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N the Name of God, gracious and merciful. I am the mot wie God. There is no Error in this Book; it guideth into the right way; thoe that are righteous, who believe what they ee not, who make their Prayers with affection, and dipence in Alms, a part of the Goods that we have given them. Such as believe the things that are inpired into thee, in thoe that have been Preached before thee, and at the end of the world are not ignorant they are guided by their Lord, and hall be bleed. Miery is upon unbelievers, Whether thou reprove them, or do not reprove them, they will not be converted, God hath hut up their heart, their ears and eyes, and they hall uffer great torments. Many men ay, we believe in God and the Day of Judgment, and do not believe; they think to deceive God, and then that believe in God; certainly they deceive themelves, and know it not. God will augment the infirmity which they have in their heart, and they hall undergo the rigors of an infinite pain, by reaon of their lying. When it was aid to them, Pollute not the earth, they aid, We are the true obervers of the Law of God; notwithtanding, they were they that polluted the earth, but they knew it not. When it was aid to them, Believe ye as the world believeth? They aid, Shall we believe as fools believe? they themelves are fools, and know it not. When they met with uch as believe in God, they aid, We believe as you do: And when they returned towards the devils, their companions, they aid, We believe as you, and mock at thoe men: Certainly God mocketh them, and continueth them in their Errors, to their confuion. They that have purchaed Error, for the right way, have gained nothing in their commerce, and are not well directed; they are like to uch as kindled fire, and when it hath enlightened what is about them, God hath deprived them of light, and left them in darknes, deaf, dumb, blinde, and they hall