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 powers, who notwithtanding have cleared themelves by diliking the publihing, and quetioning the publihers thereof; but for the danger, I will deliver in thee enuing Propoitions my opinion, yet with ubmiion to wier judgments.

Though it may be dangerous to uch as like reedes are haken, and like empty clouds carried about with every winde of doctrin, yet to taid and olid Chritians, the reading of Mahomets Hereies will be no more dangerous, then the reading of thoe errors which are recorded in Scripture, for in them are mentioned many damnable errors and abominations of the Egyptians, Cananites, Hittites, Sidonians, and other Gentiles, and of the Hebrews themelves, of the Sadduces who denied Spirits, Angels, and the Reurrection.

Is there more danger in reading the Alcoran, ''then in reading the Errors of ancient and modern Hereticks? urely Tertulian, Ireneus, Epiphanius, Autin, and other Fathers were not of this opinion, who have left upon record of poterity, the damnable hereies of Arians, Eutychians, Netorians, Macedonians, and others: and in the Alcoran there are not uch dangerous errors as among the Tetratheits, Angelites, and Theodoians, who held there were four Gods, or the Tritheites, who affirmed there were three, or the Gnoticks, Manicheans, Cerdonians, Marcionites, who maintained there were two contrary gods, the one good, the other bad, whereas the Alcoran ets down there is but one true God; and although it denieth with Arius, the Divinity of Chrit, yet it holds him a great Prophet; nor doth it peak o blaphemously of Chrit as the Simonians, who held Simon Magus, or the Ophites, and Manicheans, who aid, the Serpent was Chrit, or Menander, who affirmed himelf to be Chrit, and the Saviour of the world. Beides; are not the damnable Hereies of the modern Familits, who deny Chrits Divinity, making as many Chrits as there be illuminated Elders in their Congregations? are not alo the Hereies of the Socinians, Antitrinitarians, Adamites, Serverntians, Anti-abbatarians, and many others expoed to the view of all that will read them? why then may not the'' Alcoran? Beides, are men debarred from reading the Greek and Latine ''Poets? nay, are not many of them tranlated into our Englih tongue? as alo the mo-'' dern