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Show ( 22 ) Smima in Afla, and fo back again ~o Vt,ic~ ? Shall I return to Zaunt, and the MoreA again, and Travel about Six Hundred Miles from tho More& Sboar ro Adrianople, and from thence tQ the Turkifh Army Encamped hear it, and thro' the Army to rhe Grand Seignior himfelf; and tell y.e of one Paffage, for a~l, t~ conclude ye fo~ Ever? ' M. rifiJer. Mary Fijher, a Servant of t~e Lord, a Maiden · Friend, being moved of the ·Lord to go and deliver his Word to rhe Great' Turk, who wirh hh Army Ja'y Encamp,d near Adriauople, wenr rhitherward,S to Smirna, but being hlndred in ha Patfage thar way by the Englijh Ambaifador, who (enr her back wVenice, pa[ed by Land from the Sea.Coafl:s of. the Morea to Adrianople, aforefaid, v.ery peaceably, without any Abufe or Injury offered in that long Journey of about Five or Six Hundred Miles. Being come to Adrianople, near unro which was the Great Turk, and his Army, fhe acquajmed fome of the Cidzens with htl,.lntenr, and ddired fome of them tO go With her; bur when none of Lhem durft w go, fearing his Difpleafure, fhe paffed -alone, and comjng near rhe Camp, procured a ·Man to inform at the Great Viziers Tent · (or chief General of ~he Army) that there wm an EnglifiJ WomaJJ ha.J {rmJc:thi?:g to declm·e from the Great God, to the Great Tu~1z ; who foon fent her word that the fhould 1 • ii)eJk wich him the next Morning. So fhe rewrned w the City that Night ; 1and the next l'vlorning came to rhe Camp~ and fo· co the Gruzt furk, who being with his Grear Men about ·him, as he ufes ro be when he receives Ambaffadors, fenr for her in; and fhe coming before him, he :1sked ·her, Wherhtr it "'as (o (14 he btul hettrtl · ( fc.) ?.bat 01e h(ld {omcthing to fay to him from tbe Lord} : . . ,· . She ( 2J ) >She anfwered him, Tea-Then he bad her fptak on ( having three Interpreters by him ) and when lhe ftood Silent a litde, waiting on the Lord when to fpeak, he fuppofing that fhe might be fearful to uner her mind before them all, asked her, Whether Jhe Jejired that MIJ might gt) forth llefOJ"t (he [pal:e ? She anfwered, Nay: Then he bad her Jpeak. the Word of the Lord to them, ~~~4 not io fe•r ; for th'} i111J gpoa J!earts, and coul1 .hear it-and ftrillly charge~ her to [peak the WorJ Jbt baa to fay [roTfl t~e Lord, . neither more or lefs, for t~ey ?Pert wtlling_ to hear it, be it whaf # woulJ. Which fhe fpeakmg, what the Lord had puc· in,rQ· her Moiuh ro fay, they all gavt: d.m:. ge~r· heed, wich much· Sobernefs and Gravity, tiJI fhe had done ; and ihen he asking her, Whether jhe b~d any "!'ore to /ay ? She a~ked l~im~ Whether he underftood what Jhe h"d faid? He replied, Yes, Every word ; and further faid,-That it was Truth~and defired her to ftay in rhat Country, fCJying,-That ther could not but rej petl fucb a One (14 Jhould take fo much paim to come to thon1 fo far 1M from England, with a Mejfage from the LorJ-and proffered her a Guard co bring her unto Con{Jantinople, whither fhe intended ; which fhe accepting not ( trufting in the Ar~ of the Lord, which had brought her thither, rQ. firing her back, who had profpered her \\Zork) he told her, It WlU da~~;ero~s Travelling, e(peciall;· for fucb a one as Jhel and 'vondered th ,lt ~Je had pajfed fo Safe fo /~r 'ai foe · had; {aying, It was ;,J 1·ejpeU to he~, ffnd kindne{s, thAt he proffered it, and that he 'JVould 'not for an.J thing fl1e PJoHlti come tr.. the leaft Hurt in his Dominions: (A worrhy Expreffion ~f fo great a Prince) They were alfo defirous· o'f more words than the had freedom ~~ fpe~k ; and asked her, What foe. thought o_f ' 8 4 tbt~l' |