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Show ( 24 ) their Prophet, Mahomet ? She replic:d, That .Jbt knew him npt; but th~ Chrift, the true Prophet, tke Son of GoJ, who was tbe Light of ~he World, and enlightneth every Man that cometh , .mto .the World, Him fhe knew-And fl1rcher, concermng Mahpmet, fhe CUd, That they might judge of him to be true or falje, according 114 the Words a~~ Prophecies he [pake, were either true or falfe ; faymg, · If the Word that the Prophet fpeaketb come to pafs, then fhall ye know that the Lord hath jent that Prophet ; but if it come no~ . to pafs, then {hall ye know tbat the Lord never fenJ him-To which they confe!fed, and faid, It was Truth. And fo !he. departed thro' rhar Great Army, co C.onflantinople, without a Guard, whicheno l}le came without the lc:afi Hurt or Scoff, co the Commendadon and Praife of the Difcipline of thac Army, the Glory of the Gru~t Turk, and his great Renown, and your everlaft. ing Shame and Contempt. Shall I yet draw near to Death, and the Gates of the Grave, and freer my Courfe from ·s~irna to 'Jerufalem ; there I fhall fir:d the Turk1 at Ramla taking George Robinfon (a tender Yomh of l_,pndon) our of the Hands of the Friars, who by their Party, coming from Jerufalem, having heard a report of him there:, a!faulred him in the Srreet, as he was palling thorough ir w 'Jerufa. .fem, umo which he was moved of the Lord : There I fhaJI alfo find a Man of Great A<;counr among. rh~ Turks,• coming to the faid George Robinfon, when he was at the place of Execution, near co the Moflo ( or their place of \Vorihip, or Temple) to be burn'd with Camds ·Dung (as is their manner, a· moll lingring Death ) unto which he was fent~nc'd, for' being in ~heir Temple, and, nor turning Turk ; it being a Cu: from among them, That who-ever comes inro thei ' ( 2) ) their T'emple; and turneth not Turk, muft Dye; and thither he was brought againft his wm, on purpofe rq put him co Death ; and the Priefts of Mahomet, and much People, were expecting when he wo~Id rurn Turk, and ufing many Arguments and fair Promifes to that purpofe, fuppofing that for that end he came thither ; but he was b~ought rhilher for another, which, when the faid Man in Reputation amongft the · Turks underfiood, and a Divifion arofe between the Friars' and Turk .concerning him, which.was of the Lo.r.d~ who fiirred among them for his Deliverance, and how they were in order co the bringing of him thither, and how that it was not in his own voluntary will thar thither he came, bur as he was compelled and carried ; he being quiet in the Will of the Lord, and giv~n up unto him ro Dye, I lhali find char the faid Chief Man among the Turks had him ro his ·Houfe, and entertained him ar his Houfe for feveral Days (he being a fickly Yourh, as I have f:lid, and impoflible ic was for him, according ro Men, ever co reach Jerufalem ) and faid, Whether he would turn Turk or not, he fhould not Dye. And when th~ Friars, being difappoinred of their End, went ro Gaz.a, ro the Bafhaw there, ·who was their Friend, with many falfe Informations, on purpofe to. Incenfe him againft the faid young Man, and whom they fo incenfed, thar he fcnr for him, Sw€aring, Thac he would kilt him with his own Hands ; I ihall find the Town of Ramla making a Reprefenration ro rhe Bafhaw of the Truth of the l\.1atter, and of the many Injuries the faid Friars had offered to the: young Man ; and fome of them- . felves going with it and him; which rhe Bafhaw underftanding, and the TrQth of the Mauer, I fhaH |