams-^ and it were well that our 
 Quakers and others that are carried away 
 into ftrange Fancies^ and irregular practi- 
 ces in this our Age and Nation would try 
 their pretended mfpirations and Dreams by 
 this rule, See Dent. 1 3 . T ,&c . 
 
 3. It is a lign that Dreams are from the 
 Devil and wicked fpirits, when they tre 
 fuch as inflame and flir up men unto tuft, to 
 hatred or rtven'ge, or the like evil affecti- 
 ons, whereby the Bodies alfo of thofe that 
 fleep are defiled jLnd wherfey they are indif- 
 jpofedto prayer, and the offices of piety 
 to*God, or charity to one another. 
 Left de ^' When Dreams come upon fuperfti- 
 jnftitia, tious feeking and . expectation of them. 
 1.2. c-4$. Quando quis ( faith Leffius x ) divinatiomm 
 dub.8* per /omnia quarit certo modo vet ritu fe 
 componendo ad [omnium^ hoc enim expreffe 
 eft invocare Diabvlum. When any man 
 dothpurpofely feek divination by Dreams^ 
 compofing himfelf thereunto by fuperfti- 
 tious Rites or Ceremonies^ for this is ex- 
 
 prefly 
 
(5i) 
 
 prefly to invocate the Devil. Thus ( faith See c<£« 
 he) tht Heathens were wont with premi/ed lw* Rho* 
 fajling, to Jleep in the skins of J a in beafts/^.^ 
 that they might receive Anfwtrs or Ora» mn f ^ 
 cles in their peps* According to that of Mionum. 
 Virgil, 
 
 FeHibus incubuit ftratus fomnoffcpetebat* 
 
 He lay in spin's befpread upon the ground^ 
 That he might mffters have in flee p profound* 
 
 As for thofe Dreams which proceed 
 from the difpofition of the Heavens and 
 the Air i or from the buiinefles or occur- 
 rences of the /*/>, or from the humors, 
 difeafes, or temper of the body , or from 
 the affections, good or evil in their mind^ 
 they may be difcerned probably by the c or* 
 
 rtfpendencies that they have any of them ^ ee **$* 
 r n. , c u r pocrat.de 
 
 nfpetttvelj, unto any one or more of thole infomni- 
 
 caufes •, efpecially fuch as proceed from k. 
 
 the affections or difpofitions of the "Body G *kn & 
 
 ot Mind. ' Thus (.faith Leffm) if a*™/^ io 
 
 tc a man dream of fire, it is afigntfiat he niu J 
 
 <c is troubled with choler^ if of fraoke, and 
 
 " darknefs, of Funerals, or fuch like Jad 
 
 "things, he is troubled with melancholy » 
 
 "if of rain, or fnow, hail v or ice, with 
 
 * x flegm - If of mercy and chearful things^ 
 
 E z • ' : it 
 
(52) 
 
 it feems to rcprefent a fanguine complexi- 
 on. " If a man dreams that he flies, or 
 "runneth fwiftly, it is obferved to be a 
 " token of a light, healthy, and temperate 
 <l complexion : If a man dream that he is 
 '.laden with heavy burdens, or is in ftrait 
 " places where he can hardly run or turn 
 "himfelf, it isafign that the animal Fa- 
 * c culty is oppreffed with humors. Si ea 
 qu<z adlibidixem pertinent, ftgnum eft re- 
 dundanti& fpermatis. If a man dream that 
 he is moiled reitb dirt ', or duly , it is a 
 fign that he abcundeth with putrid Hu- 
 mors, 
 
 There is a (lory of one that dreamt that 
 
 he had his Thigh turned into a (lone, who* 
 
 fhortly after had that Thigh ftricken with 
 
 a Palfie. *And when one had dreamt that 
 
 he was in a Ciftern full of blood, Cjalen 
 
 conjectured that he was plethorical , or 
 
 troubled with over-much abundance of 
 
 blood* And thus that dream or trouble 
 
 in fleep, which the'Phyfaians call^aATw 
 
 or Tnty&ttya, and the vulgar amongft us, 
 
 the Hag or Night -Mare, the Latines Incw 
 
 SteGa- but, proceedeth (faith Lejfipu) from a 
 
 ten l^Mgreft^andobfcure, or fuliginous vapor feifing 
 
 ic # m f ?'! e Mpon the brain, and intercepting thecourfes 
 
 71 of the animal If irits. 
 
 Staeh I>reattis as thefe, are clearly e- 
 
 i\ough 
 
(53) 
 nough many times, -at lead very proba- 
 bly deriveable from their roots and foun- 
 tains. 
 
 And yet it is not to be denied, but that 
 there may • fome Dreames feemingly 
 fir tinge and prophetical , proceed from 
 fome fecret fee>ds, or i ndifcer nab le appre- 
 hensions of the approach of fuch events 
 which are in the Soul • the manner where • 
 of we cannot underftand no more then 
 wfccan underitand the operations of the 
 Lcad(l?ne>, the prefages that are found in 
 'Beafls and Ferris , of the change of the 
 Weather, or the fence that the £V Mnth of 
 the feveral notches of the night, orap-. 
 proach of the day-, or thofe fecret emu- 
 lations that are of cades towards their ef- Opm na- 
 feds, which may perhaps be felt and ap- m t ^f m 
 prehended! by the ftrange intelligence o?™J t £ 
 Nature when we our felves cannot tell See c \. 
 how we come to the fence or apprehenfionfaub. of 
 of them. Emhuf - 
 
 Now. if any (hall be here deflrous to-in- 
 quire; why fuch kind of appre henfi *«/, as 
 likewife thofe mprtffiriii that are received 
 from God or good Angels, or evil Spirits, 
 fhouldbe more incident to men in their 
 fleeps then when they are wakjng: Though 
 it may be hard to give fo clear an anfwer 
 unto this doubt j as fome would require h 
 
 yet 
 
U'4; 
 
 yet this may be fomet«hing towards a de- 
 gree of fatisfa&ion, that one reafon may 
 be becaufe the foul is then ufually fitted 
 thereunto by a twofold advantage. Firft, 
 By the advantage of the nighty whereby 
 it is delivered from thofe noifes and //g to, 
 and other ebjeBs which are apt to diftrad 
 the notions* and hinder the intentions of the 
 mind., which may be the reafon (as 1 
 think it is ) that there is no time fo fit for 
 ftffdy and meditation as the filent night . 
 
 And then fecondly, Becaufe of the ad- 
 vantage of (leev^ whereby the foul is in a 
 great part delivered from bodily operations^ 
 .and from the bufinefsof the outward Sen- 
 ces^ and from the commerce-with external 
 and worldly matters , which puts it as it 
 were into' a kind of Sabbath ox ft ate of reft-, 
 yea, in fome fort into a ft ate of fepArat'ion^ 
 though not from the bond of bodily com- 
 munion, yet from the trouble of Bodily & 
 fetation in fome meafure : Now the morq 
 quiet the foul is, and the more fequeftred 
 from earthly and outward things, the more 
 #pt it is to enjoy the benefit of internal 
 light , $nd of difcourie and intelligence 
 from it felf, and the better fitted for fpi- 
 ritnal* commerce either with Cjod himfelf, 
 or with fpiritual Natures. Which may 
 alfo lead us to underftand fomething to- 
 
 . war4 
 
Cyj) 
 
 ward a reafon why men drawing near their See C 4- 
 departure, when the Soul is drawing into J^** 
 a feparate condition by death, are obferve- 
 edtobe difpofed to pr*f age and prophefie^ 
 and why people that are deprived of their 
 Senees feem fometimes to fall into fits of 
 prophecying. See for our prefent purpofe 
 what the Scripture faith , Job 3 3- i5»> b |3- 
 10. 17. 
 
 To this alfo may be added, That in the 
 time of deep, through the Antift'i&*fi* 
 of the cold temper of the night, and by 
 reafon of the (hutting up of the doors 
 and pores of the Body, the Spirits are like 
 a fire in a do ft furnace , more hot and 
 a&ive, at lead to fome purpofes, andfo 
 more ferviceable it may be to internal 
 and fpiritttal operations and receptions . 
 
 But it is time to come to fome Rules, 
 andfo to draw towards a conclusion of 
 this matter. 
 
 That therefore we may know how to 
 carry our felves in this matter as much as 
 may be without offence to God, or hurt 
 to our Souls • 
 
 Firft, Let this be laid down as the fourr 
 aation, That as many Dreams are to be de- 
 fpifed, and fome to be reje&ed, abomina- 
 ted and repented of ; fo fome are to be ob- 
 ferved and regarded, and may be attended 
 4 E 4 ?° 
 
(5*) 
 
 Bakt* de t0 7 unt0 S° od advantage and bene£t. A*^ 
 **/. cmJE velommbvu, vel rtullis fidemadkibere fcm- 
 circa di- mt f nujdem eft vanitatts.^ (faith 'Bald- 
 vinatio- win. ) 
 
 *em,L 3 . Div j„ e <Dre* m s that come unto us with 
 good teftimony that they are fuch (accord- 
 ing to the Rules before fet downjare to be 
 exceedingly regarded, as coming to us by 
 Gods fpecial, aji'd fometimes extraordinary 
 -norksf Providence, which muft needs be 
 fir • ^ n ^ireded unto fome weighty 
 
 FllllUClUS QUXU. „ n J n^A y n b ^ 
 
 Mwal.Traft. 24. c 5 . a , nd .S 00c i end, as we muft con- 
 ti.121 SanUum fy ne- cI H d ? i « we either cpnfider 
 cejfarium effe jidem the rlrft Afeqer, which' is God- 
 adhibere divims fom- or the Jnttrument /, which' are' 
 &KS ^>fl^ Such Dreams 
 Mj a adhibenda eft. Wl11 cha uenge our very ferious 
 confideration , and diligent 
 care to take notice of thofe admonitions 
 encouragements, or what elfe they offer 
 unto us- and the negled or contempt 
 I thereof cannot be committed without 
 great impiety ; and therefore we have not 
 oneiy a warrant, but an unavoidable and 
 inviolable obligation in point of duty, both 
 m Obedience and Thankfuinefs , and in 
 point of mtereft too, in order to the good 
 of our felves or others, to take notice of 
 iuch Dreams, and to make ufe of them ac- 
 cording to their importance and purpofe. 
 
 Indeed 
 
Filliuc.ib.T^t hkfom- 
 nis fides adhibeatur , 
 dm neceffaria funt^ prh 
 mo ut jufficienter con' 
 ftet Deum vel e)m An- 
 gelum effe AuUorem 
 e']M. Secundum, ut fig- 
 nificatio forrmi aperta. 
 
 jit. 
 
 (57.) 
 Indeed we muft fir ft be careful 
 to examine them and try them 
 according to the Rules ^ and 
 then when we have found 
 them to be fiich, we may and 
 muft regard and make the heft, 
 and the fiilleft, and the holieft 
 Mife of them we can. 
 
 Secondly, We muft by no means fi fftEh 
 divination by Dreamy or put our felves 
 thereupon, having neither warrantable ex- 
 ample, nor any precept or allowance in 
 the Word of God, no nor in found Rea- 
 fon to encourage us thereunto-, for this 
 ,as it is a temping of Cjod , fo it is alfo 
 a grand practice of fuperftition, and as 
 learned Mr. Cafaubon faith, is little differ- Cafaub. 
 ent from witchcraft,- And this is amongft °*" ^ n * 
 thofe things which are forbidden by tlu 
 God, Bent iF. io. See fer. 
 2^.26^7 % &c-&nd 29.8 Where 
 the people are forbidden to 
 hearken to their dreams which 
 thej caufe to he dreamed, which 
 doth very properly prohibit 
 the affectation of Dreams •, 
 and alj reliance upon fuch as 
 are fought after : Indeed this is a ready 
 way to ruine our felves, and to expofe our 
 felves to deluiions and deceits. If men 
 
 (faith 
 
 Filliuc .ib. Non licet 
 futurorum, feu occul- 
 torum cognitionem de- 
 ftderare per fomnia , 
 nifi urgens neceffiw 
 & ratio occurrat, vet 
 tiifi id fiat exinftinZlvi 
 Sp.S. 
 
(58) 
 
 cEZn-' ^ aitl1 C*U»fo») give their minis U filch 
 thufiafm ^H&y % ^ ere ** no que/Hon that they {hall 
 *&,4* fancy fcmetimef, nay often mch mere then 
 there u juft ground, for. And fome- 
 times it may be fbmewhat may happen 
 Xe|?w extraordinary- but men, I thinly (faith he) 
 
 tia \ 1.2 Were ^ etter want i ( h f* r ? if * l come ty faper- 
 
 c.^.dub. ftitiw? and not by immediate Providence, 
 
 8. as ( out of doubt ) unto fome fometimes 
 
 that are not fuperftitious. Ltffius hath a re- 
 
 Greg.l.^. lation out of Gregory q{ a certain man that 
 
 C *4P was given much to attend unto Dreams, 
 
 that he waspromifed in his Dream that he 
 
 Should liv- a long time, and when Jie had 
 
 laid up great riches for the fup'ply of that 
 
 long life , which he thought himfelf affa - 
 
 red of, Heiied fuddenlj. It is therefore 
 
 Vr San- well determined by learned Dr. Sander fon 
 
 derfon\ in his Sermon upon Ger,. io. verf 6 c That 
 
 Sermon (j nce Scriptnre Canon fea led, and the 
 
 m ' 2 $' * preaching of the Gofpel become Oecume- 
 
 ' ' nial , Dreams and other fupernatural 
 
 4 revelations as alfo other things oflike na- 
 
 * ture as miracles, and whatfoever more 
 1 immediate and extraordinary manifefta- 
 
 * tions ©f the will and power of God have 
 
 * ceafed ro be ordinary and familiar * fo 
 
 * as. now we ought rather to fufped delu- 
 ' (ion in them , then to exped diredion 
 c from them. 
 
 Thirdly, 
 
<5P) 
 
 Thirdly, Yet becaufe though God hatto 
 Rv tied us unto the ordinary means and 
 Weft ions of his Word and found Reafon •, 
 beyond which we may not expeft. and Dr. San* 
 againft which we may not admit o£ any derfon 
 other direction ( faith the learned Au- lbld - 
 *or laft named ) as from God, yet he hath 
 nowhere abridged himfelf of the power 
 and liberty, even dill to insinuate unto' 
 the fons of men the knowledge of his 
 will, and the .glory of his might , by Joel 2, 
 dreams and miracles, &c (and let meAtf.2. 
 dd ) (ince there is fome promife of this 
 into his Church • if at any rime , either 
 n the want of ordinary means, or for the 
 irefent neceflity of the Church or of fome 
 ?art thereof, or for fome other juit caufe 
 perhaps unknown to us , he (hall fee it- 
 expedient , as thefe kindes of extraor- 
 dinary manifefrations are not to be af- 
 fected ; fo neither when they come with- 
 out arTedation, and bring good and found 
 appearance of righteous, and prudent,and 
 holy importance with them, ' and are upon 
 trial approved xo be from GW, are they 
 by any means to be nesleded. But 
 
 7 n. 1 1 j • „ gander- 
 
 roe mujt take heed rve give not too ea J ie { Qnu } ) i 
 
 credit unto them , untitl upon due trial fyp^ 
 
 they fhaS appear both in the end whereuntp 
 
 |hey pointy direft tendency to gods glory* 
 
 and 
 
and in the means which they propofe , 
 conformity to Gods revealed will in huWrh 
 ten word. ' 
 
 Fourthly, Take another Rule from th< 
 kft named Author : « That fo to obfervc 
 ' our ordinary dreams, as thereby to fore 
 ' tel future events , or fore-caft therefroir 
 *good or ill luck in the fuccefs of our af- 
 c fairs, is a lilly, groundless, unwarranted, 
 'and therefore unlawful, and a damnable 
 
 * fuperftition. 
 
 Fifthly, As he goes on , < That there is 
 ' yet to be made a lawful and very profita- 
 ble ufe even of our ordinary Dreams,and of 
 
 * the obferving thereof both in'Phyfick and 
 ^Divinity . not at all by foretelling things 
 
 * to come, but by taking from them fome 
 ' reafonable conjecture of the ftate of our 
 ' bodies, becaufe the predominancy of hu- 
 ^mours, and differences of • ftrength and 
 
 * health, and difeafes, and diftempers, ei- 
 *ther by DietorPaffion, do caufe differ- 
 ent impreiTions upon the Fancy • our ordi- 
 ' nary Dreams- may be a good help to lead 
 ' us into difcoveries both of our natural 
 < conftitution in time of health, a, d of our 
 •difeafes in time of ficknefs. And becaufe 
 f our Dreams look for the mod part the 
 ' fame way which our fecret thoughts in- 
 
 ne'us-, they may beufeful to finde out 
 
 our 
 
(6i) 
 
 I our fins , and ( as he obferveth ) our 
 1 ma*fter fin. And to this is agreeable that 
 or' LtJfiHS 5 Si J omnia, putantur effe ex 
 cattfa naturally Hcitum eft ex litis conjeelu- Lefliuf <k 
 ram facere de event it qtt& ex ilia catifa pra- juftitia. 
 venire fdent •, if Dreams appear. to pro- ^ 2 - £4$. 
 ceed of a natural caufe, it is lawful to make * ' f 
 conje&ures from them of thofe events , _ . 
 which are wont to come from fuch a u lf^ Ya 
 caufe. 
 
 Sixthly, Take this from the fame Leffita % 
 When Dreams proceed from prevfota cares 
 and cogiutio^r, they fignifie nothing of things 
 to come , but do onely fignifie that can ft 
 from which they proceed. Yet fo they may 
 be ufeful to us(I may fay) to acquaint us the 
 better with our felves, and to admoriifh us 
 ofourfinful and diftruftful cares, for our 
 good and reformation. 
 
 Seventhly , Let this be obferved as a 
 Rule of great concernment -, Thatwhatfo- 
 ever may beprefented unto us by Breams 
 or SnthvfiafmS) or any other way, nay, 
 though by anaffured vifion ( if it were 
 poflible ) of an innumerable company 
 of heavenly Angels, or with the teftimo- 
 ny of many and great miraculous operati- 
 ons , thatftandeth oppofiteto the ditlates 
 and revelations, and rules of Go/i % and his 
 'Stlj Spirit in the Scrmmt$ % or intended 
 
 v$ 
 
to add any thing thereunto, as a way or| 
 means to attain unto fiilvation , is to bel 
 utterly reje&ed and abhorred as an acJ 
 curfed de/ufio* ,^s likewife whatfoever tends 
 to the difcharging of us from any duty^ 
 or to mo-ve us to any impiety , impurity , or 
 to uncharitable or evill thoughts Of others 
 without ground, or to any kind of wicked* 
 nefs whatfoever •, or to any thing that] 
 exceeds the bounds of our peculiar Callings , 
 unlefs in fome extraordinary cafe or ne- 
 
 Deur.i^. ceflity. See Dem- 13 1,2. and that nota-' 
 1,2. ble Scripture that all Quakers and pre- 
 
 0£ t tended Snthufiafi s may do well to ponder 
 jj andftudy (JV/.r,8,9. Though we % faith St. 
 Faut, or si* Angel from heaven preach any 
 other Go/pel unto yeu, or (as it is in the 
 original) h&yyixi£w7>u C(MV7Ftp o^u^hz^il-:^ 
 *? 'reach any other thing ur.to' you , be fides 
 what ye have received , avd^^ut 'ig& , Let 
 him be accurfed^ which is repeated again 
 at verf 9. with fuch an earneft reduplicati- 
 on^ as I think will hardly be found again 
 in all the Book of God- or at leaft very 
 rarely » which fhould admonifh all to 
 take the more notice of it, it being a Scri- 
 pture of that weight and force, that is able 
 (if rightly underftood and embraced)to 0* 
 ver-throw all pretence oflpoftolical Author 
 . itit:y;whsch the Church of Rome boaftet{i of, 
 
 and 
 
(*3) 
 
 and of Angelical authority^ or divine Re- 
 velatt9n^ which is the delulion of the En- 
 ihufinfts of our days, to . inforce us to ad- 
 mit of any thing that is contrary to that 
 faving Truth of the Geffe/^ which is regi- 
 ftred in the Scripture, and was of old em- 
 braced by the people of God, or that pro- 
 pofeth any other way unto falvation, then 
 that which is to be found therein, 
 
 Eighthly, ( which will follow upon the 
 former ) All Dreams, and fo likewife all 
 pretended Enthuiiafms, Infpirations, and 
 Illuminations whatfoever> are to be tried 
 and judged, approved, or controuled by the 
 revealed will of Almighty Qod in hi* holy - . 
 Word, asalfoby the rule of fo*nA Reafen '*** 
 and -Vmdence; and if they bring not a 
 teftimonial of conformity thereunto, they 
 are by no means to be received. See if a. 
 8. 19. 
 
 And hereby the way, give me leave to 
 take notice of a very evil and unwarrant- 
 able 'on- fe that hath been taken up (if I 
 be not miftaken ) by too many in thefe 
 days, and hath received too much coun- 
 tenance from thefe that are very highly 
 obliged to the contrary -, fo that it hat& 
 been made the colonr of grea m> ferriages, 
 whiiGi fome have taken upon them to ftehjunr 
 ti.God.ij fajling axd prayer f*rhis4irt&ir 
 
 m 
 
on and comfel in weighty affairs and concern- 
 ments h and neglecliyg to confider or embrace 
 what adviceGod hath Us a down for their cafe 
 and pur p oj e in his Law , they havefoHght 
 and expected a return or anfwer by extraor- 
 dinary motions and fuggeflions or inclinati- 
 ons , which may fort better with their ( per- 
 haps) evitl interefts and deftgns. And fo 
 whilft they have carried the Idol or ft urn- 
 bling blocks of an evil inter eft i n their heart, 
 andinjuft judgment from God, are left to' 
 receive an an Aver agreeable thereunto, ei- 
 ther from their own erring fpirit, or the 
 dtlufton of Satan ^ they have taken his evi/l 
 f*g& e ftio"*> <> r thofe that have proceeded 
 from their own arruptio** ( or at leaft 
 have feemed to take them ) for the holy 
 counfelof the Almighty. I am perfwaded 
 it would be little lefs, if at all lefs pleafing 
 to God for them to go to an Heathen O 
 racle, then to go to enquire of God upon 
 fuch terms.* I wi(h that the ferious read- 
 ing and meditation of the eleven firft 
 %zc. 14. verfes of £** \ 1 4. might be rightly under- 
 *• t0 u - flood, and made good ufe of for the refor- 
 mation of this and fuch-like great wifcar- 
 riages. 
 
 Ninethly, As all wicked Dreams are to 
 be abominated, and fometobe carneftly 
 repented of 9 which flow from our own 
 
 corrupt 
 
corrupt inclinations and affedions. So 
 vain, and foolifh , impertinent, confufed 
 Dreams ( fuch as Dr. fuckjott . \ 
 
 faith arife from the 6„ M„ &$j&« 
 of the far.tafie, and ot which he or commentaries 
 thinks that of Ecchfi^fticm 34- upon Chrifts fcf- 
 i,2,?. is moft true) are to be fan at the right 
 fleghccd. audthofe that move ffiJJJQ 
 unto fmerffitiou* fears . r that E C clef.24.i,2,3., 
 would difcourage from truft in 
 God, or from our chearful walking with 
 him in duties. 
 
 But yet laftly, Thofe ^D reams that with- 
 out afetlation offer themfelves unto us 
 in?-, fobtr and calm temper, and are of a 
 wife and orderly , of a juft and pure, of 
 an holy and religious frame and method, not 
 contradictory, but confonAnt to the hdy 
 word »f God, and found Reafon, and tend 
 to nothing but that which is juft and holy, 
 within the bounds o^ our Vocation, and to the 
 glory of- God, efpecially when they come 
 fo clothed with opportunity and circum- 
 ftance as that they conduce to the encou- 
 ragement 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 graci- 
 ous defign in hand, or to the taking us off 
 irom any flnful doubts , (loth or imped i- 
 F * ments 
 
ments , that lie oppofite thereunto , and 
 lie open to any fuch holy and prudent in- 
 terpretation, as they may well be prefumed 
 to come from God, especially falling out 
 in extraordinary matters^ Qt for the fettir.g 
 forward of more then ordinary d'Jignsfo they 
 are to be prudently regarded and weighed, 
 foas to take encouragment and admonition 
 from them, and fometimes they may inti- 
 mate unto us things that are t§ come. 
 
 CHAP. IX. 
 
 An Application of what hath been (aid 
 unto the Converts Dream, together 
 with the Interpretation thereof. 
 
 IF we now compare what hath been iaft 
 fpoken with the Dream' we have in 
 hand, we (hall finde it to be of good and 
 warrantable confederation for our pur- 
 pole, it being luch, as firft came in the 
 tranfa&ion of a rare and extraordinary 
 matter or bu(inefs ^ The converfion of a 
 Turk being fuch as hath been rarely ktn 
 ( I mean, of one that hath been born and 
 bred in that religion. ) 
 Secondly, It hath no ftampbut of fo- 
 
 briety, 
 
(«7> 
 
 bricty, purity, prudence^ andholinefs up- 
 on it. 
 
 Thirdly, It came not upon any fuper- 
 flitious expectation, or preparation there- 
 unto. 
 
 Fourthly^ it excellently complieth with 
 the holy Word, and found Reafon. 
 
 Fifthly^ It exactly anfwereth, in all the 
 parts thereof; unto tkat holy bufinefs that 
 was then in hand, and had been in motion 
 the very evening before, for the converjion 
 of the foul of him that dreamed it to God y 
 and for his admiflion to the Ordinances ^ 
 Priviledges and graces of the Gojpe/. 
 
 Sixthly I The interpretation thereof is 
 dear and eafie for the moft part,yea^ whol- 
 ly indeed without any unreafonable {train- 
 ing or croffing of any one part of it againft . 
 another ., it is very full of harmony and 
 concent , and yet above and beyond th* tyiow 
 ledge of fom that dreamed it, as the cafe Wa£ 
 then. 
 
 The Interpretation thereof is clear and 
 eafie for the moft par t. 
 
 The Table with the foffeS upon it lib* * hc *» ; 
 Bafon or Font , doth Very welf repreferit ^{^ 
 the two Sacraments of Haptifm and the of t ^ e 
 Supper of the Ltrd the two great Pieces Dizmr 
 *ad Stals of the Chriftim Religion and 
 F 2 tommtf 
 
(68) 
 
 communion, the one of our admijfion or ini- 
 nation, the other of our confirmation or 
 growth in the fefJowfiip. of Chrifi and the 
 Ckurch,zn& in the Graces of: the Gofpei. 
 
 The two -men ftandir;g by ; The two Mi- 
 nifters that were especially emploied inthe 
 work of his converfion, to bring him to 
 the fruition of the bleiling of thefe Ordi- 
 nances. 
 
 *T he filthy /linking puddle fiream where- 
 by he flood; The impure profeffion of the 
 Religion of Mahomet, wherein he was as 
 yet held, w^iich he had a defire to conti- 
 nue in-, but it could give no purgation^ 
 but rather pollution nnto his foul. 
 
 The dead Hen cut about the' head, and 
 dead ef that wound, lying in the filthy fiream, 
 which a woman tame and took^ out of that 
 pttddle, and fet it upon her feet, fo that it 
 ran away alive, we could not very well 
 tell what to make of ^ but he himfelf, after 
 he was baptized ( which may, I conceive, 
 without offence, be taken for a fpecial 
 work of the Spirit in him) he himfelf, I 
 fay, the evening after his Baptifm ( as near 
 as I can remember the time) interpret- 
 ed it thus, or to this purpofe , Sure ( faith 
 he) that dead Hen that lay in the filthy 
 fir earn, was my Soul that lay dead in the 
 fuddle of my errors , The Wowan was the 
 
 Church 
 
Chnreh of god ( which is prefented as a 
 woman in the Scripture.) which hath 
 taken my dead Soul o m of the puddle of 
 my errors , and rrftored me to life , even 
 to the life of grace* which having recover" 
 ed , he now runs from that filthy ftresm 
 of the jyfahew.etan deluftonr. ( Let me add 
 this ) That as that Hen lay dead of a 
 wound in the head, fo he was dead in the 
 blindnefs and errors of his Vnderftanding 
 or Minde, which is, as it were, vulnus in 
 capite, a wound in the head, that being 
 held to be the feat of the knowing or judg- 
 ing Faculties or Powers. 
 
 The full and fair ftreagfcthat gufhed 
 out fuddenly , and brarafii with great 
 force upon that current aFcvrrfiptiov, and 
 drove it clean away, and prefentied it felf 
 in the place of it, which he entred into 
 at firft with fome timoroufnefs , and by 
 degrees, and afterward wafhed himfelf in 
 it, andfwarnoverit- 
 
 The holy water of Baptifmil regenera- 
 tion, or the ftream of the Truth and grace 
 of the Gofpel , which hath fuddenly 
 through the goodnefs of the Lord,and very 
 powerfully, broken in upon his Soul, and 
 driven away the puddle of his {orrmt^ cor- 
 ruptions^ which he was fearfai to enter into 
 at the firC: but hath now walked therein 
 F 3 & 
 
S7QJ 
 
 forthecieanfingof his foul, and will we 
 Kopc fwim through it unto the Haven of e- 
 ternalhappinefs. 
 
 The thirft that toot upon him after hid 
 Vtajhing •, The defire which he exprefTed 
 after the Lords Supper, or an holy long- 
 ing after fpiritual things, and the comforts 
 of the Gofpel, or after happinefs •, which 
 Thirft can finde nothing upon earth to 
 
 auench it ^ the (hpwre from Heaven, the 
 lowre or dews of heavenly blefling, or 
 of divine illumination and grace, which 
 he could not tell how to receive of him- 
 felf . The poor houfe that he k»ockt at , The 
 habitation of the Church now in a poor af. 
 fli&ed condition, deftitute of earthly mag- 
 nificence and glory. The ftcman that camt 
 forth , That afflifted Church. Thedifb [he 
 gave him , The Ordinances and means of 
 grace, whereby the heavenly dews-we 
 tope will be more and more conveyed into 
 his foul, to the quenching of all evil thirftq 
 after tranfitory things, and to the eternaf 
 refrefhing of his Spirit. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
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 CHAP. X. 
 
 offome further frogrefs made in the 
 conversion of Mr. Dandule, and of 
 another remarkable ptffage of Pro* 
 vidence that fell out for the promo- 
 tion and encouragement thereof. 
 
 THis ftrange dream having made fbme 
 impreflion upon the heart of this 
 Convert, as we may reafonably beleevc, 
 whereby the bars of his foul were fome- 
 thingihaken andloofened, for the fetting 
 open of the gates for the admiflion of that 
 Gofpel light wherewith God hath been 
 pleafed now to illuftrate his foul •, we re . 
 newed our attempts with fome earneitnefs 
 and diligence that morning, and prevail- 
 ed at length fo far by the divine afiiftance, 
 as to obtain of him , to )$yn with us in 
 prayer for the a]fift*rtct axd direction of AU 
 eighty God in the carrying on of the worf^ 
 of his coKverjitn ; and afterwards he was 
 with us in the performance #f the fervice 
 of the Church for that msrning^i my houfe, 
 and kneeled down & joyned with us when 
 we ufed the Lords Prayer ; in this we made 
 ufe of the help of his Interpreter , that 
 he might repeat it after us. 
 
 F 4 And 
 
(7.0 
 
 And in this holy bufinefs I cannot think 
 fit to omit one remarkable paffage of the 
 4ivine Providence which fell out \t\ the 
 performance of divine Worfhip at that 
 time, whereby the Lord may feem to have 
 feconded that of hisDream and it was this. 
 
 It pleafed God ( which we neither de- 
 fignad nor forefaw ) fo to order the mat- 
 ter in that holy plot that he had laid for 
 the bringing home of this foul into his bo- 
 fom,andfor the reducing of this /<//? /beep 
 into bis foU^ of this loft 1 price of filver in- 
 to his trtafttrj -, and of this Prodi* a/chi/de 
 from his Mahometan empty hmkj unto his 
 Fathers hcufe, The hcly Church cf Chrifc 
 That in the ordinary courfe of theChurch, 
 the Second Leffon which we read appoint- 
 ed for that very morning in the Mfy' fit ion 
 of the Church Calender^tW out to be the 
 Fifteenth Chapter of theGofpel of S £;</;:, 
 where we have the parable of the poor hit 
 •wandering flirep brought home upon the 
 frontiers of the good Shepheard unto his 
 flock j of the fifoer pirce that was {eft and 
 fmnd afidn- and of the Prodigal chiUk 
 reiwned unto his Fathefs h.ufe and Bofcnt, 
 and there entertained with great love, me- 
 lody and rejoycing - where alfo at the 
 feventh verfe I found my Text,upon which 
 God directed me to preach at the time of 
 his Baptifm. When 
 
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 When in the reading of that Chapter, I 
 obferved that gracious Providence, I comld 
 not pais it by without fome notes upon it, 
 and therefore by his Interpreter I com- 
 municated unto him, that he might there- 
 in have a talk of God*' care ofhu foul, that 
 rvas plea fed foftiftly and c artfully to order 
 things th.it we thought not tff, for.thejfaed- 
 ing and prorxmng of the worl^cf his Com 
 veyfmn. 
 
 Withal,! offered him lbme obfervations 
 upon the Chapter, tending to the difco- 
 veryof the Wretched condition of one that 
 was/?^uWand loft from God m thewan- 
 drings and mtdernefs of fin and error, and 
 of the "wonderfaland tender mercy of the 
 Lord in feeking after, and receiving into 
 his bofom fuch pr.or finners returning un- 
 to him j and of the great treafurcs of his 
 goodnefs and Bowel* of hU mercy, that he 
 is ready to open and pour out unto them* 
 And by way of Application , I (hewed 
 him, that he was in the feveral parts of 
 that Chapter-, he was the/o/? (h ep that 
 Chrift was even now fnkjng in the endea- 
 vors of his A/ i hirers for his Cotive>fiou 9 
 that he might bear him upon the Jha aiders 
 of his heavenly ftrtxgth and nttr(j unto 
 the Fold of his. Church : He was the h(t 
 vmt that had been trodden under the feet 
 
 , of 
 
(74) 
 
 of the spiritual adverfaries, and defaced 
 by the filth and pollution of trror and fin, 
 which the Lord was now about to recover 
 into his treafury. 
 
 He was that wandering and wretched 
 'Prodigal that had been feeding upon the 
 huskj of error and vanity , and that was 
 brought unto great mifery , whom the 
 tender Father, though he faw him afar off 
 at the great diftance of the error 3 and r»- 
 ferfetltoKs that were in him , yet would 
 run to meet , if he would but tarn to him 
 with finceritj , and would entertain him 
 with great love, mercy , and j<j 9 would fall 
 upon his neck and kjfs him With tkekjffes of 
 divine love, would put the Ring upon his 
 finger, would marry him unto himfelf, and 
 give him the pledge of his everla fling lovr, 
 would put the beft Robe upon htm, even 
 the Robe of the right eonfnefs of Chrifi for 
 his jnfii feat ion , and of the ornaments 
 of the holy and heavenly graces of his 
 Spirit , for the fan&ification of his 
 foul. 
 
 Would kill the fatted Calf , would 
 feanVhim with the mercies, graces, and 
 comforts of the Gofpel in Chrift Jefiis, 
 who died for his falvation. 
 
 Would refresh him, and folace him 
 with the heavenly majic\ and harmony 
 
 of 
 
C75) 
 
 of Divine Fence 9 and his heavenly 
 love, &c. 
 
 And thus the Lord was plcafed to faften 
 another chain of his Divine Providence up- 
 on his Soul :, and added unto that dream in 
 his deep another teftimony of that watch- 
 ful care that he had over that bufineis we 
 had in hand for his good- 
 
 CHAP. XI. 
 
 A Difcourfe concerning this la(l ob- 
 fervation^ and for the jnfiificati- 
 on thereof, by the proposal of di- 
 vers examples of Admonitions 
 given and taken from Providenti- 
 al occurrences of the like fort out 
 of Scripture ) and other Hiflo* 
 ries 
 
 BUt this obfervation will perhaps be 
 accounted frivol m and fuperjlittons 
 by feme, and may beabufed by others h 
 and therefore I crave leave a little to fay^ 
 fomething for the vindication of it fcom 
 thefirft, and to give fome camions for the 
 prevention of the fecond. 
 
 And 
 
(7<S) 
 « Andfirft, That it may not be thought 
 
 frivolous or fuperjlitious that we have 
 tfcken notfce of that Providential occur- 
 rence, I (hall give you fome warrant for 
 the juftification of our obfervation, both 
 eut of the Scripture and other approved 
 Authors. Firft, We finde the divine pro- 
 vidence in a kinde not much unlike this, 
 commended unto our confederation inth# 
 holy Book of God- fuch was that that 
 fell out unto the Eunuch, when the like 
 work of conversion was drawing near up- 
 on him, and that in order to the promoting 
 of that like gracious defign that Cjod haa 
 Afl.8. upon him , Aft 8. 27. to 34. where it was 
 £7, to 34. f ordered by the divine wifdom and Pro* 
 > Ta < vidence that that place of Scripture, I fa. 
 53 7- was then in reading by the Eunuch, 
 when St. Philip was fent by the Spirit of 
 God to draw near unto his Chariot , by 
 the explication whereof from the mouth 
 of St. 'Philip, he was converted to the 
 Faith of Chrifi, and was b*ptiz*d in the 
 way as he went , God making ufe of that 
 Providential occurrence to promote his 
 conversion to the Gofp el- truth ; meeting him 
 A # 2 # in his pafTage, as he met Sc. Paul in his 
 
 journey. 
 Luke 4 In C ^ e Fourth of Luke, we read that 
 i(5, 17* ourbleiTed Savior being in the Synagogue 
 i2i&c at 
 
(77) 
 
 atNaZttreth, there Was delivered unto him 
 the Bcof^ of the Prophet Ifaiah, and "tohen 
 he had opened thebo(\ , he found the place 
 ( it may not improbably imply that upon 
 the opening of the Book he found that 
 excellent place of Scripture, lfa-6 r. i£*,r>*. KSia^z 
 wlterein is contained our Saviors annoint- 
 ing and comrmffion for the fitliilling of that 
 great Office of the Savior of the World ) 
 offered it felf by Providence firft unto his 
 view, that it might give him the occafion 
 of that holy difcourfe, that he made then 
 unto the people, {hewing how th*t very 
 place Was fulfilled in him that dty before 
 their eyes. Whether he looked for it, or 
 fell upon it by providence, is uncertain 
 (faith one of our late Commentators.) I 
 confefs it is not very certain, but yet the 
 words do unto me ieem moft probably to 
 imply fomuch, that he fell upon it by 
 Providence ; efpecialry in the Original . 
 
 &c In the openiug, or upon the opening 
 of the Book he found the place where it 
 was written. I am fure enough we may 
 fafely think fo : for as all things thatfeem 
 moft cafual even to the falling of aSparrow, 
 nay, of an hair from the head, are under 
 the care and guidance of the divine provi- 
 dence . Mattk, 10. Zpjo, fa we may aC^L*^ 
 
(78) 
 fure our felves that that Divine Providence 
 is efpecally watchful for the ordering of 
 all things (even the fmalleft matters ) that 
 can be thought of in the world to ferve 
 that great dtfignoi the bringing of* Gods 
 peop/eto falvation by Chrift Jefus. That 
 Greek feritence is excellent i which Mi% 
 Doxcn hath, he telleth us not from whence* 
 in his Treatife about Lots in gaming , 
 
 hldx< cZ wTlZ^ , Thej that ffieak °f *he l*ji#g 
 °f ftonefy till us that the great fronts cwmt 
 be well flawed without the fmalht* S*(faith 
 he ) alfo in the Government of the world , for 
 the better erdiring of the greatefl things, 
 Kjod takes care of the fmalltft alfo. 
 
 Something very obfervableof a nature 
 near unto our cafc,we may find in the fixth 
 bf E ft he r,ver.i. where we h*nde a multiplied 
 Providence in the ordering of matters in 
 efteem cafud^ for the diverfion of that 
 .cruel defign that Bamar. had for the pro. 
 curing of the death of Mordecai y when 
 the Gallows was made for poor Mordecai, 
 and the next morning, that great Favorite 
 that thought he had the Ittf and the fttrn 
 too of the Kings heart in his mouth, in- 
 tended to fue out the Commiffion for his 
 execution, whofe life was the blaft of all 
 his comforts; GW orders the matter fo by 
 
 the 
 
(7?) 
 
 the miniftry of an Angel (as one fuppo- 
 feth) that the King could not fleep that very 
 night ( for we may affaire our felves no 
 man can at any time deep , when God 
 hath any/thing to do with his waking for 
 the good and benefit of his people-, not the 
 fofteftbeds, not the darkeft night, nor the 
 wearieft journeys or labors in the day, nor 
 the plentifulleft cups, nor the warmeft 
 cloaths , nor the quieteft heart, nor the 
 ftrongeft opium can prevent or difappoint 
 fuch a purpofe of the Almighty .)God kept 
 Ahafuerus waking,becaufe he had fome bu- 
 finefs to do with him about Mordecai, to 
 counterplot the defign o^Haman^nd when 
 he found that he could not fleep, God finds 
 him out an employment to pafs away the 
 tcdioufnefsof a waking night. 
 
 It is the obfervation of Cornel, a Lapidt 
 out of Herodotus ( as I remember ) that if 
 was a laudable cuftom received among the 
 Perfians t That tho/e good and meritorious 
 performances , whereby arty man had dt- 
 ferved well of the King or Kingd^m % Jhould 
 be recorded in the publicly Artnds or Me* 
 mortals, that they might not be forgotten in 
 the regard : And this agrees well with our 
 ftory in Eft her % fuch a record there was 
 of that faithful fervice that MorAecai did, ^, 
 Eftb>2>z\. &c> This lay afleep for a time, \\\ 
 
 and 
 
(8c) 
 and was forgotten, but when the time of 
 need comedy then God revives it, who 
 lays Up mercies aforehand for his Children^ 
 and brings them out when opporiuxitie re- 
 quires; and this was a now or never ^ ibr 
 after the next mornings work, if H~man 
 hadfped, it had been too late. Therefore 
 now in this very night, that he might be 
 fureto remember it in the morning, and 
 that he might prevent the deiign and fuit 
 of H»mnn , the King being deprived of 
 his reft, muft needs call for the Records of 
 the Chronicles, little thinking what Gods 
 purpofe was, or what a Letlnre God had 
 to read to him in that Book; 
 
 And when this Eook is brought unto 
 him, That muft be the place by Divine Pro- 
 i/idencf, tha*. mnft then needs- be read ttrit 
 hirv, either in the courfe of the reading, or 
 perhaps by chance, where poor McrdecaiS 
 Txeckz'verje was, where it was found writ- 
 ten that Mordecad had told^of Bigth.txA 
 and T ere {h , tips of the Kings Chamber* 
 Wins, the kjepers of the door s . W>ho fought to 
 lay hand en the Kir.g Ahafuerus : honeft 
 Mordecai would not be ah acceflfary no aot 
 fo much as by concealment unto Treafon 
 or Treachery againft a Heathen King- and 
 fee how God b/effeth Fidelity and allegiances 
 
 this faithful and honeft aft of hi$ is in ban£ 
 
 for 
 
(8i). 
 
 for htm againft the time of his wcefftty, and 
 is by this providential difpe fit ion of the Ah 
 mighty in this nick, of time prefented be- 
 fore the eyes of the King, to the turning 
 0$ Ramans wicked deiign for Mordecais 
 fhame and death, to his fafety and honor ^ 
 and to return at length his intended mif m 
 chief upon himfel f , whilft Mordecai's efcape 
 gives the time for the procuring of H& 
 •mans condemnation , and for the defeat 
 flot oneiy of that bloody purpofe which he 
 had now for the ruine of Mordecai, but 
 of that alfo which he had for the deftrutti- 
 o»of the fern •, and all this great evill is 
 prevented, andfo great good, fb joyful 
 a deliyerance brought to pafs, by the (per- 
 haps) cafuJ turning of the leaf of a Book, 
 or by the order or courfe which then fell 
 out in the Kingr reading of the Chronic 
 chj., Natura nufquammagis cjuam w mini" 
 mujfb faith one-, and we may further fay a * 
 I think, Pnvidentia nttfquam magid quam 
 in minim* v The Providence of God is 
 very wonderful in turning the greateft 
 fcales with the fmalleft grains j in malting 
 to fmall, fo inconfiderable a matter as the 
 turning of a leaf in a 'Book, at fuch a rime 
 to be the means to prevent the ruine of d 
 Nation* Oh learn to admire and obferve 
 the "Providence of Qod in the (malltft\ mat* 
 sirs i An holy curiofity of this kind is bpfjj. 
 G vi4m 
 
(8i) 
 
 pious and profitable ; who can 'confider 
 it arid not adore him? And confider withal, 
 with how fmall a matter God can deliver 
 a Nation, even with the tnrring of a Uaf^ 
 and what great ufe he can make of the 
 orderly conrft of readtng^ who can think on 
 it, and not fear him and truft in him ? He 
 that did this with the turning of a leaf, 
 can do as much with the turning of a 
 ftraw. 
 
 Thirdly, Confider what great blefling 
 the fmalleft matters in the world may mi- 
 nifter unto us,ifjthey be guided to our good 
 by the gracious Providence of God •, and 
 what mifery and mifcheif may grow up 
 out of the fmalleft feeds, the pooreft and 
 moft inconiiderable occurrences, if God 
 do not (bine through them unto us, and 
 <io not order them for our benefit, or (hall 
 appoint them to be inftrumental to our 
 hurt or deftra&ion. 
 
 And laftly, See here not onely the truth 
 but the rtafon oSGods ttniverfal ^Providence 
 in the ordering of the fmalleft things and 
 motions of the world, fince we fee that he 
 makes even the fmalleft matters fervsceable 
 to his great aad wonhrful mercies and 
 judgments. We cannot tell what God hath 
 to do with a fi»gt e fir avff that fwimmeth 
 down the water • And may not this with- 
 out offence make fomething to the per- 
 * fivading 
 
(8}) 
 iwading Of people not to be fo much out of 
 love as they have been with the orderly 
 courfe of the Churches readings ? 
 
 We have difcovered, I hope^ fo much 
 countenance from thefe examples in Scrip- 
 ture that may Jscurt us from any fufl 
 charge of fuperftition in that obfervation 
 that we have made of that which fell out 
 in the courfe of the reading by the courfe 
 of the Church, in order to the converiion 
 of thisperfon. 
 
 And having taken notice of this, I hope 
 we may with the greater freedom and con- 
 fidence offer to consideration fbme other 
 pafTages of the like nature that have be- 
 fallen others in the records of the fucceed- 
 ing times. 
 
 Sulpitita Severn* y in the life of Mar- Suipiu. 
 units ^ hath a relation to this purpofe-, Severn 
 tharwhefrthe people of ^uronica were a- ™ x "^ j 
 bout to chufe that holy man to be Biftiop 
 of that place, and one of the Bifhofs that 
 were then prefent, whofe name was Dc- 
 fenfor^ amongft others was a principal op- 
 pofer of his eledion : The Reader (whofe 
 office it was to" read the Scriptures that 
 day ) being wanting , another that was 
 prefent, taking up the Book of Pfalms, 
 fell a reading at that place which prefent- 
 £d it felf firft unto his view^ which was 
 G z tfa: 
 
 vita. 
 
 Martm* 
 
>f 8 2 z Pf*l&' at tne ^ econc ^ or ( as * c *s there cited) 
 ' at the third verfe of which Pfalm the words 
 in thatTranflation which was then ufed,are 
 thus rendered, Ex ore infantinrn & Utlan- 
 tinm perfecifti laudem, propter immicos tuos 
 at deftrUM Defenforem •, Out of the mouth 
 of Babtf and Sucklings thou haft perfetled 
 yraife becaafe of the Enemies^ and that thou 
 mayfi deftrcj Defenfor , or the Defender ; 
 which having fuch a reflexion on his name 
 ( as it was apprehended ) the people took 
 as a teftimony from Heaven againft him, 
 and his attempt in oppofing the ele&ion 
 of their Bifhop, as if that Kalm had been 
 appointed by Divine Providence to be then 
 read upon that occafion, and fo the people 
 fell a fhouting, and the contrary party was 
 confounded. 
 
 It may be this may feem a little too 
 light , nor do I prefs it to be valued 
 any more then the weight of it (hall per- 
 fwade. 
 
 Thefe that follow will, I hope, be ad- 
 mitted ,to be confiderable to our pur- 
 pofe. 
 Auttin. Asfirft, That which St-^sfnguftine re- 
 confejf. lates of Antomw, that whilft he was yet 
 /.8.C12. hanging off as it were from God towards 
 Mat 19 c ^ e wor ^ > carnally lighting upon that 
 21! place, M**th.i9>iy V*de& vtndetm- 
 
 nia 9 
 
nia,&c. Go and fell all that thoti hafi, and 
 give to the poor, and thou /halt have treafure 
 in heaven , and come and fofioft me •, he was 
 thereupon prefently converted. 
 
 Secondly, that which he relateth of him- Augufl. 
 felf in the fame Twelfth Chapter of the confeff. 
 Eighth Book of his Confeffions (which it LS - c - l2 ° 
 feems had fomewhat the more impreffion 
 upon him , from the consideration that 
 he had of the former example.) The mat- 
 ter was this-, when he was in great per- 
 plexity of fpirit in thofe beginnings and 
 preparations of the worl^ of converfioa that 
 were upon him , he heard a voyce, as he 
 thought , from the neighboring houfe , 
 as of Boys or Girls iinging in thefe words, 
 Telle lege, Tolle lege ♦, Ta^e up and read. 
 Take up and re*d', which he taking to be 
 an admonition from Heaver, went fpeedi- 
 ly to the place where he had left his Book 
 of St. Paul's Epiftles, and upon the open- 
 ing thereof found that place prefented it 
 felf unto his view, Rom. 13. 13. Non i»Rom.i3. 
 cemeffdtiovibiu ^ &c. Not in ricting And *3» 
 
 drunkennefs, not in chambering and wan- 
 tonnefs, not in flrife and envjinf, hutpnt 
 jou on the Lord Jeftts £V*/?, and make mt 
 ftovifon for the pjh to fulfill the hfts 
 thereof-, Whereby the clouds of thofe 
 doubtings and waverings that were upon 
 G 3 his 
 
(Z6) 
 
 , his foul were prefently fcattered, and be 
 
 brought into a chearful refolution, to give 
 
 tip himfelf in holy Religion to God, to the 
 
 joy of his pious Mother, and the comfort 
 
 of his own foul. 
 
 Zufeb. Thirdly, That of Origen, Iconceive,is 
 
 kuttc. not to be omitted :, He living in a time of 
 
 Ni fi or ' temptation and perfecuti », and having a 
 
 great defire to draw people from Idolatry, 
 
 and being deluded, as it feems, with hopes 
 
 that fome would be baptized upon a day 
 
 wherein they were to offer incenfe unto rhe 
 
 falfegods, wasftirredup with zeal in his 
 
 heart to do his endeavour to turn fome 
 
 people unto Chrift • and to that end, 
 
 be makes fo much hafte unto 
 
 TUnSuf Origen. t l iep i ace wnerc t [, at idolatry 
 
 ISS^M was to be commuted, truft- 
 
 to exihhs nee cvati- ing (it may be too much, as 
 
 onewquidem eonfue- St. feter did ) ptfon his own 
 
 tarn implere potui i J? renjrth and refofotion therein , 
 
 fed d^ Cider ans omnes , * , • j 1 j> 
 
 homines fdvos fieri th ^ he e ™ tted *""£**? 
 
 ^r in ogniiionem ve- mofmng devotion (which I de- 
 
 mutk venire, meip- fire may be obferved ) and 
 
 (urn in Diaboli la~ coming to the place, and being 
 
 futkimplktvu left unt0 himfclf by Gf)d 
 
 (whofe fervice he had neglected that morn- 
 ing, and whofe direction and afllftance it 
 may be he had not fo carefully fought as 
 he fhould have done ) inftead of diverting 
 
 ethers 
 
(87) 
 
 ethers from their Idolatrous practice, he toot 
 through wealenefs drawn into it himfelf \ 
 and fo took a very dreadful and dangerous 
 fal; chufing rather to offer incenfe, then 
 to have his Body denied by a filthy Black- 
 more, which it feemeth was threatened. 
 After this being at Jerufalem, whether he 
 went being afhamed to continue at Alex* 
 anaria, and there requefted to preach or 
 expound the Scriptures unto the people •, 
 when he was entering upon, the bufinefs, 
 and had opened his Book, there was firft, 
 it feems prefented unto his view that place 
 of the fiftieth or as it is otherwife reckon- 
 ed, the F or tj ninth Pfalm2Xthe ftxteenth^^ ^ 
 verfe,&c 'But unto the wicked Qed faith, 
 What haft thou to do to declare my Statutes, 
 or that thou Jbuldeft take mj Covenant in * 
 thy mouth, feeing thou hatefi inftruftion, 
 and cafiefi my word* behind thee^&c. 
 
 Whereat he was fo fmir P l an n m feu Imentum 
 ten and ft art led , as if god Origenis inter opera ejus. 
 himfelf had ftafied with Maceriam pofuh orimco, 
 heavenly Uthtnin* into hi* coattuifumafanZHsEpj- 
 r - t i fir fcopu in doctrine verbum 
 
 face^in the reading of thofe Trorumpe ^fo accepto co- 
 words, that his mouth was dice Pfalmorumorans ape- 
 fiopped % and inftead of a flu- mi, fo afcendit mihi elo- 
 
 ent of words, he brake forth quium iBud qnod confun- 
 
 ■ dordicere,eloquicompeUor' 9 
 
 Fcccatori autem dixit Veus, Quare. tu enarrat iuftkits meat', 
 fo affumu teftamentm meum per os tuvml 
 
 into 
 
(88) 
 
 into a flood of tears. And when he had 
 made a paffage for his language through 
 that great fterm and dreadful temped that 
 was raifed in his foul, inftead of inftruft- 
 ang the people, he fell into a greivous h- 
 ntentation and dtp/oration of himfelf and 
 of hi* oven horrid fin /, and his wretched con- 
 dition : Which we have recorded in the 
 works of Origev^ with fo much bitternefs 
 of fpirit, and deep humiliation of foul, as 
 his exprefiions reprefent, as I think 'can 
 hardly findea parallel in the Eccleiiaftical 
 Story-, and therefore we cannot I con- 
 ceive without breach of charity , and 
 without condemning our felves who come 
 fo far fhort of it, doubt but it was accept- 
 ed by God: And as little reafon have we 
 to make any queftion but there was a gra- 
 cious, and wife, and holy work of Gods 
 &ll-difpofing Providence in the matter. 
 
 I might here fet down fome remarkable 
 paffages of this nature, that have fallen 
 out in our unhappy days, at the time of 
 a great trijlandcataftrcphe in this Nation, 
 when the readings of the day did very apt if 
 anfwer the fad condition of a great ptrfon in 
 this Realm. But it may be this would more 
 provoke then edifie. 
 It will befafer to tell you that it is related 
 ©f Fransifcm fmiw, that is joyned with, 
 ' i ' ■ Tre* 
 
(8p) 
 Tremelius in the Tranilation of the Old ^ e c £ ( 
 Teftament, That he wot not converted to be £ nt i H1 f e 
 kjarttlj a Chriftiax untillthe fir fl words ofc.4. 
 St. Johns Cjofpel wererffered Mnto him by 
 aftrange Trcvidrnce , as he conceived. 
 
 Thefe things I hope may fervefor the 
 judication of our fore-mentioned Obfer- 
 vation. 
 
 CHAP. XI. 
 
 of Divirte Providence, md the ex* 
 cellent ufe thereof. 
 
 BUt it will be requifite I conceive,to fay 
 fomething by way of caution, lead 
 any fhould abufe it, or thofe other things 
 that have been produced of the like nature 
 to the encouragement or countenance of 
 fuperftition. 
 
 There was indeed fas learned ^encerus p e „ cerHi 
 wrireth in his Book de Divinatione, *n& de divi- 
 hisTreatife d<? Sonibtts) A certain ■ fuper-natione. 
 fliticPts kinde of Sortile^y or Lottery amtngft 
 the- He At hens, which were (tiled Sortes Vir- 
 gilianae, Cttnt aferto libri codice qui prim* 
 vif/t occrtrriffsnt verfus in oracttli zmen af- 
 f*mtb*m*r i When the Book being 
 
 opened 
 
(90) 
 
 opened at adventure for the purpofe, the 
 firfl verfeso r % lines tb n were'prefentev co 
 the eye, were taken eo have ihefoiteof 
 an oracle An example whereor, ms |W 
 flefm. ctrw tells us , is remembred by Helim 
 Spartianus in the life of Adriar^ which 
 ^Adrian being on a time folicitous concern- 
 ing the mind of the Emperor towards him , 
 and defiring to he refolved by this firgilian 
 Sortilegj, upon the opening of the Bool^met 
 with thefe verjes , 
 
 Qjiis frocul ille astern rami* infignu oliv<e 
 Sacra ferens} nofco crines incanaq;menta 
 Rcmani regit, primm qui legibus ttrbem 
 Fundable, curibm pari* is, & paup&re terra, 
 JMiffw in imperium magnum. 
 
 Now that this was, and that all fuch 
 practices are fuperftitious and impious , 
 there is jio quedion to be made, as being 
 no better then Witchcraft , and confut- 
 ing wich the Devil h and that though the 
 Book of the holy Scripture it felf fhould be 
 ufed in any fuch way 9 as to put any thing 
 or event upon fuch a trial thereby, the 
 holinefs of that Book would be fo far 
 from excufing or diminiftnng the fin, that 
 it were io much the greater, and more abo- 
 minable iniquity -, for. the holier any thing 
 
(SI) 
 
 is in the right ufe y the more wicked is the a- 
 bnfe thereof. Corruptio optimi ptffimn. 
 
 That therefore wliilft we iaborto jufti- 
 fie that which is good and lawful, we cfq 
 not through unwarinefs encourage any 
 unto that which is evil , which is too of- 
 ten done : 
 
 I (hall endeavor to fet down fome fafe 
 and neceflary Rules and Cautions to be ob- 
 served in matters of this nature. 
 
 Fir ft, Concerning matters of providence 
 in general. 
 
 Secondly, (Concerning the ufe cf Lots, 
 wl. ich are reducible thereunto. 
 
 Thirdly , Concerning the Obferv itions 
 that may be made of remarkable Trovidtntir 
 aloe Urrencef* 
 
 Firft, This is a fafe and certain Rule, 
 That it is not onely lawful, but the dmj of 
 all people to take special notice of the car- 
 riages and difpenf.it ions of the holy Provi- 
 dence of Cjod •, and that even in thofe oc- 
 currences thereof, which feem unto us 
 through the ignorance of the dependance 
 that is between caufes and tffetts , to be 
 very cafual and contingent, which is very 
 clear not onely from thofe many places of 
 the kely Scripture which prefent the Pro- 
 vidential works of God unto our confedera- 
 tion, and earneftly call upon us for our 
 
 . medita- 
 
(P2) 
 
 meditation thereupon,and rebuke the neg- 
 led: ♦ but alfo from found and clear reafon, 
 and the many excellent ufes that may and 
 ought to be made thereof. 
 
 The Providence of God is his great 
 tretfttry , abounding with excellent and 
 precious riches from whence we may en- 
 rich and fur nidi our fouls with many 
 excellent documents and divine inftru&i- 
 ons. 
 
 It is a great and gloriotuTheMre wherein 
 we may behold the great and magnificent 
 and wonderful fpedacles of the operations 
 of the perfections and attributes ef God, 
 and fee the divine Artificer at work in 
 the great (hop or laboratory of the world, 
 and there making ufe of his feveral Agents 
 and Inftruments, of Angels and Men good 
 and bad, of the heavenly Bodies , and of 
 all the creatures in the variety of their 
 motions and eflfefts to t hofe various and 
 wonderful purpofes and produces where- 
 unto they are imployed by the divine wii- 
 dom, and that many times againft their 
 own purpofes and defigns. 
 
 Here we may fee him by the art and effi- 
 cacy of his divine wifdomand holinefs,ex- 
 ercifing a ftrange and wonderful Chymi* 
 ilry (as I may fo fpeak ) making extra&s of 
 good out of every evill, light out of dark- 
 
 nefs, 
 
(P3) 
 
 nefs, holinefs out of tin, and the greateft 
 good out of the greateit evill ., as the fal- 
 vation of the world out of the treafon of 
 a Jndasi and the malice and cruelty of the 
 wicked Jews- 
 Here we may fee him in the Divine fab- 
 tiltiei and wife contrivances of his heaven- 
 ly policy , countermining the defigns,and 
 blafting the counfels of the crafty Achito- 
 pbefr y the greateft and wifeft Politicians 
 of the world, taking them in the nets that 
 themfeives have woven, and making their 
 turning of things upfide down, to be but 
 like the turning or treading of the clay If 29.16. 
 for the Potter, out of which, when they 
 have done all they can, he frameth whac 
 veffel it pleafeth him for the advancement 
 of his own glory, the good of his people, 
 and the confufion of his fubtileft adverfa- 
 ries, making them in themidft of their joy 
 and triumph, to dig thofe pits for their 
 own ruine , which they intended for 
 the deftru&iofc of others, and giving 
 the prize from their great wifdom, unto 
 the iimplicity of foolifh and imprudent 
 people. 
 
 There we may admire him in the might #/ 
 hid power ^making the Vveakjhings of the world 
 to confound tht mighty •, carry uig on a poor 
 
 ftatterei 
 
(94) 
 feattered and peeled people, a poor difarm- 
 ed, perfecuted Church.fur nifhed with their 
 prayers and tears, and deftitute of all 
 outward ftrength, in defiance of all the 
 power and wifdom of the world that was 
 againftit, as in the times of the primitive 
 Churchy w r hereinthe Church and Gofpel 
 being born upon the wings of the divine 
 Power and Providence,without the help of 
 outward force or wifdom by the miniftry 
 of weak and difarmed people, .as to out- 
 ward weapons, prefTed through the ter- 
 rors and ftrength of the greateft Poten- 
 tates , and their Armies , through the 
 Schools and reafonings of the great Philo- 
 sophers, through fire and fagOtj through 
 moft exquifite torments and difgraces ,• 
 through all that Earth and Hell could do 
 againft them ^ and ran through Europe, 
 Afia> and Africa in a ftnall time, and fub- 
 dued the world to the acknowledgment 
 and worfhip of a crucified Saviour, and 
 (which encreaJfeth the wonder) fuffering 
 the fame Church when once grown proud, 
 hrough a luxurious diet fhe had put 
 out like a wen , the monftrons exuberancy 
 of a flefhly arm, tolofe by ftrength what 
 ftie got in weaknefs, which after fo ma- 
 ay fad experiments of the ill fuccefs of the 
 
 adven- 
 
(95) 
 
 adventure of warlike Chrfftians, with any 
 other weapons then thek* own before men- 
 tioned, may well make us wi(h as one of 
 elder times f That ChriBiar.s would lay 
 down their frverds and ff>ears. and return 
 to their pray trs and tears ^ The lofs of ib 
 great a part of the world , as the Maho- 
 metans of feveral forts, and others can 
 boaft of, being the fad confequent of the 
 change of their armory. 
 
 There we may fee the juftice of God re- 
 viving Tinners from the mark where a 
 long flight from purfuing vengeance had 
 lighted them down,(they have thought)in- 
 a fure fhelter, and fetching them up again 
 out of their darkeft Corners,' and meting 
 unto wickednefs in its own very meafure, 
 and making impiety its own judge and ex- . 
 ecutioner, and caufing evill and deftru&i- t h at " 
 on like a well-nofed Blood*hound, to hunt blood 
 the violent man to overthrow him , to hath a 
 hunt him out of all his windings, and ho J^ en ^ 
 doublings, his traverfeSj and bulhes, to a" w iij C 
 bring him unto mine. not eate 
 
 There we may fblace our drooping fouls ly be 
 with the raviihiujg beauties of his tranfcen- S onc - 
 dentholinefs,of his unchangeable truth,and 
 of his magnificent bounty overflowing the 
 whole world, and all the creatures there- 
 of, opening, extending, and enlarging his, 
 
 arms 
 
{96) 
 arms and breafts both to the juft and to 
 theunjuft- from the higheft and greateft 
 Angel to the finalleft worm, or flie , or 
 mite in the whole world , feeding the 
 hands thar fight againft him, rvounfhing 
 thofe -mouthes that blafpheme and re- 
 proach him, purfuing thofe withbleflings 
 that run away from him in their fins : 
 Courting thofe with the kinde tokens and 
 large prefents of his love, that continue 
 inaperverfe refolution of war and enmi- 
 ty againft him s begging at the doors of 
 poor and indigent people with great im- 
 portunity, that they may receive the free 
 almes of his riches-, bearing many and 
 many repulfes and affronts offered unto his 
 k?ndnefs by proud and wilful duft and 
 allies, and after much long-fufferingvin, 
 dicating the honor of his defpifed good* 
 hefs, by turning all his contemned clemen- 
 cy into rage and fury againft them that 
 f eje& it. 
 
 And there we may folaceour fouls with 
 the fweet operations of his moft dear and 
 melting mercies and companions (as in 
 the prefent cafe) unto poor loft finners , 
 fetching them home from their errors and 
 Wickednefs upon the Shoulders of his 
 ftrength , and in the Bofom of his love, 
 ttrrjingkk Lam fa in bu trmsj and gent Ij 
 
 lading 
 
TremeUm in the Tranflation of the Old 
 Teitament, That he wot not converted to be 
 heartily a Cbriflian Mntill the firfi words of 
 St. Johns Cjofptl were offered urtohim bj 
 a grange Providence , as he conceived. 
 
 Thefe things I hope may fervefor the 
 jiiftificatioh bf our fore-mentioned Obfer * 
 vation. 
 
 CHAP. XL 
 
 Of fome [uccteding Pafjages after 
 this forementionedrvork of Provi- 
 dence, in order to the Turks Con- 
 njerfion> and of his confenting and 
 eameft defire to he Baptized. 
 
 GOd having ptit the Dream, and 
 that work of his Providence which 
 have occafioned fo large a Difcourfe, a9 
 two wheels as it were, unto the Chariot 
 of our motions and endeavors, after fomc 
 lktie paufe fcaufed by the bufinefs of the 
 Lords Day, wherein I was employed, as 
 I have been fundry times by the favour- 
 able admiflion of reverend Dr. Bernard in 
 the honorable Society of Grajet-Inn in 
 Ifondon^ which gave a feafonable oppor- 
 H tunity 
 
(90) 
 
 opportunity to Mr. Dandulo to ruminate 
 upon the former paffages, and to digeft 
 thofe admonitions and inftru&ions which 
 he had received : Upon the Monday fol- 
 lowing I thought good to endeavor fome 
 farther promotion of the Work, that we 
 might not fuffer thofe heats which God 
 hadraifed to cool in his heart, nor. thofe 
 imprefiions which our Convert had re- 
 ceived, to languiffi or grow dull in his 
 Soul, but that we might make afeafon- 
 able advantage of thofe encouragments 
 which God had given unto the bufinefs 5 and 
 ftrikc, as they fay, which the iron was hot h 
 and prefs in upon his Spirit at that door 
 which God had now begun thus far to o- 
 pen unto us -, and that not onely becaufe 
 conftancyand prudent fpeed , that allow- 
 eth as little delay or intermiffion as may 
 fland with convenience, are a great means: 
 to fecure the fuccefs of a good enterprize, 
 operations being then moft ftrong and vi- 
 gorous, when they.are carried on in a fort 
 together, fo that they communicate mu- 
 tual ftrength unto one another,* and thofe 
 that fucceed become powerful , whiift 
 they make advantage not onely of their 
 own ftrength but of the force and im- 
 preffion of the former that have gone 
 immediately before them ; Upon which 
 
 Account 
 
{91) 
 
 account it cometh to pais chat fo many 
 great and good undertakings in the 
 World and in the Church have been J oil 
 by interruptions and procraftinations ^ 
 opportunities once loft, being ufually with 
 much difficulty or riot at all to be recover- 
 ed :, but belides thefe confederations we had 
 reason enough to believe that the Devil 
 who is very watchful to take all advanta- 
 ges for the blafting of tbofe purpofes that 
 are good and holy , would be ready and 
 diligent to make an evil ufe of all the time 
 that (hould be given him for fpoi ling and 
 difappointment of that buiinefswe had in 
 hand, whereby God was like to be fo emi- 
 nently glorified , if it fhould obtain bur 
 happy and defired fuccefs. And that which 
 was indeed very urgent in the requiring a 
 fpeedy and vigorous profecution of the 
 work, was the danger that feemed to threa- 
 ten an entire overthrow both unto our 
 endeavors and hopes if not fpeedily en- 
 countred, by reafonof thole inclinations 
 that appeared in him of a fuddain depar- 
 ture, not onely from the place where the 
 work was now begun upon him, but out 
 of this Nation, by a return into his own 
 Country, to which purpofe ( as it hath 
 .been fince fuggefted with fome appre* 
 heniloi) , as it feemed to me • of difpa- 
 H z rageiiicnf 
 
<P2) 
 
 ragement to him and his Converfton ; 
 though I cannot fee upon what reafon or 
 ground , and as he himfelf hath confefled, 
 being put unto the queftion uponoccaiion 
 of the aforefaid fuggeftion unto me ) he 
 had attempted an addrefs by way of pe- 
 tition unto the Protector for aPafs, and 
 fome provifion to convey him over into 
 his own Country again. 
 
 And give me leave to take notice of it 
 by the way,becaufe (as I formerly, in fome 
 difcourfe that I had with a worthy perfon 
 concerning the care that ougnt to be 
 taken of this new Convert, upon the af- 
 furance of the gieat malice that Satan 
 bears unto fuch performances, againft 
 which he rageth in himfelf and his inftru- 
 ments, as a Bear robbed of her Whelps, 
 did take upon me to conjecture and aver 
 that it would fall out) there have been 
 various endeavors both to corrupt and to 
 blaft the credit of the Work that hath been 
 by Gods mercy wrought upon this our 
 Convert. One having reported, and he 
 a Mihifter of thefe times, as I am informed, 
 moft falfely and uncharitably, that he was 
 hired to become a Chrilrian : Another, 
 that he ftaieth here arid becomes a Chrifti- 
 an, becaufe he dares not return home for 
 fear of being put to death, for violating 
 
 the 
 
(93) 
 
 the Laws of Mahomet in drinking wine 
 before his converfion, for which he was 
 reproved and threatned by the Agent with 
 whom he came hither from Algtir : An- 
 other that he was baptized heretofore 
 el fe where. But I would advifeall men to 
 take heed how they go about to difparag$ 
 the gracious works of the Almighty , 
 through the envy that they bear towards 
 the inftruments which God is pleafed to 
 ufe and own in fuch matters, or to dis- 
 courage young Converts that are broughE 
 home into Chrifts Bofom ^ left they prove 
 themfelves thereby to be worle Chriftians 
 then he, and render themfelves liable to 
 that condemnation of onr Saviour, Matth, 
 18. 6. Who fo fhaU ofendone of thtfe little 
 ones that beleive in me ( which may be un- 
 derftood of thofe that arc children in 
 grace , as of thofe that are children ig 
 years alfo ) it were better for him that a 
 mil ft one Were hanged about his neck, , and 
 that he Vvere drowned in the depth of the 
 Sea. 
 
 But indeed this intention of his return 
 which he manifested fo clearly by his at- 
 tempt of petitioning theProteftor for the 
 purpofe, as is before declared, which 
 hath been alfo urged againft himasadif. 
 paragement,doth confute the moft of thefe 
 H 3 foggefti- 
 
V S . 
 
 fuggeflions, and doth render it improbable 
 that be was either afraid to return, or 
 that he was baptized before at any other 
 place -, which if it had been true, he could 
 not have retttr ned without an eminent 
 danger of beiiig put to death. And indeed 
 this intention and inclination of his to a 
 fudden return home, .as it hath by Gods 
 Providence proved tiferiil for the clearing 
 of him from thofe falfe accufations and 
 aifparagements, fo was it alfo for the haft- 
 ening us on in the profecution of the work 
 of his Conversion we had: in hand, m or- 
 der" whereunto , I made fpeed unto the 
 purfoance thereof, the day before-menti- 
 oned: And whereas many good under- 
 takings it may be feared come fhort of an 
 happy iflue, through that, evill felfifhnefe 
 Which is in too many, .whereby they fce& 
 to get the glory of the work unto them* 
 felves, together with that evil confidence 
 and Mf-conceit which fome men have of 
 their o\Vn abilities whfch render therh 
 ayerfe from either defiring or admitting 
 that help that they might have from the 
 Affociation of others, which the holy A- 
 poftles themfelves difdained not to make 
 life of: That therefore this work might 
 not want either countenance or affiftarice, 
 rior fail through the weaknefs or mifcar- 
 
 riage 
 
riage of my endeanors^ of which indeed I 
 was very fearful, whereby I might hav e 
 become anfwers&ie for the lofs of his Soul* 
 and for the difappointment of that glory 
 which hath lince by his converfiori accrued 
 unto God, I prevailed with reverend Dr. 
 ^Bernard, and Dr. Gauden^ to accompany 
 me that day unto Chelfey, who willingly 
 complied with my deiires therein • and 
 fent withal to defire Mr. Quming^ and Mr. 
 Samots the Interpreter to meet us there. 
 When I with thofe two reverend Divines 
 firft mentioned had arrived at the place, 
 Signior Dandulo was prevailed with to 
 give us a meeting at myhoufe^ but Mr. 
 Gunning and the Interpreter being not yet 
 come, and the reverend perfons that were 
 with me being unwilling to ftay long by 
 reafonof fome occafions which it feemeth 
 called them back unto London : We as well 
 as we could, without the Interpreter enter- 
 el upon fome difcourfe with him, which 
 although it was but ftiort, and much dif* 
 advantaged for want of Language ; yet we 
 prevailed fo far, that it obtained fome 
 kinde of confent unto the trnth of thofe 
 things which were offered unto him in 
 order to his imbracement of the Chriftian 
 Religion. ( Art account of the Argu- 
 ments and difcourfes that pafled in this 
 H 4 bufi» 
 
bufinefs from the beginning to the ct\d f I 
 have thought good to make the bufinefs 
 of a Chapter by it k\f 9 to avoid the trouble 
 of repeating over and over the fame 
 things again both unto my felf and to the 
 Reader.) And although we could not as 
 yet obtain of him a declaration of his full 
 refolution to be baptized, which as he had 
 tnanifefted in former communications, he 
 deiired not to be over-haft ily preffed unto, 
 but that he might be allowed good time 
 to deliberate and confider of fo weighty a 
 bufinefs as that was, and that was to be 
 refolved on no other terms but the defert- 
 in'g and forfaking of fo many earthly com- 
 forts, as of Parents, Country, Inheritance, 
 and Marriage intended, which were all to 
 be drowned unto him in the water of his 
 Baptifm ^ yet we obtained this expreflion 
 of approbation and confent, at leaft nn- 
 to the main of our difcourfe , E Emm , 
 that is to fay, This is good or true- But 
 after our departure back to London, the 
 fame day it pleafed God to fend reverend 
 Mr.Gunning and the Interpreter unto him, 
 who in my abfence accofted him with fome 
 frefh difcourfes at the Lady L^rvrenct^ 
 where was his ufual abode in Chelfey, and 
 *after fome ftrugglings , obtained from him 
 at length ( as if feme violent bea*n of light 
 
 and 
 
(97) 
 
 *nd grace had broken in upon his Soul % 
 and had upon the fudden captivated all 
 his contrary imaginatious, and (battered 
 the mift of all his waverings and doubl- 
 ings ) not onely a confent to be baptized 
 into Chriftianity , but alfo fo earned a 
 defire and inclination thereunto , thac 
 over-powered all his, former thoughts of 
 deliberatiou •, and was fo impatient of de- 
 lay, that he cried out upon the iiidden Dc 
 mairi) that is to fay, Let it fo done to mor- 
 row •, and when for the folemnity of the 
 performance , and for the obtaining of 
 forne convenient fpace and opportunity 
 for his further inftrudion and preparation 
 to that great work, it was made known 
 unto him that it was not tjiougffc conve- 
 nient to perform the celebration until the 
 lords Day ; he feemed to be fomething 
 troubled at the delay. The happy and joy- 
 ful news of this bleffed fuccefs was careful- 
 ly and very refpedfully fent by Mr. Gun* 
 ning unto me at Wt ft win /?er, which drew 
 me from thence unto Chel/ey very late at 
 night , that \ might be a joyful witneis 
 of fo happy an iffue which God had given 
 unto that gracious work he had begun by 
 fo weak and inconfiderable an inftrument 
 as I acknowledge my felf to be : And that 
 I might be ferviceable by fuch advice, and 
 
 further 
 
(P8) 
 
 forther afliftance as God fhould enable me 
 to give in order to the accompliibment of 
 this fo eomforrable a produd of the ad- 
 mirable and excellent mercy of the Lord, 
 to whom be all the glory of this, and all 
 the works of his gracious goodnefs : And 
 if we glory in any thing, let it be in this, 
 that God is pleafed to be glorified by us or 
 in us, that fo if we glory we may glory in 
 the Lord. 
 
 CHAP, XII. 
 
 of tfye Advantage? found even in 
 the Religion of the Mahometans, 
 and in the Turks own acknow- 
 ledgements, for the carrying on of, 
 his Conversion. 
 
 ALtJiough we- have obtained one great 
 end of our Narrative in that declara- 
 tion which hath been already made of that 
 bleffed futcefs which God gave unto our 
 endeavors, in that ready confent and ear- 
 ner!: deiire which was wrought in the Soul 
 of our Convert^ in fo little a time as was 
 that of very few weeks, to renounce that 
 
 great 
 
(99} 
 
 great Impoftor Mahomet with his delu- 
 fions, and to devote and marry his Soul 
 unto Chrift Jefus the great and true Pro- 
 phet of the Church and onely Saviour of 
 the World, which is a matter that cha- 
 lengeth the joy both of Angels in Heaven, 
 and all good men upon Earth •, yet foraf- 
 much as there is an holy , and not onely 
 harmlefs but profitable curiofity, that doth 
 ufually potfefsthe hearts of Gods people 
 to fearch (as God is pleafed to allow them) 
 into the great and gracious works of the 
 Almighty -, and not onely to put that que- 
 ftion, Num.l^^^.pvhat hath God wronght> 
 That chey mayfolace themfelves with the 
 fpe&acle of the fweetnefs of his mercy, 
 but to look alfo 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 con- 
 templation of his divine wifdom and power 
 fhining forth through the weaknefs and 
 fimplicity of the inftruments that he k 
 pleafed to make ufe of ^ The holy ftudy^f 
 Gods works being the great Philofophy 
 of Gods people- and their great learning 
 to under A and the loving kindnefs of the 
 Lord : That this knowledge may be the 
 fuel and furniture of their praife and de- 
 votion, which is the great end of their 
 
 Creation 
 
(100) 
 
 Creation and Redemption^ which is the 
 ftudy that they are invited unto in this 
 Treatife-, the defign whereof is to prefent 
 unto them a great and new work,and frefh 
 frame and platform of divine, and thofe 
 very remarkable difpenfations which the 
 Lord was pleafed to produce and put toge- 
 ther in this fubjed we have in hand. For 
 this reafon, and yet moreover, becaule it 
 may perhaps give Tome light not unufeful 
 for the difcovery of the great difference* 
 there is between the beautiful truths of the 
 Gofpel, and the deformed errors of the 
 Alcoran, and >may afford fome help and 
 encouragement unto others for, and in the 
 undertaking of the like endeavors of con- 
 yerfion ; X (nail therefore for the better 
 clearing of the matter, and that men may 
 fee by what advantages this was, and o- 
 ther fuch like converfions may be attemp- 
 ted, and know in fome meafure from what 
 clefperate errors and mifchief this conver- 
 £on hath brought the Soul of him that 
 hath imbraced it, to the enlargement of 
 our comfort , and advancemeut of the 
 glory of Gods grace, I (hall endeavor to 
 fet down fome principal matters or tenets 
 wherein the Mahometans and we do agree; 
 and fubjoyn fome of thofe moft remak- 
 able errors wherein they differ from 
 
 Chrifti- 
 
(101) 
 
 Xlhriftianity •, that by this we may be em 
 abled to difcover the difeafe of thofe that 
 *re milled in that way of error, and by 
 that we may be the better inftrucled for 
 their converiion^for fince every conviction 
 doth proceed a conctffis , and muft fetch its 
 flrength from fomeTruths that are granted 
 and agreed upon ^ if it be rightly managed 
 it is of great concernment for usto know 
 feoth wherein they agree with us,& where- 
 in they differ from us, that we may gain 
 ilrengthand advantage from the one, for 
 confutation and remedy of the other. Take 
 therefore thefe Obfervatipnsoutof Levi- 
 nm Wtwerut in his Compendium Hifton- 
 cum printed at Lejie w,i 643 . and others. 
 - Firft, They do acknowledge the fall ofj^™' 
 all Mankinde in Adam and Eve their firft j^ £ ^j 
 Parents, in a greater degree I fear then cum ef- 
 Ibme Chriftians inourdaies, for they de-fatorigo 
 clare concerning the cafting out of Adam hommrn 
 and Eve out ofParadife that it may alfo be a^p^ em 
 fitly underftood of their pofterity •, for p utat ] 
 that feeing they were the orignal and root fin acfi 
 orftockof men, they were reputed as if /;(W2 ™" 
 they had been all men in general. Ifl'Xj; 
 which words faith warntrw, the fame 
 feerneth to be intimated that the Apoftle Rem. 5; 
 of the Gentiles faith, Jf bU AvfycJw h*>«p- 
 
 By 
 
(102) 
 
 By one man fin came into the worlds for thtf 
 
 or in whom aR have finned • So that they 
 feem to embrace that of the fame Apofile, 
 that by the difobedience of one man many 
 were made finners, but then though they 
 acknowledge the difeafe fo far • yet as 
 evil and unkinde Phyfitians to themfelves 
 and others, they rejed: the remedy , and 
 will not embrace that which the Apoftle 
 addetb, fo by the obedience of one Jhi& mar.y 
 be made righteous •, but inftead of this they 
 believe that Adam without any fatisfa&i- 
 on prefently obtained pardon, when being 
 led by repentance he made this Prayer to 
 God, which the Alcoran reciteth, Domine 
 nofter^ injurii fuimut anim&bus nofiru , Qr 
 fi non condonaveris nobis ac mifertus ftterif, 
 damnum feremxs* O Lord, we have been 
 injurious to our (wls^ and if thou far don 
 w not tie mufi bear the damage or fu&iflr 
 went- 
 
 And they fay,that this fin of our firft Pa?- 
 rents was but afmal fin,that the punifhment 
 thereof might be the more exemplary, that 
 men might thereby know that great and 
 careful caution is to be ufed that they let 
 not loofe the bridle unto Cm.Cum ilk Adam 
 ejetluf fit de Paradifo cb unicumfeccatHW 7 
 quamodo ingrediatur earn tlurimis obnoxitu 
 pecatis ? Since Adam was cap out of Pa* 
 
 radtfc 
 
<*°3) 
 
 radife for one fin % hove fhall he enter there* 
 into that is gpiltj of many fins f But they 
 think that there is no need of a Mediator 
 who fhould expiate this fin, or that (hould 
 furTer death, that man under his conduft 
 might triumph over death, being fub- 
 dued and chained up. 
 
 They allow Chrift to be the Son of 
 Mary^ and becaufe Children are denomi- 
 nated from their Fathers not from their 
 Mothers, they fay we may learn from that 
 denomination of him from his Mother , 
 that he was born without a Father, ac- 
 cording to that expreflion of the Evange- 
 lift, srejc* r mv ojjtya , She bnttght forth her 
 Son. And to thofe eminent Propheu*es y 
 (7**.3-i5- where he is called the Seed of the 
 woman, not of the man.- And 7/4.7.14, 
 where he ispromifed to be the Son of a 
 Virgin: And fuch a wonderful concepti- 
 on and birth they acknowledge this to be 
 as never was granted unto any other Mo^ 
 ther or Childe ^ and therefore in their Ex- 
 pofition of the words which they fay the 
 Angel fpake unto the Virgin, o Mari& % 
 Dim elegit te & purificavit tejlegit tefstpra 
 mulieres omnis <cvi,&c. O Mary, God hath 
 chofen thee and purified thee, he hath chofen 
 thee above the wemen of all Ages. They in- 
 terpret it thus, He hath purified thee from 
 
 impure 
 
_ (i04) 
 impure works, and from that of which 
 the Jews accufed thee, he hath chbferi thee 
 above women of all ages, in that he gave 
 thee Jefus without a Father, which hap- 
 pened not unto any other amongft wo- 
 -,£ D men«, contrary to that w'cked lie of the 
 J^DT\V Jews in their Sepher fuehafiv, when they 
 fay that in the reign of the Grecians, and 
 the time of the Tribes, there was a famous 
 wife man at Rome, called Prometbettss who 
 decreed that the Ring (hduld be worn up- 
 on the fourth ringer ,becaufe the vain of the 
 heart was in it,and that he had a Son called 
 Anturos, who alfo was a man of excel- 
 lent wifdom,and that he had feven daugh- 
 ters, whereof one was named Efcbto*ipb»s v 
 who as the Gentiles report brought forth 
 two fons, Ephan and Schahfebiv^ and that 
 fhe was a Virgin before and after her de- 
 livery^ nu;p nn and that was heard faith 
 the Author. W hereunto was added by the 
 , hand-writing of a certain 
 
 Vi)^ Vw Qis mwtrwrfu nis lianas, as 
 he relatcth ♦, it is hard to 
 the Chriftians, being againft their Religi- 
 on, who fay this was a miracle in M«rj t 
 the Mother of, Jefus. The Turks alfo fay 
 fbme of them that Mary conceived at the 
 thirteenth year of her age, others at the 
 
 tenth • 
 
(105) 
 
 tenth •, and fome fay that (he was deliver- 
 ed in the iixth raonech a others in the 
 fcventh moneth, others in the eighth 
 riioneth , mc fupcrvixit partus otlavo 
 wenfe edit us praterqttam beat us fefus •, and 
 that never any birth brought forth in the 
 eighth month lived, but only the bldfed Je- 
 fos.They fay alfo that he was brought forth 
 under a Palm-tree ■ and they further fay^ 
 That God created one without Father or 
 Mother ,as Adam^ and brought forth one of 
 a Mother without a Father ,as Jefus-jk that 
 Jofeph having a fufpition of her thought to 
 have killed her • that the Angel Gabriel in- . 
 terpofed, faying That (he was with childe 
 by the Holy Ghoft,arid fo hindered him 
 ' They fay alfo that Afarj, was the Daugh- 
 ter of Amran ,the Son of Mat&rtfi\& Son of 
 Sttlmanjthe Son of David ^ the Son of fejfe ± 
 and that between this Amran and that Am- 
 ran which was the Father ofMofes and Aa- 
 y o^there paffed a thoufand & eighty years- 
 and that (he was brought up by Zacbarias, 
 and that her food was fcnt down unto hex: 
 from Paradife^fo that (he never fucked any 
 Breaft,but that fhe had fent her from Hea- 
 ven winter fruits in Summer, and fummer 
 fruits in Wintered that as often as Zachar 
 rias went unto her in the Temple, he found 
 meat by her : and when he asked her 
 whence fte had it-, (he fat d that it was 
 I from 
 
(io6) 
 from God, for God feedeth whom he will 
 without meafure •, and that many were 
 found perfeft amongft. men, but none a- 
 mongft women, but onely Four, Aft*, the 
 Daughter of Merahaw^ Mary the Daugh- 
 ter of Amran^ Chadiga the Daughter of 
 HhIaU, and Fatima the Daughter of 
 Mahomet; and that Mary was confecrated 
 unto God,whiIft (he was yet in the womb. 
 But though they acknowledg (Thrift to be 
 the Son of the Virgin , yet they wickedly 
 deny his Divinity ^ they fay that Chrift was 
 born a Servant as other Servants ^ they alfo 
 deny him to be the Son of God. The Chri- 
 ftians,fay they, made him the Son of God. 
 Butjefus is only a Servant,fay they,as other 
 Servants , and they feem to bring in God 
 fpeaking thus r, We have dealt gracioufly 
 with him, ( that is with Jefus ) in that we 
 have appointed him to be a wonder, in 
 that we have created him without an in- 
 termediate or fecond caufe, 2s we created 
 Adatn^ and rendered him famous by pro- 
 phefie •, but they conclude againft his Di- 
 vinity , becaufe he knows not, all that 
 Godknsweth, through Ignorance of the 
 divine myftery of his Incarnation , and 
 of the unconfounded propriety of tne two 
 Natures in Chrift. And though they con- 
 fefsthat Chrift did miracles, as that he 
 cleanfedtbe Lepers, and railed the dead , 
 
 vec 
 
(io 7 ) 
 yet they fay he did them notby his own 
 power, but by the power of God ^ and fo 
 they fay he reftored Sew the Son of Notb 
 to life. The ground upon which they de- 
 ny Chrift to be God, is, becaufe they ig. 
 norantly fuppofe the Unity of the Di- 
 vine Nature cannot be preierved if Chrift 
 fhould be acknowledged to be God : 
 Therefore they have that fo often in their 
 Alcoran, and other Writings, faith War- 
 
 mrtu j*^ dVt Non eft Dew nifi i(/e$ 
 
 There is no God but he • And amongft di- 
 vers things that are required unto their 
 Faith , the fir ft is this confeffion that there 
 Is not any God but one, which is indeed a 
 great trnth acknowledged by theChrifti- 
 an Church ^ but they ignorantly oppofeit 
 to the Trinity of perfons, being bound up 
 in the dark Dungeon of their carnal and 
 weak reafon ^ and therein they agree with 
 the SocinUnt and ^PhotinUns^ which are 
 indeed rather Turks then Chriftians : The 
 Turks themfelves having as high an opinio 
 on of Chrift as they, and they as low an 
 opinion of him as the Turks. 
 
 They fay moreover that Chrift doth not 
 arrogate this honor to himfelf, to be cal- 
 led the Sonof God ; but in the day of the 
 Refurreftion he will teftifie againft the 
 I z Jews,' 
 
(io8) # 
 Jews for that they charged him with falf- 
 hood,and againft the Chriftians for calling 
 him the Son of God 
 
 They confefs indeed , That the Chrifti- 
 ans teach but One Effence but Three 
 perfons •, anc} they fay that by the per. 
 fon of the Father, the Chriftians under- 
 ftand Effence •, bv that of the Son, Sci- 
 ence-, by that of the Holy Ghoft, Life: 
 which the Alcoran underftandeth, accord- 
 ing to their Commentary, as if God,Chrift, 
 and Mary wereThree Gods-,and Chrift the 
 Son of God by Mary - y otferve how they 
 are held in their errors and oppofmon 
 to Chriftianity, by their grofsmiftakesof 
 the Chriftian Dodrine. 
 
 The grounds of this their denial of the 
 divine generation or Sonfhip of Chrift, 
 whereby he is the Son of God , are 
 thefe: 
 
 i. A carnal conceit that nothing can 
 generate but a Body ^ for generation, fay 
 they, is the property of Bodies. 
 
 2. That Generation is not but between 
 equals of the famekinde- but God, lay 
 they , in regard of his great Excellen* 
 cy hath j no Equal or Confort, nor can 
 have •, becaufe if he had any Conforc, that 
 Confort mnft be from the fame kinde, but 
 God acknowledged no kinde* 
 
 3« Be ! 
 
3 . Becaufe there is nothing that he hath 
 not created, and which he hath not known-, 
 and therefore he wanted no Son Thus 
 they doat that value God according to 
 the Creature. 
 
 Yet they give unto Chrift the name of 
 Mejfias, which they fay is one of the moft 
 noble titles , derived from the Hebrew 
 rfn&O , which they interpret Bemdittus, or 
 the Blejfed; whereas indeed it fignifieth 
 the Aminted,xht fame which 25/S&, C^fi* 
 fignifieth in the Greek Tongue, implying 
 the three annointed Offices of Chrift ^ the 
 great High Prieft^ the great Prophet, and 
 the great King of the Church. 
 
 They acknowledg him alfo by the name 
 Jefns^ which they fay is a barbarous name 
 or word that cannot be expounded or in- 
 terpreted, which in the Syriack Tongue is 
 Jefchua, but they are ignorant that this 
 name given him from Heaven fignifieth the 
 Savior, from the root ptm which fignifi- 
 eth to fave in the Hebrew Tongue , as 
 Imxs in the Greek alfo fignifieth an Healer, 
 or Phyfitian, from Wopou to heal, which 
 ■in the Saxon accordingly is ufually tranf- 
 lated Hadenp i in the Saxon Go/pels, as I 
 remember •, wherein is implied that great 
 my fiery which thofe blinded people ac- 
 knowledge not , that is^ that this Jefus is 
 I 3 the 
 
(tl©) 
 
 the great Saviour and fpiritual Phyfitian 
 both of Jews, and Greeks, or Gentiles-, 
 having that name given h:m by the won- 
 derful providence of God, that iignifeth 
 a Saviour and a Healer in both Language^ 
 an importance, the like whereof I am per- 
 fwaded will hardly be fotand in inch a 
 wonderful compliance of Languages ih 
 any other name in the world, where'the 
 roots from whence it is derived have no 
 derivation from one another. 
 
 They confefs that he was fent from God, 
 that he might be the proclaimer of his Ma- 
 jefty, and the Corrector or Reformer of 
 humane pravity^ or the wickednefs of man, 
 a Teacher of righteouinefs and a Publisher 
 of the Gofpe-1, and they do maintain that 
 he executed his Office faithfully ; in that 
 he preached but one God, and converted 
 men from their impious and vain woi;- 
 ihips, to know and worftiip the trfle 
 God 
 
 They do unanimoufly declare tliat he 
 wrought many miracles, reftoring ftrength 
 to the weak, health to the Mck, cpeniHg 
 the eyes of the blfnde, purging away the 
 blemifhes of defiled bodies, railing the 
 dead unto life a^ain, as if they had 'been 
 awaked out of deep, though they acknow- 
 ledge not that immortal power in him 
 
 whereby 
 
(Ill) 
 
 whereby he performed thefe things, as an 
 argument of his Divinity. 
 
 They allow him the Title of the Word 
 of God •, fo the Alcoran brings in the An- 
 gels thus fpeaki'ng unto the Virgin, O Ma- 
 rj t god doth declare unto thee his fV O K D t 
 his name is Chrifl : And they fay that 
 Chrift was ftiled by that name, becaufe he 
 was not born but of the onely Word of 
 God- the manner thereof they thus exprefs, 
 God faid, be thou without the help of Father. 
 In the afcribing this name untoChri(t,they 
 agree fo far with that of foh 1. 1. In the 
 beginning was the Word, though they reject 
 the true fence and meaning of that title, 
 implying the divine perfon of Chrift : they 
 fay alfo that he is fermo verns Dtt, The 
 true Word of God, So the Alcoran, This 
 fefus is the true Word or Speech, whom the 
 fcws call an Impoflor and a Ljar, the fhri m 
 ftians the Son of God ^ he is called alfo by 
 
 them *Ut gjj The Spirit of God-, be- 
 caufe as they interpret, he hath the Spirit 
 that flowethlike feed from the living Fa- 
 ther, becaufe he is indeed brought forth 
 of God , and by his abfolute power ^ 
 though they give that title alfo unto the 
 r AngelGavrielfis the Commentary intepret- 
 eth that place of the Alcoran, We fent to 
 I 4 for, 
 
for, that is to Mary, otir Sfirit^thH 'U 
 (Jabrigl. 
 
 They fay alfo that Chrift is the Apoftlc 
 of God, which is indeed a great Office of 
 Chrift, that feems ipecially to be foretold 
 in that name Shtlob, Miff as, or Sent, as 
 it may be interpreted, and is intimated by 
 our Saviour in feveral places of Scripture, 
 where he is faid to be fent of the Father 5 
 for Apeflolm, or Apoftie, is derived from 
 ^rWw,w, to fend • which I mention for the 
 fake of thofe that are ignorant of fo ordi- 
 nary a. matter, fo that it fignifieth one fpe- 
 cially fent, and in facred ufe, one fent to 
 teach and govern the people of God, in 
 order to Gofpei-Truth, Grace, and Sal- 
 vation. This Office of Chrift we. have ex- 
 prefiy and eminently mentioned, Heb 3 . 
 
 And this is it which he hath derived 
 from himfelf unto the Apoftles and their 
 Succeffors in the Church ; %As my Father 
 kith fent we. fo fend I you : This Office 
 is at leafl in the name acknowledged by 
 the Turks v and yet as it is thought is too 
 too much flighted in the fucceftion thereof 
 by too many Chriftians, that have re- 
 jected the Apoftles Succeffors, and the an- 
 cient Goverment of the Church ; I wifh 
 they that have power in this Nation 
 would confider of this matter, and remem- 
 ber 
 
(ii3) 
 
 menber it in their publick confuta- 
 tions. 
 
 The Turks acknowledge Chrift the A- 
 poftle of God, but they do not honor him 
 nor advance him in the acknowledge* 
 ment of this Office as they fhoald , fince 
 they ranck him in a fort with other Le- 
 gates or Prophets, Ghrtfim filius MarU y 
 fay they, non efi wfi Ltgatm ante quern ]am 
 alii venemnt Legati; Chrift the Son of 
 Mary is but an AmbafTador before whom 
 other Ambafladors have already come. 
 And his condition in revelation, fay they, 
 is like the condition of the reft of the Pro- 
 phets that have gone before. Revelation 
 fay they is, Sermo occuhtu quicito fit : An 
 hidden fpeech coming fuddenly •, and this 
 they fay is of three forts : i. By Infpira* 
 tion , unto which Dreams are referred. 
 2. By a Voice or Call. 3. Or by a Legate 
 or Angel.In the firft manner God,they fay, 
 fpake to Abraham. In the fecond to Mofes y 
 and fo unto the Angels themfelves, which 
 
 kinde the Alcorn calls c/u zz*\i* foft vi 
 
 /*w, behinde the Hanging or Curtain, 
 where a voice is heard, but thefpeaker 
 not fcen •, for none, fay they , [hath feen 
 God, and therefore they fay that neither 
 Mofes nor Mahomet faw God. 
 
 3. By 
 
3. By the fending of an Angel: As God 
 fpake unto the other Prophets befide Mo~ 
 /*/, unto whom, they fay, he fpake imme- 
 diately, as to an Angel. To Chrift , they 
 fay, he fpake as unto the reft of the Pro- 
 phets by an Angeil. And they fay the 
 Gofpel was fent him from Heaven with 
 the teftimony of Miracles , and amongft 
 the reft they fay he made a Bird of clay, 
 and infpired it with life. And they fay Jcfus 
 was famous in this life by Prophefie, and 
 in the other life by interceflion, and ex- 
 altation of degree ia Paradife , that he 
 might be amongft thofethat ftand before 
 the Throne, ?nd a companion of Angels. 
 So they hold Chrift to be an Interceffor 
 fGx^ihe godly. Whofoever readeth Sw 
 
 rat* &)l for him jefus hath prayed for 
 
 the forgivenefs of his fins ; as long as he 
 liveth in this world, and at the laft d^y he 
 is his companion. 
 
 They acknowledge the day of Refur* 
 reftion, which they call the day of Con- 
 gregation. 
 
 But though they thus exalt Chrift in Pa- 
 radife, yet they fay Mahomet is much more 
 exalted in the other life, being honored or 
 celebrated by the Angels, together with 
 God, and that four o? them fay , ^ptaift 
 
 be 
 
("5) 
 
 k to the^ CJod , and to thy Mahomet ; 
 
 Traif* he to thee fort hj Clemency after thy 
 Power. And four fay, Praife be to thee 9 
 GW, and to thy MaJomet. for thy Gentle- 
 nefs afttr thy ivifdotn. Thus they doat 
 and rave. 
 
 They fay that Chrift was taken up to 
 Heaven, but Mahomet is more excellent, 
 who was fen: unto men in general, and to 
 whom fins were forgiven, both which he 
 committed before, and which he after- 
 wards committed-, as if God had given 
 Mahomet a difpenfation to commit fin ? 
 Mark the the Impiety and Blafphemy of 
 this faying. And they fay that Maho- 
 met concluded the number of the Pro- 
 phets. 
 
 They fay that (Thrift was prefently 
 heard as often as he called upon God. 
 And they have a flrangeftoryof a Table, 
 and a Fifh broiled that was fent down 
 from Heaven to him and his Apoftles at his 
 prayer, and that he revived the fifh, and 
 jtumed it prefently again into a broiled 
 fifh, and that the Table afterward vanifh- 
 ed ; And that the A pottles when they af- 
 terwards rebelled, were turned into Apes 
 and Swine. 
 
 Hiey fay as the Law was given to Mofes, 
 thePfalmsto David , fo the Gofpel to 
 
 Chrift, 
 
(1 1 6) 
 
 Ckrift, and that it was fent from Heavet 
 the Thirteenth day of Randan, as the Al 
 coran was fent down the Twenty fourt! 
 day of that moneth. They fay thatGo< 
 exalted Rwdan amongft the Moneths 
 and Friday amongft the Days, becaufe th< 
 Sun rofe upon that day •, and qyfdam was 
 created and cafl out into th: Earth upor 
 that day , and that the Day of Judgmen 
 fhall be upon that day. 
 
 They fay, which is very obfervable foi 
 the converfion of Turks , that Mahomei 
 confirmed the Law and theGofpel, anc 
 commanded to believe the truth of the 
 Prophets and Apoftles, and whatever (o 
 Books ) was fent down unto them •, anc 
 that in the Gofpel there is the right way 
 light, and instruction for the godly •, and 
 they pro fefs to believe whatfoever is writ- 
 ten in the Law and Gofpel. Thus we be 
 Sieve in God, and that that was fent down 
 to Abraham, Ifmaet, Ifaac, Jacob, and the 
 Tribes •, and that was delivered to Mofe/ : 
 to Jefus, and to the Prophets from God; 
 and we make no difference between any 
 of them, fo as lefs to believe th«m. 
 
 But they fay falfely that the Gofpel hath 
 been changed, for they fay that the name 
 of Mahomet was in the Law and in' the 
 jGofpel. And in their Hiftories they fay, 
 
 that! 
 
("7) 
 
 that his name was alfo in the PfalmSj and 
 this they fay a certain Monk confefTed ^ 
 and that Jefus foretold the coming of Ma- 
 homet and his people. 
 , They fay that Abraham profefTed their 
 Religion under the name of Jflam'tfm long 
 before the Law and the Cofpel , and 
 that he was neither Jew nor Chriftian. 
 
 They deny that Chrift truly died, but 
 they fay that he was without death trans- 
 lated into Heaven. See their impudence 
 againft fo manifeft a truth. They fay in- 
 deed that the Jews were deceived, and 
 thought they had (lain Chrift , but they 
 flew him not •, but that God took him up 
 unto himfelf. And that when the Jews 
 were about to kill Chrift , he asked his 
 Companions, Which of you will be con- 
 tent to have my likenefs put upon him, 
 that fo he may go into Paradife ? and 
 that one of them faid , 1 will , and that 
 God prefently put the Image of Chrift up- 
 on him, and that he was (lain and crucified 
 jnftead of Chrift-, and that after this the 
 Affociates of Chrift fell at diffention a- 
 bout this •, and that fome faid Chrift was 
 God and could not die , others that he 
 was killed and crucified, others, if Jefus 
 were crucified where is our Companion? 
 if our Companion was crucified, where is 
 
 then 
 
(Ii8) 
 
 then Jefus ? Others faid, he was taken up 
 into Heaven. 
 
 They hold that Jefus (hall defcend from 
 Heaven in the laft days.and thac there (hall 
 be no people to whom the Book comes (/.f. 
 I conceive the Alcoran, which they call 
 *£? i&Wi as we the Scriptures, the Bible) 
 but they (hall believe in it: So that there 
 (hall be but one Religion, to wit, Jjl imifm^ 
 and God at that time (hall flay the falfe 
 Meiliah, and there (hall befafety, fo that 
 the Lions (hall eat with the Camels, the 
 Leopards with the Oxen, Wolves with the 
 Sheep, and Children (hall play with Ser. 
 pents 
 
 And they fay Chrift (hail (lay and dwelt 
 upon earth Forty years •, and chat then the 
 Muflins or Mufid-men, I e. the Mahome- 
 tans (hall pray over him. They fay more- 
 over that when Chrift, (hall defcend, he 
 (hall frame himfelf according to the order 
 of Mahomet, and (hail poure out prayers 
 turning toward him, as he were one of 
 his followers. Nor fhali the laft day ap- 
 pear fay they, until the defcend ing of Jefus 
 go before. They hold alfo that other 
 dreadful figns (hall go before the laft day, 
 The falfe Chrift or Meiliah, Gog and Ma- 
 gog, and the rifing of the Sun in the Weft. 
 Hence that irreligious or prophane Jeft ,i 
 
 whereby 
 
(up) 
 
 whereby the witty Per ft an decipheretb the 
 manners of a libidinous Judge, bringing in 
 the King thus befpeaking the Judge, and 
 tte Judge replying co the King : The King 
 faid to the Judge, Rife I pray you, for the 
 Sun is now rifen ^ the Judge faid, In what 
 part of the world did he rife? The King 
 anfwered, in the Eaft,Sas he is wont. Then 
 faid the Judge , BlefTed be God, for the 
 door is yet open to repentance. I wifh 
 there were no fuch prefumptuous feoffers 
 amongft Chriftians. 
 
 CHAP. XIII. 
 
 An account of the Arguments ufed 
 for the converfion of the Turk , 
 with fome illnftration and enlarge- 
 ment, and of his Bapifm % 
 
 WHofbever (ball take but a view of 
 thofe things that have been difco- 
 vered concerning the madnefs and vanity 
 of the Mahometan Religion, they would 
 have caufe enough to wonder that a mete- 
 or made up of . Juch earthy and corrupt ex- 
 halations fhould laft fo long,& have fuch a 
 
 power- 
 
(no) 
 
 powerful influence upon the minds of fuch 
 multitudes of thofe creatures that have 
 principles of Reafon and Religion in them^ 
 but that the terrors of the World , and 
 carnal apprehenfions arid interefts have fo 
 embafed the hearts, and dazled the eies of 
 poor mortals, that moft men worfhip a 
 flaming Sword, efpecially when the Hilts 
 of it are enchafed with tranfitory delights 
 and advantages. And the greateft part of 
 the world mty feem to have their Religi- 
 on cut out unto them by the weapons of 
 their conquering Subduers , rather then 
 commended unto them by the force of 
 convinciag Arguments. 
 
 And indeed were not the fouls of thofe 
 that profefs the Mahometan religion wrap- 
 ped up in a dark vail of ignorance, under 
 the cloud whereof they are purpofely kept, 
 it might feem almoft incredible that they 
 fliould not eafily difclaim fuch impious er- 
 rors, the falfhood and impiety whereof 
 are abundantly convinced by the very dif- 
 flay and difcovery of the very tenets and 
 pra&ifes themfelves ^ and yet a very rare 
 thing hath it bin to hear of one bred up in 
 that impofture of Turcifm, converted to 
 the glorious light of the Gofpei. 
 
 It may eafily be perceived by what hath 
 been delivered , what great advantage's) 
 
 there 
 
(121) 
 
 there lie before us, even in the great ab 
 furdity of their opinions where they are 
 at oppofition unto us, and in thofe ap- 
 proaches that they make toward Chrifti- 
 anity in fome other things that they hold, 
 as iiath been (hewed, for the undertaking 
 and promoting their conversion , which 
 will render it the more unanfwcrable and 
 unexcufable^ that there have been no more 
 adventurers to that purpofe : Since the 
 Church which is the illuminated part of 
 the world, as it hath a charge of the great 
 work of the converfion of the reft there- 
 of unto that truth which God hath reveal- 
 ed unto her, not onelyfor her own fal- 
 vation, but alfo for the guidance and di- 
 rection of others, according to that Com- 
 miflion which is yet in force, and hath 
 in it the power of a command or heaven- 
 ly injunction from Chriftj go and teach , or 
 make Difciples of all Nations , haf tiding 
 them in the name of the Fatherland of the Son, 
 and the Holy Ghofl • and if there had been 
 but the tenth part of thofe lives ventured 
 upon a fuffering account for the propaga- 
 ting of Gods truth.that have been hazard- 
 ed and loft in the bloody quarrels of Am- 
 bition, Covetoufnefs and Revenge i and 
 for the propagating of Dominion byin- 
 K vading 
 
(122) 
 
 vading 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 Gofpel of Chrift Jefus , and that 
 jprophefie fulfilled which we yet hope for, 
 (and God may promote it even from fuch 
 a beginning as this) that in the la ft days the 
 mountain of the Lords hmfe Jball be efta- 
 blijhed in the top of the mountains, and fet 
 above the kills a and all Nations [ball fiore 
 unto it. 
 
 But this is like to be the work rather of 
 the crofs then of the Sword. In hoc figno 
 vinces y is ftill the Chriftians Motto. Our 
 Victories are to be obtained under theBan- 
 ner of the crofs. 
 
 But that! may draw to a Conclufion ; 
 The more then ordinary, knowledge thac 
 our Convert feemed to have obtained not 
 onely of the Turkifh Religion, but alfo 
 in Tome meafure of the Chriftian ; by 
 means (as it may be conceived)of his Chri- 
 ftian Mother, gavefome good advantage 
 to our work. 
 
 The firft attempt whereof was an en- 
 deavor to bring him into fome good fenfe 
 of the great concernment of his Soul in 
 the embracement or rejection of the truth, 
 
 no 
 
(12$) 
 
 no lefs then in his eternal greateft good or 
 evHi, and to bring him into diflike, or at 
 leaft into a doubt of that erroneous and 
 impious way that; he embraced , as being 
 uncorrefpondent and unfatisfa&ory to 
 that which is , and needs muft be the 
 aim of every wife and ferious man , in 
 the choice or embracement of any Reli- 
 gion, which is a well grounded hope and 
 fucceeding attainment of the falvation of 
 his Soul in another world , and here in 
 this life the peace of a good Conference 
 next to the glory and honour of God, 
 which as it was (hewed him, could not be 
 found without a remedy for fin, which ex- 
 pofed tanto Gods wrath and to eternal 
 death and condemnation ; And that there 
 could be no remedy for this deadly difeafe 
 but by a fatisfa&ion to Gods Juftice , 
 That Mercy and Truth might meet to- 
 gether and Righteoufnefi and 'Peace might 
 kifs each other ^ which remedy or fatif- 
 fa&ion was not at all offered in that Re- 
 ligion that he embraced, 
 
 He faid that God gave pardon upon 
 repentance • but it was (hewed him that 
 his repentance^ and the repentance of 
 all others was imperfed -, and no man 
 was fo cleared thereby from (in , but 
 
(124) 
 
 that v there would ftill need a fatisfe&i- 
 on for the failings even of repentance 
 and of the beft ordered life that is to 
 be found amongft men in this life. That 
 this fatisfa cation is clearly and fully of- 
 fered in the Chriftian Religion, in the 
 blood , and fufferings , and rightcouihefs 
 of Chrift Jefus, who being God and Man, 
 and the eternal Son of God , became a 
 fit Mediator between God and Man, and 
 offered himfelf a fufficient Sacrifice unto 
 the Divine Juftice for the fins of the 
 whole World : The benefit whereof, as 
 it is propofed in the Gofpel unto repen- 
 tance, and to all true penitent finners, 
 fo it is to be received onely from and 
 in Chrift Jefus, and by the true faith of 
 the Gofpel. 
 
 Upon this difcourfe, or to thispurpofe* 
 with fome other,^ which I. cannot well 
 now remember, he feemed to be fomething 
 ftartled, and to doubt whether the ground 
 whereon he flood was found or no : 
 And as I remember expreffed, fomedeflre 
 that God would dired him to the 
 Truth. 
 
 Some further Argumenrs were ufed to 
 difcover yet further unto him, not one. 
 ly the inefficiency, but the impiety and 
 
 vani- 
 
(i*5) 
 vanity and great uncertainty of that Re- 
 ligion he had embraced ^ as that which 
 countenanced cruelty and oppreffion , 
 was carried on by violence and carnal 
 ways , and propofed low and carnal de- 
 lights for the "reward , below the excel- 
 lency of the fpiritual Soul of Man ^ Coun* 
 tenanced wickednefs, as Impurity and Re- 
 venge ; and proceeded from a perfon of 
 a carnal and lalcivious temper and con- 
 verfation, who pretended a more then 
 ordinary Commifiion and allowance for 
 luft, as apriviledge belonging to him as 
 the great Prophet. That pretended in- 
 deed revelation from Heaven, but had 
 no teftimony from God to commend it 
 to the Souls of men ; but depended up- 
 on the bare affertion of Mahomet, which 
 if he be confidered in the finglenefs of his 
 perfon , being a man fubjed to error as 
 well «as others - y efpecially if he be con- 
 fidered in his lafcivious and wicked qua- 
 lity and condition, is too fandy a founda- 
 tion, and of more then much too weak a 
 credit , that the venture of the eternal 
 good and fafety of one (ingle Soul fhouid 
 fee committed thereto , much lefs of ma- 
 ny millions, or of the whole world: 
 That it was a Religion fluffed with mon- 
 K 3 ftrous 
 
ftrous lies and legends , as may be 
 jfeen by thofe things that have been fee 
 down. 
 
 Whereas on the other fide the Cnri- 
 itian Religion hath upon it the very 
 ftamp of Gods image , which is his feal, 
 in the high, excellent, myfterious and fpi- 
 ritual wifdom,too high for hnmane Impo- 
 flure in any likelihood to invent-, fince it is 
 fo far too high for humane Wifdom or Un- 
 derftanding , even fince it is revealed , 
 to conceive , which is exa&ly anfwerable 
 aud uniform and correfpondent to it 
 felf in all the members and parts thereof, 
 which all make up a fweet and excellent 
 tune and harmony amongft themfelves, 
 without any jar or difcord between them j 
 and all 'the Writers thereof, though be- 
 ing many , and living in many and feve- 
 ral Ages and places, were forbidden 
 thereby to confpire in falCbood with one 
 another; wherein there muft needs have 
 been much boggling in matters fo high 
 above humane reafon and comprehension, 
 if there had not been an infallible rule of 
 divine Light and Truth to guide and ig- 
 nite them together a* fo great a d^ 
 ftance. 
 
 Befides the wonderful and excellent 
 
 content 
 
( "7) 
 
 •confent that is between the Types and 
 Prophefies, and the fulfilled events there- 
 of; The former whereof are for the moft 
 part configned over unto us by the Jews, 
 profefTed enemies unto the Chriftian 
 Truth , who maintain themfelves , and 
 have delivered over unto us the predicti- 
 ons, the completions whereof yet them- 
 felves now deny : And fo it is fulfilled of 
 that blinded Nation of the Jews, that is 
 faidby one, I know not whom, of them, 
 that it is Afinus fortanm vinum & hi- 
 bens af/tant. An Afs that carriah wine, 
 and drinketh water : They carry the wine 
 of the holy Prophefies, and drink the 
 water of their own foolifh and malicious 
 mif- interpretations and traditions. 
 
 It hath the ftamp of the Divine wifdom 
 and goodnefs upon it, in that holy poli- 
 cy eftablifhed in the bond of Divine and 
 Chriftian Love, whereby it unites all in 
 the love of God, and in a mutual love 
 unto, and a mutual charge of one ano- 
 ther, and of all men, even greateft Ene- 
 mies, in all their concernments, and in 
 holy peace providing for all, and carry- 
 ing on all things with a heavenly and 
 publick fpirit ., fo that if it were but ge- 
 nerally embraced, it would make the 
 K 4 world 
 
(128) 
 
 world happy, and eftablifh a kinde of 
 Heaven upon Earth •, when every man 
 (hould have a care of another as of him- 
 felf in foul and fpiritual good, in matter of 
 Life, Eftate, Health, Reputation, and all 
 other matters wherein their good is con- 
 cerned, whereby that wicked voice ?of 
 Cain, which crieth fo loud in the hearts 
 and practices of the world, would be fi- 
 lenced and excluded out of the fociety of 
 mankinde, *Am 1 my Brotbes keeper ? fince 
 it maketh all men keepers of one ano- 
 ther, and teacheth all to take care of the 
 publike good of &11, and thereby enlarg- 
 eth the riches and content of all parti- 
 culars, teaching them to joy and delight 
 in the good and bleffing of others, as well 
 as their own. 
 
 It hath the ftamp of Gods Holinefs 
 and Righteoufnefs upon it V in the utter 
 oppofition that it hath unto all fin, in the 
 admirable and perfed: rules of Jufticeand 
 Piety, and purify which it eflablilheth, 
 both in regard of inward motions , 
 thoughts, and affe&ions, and in outward 
 carriage and converfation of life, fetting 
 up the right mark before us , which is 
 Gods £lory, and eternal happinefs in him 
 to be purfued by all, in all thoughts, 
 
 words, 
 
(1 2p) 
 
 words, andacYions, in all their Offices, 
 Trades and Vocations •, fo bringing in the 
 whole life of man to be an holy facrifice 
 to God. And directing us unto this glo- 
 rious Goal or prize in the holy road , 
 or way of the holy commands of God, en- 
 couraging and facilitating our obedience 
 thereunto by gracious promifes, outbid- 
 ding all that the World, or the Flefti, or 
 the Devil can offer to hire us or move us 
 to fin or wickednefs, and fo by another 
 great and holy policy, engrafting our in- 
 tereft into all cur duty ^ fo that we cannot 
 fin againft God, but we mult fin againft 
 our own felicity, nor advance in holinefs 
 but we muft alfo advance in happinefs, 
 making holinefs and happinefs upon the 
 matter one and the fame thing, though 
 they feem two unto us by the weaknefs of 
 our fight, as one Candle feemeth two unto 
 a diftempered or weak eye. 
 
 It hath the ftamp of Gods Meeknefs and 
 Mercy upon it, not onely in revealing it 
 unto us," and pouring it out upon us in the 
 wonderful works of Redemption and Sal- 
 vation by Chrift Jelus, at which the An- 
 gels and hoft of Heaven (land amazed', 
 whilft wicked and unthankful mortals de- 
 fpife and contemn it ^ but in the holy con- 
 form!- 
 
(IJO) 
 
 formity which it enjoineth unto all, and 
 worketh in the hearts and practices of true 
 Chriftians thereunto, forbidding all man- 
 ner , and every degree of cruelty and vi- 
 olence, of hatred , malice , envy , and re- 
 venge both in the root and the fruit there- 
 of , and enjoining all ads of Mercy and 
 compailion towards others , even our 
 greateft adverfaries and ftrangers, how- 
 ever different from us in judgment or af- 
 fection , allowing no hatred unto any 
 thing but fin, thereby opening a -door of 
 love unto the whole world for their edi- 
 fication, and bringing in unto Chrift Jefus, 
 and to the Truth, Grace and Salvation of 
 the Gofpel, which is too little thought on 
 and lefs practifed by the new and ftrangc 
 Chriftians of our days, whom God will 
 convince either to condemnation or to 
 convcrfion, as may be hoped by fuch as 
 this our Convert and others whom he 
 fhall bring home unto his truth and love, 
 making even them to provoke us to jea- 
 loufie, and to be not onely Profeflbrs with 
 us, but Reformers of us. 
 
 And thefe Rules of Love, Companion, 
 and Mercy are eftablifhed in an excellent 
 and moft exact and perfect order and me- 
 thod both in regard of the objects ando« 
 
 perations 
 
(*30 
 
 petitions thereof, they being fiiit to be 
 regarded that are neareft and deareft to 
 God and us, or whole preservation and 
 good is of greateft or moft general con- 
 cernment. And the operations to be ex- 
 ercifed as in none but juft, and pure, and 
 holy, fo chiefly and fpecialiy in fpiritual 
 ways. And this mark of love and tender 
 companion amongft Chriftians was that 
 that made them anciently as glorious in the 
 eyes of God and Man , as the contrary 
 cruelty and unmerciful nefs hathrendred 
 inglorious and ignominious the degene- 
 rate and falie Chriftians of our days. So 
 that the very Heathens are fa id to have 
 fallen into an admiration of their mutual 
 mercy, with an Ecce qnam fe invicem at* 
 ligunt , ecce qnam pro fe invicem mori pa' 
 ratifnnt^ 'Beheld how thefe Chriftians love 
 $ne another^ Behold how thtfe Chriftians 
 are ready to die for one another ! As now 
 Turks and Heathens may cry out with a- 
 bomination againft the Chriftians andfelf 
 Canonizing Saints of our days, Ecce qnam 
 fe invicem oderint , ecce qnam fe invicem 
 interficere parati funt ! it is tranflated in 
 letters and language of blood, and written 
 all over our age and Nations ^ 'Behold ho* 
 theft Chriftians hate one another , behold 
 
 how 
 
03*) 
 
 hcfa thefe Chriftians art ready to kj& and 
 deftroy cue another ! 
 
 This and other wicked praftifes of 
 thofe that walk under the names of Chrifti- 
 ans, fo diametrally oppofite unto the ho- 
 ly and merciful rule and conftitution of 
 (Thrift Jefus, are thofe that have caft re- 
 proach upon the name of Chrift, and 
 have clouded up the beauty and fplendor 
 of the Gofpel and the Cnriftian Religi- 
 on, and do continually blaft and hin- 
 der the converfion of Jews, Turks, Hea- 
 thens and others thereunto , who are 
 thereby confirmed and encouraged in their 
 evill ways. For the love of God and our 
 own fouls let us think upon it. The wick* 
 ed lives of Chriftians will anfwer for, and 
 be charged with the deftru&ion of the 
 reft of the world as well as for their own, 
 and theirs amongft whonv they live. 
 But God is true , though evtry wan bs 4 
 
 Chriftian Religion hath upon it the 
 {tamp and tefcimony of the great andun- 
 blemiihed innocency and piety of Ghrift 
 Jefus, in the holinefs of his Life and Do- 
 drine acknowledged by the Turks them- 
 felves. 
 Of t,he great power of God in hiswon- 
 
 droi^ 
 
drous Incarnation, and miraculous con- 
 ception and birth ^ whereby he was a mi- 
 racle himfelf above all other miracles 
 whatfoever. The latter whereof, to wit, 
 his wonderful conception and birth is ac- 
 knowledged by the Mahometans them- 
 Jelves. 
 
 In the many and great- wonders that 
 he wrought , which they themfelves alfo 
 confefs it is teftified unto : As alfo by his 
 Refurre&ion from the dead , and his A- 
 fcention ineo Heauen , which, to wit his 
 Afcention, they aver, though they deny 
 his Death and Refurre&ion By the voice 
 from Heaven at his Baptifm and transfigu- 
 ration.By the defcending of the HolyGholt 
 both upon himfelf in the form of a Dove, 
 and upon his Difciples in the form of fiery 
 cloven tongues after his aicention upon 
 the day of Pentecoft, to the enduing, of 
 them with thofe wonderful gifts of all Lan- 
 guages which they exercifed in the pre- 
 tence of many witneffes of feveral parts 
 and Nations, who by Gods providence 
 were then at ferttfalem, which was then 
 made, as it were, the Reprefentative of the 
 World, that it might be the Theater of fo 
 glorious a fpe&acle. 
 To this may be added the great effi- 
 cacy 
 
(134) 
 
 cacy and power of the Gofpe! grace, 
 fhining in the lives of trne Chriftians, and 
 in the glorious fuflferings of the Mar- 
 tyrs. 
 
 The fpiritual and heavenly propofals of 
 the Gofpel. 
 
 And the fpiritual wayes contrary to 
 humane wifdom and carnal intereft with- 
 out humane force, whereby it hath been 
 carried on. 
 
 And the (landing teflimony that is 
 unto this day , in the difiipation , and 
 affli&ed, and wretched, and hateful con- 
 dition of the banished Jewifh Nation , 
 Mattered over the world , having been 
 tinder that judgement for the fpace of 
 One thoufand fix hundred years and up- 
 wards, as was foretold by Daniel) and 
 ourBlefled Saviour himfelf, thattheymay 
 bewitnefTes to the world in the feveral 
 Nations where they are fcattered , and 
 againft themfelves, of the truth of the 
 Gofpel and the glory of Chrift i whofe 
 blood is upon them to this day, according 
 to that dreadful curfe that they laid upon 
 themfelves. 
 
 I have been bold to enlarge fome- 
 thing more upon this then I did in the 
 prefling of it upon the Turk; I hopeic 
 
 may 
 
6 Jin 
 
 maybe for the good of hirff and others : 
 Now becaufe we found that he acknow- 
 ledged the Law, and Prophets , and the; 
 holy Evangelifts • we had recourfe un- 
 to them for the convidion of him in 
 the Three great points of Chriftianity, 
 which he oppofed, viz. The God-head 
 of Chnft, and that he is the Son of God, 
 and that he died and fatisfied for the 
 fins of the World, and fo became the Sa- 
 viour and Redeemer of Mankinde. He 
 was acquainted therefore by me with 
 fome paffages of the Fifty third of /£. 
 and as I remember with that wonderful 
 Prophefie of the Ninth of Daniel, where 
 the death and fatisfa&ion of the Me/Hah 
 or Chrift, are fo clearly and evangelically 
 expreffed. 
 
 Mr. gunning purfued the work that 
 was begun with great induftry , ability, 
 and diligence,- fhewinghim that his Re- 
 ligion had no warrant of truth in it 
 having neither the teftimony from reafon, 
 not from heavenly revelation,made known 
 by miracles, or any fuch heavenly evi- 
 dence, which give abundant witnefs to the 
 truth of Chriftianity • and when he vainly 
 pretended, as it feemshehad been inform- 
 ed, that there was a Prophefie in the Scrip- 
 ture. 
 
ture^ that another people (hould come to 
 inform the World after the Chriftians^ 
 which it feems, was a mifprifion of that 
 place in Daniel 9. 2f . The people of the 
 Prince that Jhall come Jball deftroy the Gitj 
 and the SanBuarj&c we {hewed him as 
 I remember, the true interpretation of the 
 place, that it was a Prophefie of the de- 
 ftru&ion of ferttfalem by Titut Veffa- 
 fian y and the Roman people. And having 
 obtained of him that Chrift was a true 
 Prophet, and that all that he fpake was 
 truth, and that the Gofpel of the Evan- 
 gelifts was true ; The Divinity of Chrift* 
 and his being the Son of God was proved 
 unto him out of the firft of ^»thefirft 
 verfctf-c if my memory fail not, and 
 out of the words of our Saviour, who de- 
 clared himfelf to be the Son of God. But 
 that that especially prevailed with him 
 was drawn from that acknowledgement* 
 that the Mahometans have of Chrift, 
 that he wa6, the Spirit of God , from 
 whence it was (hewed him that fincethei| 
 Sgkit of God could be none other then 
 God himfelf, that Chrift then mnft needs 
 be God, as the fpirit of man is principal- 
 ly the man himfelf-, which although it is 
 to be warily underftood, andfo as not to 
 
 make 
 
(139) 
 ment.men a Sermon in the Abby, where 
 after two *Pfalms fung out in the ex- 
 pectation of a Minifter , none came to. 
 iuppiy the place that I faw or knew of) 
 a full and chearful Congregation being 
 there afTembled, Mr. Gunning officiated-, 
 and after the lirft part of the Service 
 ended, the Convert came in in his Turk- 
 ish Habit ^ and at his enterance into the 
 Congregation defired feveral times that 
 he might be admitted to the Baptifm of 
 the Chriftian Church, which being grant- 
 ed him, and thefe honorable and wor- 
 thy perfons , the young Countefs of 
 *Dorfet , the Lord (jorge, and Mr. Philip 
 Warwick, being Witneffes at his Bap- 
 tifm.- 
 
 He having made confeffion of the 
 Chriftian faith in the Apoftles Creed-, 
 and having anfwered the queftions con- 
 cerning the Chriftian Covenant and Pro- 
 feffion for himfelf , which have been u- 
 fually anfwered by the Godfathers and 
 Godmothers at the Baptifm of Children , 
 and being commended to Gods Grace 
 and Mercy in the prayers of the Con- 
 gregation, with fuch alterations as were 
 neceffary for the extraordinary cafe , he 
 feeing ftripped of his Garment to his 
 L z Waftc, 
 
(140) 
 
 Wafte, received his Baptifm upon his 
 knees with great humility, and was na- 
 
 , med Philip, 
 
 The Baptifm being performed, by Mr. 
 Gunnings permiflion, I preached upon 
 the occaflon , and took my Text out of 
 the Fifteenth Chapter of St.Z*^, at the 
 Seventh Verfe, being the words of our 
 Saviour , / fay unto you, that Hkewife 
 joy fhall be in Heaven for one finner that 
 repentethjtnore then for ninety and nine jujl 
 ferfons that need no repentance. Of which 
 Sermon it may be there (hall be a further 
 account given hereafter. And if God and 
 Angels rejoyce y furely it is the duty of all 
 good Chriftians to keep confort with 
 them, and by the loving and charitable 
 entertainment of this our Convert, to 
 give encouragement to others to come in 
 unto Chrifts fold. 
 
 In the afternoon of the fame day be 
 came in another Habit,* after the Englifli 
 faftiion ( which was charitably provided 
 for him by reverend Do&or 'Bernard of 
 
 % Grajes-Inn) and then Mr. Gunning preach- 
 ed a learned Sermon upon 7>/*/. 68. 
 ferf.31. as it is in the Liturgy tranflati- 
 ©n ; The M mans land fh*& foen ftretch 
 •*t her hands nmo Gcd. And fo the com- 
 fortable 
 
fortable folemnity of that happy day was 
 ended. Our new Convert having fincc 
 declared that he found extraordinary 
 joy and folace in his foul at the time of 
 his Baptifm. 
 
 He for the prefent lives in Holbom % 
 at the houfe of the honourable and 
 vertuous Lady Hattm ? and is I conceive 
 much improved in the Chriftian know- 
 ledge, as appeared by a difcourfe he had 
 lately at Chelfey^ and I hope will prove an 
 eminent Chriftian. 
 
 Qlorj to God on high^ on earth peace, 
 good will towards wen- 
 
 Pfalm 45. 4, 5,6 And gird the with 
 thy fword upon thy thigh , O thou ntcfl 
 might y : according to thy worfbip 4na\re* 
 toWn. 
 
 Good luck^ have thou with thine honor: 
 ride on becaufe of the word of truth , of 
 nteefenefs and right eoufnefs, and let thy right 
 hand teach thee terrible things. 
 
 Thine arrows are very /harp , and the 
 feople Jboll be fubdued unto thee : even 
 itf the midfi among the Kings enemies. 
 
 Pfal 67. rerf 1. God be merciful unto w, 
 And blefs m \ and [hew ns the light of hU 
 
 counts* 
 
(i4>) 
 
 countenance, and be merciful unto m* 
 
 2. That thy *toaj.-m*y be known upon 
 earth : thy faving health among all nations- 
 
 3. Let the. people praife thee, OGod • y$a % 
 let all the people praife thee* 
 
 4. O let, the nations rejoyce and be glad, 
 fer thou jhalt judge the folks righteoufly ; 
 and govern the nations upon earth. 
 
 5. Let the people praife thee,0 God, let 
 all the people praife thee- 
 
 6. Then Jhall the earth bring forth her 
 encreafe : and Cjod even our own God, /half 
 five us his bleffing: 
 
 ' 7. Cjod fh/ll b.lefs us : and all the ends of 
 she world Jhall fear him. 
 
 Ecclefiafticus 36.ver. 1= Have mercy up* 
 en us , O Lord God of all things , And 'be* 
 hold as, and £fiewus the light of thy mer* 
 cies. ] 
 
 2. And] fend thy fear among the Nati* 
 ens, which feeh^ not after thee^ £ that thej 
 may know that there ia no Qod but thou, 
 and that they may /hew. thy wonder ous 
 •wwkj..~\ 
 
 3. Lift up thine hand upon the ftrange 
 nations \ that they may fee thy poVoer. 
 
 4. As thou art fanclified in us before 
 them Jo be thw magnified among them before 
 M4> $.That 
 
(mi) 
 
 %i That they way kyowthee- as we tym 
 thee: for there ps none »ther God but onefy 
 thou, O Lord- 
 
 6* Renew the Fgn* + and change the won- 
 ders •": fbew the glory rf *W\*t hand, and thy 
 right arm, • hat the) may fh^.w forth thy won- 
 derous atl>. 
 
 P. Make tht time fhort : remember thine 
 oath 7 that thy ponderous Work* may be praif* 
 
 idi 
 
 I o. Smtte in fender the head of the prin- 
 ces that be our enemies , and fay , There is 
 none other but \\>e» 
 
 II. gather all the tribes of Jacob toge* 
 ther y £ that they may k*ow that there is none 
 other God bnt onely thott, and that thej may 
 fhew thy Ponderous works ] and inherit thou 
 them as from tht begining. 
 
 Hi O Lord, have mercy upon the people 
 that is called by thy name ,; and up4n If- 
 raet, whom thou haft likened to a firft born 
 fon. 
 
 13. Oh, be znerciful unto ferufalem the 
 city of thy fancluary t the city of* thy reft. 
 
 14. Fill $ ion, that ,it may magnifie thins 
 oracles, and fill thy people with thy glory- 
 
 1 5 . Give witneff unto thofe that thou haft 
 pojfejfed from the beginnings and raife up the 
 prophecies that have been Jhewed in thy name* 
 
 L 4 16 JBUr 
 
(!44) 
 
 1 6. Reward t htm that wait far tbee $ 'thai 
 thy Prophets may be found faithful. 
 
 17. Lord % hear the prayers of thy ferl 
 vants according to the blejfings of Aaron fi- 
 ver thy people, £ and guide thoH us in the 
 way of rtghteoufnefs,'] that all they which 
 dwell upon the earth jnayXnoye that thoji art 
 the Lord) the eternal Cod. 
 
 THE 
 
(*45> 
 
 The Faradife of Mahomet, 
 
 which he promifeth unto 
 
 his FolIexperA 
 
 T Hey (hall be, faith he, in aparadife 
 watered with fair and delicate Foun- 
 tains, which (hall run f© clear as if they 
 were melted Chriftal. 
 
 They (hall reft in the (hade, or refrefli- 
 ing coolnefs of beautiful trees , full of 
 leaves and branches, which by their moti* 
 on (hall caufeapleafant tune. 
 
 They (hall eat of all manner of fweet 
 and pleafant fruits in all feafons, and (hall 
 be folaced with the chanting of Ten 
 thoufand little Birds, which (hall warble 
 tunongft their branches ^ and this (hall 
 fee mingled with theconfort of moft har- 
 monious inftruments, and of moft melodi- 
 ous voices. l 
 
 Their Robes (hall be moft magnificent, 
 and triumphant, as of (ilk wrought with 
 gold, and chafed with the richeft (tones 
 and pearls. 
 
 They (hall lye in Beds embroidered with 
 gold, and hung the corners and Pillows 
 
 with 
 
(*4*) 
 
 with great Pearls, and the Curtains ador- 
 ned with ineltimable and innumerable pre- 
 cious ftones. 
 
 That every one (hall have his marvel- 
 lous beautiful women, with their Breads 
 wantonly fwelling, and Eyes like jet en- 
 chafed in filver, whiter then fnow, as big as 
 good big eggs. 
 
 That with thefe they {ball feaft every 
 day, and ufe all manner of fports and re- 
 creations poflible, aud (hail be ferved in 
 their Feafts With fair and great veffels of 
 gold and chriftal, which (hall be fet with 
 moft precious Jewels, and {hall be mini- 
 fired unto by the hands of fair Boy es, more 
 polifhed then the pearls themfelves, and 
 more fweet then Amber-greece,or the moft 
 oderiferous Perfumes of Arabia±&c 
 
 Two Books of great efieem anmgjl the 
 Turks, be fides the Alcoran. 
 
 THe firft hath the defcription of the 
 Voyage of Mahomet inParadifeby 
 the guidance of the Angel Gabriel 
 
 He went, fay they, into the firft heaven, 
 mounted upon Alborach^ a Beaft a little 
 
 bigger 
 
(147) 
 bigger then an Afs, having the face cf a 
 man •, and found that firft Sphear was of 
 fine Silver, andfo thick as the fpace that 
 a Footman can run in Five hundered years. 
 There he found an Angel as tall as the 
 fpace of the journey of a thoufand years, 
 with Seventy thoufand other Angels,every 
 one of which had Seventy thoufand Heads, 
 and every Head feventy thoufand Horns, 
 every Horn feventy thoufand s Knots ; 
 and from one Knot to another the fpace of 
 the jouruey of forty years ; And every 
 Head feventy thoufand Faces , and every 
 Face feventy thoufand Mouthes, and every 
 Mouth feventy thoufand Tongues, ande- 
 yery Tongue fpake a thoufand Languages, 
 with which they praifed God everyday 
 feventy thoufana times. 
 
 The fecond Heaven was made all of 
 burnifht Gold, where he faw a great mul- 
 titude of others greater then thefe, and 
 amongft them one that had his feet on the 
 earth, and his head in the third Heaven. 
 
 But all thefe were Pigmies to one that 
 he found in the third Heaven, which was 
 fo monftroufly great that he held the 
 world in the palm of his hand, and yet ic 
 hindered him not from (hutting it. 
 
 In [the fourth Heaven , every one had 
 
 feventy 
 
(i4«) 
 
 feventy pair of Wings , in every Wing 
 feventy thoufand feathers to flie with, and 
 every feather feventy thoufand cubits 
 long. 
 
 In the fifth Heaven the Angel that open- 
 ed the Gate to them had feven thoufand 
 Arms , and every Arm feven thoufand 
 Hands. 
 
 In the other Heavens they found not any 
 Angels of fuch an unmeafurable ftature v 
 but in the eighth Sphear, they toffed the 
 Globe of the Earth and Sea as eafily as a 
 little Ball. 
 
 In the other Book is recited the Hiftory 
 of a difcourfe between a Turk and a Jew, 
 who asked him concerning the principal 
 points of his Dodrine • he faid that God 
 treated a Paper, and a Pen of fo fair a Fa- 
 brick, that the Pen was Five hundred days 
 journey long, and Fourfcore thick,; and 
 that with this Pen that hath Fourfcore 
 points or nebs is written perpetually all 
 that hath been is or (hall be in the world. 
 
 That the Sun and Moon had equal light 
 in the beginning, fo that the day and night 
 could not well be deftinguifhed •, but that 
 the Angel Qabriel flying put the end of his 
 wing into the Moon, and made her (ofe 
 half her light. 
 
 There 
 
(MP) 
 
 There is mention made of a Cowuhac 
 had forty horns, and between two of her 
 horns the fpace of a thoufand years jour- 
 ney, and yet that this Cow was under the 
 earth. 
 
 Of alFuli that had his Head in theEaft^ 
 and the Tail in the Weft, that beareth upon 
 his back theHarth, the Sea, and the Moun- 
 tains. 
 
 That Rats were begotten in the Ark, of 
 the foeezing of a Sow or Boar j and Cats 
 of the freezing of a Lion. 
 
 That Serapbiel in the day of the refur- 
 rection (hall found a Trumpet Five hun- 
 dred years journey long, and that then all 
 the fouls of the dead (hall feek out their 
 bodies . 
 
 That the Mahometan Religion cannot 
 he a true Religion. 
 
 t tw 1 O new Religion can be a true Re~ 
 
 iNligion. 
 . 2. No cruel and bloody Religion can be 
 a true Religion. 
 
 3; That Religion that hath no teftimo- 
 ny from heaven , but is grounded meerly 
 upon the invention and authority of man; 
 cannot be a true Religion; 
 
 4-That 
 
(I jo) 
 
 , 4. That Religion that contradi&et! 
 felf,and thofe authorities which it approve 
 eth and aIloweth,cannot be a trueReligior 
 
 ^ . That Religion that affordeth no rcm< 
 dy for fin, no fatisfa&ion to the Confc 
 erice, nor any certain way to falvation 
 cannot be a true Religion. 
 
 <5. That Religion that fetteth not dow 
 a perfed Rule of holinefs and righteouj 
 ne r s,cannot be a true Religion. 
 
 % That Religion that couhtenanceth an 
 alloweth impurity, cannot be a true Reli 
 gion. 
 
 8 That Religion that is carried on not b: 
 fpiritual but worldly and carnal ways, can 
 not be a true Religion. 
 
 o.l hat Religion that propofeth a felici 
 ty confifting in carnal and impure delights 
 cannot be a true Religion. 
 
 10. That Religion that confoundeth th< 
 difference between righteoufnefs and un 
 righteoufnefs,cannot be a true Religion. 
 
 1 1 That Religion thatdifchargeth frorr 
 the prudent ufe of the means of fefety anc| 
 blerfing, and teacheth people to tempt tht 
 Lord, cannot be a true Religion. 
 
 12, That Religion that propofeth re- 
 wards to violence and unrighteoufnefc.i 
 can'not be a true Religion. 
 
 FINIS. 
 
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