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Ood Reader the great Arabian Impotor now at lat after a thouand years, is by the way of France arrived in England, & his Alcoran, or gallimaufry of Errors, (a Brat as deformed as the Parent, and as full of hereies, as his cald head was of curffe) hath learned to peak Englih. I uppoe this piece is expoed by the Tranlator to the publick view, no otherwie then ome Monter brought out of Africa. for people to gaze, not to dote upon; and as the ight of a Monter or mihapen creature hould induce the beholder to praie God, who hath not made him uch; o hould the reading of this Alcoran excite us both to bles Gods goodnes towards us in this Land, who enjoy the glorious light of the Gopel, and behold the truth in the beauty of holines; as alo to admire Gods Judgments, who uffers o many Countreys to be blinded and inlaved with this mihapen iue of Mahomets brain, being brought forth by the help of no other Midwifry then of a Jew and a Netorian, making ue of a tame Pigeon (which he had taught to pick cores out of his Ears) intead of the holy ghot, and cauing illy people to believe, that in his falling icknes (to which he was much ubject) he had conference with the Angel Gabriel.

I know the publihing of the Alcoran may be to ome dangerous and candalous, dangerous to the Reader, candalous to the higher Rh